Amanda and Lizzie spent five days in the mountains working on A Better Monday, and they’re back with the unfiltered debrief: what they built, what they argued about, and why they had to leave their own house to do it.

Is a business retreat just a tax write-off with a nicer view? We talk about following the energy instead of a strict schedule, why changing your environment changes your thinking, and what happens when you’re a literal thinker trying to get creative. We also get into the harder part: what it means to try on ownership in a business that started with one person’s name on it, and how two people with very different brains set ways of working that actually hold up.

If you caught our pervious episode on being neurodivergent and married, you'll like where this one picks up!

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We asked Instagram: what do you want to know about starting a business that actually means something?

Within a week, we had dozens of real questions. This is the episode where we answer the ones we heard most. Not generic startup advice. Not "follow your passion and it'll work out." Real talk from two people who started something, figured some things out, and are still learning.

What we're covering:

• How do you get clients? (Spoiler: stop thinking about "selling")
• How do you define your brand? (It's not the logo)
• What's the actual financial picture? (Taxes, retirement, separate accounts, the stuff nobody talks about)
• Which systems actually matter vs. which are noise
• Tools that work: CRM, project management, invoicing, Zoom, QuickBooks
• The difference between bespoke and off-the-shelf

These are the questions we get in one-on-ones. These are the lessons we actually use.

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A live, unscripted check-in between co-hosts, co-founders, and spouses Lizzie and Amanda — no prep, no notes, just the weekly practice they use to stay connected. They talk sensory overwhelm, AuDHD and neurotypical partnership, and the "balcony" mindset that helps them zoom out from the day-to-day grind.

This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and isn't a substitute for therapy, counseling, or professional mental health care. If you're navigating something heavier than a workplace dynamic, please reach out to a licensed professional.

Follow along @a_better_monday, and find more at abettermonday.co.

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You're in a meeting. You can see something going sideways. Do you say something, or do you let it play out?

This episode is about the silent back-of-the-head calculation so many of us run before we speak up at work — how bad is this, what will it cost me, what will it cost my team. Amanda and Lizzie break down a loose framework for deciding when the cost of staying quiet is higher than the cost of speaking up, two scripts you can actually use in the moment, and the rule of three for knowing when it's time to let something go. Plus: the question worth asking yourself when you feel the pull to stay silent — am I quiet because it's not my place, or because I'm afraid?

This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and isn't a substitute for therapy, counseling, or professional mental health care. If you're navigating something heavier than a workplace dynamic, please reach out to a licensed professional.

Follow along @a_better_monday, and find more at abettermonday.co.

Someone tells you to calm down. You get called too emotional in a meeting. Amanda and Lizzie break down why that phrase almost never means what it claims to mean: it's usually projection, and it's coded language that lands hardest on women and people of color.

They walk through three levels of response, from a quiet redirect to a direct callout, and talk about when each one actually works. If you've ever been told to calm down and gotten more upset, not less, this one's for you.

This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and is not a substitute for therapy, mental health treatment, or professional coaching. If you're navigating something more serious, please reach out to a licensed professional.

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Getting talked over in meetings costs you credit, visibility, and pay, and most of us have no idea what to say in the moment. In this episode, we're breaking down what to say when you get interrupted, when someone restates your idea and takes the credit, and when you get "voluntold" to take notes (again). We get into the freeze response, the split-second mental math that happens when you get cut off, and why staying quiet is often a calculated move, not a failure. We are sharing some of Amanda's real scripts, pulled from real coaching conversations, that you can actually use in your next meeting. Whether you're the one getting interrupted or the one doing the interrupting (we've all done it), you'll walk away with language for the moment.

This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and is not a substitute for therapy, mental health treatment, or professional coaching. If you're navigating something more serious, please reach out to a licensed professional.

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We're back — and yeah, we owe you some context. This teaser for Season 2 of You Got a Minute? is Amanda and Lizzie catching you up on where they went: a major surgery, a longer recovery than expected, and the kind of forced stop that ends up teaching you things you didn't know you needed to learn. This isn't a comeback. It's not a snapback or a bounce back. It's something different — showing up a little more themselves, with more to say.

This season is about the conversations actually happening at work. Not the polished ones. The parking lot ones. The "hey, are you still online, can I grab you for a second?" ones. The moments where you know you want to say something but you don't have the words yet. If you're a woman at work right now — whatever seat you're in — this season was built for you.

New episodes drop every other week. Follow us and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts so you never miss one.

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