Do you ever feel overwhelmed when you open your email inbox? Whether it’s your personal email or business account, it can be easy to begin feeling overwhelmed by the sheer volume of email you receive every single day! Email has helped businesses grow much faster today than in the pre-internet days. It has helped keep people connected – for work and…

This week Marc rejoins Pete and they talk about a number of games from the last few months. Following that with plenty of warning they dive into Death Stranding 2 spoiler talk.

Originally from the United Kingdom, Ronan Leonard is the founder of Eccountability, a mastermind platform where entrepreneurs can get the support they need as they navigate the ups and downs of the business. Since he loves watching and helping people succeed, he connects business owners to their “tribe” so they can learn from others while also havi…

Sharon Gaskin is the founder of The Trainers Training Company, a company she set up in 2009 to help freelance trainers thrive in their careers and their business. With years of experience in training and development, she has become the go-to person for those who wish to take their professional lives as freelance trainers to the next level. Sharon j…

Miracle Morning, Time Blocking and Think and Grow Rich with Alexis Kingsbury, serial entrepreneur and business consultant. Listen Below and Here’s What We Recommended: Tools & Apps iThoughts app – a mind mapping application. “It’s probably the best app and most powerful app that I use, and it’s the one I’m asked about most often when I’m at confere…

This week Pete talks a little bit about Death Stranding 2, Civ 7 updates, and Parcel Corps. And then he talks A LOT about Donkey Kong: Bananza and Destiny 2: The Edge of Fate

The late Simon Jordan was a coach, mentor, branding, and design consultant and founder of Simon Jordan Marketing. He worked with coaches and consultants internationally to help them to build profitable and powerful brands that make a difference in the world. We lost Simon just before Christmas 2021. It was a shock as he was always so lively and ful…

Cindy Bidar works with 7-figure marketing teams and numerous profitable online businesses to set up and manage marketing and sales funnels. Through training programmes and coaching, she helps clients scale their business by assisting them to create automated systems that improve conversion rates and increase sales. Cindy’s company has been entirely…

Paula Gardner is a Business Psychologist, Executive Coach, and the Founder of Scarlet Thinking, a visibility coaching company based in London specialised in helping executive professionals and brands gain more visibility and raise their professional profile. She is the author of Do Your Own PR and Get Noticed and the creator and facilitator of seve…

Microsoft layoffs and games canceled, AI can be good but is mostly terrible, Bungie has the same issues, in fact most of the industry does. Death Stranding 2 and Clair Obscur rule.

Kari DePhillips is a full-time digital nomad who makes the most of her time and her life by traveling the world – mixing remote work and vacationing. Kari is the founder and CEO of the digital marketing agency, The Content Factory, a company built on SEO with a website that produces over $1-million worth of organic traffic each year. Kari is also t…

Nick Davies is a business and career coach, who uses his 20 years of experience in financial services and personal development to mentor other people to progress personally and professionally. Over the last four years, Nick has focused on creating and evolving his purpose and now helps individuals and businesses through the coaching company, ProAdv…

After a 2.5 month hiatus Pete is finally back with Qwertyman in tow and they do a deep dive on the Switch 2 launch, Summer Games Fest, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and the Marathon debacle.

Susan Stutzel is a CPA and Mindset & Productivity Coach. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Coe College. Following a successful corporate career, she started her own CPA business. Using her own experiences of balancing a busy home life and business, she became a certified coach. Susan is passionate about helping women work less so the…

In March 2018, Madeleine Black won the Amazing Strength award at the No. 1 Magazine Amazing Women Awards and, in October of the same year, was asked to be the Patron for Say Women, the Scottish organisation that supports survivors of sexual abuse. She is a TEDx speaker, a storyteller for The Forgiveness Project, and has recently become involved wit…

Kim Ades is the Founder of Frame of Mind Coaching and an expert in the field of thought mastery. She has coached respected business leaders across a variety of fields. Kim uses her experience as an entrepreneur and a unique philosophy to help her clients shift their thinking to yield extraordinary results in their business and personal lives. Kim i…

Brian Jones is the Founder and CEO of VA Platinum, a team of experts in outsourcing and offshoring for business owners. When Brian found the 70-hour work week he was doing just wasn’t working for his work/life balance, he decided to use virtual team members to lighten the load. After drastically reducing his work hours and giving himself more time …

