How to create impactful culture in our teams with Mike Arzt from The Public Works
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05/26/20 • 22 min
Welcome everyone to this episode of the Conscious Culture podcast with Sarah Riegelhuth, CEO and founder of Grow My Team!
I’m super excited today to be joined by one of my best friends, Mike Arzt, who lives here in Colorado where I’m also currently living. Mike was one of the first people I ever met in Denver, having met through an Entrepreneurs’ Organisation event. He’s been a great support to me personally and an inspiring leader in his business The Public Works which has an incredible culture.
I’m so happy to have Mike on the podcast to talk about what makes The Public Works what it is, how he cultivates team culture and how it all began with working at Burton Snowboards and soaking up Jake Burton’s leadership style.
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“Our lives were redefined by being there, but so were everyone else’s. That wasn't just Jake. That was what Jake created. And to me that’s culture.”
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Remote work has long moved beyond simply being a trend or a lifestyle. It’s a natural evolution in the way we work and collaborate and a complete and vital redesign with profound positive impact for businesses, teams and society as a whole.
With it comes a work culture revolution that requires putting culture, freedom, trust and conscious behaviour at the core of every business who wants to thrive.
I’m Sarah Riegelhuth, your host, and I’m a serial entrepreneur, investor and expert in growing happy, high-performing remote teams.
Since 2014 I’ve been running all of my businesses remotely and that has deeply changed who I am as a leader.
I’ve gone from micro-managing an unhappy team suffering high turnover and working long hours to moving to the US, traveling roughly six months of the year, loving the sh*t out of my team and being constantly amazed as to what we’re achieving!
Join me as we dive deep into conversations about remote work magic, conscious culture, and the future of work with some of the most inspiring founders and leaders in the remote work space.
Insights, tips, success and failure, innovation.. we share it all. Let’s dive in!
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“You cannot even begin to grasp the ripple effect in the world because of that one person who followed their passions.”
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In this episode, Mike Arzt and Sarah Riegelhuth get into passion in our work, the lasting affects of good leaders in our lives, and the sprawling effect of empowering our teams with conscious culture.
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“We get to just show up, all of it, as we are, and not have to hide and be this way or that way. When we bring our whole selves to work, when we have our crises people are like, You know what? I get it. They don’t see you as the big boss with all the money and you have all the masks on.”
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On this episode of Conscious Culture, Sarah Riegelhuth and her guest Mike Arzt also discuss:
- Pursuing the fun side of work
- All the people who count on us, from our team to our building tenants and their families
- Culture doesn’t always pay the bills
- COVID-19
- What ifs
- Challenges of running businesses
- Team loyalty
- Business opportunities that look good vs business opportunities that feel good
- Culturally aligned team members
- The delineation between our professional and personal lives
- Changes in mindset
- Solidifying our connection to our team
- Supporting team members going through hard times
- All the experiences that life has to offer
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“We don’t have to go and do this. We could quit. People could bail and do something else. But we get to get through this, as a team.”
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Links and resources mentioned in this episode:
- The Public Works: https://www.thepublicworks.biz/
- Entrepreneurs’ Organisation: https://www.eonetwork.org/colorado
- Battery 621: http://www.battery621.com/
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Thanks for listening to this episode of Conscious Culture: The Evolution of Work. A podcast for conscious leaders, brought to you by Grow My Team.
Follow us as we further explore real stories of remote companies and the thriving cultures they’re creating. To stay updated with all of our episodes, subscribe to the podcast in your favourite podcasting app.
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For more information about remote work, check out more of Grow My Team here.
Or email Sarah directly to have a chat about remote work, how it’s done and how it can benefit your company:
Welcome everyone to this episode of the Conscious Culture podcast with Sarah Riegelhuth, CEO and founder of Grow My Team!
I’m super excited today to be joined by one of my best friends, Mike Arzt, who lives here in Colorado where I’m also currently living. Mike was one of the first people I ever met in Denver, having met through an Entrepreneurs’ Organisation event. He’s been a great support to me personally and an inspiring leader in his business The Public Works which has an incredible culture.
I’m so happy to have Mike on the podcast to talk about what makes The Public Works what it is, how he cultivates team culture and how it all began with working at Burton Snowboards and soaking up Jake Burton’s leadership style.
-
“Our lives were redefined by being there, but so were everyone else’s. That wasn't just Jake. That was what Jake created. And to me that’s culture.”
-
Remote work has long moved beyond simply being a trend or a lifestyle. It’s a natural evolution in the way we work and collaborate and a complete and vital redesign with profound positive impact for businesses, teams and society as a whole.
With it comes a work culture revolution that requires putting culture, freedom, trust and conscious behaviour at the core of every business who wants to thrive.
I’m Sarah Riegelhuth, your host, and I’m a serial entrepreneur, investor and expert in growing happy, high-performing remote teams.
