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🗓️ 26 December 2018
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Not because we’ve earned it
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.
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0:00.0 | Can I bother you for directions? |
0:03.0 | Walking down the street in a strange city, my cell phone battery dead, |
0:07.0 | I walked up to someone and asked them for directions. |
0:11.0 | They kindly offered them to me. The cool thing is, after they gave me directions, they still had them. |
0:20.0 | Hey, it's Seth, and this is a Kimbo. |
0:27.0 | We'll be back in a second, but first here's a message from our sponsor, Lenovo. |
0:36.3 | Hey, this is Brad Meyer and my small business is Boundary Supply. |
0:40.8 | We make specialty travel gear designed for the adventure seeker the outdoor |
0:44.4 | enthusiasts and it all got started with three guys one dream and one bag. |
0:48.8 | We were all pretty burnt out with some of the current products out there in our field and we wanted a way to |
0:54.1 | experience more freedoms to travel and to really live our lives while doing something |
0:58.7 | meaningful. To make this happen and to produce the quality of products we wanted, we needed a capital to get a project off the ground and to take it from design to a reality. |
1:08.0 | So, what was the defining moment? Stay tuned to hear the rest of my story and to see what made a difference for me and my small business. |
1:16.6 | Leona Helmsley ran a significant chain of hotels with a lot of cash flow. |
1:25.1 | She was rich, worth billions of dollars. |
1:29.9 | Her lawyer relates that when he was having tea with her going over her tax evasion |
1:36.3 | conviction a servant I'm putting that word in quotes brought her a cup of tea on a saucer. |
1:44.8 | She noticed that the saucer had a drop of water still on it. |
1:50.3 | She smashed the saucer and the cup to the floor and then insisted that the servant get on his knees |
1:57.9 | clean up the broken pottery and beg to get his job back. |
2:04.0 | Leona Helmsley died, leaving 12 million dollars to her dog trouble |
2:11.0 | and nothing to two of her grandchildren. They called her the Queen of |
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