Linen Suit & Plastic Tie

Gorav Menon & Kevin Liu
  • 5.0 (38)
  • SOCIETY & CULTURE

What power lies in your story? How do you tell your story? As two young “adults” journey into the life of suit and tie, they begin discovering the impact of storytelling on their career, business, mental health, and life. One of them in a linen suit, the other a plastic tie. Subscribe and Follow us on Insta/TikTok: @LSPTPod; LinkedIn: Linen Suit & Plastic Tie

  1. How Do You Design Fun? ft. Chief Growth Officer @ Chess.com (Albert Cheng)

    6D AGO

    How Do You Design Fun? ft. Chief Growth Officer @ Chess.com (Albert Cheng)

    What do Grammarly, Duolingo, and Chess.com have in common? What has Gorav's obsession with these three things amounted to? How can storytelling make chess fun even for people who are bad at it? This week, we chat with Albert Cheng, Chief Growth Officer at Chess.com. Albert Cheng led Growth for three of the most successful apps in the world: Duolingo, Grammarly, and Chess.com.

    1h 1m
  2. MBA Storytelling, AI @ Wharton, & World's Greatest Narcissist - LSPTPod 5-Year Anniversary

    11/06/2025

    MBA Storytelling, AI @ Wharton, & World's Greatest Narcissist - LSPTPod 5-Year Anniversary

    What are Gorav's biggest storytelling & AI lessons so far from Wharton MBA? How did the World's Greatest Narcissist come to be? For LSPTPod's five-year anniversary, we'd like to give an update on our stories and what's to come. Thank you for staying on our journey together - we miss you dearly.

    35 min
  3. Rewind: Where Are Your Roots? ft. a Non-Fiction Graphic Novelist (Craig Thompson)

    06/05/2025

    Rewind: Where Are Your Roots? ft. a Non-Fiction Graphic Novelist (Craig Thompson)

    Rewind Time! This week, we celebrate the graphic novel release of Ginseng Roots by Craig Thompson with a rewind of our chat with Craig in Season 3. Pick up the Ginseng Roots graphic novel in your local comic book store! Why is the American agriculture story relevant to you (yes, you)? Is comic book a genre or a medium? Why should you care about where your food comes from? How does the story of an herbal root connect the US-China trade? Kevin stumbled upon an issue in the series and got super curious - what could an American artist possibly say about Northeastern China and an herbal root best known in Chinese medicine? He ended up loving the entire series. Ginseng Roots explores class divide, agriculture, holistic healing, the 300-year-long trade relationship between China and North America, childhood labor, and the bond between two brothers. Craig Thompson is a graphic novelist and author of Blankets; Good-bye, Chunky Rice; and Habibi. He grew up in a rural farming community in Marathon, Wisconsin, world capital of ginseng. Follow us on Instagram & TikTok @LSPTPod

    47 min
  4. Why Connection Beats Perfection? ft. a Stanford MBA Professor (Matt Abrahams)

    05/22/2025

    Why Connection Beats Perfection? ft. a Stanford MBA Professor (Matt Abrahams)

    Why does saying the wrong thing make you a better communicator? How do we manage stress in any form of talking? How does martial arts make you better at communicating? How do you communicate with a Gen Z audience? This week, we talk to Matt Abrahams, a lecturer at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business (Stanford GSB), where he teaches popular classes in strategic communication and effective virtual presenting. Matt hosts the award-winning Think Fast, Talk Smart podcast, and is the author of Think Faster, Talk Smarter: How to Speak Successfully When You’re Put on the Spot.

    48 min
  5. What Wishes Do Games Fulfill? ft. Executive Producer @ Marvel Games (Eric Monacelli)

    05/08/2025

    What Wishes Do Games Fulfill? ft. Executive Producer @ Marvel Games (Eric Monacelli)

    What does Gorav think about his first video game in years? How can arts, pre-med, music, and writing backgrounds set you up for a video game career? What do Spider-Man, MLB 2K, and Call of Duty have in common? This week, we learn from the captivating story of Eric Monacelli, Executive Producer at Marvel Games. Before that, Eric has had a decorated career experience across video game studios such as Naughty Dog, 2K Games, Capcom, Infinity Ward, and Atari. He is also a published author in Primary Psychiatry.

    44 min
  6. How Will AI Shape Our Stories? ft. a Pulitzer Prize Finalist (Vauhini Vara)

    04/24/2025

    How Will AI Shape Our Stories? ft. a Pulitzer Prize Finalist (Vauhini Vara)

    What storytelling lens do gen AIs have, and how does ChatGPT think about a book that talks about it? What does ChatGPT itself recommend this episode to you? This week, we chat with Vauhini Vara, author of the genre-bending non-fiction Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age. Vauhini started her career in tech journalism at Wall Street Journal and later contributed to various well-known news platforms. In her subsequent creative writing career, she wrote The Immortal King Rao and This is Salvaged. Gorav discovered Vauhini's work because ChatGPT recommended it to him.

    1h 10m
  7. What Brings a Brand LIFE? ft. a VP of Creative @ Liquid Death (Andy Pearson)

    03/27/2025

    What Brings a Brand LIFE? ft. a VP of Creative @ Liquid Death (Andy Pearson)

    Finally, we're talking about Liquid Death, one of Gorav's favorite brands. How do you bring life into a brand? What makes canned water work? How does being healthy & sustainable become cool? This week, we chat with Andy Pearson, VP of Creative at Liquid Death. After 12+ years as a copywriter and creative director at ad agencies, Andy now creates and leads creative with an incredible team at Liquid Death on its evil mission to make the world healthier and more sustainable.

    55 min
  8. What Should We TALK About? ft. a Harvard Business School Professor (Alison Wood Brooks)

    03/06/2025

    What Should We TALK About? ft. a Harvard Business School Professor (Alison Wood Brooks)

    Why and how should you prepare Topics for every conversation? When are you Asking the right questions? How do you bring Levity? Why does Kindness come from storytelling? Welcome back to your storytelling journey! To kick off Season Five, we're having a great talk with the author of TALK: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves , Alison Wood Brooks. At Harvard Business School, Alison teaches an award-winning course in the MBA curriculum called “TALK.”

    1h 4m
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What power lies in your story? How do you tell your story? As two young “adults” journey into the life of suit and tie, they begin discovering the impact of storytelling on their career, business, mental health, and life. One of them in a linen suit, the other a plastic tie. Subscribe and Follow us on Insta/TikTok: @LSPTPod; LinkedIn: Linen Suit & Plastic Tie

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  • Creator
    Gorav Menon & Kevin Liu
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
    86
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Gorav Menon & Kevin Liu