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Radical Personal Finance

150-Building a Career for Yourself By Wearing a Nametag Every Day: Interview With Scott "The Nametag Guy" Ginsberg

Radical Personal Finance

Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP

Self-improvement, Business, Education, Investing

4.21.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2015

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Today's show is a fabulous interview about career creation. My guest is Scott Ginsberg. Scott is most well-known for his love of name tags. He's worn a name tag every hour of every day for 5,241 consecutive days!

This decision was, in many ways, the foundation of his empire. It formed the story for his first book. Since then, he's written a total of 27 books on a variety of topics.

I'm utterly fascinated by Scott's career. You'll hear that in the interview today.

We discuss:

  • Scott's utter lack of planning for his career?
  • The power of a positive family environment
  • The value of being remarkable
  • Input vs. output vs. throughput
  • The importance of excellence vs. prolificacy

Enjoy the interview! It's super fun!

Joshua

p.s., thank you to each of you who have supported the show so far on our crowdfunding Patreon campaign! We're off to a great start with 15 patrons and $280 per month! Go sign up with at least a $1/mo. pledge and you'll receive access to my brand-new 20-minute video: "A Framework for Wealth."

 

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0:00.0

So at some point in your life, I would be willing to bet that you have gone to an event at which you have donned a name tag.

0:08.8

You know, one of those little white things says, hello my name is, and you scribble on it with a permanent marker

0:14.2

and write down what your name is. Well have you ever forgotten to take it off when

0:19.7

you left the room or more importantly have you ever forgotten to take it off when you left the room and then realized

0:27.0

you could build a business on that idea, the idea of not taking your name tag off?

0:34.0

Sounds kind of crazy, doesn't it?

0:37.0

But that's actually what today's guest did.

0:42.0

His name is Tuesday. Welcome to the Radical Personal Finance Podcast. My name is Joshua Sheets and today is Tuesday, February 10, 2015.

1:07.0

Today we're talking with Mr. Name tag Scott, his actual name is Scott Ginsburg Scott, and yes he does in fact to this day 5,214 days later, he wears

1:20.0

a name tag 24-7, even when he goes to bed.

1:24.0

But even though that's pretty interesting, the most amazing thing to me is how Scott has built a business that was found that I guess I wasn't say it was founded on that idea, but he just launched off of that idea and launched just an amazing entrepreneurial journey over the last decade plus. It sounds a little bit crazy but yes he really does wear a

1:56.3

name tag 24-7 no matter where he is everywhere in the world day or night matter what, he's got a name tag on his chest that

2:06.2

says my name is Scott.

2:08.1

Now he used that idea to launch a really amazing entrepreneurial career.

2:14.4

And that's what I had him on to talk about.

2:15.9

Scott is an expert in many different areas.

2:18.2

He's frequently invited to speak at different places. He's actually the author of 27 different books. He's an

2:26.0

award-winning blogger. He's spoken at a TEDX event. He produces something called

2:31.1

Name Tag TV. He's delivered over 600 presentation. produces something

2:33.0

over 600 presentations worldwide

2:36.0

and was inducted into Ripley's, believe it or not.

2:40.0

Although you'll have to judge for yourself

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