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Tara McMullin


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What Works with Tara McMullin is a free podcast about navigating the 21st-century economy with your humanity intact. The show explores big questions about earning a living, managing our time, and pursuing our values. There are over 350 episodes with small business owners—and the show today is taking a bold step into narrative journalism.
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EP 378: How much time do you work? with Anne Ditmeyer (Time & Money 7)
A lot of the work we do today doesn’t much look like “work.” The divide between work-life and life-life is flexible and porous. So what does that mean for the way we spend our time? Or how we earn a living? In this episode, I share designer, coach, and consultant Anne Ditmeyer’s story of rethinking how she works thanks to a big move to Paris. And, I argue that perhaps we need a radically different way of thinking about what work is—instead of a better “work-life balance.”
The Eggbeater Effect: How Time-Saving Technology Just Makes For More Work
Before there were egg beaters, there were women with whisks and spoons beating eggs. As a woman who bakes and also owns a KitchenAid Pro stand mixer, the thought of doing everything my mixer does with my own two hands is a bit horrifying. I can combine my flour, milk,...
Emotional Labor, Entrepreneurship, and My Breakdown
My mom was a seamstress while I was growing up. She started working at her sewing machine in the wee hours of the morning, paused to help my brother and me get ready for school, and then welcomed a steady stream of customers into the house for fittings and pickups....
I Quit! How The Ethos Of The Great Resignation Is Fueling The Great Pivot
"This did not feel like real life, exactly, but nowadays what did?" Patricia Lockwood I first saw the Fisher-Price My Home Office playset cross my Twitter feed on Saturday. I thought, surely, this must be a joke! This dystopian image was an attempt at cutting cultural...
Thinking Systems? Here’s What Every Small Business Owner Needs To Know
“I need to create some systems for my business.” It’s one of the key needs we hear from small business owners. Recognizing that they have something that works on some level, they’re looking to make it work better. Systems seem to be the way to do it. But then a...
The Tourist, The Artist, and The Archeologist: How Changing The Way You Think About Business Changes What You See
The way we think about business shapes what we can do and build with our businesses. Two different perspectives will lead to two different choices about the same circumstances. Different ways of thinking lead us...
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