There are so many moving parts.

You think you have a strategy and then things fall apart.

Successful coworkspace.  Capitol Hill.  A Center for women.

Finally, a sitting Senator graces the facility with her presence but at the same time, a real estate agency makes a call.

Episode 24 of the Audio Drama “Talking and Shopping.”

• Sahara Ale – Yasmin of HWMS
• Margaux Amie – Rachel D’Fino, Aide to Senator to Stassen
• Zoe Anastassiou – Faith, owner of Beva’s Coworkspace
• Debbon Ayer – Tracy Aponta of Aponta and Associates
• Anastasia DeLoret – Karine Tisserand of HWMS
• Michelle Thomas-Hanson – Stage Manager
• Sarah Corbyn Woolf – Senator Christine Stassen
• Skippy – Himself

Can’t things just get better?

By themselves.

When there is a market to disrupt.

And money to be made.

Ed Kowalski, the CTO of the hapless Internet firm Talking and Shopping is back in Silicon Valley.  Tired of Washington.  Tired of things he doesn’t understand.  Tired of trying to get along with people.

Episode 22 of the series What Big Tech Doesn’t Know About Washington.

• Margaux Amie – Evelyn Rouse of HWMS
• Christian Conn – Gar Simons, Financier
• Kit Kuksenok – Ed Kowalski of T & S
• Noah Masur – Ben Çapardı, formerly of T & S
• Michelle Thomas-Hanson – Stage Manager
• Skippy – Himself

A friend you support financially is a friend indeed.

So you would think.

Abby Alton, the CEO of the Tech Giant Talking and Shopping pays a visit a Trade Association, the National Information Market Brokers Institute.  T & S pays their bills, so you would expect a little love.

And love can be found here.  It is just not the love that you would expect

Episode 23 of the Audio Drama “Talking and Shopping”

• Zoe Anastassiou – Capitol Hill Policy Officer
• Debbon Ayer – Abby Alton of T & S
• Anastasia Deloret – Karine Tisserande of HWMS
• Josh LaForce – Brannon Clough
• Geoffrey Grier – Metropolitan Police Officer
• David Alan Grier* – Famous Rankin, CEO of NIMBI
• Michelle Thomas-Hanson – Stage Manager
• Sarah Corbyn Woolf – Jacqui of NIMBI
• Skippy – Himself

*The other David Alan Grier, as compared to David Alan Grier the Producer.

Chad Dockerly of the Dockerly Report

You run a big name podcast.

You deal with important issues.

You can get big name guests.

Maybe.

Chad Dockerly asks his guest, Former Congressional Aide Rebecca Vogelson, to explain the EARN IT bill to his listeners.

Episode 20 of the Audio Drama “Talking and Shopping”.

• Zoe Anastassiou – Rebecca Vogelson
• Jake Minevich – Chad Dockerly
• Michelle Thomas-Hanson – Stage Manager
• Skippy – Himself

You must take the tide at its flood.

That is the sad lesson of organizational leadership.

You may like your colleagues.  You may like where you work.  You may even like what you do.

But there are times when you must loose the ropes that bind you to shore and start the journey afresh.

Vinny at the end of SidePocket

Seventh in our re-release of the AudioDrama: SidePocket

• Sahara Ale – Jessie
• Zoe Anastassiou – Narrator: Maddie, the 8 Year Old Entrepreneur
• Ron Bianchi – San
• Geoffrey Grier – Vinny
• Josh LaForce – Carl the VC
• Jake Minevich – Julio
• Skippy – Himself

You see the need.

You found a way to get the money.

You make the move.

You’re board doesn’t like it.

But you’re ok, right?  I mean, you did the right thing?  And your board will come along, don’t you think?  Afterall, you are innovating.  But then comes the break.

Sixth in our re-release of the AudioDrama: SidePocket

• Sahara Ale – Jessie
• Zoe Anastassiou – Narrator: Maddie, the 8 Year Old Entrepreneur
• Debbon Ayer – Karen from CalFed
• Ron Bianchi – Thomas from IBM
• Geoffrey Grier – Vinny
• Josh LaForce – Carl the VC
• Cariad O’Brien – Molly
• Skippy – Himself

Your face on the cover of a magazine.

What does it matter?  (Who knows what a magazine even is, anymore?)

Success has come to Vinny but how long will it stay?

Fifth in our re-release of the AudioDrama: SidePocket

• Sahara Ale – Jessie
• Margaux Amie – Violet
• Zoe Anastassiou – Narrator: Maddie, the 8 Year Old Entrepreneur
• Ron Bianchi – Jim/Kim/Tim/HIM
• Geoffrey Grier – Vinny
• Cariad O’Brien – Molly
• Skippy – Himself

They make you work.

They take your money.

They expect you to like it.

But sometimes.  Sometimes.  There is another option.

A chaotic trip through San Jose suggests a new strategy.

Fourth in our re-release of the audio drama: SidePocket

• Sahara Ale – Jessie
• Zoe Anastassiou – Narrator: Maddie, the 8 Year Old Entrepreneur
• Debbon Ayer – Karen the Banker
• Ron Bianchi – Rick
• Geoffrey Grier – Vinny
• Josh LaForce – Carl the VC
• Cariad O’Brien – Molly
• Skippy – Himself

Blame the bosses.

A tried and effective strategy.

And some times, it is actually true.

But grudges can blind our eyes, leaving us with a moment of self satisfaction and not much more.

Jessie misplays her hand

Third in our re-release of the audio drama: SidePocket

• Sahara Ale – Jessie
• Zoe Anastassiou – Narrator: Maddie, the 8 Year Old Entrepreneur
• Geoffrey Grier – Vinny
• Josh LaForce – Carl the VC
• Cariad OBrien – Molly
• Skippy – Himself