Going from Start-up to Grow-up with Ron Carucci
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2017
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Ron is co-founder and managing partner at Navalent, pursuing transformational change for their organizations, leaders, and industries. He is the best-selling author of 8 books, including the recent Amazon #1 Rising to Power.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Boom! Shake the room, Fire Nation! A JLD here, and welcome to episode 1835 of EO Fire, |
| 0:10.6 | where I chat with entrepreneurs on fire seven days a week. Check out our free podcast |
| 0:18.8 | in course so that you can create, grow and monetize your podcast free podcast course.com. |
| 0:25.8 | Now I'll show you today's featured guest, Ron Karuchi. Ron, are you prepared to ignite? |
| 0:31.7 | Jon, I'm so ready. Yes. Ron is a co-founder at Navilent, and is a best-selling author of |
| 0:38.0 | eight books, including the recent Amazon number one release of Rising 2 Power. Ron, take |
| 0:44.5 | a minute, fill in some gaps from that intro and give us a little glimpse of your personal |
| 0:48.7 | life. Great to be with you and your nation. At Navilent, we spend our days roaming the planet, |
| 0:55.3 | working with leaders of all kinds and sorts who are in the process of trying to transform |
| 0:59.4 | their organizations, whether it's the startup to grow up journey or the grow up again |
| 1:03.4 | journey. They usually, in some kind of a master ditch, where they've got to strategically, |
| 1:09.0 | organizationally, culturally do something massively different that's pretty messy. And |
| 1:13.3 | we go on that journey with them. Usually it's a couple of years of our life that we spend |
| 1:18.9 | attached to those leaders and their babies. But it's an awesome job to wake up every |
| 1:25.5 | morning and think about how we're going to leave the world better than we found it. |
| 1:29.0 | And what's the little glimpse of your personal life? I'm a dad. I have two kids who are about |
| 1:33.3 | to have launched or about to launch. I have a one daughter in college in LA, one son |
| 1:40.0 | about to head to New York City for college, a wonderful wife, and we live in the greater |
| 1:44.6 | Seattle area. You ready to become an empty nester? Well, we've been practicing for a couple |
| 1:49.0 | of years because my son has been had a full time job. So it's funny because we both fly |
| 1:55.0 | out next week literally. I don't know. York and herd LA to help our kids move into their |
| 1:58.9 | own homes or apartment or whatever. We both, I arranged for us both to land back in Seattle |
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