Podcasts about replacing yourself

He Built An $80 Million Disaster Response In 60 Days Without the Government Adam Smith's Story When Hurricane Helene devastated Western North Carolina, one man stepped up—without orders, without funding, and without waiting for permission. Former Green Beret Adam Smith shares how he led a volunteer force of thousands, delivered over 5.5 million pounds of aid, and created an $80 million impact in just 60 days—all while government agencies scrambled. This raw and unfiltered conversation with Jeff Dudan breaks down the failures of federal disaster response, the rise of the "Redneck Air Force," and what real leadership looks like under pressure.

He Built An $80 Million Disaster Response In 60 Days Without the Government Adam Smith's Story When Hurricane Helene devastated Western North Carolina, one man stepped up—without orders, without funding, and without waiting for permission. Former Green Beret Adam Smith shares how he led a volunteer force of thousands, delivered over 5.5 million pounds of aid, and created an $80 million impact in just 60 days—all while government agencies scrambled. This raw and unfiltered conversation with Jeff Dudan breaks down the failures of federal disaster response, the rise of the "Redneck Air Force," and what real leadership looks like under pressure.

In this episode of the Shed and Shine podcast, Gino Wickman and Rob Dube dive into a candid "coffee shop conversation," where they explore personal and professional insights. Rob opens up about his struggle with eczema, reflecting on the potential link between physical symptoms and mental well-being, while Gino shares his experience with a dog allergy and its possible emotional roots. The discussion touches on the power of the mind in healing, drawing on Dr. Andrew Weil's story of overcoming allergies through mindset shifts.The conversation shifts to the challenges of transitioning out of the visionary role in business partnerships, encouraging listeners to shed ego and emotional blocks. Gino and Rob reflect on their successful collaboration, including a coaching program and book, and discuss the concepts of “simplifier” versus “multiplier.” Acknowledging the need for a new visionary, they explore the importance of open communication and transparency for long-term success and fulfillment in both business and life. Chapters00:00 Welcome to the Shed and Shine Podcast00:33 The Coffee Shop Conversation01:23 Shedding Layers: A Personal Journey05:01 The Power of the Mind and Healing09:30 Replacing Yourself as Visionary12:23 The Multiplier vs. Simplifier Mindset18:01 Open and Honest Communication ABOUT THE 10 DISCIPLINESThe 10 Disciplines, founded by Gino Wickman and Rob Dube, is on a mission to help one million entrepreneurs - possible to be driven and have peace while making a bigger impact. We want to help you shed the barrier and layers that prevent you from creating the balance between impact and peace, and your True Self. Do you want to let your freak flag fly, and be your most authentic self at all times? Do you want to accomplish more without burning out, or doing a lot of damage to yourself (emotionally, physically, and mentally), and the relationships around you? Do you want to know the person beneath the identity you've created of work, accomplishments, and successes? If so, you're in the right place. You've put a lot of focus on your outer world. Let's start your inner world journey together. ⚡️ Join The 10 Disciplines Group Coaching Program: https://the10disciplines.com/group-coaching-program/ ⚡️ Take The True Self Assessment: https://the10disciplines.com/assessment CONNECT WITH US❤️ https://www.instagram.com/the10disciplines❤️ https://www.linkedin.com/company/the10disciplines/❤️ https://www.youtube.com/@The10Disciplines MORE RESOURCES TO HELP YOUR INNER WORLD JOURNEY❤️ https://the10disciplines.com/blog❤️ https://www.shedandshinepodcast.com ⭐️ https://the10disciplines.com/shine

