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🗓️ 30 January 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Who decides what's beautiful?
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.
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0:00.0 | Perhaps one day you will go on vacation to Italy, maybe Rome. |
0:07.0 | And on a weekend you might go a little bit outside of Rome with a shovel and start digging. And if you're very, very lucky, you might |
0:17.2 | unearth a marble sculpture, a bust, something priceless. |
0:24.7 | But you will look at it and quickly come to the conclusion that something is very wrong, |
0:30.8 | because the sculpture won't be bright white marble. |
0:35.0 | The sculpture will be painted. |
0:38.0 | Hey it's Seth! |
0:40.0 | And this is a Kimbo. |
0:43.0 | First, here's a message from our sponsor, |
0:47.0 | Lenova. |
0:51.0 | Hey, this is Brad Meyer, and my small business is Boundary Supply. |
0:55.8 | We make specialty travel gear, designed for the adventure seeker, the outdoor enthusiasts, and |
1:00.9 | it all got started with three guys, one dream and one bag. |
1:04.0 | We were all pretty burnt out with some of the current products out there in our field |
1:08.0 | and we wanted a way to experience more freedoms to travel and to really live our lives while doing something meaningful. |
1:14.1 | To make this happen and to produce the quality of products we wanted we needed a |
1:18.4 | capital to get a project off the ground and to take it from design to a reality. |
1:23.6 | So what was the defining moment? |
1:25.6 | Stay tuned to hear the rest of my story and to see what made a difference for me and my small |
1:30.0 | business. |
1:31.6 | Margaret Talbot in a great article in the New Yorker, Chronicles Chromophobia. |
1:37.7 | The fear that historically some people have had of paint, of color, and the history of why we think that Greek and Roman |
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