Since 2014 I’ve been running all of my businesses remotely and that has deeply changed who I am as a leader.
I’ve gone from micro-managing an unhappy team suffering high turnover and working long hours to moving to the US, traveling roughly six months of the year, loving the sh*t out of my team and being constantly amazed as to what we’re achieving!
Join me as we dive deep into conversations about remote work magic, conscious culture, and the future of work with some of the most inspiring founders and leaders in the remote work space.
Insights, tips, success and failure, innovation.. we share it all. Let’s dive in!
-
“You cannot even begin to grasp the ripple effect in the world because of that one person who followed their passions.”
-
In this episode, Mike Arzt and Sarah Riegelhuth get into passion in our work, the lasting affects of good leaders in our lives, and the sprawling effect of empowering our teams with conscious culture.
-
“We get to just show up, all of it, as we are, and not have to hide and be this way or that way. When we bring our whole selves to work, when we have our crises people are like, You know what? I get it. They don’t see you as the big boss with all the money and you have all the masks on.”
-
On this episode of Conscious Culture, Sarah Riegelhuth and her guest Mike Arzt also discuss:
- Pursuing the fun side of work
- All the people who count on us, from our team to our building tenants and their families
- Culture doesn’t always pay the bills
- COVID-19
- What ifs
- Challenges of running businesses
- Team loyalty
- Business opportunities that look good vs business opportunities that feel good
- Culturally aligned team members
- The delineation between our professional and personal lives
- Changes in mindset
- Solidifying our connection to our team
- Supporting team members going through hard times
- All the experiences that life has to offer
-
“We don’t have to go and do this. We could quit. People could bail and do something else. But we get to get through this, as a team.”
-
Links and resources mentioned in this episode:
- The Public Works: https://www.thepublicworks.biz/
- Entrepreneurs’ Organisation: https://www.eonetwork.org/colorado
- Battery 621: http://www.battery621.com/
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Thanks for listening to this episode of Conscious Culture: The Evolution of Work. A podcast for conscious leaders, brought to you by Grow My Team.
Follow us as we further explore real stories of remote companies and the thriving cultures they’re creating. To stay updated with all of our episodes, subscribe to the podcast in your favourite podcasting app.
-
For more information about remote work, check out more of Grow My Team here.
Or email Sarah directly to have a chat about remote work, how it’s done and how it can benefit your company:
Previous Episode
For those who have been forced into remote work with Sam Kabert
Hey everyone, and welcome to this episode of Conscious Culture with Sarah Riegelhuth, CEO and founder of Grow My Team!
We’re in the thick of it with what I’m calling the ‘C’ word - let’s not dive in too much, but here we are: living through this reality where we all have to work from home, something I’ve been doing for six years.
My guest on this episode is my friend and fellow Aubrey Marcus FFS-er, Sam Kabert, and he’s been working from home for a while, too!
Let’s dive in to all things remote work with Sam Kabert.
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“We’ve been building the cocoon, right now we’re in the cocoon, and we’re going to come out the other side with the transformation.”
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Remote work has long moved beyond simply being a trend or a lifestyle. It’s a natural evolution in the way we work and collaborate. A complete and vital redesign with profound positive impact for businesses, teams and society as a whole.
With it comes a work culture revolution that requires putting culture, freedom, trust and conscious behaviour at the core of every business that wants to thrive.
I’m Sarah Riegelhuth, your host, and I’m a serial entrepreneur, investor and expert in growing happy remote teams. Since 2014 I’ve been running all of my businesses remotely and that has deeply changed who I am as a leader. I’ve gone from micro-managing an unhappy team, suffering high turnover and working long hours, to moving to the US, traveling roughly six months of the year, loving the shit out of my team and being constantly amazed as to what we’re achieving.
Join me as we dive deep into conversations about remote work magic, conscious culture, and the future of work with some of the most inspiring founders and leaders in the remote work space.
Insights, tips, success and failure, innovation.. we share it all.
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“The way that we look at work is going to massively change.”
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In this episode, Sam and Sarah get into how their different businesses are surviving the current pandemic, including those that have taken a hit or needed to pivot, like merchandising, Airbnb property management and networking events.
Sam and Sarah also discuss how their day-to-day routines have and haven’t changed in the current climate, how we’re connecting with our people and the choice of diversity in where we live.
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“It becomes very addicting to find those little distractions in the house.”
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On this episode of Conscious Culture, Sarah Riegelhuth and her guest Sam Kabert also discuss:
- Flexibility of hours with remote work
- Deliverable-based vs time-based work
- Different routines for work and setting our own schedules
- Personal productivity
- Judging how people are working based on how we would do it
- Quality and standards of work
- Finding a routine working remotely
- Efficiency from home vs the office
- Get in, get out!