Constructing Success: From Hobby to Thriving Business | The Mills Knows Bills Podcast Episode 49, Season 6 Link to video podcast episode: https://youtu.be/092kpLwu7Xk Welcome to Season 6 of The MKB Podcast! Host Mills Bender, founder and CEO of Mills Knows Bills, discusses strategies for business owners and variable income earners to manage their finances effectively. Let's get to those burning financial questions! In this insightful episode, Mills is joined by friend and successful entrepreneur Trent Meyer. They delve into Trent's journey from an unexpected start in marine construction to scaling a thriving engineering and permitting company in the Florida Keys. Trent shares the pivotal moments and strategies that contributed to his business growth, offering valuable insights on hiring, training, leveraging technology, and maximizing impact with minimal effort. Whether you're starting or scaling your business, Trent's story and practical tips are sure to inspire. Don't miss out as they explore how simple, yet effective steps can lead to immense growth. Stay tuned for part two next week! To connect with Trent: https://www.instagram.com/trentmeyer727 https://www.facebook.com/MeYeR986 Do you have your own burning financial question for Mills or the MKB team?  Email: info@MillsKnowsBills.com Website: https://MillsKnowsBills.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/@millsknowsbills LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mills-knows-bills Subscribe for the latest podcast episodes and more from MKB on YouTube ⁨@MillsKnowsBills⁩   00:00 Introduction and Guest Welcome 00:44 Trent's Background and Business Journey 03:00 Challenges and Growth in Marine Construction 08:33 Scaling the Business and Implementing Systems 11:16 Hiring and Delegation Strategies 20:30 The Reality of Island Living 21:04 Training Challenges and Solutions 22:17 Updating and Improving SOPs 23:44 The Importance of Stepping Back 26:09 Replacing Yourself in Business 29:36 Starting a Business from Scratch 33:10 High Leverage Opportunities 36:46 Wrapping Up and Contact Information #millsknowsbills #financialpodcast #businessfinance #entrepreneurialfinance #buisnessowner #marineconstruction     

Send us a textNavigating Business Challenges and Embracing EducationIn this episode, Jen and Todd discuss various topics, including handling snowstorms in New England, the importance of communication and patience in business, and the strategy of empowering staff to handle challenges. They also delve into how to create a scalable business, the benefits of education and leadership development within their salon, and the necessity of learning and adapting. By focusing on individual strengths and team collaboration, they aim to build a sustainable business model that operates efficiently even in their absence.00:00 Introduction and Greetings00:09 Discussing Recent Episodes and Future Plans01:10 Handling Snowstorms and Business Operations05:16 Client Interactions and Personal Reflections07:53 Business Costs and Investments09:54 Building a Scalable Business13:19 Focus on Education and Staff Development14:57 Identifying Organic Leadership15:21 Blow Drying and Updo Classes17:06 Hair Extension and Balayage Classes17:44 Outsourcing and In-House Training19:20 Importance of Education and Core Values21:03 Replacing Yourself in Business26:33 Learning from Everyone27:28 Empowering Staff with Roles29:02 Conclusion and Final ThoughtsLinks and Stuff:Our Newsletter Mentoring InquiriesFind more of our things:InstagramHello Hair Pro Website

Episode 211 FACULTY: Andrew Lassise CLASS: #TechTime In this podcast episode, Scotty interviews Andrew Lassise, the founder of Tech 4 Accountants, now integrated with Rightworks. Andrew shares his journey through the tech industry, focusing on IT solutions for accountants and the integration of AI in business operations. Andrew discusses his personal transformation from battling addiction to building a successful tech company that was recently acquired by Rightworks. He delves into the significance of cybersecurity for accounting firms, the evolution of AI, especially ChatGPT, and its applications in enhancing business efficiency. Andrew emphasizes the importance of embracing AI to stay ahead in the tech landscape.  Shout Outs: Rightworks, ProSeries, Drake, TechGuru, UltraTax, Zapier, ChatGPT, Excel, TurboTax, QuickBooks Online, LiveFlow, Practice Protect, Randy Johnston, Mike Rosedale, Randy Crabtree, Scaling New Heights, Bridging the Gap, Blake Oliver Chapters: 0:00 Teaser 01:41 Introduction 02:44 Getting into Tech 07:30 Focusing on Accountants 13:20 WISP 16:59 Being Acquired by Rightworks 18:50 The Podcast for Marketing 23:46 Using AI for Answering the same Questions 28:55 Ways to Use AI 35:47 Replacing Yourself with AI On Purpose 47:24 AI and Parodies 53:18 Conclusion Connect With Us On Linkedin! Andrew Lassise https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-lassise/ Rightworks https://www.linkedin.com/company/rightworks/ https://www.rightworks.com/ Scotty OKR Scarano https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottscarano/ Accounting High https://www.linkedin.com/company/accounting-high/ https://www.accountinghigh.com/ Tags: AI Tech, Accountancy AI, Andrew Lassise, AI Jobs, Tech Accountants, Cybersecurity, AI Integration, AI Marketing, Automation, WISP, ChatGPT, Human Workforce, AI Cybersecurity, Tech Startups, Customer Support, Enhanced Productivity, SMEs AI, Knowledge Management, AI Tools, Tech Companies --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/accountinghigh/message

