Complexity of Toilet Paper

Trailer: Untangling Life's Complications

• Complexity • Season 1 • Episode 1

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Ever found yourself staring at the wall of toilet paper options at the store, frozen by indecision? That's exactly the kind of everyday overthinking we're here to unravel.

"The Complexity of Toilet Paper" brings together three chronic overthinkers – Al Emerick, Mark Pollack, and Phyllis Martin – on a mission to help you find simplicity in an increasingly complicated world. After spending over a year planning this podcast (yes, we overthought it too!), we're excited to invite you into our metaphorical stall for conversations that combine practical wisdom with unexpected insights and a healthy dose of humor.

Al brings his background in radio, television, and brand communication, Mark offers perspectives from his journey from broadcasting dreams to corporate leadership, and Phyllis contributes her passion for community impact and personal growth. Together, we explore how overthinking becomes a barrier to joy, decision-making, and achieving our full potential.

This isn't just another self-help podcast. We're real people who struggle with the same tendency to complicate the uncomplicated. Through honest discussions, guest interviews, personal stories, and practical strategies (plus some potty humor because, well, toilet paper), we'll help you recognize when you're making things "hairy and scary" and give you tools to flush away those overcomplications.

Join us as we tackle life's complexities one episode at a time. Follow us on Facebook at "The Complexity of Toilet Paper" and prepare to roll with whatever life throws your way. Are you ready to stop standing in your own way and start living more simply?

Al Emerick:

Sometimes, I wish we could go back to a time when things weren't so complicated. Welcome to the Complexity of Toilet Paper, the podcast that dives into the everyday moments where we overthink, hesitate or just get stuck. I'm overthinking. I'm over, I'm overthinking. Let's hear it for the toilet paper Through honest conversations, unexpected insights and a whole lot of humor. Your hosts, phyllis Martin, mark Pollack and Al Emmerich, are here to help you roll with it and make your life a little less complicated. One conversation at a time, that's right, dude. The beauty of this is its simplicity, speaking of which it's time to enter the stall, put the lid down or not, depending get comfortable and roll with it. Oh worry, not, dear friend, it's really quite simple. This is the complexity of toilet paper.

Mark Pollack:

Well, hello there, world, and welcome to the complexity of toilet paper.

Al Emerick:

Well, hello there, world and welcome to the complexity of toilet paper. This is our official pre-launch show tease promo movie trailer voice.

Mark Pollack:

I just wanted to do that. Hi, I'm Al Emmerich. Hi, I'm Mark Pollack.

Phyllis Martin:

Hi, I'm Phyllis Martin.

Mark Pollack:

And we are the trio in the stall behind the complexity of toilet paper. We hope you love that title, and if you're listening to this, then the curiosity cat has tapped you on the shoulder or scratched you in your face and said what the hell is this thing? And so the complexity of toilet paper is a year long plus journey to finally arrive at this launch where three friends have come together who all over think shit in life and said how do we help other people find simplicity in their life? And for me, my background started in radio television early on, so doing a podcast is a natural cool thing for me. I mean, I just love being behind the microphone again, but also I've spent a lifetime as a brand communicator, problem solver and living my passion, which is helping people make better decisions in their life by really unlocking greater value and understanding the impact they make both individually and for their businesses.

Mark Pollack:

And so what is the thing that stands in the way of that? So often it's we overthink shit, we, we, we stand in our own way, we make things too complicated, and so when the three of us came together to to do this show, it was a no brainer, even even though we've overthought the hell out of it, and so that's why we're here, and I hope that, between my background and the humor that I'll bring, you'll really have a great time. And I know, mark, you have your own version of that being an old radio guy.

Mark Pollack:

Yes, I had dreams of being a broadcaster, ended up, uh, moving into the corporate world and doing the corporate exec thing still in that space and love it. But this is such an opportunity to impact, um, all of us who are chronic overthinkers, who can take the most simplest of ideas and make them hairy and scary, and so I'm super excited about the show and where we're going with it and we're so thrilled to have you in the stall with us flushing away Phyllis Martin what's your truth?

Phyllis Martin:

So my truth is this I am a lifelong journeyer, chronic over thinker, perpetual self actualizer, with a very strong desire to help communities and people achieve their goals, overcome obstacles, get to some kind of impact. I love it when people are brave enough to face their fears and come on what I think is a magnificent journey that has brought me into the stall with the two of you and allows me to take the big step of using my voice publicly to share the lessons I've learned over the course of my life, to help others stop overcomplicating, because it's such a barrier to joy and to what I think we all want to do. So I'm super excited to be here with you, to be doing this show, to meet people I have yet to meet, and to get this thing started.

Mark Pollack:

And get this thing started. We will. There are episodes forthcoming where we will invite guests. We will invite ourselves. If you are a fan of toilet paper, this is the show for you. If you're a fan of solving problems and accelerating your dreams and getting out of your own way, this is the show for you. And if you like laughter and joy and silliness, that's there too, because, damn it, you can't figure stuff out if you don't have a little bit of potty humor to back you up. And so, like us on Facebook, it's the complexity of toilet paper. Look for more details in the show notes. This is the complexity of toilet paper. Welcome.

Al Emerick:

Did you say toilet paper? I'm overthinking.

Al Emerick:

I'm over. I'm overthinking.

Phyllis Martin:

Everything complicated, one big medieval mess.

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