Business, Beer & BS with Mike & Blaine
Dive into "Business, Beer, and BS" with seasoned entrepreneurs Mike Milan and Blaine Bertsch! Each episode is a lively mix of business insights and casual conversation fueled by cold beers and real talk.
Mike and Blaine share their rollercoaster journeys of running businesses and tackling real-world challenges with humour and honesty. Expect practical tips, unforgettable stories, and plenty of laughs along the way. It’s the perfect blend of expert advice and laid-back fun.
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240 episodes
Nobody Told Me: The Brutal Truth About the Costs of Success
Nobody told us that success creates a whole new set of problems. Nobody told us that owning a home means becoming a part-time plumber, electrician, and landscaper. And nobody definitely told us that running a business would have us worrying abo...
The Skills AI Can't Fake: Why Emotional Intelligence Beats Automation
Artificial intelligence can write emails, build presentations, create images, and even help write code—but it still can't shake a hand, earn trust, or make someone genuinely feel understood. This week on the Mike & Blaine Podcast, we explor...
It Looks Easy Until You Try It: Inside the Illusion of Mastery
Ever watched someone do something online and thought, “That doesn't look that hard?” This week on the Mike & Blaine Podcast, we dive into the Competence Illusion—the strange way social media platforms like TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTu...
The Psychology of Satisfying Content: What Pressure Washing & Rug Cleaning Teach Us About Marketing
Why Is This So Satisfying? This week on the Mike & Blaine Podcast, we dive into the strange, addictive world of “oddly satisfying” content and uncover why some of the most popular videos on the internet involve cleaning a filthy rug, pressu...
What is Aura? The New Rules of Authority, Branding, and Business Strategy
The internet has a new way of keeping score: aura. This week on the Mike & Blaine Podcast, we dive into one of the strangest trends taking over social media—gaining aura, losing aura, and why people seem obsessed with measuring status in wa...
“When Did We Stop Doing Stuff Just For Fun?” Stop Turning Your Hobbies Into Side Hustles
At some point, every single hobby became a business opportunity. This week on the Mike & Blaine Podcast, we talk about the return of amateurism and the growing movement of people doing things simply because they enjoy them. From backyard ga...
The Upgrade Spiral: How Consumer Culture Hacks Your Business & Life
You buy a new couch… and suddenly your entire house starts failing inspections. This week on the Mike & Blaine Podcast, we dive deep into “The Upgrade Spiral” and explore why modern life constantly makes people—and businesses—feel like they...
The Rise of Therapy Speak: How Emotional Fluency Changed HR, Marketing, and Workplace Culture
At some point, every conversation started sounding like a counseling session. This week on the Mike & Blaine Podcast, we talk about the rise of “therapy speak” and why words like boundaries, trauma, triggers, healing, emotional safety, and ...
Business Strategy in the Kidult Market: From Lego to Pokémon on Mike & Blaine
Adulthood isn’t what it used to be. This week on the Mike & Blaine Podcast, we’re diving deep into the massive economic shift known as “Kidulting.” Why are grown adults spending billions of dollars on Lego sets, Pokémon cards, retro gaming,...
“Wait… What Do You Actually Do?” How to Cut the Fluff & Build Business Trust
At some point, job titles stopped making sense. This week on the Mike & Blaine Podcast, we ask a simple question that’s surprisingly hard to answer: what do you actually do? From “growth strategist” to “customer success architect” to “fract...
Expertise vs. Influence: How to Find Real Business Strategy in a Sea of Content
At some point, everyone became an expert. This week on the Mike & Blaine Podcast, we dive deep into the “Death of Expertise” and why modern consumers increasingly trust a random comment, a viral TikTok video, or a Reddit thread over actual ...
Stop Faking It: How the "I'm Done Pretending" Movement Changes Business Strategy
Lately, it feels like the collective mask is slipping, and people are finally just… saying it. This week on the Mike & Blaine Podcast, we dive deep into the viral “I’m done pretending” trend—a cultural shift where professionals are dropping...