Replacing Yourself as a Real Estate Leader - learn the process that team leaders & broker owners use to hire & train someone else to run their businesses.   Order The High-Performing Real Estate Team: https://therealestatetrainer.com/high-performing-real-estate-team/ Subscribe for more real estate videos and real estate resources: http://bit.ly/2P70Avb Check out Brian's online courses here: https://courses.therealestatetrainer.com/ For free materials, great educational resources, and more information about our Coaching Programs, visit TheRealEstateTrainer.com. Where You Can Find Us: Website: https://www.therealestatetrainer.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheRETrainer/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/bicenhower YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/brianicenhower/ Pinterest: https://pinterest.com/realestatetrainericc/

Single fighter, Founder Syndrome, King or Queen patterns, 'Me, me, me', Control-freak, ... You might know originator and founder of project who never got over these. Maybe you notice these behaviors in yourself. So many Edgeworking Gameworlds crystallize in the throes of hierarchical and ownership obsolete thoughtware.   Listen to this Gameplan upgrade (http://yourgameplan.mystrikingly.com) of the 10-year old gameworld of Embodied Freedom (https://www.embodiedfreedom.co.nz/), originated by Sybille Biedert (https://www.embodiedfreedom.co.nz/about).  Sybille recognized that the gameworld is no longer hers, but belong to the Edgeworkers who will care for and unfold it. She embraces the distinction of  Replacing Yourself, setting up Toroidal meeting and decision-making Technology, and Spaceholder Training. More domains of Empowerment and Collaborative Creation opens up when those basic shifts are incorporated in the context. Hence... Part 1! Related documentation: http://gameworldtheory.mystrikingly.com http://gameworldbuilder.mystrikingly.com http://gameworldtradition.mystrikingly.com http://replaceyourself.mystrikingly.com http://torustechnology.mystrikingly.com http://nonmaterialvalue.mystrikingly.com  

