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Judson Rollins - What To Do When Work Is Like Drinking From a Fire Hose
Is working in management consulting as glamorous as it seems? What’s the best thing you can do to improve your public speaking skills? How can you use different pricing strategies to scale up your business?Welcome...
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Derek Sivers - What Do You Need to Believe Right Now?
Why does Game of Thrones cost $70,000 to watch? What happens when you choose to believe that everything is your responsibility? And why do smart people not think that others are stupid?Welcome back to How They Get...
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Jack Ellis - How to Run a Company People-First
Jack Ellis is the co-founder of Fathom Analytics, a privacy-first Google Analytics alternative. Jack also teaches an online course on Laravel, a popular PHP framework, and hosts his own podcast, Above Board, where he...
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Floris van der Pol - Living Without a Smartphone and Reading 100 Books a Year
Floris van der Pol is a Dutch philosopher, writer, and self-described “reading addict”. He publishes book reviews on YouTube as well as videos on reading more generally and on living without a smartphone, which he has...
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Derrick Reimer from SavvyCal - Can You Regain Your Confidence After Failing?
Derrick Reimer is the founder of SavvyCal, a tool for scheduling meetings that both you and the people you are scheduling with will love. He's also the co-founder of Drip, a marketing automation tool, and he is the...
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Dianna Allen - From Writing About Garage Doors to Building Two Successful Businesses
Dianna Allen is the founder of two businesses: TERRA, a lifestyle shop that focuses on scented candles and Inventora, an app that helps businesses who handmade products track their inventory.I first heard about Dianna...
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Steph Smith - Why There Used to Be No Such Thing as “Priorities”
Steph Smith is a growth marketer, writer, and indie maker. She works for The Hustle, helping to run one of the world’s largest newsletters. But she has lots of her own projects. She has written a book about content...
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Andrew Barry - How to Make (Online & Offline) Learning Suck Less
Andrew Barry helps people teach better online. He owns and runs a training business in which he helps rapidly growing companies educate their people and their customers. Separately, he works with online course...
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Matt Ragland - Should You Use an Analog Task Management System?
Matt Ragland is a productivity teacher, like myself. He has worked for ConvertKit, an email service provider I use and love and for Podia, an online course platform, which I used to launch my business. These days, he...
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Jonathan Stark - Getting Good at This Skill Will Change Everything
“If you are not interested in helping your clients, then you should just stick to employment.”Jonathan Stark is a former software developer who is on a mission to rid the world of hourly billing. He is the author of...
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Brigitte Gemme - Cooking (Vegan Food) Productively
“It was always in the back of my mind: what am I going to do for dinner? … Having what I’m going to cook sorted out releases my mental energy.”Brigitte Gemme is a researcher by training. She has a PhD in sociology and...
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Dave Ceddia - What If You Weren’t Always Productive?
“It doesn’t have to be perfect consistency. It doesn’t have to be every single day. If you intended to work out five days this week, but you only got two… you’re still exercising.”Dave Ceddia is a user interface...
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