Most of us have a very specific image of cold email: a stranger who never heard of us, selling something we never wanted, in language no human being would actually use. But “cold email” just means an email to someone who doesn’t know you yet—and the version most of us...

Most program pages tell you what you get — the calls, the modules, the bonuses. They almost never tell you why the thing is six weeks instead of six months, or why the schema markup lesson moved from week three to week six.In this episode, we walk through our own fall...

[A note before you listen: This episode includes candid discussion of suicide, suicidal ideation, mental health crisis, psychiatric hospitalization, addiction, and chronic illness. Please take care of yourself — skip it, save it for later, or listen with...

We’re both getting pitched constantly by emails that clearly came from a bot that scraped our show notes, and the reason they don’t work isn’t the outreach itself. It’s that there’s no distinct perspective behind it.In this episode, we talk about the chicken-and-egg...

Most of us who work for ourselves aren’t one clean thing—we’re cartoonists who also teach, consultants who also write, coaches who also run the whole business. And after a couple decades of that, you can end up with an enormous body of work that almost nobody can...

Aggressively Human went on hiatus for July, and we’re back to talk about what the break actually looked like!In this episode, we catch up on what our month off actually looked like — Jessica’s West Coast “book tour” meeting Deeper Foundations members across four...