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Aggressively Human: For experts choosing expansion over extraction.

by Meg Casebolt & Jessica Lackey
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About the show

Aggressively Human is a podcast about building expert-led businesses around expansion, not extraction. Hosted by Meg Casebolt and Jessica Lackey, the show explores what happens when conventional business advice meets the reality of the people who actually have to live with its consequences. We talk about sustainable growth and business models, marketing and algorithms, AI and automation, expertise and authority, mental health and capacity, relationships, and the choices underneath all of it: What are you optimizing for? What do you gain? What does it cost? And does the tradeoff make sense for the actual humans involved? We’re not here to prescribe a new set of rules for running your business. We’re interested in helping independent experts make thoughtful decisions about what to grow, what to automate, what to protect, and what they want their businesses to make possible. Because your business should support your life. Not the other way around. aggressivelyhuman.substack.com