Business Christmas: A Hallmark Christmas movie podcast

Episode 24: Single and Ready to Jingle

Mon, 29 Dec 2025 06:00:00 -0500

Welcome back to Business Christmas! This week, we're tackling the Lifetime Christmas movie Single and Ready to Jingle (sometimes also known as Destination Christmas). In this movie, busy toy executive Emma's vacation plans go awry when she mistakenly winds up in St. John, Alaska, instead of her intended destination: Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands. But things are soon looking up when Emma connects with a local man, Connor, with a surprising secret. Join us as Emma learns what we've all come to know: that Christmas is more important than business.

Episode 23: Champagne Problems

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:00:00 -0500

After a lengthy hiatus, Kat and Nicole are back with a new episode of Business Christmas! This week/biennium, we're discussing Champagne Problems, a new Netflix movie starring Minka Kelly. A driven American exec heads to Paris to acquire a champagne brand by Christmas and falls for the heir to the company. We break down the impossibly short acquisition timeline, nonexistent due diligence, and the massive conflict of interest of romancing someone whose family business you're trying to buy. Join us as we toast to another holiday movie where love conquers basic business ethics.

Episode 22: Christmas with the Campbells

Tue, 28 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0500

We're back after a nearly three-year hiatus (oops), with a little something different this time. For this episode, we watched Christmas with the Campbells, a parody of our usual beloved Hallmark fare. Here's the description: "When Jesse is dumped right before the holidays by her boyfriend, Shawn, his parents convince her to still spend Christmas with them, and Shawn's handsome cousin, while Shawn is away."

Episode 21: Christmas Cookies

Fri, 25 Dec 2020 13:00:00 -0500

Big-city businesswoman Hannah is sent to the small town of Cookie Jar (yup) over the holidays to acquire the town's beloved cookie company. Sparks fly as she repeatedly butts heads with the company's CEO, Jake. Will Hannah learn that Christmas is more important than business?

Episode 20: Christmas Town

Mon, 21 Dec 2020 17:00:00 -0500

A Boston teacher decides to relocate for a new job, but finds herself sidetracked in a small town over the holidays. There, she meets the town handyman and his foster son, and begins to learn the true meaning of both Christmas and family.

Episode 19: Christmas in Rome

Wed, 16 Dec 2020 23:00:00 -0500

We're back after a lengthy hiatus! This time, we're talking about Christmas in Rome, starring Lacey Chabert and Sam Page.

It's the usual Business Christmas tropes, but gender swapped! Angela's a tour guide in Rome who meets busy, culturally incompetent businessman Oliver on the street and agrees to help him understand Italy--and specifically, Christmas in Italy. Join us as we watch him learn that Christmas is, as always, more important than business.

Episode 4: A Christmas Kiss

Sat, 21 Dec 2019 16:00:00 -0500

In the days leading up to and including Christmas 2019, we're resharing some of our favorite past episodes of Business Christmas! First up is Episode 4: A Christmas Kiss.

After a spontaneous kiss in a stalled elevator, aspiring designer Wendy finds herself falling for her demanding boss's boyfriend. The only problem? He doesn't recognize her. Now, they have to work together to decorate his home for a holiday party.

Episode 18: A Gingerbread Romance

Sun, 17 Nov 2019 20:00:00 -0500

This week we're talking with our friend Brian about the Tia Mowry vehicle A Gingerbread Romance. An ambitious architect pairs up with a handsome baker for a gingerbread house contest. Will they win? (You'll find out.) Will they fall in love? (Obviously.)

Episode 17: The Mistletoe Inn

Fri, 02 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0400

Reeling from a breakup, aspiring romance writer Kim heads to a conference in Vermont to pursue her dream of working with author H.T. Cowell. There, she meets Zeke, the man of my (Kat’s) dreams, who is unfortunately a fictional character. Tension builds leading up to the H.T. Cowell writing contest as Kim and Zeke are paired as partners.

Episode 16: A Shoe Addict's Christmas

Sun, 28 Jul 2019 14:00:00 -0400

Business Christmas fave Candace Cameron Bure is back as Noelle, an HR manager at a department store who dreams of being a professional photographer. Enter Jean Smart as a high-key weirdo who tells Noelle her life is trash and takes her on a journey of what might have been--and possibly still could be, if she makes some key changes to her life. Oh, and the love interest is a hot firefighter.

Episode 15: Miss Christmas

Sun, 19 May 2019 11:00:00 -0400

Holly, the tree finder for Chicago's Radcliffe Tree Lighting, must find a new tree ASAP following a mishap with a crane. Holly heads to a small town to find a replacement tree--and possibly true love.

