Be Cringe

Max Nimaroff is a Brooklyn-based parent, SVP of e-commerce at Oats Overnight, writer, Discord community builder, aspiring Court Street shop owner, and self-described outsider who has spent his whole life stitching together people who wouldn't otherwise be in the same room. He's also a Pokémon master (of sorts).

In this conversation, we talk about:

• Why a portfolio career is artistry by another name
• His grandfather who ran an ice cr...

Seth Werkheiser is the founder of Social Media Escape Club, a freelance email marketer, and, among many (many) other things, has been on the internet in earnest for 25 years.

Over the last two-and-a-half decades, Seth has found his place on the internet, through places like his 2001 heavy-metal blog (Buzz Grinder), his AOL music blog (Noise Creep), and being an early adopter of places like Twitter (he was user number 2,700, or so), ...

Lia Zneimer is a former marketing VP, writer, author, theater kid at heart, and dog mom to Waffles.

She is working on her YA novel set at theater camp, while navigating the many swim lanes of her career and finding comfort in being able to go back and forth between in-house roles and working for herself (while writing her book)

In this conversation, we talk about:

• Giving ourselves the permission to define our own success in our ca...

Devon Hunt is a writer, a retreat host, and someone who is drawn to taste, style, and how it comes about.

She went to a good school, snagged a business degree, became a CPA, and spent the better half of a decade at a Big 4 firm. She checked promotions off one by one in a career that felt predictable, until one day, she chose to step off the treadmill.

In this conversation, we dig into what apathy at work tells us, why the fear of mak...

Amanda Jackson is a marketer, a writer, a crocheter, a crafter, a baker, an illustrator, and even an ice skater. Said another way: she's a creative who experiments and brings a beginner's mindset to everything she does.

In this conversation, we get into:

• Why it's okay (and encouraged) to have hobbies we're not immediately good at 
• The lessons she brought to the ice and the mic after watching this one classic Disney Channel Or...

Max Pete is a community builder, writer, speaker, and amateur DJ who has spent over a decade showing up online as himself. He doesn't craft a persona or show up differently depending on the situation or environment — he is the same person in every room he enters.

In this conversation, we dig into how he got there, the ways ego and identity can help us make decisions, and why being yourself is often the scariest option (but for...

There is something you want to do — you've just been letting your fear (of embarrassment, of failure, of whatever) get in your way.

Welcome to Be Cringe, the podcast that explores what happens when you start living for yourself and stop worrying about all the other noise. This might be cringe, but we're doing it anyway.

You can find me on Substack or Instagram, and if you know someonw who'd make a great guest you can reach out ...