How To Become Your Own Boss with Guy Raz
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Mitchell is a physical therapy student who dreams of revolutionizing the industry. What if physical therapists and their patients weren't so constrained by insurance companies? His classmates and professors think he's crazy, but Mitchell thinks disrupting the status quo could help a lot of people—if only he knew how to get started. On this episode of How To!, we bring on Guy Raz, the host of NPR's How I Built This and author of the new book of the same title, to share what he's learned from the hundreds of entrepreneurs who have come on his podcast. When calculating risk vs. reward, Guy says, think about the difference between something being scary vs. dangerous. It's scary to build a startup and potentially fail, but think how dangerous it would be to have a boring job always wondering "what if"?
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| 0:00.0 | I think that building a business or a brand has all the elements of a great drama. |
| 0:04.7 | There's triumph, there's heartbreak, there's struggle, there's loss, there's unbelievable |
| 0:11.3 | anxiety, and also these moments of just incredible success. |
| 0:19.2 | You're listening to how to. I'm Guy Ra's only joking. I'm Charles Doohig, but if you listen to |
| 0:28.1 | podcast you've probably heard Guy a lot. I'm Guy Ra's and on today show |
| 0:32.1 | How To... At one point in the past couple of years, |
| 0:34.4 | Guy hosted up to five different podcasts at the same time. And if the people who track this stuff are right, |
| 0:39.7 | he's the only person to ever have three shows simultaneously on the top 20 list. |
| 0:45.2 | This is the Ted Radio Hour. |
| 0:50.2 | Nowadays, he's probably best known for a show how I built this |
| 0:53.8 | a show about innovators entrepreneurs idealists and the stories behind the movements |
| 0:59.1 | they built. Guy has a new book coming out based on those stories and he's here to share what he's |
| 1:04.6 | learned and to chat with a listener who wrote in for advice. As a storyteller and a |
| 1:10.5 | journalist I was always really inspired by the hero's journey. |
| 1:14.4 | You know, it's Star Wars, it's Harry Potter, it's the Odyssey, it's the Bible, pretty much |
| 1:18.6 | every story has the same narrative arc. |
| 1:21.9 | You know, there's a hero, and the hero has this wild idea and is banished |
| 1:27.3 | because everyone thinks the hero is a little nutty and the hero goes on a journey and falls into an abyss and fights a dragon, finds |
| 1:35.5 | a mentor, has a near-death experience, comes out of it. |
| 1:39.2 | It's a simplification of it, but that's basically the story of most businesses. |
| 1:43.6 | And about 12 years ago, I took classes at Harvard Business School. |
| 1:51.5 | And all of a sudden, I'm reading these amazing stories |
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