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Founders welcome back to the founders
Journey podcast weekly curation this
week we’re talking about mastering
growth and how Founders tackle tough
challenges and need to stop playing
Superman it’s a really important thing I
think for any founder every founder
finds themselves in that role of
Superman flying in to try to save the
day when really what you’re doing is
creating a lot of problems around you so
the First theme we’re going to hit on
this week is around emotional
intelligence and learning and this is
really about the idea of really the just
the critical importance to manage your
emotions learn from experiences and
avoid creating those those crisises uh
that we often do and it’s really about
the need to really build our emotional
intelligence and Leadership so the first
clip we’re going to hit on it’s really
about taking the emotion out of the
situation and just learning and this is
from Jason Farr who’s the CEO full
circle Insight well we talked about not
falling in love with the things you
create the marketing that you create
being objective about that when loss
review especially loss review is exactly
that you have to be open to someone
telling you that the thing you created
did not meet their needs and right when
when when a found ER or anybody in your
company is able to do that and learn
from that like that to me is what being
a business executive is about like I’ve
taken that emotional level out of it to
learn so then I can make positive change
as we move forward in the business the
next clip I love this one this was from
our guest this week actually on the
podcast and it’s towns in wardlaw who’s
the founder of founder OS coaching and
towns talks about when there’s nothing
on fire Founders have a tendency to
create them you know you get to the
point where you can sort of see the
Finish Line you’re where you need to be
and what you need to do is stop stop
touching stuff and let what you’ve built
play itself out right and every day for
the past decade you’ve woken up you know
with your firefighters hat and your
action your and your extinguisher to put
out
fires and there’s like no fires you’re
like oh I know what to do let me get a
match right and the Jerry can right so
you start setting these because like
when there’s no fires this doesn’t feel
right this can’t be okay there’s got to
be something burning I gotta find it
Well maybe I’ll light it the other big
theme that came out of this that as
we’re talking about kind of mastering
emotions here is around acceptance and
overcoming flaws and this is really
about being self-aware accepting your
limitations and your flaws and then
really taking being proactive about
preventing these from becoming a real
hindrance to growth and progress we all
have them it’s really do we have the
awareness to actually do something about
them so the first clip we’re going to
talk about is actually from Jeff Evans
who was a few episodes back he’s a
famous speaker an adventurer and Jeff
talks about the fact that we’re all
flawed these perceptions that we have or
this portrayal that I think a lot of
folks have whether in in whatever facet
it is is alwayss uh perhaps best foot
forward and not the true representation
and that’s
okay that is okay man like we need to
know that it is okay to be flawed and we
need to know that it is okay to start
and and stop and pause and hesitate and
re-evaluate and not get it perfect every
single uh step that we take we’re going
to trip we’re gonna fall Jasper Pollock
is a renowned expert on practical
project management we interviewed him a
couple months ago and Jasper talks about
if you’re not careful you’re going to
become the bottleneck in your in your
business the earlier you understand as
founder that what got you from zero to
one one get you from one to 10 and one
get you from 10 to 100 the the faster
you’ll go and the bigger you’ll grow
because right you really it’s inevitable
you will become the bottleneck at some
point yeah and you just have to figure
out when that is and how to mitigate it
and the founders I have most respect for
are the founders who at some point
realize that they are the bottleneck and
they can’t solve that so therefore they
step back that’s right the founder that
goes at some point from CEO to saying
you know what I really just love product
so I’m now going to hire a CEO I’m gon
to report to that person while I stay on
the board and I’m going to be product
officer I have an incredible amount of
respect for that that takes guts the
last theme that we wanted to hit on this
week is really around the need for
efficiency and simplification and this
is really about tackling challenges
headon streamlining process recognizing
that not all tasks have to be overly
complicated but it’s really we’re
talking about building efficiency
building Simplicity into the management
operations so Jen openshaw CEO of girls
with impact we interviewed Jen a little
while ago Great Clip here about getting
the hard things out of the way I’m
somebody who tries to do the hard stuff
first including in my day which I heard
Jeff Bezos does too like because you
feel better that you’ve gotten the hard
thing out of the way right or chop it up
into smaller pieces and time it out when
you’re going to get that done and we’ll
wrap it up this week again with towns
and Ward law who we interviewed this
week if you haven’t caught towns and’s
episode make sure you go back and do it
and Townsen I think talks about
something that sounds profound but is or
sounds simple but it’s pretty profound
right and that is not everything needs
to be
hard just looking at the guy what you
know is he knows how to work hard right
yeah like literally life for him is if I
work hard I get what I want so if you
watch him you’d say well what he does is
he works hard what I would say is
actually who he’s being is life is hard
and I’m going to work hard so he walks
up one day and he says okay I need to
raise some money well what he’s going to
see in the world literally what he’s
going to perceive in the thoughts in his
head are going to be all the things
where he could apply his superpower of I
know how to work
hard he can do hard harder or hardest
what he will never see or perceive is
the door marked oh this is easy just go
through there one guy will write you a
check we’ll be done in 30 days so again
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