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Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin

Midroll Media

Society & Culture

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

We know that too



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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Transcript

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0:00.0

How can you tell if a salmon has good parents?

0:04.0

The little baby salmon is born, hangs out around the egg sacks, eats the remaining eggsacks

0:11.0

for a little bit of extra energy energy and then just at the right time

0:15.0

starts moving its way down the river. While going down the river sometimes in

0:20.4

anticipation of flowing water it will turn itself backwards and allow itself to be carried

0:27.0

using less energy. Then it will end up in the ocean. It will then spend a year and a half to three or five years in the ocean until it's ready to spawn

0:38.0

and then it will go all the way back to the very place it was born and lay its eggs. Of course, this is not an example

0:48.1

of good parenting because the baby salmon never meets its parents. It knows how to do all of this on its own.

0:58.6

Hey, it's Seth and this is a kimbo. This is the second half of a two-parter about chickens crossing

1:11.8

the road and their eggs.

1:14.0

We'll be back in a minute after this message from our sponsor.

1:19.0

Hi, my name is Renata Stone and my small business is notary fiber art, which is a handmade fiber textile and weaving business.

1:30.0

And I started it about two years ago after feeling pretty burnt out with my corporate job.

1:35.0

I was honestly super tired of working a 9 to 5 in a cubicle like living for someone else's dream and not really chasing my own.

1:44.2

I really wanted to pour my time and energy and is something that mattered to me and for me that's

1:48.9

creating anything handmade.

1:51.6

And I really love timeless classic kind of imperfect silhouettes so it was the perfect way to do that and in launching my own business I knew I need a lot of help along the way

2:00.8

So stay tuned to hear the rest of my story and to see what made a difference for me and of course have an extraordinary life

2:10.0

and to see what made a difference for me in my small business.

2:07.0

Salmon, of course, have an extraordinary life cycle,

2:11.0

and they evolved to have this life cycle.

2:14.0

They evolved to be born with the innate knowledge,

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