Episode 200
What if you had the power to amplify your entrepreneurial journey, learn from the best, and laugh along the way? This is precisely what we’ve created over 200 episodes of Firing the Man, and we’re taking a moment to celebrate and reflect on this remarkable milestone. From our humble beginnings, we’ll walk you through our journey, starting with the very first episode that laid the foundation for the show. We’ll share golden nuggets from our top episodes, like the game-changing insights we gained from our guest Walker Diable, author of Buy Then Build in episode 45, and the valuable lessons we learned about time management in episode four.
Our journey is filled with both laughter and learnings. Ken and I will each share our personal picks from the treasure trove of episodes. Ken draws wisdom from episode 85, where we talked about Hal Elrod’s The Miracle Morning, and episode 91, where we featured Adam Feinberg sharing his monumental business exits. On the other hand, I fondly recall episode 30, where I shared my journey of leaving my job. As we invite you to celebrate with us, we also reflect on the profound podcasting lessons we’ve learned over the years. Get ready to discover the power of consistency, the importance of active listening, and the joy of learning through questioning. So, join us on this special episode as we celebrate, reminisce, and gear up for more exciting times ahead!
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Unknown
Welcome, everyone, to the Firing the Man Podcast. On today’s episode, we celebrate episode 200. Ken and I are going to be recapping our top three episodes, sharing some funny stories, some lessons learned, and a whole lot more. Welcome to the show, David. I’m stoked. It’s episode 200. That’s amazing. I’m excited to be in the podcast studio. We were talking before the show and it’s been a couple of months since we’ve both been in the podcast videotaping.
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Unknown
We’ve got a great episode planned out here today. We kind of reminisced before the show preparing for this. We went through all of our episodes. We picked out some of our top episodes to share with the audience. We have some funny stories to go over and we have some valuable lessons that we’ve learned after four years of podcasting.
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Unknown
And so I’m excited to be here. Tons of energy today, so let’s get right into it. What is one of your top three episodes? Absolutely. So it is episode one. What is Firing the Man about? And that’s a fun one to go back and listen to. That was us at the beginning of our journey. We both had full time jobs.
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Unknown
We had talked about starting a podcast, actually did it. We executed on it. And that is, I would say in that when I listen to that podcast, there were some things I was naive about. There were some things I was overly optimistic about, but it was very raw. We were sharing where we wanted to get to and shared a commitment to document our process along the way.
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Unknown
And that’s exactly what we did. Yeah, absolutely. I’ve I’ve went back and listened to that episode and it’s like meaningful to me is episode one. It’s also kind of funny of like, you know what, what the show was at the inception to now and to see the progress of that. But yeah, no, that’s a great one. One of my top three Episode four And so episode four was about how to be more efficient with your time.
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Unknown
And so I think we delivered a lot of value on that show. We had some we had some great tips and tricks, you know, from things that we had learned. So I think we shared a tremendous amount of value on the episode. One of the things I really like about it, I’m pretty sure that we taped that episode in my basement.
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Unknown
We might have had a couple of cocktails while we were taping that episode and which we don’t. We haven’t had any drinks for a really long time on the show, and there’s probably a good reason for that. I remember David said, Hey, when David used to edit all this video and all the audio early on, and so David came back and said, Hey, I think we were slurring our words a bit on that episode.
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Unknown
And I was like, Maybe we need to cut back on the Scotch. And so it’s a great episode if you haven’t heard it. There’s a lot of value to it. Kind of funny. Where are we slurring her speech? I don’t know. Go listen to it. Yeah, absolutely. It is funny because up until that point, both of us really like to listen to podcasts.
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Unknown
And of course, you have Joe Rogan, the godfather of podcasts, who very routinely drinks. Yeah. And so it seemed like a natural thing, like, let’s get our microphones and let’s get scotch and let’s record just like Uncle Joe does. And and I have now learned that that is a tremendous skill set, is being able to speak clearly. Yeah.
