How To Become Your Own Boss with Guy Raz

How To! with Mike Pesca

Peach Fish Projects

Education, How To

4.3 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2020

⏱️ 32 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	Hi everyone, I'm Susie Weiss, and I've noticed there's just simply not enough podcasts in the world. So I'm launching my own. Let's go. Let's go, baby. Second Thought is a weekly show about pop culture. The stuff everyone's been binging, arguing about, obsessing over. Here's the thing about heated rivalry. I mean, even the most devoted swifties, I think we can agree, not our best work. We'll be hosting thoughtful conversations with culture's most important figures. Talk about genius.
0:22.6	Talk about generational talent.
0:23.7	Coming to headphones near you on can agree not our best work. We'll be hosting thoughtful conversations with culture's most important figures.
0:21.8	Talk about genius.
0:22.6	Talk about generational talent.
0:23.7	Coming to headphones near you on April 17th with a first guest you won't want to miss.
0:27.8	Available wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.3	I think that building a business or a brand has all the elements of a great drama.
0:34.6	There's triumph, there's heartbreak, there's struggle, there's loss,
0:39.7	there's unbelievable anxiety, and also these moments of just incredible, you know, success.
0:51.2	You're listening to how to. I'm Guy Raz.
0:55.5	Only joking.
0:56.8	I'm Charles Duhigg.
1:00.6	But if you listen to podcasts, you've probably heard Guy a lot.
1:02.9	I'm Guy Raz, and on today's show, How To? At one point in the past couple of years, Guy hosted up to five different podcasts at the same time.
1:07.8	And if the people who track this stuff are right, he's the only person
1:11.1	to ever have three shows simultaneously on the top 20 list.
1:15.9	This is the TED Radio Hour. Nowadays, he's probably best known for a show How I Built This.
1:24.2	A show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the
1:28.7	movements they built. Guy has a new book coming out based on those stories, and he's here
1:34.0	to share what he's learned and to chat with a listener who wrote in for advice.
1:39.0	As a storyteller and a journalist, I was always really inspired by the hero's journey.
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