The Long and The Short Of It

Pete and Jen spend this week's episode listing questions that kick their ass and send them straight to the groan zone.Specifically, in this episode Jen and Pete talk about the following questions:What are you tolerating?What are you afraid of?How might you raise the stakes?What are you excited about?What would an older version of yourself do? What would your role model do?How are you complicit in creating the conditions you say you don't want?What's new?Are you inventing work to avoid the important?To hear all Episodes and read full transcripts visit The Long and The Short Of It website: https://thelongandtheshortpodcast.com/.You can subscribe to our Box o’ Goodies here (https://thelongandtheshortpodcast.com/) and receive a weekly email full of book and podcast recommendations, quotes, videos and other interesting things Jen and Pete are noodling on. To get in touch, send an email to: hello@thelongandtheshortpodcast.comLearn more about Pete's work here (https://humanperiscope.com/) and Jen's work here (https://jenwaldman.com/).

This week, Jen and Pete dig in to the ritual of resting, and how we might create more of it in our lives.Specifically, in this episode Jen and Pete talk about:What does "rest" even mean?What are different strategies for the action of resting?How might a person cultivate a habit of rest?To hear all Episodes and read full transcripts visit The Long and The Short Of It website: https://thelongandtheshortpodcast.com/.You can subscribe to our Box o’ Goodies here (https://thelongandtheshortpodcast.com/) and receive a weekly email full of book and podcast recommendations, quotes, videos and other interesting things Jen and Pete are noodling on. To get in touch, send an email to: hello@thelongandtheshortpodcast.comLearn more about Pete's work here (https://humanperiscope.com/) and Jen's work here (https://jenwaldman.com/).

Inspired by a question posed by a client, Pete brings Jen the question of how one might venture in to the "groan zone", what that even means, and what strategies we might use within it.Specifically, in this episode Jen and Pete talk about:What is the groan zone?What benefits might there be to stretching beyond your comfort zone?When might it be a good thing to be uncomfortable? To hear all Episodes and read full transcripts visit The Long and The Short Of It website: https://thelongandtheshortpodcast.com/.You can subscribe to our Box o’ Goodies here (https://thelongandtheshortpodcast.com/) and receive a weekly email full of book and podcast recommendations, quotes, videos and other interesting things Jen and Pete are noodling on. To get in touch, send an email to: hello@thelongandtheshortpodcast.comLearn more about Pete's work here (https://humanperiscope.com/) and Jen's work here (https://jenwaldman.com/).

After initially cringing at the question, Pete works with Jen to unpack strategies for deciding what comes next, and develops a new mindset towards approaching those plans.Specifically, in this episode Jen and Pete talk about:What is the gift and the curse of having a growth mindset?What is a BHAG? And what is COR?How might we approach planning with abundance in mind, as opposed to scarcity?To hear all Episodes and read full transcripts visit The Long and The Short Of It website: https://thelongandtheshortpodcast.com/.You can subscribe to our Box o’ Goodies here (https://thelongandtheshortpodcast.com/) and receive a weekly email full of book and podcast recommendations, quotes, videos and other interesting things Jen and Pete are noodling on. To get in touch, send an email to: hello@thelongandtheshortpodcast.comLearn more about Pete's work here (https://humanperiscope.com/) and Jen's work here (https://jenwaldman.com/).

This week, Jen and Pete dive in to how to create a practice of doing things don't scale, and the strategies and benefits of doing so.Specifically, in this episode Jen and Pete talk about:What does it mean to do something that doesn't scale?How do non-scalable practices effect the client's experience?Why does adding a personal touch matter, and how might one achieve that?To hear all Episodes and read full transcripts visit The Long and The Short Of It website: https://thelongandtheshortpodcast.com/.You can subscribe to our Box o’ Goodies here (https://thelongandtheshortpodcast.com/) and receive a weekly email full of book and podcast recommendations, quotes, videos and other interesting things Jen and Pete are noodling on. To get in touch, send an email to: hello@thelongandtheshortpodcast.comLearn more about Pete's work here (https://humanperiscope.com/) and Jen's work here (https://jenwaldman.com/).