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Unknown
After digesting a whole bunch of booze. So. But I will say there were some raw emotions in there. So it was a fun one to record, a fun one to listen back on. So, yeah, so going on with with my list of the top three Walker Dipole episode 45 and this is Walker Dipole published a book called By Then Built.
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Unknown
And in this book he makes a very quantitative case for why you should buy a business instead of build one. And it really rewired the way I think about business, the way I think about entrepreneurship. And it was an excellent podcast. And on top of that, Walker’s just a cool guy. He’s a fun guy to talk to you.
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Unknown
He’s got a lot of great experiences and insight, and so that was an awesome podcast and, and definitely like without a doubt makes it into my top three. What do you think of it? Yeah, absolutely. That if that wasn’t in your top three, you would have been in mine in that that episode. It also changed the way that I think about business.
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Unknown
Like I would not start another business unless unless it was for like personal reasons or something, but not in not with the attempt and in accruing wealth. Because I think you can go much faster by acquisition and so some very high level strategies in that episode. And I agree, Walker’s a super cool guy, very well-spoken, very articulate, and his book, if you haven’t read it yet, go get that.
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Unknown
It’s an excellent book. So absolutely. What’s next on your list, Ken? Yeah, for sure. So episode 85, this one, Miracle Morning, it was the it was a book review on The Miracle Morning, which was written by Howe Elrod. And that book really, really revolutionized the way I get things done and optimize my morning in terms of getting up early, having a game plan, getting things accomplished before anybody else is awake and just knocking things out.
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Unknown
That one was like it was almost eye opening to me because I’d never I’d gotten up early when I was in the military. I had to get up early and run, which sucked. But getting up early, getting stuff accomplished feels great. And so yeah, that was just a really, really good episode covering this book and the principles of it.
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Unknown
And if you haven’t read the book or listen to the episode, I’d definitely recommend listening to episode 85. David What did you think about that episode? Yeah, that one was critical in the point in time that we both read it. I think we probably read it within a couple of months of each other, and at that point in time we both had full time jobs and so we needed to get scrappy with time.
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Unknown
I think that if anyone is working a full time job and wants to start a business on the side or have a side hustle, that is a great way to do it, is, you know, you got to pay the piper even in the morning or in the evening. And reading that book and then implementing those lessons as we were getting our businesses off the ground, I think really made a big, big difference.
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Unknown
Yeah, absolutely. Timing is everything. And there’s this saying, I can’t remember where I learned it or read it from, but it’s like just in time learning. That was just in time. Learning which was which was critical. Absolutely cool. What’s your next one on your list, David Absolutely. So this is a guest, Adam Feinberg. He first came on the show on episode 91 and again at 168, and I am going to make a comparison here.
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Unknown
Warren Buffett, he writes a letter to the shareholders every year, and I read them every single year because when Warren Buffett explains things, it’s very easy to understand and digestible. Oftentimes when you see people build giant businesses and they describe them, it seems really complicated it but Warren Buffett does a good job of boiling down the main points into easy to understand nuggets.
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Unknown
Adam Feinberg is the Warren Buffett of e-commerce. He’s been tremendously successful in his businesses in some of the exits that he’s had an episode 91, he talks about an eight figure exit that he had and which is unbelievable in weight. No, it was a nine figure exit that he detailed in and in the lessons learned from those episodes were very broadly applicable to people.
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Unknown
You know, it’s really like stay in stock, monitor Pepsi. I mean, he had some go back and listen to the episode, but he had some really good points that were digestible. And I felt like they were they were just as relevant to me as a smaller operator as they were to him as a larger operator. And so he’s been a fantastic guest and friend of the podcast.
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Unknown
And so he when I was thinking of my top three, he definitely makes it in the top three. Absolutely. I love I love that episode. And Adam is we’ve actually had him on twice, really, really sharp guy. And what’s what’s interesting about Adam and having him on, so he had built up a very large, you know, nine figure exit exited and then he’s doing it again.
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Unknown
And so we’ve had him on recently on the podcast where he’s sharing with us. He’s rolling into another one and replicating it and being successful. And so that’s someone that, you know, when you want to learn how to do something, you find someone that’s done it and ask them how. And Adam’s done it twice now. So high level, yeah.