Amit Raj is the founder of Amit Digital Marketing, an SEO agency that specialises in link building and digital PR that works with a range of clients from across the globe. Amit initially trained as a pharmacist, but subsequently grew interested in internet marketing and began to teach himself the principles of SEO. He later turned his side-hustle i…

Dom Brightmon is an award-winning speaker, coach, and certified member of the John Maxwell Team who seeks to inspire personal development through positive influence. He is the host of podcast Going North, voted among the top ten self-help podcasts in the world, and has authored Amazon bestsellers like Going North!: Tips & Techniques to Advance Your…

Dayne Shuda may have established Ghost Blog Writers, but there’s nothing spooky or paranormal about what he does. Since 2010, he has provided quality blogging services to businesses and entrepreneurs across all industries. Despite his hectic schedule, he still finds time for the things he cherishes: enriching his mind with books, exploring the grea…

Randy Gage is a Strategic Advisor, Keynote Presenter, Prosperity Speaker, and Author. With his thought-provoking methods, he helps people approach their business and lives in a whole new way. He has written many books, including his recent best-seller Radical Rebirth. Randy has spoken in more than 50 countries to over 2-million people and is a memb…

An award-winning wellbeing coach, Pip Lawrence is the co-founder of DayOne Wellness, a company that focuses on dealing with the issue of health inequality in the UK. As a young achiever in the field of fitness and athletics, Pip has always been fascinated by the fact that health and wellbeing is the primary area where even the most successful profe…

Steve Jones initially worked with Fitness First, where he became a vital part of its quick expansion. When he began working with Shirlaws Business Coaching in 2002, he once again witnessed its fast growth in the U.K. Today, Steve is the founder of Skills for Business Training Limited, a company that deals not only with the process-related app conce…

As a LinkedIn coach, trainer, public speaker, and the founder of Burriss Consulting Inc., Teddy Burriss shares his knowledge about how to use LinkedIn in a way to create value for people and their business. He likes to work in coffee shops and public places and does a lot of one-on-one coaching. He enjoys helping others in their business and transi…

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Lara Morgan is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and author. She went from needing to borrow a suit for her first-ever business meeting to becoming an inspirational leader and owner of several highly-successful businesses. Under her belt are Scentered, Dryrobe, KitBrix, Gate8, and Global Amenities Direct, as well as her book, More Balls Than Most. A…

Paul Tokgozoglu realised early on that he simply wasn’t geared for a life-long career in the military or a 9-to-5 job. However, instead of resigning himself to that fate, he decided to change his circumstances by venturing into digital marketing, despite believing that he possessed no marketable skills. Now, he successfully runs Excelsior Industrie…

Organisation, Excel and Automating your Business from Jason Buckner, The Sales Automation Expert’ Listen Below and Here’s What We Recommended: Apps Duolingo – an app on your phone to learn a language through regular exercises and repetition. Tools Inbox Pause – to pause your gmail Inbox. You can continue to work in your email and read and send emai…

Kent says goodbye at the end of another season of the "Chats with Kent" podcast, which featured interviews with speakers for the upcoming Epic Web Comp 2025 conference in Salt Lake City. The host, Kent C. Dodds, expresses excitement about the lineup of speakers and encourages listeners to attend the conference in March 2025. He also mentions that t…

Kent C. Dodds sits down with Jason Lengstorf to discuss his talk at Epic Web Conf, Of Things Epic, where he dives into the principles behind effective decision-making in web development. Rather than focusing on which tools to pick, Kent emphasizes the need for a framework that enables developers to make confident decisions that scale. He draws from…

Andre Landgraf joins Kent to discuss his talk at Epic Web Conf, Epic Image Optimization. In this conversation, they explore the challenges and trade-offs of optimizing images for the web, particularly when handling large numbers of event photos or user-generated content. Andre shares how building his own image optimization pipeline gave him a deepe…

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This week Pete talks with Seamount and Gdog in depth about PGA Tour 2k25, and then dives into Monster Hunter Wilds with Qwertyman and unleashes him on his own to discuss the Fatal Fury beta.

