Ted Audio Collective Why do people say so busy, even if they're not getting anywhere?

I think the answer is they don't want to face the sort of still inner voice.

They don't want to maybe face always the hard work that they have to do to the hard personal

work or the hard, you know, professional work.

It's easier to answer email all day than to like really think about the strategy of where

we're going.

From the Ted Audio Collective, this is Design Matters with Debbie Milman.

For 17 years, Debbie Milman has been talking with designers and other creative people

about what they do, how they got to be who they are, and what they're thinking about

and working on.

On this episode, Alyssa Cohn talks about how she became a coach to entrepreneurs.

My ultimate goal in my life is to make a difference.

My mission is to light 10,000 candles.

Hey, listener, a quick favor.

We are conducting an audience survey, and we'd be really grateful if you could take just

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Please visit survey.prx.org slash Design Matters to take the survey today.

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Thanks.

How do you take a sprout of an idea and grow it into a billion dollar business?

The conventional wisdom about startups is that they're all about brilliant products and

long, long hours.

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