
4) We All Start As Employees | Brian Tracy
05/23/16 • 42 min
This interview was originally published on July 27, 2015, as HTE 202: We All Start As Employees | Brian Tracy.
Sometimes I interview people don't know before researching, a few I've heard a lot about, and other times I have been following their work for many, many years -- this episode is part of the latter.
Brian Tracy is the author of more than 70 books, many of them bestsellers. There are six of his books, with notes and highlighter marks throughout, on my office shelf.
Brian Tracy is a very smart entrepreneur and the insights he shares in this interview will change the way you look at business and employment.
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My guest today is one of the top professional business speakers in the world. He is the author of more than 70 books — many of them bestsellers. There are six of his books, with notes and highlighter marks throughout, on my office shelf.
He is the chairman and CEO of Brian Tracy International, a company specializing in the training and development of individuals and organizations.
His goal is to help you achieve your personal and business goals faster and easier than you ever imagined.
He has consulted for more than 1,000 companies and addressed more than 5,000,000 people in 5,000 talks and seminars throughout the US, Canada, and 55 other countries worldwide.
As a Keynote speaker and seminar leader, he addresses more than 250,000 people each year.
Now, let’s hack...
Brian Tracy.
In this 43-minute episode Brian Tracy and I discuss:
- The Key is to Get It 80% Right and Run It Up the Flag Pole
- Seek opportunities to help other people
- How to know if you have what it takes to be successful
- Why 80% right is better than perfect
This interview was originally published on July 27, 2015, as HTE 202: We All Start As Employees | Brian Tracy.
Sometimes I interview people don't know before researching, a few I've heard a lot about, and other times I have been following their work for many, many years -- this episode is part of the latter.
Brian Tracy is the author of more than 70 books, many of them bestsellers. There are six of his books, with notes and highlighter marks throughout, on my office shelf.
Brian Tracy is a very smart entrepreneur and the insights he shares in this interview will change the way you look at business and employment.
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My guest today is one of the top professional business speakers in the world. He is the author of more than 70 books — many of them bestsellers. There are six of his books, with notes and highlighter marks throughout, on my office shelf.
He is the chairman and CEO of Brian Tracy International, a company specializing in the training and development of individuals and organizations.
His goal is to help you achieve your personal and business goals faster and easier than you ever imagined.
He has consulted for more than 1,000 companies and addressed more than 5,000,000 people in 5,000 talks and seminars throughout the US, Canada, and 55 other countries worldwide.
As a Keynote speaker and seminar leader, he addresses more than 250,000 people each year.
Now, let’s hack...
Brian Tracy.
In this 43-minute episode Brian Tracy and I discuss:
- The Key is to Get It 80% Right and Run It Up the Flag Pole
- Seek opportunities to help other people
- How to know if you have what it takes to be successful
- Why 80% right is better than perfect
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3) Understanding the Math of Success | Guy Kawasaki
This interview was originally published on July 27, 2015, as HTE 107: Understanding the Math of Success | Guy Kawasaki.
This episode almost didn't get published. Jon Nastor and Guy Kawasaki get a little bit antagonistic with each other at one point in the conversation, so it was a bit off-putting at first. But this takes the conversation into a new, unexpected, and deeper place.
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My guest today popularized secular evangelism in 1983 when he worked with the Macintosh Division of Apple. He is currently the chief evangelist of Canva, an online and easy to use graphic design platform.
He is also the author of thirteen books including. Art of the Start 2.0 and Enchantment.
His books are used by some of the finest academic institutions and have been New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers.
My guest gives over fifty keynote speeches a year on topics such as innovation, enchantment, social media, evangelism, and entrepreneurship. His clients include Apple, Nike, Audi, Google, and Microsoft.
Now, let's hack....
Guy Kawasaki.
In this 27-minute episode Guy Kawasaki and I discuss:
- The benefits of working harder than everybody else
- Never sticking with just one company
- Being young and underpaid, old and overpaid
- How and why to adopt a growth mindset
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5) Refusing to Scale | Sunni Brown
This interview was originally published on February 09, 2015, as HTE 058: Refusing to Scale (and Being Kind to Others)
During this conversation, you will begin to understand entrepreneurship as a creative venture. Sunni Brown is smart, funny, and her energy is contagious.
This all makes for an insightful and exciting conversation that moves from the Pet Rock, to calculus, and onto Sunni’s refusal to scale her business — and what you can learn from her decision.
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Today’s guest is an amazing entrepreneur, artist, and awesome human. She is the founder of SB Ink, a creative consultancy and an agent of social change.
She is the author and leader of a global campaign for visual literacy called The Doodle Revolution.
My guest has worked with companies like Disney, Sharpie, Zappos and SXSW. Using common sense, experience, and neuroscience, she is proving that to doodle is to ignite your whole mind—and she aims to teach the world how to master “strategic doodling” in her latest book, The Doodle Revolution.
This was a brilliant and hilarious conversation and I am so glad to share it with you.
Now, let’s hack...
Sunni Brown.
What you will learn in this episode:- Why you should allow yourself to come up with goofy ideas
- Entrepreneurism does not have to be risky
- Sunni Brown could have never been the inventor of the Pet Rock
- Why Sunni is terrible at calculus and how this makes her awesome
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