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02/05/2022

Episode 200 - A Grand Podcast Retrospective
This is the last episode of Michael & Ivanka’s Grand Podcast! We have a new one though: https://canyouseemyscreenpodcast.com

In this episode we went back over what we’ve learned and how we’ve changed over the last few years recording this podcast.

All the video episodes are now available for free on our YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiBnjcgu4DgLDlr0gg9FtJA

Patreon is now closed!

Episode streamed Live on https://twitch.tv/michaelforrest, Friday 29th April 2022 
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04/04/2022

Episode 198 - Not Being a Misery Guts
We often end up taking turns being grumpy at work or in our relationships. Sometimes it doesn’t feel fair to have to bring the energy. Sometimes all we want to do is throw a temper tantrum or sulk. How can we deal with this better, and how do we help others to recognise our own emotional labour?

28/03/2022

Episode 197 - Prematurely Dismissing People
It’s all too easy to dismiss people these days but this wasn’t always possible. Subjects that can be skirted face-to-face come to the fore on social media. We talk about strategies for dealing with people who give us those red flags. Sometimes they deserve a second chance.

07/03/2022

Episode 196 - Network Effects
We explore the network effects of talking to people. Kinda.

21/02/2022

Episode 195 - Spotify
Joe Rogan is happy to promote misinformation and extremist voices on his podcast, and many artists recently left Spotify as a result of his continued inclusion on the platform. We talk about our history with Spotify as consumers and as an artist, and wonder what the hell CEO Daniel Ek is doing.

07/02/2022

Episode 194 - "Benefits" of Brexit Report
An exercise in propaganda — 7th February 2022

The British government released a report on the “benefits” of Brexit this week and it is so heavily predicated on questionable premises, and so one-sidedly targeted to a pro-Brexit audience, that it is difficult to discuss. We attempted to discuss it nevertheless.

31/01/2022

Episode 193 - Investing
We’ve been experimenting with “assets”. How do you make money work for you? How do you play the game when you realise that for rich people, money isn’t a thing you earn and spend, it’s a magical up-and-down merry go round of arbitrary financial gain. Do we even have a “net worth” if we don’t do this stuff?

17/01/2022

Episode 192 - Minimum Viable Products
Learning to add context instead of features
How well does something need to be before it’s ready to launch? How pretty does it need be? Michael is unlearning professional habits from years working for clients and allowing himself to release some janky stuff for market validation. Ivanka shares what happened on Ubuntu Phone and blows open the whole conversation to encompass the tradeoff between functionality, context and story telling.

Streamed Live on https://twitch.tv/michaelforrest, Friday 14th Jan 2021

10/01/2022

Episode 191 - NFTs, Crypto, Web3 & Equity
Silicon Valley and investors have been talking about this stuff but what is it exactly? We try to wrap our heads around the implications of a blockchain-powered creator economy and the implications of businesses running on smart contracts. We don’t use any jargon without explaining it first!

14/12/2021

Episode 190 - Can Old People Change?
Does it have to be so difficult?
Millennials and Zoomers seem to be under no illusions about the horrors of impending climate catastrophe and late stage Neo-liberal capitalism. We older folks have taken a bit longer to come to terms with these facts. But is it reasonable to expect people to change in the light of everything new we keep learning? Could it be understandable that they want to stick to their guns and think about it a bit more?

06/12/2021

Episode 189 - Being Spiky
Sometimes you just want to clap back at an idiot on the internet. Sometimes you get into a row because you were casually unkind a few times too many. We wanted to understand why exactly why we think better of posting that pissed-off tweet or angry email even though in the moment it seems like it would feel so good.

Streamed Live on https://twitch.tv/michaelforrest, Friday 3rd December 2021

29/11/2021

Episode 188 - Public Health
How do we talk to people who don’t want to do the things that we all need to do to control this pandemic?

Streamed Live on https://twitch.tv/michaelforrest, Friday 26th November 2021

22/11/2021

Episode 187 - Retirement
Work your whole life so you can enjoy the rewards when you’re too old and tired to appreciate them? Sign me up! 
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08/11/2021

Episode 186 - Diversification
Overspecialisation makes us vulnerable so the best way to survive or grow is to diversify. If we have a couple of different options, we’ll be significantly safer.

01/11/2021

Episode 185 - What To Work On
We talked about the distractions, focus, responsibility, reactivity, routines and habits involved in trying to work on the right thing at any given moment.  
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18/10/2021

Episode 184 - Risk
We tried to figure out how to better assess risk and being more confident about making decisions around life, work, money and other stuff. Michael is reading “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” and introduces a more hardcore Capitalist perspective than we usually engage with.

