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The Long and The Short Of It

Peter Shepherd & Jen Waldman

A weekly podcast for curious people ready to explore the art and science of being human from every possible angle: macro, micro, Australian, American, tall, short and everything in between.

The Long and The Short Of It Podcast Guide

Listen to The Long and The Short Of It, a Education podcast by Peter Shepherd & Jen Waldman. Stream 413 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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408. Strategy

After thinking over and over about the concept of strategy, Pete turns to Jen to help him unravel what strategy actually is and how it can b...

00:18:11Jul 21, 2026

407. Packing

As Jen prepares for her summer travel, she and Pete noodle on the activity of packing, and the sometimes difficult decisions of what to brin...

00:18:08Jul 14, 2026

406. Perfectionism Trap

This week, Pete shares with Jen a perfectionism trap within an AI model, and together they noodle on how to get their work unstuck and shipp...

00:18:01Jul 7, 2026

405. Creative Process

This week, Jen and Pete noodle on the creative process, and how we might build and iterate on our ideas.

00:19:09Jun 30, 2026

404. Pete, The Student

This week, Pete revisits what it's like to be a student, and he and Jen noodle on the mental frameworks this inspires in them.

00:15:15Jun 23, 2026

403. Lessons from Jen's Coaching Retreat

Energized from her coaching retreat, Jen shares with Pete five learnings from the three-day discourse between herself, the coaches, and thei...

00:21:37Jun 16, 2026

402. Occam's Razor

This week, Jen and Pete noodle on the idea that sometimes the simplest answer might really be the answer.

00:17:18Jun 9, 2026

401. Subtraction

This week, Pete and Jen noodle on the activity of a subtraction audit...one more thing to add to their plate, that will hopefully free up mo...

00:17:50Jun 2, 2026

400. Episode 400

This week, Pete and Jen are celebrating four hundred weeks of podcasting (with no breaks!). To honor the occasion, they answer questions tha...

00:20:22May 26, 2026

399. How Do I Start?

Almost four hundred episodes later, Jen and Pete throw it back (in a way) to Episode 1, asking: How do I start?

00:19:24May 19, 2026

Bonus Episode: We Need Your Questions

In anticipation of Episode 400 of The Long and The Short Of It, Jen and Pete are asking for questions from you, our listeners, to answer in...

00:00:51May 14, 2026

398. The Eisenhower Conundrum

This week, Pete coaches Jen as she navigates the urgent and important curveballs and projects that have been thrown into her life recently.

00:16:28May 12, 2026

397. Thought Leadership

This week, Jen and Pete noodle on the questions: Is thought leadership a teachable skill? And if so, how might we teach it?

00:16:30May 5, 2026

396. Spring Cleaning

This week, Jen jumps in to spring cleaning and Pete jumps in to autumn cleaning, and together they noodle on questions that might help us to...

00:17:56Apr 28, 2026

395. Trojan Horsing

This week, Pete brings a Trojan Horse to Jen, and sneaks in ideas around leadership, empathy, curiosity, and humility along the way. Specifi...

00:17:15Apr 21, 2026

394. Sports Teams

The question of how we might utilize sports team models within corporate or theatrical organizations has Pete and Jen scratching their imagi...

00:18:00Apr 14, 2026

393. BHAGs

This week, Jen gets excited about the idea of risk progression, and she and Pete use the idea of BHAGs to think about steady risk implementa...

00:16:42Apr 7, 2026

392. Breakfast

This week, Pete and Jen noodle on the importance of storytelling, starting with the story of what they each had for breakfast (or how they m...

00:16:10Mar 31, 2026

391. Replaced by AI?

This week, Jen and Pete noodle on the ways that AI cannot replace humans...yet. Specifically, in this episode Jen and Pete talk about: What...

00:16:44Mar 24, 2026

390. Normal

This week, Jen and Pete define (and redefine, and redefine, and redefine) the concept of what it means to be normal. Specifically, in this e...

00:16:35Mar 17, 2026