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The James Altucher Show

797 - Polina Pompliano: Profiling the Profiler

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.62.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

During my burnout days, there is only a handful of newsletters that keep my days going. And The Profile Newsletter, written by none other than Polina Pompliano is one of the few that I read every week! In The Profile, Polina (like the newsletter's name) profile the world's most successful people, from Sara Blakely to Keanu Reeves, and more!In this episode, Polina and I broke down some of the similar traits of successful people, and also, I wanted to profile her! What inspired her to start the newsletter, what did she learn from all the people that she had profiled, and most importantly, what I can learn from Polina!My new book Skip The Line is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever you get your new book!Join You Should Run For President 2.0 Facebook Group, and we discuss why should run for president.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltucher.com/podcast.Thanks so much for listening! If you like this episode, please subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts:Apple PodcastsStitcheriHeart RadioSpotify Follow me on Social Media:YouTubeTwitterFacebook ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

0:06.8

This is the James Altiger Show.

0:12.8

Today on the James Altiger Show.

0:15.9

So I got this newsletter once and it was called The Profile and a lot of the profiles

0:20.0

actually were people who had been on the podcast and it's been such a pleasure.

0:25.2

Basically in just a few pages reaches the essence of who these people are and then has links

0:32.5

to all sorts of other profiles of them but she summarizes all of them and then she gives

0:37.2

her takeaways almost like a podcast that's in text.

0:40.6

Like it's so I enjoy reading this newsletter so much once or twice a week and I highly

0:45.8

recommend people subscribe to it but Blina, Pompliano, author of this newsletter of

0:51.1

The Profile is on the podcast now and we talk about all her best profiles and what she

0:56.9

looks for and what she's learned and such a pleasure to talk to Blina.

1:00.9

So here she is.

1:15.9

How often do you publish it?

1:17.2

It's like once a week or once every...

1:19.7

It's once a week to the whole list and every Wednesday for the paying members where I do

1:25.5

like a dossier on an individual person.

1:28.6

I get that.

1:29.6

I'm a paying member.

1:30.6

Yeah.

1:31.6

So it's great because like I feel we're all whether you're a podcaster or you...

1:39.4

So you write this newsletter of The Profile where you pick someone who's interesting to

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