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The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Seth Godin: 7/7/15

The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Brian Koppelman & Gemini XIII

Tv & Film

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2015

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Back for his 2nd appearance on the show - New York Times best-selling author and entrepreneur, Seth Godin, joins us this week to talk about his latest project, altMBA, and the process of searching for his next piece of work. Also, Brian and Seth discuss the comfort people find in gatekeepers, the importance of increasing tension to keep your work on the cutting edge, and how big expectations can lead to big differences. Plus, Seth introduces his concept of buzzer management and how we need to press the buzzer before we know the answer to jump ahead in business and in life. Topics this week: The altMBA Seth Godin’s Freelancer Course at Udemy Seth Godin Blog Harvard Business School The Moment with Seth Godin: 10/7/14 The Dip by Seth Godin Do Over by Jon Acuff Brian Koppelman Blog Slack Here’s to the Dreamers a video by The Academy Stanford Graduate School of Business Activision Seth Godin action figure What to Do When It’s Your Turn (And It’s Always Your Turn) by Seth Godin Leap First by Seth Godin The Tragedy of Small Expectations (And the Trap of False Dreams) a blog post by Seth Godin People this week: Seth Godin Norm Macdonald Jon Acuff Amy Koppelman Jill Soloway Amanda Palmer Steven Pressfield Bill Gross David Sedaris Tom Rath Bruce Springsteen Twitter: @briankoppelman Email: themomentbk@gmail.com Rate us on iTunes: itunes.com/themoment To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:03.2

Hey, this is the moment.

0:11.2

I'm Brian Koppelman.

0:12.4

Thanks for listening. I have Seth Golden here with me today. Hi Seth. How are you, sir?

0:18.0

I'm great and, you know, your first time on here, doing the moment with me early on in the show's life,

0:27.6

it remains the episode I'm asked about the most frequently and that people thank me for and I know that's because of a bunch

0:36.1

of the stuff you said.

0:37.1

So thanks for doing this again.

0:38.7

It's actually a pleasure.

0:40.6

It really has been fabulous to get to know you and we've had off

0:44.4

microphone conversations that were even better than the ones on the air. No it's true.

0:50.0

Becoming friends over this past while has been has been great for me and you know you've been

0:55.1

more than a friend you've been a mentor and I want to talk about that and about how

1:00.3

one decides you know,

1:04.0

and when to be that to somebody.

1:07.0

How one draws, you know, you know,

1:08.0

you know I've become friends, but how one creates

1:12.0

and has sort of like intimate moments with people as you do like you just

1:16.0

ran this thing alt MBA which I know you weren't right in the center of but you

1:19.7

designed can you talk about what that was well we're to do it again and again as long as people will let us.

1:25.0

The idea was we know that Harvard Business School and similar insane, intense intense experiences transform people. We also know that very

1:36.9

few people have the opportunity, the resources, the time to go do that. So there's all this online education. The problem

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