Jason Feifer
speaker
848 appearances
6 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 12 Jun
Jason Feifer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So, Nicole, we have a real topic to discuss today. But before we get there, we got a real story we got to hear. I'm not going to give anything away about this story of yours. Uh-huh. But I will just tell you that I received this voice memo, which you sent to Morgan and I. We were about to play it. I happened to be sitting in a very drab airport eating a awful airport stromboli.
And I nearly spat that thing out. Can we just play this?
All right, we're back. How do you feel about that being heard by everybody? I...
Right. The mistake is telling your friends who you make a podcast with about anything that happens that's embarrassing because it immediately will go in the podcast. All right. You sent me a screenshot of what this email looked like because I couldn't quite picture it.
Yeah, I did not know that either. This is a public service announcement for anyone who doesn't know that. So just to be clear, here's the screenshot you sent me. Imagine looking at an email, right, everyone? So first it says the subject line, which in this case is a very boring thing that says, re colon brand lift and case study.
Patau that you have connected daddy to?
Mm-hmm. And daddy.
Yeah, it's like preparing for a big presentation and just absolutely nailing it. And then you get off stage and someone was like, there is toilet paper attached. Yeah, that's a good one.
I could just marinate in the absurdity of this all day. But to try to make an actual purpose of this outside of just that I wanted to share it with our listeners, what's the big idea here? The big idea here is that mixing personal and business relationships, particularly romantic and business relationships, can be complicated. Because why? I mean, you tell me, because you've had to navigate...
this a number of times given the number of very professional and personal connections you've made through your dating life. So what's the balance? What's the thing that you have to walk?
I have to say that feels like a really compelling question that I relate to. Can this just be my thing? Because when you have a partner who you share a lot with, including professional interests and ambitions, then there are going to be these overlaps. And some of those overlaps are great.
But also, I think many people, as they get deeper into a relationship, they start to ask themselves, what's still just mine? What's mine and not ours? And that's been a very important part of my relationship with Jen, my wife, is we have our own things and then we have our things together. But we also do somewhat similar work in that we're both in media.
And so there are a lot of times where things just overlap. And what's interesting is that sometimes they overlap in a way that forces a reduction of something. I'll give you a tiny example. We have a friend named Andy. Andy's a very successful writer. And we've been meaning for Andy and her girlfriend to come over and catch up with Jen and I who haven't seen for a long time.
But at the same time, also, Andy and I had a whole bunch of work things we wanted to talk about, like newsletter strategy and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I realized, you know, if Andy and her girlfriend come over, we're not going to talk business. And I actually kind of want to. And I want to talk about stuff that like Jen's not that interested in, which is like newsletter strategy.
So we decided to create two plans. There was week one, Andy and Julia came over and we had dinner and we talked about the things all four of us are interested in. And then literally the next week, just Andy and I got together and we talked newsletter strategy and other stuff. And that felt like a really good way to do it because- It's intentional. Yeah, it's intentional.
You get these intersections and one doesn't subtract the other, right? It's not like Andy and I couldn't continue to develop the kind of worky relationship that we would have because it doesn't fit into the relationship that I would share with my wife. And so doing both felt really good and useful. And I think that that's where I want to make sure I'm always living in.
I want to share as much as we can, but I also want to make sure I'm being mindful of how some things, even things I might share, can still just be mine.
Thank you for the dual book plug. Yeah, Jen and I wrote a book together. And that was a great project. But we also didn't then immediately start merging all of our work things. In fact, we use each other pretty intentionally in each other's work. For example, my newsletter, I have found that Jen is a great last sounding board before that thing goes out.
So I send my newsletter out Tuesday mornings. Monday night, I read the newsletter to her. And after that, I fussed with it all week. And now I just want her to hear it and to call out anything that doesn't work. And fortunately, she hasn't heard it and been like, this thing is terrible. You should throw it away because then I wouldn't have anything on Monday night.
But I really like that as a process. The newsletter is mine, but we share this part of it together, which is this check-in just before it goes out. I think that if you have a partner who you have some professional entanglement with, it makes it often more fun. There's more things to talk about and to do together. But you just have to know whose is what's, if that makes sense. What is whose?
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