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Unknown
What’s next on your list? Ken Yeah, So my third one is episode 30 and this is just a personal one to me. I think there’s also a great episode. This is Ken Fired the Man episode, and then that episode David interviews me on, you know, like a broad range of topics, like, you know, what did it feel like when I when I quit my job?
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Unknown
What decisions did I have to make? You know, what did it look like? You know, what emotions was I feeling? It was just a kind of an interview back and forth. It was super cool. I enjoyed it. Obviously, it was you know, it’s been three and a half years over over three and a half years since that happened.
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Unknown
And so it’s been a long time, that episode be very impactful. And if you haven’t heard it, go back and listen and, you know, hopefully you can draw some inspiration from that. If you’re if you’re thinking about putting your job now or you want to in the future, you can kind of get into the mind of someone that’s done that.
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Unknown
And what were they thinking then and what were they? You know, how did they impact them and what decisions where were facing stuff like that. And so to this podcast, that’s a that’s a really crucial episode. And so, yeah, it made my, my top three list. Absolutely. I remember your firings Man Day and, you know. All right, David, what’s the next one on your list?
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Unknown
Yeah. So yours was episode 30. Ken fires the man. Mine was episode 60. David fires the man during this time, you know, you had six months into the podcast, you quit your job and I remember thinking like, Ken is putting his money where his mouth is. I mean, we started this podcast, he’s doing it, and there is a period of time between you quit six months in and I quit 14 months in to the podcast during that eight month period.
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Unknown
It was really fun to check in with you and see what is life like on the other side. And it was really inspiring that that you had done it. I will also mention that I felt like I had this dirty little secret. I had a podcast about quitting my job. I also had a job with an employer that I like and people that I liked.
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Unknown
And I was always waiting for just a knock on the door to say, David, we need to talk to you about this extra curricular project you have going on that’s not in line with with you being employed here. And so fortunately that never happened. But episode 60 was that really captures it was a dream come true at that point in time.
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Unknown
A huge pivot in my professional career and something that I’m not sure if I would have done without this podcast and without seeing you do it, and knowing that life on the other side of the fence was okay, that you could continue to make a good income and build a business and that it was actually even better and so than than working for the man.
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Unknown
So yeah. Episode 60 was, was definitely one of my favorite episodes. Now, Ken, as we were crafting these lists, it was hard to come up with. I’ve been saying top three, I guess it’s top four. It was tough to come up with our top four, and so we had had to have some honorable mentions. And so what were some of your honorable mentions?
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Unknown
I’ve got three honorable mentions. I’ll just kind of and then I’ve got one that’s like just a crazy story. So I’ll go through my three honorable mentions kind of quick and just give some, some shout outs. And these are just like really good episodes and really good people that I that I wanted to, to recognize. Episode 77 was with our good friend Joe Varley over at Quiet Life Brokerage.
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Unknown
Joe’s sister, an amazing guy. He wrote the book Exit Preneur. We had him on the show, known Joe for several years. He’s he’s an outstanding guy and so wanted to definitely give a shout out episode 77. Another one on my list here is episode 127. I did this one solo. David I think you were traveling maybe on vacation or something, so I did it solo.
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Unknown
It was a John’s, it was about John’s crazy socks and the story behind that brand. It was a guy named John, I believe his dad’s name is also John. It was a father and son team and the son has Down syndrome. I believe he wanted it. You know, when he graduated high school, he told his dad, you know, like he was struggling of what to do in this debt.
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Unknown
And it’s like finally he’s like, you know, nobody wants me to work for them. And he’s like, oh, I’ll just have my own company. And his dad said, okay, well, let’s do that. And so they sort of John’s crazy socks and they they employ underserved workforce, other people with Down syndrome, other people with with differing abilities, as what John Senior calls it.