The Public Meltdown Economy: Why Every Bad Moment Is Now Content
In this episode of the Mike & Blaine Podcast, we pull back the curtain on "The Public Meltdown Economy." We live in a world where every argument, breakdown, and awkward interaction is just one smartphone away from becoming viral entertainme...
Why Everyone Thinks They’re the Main Character (and Why Your Business Can't)
At some point, everyone decided they were the star of a movie no one else signed up to watch. This week on the Mike & Blaine Podcast, we’re diving deep into “Main Character Syndrome” (MCS) and why social media has everyone acting like the w...
Everything Got Better… and Worse: Why Complexity is Killing Your Business
At some point, everything got harder to use. This week on the Mike & Blaine Podcast, we dive into the growing frustration with modern "innovation" and how businesses are accidentally sabotaging their own growth through over-engineering. Fro...
Authenticity vs. Corporate Strategy: The CEO Product Challenge
The internet recently discovered something hilarious and oddly satisfying: watching CEOs try their own products can be extremely uncomfortable. After the CEO of McDonald’s posted a video awkwardly tasting the new Big Arch burger, the internet i...
The Loneliness Economy: Why Companies Are Charging for Connection on Mike & Blaine
The "Loneliness Economy" is one of the fastest-growing markets in the world right now, and this week on the Mike & Blaine Podcast, we look at the surprising number of companies building massive revenue streams around the simple fact that pe...
Should Brands Go Synthetic? The Rise of AI Influencers & the Future of Trust
AI influencers are no longer science fiction—they’re already in your feed, landing brand deals, and reshaping digital marketing strategy in real time. This week on the Mike & Blaine Podcast, we unpack the rapid rise of virtual creators, CGI...
The Quiet Rise of Offline Value (Why People Are Opting Out of Optimization Culture)
Everyone was told to optimize everything. Optimize your mornings. Optimize your funnel. Optimize your content. Optimize your life. And somehow, in the middle of all that “winning,” everyone got more anxious, more burned out, and more overwhelme...
Outrage Sells: How Algorithms Reward Drama and What That Means for Your Brand
This week on the Mike & Blaine Podcast, we dig into one of the strangest realities of modern internet culture: the smaller and more ridiculous the conflict, the more attention it seems to attract. From comment-section battles and “subtle sh...
“5-Star Lies, Fake Reviews, and the Collapse of Online Trust” on Mike & Blaine
Online reviews used to be a shortcut to confidence. Now they feel more like a coin toss. One minute a product has thousands of glowing 5-star ratings, the next minute you’re convinced half of them were written by bots, paid influencers, or AI t...
“AI Fatigue Is Real: When More Tools Create Worse Business Decisions” on Mike & Blaine
AI is everywhere. Subscriptions are everywhere. And somehow, everyone feels more tired than helped. In this episode of the Mike & Blaine Podcast, we dig into the very real rise of AI fatigue and subscription fatigue—and why tools that promi...
“MrBeast Didn’t Go Viral, He Engineered It.” on Mike & Blaine
Reinvestment, Flywheels, & Why “Viral” Is a Myth on Mike and BlaineEveryone sees the stunts. The giveaways. The eye-popping subscriber counts. What most people don’t see is the system underneath it all — and that’s exactly...
“Nostalgia. Now in 4K” How Rebooting the Past Affects Brands on Mike & Blaine
Everything old is new again — just sharper, louder, and somehow filtered. From memes and music to mid-2010s fashion, UI throwbacks, and recycled internet trends, the culture has hit rewind in full 4K. This week on Mike & Blaine, we dig into...
What If That Wasn’t a Meteor? Reality, Meaning, & Making Decisions in Chaos
With the UDRIS meteor shower lighting up the night and Atlas supposedly still holding the sky together, Mike & Blaine ask the big, dumb questions that actually matter. How much of what we’re seeing is real, and how much is just our brains t...