Money is a story
Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin
Midroll Media
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Win a prize
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 | Listen to this podcast all the way to the end and you'll have a long shot chance to win a Bitcoin |
| 0:06.7 | Which as I record this is worth more than 30,000 US dollars. Hey, it's Seth and this is a Kimbo |
| 0:21.6 | We'll be back in a second to talk about a couple of the problems with money, but first |
| 0:27.0 | Here's a message from our sponsor |
| 0:30.5 | Get better clients. There in three words is the strategy of any freelancer who wants to do better work |
| 0:39.6 | Get better clients. You can't work more hours |
| 0:43.8 | But you can work for people who appreciate the work you want to do. They will push you harder. You will do better work |
| 0:50.5 | They will talk about you. You will get paid more. You will be more proud of what you produce |
| 0:55.8 | How to get better clients. I've been thinking about this for a long time and we have built a workshop |
| 1:02.6 | Just for you. If you work for yourself, I really think you need to check it out |
| 1:07.4 | It's not a bunch of videos. It's a workshop. You will work with other freelancers |
| 1:13.5 | Working your way forward to figure out how to do this work that matters |
| 1:18.0 | I hope you'll take a minute to check it out |
| 1:20.7 | Visit a Kimbo.com slash go for all the upcoming workshops go make a ruckus |
| 1:29.4 | The pursuit of money it seems might be the root of all evil, but money is so |
| 1:35.5 | Convenient because with money we can put a price on it with money |
| 1:39.9 | We can boil it down to numbers and we can use those numbers to motivate people to value people to get people to do |
| 1:49.0 | What we want to reward people, but there are some problems with numbers more than a decade ago |
| 1:56.9 | Two economists who studied behavior decided to do an experiment in HIFO and the experiment was this if you are |
| 2:05.9 | Working at a daycare center. You have a real problem and your problem is that when the day is over for a clock |
| 2:13.1 | Let's say if a parent doesn't come to pick up their kid |
| 2:17.5 | You really can't leave. You've got to stay with the kid until the parent finally shows up |
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