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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

🗓️ 29 August 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Watcha gonna do with the green iguana?



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

One day you may find yourself in a pet store looking for a pet for your teenage son or daughter.

0:08.0

And you'll encounter the green iguana, an adorable little lizard that doesn't eat bugs or mice or anything that

0:17.7

lives in cedar.

0:19.9

It's an herbivore.

0:21.8

They're not very expensive and it's possible that you will buy a green

0:26.9

iguana not knowing that in several months this adorable little lizard will be five feet long.

0:36.8

Hey, it's Seth, and this is a Kimbo. But first, here's a message from our featured nonprofit.

0:47.0

Hi, I'm Jody.

0:52.0

My friend Samuel and I started a mobile clinic in his neighborhood in City

0:55.6

Salihlai Haiti to help people with diabetes and hypertension. Without this mobile clinic, people

1:00.8

can't access treatment. This means that awful complications are all

1:04.2

too common. Seth taught me that better is a dream worth dreaming and sporadic care is

1:09.4

simply not good enough. Treating these conditions saves lives and we want to make sure we can keep it running all year long.

1:15.8

Hope you can help.

1:16.9

To find out more, visit mobile clinic Haiti.org.

1:22.1

Knowing what you now know about green iguanas, if a friend came up to you one day and said,

1:28.0

hey, my green iguana just had a bunch of little green iguanas. Do you want a little baby green

1:35.8

iguana for free? My guess is that you're smart enough to say, no thank you.

1:41.9

No thank you. I don't want a pet lizard no matter how cute

1:47.2

that's going to grow to be five feet long and more than 20 pounds in weight. No thanks. That's pretty obvious. Here's the

1:56.4

interesting thing. The interesting thing is if you lived in Belize or Paraguay or Brazil, a country where green iguanas are indigenous,

2:08.0

and you owned a green iguana, a green iguana that was growing like a rocket.

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