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Entrepreneur Stories 4⃣ Inspiration

008: Unlock ADHD Superpowers with HARO Founder & Ted Talks Speaker, Peter Shankman βš‘πŸ’‘βš‘

Entrepreneur Stories 4⃣ Inspiration

Millionaire Interviews Podcast & Sir Austin Peek

Careers, Business, Business:careers

4.7 β€’ 2K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 1 January 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Peter Shankman is a spectacular example of what happens when you merge the power of pure creativity with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and a dose of adventure, and make it work to your advantage. Peter is best known for founding Help A Reporter Out, (HARO) which in under a year became the de-facto standard for thousands of journalists looking for sources on deadline, offering them more than 200,000 sources around the world looking to be quoted in the media. *** For Show Notes, Key Points, Contact Info, & Resources Mentioned on this episode here: Peter Shankman Interview. ***

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I just want to beat you around it for you guys, so that's something that helps you guys

0:05.8

out.

0:06.8

Keep doing what you're doing, that's cool.

0:07.8

Yeah, I appreciate it.

0:09.7

With the Patreon membership, you get this one on one call.

0:12.3

Plus, we're doing two group calls a month now with past guests.

0:15.3

Plus, there's an exclusive Patreon feed where you get special episodes if you're a Patreon

0:19.0

member.

0:20.0

Oh man, nice hot flow snap to you.

0:23.0

You're not the one running it.

0:38.3

High grade people, no question about it, but you can't just let them run it.

0:42.7

I just suck at managing.

0:44.4

I learn to not care.

0:45.6

I learn to not care about what others thought of me.

0:50.1

I have a joke, I have two speeds, namaste and I'll cut a bitch.

0:57.1

So what do you do and what do you think couldn't help our audience as far as what you could

1:10.1

teach them today?

1:11.1

Well, I am sort of a jack of all trades in that regard and I started my career working

1:14.6

for America online.

1:15.6

I got lucky and wound up being in the chat with all things.

1:18.9

I was early enough on the internet that I was there when AOL was the internet as they

1:22.1

called it and went up working for America online in the mid-90s, started their newsroom

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