Episode 14: Christmas Joy

Sun, 27 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0500

Market researcher Joy (played by the adorable Danielle Panabaker) heads home over the holidays after her beloved aunt is injured in a fall. She ends up taking over her aunt's annual Christmas Cookie Crawl -- and is reunited with a handsome man from her past.

Episode 13: A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding

Sat, 19 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0500

On this episode, Kat and Nicole discuss Netflix atrocity A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding. In the days leading up to Amber and Richard's wedding, Aldovia is rocked by missing funds, union protests, and horrific sartorial crimes. This is the sequel to A Christmas Prince, which was a far superior film (we covered it on episode 6). Everyone looks like shit in this movie, and we're not really sure why!

Episode 12: Northpole: Open for Christmas

Sat, 12 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0500

We invited our friend Jorn to join us to discuss this weird movie where Lori Loughlin inherits a Vermont inn with a Christmas secret. Will she sell it, or give in to holiday magic? Dermot Mulroney, still extremely hot, is also in this movie, because he does Hallmark movies now.

Episode 11: Switched at Christmas

Mon, 03 Dec 2018 20:00:00 -0500

Estranged identical twins Kate and Chris disagree on who has it worse: working single mom Chris or high-powered, single businesswoman Kate. At their annual pre-Christmas lunch, they decide to swap lives and find out how the other half lives.

Episode 10: The Princess Switch

Thu, 22 Nov 2018 10:00:00 -0500

Netflix’s latest offering in the Business Christmas genre features Vanessa Hudgens — and Vanessa Hudgens with an accent. Join us as we discuss The Princess Switch, which is a weird title for a movie that's actually about a duchess. The two Vanessas -- the duchess and a baker -- swap lives for a few days right before Christmas.

Episode 9: A Christmas Inheritance

Thu, 15 Nov 2018 17:00:00 -0500

We discuss Netflix Original Christmas movie A Christmas Prince! New York City heiress Ellen has to deliver a special Christmas card to her dad's business partner and ends up learning the true meaning of Christmas. The plot doesn't make a ton of sense, but Jake Lacy is weirdly in this movie!

Episode 8: A Christmas Melody

Sun, 10 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0400

In the backdoor pilot for our new podcast-within-a-podcast, The Chabert Report, a single mother (Lacey Chabert) moves back to her hometown with her young daughter. The daughter teams up with her music teacher to write a song for the upcoming Christmas pageant, but an evil PTA mom (Mariah Carey -- no, seriously) threatens to derail everything.

Episode 7: Christmas Festival of Ice

Sun, 11 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0500

Newly minted lawyer Emma is juggling her new role at her mom's law firm with an attempt to save her town's beloved ice sculpting contest. Will she also find love? (Yes, because this is the Hallmark Channel.)

Episode 6: A Christmas Prince

Sun, 04 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0500

Aspiring journalist Amber goes undercover as a tutor to get the inside scoop on the prince of Aldovia, but ends up learning more than she bargained for.

Episode 5: Wish Upon a Christmas

Sun, 28 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0500

This week, our friend Amanda joins us to discuss Wish Upon a Christmas, starring Larisa Oleynik as an actuary who returns to her hometown to shut down a factory owned by her high school sweetheart, who believes she's there to save his business.

Episode 4: A Christmas Kiss

Sun, 24 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0500

After a spontaneous kiss in a stalled elevator, aspiring designer Wendy finds herself falling for her demanding boss's boyfriend. The only problem? He doesn't recognize her. Now, they have to work together to decorate his home for a holiday party.

Episode 3: Window Wonderland

Mon, 04 Dec 2017 00:00:00 -0500

This week, we watched Window Wonderland, starring Grey’s Anatomy’s Chyler Leigh as Sloan, an aspiring lead window dresser at McGuire’s department store in NYC. Also competing for the role is her colleague Jake (Paul Campbell). As they battle it out for the right to design McGuire’s holiday windows, Sloan and Jake learn more about each other — and maybe even about love.

Episode 2: The Christmas Parade

Sun, 19 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0500

This week, we're talking about The Christmas Parade, starring Annalynne McCord. TV personality Hailee lands in Carver Bend, Connecticut over the holidays after fleeing a romantic snafu in New York. When she gets into a car accident and damages the town judge's fence, she's forced to stick around to perform community service. Join her as she lets her hair down (literally), tries to save the town art center, and possibly finds love.

Episode 1: Christmas Under Wraps

Sun, 12 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0500

In our first episode, we discuss the Candace Cameron Bure movie Christmas Under Wraps, in which CCB plays Dr. Lauren Brunell, a hotshot doctor who unexpectedly finds herself running a hospital in small-town Alaska instead of taking on the prestigious Boston fellowship she'd anticipated. Join Lauren as she learns how to stop planning and embrace sweatpant-lined jeans, nighttime picnics, and, most importantly, true love.