Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes; R.P. Eddy breaks down the canary in the coal mine
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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R.P. is the CEO of Ergo, an intelligence and advisory firm, and Four Rivers, an Asia-focused investment firm. He's a former U.S. national security official and UN diplomat, and co-author, with Richard Clarke, of "Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes," and co-creator with Clarke, of the annual Cassandra Award.
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| 0:00.0 | Fire Nation in the house, JLD here, and welcome to episode 1700 and 7 of EO Fire. |
| 0:09.0 | We're right y'all with today's most inspiring entrepreneurs, 7 days a week. |
| 0:14.0 | And if you are ready to turn your funnels on fire, we have a free step-by-step course for you at funnelonfire.com. |
| 0:23.0 | And now let's shout out with today's featured guest, RP Eddy. |
| 0:28.0 | RP, are you prepared to ignite? |
| 0:31.0 | Let's do it, the fire. |
| 0:33.0 | RP is a CEO of Ergo, an intelligence and advisory firm and four rivers, an Asian-focused investment firm. |
| 0:41.0 | He's a former US national security official and UN diplomat and co-author of warnings finding Cassandra's to stop catastrophes. |
| 0:51.0 | RP, take a minute to fill in some gaps from that intro and give us a little glimpse of your personal life. |
| 0:57.0 | JLD, I'm excited to be here. |
| 0:59.0 | Congratulations, 1700. |
| 1:02.0 | Amazing. |
| 1:03.0 | And congratulations for everything you do. |
| 1:05.0 | I love reading about you listening to your podcast, but you're doing a great job helping other people meet their potentials. |
| 1:11.0 | And that's a hell of a service. |
| 1:13.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:14.0 | My background, you got it. |
| 1:16.0 | I was a national security council director. |
| 1:18.0 | I was a US diplomat, a UN diplomat. |
| 1:20.0 | I had the real privilege of doing all those things for about 10 years. |
| 1:24.0 | Then I started, eventually with some partners, a firm called Ergo. |
| 1:29.0 | We're a global intelligence business. |
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