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August 8, 2023August 1, 2023 Interviews 2.0

Your Business Personality Type – An Interview With Naomi Gora

We start a new conversation with Naomi Gora about how your business personality type needs to be a match for the founder or founders. Everyone has a personality type, and we talk about how businesses and brands do as well. This can be challenging when your business has a personality that does not match yours. Even success can lead to discomfort and a sense of being trapped rather than joy and contentment. Yes, There Is A Business Personality Type When you hear an advertisement or announcement from some businesses, it feels or sounds exactly like how you expect them to communicate. That is due to the personality type of the brand or business. It is similar to detecting who wrote... Read more

August 3, 2023July 26, 2023 Interviews 2.0

Remote Team Building

Our conversation with Annelise Worn concludes with a deeper look into remote team building and how to make sure you get the right people. The world has gotten smaller. Thus, it is now possible to hire across the globe, no matter the size of your business. That has good and bad for someone starting out. There is a need for skilled workers, but they can be challenging to interview and assess. We discuss some great ways to determine whether a prospect is a good fit for your team. Be Intentional About Remote Team Building The underlying message in our discussion is to be intentional and thorough in your approach. Building a team that is best suited for your business takes... Read more

August 1, 2023July 26, 2023 Interviews 2.0

Launching Your Business – Annelise Worn Interview

We start a conversation with Annelise Worn to help you with launching your business based on her story and lessons learned. Her story is not unlike many others. She realized she needed to avoid spending so much time on her work. Likewise, she wanted to escape the trap of trading time for money. Her time was worth too much. Launching Your Business Requires Confidence You can take many nuggets of wisdom from her story for launching your business. However, you should not miss the point that your work has value. Pricing and getting paid can often be a stumbling block for an entrepreneur. When you view your work as valuable, as she describes, it becomes less of an issue. We... Read more

July 27, 2023July 20, 2023 Interviews 2.0

Work Balance And Trading Money For Happiness

Our discussion with Michaell Magrutsche transitions into the area of work balance and whether more productivity really leads to more happiness. The whole concept of working faster and better does not seem to be leading us to worthy results. We are not seeing vast amounts of free time and instead often are chained to our desk of phone. The promise of freedom has become more chains. Return To The Focus Of Work Balance That is where we have to go back to square one and look at the “why” of our systems and solutions. There should be a reason for every system and it should help the humans on the other end. We can not simply build solutions that are... Read more

July 25, 2023July 19, 2023 Interviews 2.0

Human Based Systems – An Interview With Michaell Magrutsche

We start a new interview and delve in to the topic of human based systems. This topic is one that should be a common one as AI grows. Our discussion with Michaell Magrutsche goes a bit off the beaten path as we look at the road less traveled. This journey leads into examining what makes a system useful and a focus on why we should build one in the first place. The Basis For Human Based Systems This is going to shock you, but humans are the most common user of a system. However, there is a rise in non-human systems as we build more and more complex integrations that go on behind the scenes and general automations. The Holy... Read more

July 20, 2023July 14, 2023 Interviews 2.0

Government Work Resources – Find Your Niche

Our discussion with Ricky Howard continues with a dive into all of the government work resources for finding and landing a contract. We talk about sites like usaspending.gov. It is where one can see where the money goes. That provides an insight into what departments are a good starting point for your research. There is a lot of research and groundwork to do to win a contract. However, he provides resources to help you on that journey. A Wealth Of Government Work Resources While the government is a huge series of departments and all manner of divisions, it is not impossible to navigate. The government work resources we discuss help one narrow the focus to something that is manageable. Likewise,... Read more