Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.

With your host, Pete McChitis.

Greetings once again, I'm excited to share with you another fun guest and I think this is

really cool because this guy is behind many of the products that you have seen at Walgreens.

He's got a real creative mind and successful business,

inventing and selling these things,

and he's got a lot to say about creativity

and selling the ideas. His name is Afif Ganum and you're going to learn

one, the conditions necessary for creativity to flourish. Two, how to successfully borrow, tweak,

and validate ideas from Giants.

And three, the three credibility's you need to craft a compelling story.

So if you want to check out the show notes, the transcripts, the links to items mentioned, you'll find that over at

awesome at your job.com slash Epp for six. And if you just want those takeaways faster,

sign up for the gold nugget email list, you'll get the goods an email you can read in two minutes or less to

extract some quick wisdom from a thief and every other guest.

So here's the scoop.

A thiefganoom is the founder of napkin to Shelf. com. He is formerly a frustrated lawyer but now

has launched over 10 products that have sold in over 27,000 stores as well as online.

A thief also has two patents, licensed technology to a

large farm a company for a product sold in tens of thousands of stores in

multiple countries and has raised nearly nine million and counting in

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