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Biz-Souls

Biz-Souls

By: Jeffrey Hansler & Rona Lewis
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Welcome to the BizSouls podcast! We talk about the business of everything and we get to the heart, soul…and humor… of business and the people who make it happen.Jeffrey Hansler & Rona Lewis Economics
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  • Episode 198: Mistletoe, Micro-Joy & Mutts: A Biz-Souls Holiday Special!
    Dec 23 2025

    Strap on your jingle bells and loosen those ugly sweaters — Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler have crash-landed into your holiday spirit like two mistletoe misfits on a mission!

    In this delightfully absurd episode, these Festive Facilitators of Fun brave the wilds of workplace joy. (Side note: Jeffrey’s face looks like someone asked him to smile for a selfie he didn’t approve — yet somehow it adds to the holiday charm.)

    They unwrap the power of micro-joy moments like mischievous elves on candy cane crack — sprinkling insights about coworkers, leadership expectations, and yes… dogs (because of course they agree on dogs). Between stockings of helpful tips and heaping spoonfuls of glorious hypocrisy, they hunt down the joy killers lurking in office cubicles everywhere.

    This episode is lovingly dedicated to Roscoe, Rona’s legendary four-legged companion who has bounced onward to the great dog park in the sky. We feel the feels — and we play through them.

    So, pour some eggnog, crank up the laughter, and subscribe for more Biz-Souls antics — because who needs another round of MASH reruns when you’ve got this level of holiday hijinks?

    Other Biz-Souls Episodes You Might Love:

    Episode 197 – Business Wisdom with a Side of Chuckles with Kevin Hubschmann

    https://biz-souls.com/episode197 Apple Podcasts

    Episode 195 – AI: Turning Customer Service into Customer Suffering

    https://biz-souls.com/episode195 Apple Podcasts

    Episode 194 – Hope This Episode Finds You Well (It Won’t): Passive Aggression & Management Skills

    https://biz-souls.com/episode194 Apple Podcasts

    Episode 190 – Elephants, Riders, and Calculators (with Rich Batchelor)

    https://biz-souls.com/episode190 Apple Podcasts

    Episode 189 – Threadbare Culture: When the Corporate Soul Starts to Fray

    https://biz-souls.com/episode189 Apple Podcasts

    Episode 123 – The Power of Humor in Learning & Development

    https://biz-souls.com/episode123 (via the Listen Now page) BizSouls

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    17 mins
  • Episode 197: Business Wisdom with a Side of Chuckles with Kevin Hubschmann
    Dec 18 2025

    Who says you can’t have fun at work anymore? Not your hosts Rona Lewis and Jeffrey Hansler, and certainly not Kevin Hubschmann—the guy who literally sells laughter as a service. That’s right: he turned comedy into corporate wellness before it was cool.

    Kevin set out to be a police officer. But then Georgetown University happened and somewhere between marketing classes and open-mic nights, he realized the only thing he wanted to arrest was boredom at work. And if paying off college loans with comedy seems absurd… well, that’s basically Kevin’s business model.

    ‘Feedback equals failure!’, right? Or is it ‘Failure equals feedback!’ No matter, it all leads to applause, giggles, and comedy. Forget “HR Required Training” — Kevin brings song, improv, and those mysterious messages tucked under seats for engagement. No, they aren’t packages from Poughkeepsie.

    With a doctor for a dad and nurse for a mom, Kevin grew up where ER meets SNL—medical chaos and comedy gold, served bedside-style.

    Dive into the subtle (but hilarious) difference between:

    Stand-up comedy – where you bomb alone on stage.

    Improv – where an entire team bombs together (but earns bonus points for trying).

    Want psychological safety at work? Kevin literally wrote the playbook on it — patching serious development with belly laughs and “yes-and” mindsets that make every meeting feel like Whose Line Is It Anyway? (minus the cattiness… mostly).

    So, go ahead, like, subscribe, share with a friend… maybe you’ll be our one-millionth subscriber and win… bragging rights?

