HeyJaredNo Stage, Just a Chair
No Stage, Just a Chair is where I think out loud...about entrepreneurship, alignment, and the honest space between who we are and what we build.Most episodes are just me and a microphone, no script, no stage, no performance.
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We Replace What Matters With What We Can Control (opens the original)
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I sit down for coffee with a friend who works in influencer marketing. She immediately launches into a long list of questions. Cliffhangers. Three-second hooks. Click for the next. The best practices. She wasn't wrong about a single one. Every tactic on her list gets people to click. And my answer to all of them was no...because clicking and thinking are just two completely different jobs. We lean on best practices because they hand us something comforting: control. We trim the edges, predict th
How to Stop Shrinking Yourself to Fit In | I Make Myself Smaller So I'm Not Too Much (opens the original)
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I see a guy across the mall and I think, that man is really tall. Head above everybody. Then he gets closer and closer, and by the time he reaches me I'm three inches taller than he is.It stuns me every time. Every single time.For about four seconds I get to see myself the way a stranger does, and then it's gone.I built a rhythm a long time ago. Ask the dumb question. Say bad ideas only so nobody has to go first. I'm completely willing to look foolish. Foolish is cheap.What I'm not willing to do
How We Accidentally Isolate Ourselves | How to Disappear Completely (opens the original)
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There's a version of a full life you can hold in one hand. The phone lights up, the game is on, the group text keeps moving, and for a while it's enough. It feels like being with people. Then the room goes quiet, and I catch myself from somewhere above the couch, looking down at one man alone in it, and the wanting comes back. Not for more of what I've already got. For the one thing all of it was standing in for. I can be reached all day and still slip out of being known. I've said for years tha
How to Catch Your Own Blind Spots | Who's Close Enough to Tell You You're Wrong (opens the original)
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I met a guy last week who could have been a client, and I spent the whole conversation quietly deciding he wasn't worth it. He's from a market close enough to ours that I already knew how it was going to go. I've spent years watching people from that part of the world treat this work like it's cheap. So I walked him through how we do things with every guardrail already up, and I felt fine about it. Came back, sat down with Taylor and my guys, and blew the whole thing off in about four sentences.
When Over-Explaining Backfires | I Bury the People I Love in Words. (opens the original)
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My oldest came home from his freshman year and asked if we could talk. He was sheepish about it. More than a little. He didn't like his major. He wanted to change it. That part didn't bother me for a second. Then he told me he'd been sitting on it for a while, because he was afraid it would disappoint me. That sucked. I would run through walls for that kid. I thought that was the one thing he knew all the way down, the way you know the floor is there before you put your foot on it. And he'd been
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