Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with my producer Jason

to Philip. On this episode, we'll be talking with my friend Barry Katz. This guy is he is

a trip. There's really no getting around it. If you ask the average person on the street,

who's had the widest reach and comedy over the last 30 years, surely you're going to get

many different answers. Dave Chappelle, Bill Burr, Louis CK, Dane Cook, Whitney Cummings.

Okay, no one's saying Dane Cook. They've all had career moments though that set new standards

in the business, but instead of looking at any one of them, let's say individually, how

about instead looking to a person who has had significant influence on all of them and

many, many more? That person is Barry Katz. He discovered Dave Chappelle as a teenager, just

kept picking up the next big thing over and over again for years, including the names

I mentioned earlier as well as Tracy Morgan, Jay Moore, Darryl Hammond, Wanda Sykes, and

many, many more. Today, we'll discover what it takes to be one of the best talent evaluators

in America and how we can begin to hone the subset of skills we need to find the best in

other people and ourselves. Of course, we'll also uncover why most people, even high achievers,

overcomplicate winning and how we can simplify our mindset while ensuring we're doing the

right type of work to master our craft and we'll explore some of the lessons Barry has

learned from his clients and how we can apply these lessons in comedy and high profile careers

to our own lives. Don't forget, we have a worksheet for today's episode so you can make

sure you solidify your understanding of the key takeaways here from Barry Katz. The

fee, as always, for this show is that you share it with friends when you find something useful,

which should be in every episode and the worksheets, that's how we make sure that you find

something useful in every episode. The link to those is in the show notes at jordanharbinger.com

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