The Mitten Dad Show
The Mitten Dad Show is a podcast about bringing you some of the best headlines in finance, tech, and more with a Midwest touch. Along with personal and other stories from others about being a Dad and a parent in our current times. mittendad.substack.com
Episodes
You shut the laptop. The screen goes black. But the meeting is still running in the back of your head, talking to nobody.
If you’ve ever sat down to dinner still inside the workday, answered your kids in the polite, distracted voice you’ve been using on adults since 8 a.m., or snapped at someone over a dish in the sink and wondered where that came from, this episode is for you.
In this short episode of The Mitten Dad Show...
You've seen the four-circle ikigai diagram everywhere — on LinkedIn, in self-help books, in productivity courses. What you probably haven't heard is that it has almost nothing to do with the original Japanese concept.
In this episode, Matt Tilmann breaks down what ikigai actually meant to the Okinawan elders who inspired the global bestseller, and why the version most creators are using is pointing them in the wrong direction....
Your brain isn’t broken. It’s just doing a job it was never designed for.
In this episode of The Mitten Dad Show, I walk through Calm Infrastructure: a 4-step system for getting mental clutter out of your head and into a structure that actually holds it. Capture, Reduce, Schedule, Protect.
There’s also a free Weekly Reset Template in the show notes if you want to run the 20-minute version tonight.
Take care of yourse...
You muted the group text but kept mentally checking it. You accepted a calendar invite two months ago because Future You seemed capable.
Now it's Friday, and your brain still has 37 tabs open.
That's mental clutter — the invisible kind. You can't donate it or shove it in a closet. And it's exhausting, even when it looks completely normal from the outside.
In this episode, I walk through Calm Infrastructure — a four-s...
We got back from Chicago earlier this month, and I couldn't shake a feeling I didn't expect: clarity.
Not about the trip.
About my regular life.
In this episode, I talk about why travel feels so alive, why most of us let that feeling disappear by Monday, and three questions that can turn any trip into something more useful than a photo album.
If you've ever come home and felt that quiet deflation of re-entry, this one's for you.
Bef...
Travel isn’t just about seeing new places — it’s about experiencing a different version of yourself.
In this episode, Matt explores how travel temporarily clears mental clutter and reveals what we’re missing in daily life, offering practical questions to carry insights from trips into everyday routines.
Key topics:
- The science behind the “vacation effect”: reducing cognitive load, digital ...
If your days feel chaotic, it might not be a discipline problem — it might be an infrastructure problem. In this episode, we break down why chaos is really a systems failure, and what it takes to build calm back into your workflow.
Key Topics
- Why context switching costs more than you think (40% of productive time lost; 23 minutes to recover from a single interruption)
- The Calm Infrastructure Stack: 5 compounding changes that...
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Imagine taking the words you write and transforming them into auditory learning experiences—seamlessly.
That’s exactly what Google’s NotebookLM is doing, and it’s rapidly changing how we consume and interact with written content.
Recently, I shared 40 quotes that I found inspirational to celebrate my 40th birthday.
So with that, I decided to test this new AI technology by taking the text that I ...
Over on the Mitten Dad website, I recently posted about a series of tweets that had gone viral, where the original poster had mentioned how every time she would ask dads for their email addresses for party invitations for her three-year-old, they would always provide the email addresses of their partner instead. Why was that? Tune in for more, and be sure to send a voice memo in with how your family organization planning gets handl...
I switched it to Mitten Dad as an homage to my home state of Michigan, giving the content a Midwest flair. But also because, as many out there know, your perspective on life changes as a parent when you bec...
Welcome to another episode of The Script-Notes Show! We got back into the swing of things with a new blog post about the new Form W-4 for 2020, as well as some financial and business news to get you going for the week ahead. Enjoy, and as always, thank you for listening, and be sure to subscribe wherever you're listening! Also, we are still taking financial resolutions for the coming year and would love to hear th...
Welcome to a brand new year and Episode 50!
I know I’ve been on hiatus a bit due to work travel and our family’s forthcoming arrival. So with that, thought this would be a great time to ask for your resolutions, particularly from a financial sense!
Please leave a voicemail with the link below, or feel free to send an email to matt@script-notes.com! If you have your own podcast, be sure to leave that as...
When it comes to money, sometimes you just can’t beat plain old common sense. Today’s episode features some good tips to keep in mind for your financial life.
Today's episode is also brought to you by Undebt.it, one of the best tools available for helping you to get out of debt!
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While the economy as a whole may be in question on a daily basis, one thing that may be getting some clarity this fall is gas prices.
Have you started using GasBuddy yet? If not, it's a great way to be able to keep up to date on the latest prices at the pump. Now, with their Pay With GasBuddy Card, you can also find additional savings at the pump, including occasional deal alerts like an additional 21 ce...
Earlier today, the yield curve inverted, which previously has always been a sign leading up to a recession. I wanted to talk about a post from MarketWatch that I thought had some good information about it. Opinions seem to vary about what this might portend to, however, it should still be something to keep an eye on, especially over the next month or so. Always be sure to seek the advice of your investment professional should you h...
Hot off the heels of the Equifax Data Breach Settlement, yesterday it was announced by Capital One that a hacker may have compromised information from 100 million applications. This episode covers some tips and steps you can take if you think you may have been affected.
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“If you think it’s hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.” – Jack Lemmon I shared this quote today on the blog, and thought it was very appropriate for many aspects of life.
Frequently I like to share quotes from the site BrainyQuote, on Instagram, mainly because I like that so many quotes can have so many different meanings to different people.
Today’s st...
Lately I’ve become more intrigued by the concept of financial freedom or financial independence, and the varying forms that that can take on when it comes to personal finance. I’m in the midst of reading Grant Sabatier’s Financial Freedom, and it has really brought back to life the concept of “a penny saved is a penny earned.”
Given Anchor has now made voice messages more accessible to users o...
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