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With your host, Pete McChitis.

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here

for episode 342 with Tom Hefner. I think you'll love this

chat with Tom. Tom's the dude I mentioned earlier that I met a bunch of great folks at

podcast movement and included this genius dude and this is the genius dude who's talking about innovation and he knows from

experience so you're gonna learn one the seven rules for effective brainstorming

to how to solve the hippo in the room problem and three some improv comedy tips that will help you

innovate so if you want to take a look at the show notes or the transcript or the

links to items we've referenced here it's over to awesome at your job

com slash F342.

And while you're there, I hope you check out some of our cool stuff,

like the Gold Nugget email list, which gives you access to summary insights from Tom

and the 341 guests who have come before him

in a handy written format, write to your inbox and a reference

to the archives of all of them.

So here's Tom's story.

Tom Hefner is a design strategist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory,

a podcaster, a speaker, author, an innovation expert.

His goal is to help people thrive at work and in life, and Tom believes that every day,

purposeful habits and practices are vital to that pursuit.

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