Curiosity #104 - You Don't Have to Fix It
Sometimes they don't need us to remove the problem. They need us to make sure they don't experience it alone.
There's a reflex many of us have when someone we care about comes to us with a problem.
We fix it.
Your employee is struggling with a project? Here's what you should do. Your friend is...
Sep 30, 2026
Curiosity #103 - What’s Your Origin Story?
🎤 Quotable quotes: “I love meeting people's moms. It's like reading an instruction manual as to why they're nuts."
— Ted Lasso
We tend to associate origin stories with superheroes.
Bruce Wayne loses his parents. Peter Parker gets bitten by a spider. Superman arrives from Krypton. Something happe...
Sep 23, 2026
Curiosity #102 - Jump Around
🎤 Quotable quotes: “Men do love a song with an instruction, right?"
— Keeley Jones
Roy Kent and Jamie Tartt are dancing.
We could probably stop right there.
In Season 4, Episode 6 of Ted Lasso, the two former rivals find themselves enthusiastically dancing to House of Pain's Jump Around. As Reb...
Sep 16, 2026
Curiosity #101 - Don't Become the New York Jets
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Ted: “Back home, when a team was playing poorly, we didn’t call them unlucky. What do we call them, Coach?”Beard: “New York Jets.”
Well, that was unnecessary.
The NFL season kicks off this week, which means millions of Americans will once again spend their Sundays (or Thursdays, Mondays and ...
Sep 09, 2026
Curiosity #100 - Just Keep Showing up
🎤 Quotable quotes: “There’s two buttons I never like to hit: that’s panic and snooze."
— Ted Lasso
We have a confession to make.
This is the 100th edition of Weekly Curiosities.
That feels like it should call for something big. Our greatest insight. Our funniest Ted Lasso observation. Perhaps a ...
Sep 02, 2026
Curiosity #99 - Finished ≠Ready
🎤 Quotable quotes: “I do love another school year. Smells like potential."
— Ted Lasso-ish
It's that time of year again.
Across the country, backpacks are being packed, dorm rooms are being assembled, schedules are being finalized, and parents are discovering that somehow a trip to Target for "a...
Aug 26, 2026
Curiosity #98 - Have You Gone Nose Blind?
🎤 Quotable quotes: “If that's a joke, I love it. If not, can't wait to unpack that with you later."
— Ted Lasso
One of the ideas we often talk about in our keynotes and workshops is something called being nose blind. And yes, it's exactly what it sounds like.
You know that thing where you walk i...
Aug 19, 2026
Curiosity #97 - Intention
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🎤 Quotable Quote“You're really only one or two connections from maybe, quite possibly, the best connection of your career.”— Katie Regan
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🎧 This Week’s Guest: Katie Regan
Let's start with a confession.
We loved this book.
Katie Regan's Intention: You Already Know Everyone ...
Aug 12, 2026
Curiosity #96 - Time to Recombobulate
🎤 Quotable quotes: “I think things come into our lives to help us get from one place to a better one."
— Ted Lasso
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This week, we found ourselves walking through the Milwaukee airport when a sign stopped us in our tracks.
Recombobulation Area.
Now, if you've never been to Milwaukee, that's app...
Aug 05, 2026
Curiosity #95 - Build the Bridge Before You Need to Cross It
🎤 Quotable quotes: “Doing the right thing is never the wrong thing"
— Ted Lasso
One of the questions we get asked most often is:
"How do you build a great network?"
It's an interesting question.
Because we don't think Ted Lasso would have liked the word network.
It sounds... transactional.
Like ...
Jul 29, 2026
Curiosity #94 - Practice Beats Credentials
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🎤 Quotable Quote“The only way to master a skill is to do it again and again and again.”— Jeremy Smith
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🎧 This Week’s Guest: Jeremy Smith
Jeremy Smith doesn't just question higher education.
He rebuilt it.
A multiple-exit startup founder and CEO of pega6, Jeremy believes we'v...
Jul 22, 2026
Curiosity #93 - Rivals Make Us Better
🎤 Quotable quotes: “Sport has the power to unite people in a way that little else does."
— Nelson Mandela
Later today, England and Argentina meet in a World Cup semifinal.
That sentence alone should be enough to make football fans sit up a little straighter.
These two nations have history.
Real ...
Jul 15, 2026
