You can ask my wife, I’m not very organized. After trying to start my own podcast in 2009 and ending up sounding more like a computer than a human I got really, really lucky and Cliff Ravenscraft asked me to do a podcast with him on his network GPSN. The next week I called Cliff on Skype and we started Business Tech Weekly. It felt so amazing to be on iTunes and to sound good. The shows were full of helpful content and we had a growing audience that would show up on Thursdays to chat with us during live shows.
In early 2010 I read Seth Godin’s book Linchpin. Half way through the book I felt this incredible urge to share what I was reading with other people. A podcast was the perfect medium to share my thoughts and most of all to connect Linchpins together. I used my $30 headset, used one of Cliff’s digital products to learn how to create my podcast the right way this time, and I was off and running. Oh yeah, I also emailed Seth
Godin to ask his permission to use the book cover and he said yes with very little hesitation.
Be A Better Husband Podcast was born in 2010 because I wanted to encourage other husbands who like me, struggled to be the husbands they knew they should be. As 2010 progressed I started another podcast with my business coach Justin Lukasavige based on Dan Miller’s book No More Mondays. In the summer of 2011 I got tired of updating separate sites and I wanted to start even more shows.
Take Permission Media Network was supposed to be like Cliff Ravenscraft’s network GSPN, full of my own content. I had built http://www.takepermission.com/ and was preparing to move my old Linchpin and Be A Better Husband episodes. I had mapped out new shows around Steven Pressfield’s book Do The Work and a show about homeschooling your kids. Then my friend Aaron Curtis bought me Anything You Want by Derek Sivers. That book ruined my whole idea and I’m so grateful it did.
More to come…
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- Enterprise taught professionalism and systems
- Entrepreneurial spirit led him to pursue self employment
- Introduced to Purple Cow in the hallway at Dell (Purple Cow)
- Enterprise leaders often have bad filters for following thought leaders (they follow them too easily)
- Willy nilly is dangerous for leaders
- Andy Stanley – “Leadership is a stewardship, it’s temporary and you’re accountable.”
- Successful entrepreneurs realize they can be more effective with a team
- Teams create a “momentum of success”
- When you work by yourself you have to create your own momentum all the time. That is tiring.
- http://devtheme.com/ – Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add but when there is nothing left to take away.
- Does John want to hire Linchpins?
- Teams are successful when they combine. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts
- Toilet paper is a need
- You can find emotional satisfaction on “a line” or in a world class startup.
- How to develop yourself continually…
- – Read a wide variety of literature
- Wolverine #50 cover
- John built Michael Hyatt’s blog
- http://michaelhyatt.com/welcome-to-my-blog-30.html
- http://michaelhyatt.com/3-bloggers-every-serious-blogger-should-be-following.html … humbling…
- Most classical institutions struggle with “free”.
- – “Free is the understood price.”
- – “Free is the rights to play.”
- – “If traffic is a metric of value for a blogger…then free work is of high value in this social economy.”
- – Compliments are free but they are leverage as well.
- StrengthsFinders
- Strengths Based Leadership
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Do The Work was written by Steven Pressfield and released by the Domino Project in the Spring of 2011. After receiving Steve’s approval (he asked me to call him Steve instead of Mr. Pressfield) to create a podcast that explores his book I decided to take his advice and “swing for the fences” with an even bigger idea. Do The Work Community is that larger idea. It is a place where anyone with an idea can come and receive accountability and encouragement as they seek to “do the work” and beat the resistance. If that last sentence didn’t make sense then you haven’t read the book…so you should.
The Do The Work Podcast will launch in July of 2011. It will highlight the projects being worked on in the Do The Work Community, explore Steve’s book more deeply and continue the lifelong service of providing assistance to artists everywhere who are working to ship their creations.
Join us at the Do The Work Community and check back here often for new episodes of the podcast.
In early 2010 I read Seth Godin’s book Linchpin. Half way through the book I felt this incredible urge to share what I was reading with other people. A podcast was the perfect medium to share my thoughts and most of all to connect Linchpins together. I used my $30 headset, used one of Cliff’s digital products to learn how to create my podcast the right way this time, and I was off and running. Oh yeah, I also emailed Seth
