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Damns Given with Nick Richtsmeier

Damns Given with Nick Richtsmeier

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(formerly Working/Broken)

Brains On. Hearts Open. Forward Motion... for the Post-Digital World.


The world has gotten very good at telling us what’s broken. Platforms. Politics. Power. Business. Culture. Every feed reminds us we’re smaller than we thought, and that the real decisions are being made somewhere else.

When that message sinks in deeply enough, disengagement, even nihilism start become the default position. Businesses holding out for "someday." Ideas in limbo. Fear run amok. Our ability to make the world a long lost fantasy. We become spectators in a life we’re supposed to be living.


Damns Given is a show for those who refuse to surrender their agency.

Hosted by strategist and author Nick Richtsmeier, Damns Given is a forum for

Nick and his guests fight back against the "it-is-what-it-is-isms" of our day and the abandonment of agency that the algorithmic systems have demanded of us, calling us forward into a post-digital world where we are free again to ask betting questions of:


  • How the internet has trained us to think algorithm-first and self-second
  • Why our attention is our most powerful (and misdirected) asset
  • What happens when leaders disconnect from real human scale
  • How to build a meaningful life and business without waiting for permission
  • The small decisions and risks that actually move the world forward


The premise is simple:

We already know what’s broken.
Now we ask:
How do we show up anyway?

No doomscrolling disguised as insight. No performing for the feed. Just honest conversations with thinkers, builders, and leaders who are navigating this moment with clarity — and giving a damn about the future they’re helping shape.

Because the game isn’t over. And the people who still care will decide what happens next.


You can find additional resources at DamnsGiven.com.

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    • AI's Gift Reveal of Internet Religion (and what's next for Working/Broken)
      Nov 3 2025

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      Sometimes you become a part of the thing you're trying to fix. And as the internet content world crashes around us, pulled to the floorboards by AI, Brad and Nick reflect on the work of podcasting and content creation, focusing on some hard lessons learned in the last year.

      But beyond just ruminating on what's gone wrong (and how that, in a very meta way, is what has gone wrong with this and many podcasts), the hosts pivot to big changes coming for Working/Broken and what that means for people who want to make a difference in the world we're making together.

      Chapters

      00:00
      Introduction to Working Broken Podcast

      00:56
      Reflections on Podcasting Journey

      03:10
      Identifying What's Working and What's Broken

      05:54
      Shifting Perspectives on Content Creation

      08:45
      Exploring Agency and Cultural Impact

      11:51
      The Need for Change in Podcast Structure

      14:43
      Introducing the New Direction: Dams Given

      19:51
      The Attention Economy and Its Impact

      23:48
      Reframing Our Approach to Attention

      27:42
      Understanding Internet Poisoning

      31:32
      Detoxing from Algorithmic Thinking

      34:16
      The Future of the Podcast and Community Engagement


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      Have a business topic you want us to decide if it's working or broken? Have a question about the episode? You can email us at podcast@culturecraft.com.

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      38 min
    • The End of Marketing as We Know It — Trust is All We Have Left
      Oct 9 2025

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      In this episode, Brad and Nick dive into what marketing is becoming now that we live in a post-trust, post-algorithm, post-authenticity world. They’re not interested in tactics—they’re interested in how the deep cultural forces reshaping trust, commerce, and identity are scrambling what it even means to “market” something.

      Together, they explore:

      • Why traditional marketing frameworks no longer apply
      • How the best marketing today isn’t marketing at all—it’s signal
      • What happens when attention becomes too expensive for most businesses to buy
      • Why people aren’t buying messages—they’re buying alignment
      • How real resonance begins when you quit trying to prove and start trying to be

      This is a powerful conversation for anyone who senses that our current approach to audience, storytelling, and persuasion has gone stale—but hasn’t quite found language for what’s next.

      As always, the episode lives up to the Working/Broken premise: challenging listeners who followed the rules of the game, only to discover the game changed mid-play.

      Ensure you are fully subscribed through your favorite podcast app so you do not miss a single episode.

      Have a business topic you want us to decide if it's working or broken? Have a question about the episode? You can email us at podcast@culturecraft.com.

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      39 min
    • We Weren't Built for This with Alexandra Pasi, PhD
      Sep 23 2025

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      In this episode, host Nick Richtsmeier sits down with Lexi Pasi, a PhD in Communication and expert in the field of AI, to unpack what’s actually happening to our attention, language, and selves in today’s online environments. Lexi brings academic depth, cultural critique, and personal insight to the conversation—exposing how platforms not only distort what we say, but who we become in the process.

      Lexi and the hosts explore questions at the heart of the Working/Broken project:

      What if the reason work—and life—feels so off is because the very mediums we communicate through are bending us into shapes we didn’t choose.


      They tackle how social media trains us to self-narrate constantly, creates performance-driven personalities, and incentivizes simplistic, binary, hot-take thinking over honest, complex, and often uncertain expression.

      Ensure you are fully subscribed through your favorite podcast app so you do not miss a single episode.

      Have a business topic you want us to decide if it's working or broken? Have a question about the episode? You can email us at podcast@culturecraft.com.

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      48 min
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