If you are starting the new year trying to decide whether to stay or go in a job, relationship or anything else you want to listen to this episode.

Eugene and Stephanie talk about:

- The Potential Trap, where you stay because there’s “so much potential”

- Giving yourself permission to leave by challenging your ideas around quitting

- Why you can’t push rope

- Good reasons to stay in a bad situation

- The Two Year Rule - if these are your last two years of your life, will you be glad you spent it doing what you are doing?

Watch or listen now and drop a note in the comments about what decisions you are making right now.

What if one friend can afford to retire early and the other can’t?

What if that friend is Eugene and Stephanie finally confesses her envy?

Listen as Eugene and Stephanie discuss:

- What to do if your friends or co-workers have more money than you do

- How being broke in your youth can impact you for the rest of your life

- What to do if fear of finances makes you ignore important money issues

- How to get back on track with basic financial literacy

Stupid Men tricks? Stupid Women Tricks? Stupid Relationship Tricks?

Eugene and Stephanie argue gender dynamics.

Mostly we agree, but in the latest Bad Boss Brief (EP 71 Stupid Tricks: Gender Conflict) we talk about the ways in which the gender divide can cause problems at work and at home.

Choose someone and then try to get them to change?

Use your beauty and sexual attractiveness to win at work?

The “tyranny of expectations” and how Sesame Street taught boys to cry. Did that set up a generation of men who cry too easily? Or should men share more and develop more friendships?

Listen in as two old friends talk about the gender divide.