The Happiness Hustle
Mike & Ben explore work-life balance, entrepreneurship, productivity, and more as they try to suss out the secrets to finding happiness amidst the daily grind.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 43 minutes
- Episodes
- 203
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
HH120: Touching Base XII
Mike & Ben give updates on their own happiness hustle journeys over a couple of brewskis.
HH119: Seasons of Frustration
Mike & Ben dig into the topic of frustration, what causes us to get frustrated, and how we can deal with frustrating situations in our happiness hustle journeys.
HH118: Is Hustle Culture a Good Thing?
Mike & Ben chat about hustle culture and the idea of the grind to suss out how it fits into the happiness hustle journey. Is the "hustle" in hustle culture the same as the "hustle" in t…
HH117: Do Nothing
Mike & Ben talk about the counterintuitive idea of doing nothing to aid productivity and the benefits of giving your brain a break.
HH116: Do It Yourself
Mike & Ben share their thoughts on the DIY mentality as a flipside to side hustles and how doing more things yourself can benefit your happiness hustle journey.
HH115: The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell | Book Club
Mike & Ben review Malcolm Gladwell's book "The Tipping Point" and discuss possible real-world applications of Gladwell's observations and theories in the happiness hustle journey.
HH114: The Virtue of Patience
Mike & Ben explore the topic of patience, why it matters, and how we can be patient in our happiness hustle journeys.
HH113: To Bill Or Not To Bill?
Mike & Ben discuss the nuances of billing clients in the consulting world and some of the practices companies may use to make the numbers look good but that ultimately can hurt both emp…
HH112: Resilience Through Versatility
Mike & Ben chat about the benefits of widening our breadth of knowledge, creating more resilience to a variety of potential scenarios by expanding our skillsets, and how we can find val…
HH111: Empathy in Business
Mike & Ben talk about applying the concept of empathy to the business space. Is it necessary? Can it be used effectively? Is it practical for companies to pursue?
HH110: Touching Base XI
Mike & Ben share the latest in their own happiness hustle journeys over drinks (virtually), including a deep dive on raising rabbits, an update on Mike's YouTube venture, and a potentia…
HH109: Deep Work by Cal Newport | Book Club
Mike & Ben review Cal Newport's book "Deep Work" and discuss their experiences with flow state and how they plan to put the book into practice.
HH108: The Four-Day Workweek
Mike & Ben share their opinions on the 4-day workweek model, comparing shorter 32-hours weeks to 4 10-hour days, discussing companies that have implemented short workweeks successfully,…
HH107: Social Media As a Career
Mike & Ben discuss pursuing social media as a source of income, diving into Mike's experience so far on YouTube and talking about how much work actually goes into it behind the scenes.
HH106: Reinvention After 30
Mike & Ben get practical about reinventing yourself after thirty. Mike shares some steps that he has put into practice recently as he navigates his own reinvention.
HH105: Gamify the Happiness Hustle
Mike & Ben talk about how gamification can be leveraged in the happiness hustle journey, what motivates us to improve, and how we can trick ourselves into making forward progress.
HH104: Sunk Cost Fallacy
Mike & Ben chat about the sunk cost fallacy, their own experiences with sunk costs, and how to avoid falling into the fallacy in your happiness hustle journey.
HH103: Unconventional Ways of Getting Hired
Mike & Ben reflect on their own career paths and how they've gotten hired in the past as well as other hiring anecdotes, and weight conventional versus unconventional job-seeking techni…
HH102: How to Pitch Yourself
Mike & Ben discuss giving an elevator pitch about yourself, what elements can make it successful, and how to fine tune it to your audience. Ben gets on the metaphorical stage with sweat…
HH101: Teaching Your Boss
Mike & Ben talk about what it looks like to teach up the chain by flipping the conventional model on its head and what's required for it to be successful.