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🗓️ 29 April 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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The mighty ship was tossed
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 | When television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite each of you to sit down in front of your own television set when your station goes on the air. |
0:11.0 | Keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. |
0:15.0 | I can assure you that what you will observe is a vast wasteland. |
0:20.0 | You will see a procession of game shows, formula comedies about totally unbelievable families, |
0:27.0 | blood and thunder, mayhem, violence, sadism, murder, Western bad men, Western good men, private eyes, gangsters, more violence |
0:35.8 | and cartoons, and endlessly commercials, many screaming, cajoling and offending, and most of all boredom. True you'll see a few things you |
0:46.8 | will enjoy but they will be very very few and if you think I exaggerate I only ask you to try it. |
0:54.0 | Hey it's Seth and this is a Kimbo. |
0:59.0 | We'll be back in a second after this message from our sponsor. |
1:07.0 | Hey it's Seth, let's talk about categories for a second. |
1:13.0 | There's the category of business where you raise millions of dollars get on the cover of a |
1:16.7 | magazine and sell out for a billion. |
1:19.4 | And then there's the freelancer who waits for the next gig. But in between the two is the bootstrapper. The |
1:25.7 | bootstrapper has freedom. The bootstrapper works for her customers. The bootstrapper |
1:31.2 | gets to determine what's going to happen next. |
1:34.0 | It's about building something bigger than yourself without raising money from strangers. |
1:39.0 | And I'm thrilled that the Bootstrapper's workshop is back. It's back because it works. |
1:45.0 | Find the others, connect with the others, and learn the techniques necessary to |
1:50.8 | build a bootstrapped business. I can talk about it all day. This is close to my heart. |
1:56.0 | It's what I've been able to do with my career. |
1:58.0 | But please check out the Bootstrappers Workshop.com |
2:02.0 | for all the details. I hope to see you there. |
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