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This Week in Startups

E1020: CEO/Investor Coach & Author Matt Mochary shares insights on developing his coaching method, understanding & overcoming primal fear, addressing imposter syndrome & more

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2020

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

0:01 Calling all writers! Apply to be the first TWiST Archivist at twistarchivist.com
2:42 Jason intros CEO Coach & Author Matt Mochary
4:49 How and why did Matt decide to become a CEO coach?
8:32 What is the secret to being a great coach for investors & CEOs?
12:12 Drawing feedback out of employees
19:27 How to differentiate healthy fear from paralyzing fear?
32:06 How is Matt's method structured?
34:52 Understanding & dealing with imposter syndrome
40:27 Differences between coaching Gen-X & Millennials
42:33 Starting the Mochary foundation helping formerly incarcerated people get & keep legitimate jobs
48:19 Understanding negative motivation and transforming into purpose-filled motivation
52:39 What is Matt's "Shadow CEO" Method
54:04 What does Matt charge?
54:52 Matt coaches Jason live on air

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, are you a good writer? Do you love this podcast? This week in startups? I know you do, you're here.

0:06.0

Well, do you like to work from home and do you like money? Do you want a job working from home,

0:11.0

listening to the sound of my voice. Now if you say no that's

0:14.6

fine it's a reasonable thing to say but if you love the pod we are looking for the

0:20.5

first twist archivist this is a writer's job and the first transcribes everything, write blog posts, and listen to a podcast or to a day from our

0:34.8

archive, and then reflect on how awesome it was and what the guests said and what are

0:39.4

the insights gleaned from it. And we want you to be their archivist who says, oh my God, there was this

0:44.9

amazing moment in Travis's episode from Uber or Chris Sock's famous episode, or maybe the

0:51.6

founder of Pixar said something brilliant and then you make a

0:54.6

blog post out of it and you write about it and you share it with the community so more

0:57.4

people can get into that archive. This is a full-time paid job working from home on the startup podcast that you love this

1:06.8

weekend startup.

1:07.8

So if you want to apply and you want to join the team, it's pretty simple.

1:11.0

You go to twist archivist.com.

1:12.7

T w Ist t a r cah i v i s t dot com and just fill out the form and apply.

1:18.6

We're going to have you listen to an episode and write up a blog post about it

1:22.3

we'll have you actually do it and if you do a great job,

1:25.4

this could be your dream job, especially if you're trying to get into the startup ecosystem.

1:30.0

Imagine you do this for a year or two, maybe three, and you listen to all the episodes and you

1:34.4

think about how to start a company, you are going to become brilliant.

1:36.5

And that's why I started the podcast.

1:38.1

I wanted to share the knowledge that all these great founders and investors I knew had and journalists too.

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