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Unknown
And it was just him. It’s an amazing story. I fell in love with the brand and I bought some socks. I have some John’s crazy socks. I wear them. It’s a great episode if you haven’t heard that one. It’s episode 127. Very warming, a very inspiring last one on my list for honorable mentions to episode 172. This with Gary Garth.
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Unknown
Gary, This is a recent episode. Gary’s a super cool guy. He’s from a Nordic country. I want to say I’m going to butcher it. It’s either Norway, Finland, Sweden. It’s one of the happiest countries on earth. I apologize to Gary for it. I remember you from, but Gary’s a super, super smart guy, but he has a wealth of knowledge in business.
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Unknown
I learned a lot on that episode and I just wanted to give a shout out to Gary. He’s super cool guy. So, David, on your list of honorable mentions and then we’ll cut into a couple of funny stories. Absolutely. So episode 19 with Carlos Alvarez. Carlos is if you haven’t heard of him, he’s a very big name in the industry and someone who’s been very, very successful.
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Unknown
He’s another person who has a way of raising things that are just that really hit you hard. I remember in this particular episode he talked about soap being yourself out of the company and that just that sentence really stuck with me. And you know, four years later I’m still talking about it. And so tons of great insights there and and great episode.
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Unknown
The next one was episode 124 Lessons Learned Self Manufacturing. In this episode, we talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly of our first factory, and it was a fun story. It was something that we did kind of out of necessity during the pandemic when we were having issues with suppliers. And for anyone thinking about potentially self manufacturing, I think this would be a great one to listen to.
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Unknown
And the last one is episode 152 with my brother in accounting, Tyler Jeffcoat. Caring is my life Shout out. So Tyler Ryan, seller accountant and has a really good way of looking at businesses and he has the ability to look at a lot of different businesses because they’re his clients and he observes some very common themes and what are the successful ones doing?
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Unknown
What are the ones that are not successful doing? And he shares all of that during this episode. And so for anyone running an e-commerce business, if you’re wondering how does my business stack up against, you know, 50 or 100 other businesses, this is a great one to listen to. He gives some pretty easy to understand metrics and KPIs to measure.
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Unknown
And one of those gross profit after ad spend we use in our business and monitor on a weekly basis. And so really, really good stuff there and impactful learning. Now we’ve we’ve made it through our top four. We’ve made it through our honorable mentions. Ken, are there any episodes that stand out as odd or crazy or any stories here?
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Unknown
Let’s not tap dance around this one. So David and I had a guest on the we’re going to we’re going to call we’re going to call him the craziest guest that we’ve had on a very interesting episode. It was episode 122, and the guest’s name was David Wood. And to be honest with you, I don’t actually remember what the topic of that show was.
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Unknown
When we started interviewing this guest. It went sideways and David and I kind of made eye contact this was this was this was taped remote. David’s in the podcast studio. I’m in my podcast studio, and we kind of looked at each other like, you know what the show outlines out the window? This thing is off the rails, like what’s happening.
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Unknown
And and this guest was just out of control, I would say. But I think we managed to keep him we managed to keep him somewhat on the rails and get through the episode. But it was the craziest episode out of 200. And so episode 122 if you to hear some crazy shit code, go listen to that episode. Absolutely.
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Unknown
Yeah. You’ll see a lot of examples of Ken and David thinking on their feet because I think so it was fun, fun episode and an enjoyable one to listen to. So when we were prepping for this episode, it was crazy to think that we’ve been doing this for four years. Yeah, I had to stop and think it as it really been four years.
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Unknown
There have been a lot of lessons learned in in this period of time, and I think let’s share some of those lessons learned. Absolutely. So I’ve got a list of three of them here. I’ll go through my list and then I’ll kick it over to you. David So after like David mentioned, we’ve been doing this for four years, and after four years we wanted to try to, you know, share with the audience what is what are the things we’ve learned.
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Unknown
Number one on my list is a power of consistency. And it’s very it’s a very powerful thing. You can call it consistency, You can call it a habit, you can call it whatever you want, but just continuously showing up day, week, month, year, consistency, it builds up over time. You know, in the accounting world, David would be happy.