- Working when we feel called to
- Creative juices
- The level and type of interaction in our work days
- Vacationing with entrepreneurs
- Co-working spaces
- Distraction at work
- Creativity
- Our natural energy for working
- Being intentional
- Sharing the workload in our homes
- Communicating with our households
- Co-habitating and co-working
- Athleisure and Penguin suits
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“We don’t want work to be separate from life. We want to be working on things we care about, things we’re passionate about, things that make impact, whether we’re an employee or an entrepreneur or a contractor or a freelancer. We want to know that the work we’re doing makes a difference. And it’s part of us, it’s just as important as socialising and working out and spending time with our families.”
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Thanks for listening to this episode of Conscious Culture: The Evolution of Work. A podcast for conscious leaders, brought to you by Grow My Team.
Follow us as we further explore real stories of remote companies and the thriving cultures they’re creating. To stay updated with all of our episodes, subscribe to the podcast in your favourite podcasting app.
For more information about remote work, head to www.growmyteam.com.au.
Or email Sarah directly to have a chat about remote work, how it’s done and how it can benefit your company: [email protected].
To find out more about Sam Kabert, visit www.swagsam.com
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How we’ve evolved as leaders and authentic leadership with Katrina Jones
Welcome everyone to this episode of the Conscious Culture podcast with Sarah Riegelhuth, CEO and founder of Grow My Team!
I’m very excited to have my first guest from Europe on the show today: Katrina Jones, a friend of mine through the League of Extraordinary Women, another one of my companies!
We’ve known each other since the League’s early days, and we were lucky enough to have Katrina actually launch the League in the UK. We might one day share this story on the League podcast, but for now let’s get into Katrina’s group of companies under the Kendall Bailey brand, and her journey to becoming a conscious team leader.
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Katrina Jones is the founder and director of Kendall Bailey.
Since founding her first business over seven years ago, Katrina has gone on to build a million-pound group of Property Investment Companies in the UK. She now spends her time mentoring lifestyle entrepreneurs on creating their ideal businesses, giving them the time and financial freedom they desire through property investing.
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“The hardest part of what I’ve done in the last decade is learning how to be a powerful leader.”
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Remote work has long moved beyond simply being a trend or a lifestyle.
It’s a natural evolution in the way we work and collaborate and a complete and vital redesign with profound positive impact for businesses, teams and society as a whole.
With it comes a work culture revolution that requires putting culture, freedom, trust and conscious behaviour at the core of every business who wants to thrive.
I’m Sarah Riegelhuth, your host, and I’m a serial entrepreneur, investor and expert in growing happy, high-performing remote teams.
Since 2014 I’ve been running all of my businesses remotely and that has deeply changed who I am as a leader.
I’ve gone from micro-managing an unhappy team suffering high turnover and working long hours to moving to the US, traveling roughly six months of the year, loving the sh*t out of my team and being constantly amazed as to what we’re achieving!
Join me as we dive deep into conversations about remote work magic, conscious culture, and the future of work with some of the most inspiring founders and leaders in the remote work space.
Insights, tips, success and failure, innovation.. we share it all. Let’s dive in!
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“Your job on that journey is finding the people you want to learn from and educating yourself.”
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In this episode, Katrina Jones and Sarah Riegelhuth get into self-development as leaders, learning from others, authentic leadership and aligning with our values.
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“The only thing I would prescribe to others as leaders is to do the inner work. Learn yourself as much as you possibly can, and bring yourself to your leadership.”
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On this episode of Conscious Culture, Sarah Riegelhuth and her guest Katrina Jones also discuss:
- Educating ourselves
- Self-trust and confidence in our leadership style
- Looking up to other leaders
- Tossing out 90 day plans
- Trusting our intuition
- On-going business planning and implementation
- Finding what feels most resonate to us
- The sizes of our companies vs the number of our team members
- The difference between a leader and a manager
- Gaining the confidence to hire someone better than us at a job
- The honesty behind the cliche of being the dumbest person in the room
- Understanding our egos
- Figuring out where we want to play in our businesses
- The guilt involved in hiring staff
- Lean teams
- How our self-worth and identities are linked to our companies
- Being a martyr in business and feeling valuable
- Doing the inner work and expanding our experience
- Limiting beliefs in business
- Our stories around building a business
- The incessant desire to not stop doing
- Working in a sustainable way
- Putting energy and intention into our work
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“The art is to do all of the research, learn all of the lessons, and then stop and reflect on which ones work, which ones resonate, which ones give me goosebumps and make me think, Yes! That’s me!”
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Links and resources mentioned in this episode:
- Love My B&B: https://www.lovemybnb.com/
- Katrina Jones: www.katrinajones.uk
- Katrina Jones Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katrina_jones_01/
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