    Bonus fact: Did you know the average human heart beats about 3 billion times in a lifetime? If Kevin had a dollar for every laugh he’s created… he’d still probably be paying off college loans.

    Laughing isn’t just fun — it’s a strategy of Laughing in Development.

    Biz-Souls is the business podcast with heart, soul… and humor, hosted by Rona Lewis & Jeffrey Hansler. Here are some other episodes:

    Episode 195 – AI: Turning Customer Service into Customer Suffering

    https://biz-souls.com/episode195

    Episode 194 – Hope This Episode Finds You Well (It Won’t): Passive Aggression & Management Skills

    https://www.biz-souls.com/episode194

    Episode 193 – White Labels, Wild Speculation & Where Jeffrey Shops

    https://www.biz-souls.com/episode193

    Episode 192 – Interruptions, Bots & Kaizen

    https://www.biz-souls.com/episode192

    Episode 191 – When the Going Gets Tough…

    https://www.biz-souls.com/episode191

    Episode 190 – Elephants, Riders, and Calculators (with Rich Batchelor)

    https://www.biz-souls.com/episode190

    Episode 189 – Threadbare Culture: When the Corporate Soul Starts to Fray

    https://www.biz-souls.com/episode189

    Episode 188 – Scratch Glass and Climb Walls – Guest Success Edition!

    https://open.spotify.com/episode188

    Episode 185 – Trust Us (No, really… Trust Us)

    https://open.spotify.com/episode185

    Official Biz-Souls episode page (full archive):

    https://biz-souls.com/episodes/BizSouls

    Apple Podcasts page (latest episodes & links): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/biz-souls/id1617532413

    Biz-Souls on YouTube (video versions available):

    http://www.youtube.com/@biz-souls3926

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    23 mins
  • Episode 196: Biz-Souls After Dark (But Still PG… Sort Of)
    Dec 9 2025

    I do believe in Porn, I do believe in Porn, I do believe in Porn…

    Well Toto, buckle up—this definitely ain’t Kansas anymore.

    This week, our dynamic duo—Rona “Clickbait Queen” Lewis and Jeffrey “Incognito Mode” Hansler—bravely unzip the truth behind Sam Altman’s other big venture: Letting ChatGPT dip its perfectly sanitized toes into the world of porn. (Not his personal journey—calm down, Karen.)

    With all the coyness of Mary Pickford and the earnest heroism of Dudley Do-Right—and somehow the time-traveling, windswept, bodice-heaving energy of Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour on Mackinac Island—our hosts take you on a wholesome-but-spicy stroll through:

    • 30 years of digital disruption courtesy of the porn industry

    • Why porn has always been the early adopter nobody wants to give credit to

    • How AI may (or may not) be the next big… thing.

    And yes—a few true confessions because you can’t discuss porn without at least one awkward overshare.

    Porn has been around forever—longer than the internet, longer than Hollywood, and definitely longer than Jeffrey can pretend he doesn’t know what “buffering” means.

    So, join the fearless pair as they carefully, respectfully, delicately guide you down the hallway of porn and AI. With minimal fluffing. Truly minimal.

    (Production wouldn’t approve the budget for full fluffing.)

    Episode 128 – Insuring HR Is Taken Care of With Innovative Approaches

    • https://biz-souls.com/ep128

    Episode 127 – Tickled About Piccles! A Unique Way of Connecting Communities

    • https://biz-souls.com/ep127

    Episode 193 – White Labeling: Where Costco and Trader Joe’s Get Kinky

    • https://biz-souls.com/ep193

    Episode 195 – AI Pissing People Off (Jeffrey’s Revenge Episode)

    • https://biz-souls.com/ep195

    Episode 182 – For Love and Money: Romance in the Workplace (Still safer than discussing porn.)

    • https://biz-souls.com/ep182

    Like, subscribe, follow, rate, review, tattoo “Biz-Souls” on your lower back—whatever feels right. Just don’t make ChatGPT write your fanfic. It gets ideas.

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    15 mins
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