4.8 • 31.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2018
⏱️ 53 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to how I built this early and ad-free on Amazon Music. |
0:07.0 | Download the app today. |
0:09.0 | New Year's is here, and with it brings the possibility of change. |
0:13.0 | As one behavioral scientist put it, first starts are really powerful. |
0:17.0 | So as you head into 2023, LifeKit is a great resource to help you plan your life and tackle changes, both big and small. |
0:24.0 | Listen to the LifeKit podcast from NPR. |
0:27.0 | Hey, it's Guy here, and in just a minute we've got a brand new episode of the show for you today with Janice Bryan Howroyd of Act One. |
0:35.0 | But before we start the show, I just want to remind you to take a minute to show your support for NPR programs by contributing to NPR's Year and Fundraising campaign. |
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0:54.0 | Please consider donating by going to donate.npr.org slash built. |
1:01.0 | That's donate.npr.org slash built. |
1:05.0 | And thanks. |
1:07.0 | I'll tell you candidly, and I'm not proud of it. |
1:13.0 | There were times when I would gift my intelligence to other members of my team and have them go in and make a presentation or them make the pitch |
1:23.0 | so that the client wouldn't have to interact directly with me as an African American or as a female. |
1:30.0 | Because you thought they wouldn't want to. |
1:34.0 | In some instances I thought it in other instances I knew it. |
1:38.0 | From NPR, it's how I built this, a show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built. |
1:53.0 | I'm Guy Raaz, and I'm the show today. |
1:58.0 | The temporary gig is a secretary inspired Janice Bryant-Harroy to build an employment agency that turned into an empire and made Janice the first African American woman in history to own a billion-dollar business. |
2:17.0 | So hiring employees is one of the hardest things about running a business. |
2:22.0 | If you listen to this show long enough, you've heard founders talk about how when their company started to scale, hiring enough good people consumed so much of their time. |
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