TMBA487: “If It Makes Us Money We Shouldn't Be Doing It”
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Dan and Ian speak with a lot of entrepreneurs on this show about the difficult decisions that they have to make. Today's guest is currently facing one of the biggest challenges in his business.
You may remember Chris Cage from his previous appearances on this podcast. Chris is the founder of Greenbelly Meals, which manufactures high calorie, stoveless backpacking meals for athletes and hikers.
Chris reached out to us about the recent troubles he's had hiring people. We thought it might be a good idea to record that conversation and share it with our listeners.
This week's episode is all about hiring. You'll hear all about what goes into the decision to hire, the hiring process itself, and how to successfully interview and eventually hire the best people for your jobs.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, podcast, listener. |
| 0:05.1 | Even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial journey, know that today, right now in your earbuds, |
| 0:09.7 | you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs from all around the globe seeking to grow better, |
| 0:14.9 | more profitable, location independent businesses. |
| 0:17.8 | If you'd like to learn more about what we do and download our entire back catalog, check out |
| 0:23.5 | Tropical MBA.com. |
| 0:30.7 | Today's guest faces one of the biggest challenges in business and one that we all face or will |
| 0:39.7 | face. Today's episode is about hiring. And it's a little bit different because this conversation |
| 0:47.6 | originally wasn't necessarily intended to be a podcast. It was a conversation generated out of need. |
| 0:55.7 | Today's guest was going to make an important central hire in his business, one that he's |
| 1:01.3 | investing a lot of money in. And he came to me as a client of dynamite jobs and said, |
| 1:05.9 | hey, can I have a sit down? I need to understand things like, what's the role in the timing of this hire? |
| 1:12.4 | I need to understand the hiring process. I need to understand how to market the job, how to get |
| 1:16.6 | the best applicants, and I need to understand how to interview them effectively so I'm choosing |
| 1:21.8 | the right people. And so I thought, wouldn't it be cool if we flipped on the recorder for this one? |
| 1:28.6 | Because I know these are universal problems. |
| 1:31.7 | This is an ongoing conversation we're having a dynamite jobs, |
| 1:36.9 | trying to figure out effective ways to bring the best people into our teams. |
| 1:41.9 | And we've done this a lot over the years, hiring remote workers, |
| 1:46.6 | but we're still figuring out new and better ways to do this on a day-to-day, week-to-week basis. |
| 1:52.4 | And one of the ways we do that is we have conversations like we're having today. So I want to give a big |
| 1:59.1 | thanks in advance to Chris Cage from Greenbelly for coming back |
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