84. What's Essential: Chip Conley on How Airbnb Won and The Great Midlife Edit

The Greg McKeown Podcast

Greg McKeown

Self-improvement, Business, Education

4.9 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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One of my goals for 2022 is to be more centered. With all that is going on, being centered feels like a bit of a challenge right now. Perhaps you feel this way too? That's why I invited Chip Conley to be my first guest of the new year. Chip is a strategic advisor for Airbnb and helped them not only survive the pandemic but thrive as they focused on the essential elements of their business. Join us to learn why Essentialism is most important when things get challenging and how to turn challenges into strengths by focusing on what's important now. What's Essential Podcast Twitter Facebook Greg McKeown Twitter LinkedIn Instagram Scratch Audiohouse Instagram LinkedIn Credits: Hosted by Greg McKeown Produced by Greg McKeown and Scratch Audiohouse Executive Produced by Greg McKeown, Brent Montgomery and Ed Simpson Produced by Derrial Christon

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0:00.0	Come with me on an exploration of self-discovery.
0:08.4	On this podcast we decipher what really matters, as we unravel the chaos of day-to-day work
0:16.4	to learn how to build an essential life.
0:22.1	Hello friends and Happy New Year to you all, welcome to the What's Essential Podcast
0:27.4	and thank you for being here, really thank you for investing in yourself, for joining
0:32.3	us in the first episode of 2022.
0:35.0	I hope you've had a marvelous holiday, a great Christmas, and had a chance to do a little
0:39.9	reset at least to think about what's essential for you in this coming new year.
0:46.5	One of my new year's resolutions is to be more centered, especially in my communication
0:51.4	with other people.
0:53.3	And to be centered is a challenge I think for people right now, perhaps it's a challenge
0:58.7	for you in what the military calls a vuka world.
1:02.7	That is a world that's volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous.
1:08.1	How do we figure out what's important now?
1:11.0	How do we get centered into the most important work and relationships of our lives so that
1:17.7	we don't just get pulled into all of the trivial many.
1:21.0	And to help us with that conversation, we have the perfect New Year's guest, Chip Conley,
1:26.1	a successful entrepreneur in his own right.
1:28.3	He's also been the chief advisor to the CEO and also the other founding members of Airbnb.
1:35.8	What you're going to learn in this episode is how to focus on what's important now.
1:42.4	That is to use the nice acronym to win even in uncertain times.
1:48.8	And that's something that's so relevant right now to all of us.
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