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The Jesse Mecham Show

243 - A 100% Remote Company. And You Can Too.

The Jesse Mecham Show

YNAB

Kids & Family, Education

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2016

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

How do you accomplish anything? Be thoughtful about what you want, and intentional about how to get it.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, Wineabbers. My name is Jesse Meekham and this is podcast number 243 for why now.

0:15.0

We teach you four rules to help you stop living paycheck to paycheck, get out of debt, and save more money.

0:21.0

Sometimes I'm chatting with other business owners, they are very

0:26.9

intrigued by the fact that we are a 100% remote company. Well, almost 100%.

0:32.0

We have a few people that work at Wyanib HQ, three people, but the other 40-some

0:37.9

work from their homes in their pajamas. And that sounds amazing, but there are downsides to remote work.

0:46.0

And so when people often talk about how do you maintain a culture,

0:50.0

how do you maintain this kind of camararaderie this sense of team the sense of

0:54.7

belonging when you're so far apart it often as most things do leads me back to

1:01.1

thinking about budgeting and at the end of the day, no matter what you're trying

1:06.2

to do, what you're trying to accomplish, the key is to be intentional. So if you say we are

1:12.4

going to be a remote company, then you need to be intentional about what you're doing there.

1:20.0

You have to be aware of the pitfalls and be aware of the upsides and accentuate those and

1:25.3

try and mitigate the pitfalls like communication and asynchronous situations dealing with different

1:31.8

times and things like that.

1:33.3

And with your money it's the same way, you just got to be intentional.

1:36.7

You got to recognize, okay, my goal, my objective is to have money to do this, or I just want a little more control or a little less stress,

1:44.9

a little more peace.

1:46.6

But you still need to just recognize that there are concrete things you need to do.

1:50.3

You need to think hard about it.

1:51.9

You need to do things that mitigate risk, that accentuate your

1:55.8

talents, that really at the end of the day improve your money situation. It's just about being thoughtful and

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