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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

Midroll Media

Society & Culture

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Lessons from the poisonous dart tree frog



Akimbo is a weekly podcast created by Seth Godin. He's the bestselling author of 19 books and a long-time entrepreneur, freelancer and teacher.


You can find out more about Seth by reading his daily blog at seths.blog and about the workshops at akimbo.com.


To submit a question and to see the show notes, please visit akimbo.link and press the appropriate button. 



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0:00.0

In October of 2017, one of the biggest recording artists in the world flew to Melbourne Australia for a gig.

0:11.0

Justin Bieber was in a jet that cost more than $10 million, far bigger than he needed for his

0:17.3

small party on the plane.

0:19.7

The jet landed, the door opened, the first one out was Bieber.

0:24.6

He stood one step down on the jetway,

0:27.2

took out his cell phone, and took a selfie.

0:31.5

Hey, it's Seth, and this is a Kimbo.

0:37.0

We'll be back in a second, but first here's a message from our sponsor, Lenovo.

0:47.0

Hi, my name is Renata Stone and my small business is Nautary fiber art, which is a handmade fiber textile and weaving business.

0:59.0

And I started it about two years ago after feeling pretty burnt out with my corporate job. I was honestly

1:05.2

super tired of working a 9 to 5 in a cubicle like living for someone else's dream and

1:10.3

not really chasing my own. I really wanted to pour my time and energy and

1:15.4

is something that mattered to me and for me that's creating anything handmade

1:18.8

and I really love timeless classic kind of imperfect silhouettes so it was the perfect way to do that.

1:26.3

And in launching my own business I knew I need a lot of help along the way so stay tuned to hear

1:30.6

the rest of my story and to see what made a difference for me in my small business.

1:35.0

A gazelle, surrounded by lions in the bush, will do something surprising.

1:42.0

That is, if you don't spend a lot of time watching Gazelle's.

1:47.0

What it will do is start jumping up and down.

1:51.0

Using all four legs, it will jump one, one two three feet off the ground over and over again

1:57.7

This is exhausting it's exhausting for a person and it's exhausting for a gazelle. Why would it do this? Well, the best theory that people have after studying

2:08.9

it for years is that by jumping up and down and apparently exhausting itself,

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