11/10/2021

Episode 183 - Sovereignty
What level of sovereignty do any of us want or need - is it local, national, tribal or just sovereignty over our own time and existence? What is so appealing about this story and how does it relate to the concept of control?

27/09/2021

Episode 182 - Building A Community
Ivanka wants to build a community in Croatia as a way to start talking about climate action. Michael is trying to start a community of people who like plugging things into other things. We talked about ways we think we might do this better.

Streamed Live on https://twitch.tv/michaelforrest, Friday 24th September 2021

20/09/2021

Episode 181 - Optimism vs Pessimism
It’s easier to be pessimistic than it is to be optimistic. But it’s worth working to visualise positive outcomes to any situation if you don’t want to miss the best opportunities. We look at this through the lens of evolutionary psychology, privilege, toxic positivity and the plain old misery guts.

Streamed Live on https://twitch.tv/michaelforrest, Friday 17th September 2021

06/09/2021

Episode 180 - Lifestyle Design
“Lifestyle Design” is how Tim Ferriss describes thinking about what you actually want your life to be, separately from how much money you need or what is preventing you from achieving it. It’s easy to miss opportunities when you don’t know what you want, so even though life is what happens while you’re making other plans, the alternative is that you never get anything you want.

Streamed Live on https://twitch.tv/michaelforrest, Friday 3rd September 2021

23/08/2021

Episode 178 - Going On Holiday
Holidays. Anticipation. Change. Work. Not Work. Getting Paid. Not Getting Paid. Staycations. Hosting Guests.

16/08/2021

Episode 177 - Doing What You Love
We’re often told “You should do what you love” but this idea doesn’t often get unpacked. How do we fall in love with something? Can we do things we love in the service of things we hate? Or the opposite? Is doing something you love a privilege? What about when what we love doesn’t seem to love us back? And what is the relationship between love and trauma? Big chats, come and listen.

09/08/2021

Episode 176 -Fear, Hope, Grit & Glory
Patreon produced a series of articles looking at the creative process in terms of these four phases or factors. We took each one and had a good old chat about it, and came up with some takeaways and conclusions for each one.

Streamed Live on https://twitch.tv/michaelforrest, Friday 6th August 2021

19/07/2021

Episode 174 - How To Cheat
Working out how to cheat is an interesting thought experiment, even if it just helps you clarify what game you’re trying to win. We talked about different places people cheat — games, school, life, business, politics — and who ends up paying in different situations.

12/07/2021

Episode 173 - F*king London
London is a great and terrible city. If you want money, or you have money, it offers possibilities available nowhere else. But it’s a cynical place. Should Michael break up with the city like Ivanka did 10 years ago?

05/07/2021

Episode 172 - It’s Too Hot
It’s an episode about the climate, not just the weather! How will climate change affect our environment, work life, home life and music?

14/06/2021

Episode 169 - Winning The Lottery
Is winning the lottery all it’s cracked up to be? Not necessarily, not that either of us has ever won it. But it’s nice to think about how life would be different if money was no object, so let’s give it a go.

Streamed Live on https://twitch.tv/michaelforrest, Friday 11th June 2021

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Remember this? New episode at grandpodcast.com Episode 146 - The Waiting - Michael & Ivanka's Grand Podcast Remember those three days while we were waiting for the US election votes to be counted? We recorded this episode in the middle of that, so you can listen. For nostalgia! We did talk about things that weren’t contingent on the outcome too.

Episode up on YouTube now. https://youtu.be/G_GF-ZI6-OE

https://youtu.be/rbLVC1iFwYs Episode 144 - Time - Michael & Ivanka's Grand Podcast When you spend all day with a ticking clock in your peripheral vision, you become very conscious of time. This week we discuss our subjective sense of time, past and future, anxieties and dreams. We also talk about the scientific meaning of time in terms of entropy and the reason life exists. In all this, we keep bringing up Michael's new app Donegood which you can try now...

Episode 143 - Ageing - Michael & Ivanka's Grand Podcast https://youtu.be/047hGxiVq-U

Episode 142 - Ideas - Michael & Ivanka's Grand Podcast What's the best way to come up with ideas? How do we choose which idea to pursue? Should we be protective of our ideas or should we tell everyone? What's the difference between an idea and the actual thing it ends up becoming? Why do we fall in love with ideas?

It’s on YouTube! https://youtu.be/8c47r9-GGpw

We did our first video episode! https://youtu.be/3_zEeX7oNqE Episode 138 - Burnout - Michael & Ivanka's Grand Podcast This week we talked about burnout. Running out of steam. Exhaustion. Getting hives. We share some experiences of being overworked and how we do a better job these days of managing our energy levels, commitments and boundaries for a better work/life balance. Hopefully.

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