Madison Campbell is a sexual assault advocate and technology innovator on a journey to revolutionise how sexual assault is managed and to support survivors to take ownership of the process. She is the CEO of Leda Health Company, formerly known as MeToo Kits Company, which she co-founded in 2019 to create a system to solve the issues on how to deal …

Jonny Cooper is the founder of Jonny Hates Marketing, a global coaching company specifically focused on helping professional coaches, trainers, and therapists attract their ideal clients through Effortless Marketing Principles. His journey into entrepreneurship initially began as the owner of a financial consultancy company that employed 200 people…

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In this conversation, Jason Lengstorf, creator of CodeTV and the Web Dev Challenge, joins Kent to discuss: His background in engineering, developer relations, and open-source at companies like IBM, Gatsby, and Netlify. The Web Dev Challenge, a fast-paced, team-based competition that brings developers together to solve unique coding challenges in ju…

In this conversation, Ryan Florence, co-creator of Remix and React Router, joins Kent to talk about the evolving landscape of web development. He shares insights on: The motivation behind moving core Remix features into React Router. The rising importance of AI-driven development and how it affects frameworks. Betting on the web platform as a long-…

Annie Sexton joins Kent to talk about her upcoming talk at Epic Web Conf, JavaScript: The Origin Story. In this discussion, she shares her love for history and why documenting the evolution of programming languages is so important. They dive into: The rushed creation of JavaScript and how it shaped the language. Competing languages of the era and h…

Zackary Jackson joins Kent to discuss his upcoming talk at Epic Web Conf, Epic Federation: Scaling Web Infrastructure. As an expert in large-scale web architecture, Zack has helped build critical tools like Module Federation and RSPack, both of which power ByteDance’s global infrastructure. In this conversation, Kent and Zack cover: The challenges …

Aaron Francis joins Kent to discuss his talk at Epic Web Conf, Epic Bets: Practical Tips for Betting on Yourself. In this conversation, Aaron reflects on his non-traditional path into tech, his experience being laid off, and how he prepared himself to be resilient in the face of career uncertainty. He shares insights on why developers should focus …

Karen Tui Boyes is a champion of Lifelong Learning and an expert in effective teaching, learning, study skills, motivation, and positive thinking. She is the founder of Spectrum Education, which works with teachers, students, and parents to inspire and motivate learners to go beyond their current limitations and be more effective. Karen is also a C…

Fran Zekan, an engineer from Croatia with experience in hardware, robotics, and web development, joins Kent to discuss his talk, Shipping Reusable Full-Stack Components. Fran explains how React Server Components (RSCs) allow developers to build truly self-contained, reusable full-stack features—something that has long been a staple in the Rails eco…

Josh Cirre, a developer advocate and content creator, joins Kent to discuss his talk at Epic Web Conf: "Learning-Driven Development." Josh shares his philosophy on learning by doing—where the best way to master new technologies is by applying them to real-world projects rather than passively consuming tutorials. Josh and Kent discuss: The importanc…

In this episode, Kent is joined by Kira Corbett, an AI-focused developer educator with deep experience in robotics, simulation, and human-computer interaction. Kira discusses her background in building real-world systems and how her transition to web development has shaped her approach to optimizing user experiences. Her talk at Epic WebConf, "Buil…

Taylor Desseyn, VP of Global Development at Torque.dev and host of the Guidance Counselor 2.0 podcast, joins Kent to discuss his role as an emcee at Epic WebConf and the importance of networking in tech. Taylor shares insights on how developers can maximize their time at conferences, from preparing in advance to actively building meaningful connect…

Mark Techson, a developer advocate at Google working on Angular, joins Kent to discuss the intersection of AI and developer productivity. His Epic WebConf talk, "Beyond Code Assist: Driving Impact as a Next-Gen Developer," explores how developers can go beyond using AI for simple code assistance and instead integrate AI into their workflows to acco…

Shruti Kapoor, a frontend engineer at Slack and an Epic Web instructor, joins Kent to dive into the intricacies of accessibility in web development. With over a decade of experience, Shruti has dedicated herself to educating developers on building accessible and inclusive applications. Her Epic WebConf talk, "Building Accessible Web Apps," will foc…

This week Pete and Qwerty discuss what they are playing, the Switch 2, and whether the industry is in as bad of a spot as is being portrayed.

Eva Ferreira, a frontend engineer, educator, and design systems expert, shares insights into what makes or breaks a design system. As a tech lead at Mable and a long-time web development instructor, Eva brings years of experience building UI components, optimizing accessibility, and implementing robust frontend architectures. Her talk at Epic WebCo…