Episodes
May 7, 2024
Ep 17 – What Every Small Business Owner Should Know About Paid Leave
So you want to offer your team members paid family and medical leave? Yeah, good luck with that. The few government programs that exist to help businesses support paid leave policies often don’t apply to small businesses. So…
April 23, 2024
Ep 16 – Why You & Your Business Need (Legal) Space
If your relationship status with your business is “it’s complicated,” then it’s time for some clean-up. You and your business need some space. And that space? John calls it legal hygiene . And if you take the time, you and y…
April 18, 2024
BONUS - Building Solidarity in the Creator Economy
Today is a bonus episode featuring Kate, Charlie Gilkey, and Tara McMullin discussing the creator economy. It originally aired in the What Works feed—the first part of this conversation is here . "How do I want to live?" Phi…
April 16, 2024
BONUS - 'The Creator Economy Is Eating Creative Acts'
Today is a bonus episode featuring Kate, Charlie Gilkey, and Tara McMullin discussing the creator economy. It originally aired in the What Works feed. Part 2 of this conversation will be available on Thursday! *** It seems t…
April 2, 2024
Ep 15 – Boss Talks: Engaging Unionization with Access Matters CEO Melissa Weiler Gerber
If an organization is progressive and cares about its staff, then workers don’t need a union, right? Employee survey says: Nope. Unions are taking off in all sorts of mission-driven non-profits and small businesses. Manageme…
March 19, 2024
Ep 14 - Ditch the Bonus - Towards Transparent Profit Distribution
Should you reward your employees with performance-based bonuses? Kate says… No! The more equitable move is transparent profit distribution. Kate explains why performance-based bonuses make a false connection between hard wor…
March 5, 2024
Ep 13 – Employee Equity - Sharing the Pie
Employees are critical to business growth and success. So, shouldn’t they get a piece of the pie? Well…maybe. Offering employee equity is a process . You’ve got to consider the whats, whys, whos, and hows to ensure it’s the …
March 5, 2024
BONUS Addendum to Episode 13
Once you give an employee equity, does that mean you’re partners for better… and worse ? In this bonus addendum to Episode 13 – Employee Equity: Sharing the Pie – John talks through all the glorious nerdy technical details a…
Feb. 20, 2024
Ep 12 - What If Clients Won't Pay Me?!
Money shit is hard, even on a good day. So, what should you do when a client refuses to pay you, even after you have fulfilled your end of the agreement? You’ve done your part, but the client is refusing to pony up? Kate and…
Feb. 6, 2024
Ep 11 - Boss Talks: Fixing the Plane While We Fly It with Charlie Gilkey
“I want us to fix the plane while we fly it.” Charlie Gilkey believes that dominant power structures need reforming – that we can change the way we relate to each other in our teams and at work. Kate and Charlie get into how…
Jan. 23, 2024
Ep 10 - Boss Talks: Staying with the Trouble with Sarah Ryhanen
How do we build worlds of interdependence, regeneration, and care? Sarah Ryhanen, founder of Saipua and Worlds End School of Thought, Agriculture, and Craft joins Kate to talk about dreaming, and most importantly, doing the …
Dec. 19, 2023
Ep 9 - Incentives vs Caring: The Shifting Language of Labor
Kate digs into the language of employment and teases out a shift she’s seeing that reimagines the employer-employee relationship. Learn more about Kate Tyson: Wanderwell Connect on LinkedIn Sign up for Kate’s Newsletter Lear…
Dec. 5, 2023
Ep 8 - Boss Talks: The State of the Messy-Ass Restaurant Industry with Chef Jennifer Zavala
The rules of how we interact with restaurants and the service industry at large are changing. But not without significant confusion, pushback, and sometimes outright belligerence. The restaurant industry as we know it is fun…
Nov. 7, 2023
Ep 7 - Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Navigating Business Divorce
D-I-V-O-R-C-E. In part three of this series on partnerships, Kate and John are talking breakups. John dives into why your partnership needs the business equivalent of a prenup, why your business lawyer can’t take sides, and …
Oct. 24, 2023
Ep 6 - Shared Wonkiness: Navigating Partnership Changes
Business Partnerships change over time, whether you like it or not. In part two of a series on business partnerships, Kate and John dig into the messy middle of partnerships and how we navigate change. They break down what d…
Oct. 10, 2023
Ep 5 - Boss Talks: Grief as a Portal with Sebene Selassie and Jennye Patterson
For so many of us, grief is a near constant companion in our lives. And that loss and accompanying grief show up whether we have the space to deal or not. As I've been exploring failure, business closures, and endings during…
Sept. 26, 2023
Ep 4 - Creating a Better Business Partnership
In part one of an (at least!) three part series on business partnerships, Kate reveals her secrets to a better business marriage, which prompts John to rethink his approach to forming partnerships. Learn more about Kate Tyso…
Aug. 22, 2023
Ep 3 - Boss Talks: Shutting It Down with Heather Thomason of Primal Supply Meats / Part 2
Part 2 of Kate's conversation with Heather Thomason of Primal Supply Meats. You might want to listen to Part 1 of our conversation before y ou listen to this episode. We left off with Heather finally coming to terms with her…
Aug. 15, 2023
Ep 2 - Boss Talks: Shutting It Down with Heather Thomason of Primal Supply Meats / Part 1
Part 1 of Kate's conversation with Heather Thomason, founder of Primal Supply Meats, the Philadelphia based butchery she closed in May of this year after seven years in business. This is Heather's first public conversation s…
July 28, 2023
Ep 1 - Calling it Quits
Why do business owners decide to close down their businesses? Since Kate is currently deep in the middle of a summer project about failure, she naturally wanted to talk about business closures. In today's episode John and Ka…
July 14, 2023
Welcome to Whiskey Fridays
Whiskey Fridays is a collaboration between myself and my friend and colleague, John Garber. I, Kate, lead Wanderwell , an advisory and bookkeeping practice that supports thriving small businesses while investigating new ways…