We spend time at work, think about work, talk about work and then come home and watch TV shows about work!

Would you love to message ‘Urgent exit required’ to get out of boring meetings?

Would you sever your work self from your self outside work?

Could you work in Carmy’s kitchen from ‘The Bear’?

We talk about what we can learn from the portrayals of different workplaces in our favourite TV shows.

You’ll learn:

• How Chris learned to launder money from a TV show
• Which show Lily thinks is the offspring of a workplace drama and a Black Mirror episode
• Why Lily would want to have a failing business just so Nathan Fielder could visit
• How Ted Lasso formed a new Perkins family Christmas tradition

Whether you could see yourself working in Suits, Succession or Schitt’s Creek, join us for this episode to hear about how we’ve actually applied some things from TV shows at our work and what these shows have taught us about the workplace.

If you love a show we haven’t discussed below, get in touch and let us know as we might revisit this topic in a future episode….

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1.10 Lily’s top TV shows

1.47 Chris’ top TV shows

2.40 The Office (UK)

3.26 THe Office (US)

4.15 Mad Men

5.26 Line of Duty

6.50 Brooklyn Nine-Nine

7.25 Severance

9.48 Parks & Recreation

10.36 The Bear

13.15 Schitt’s Creek

15.03 Ozark

17.30 Nathan for You

19.37 The Curse

20.25 Suits

21.33 Succession

22.26 Ted Lasso

24.15 What does all this mean for us?

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Is your social circle shrinking? Learn the rules of making and keeping friends, no matter your age.

Why is it so much harder to make new friends after school? From the playground to the workplace, the rules of friendship change drastically. In this Ultimate Guide, Chris and Lily break down the lifespan of your social circle.

We share our stories about those childhood BFFs and dive into the tough adult realities: different roles in a friendship group, what you risk ‘borrowing’ friends from your partner and the impact social media and AI is having on really connecting with your friends.

You’ll learn:

• How and why our friendships change as we get older
• Gender differences in friendships
• Why it’s nearly impossible to maintain more than 150 relationships in total
• Causes of loneliness
• How to manage friendship breakups
• How to get better at making and keeping friendships as an adult

If you've ever felt the pang of loneliness or wondered how to build a stronger crew, this episode is for you.

Whether you’re Gen X trying to juggle your friendships and your partner’s, or Gen Z figuring out social media's impact, listen in to transform your social circles and get better at the art of being a friend.

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1.34 Lily and Chris’ best friends
5.13 Defining friendship
6.37 Can you be friends with someone you’ve never met?
9.10 Loneliness limbo
10.40 Earliest friendships
15.48 Gender differences in friendships
21.15 Social media’s impact on friendships
23.30 Dunbar’s number explained (why you can only handle about 150 social relationships)
25.56 Roles in a female friendship group
29.40 Roles in a male friendship group (spoiler: not as many!)
30.45 Are your friendships ‘side-by-side’ or ‘face-to-face’?
34.00 The risks of ‘borrowed’ friends
36.19 Ways to overcome loneliness
37.53 Modern solutions to creating new friendships
40.55 Friendship breakups
42.42 How to get better at making friends and keeping friends

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Did you know you experience some kind of transition in life about every 18 months? Every now and then, we experience a major change that threatens to totally derail us. It can seem overwhelming, but there’s a practical toolkit you can use to help you get through it.

We all make plans and expect our lives to follow the pattern we have in mind. Life, unfortunately, has other ideas. Typically, we experience 3-5 major life transitions in adulthood. Some we instigate, others seem to come out of nowhere.

In this episode, Chris and Lily discuss their own life transitions and some different ways to approach them. Drawing on research into what works when facing one of these big ‘lifequakes’, they discuss eight steps you can take to make sense of the upheaval.

You’ll learn:

• Why a transition needs to start with an ending
• What we can do to develop the right mindset for dealing with setbacks
• Why you need to shed your old self to move on
• How getting creative can be exactly what you need at rock bottom
• How to tell the story of the new you

Whatever you have to deal with, the tools and approaches we discuss in this episode will help you get through it a little more easily.

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