On their fourth try recording a podcast on this topic, Jen and Pete discuss balance, and how it appears in and affects their day-to-day life.Specifically, in this episode Jen and Pete talk about:How might a person find the right work-life balance?Why is it important to evaluate your resources?What if you only tried to accomplish in a day what you could recover from that same day?To hear all Episodes and read full transcripts visit The Long and The Short Of It website: https://thelongandtheshortpodcast.com/.You can subscribe to our Box o’ Goodies here (https://thelongandtheshortpodcast.com/) and receive a weekly email full of book and podcast recommendations, quotes, videos and other interesting things Jen and Pete are noodling on. To get in touch, send an email to: hello@thelongandtheshortpodcast.comLearn more about Pete's work here (https://humanperiscope.com/) and Jen's work here (https://jenwaldman.com/).

Inspired by a recent coaching session, Jen and Pete noodle on how reading, and any other creative activity, is a valuable use of time.Specifically, in this episode Jen and Pete talk about:Why might just the act of reading be enough, and valuable?Why is it so difficult to allow oneself the space to spend one's time freely?How might creative endeavors influence the rest of one's life?To hear all Episodes and read full transcripts visit The Long and The Short Of It website: https://thelongandtheshortpodcast.com/.You can subscribe to our Box o’ Goodies here (https://thelongandtheshortpodcast.com/) and receive a weekly email full of book and podcast recommendations, quotes, videos and other interesting things Jen and Pete are noodling on. To get in touch, send an email to: hello@thelongandtheshortpodcast.comLearn more about Pete's work here (https://humanperiscope.com/) and Jen's work here (https://jenwaldman.com/).

Inspired by the mindset class at her studio, Jen asks Pete the question, "Who wrote the rules," and together they noodle on the rules we set for ourselves, and where they come from.Specifically, in this episode Jen and Pete talk about:Why do certain rules exist, and who do they serve?What do rules mean to certain types of people?How do values and rules relate to each other?To hear all Episodes and read full transcripts visit The Long and The Short Of It website: https://thelongandtheshortpodcast.com/.You can subscribe to our Box o’ Goodies here (https://thelongandtheshortpodcast.com/) and receive a weekly email full of book and podcast recommendations, quotes, videos and other interesting things Jen and Pete are noodling on. To get in touch, send an email to: hello@thelongandtheshortpodcast.comLearn more about Pete's work here (https://humanperiscope.com/) and Jen's work here (https://jenwaldman.com/).

Having recently joined a swim squad, Pete shares what he's learned from swimming in a community, and he and Jen unpack the importance of group learning.Specifically, in this episode Jen and Pete talk about:How is learning in a group different from learning individually?How might working in a community help push your individual work and ideas forward?Can a community be made up of just two people, and what defines that communal dynamic?To hear all Episodes and read full transcripts visit The Long and The Short Of It website: https://thelongandtheshortpodcast.com/.You can subscribe to our Box o’ Goodies here (https://thelongandtheshortpodcast.com/) and receive a weekly email full of book and podcast recommendations, quotes, videos and other interesting things Jen and Pete are noodling on. To get in touch, send an email to: hello@thelongandtheshortpodcast.comLearn more about Pete's work here (https://humanperiscope.com/) and Jen's work here (https://jenwaldman.com/).

Jen, surprised by the hybrid environment that her studio is becoming, asks Pete for his advice on what it takes to build a hybrid work place.Specifically, in this episode Jen and Pete talk about:How might one build a successful hybrid environment?What are the leadership skills that it takes to do so?Who might the hybrid environment be more difficult for, the in-person person or the remote person? And how might one address that?To hear all Episodes and read full transcripts visit The Long and The Short Of It website: https://thelongandtheshortpodcast.com/.You can subscribe to our Box o’ Goodies here (https://thelongandtheshortpodcast.com/) and receive a weekly email full of book and podcast recommendations, quotes, videos and other interesting things Jen and Pete are noodling on. To get in touch, send an email to: hello@thelongandtheshortpodcast.comLearn more about Pete's work here (https://humanperiscope.com/) and Jen's work here (https://jenwaldman.com/).