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Unknown
I would be saying this would be like accrued interest over time or compounding interest over time, something like that. It really just builds up over time when you drag it out and it goes with anything in your life, you know, healthy eating, working out, getting tasks done, you know, anything. Consistency over a long period of time adds up.
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Unknown
It’s a snowball effect. And so that’s something that, you know, I’ve learned after podcasting for four years. You know, there’s been times where in the middle of a very busy day, we have a podcast go to we got to drop everything, got to get into podcasting mode, got to get out our sheets. And so it’s not as much easier to say, I don’t want to do that anymore.
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Unknown
But but doing that every day or every week or every month, consistency adds up. And so that was a big one for me. One thing I want to add to that is and this is not to toot her own horn, but we we have a perfect record. We’ve released one podcast every week for four years. There may have been couple where we meant to publish on a Tuesday and we publish on Friday.
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Unknown
But we’ve we have a perfect record and I think that’s helped the podcast grow. Another lesson that kind of goes along with this is during our fire round, we ask all of our guests, What is the one thing that you think sets apart successful entrepreneurs from those that give up, fail or never get started? I would say the most common answer is something to do with grit or perseverance and showing up every day.
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Unknown
And we’ve had on a ton of successful guests that seems to be one of the most common answers, you know. And so, no, I think that’s we’ve learned that lesson from through a lot of different lenses, and that’s been awesome. So anyway, what’s next on your list? Yeah, actually the next one I have on my list is always listen.
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Unknown
And so, David, we’ve interviewed some really, really smart people on the podcast, you know, our podcast for, for the long time listeners, David and I share insights into our life and our business and how we’re growing our business and operating as well as we bring on industry experts across a wide array of of knowledge base. And just this sort of something that I’ve learned is like if you’re if you’re talking, obviously we have to interview people.
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Unknown
But listen, always listen and you’ll learn a ton when you listen in. So if you’re inviting EQ, we’re inviting experts on. I’m just always listening and, you know, maybe not take action on everything someone says, but just listen. And if it if it resonates and it makes sense, you know, you can kind of go and pull something out of that.
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Unknown
But it’s just always good to you learn when you listen and so that was that’s definitely something that I’ve I think I’ve gotten better at from podcasting is, as you know, listening to experts. David, what’s what’s next on your list? I would say I’ve got one that that is along those lines and and I would say learning from others.
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Unknown
So, you know, in Family Feud, when you say like if the question were to be what are some ways to to acquire knowledge I think really common answers would be read books or go to school. But I think one that we’ve learned from podcasting is ask questions as good questions. And that’s been something that I think has translated throughout our podcasting journey, but also in life is, is I am a lot more comfortable now asking people their story or asking them how they did it.
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Unknown
And I don’t know if I was hesitant or timid before, but I have found that the most enjoyable ways to acquire knowledge is through asking questions. And so that’s been something that stands out to me and it’s been a huge lesson learned. Cool, the last one on my list. So this is something that this is probably to me is probably the most important one on my list.
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Unknown
And this is something I’ve learned after like what you just mentioned, David, four years of podcasting. And so, you know, if you think about a podcast, you know, you’re driving to work, you’re you’re out on a jog or a walk or wherever, however you listen to your podcast, you listen to it to learn, I think, or to to have some downtime or to whatever.
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Unknown
And so as a podcaster, it’s our job to transfer information when we’re interviewing people or when we’re sharing our own stories. It’s our job to transfer the most valuable information to you, the listener. And so I’ve tried to refine my skills on like what you just said, David, asking the right questions and so which I think it folds really well into this.
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Unknown
This is how to extract knowledge from a guest and pass it on to the audience and so I think this is something that we’ve both gotten better at over four years from episode one to now, minus the Scotch. But I think, you know, being able to to, you know, sit down and say, okay, hey, we’re interviewing guest X-Y-Z today.
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Unknown
They’re an expert in this. They’re this is their story. And so kind of studying that and say, okay, knowing our audience, what are the things that we can we can what are the top five things we can extract from this person that knowledge and transfer it to our audience? And that is something that I’ve learned over over the four years or I’ve gotten better at it.
