Business/Women with Katherine Danesi

Business/Women with Katherine Danesi

August Resource Roundup 📚

What to read, listen to, and watch, in one place.

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Aug 30, 2025
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Here’s the next monthly Resource Roundup — the best of what I’ve been listening to, reading, and watching in August.

Enjoy the long weekend! 🍒


In case you missed it.

We’re all busy and there’s a lot to read, so…

Here’s a roundup of what I shared on Business/Women on Wednesdays in August:


It's time to break the feast-or-famine cycle

It's time to break the feast-or-famine cycle

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Aug 27
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The art of saying "no"

The art of saying "no"

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Aug 20
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What are you unconsciously clinging to?

What are you unconsciously clinging to?

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Aug 13
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📚 Three books currently on deck.

”Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” — by Robert M. Pirsig

“The Safekeep” — by Yael van der Wouden

“I’ll Have What She’s Having” — audiobook narrated by author Chelsea Handler


📝 Worth reading.

“10-Minute Challenge: Bosch’s ‘Garden of Earthly Delights” — by Larry Buchanan “Today, we bring you another focus challenge, in which we invite you to spend uninterrupted time looking at one piece of art. This one is a 500-year-old, three-paneled triptych by the Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch.” (gift link)

“21 Ways People Are Using A.I. at Work” — by Larry Buchanan and Francesca Paris via The New York Times (gift link)

DAYLIGHT by Elizabeth Day
133 Non-Boring Questions To Start A Conversation
Last week, I posted a clip on Instagram of the comedian Mae Martin confessing on my podcast, How To Fail, that they hated small talk. The idea of it was enough to prevent them from going to parties and triggering a social anxiety spiral. So Martin came up with an elegant solution: they devised a list of handy quick-fire questions designed to elicit revealing, funny and interesting answers. In this way, they always had a prompt for conversation…
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🎧 Worth listening to.

“Human Design, Uncertainty, and Strategic Evolution with Katherine Danesi” - my wide-ranging conversation with host Jacki Hayes on her Here’s What I Learned podcast. We explored how human design, agency, and pricing all play into the shift from freelancer to CEO. And why learning to trust yourself is often the hardest—and most necessary—part of entrepreneurship.

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