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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 417 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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412. Counting Strokes

This week, Pete shares with Jen some lessons he has learned from his swimming coach, on how to measure progress...by stopping the measuring.

00:17:05Aug 18, 2026

411. Proposals

After submitting many proposals between the two of them, Pete and Jen noodle on their proposal writing process, and how they might help thei...

00:19:43Aug 11, 2026

410. Grown Up Sh*t

This week, Pete brings his sighs and his aha moments around grown up sh*t to Jen, and they unpack it all together.

00:16:23Aug 5, 2026

409. Unpacking

After a recent episode on packing, Jen and Pete spend this week mulling over the idea of its opposite: unpacking.

00:17:04Jul 28, 2026

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