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Unknown
So hopefully to the listeners. So hopefully maybe I’ll get some emails and say, Can you suck? Or maybe I’ll get some emails and say, Yeah, you know, you’ve gotten better at that, but hopefully I’ve gotten better at that and I think I have more work to do. But that’s, that’s definitely something that I’ve learned. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I think that that learning component is huge.
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Unknown
I was talking to an old professor of mine from Saint Louis University the other day and I said, Look, why don’t you guys have an e-commerce program like this is this is how retail is going to work in the future. So you should be ahead of the curve. And he was he was like, well, what would that look like?
00;23;13;07 – 00;23;33;23
Unknown
We probably need one or two professors that had some specialty in it. And I started thinking about that would be like an undergrad program. What would like a Ph.D. or an advanced learning scenario look like for e-commerce? You know, tell you what, talking to 150 experts in the field would be along those lines in. And, you know, can we ask?
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Unknown
Well, you know, I think we try our best to ask people questions that we want to know the answers to and that our audience would want to know the answer to. And so I do think that this body of work has been hugely, you know, transformative in our careers and how we run our businesses. Our goal is that it’s been hugely transformative in the careers of our audience.
00;23;54;28 – 00;24;24;16
Unknown
And so, yeah, that was that was definitely a big lesson learned. You know, the last thing I would say is and one thing that has made the podcast fun is it’s not motivated by money, it’s fun. I enjoy it and we enjoy engaging with the guests. We enjoy engaging with the audience. It’s been fun. And I think that my hope is that that comes through to the people listening is that we’re general genuinely interested in what the guest has to say and transferring that knowledge to our audience.
00;24;24;16 – 00;24;50;13
Unknown
And I think if if we would have started this off by saying, all right, how can we make $1,000,000 from having a podcast, the end product wouldn’t have been as good. It’s been I hate to use this phrase like we’ve been true to the art form. Yeah, of podcasting. And that may sound cheesy, but like it is, it’s been something that we’ve been true to and that has made it fanatic in a lot more enjoyable.
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- Tzu, Sun (Author)
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00;24;50;13 – 00;25;08;04
Unknown
Yeah, I definitely agree. And just kind of add on to that is to me, I look at the podcast as like a passion project. Yeah, we do have a couple of sponsors. We do have a couple of ads that run just enough to pay the bills. It’s enough for for David to break the checkbook out every month and pay for the electricity, and that’s it.
00;25;08;04 – 00;25;29;08
Unknown
And so this is not a huge revenue generator for us. We’re not we’re not making hardly any money from the podcasting. And so it’s is truly a passion project that we enjoy and that we’re going to continue to do. And so, you know, one thing I would just like to say is a shout out to all the fans and listeners and in the audience is, you know, we got we do this for you guys.
00;25;29;08 – 00;25;50;16
Unknown
And so I want to really thank you guys for for tuning in and listening. If you have any feedback, show ideas, anything, reach out to us. Ken and Firing the Man. AECOM David at Firing the Man. AECOM Support at Firing the Man. AECOM Send us an email. Shoot us an email, whatever it is. Good, bad, ugly, show ideas, whatever hit us up, we’re here.
00;25;50;21 – 00;26;16;25
Unknown
I feel like we’re going to be doing this for for a while. We both like it. And yeah, it’s fun. And to your point, David, like we do the podcast for fun and it it truly shows we’re not, we’re not grinding away to, you know, to make a profit. Cool. Any parting words, David? Yeah. To close out the show for those of you that have been with us since the beginning, since the start of our journey, thank you.
00;26;16;27 – 00;26;37;19
Unknown
And we look forward to giving you another 200 episodes. And for those of you that are new to the show, this episode we recapped some great episodes, some of our favorites to go back and listen to. So welcome to the firing Man Nation. So thank you everyone for tuning in to the Firing podcast and we’ll see you next episode.
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- Billy Busch (Author)
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