Do you offer too many agency services? Are you trying to be a jack-of-all-trades, making you the master of none? Does your broad service offering dilute your team's focus? Today's guest is an e-commerce expert whose agency works exclusively with one e-commerce platform he believes is better than the rest. In this interview, he talks about what's next in e-commerce and what you should look to improve in your website. Guillaume Le Tual is the Founder and CEO of MageMontreal, an agency committed to building powerful e-commerce websites to increase clients' sales. They work exclusively with the Magento platform. Why? According to Guillaume, the agency tried working with other platforms and found Magento is the best open source e-commerce platform on the market. In this episode, we'll discuss: Narrowing your agency's service offering. Hiring for culture fit and values. Niching down to avoid diluting your team's focus. Sponsors and Resources E2M Solutions: Today's episode of the Smart Agency Masterclass is sponsored by E2M Solutions, a web design and development agency that has provided white label services for the past 10 years to agencies all over the world. Check out e2msolutions.com/smartagency and get 10% off for the first three months of service. Subscribe Apple | Spotify | iHeart Radio | Stitcher | Radio FM Podcast Takeover!! Get to know your Smart Agency Guest Host:  Dr. Jeremy Weisz is the co-founder of Rise25, an agency that helps companies launch and run podcasts profitably. He followed Jason's podcast and eventually joined the mastermind and has been a guest on the podcast before. Today, he's helping Jason bring something new to the Smart Agency podcast audience by interviewing a special guest and bringing a new perspective to the show. Narrowing Your Service Offering and Focusing on a Horizontal Niche Guillaume started his career as a visual artist building background art for clients like The National Bank of Canada and Warner Bros. He gained experience in web design, digital marketing, and e-commerce and eventually decided to start his agency, MageMontreal. According to Guillaume, he and his team tried dozens of other e-commerce platforms before settling on working exclusively as a Magento agency.  They offer complete e-commerce website design and development, maintenance, and integration of Magento with third-party software. Now, they are one of very few Magento-certified agencies in Canada and can see the best decision for their business was focusing on one very specific niche and cutting down on their service offering to be the very best at just one. Remember, a niche can be a specific market (vertical niche) or a specific skillset (horizontal niche). What's Next in E-Commerce? Guillaume says we're still a long way from truly developing AI to what we've seen in movies. Most companies are not at a point where they are truly using AI. However, it is used in for things like product recommendations. Using Adobe Sensei, for example, users can get product recommendations based on shopper behavior, popular trends, and product similarity. If a suggestion does not convert into a sale, next time it will make a different suggestion, which indicates that the machine is learning. That would be the low-hanging fruit available right now. It can also be used to improve the search bar, for example, to get more relevant search results. It's really a step-by-step process to integrate this technology into your company. It requires prior steps like cleaning up your data and standardizing your processes to be able to implement this. After implementing marketing automation at every step of your email process and onboarding process, the next level would be using AI to help you run that. There's also some interesting work done with progressive web apps (PWA). Basically, this is a hybrid between a native app and a website so you get the benefits of both. So even though it's a website, in terms of maintenance you don't have to constantly download the latest version of the app. It's a website, so you always have the latest content. It also has some limited offline capabilities. And it includes push notifications for marketing like you would have with a native app. Hiring For Values and Resourcefulness When it comes to his hiring process, Guillaume prioritizes the agency's values. He recommends not overcomplicating it and having a list of three or four things the candidates must comply with. “Do not compromise when it comes to your values,” he advises. Whether it's sales or HR, if the candidate does not meet these requirements, they're not the right fit for your agency. Also, take your time with the process if you have to because rushing leads to mistakes. Above all, he prioritizes a strong work ethic and desire to provide the best possible service. He asks candidates to provide examples of times they feel they provided excellent customer service. He also looks for resourcefulness. Sometimes it can be an issue when an employee comes from a big company to work at a smaller agency. They might be accustomed to having more resources, and it's important to Guillaume the employees show they can figure out creative solutions without those resources. Replacing Yourself in the Daily Agency Operations He recently hired a Head of Project Management, an operations role not yet running without him. Originally, he was going to hire from within but was surprised to find an outside person who fit this role. After making sure it was a good fit for the agency, he delegated tasks and immediately saw a difference. It was a game changer between when he organized everything a having a person with operational expertise. With someone in charge of organizing the pile of things to do and delivering on all of it, he completely removed himself from the client services process. Stop Diluting Your Team's Focus and Be an Expert Do you offer a very wide set of services? Looking back, that was MageMontreal. They handled everything from website building and design, SEO, pay-per-click, social media, IT support. At one point, Guillaume checked Apple's website and realized he offered more services than Apple. He decided at that point this needed to change because doing too much was diluting his team's time and focus. You can successfully offer such a wide variety of services, but you need a staff of hundreds in order to do it properly. So, he decided to cut down his offering and focused on just their expertise. Overall, his agency helps clients with website building and some consulting. However, for other services like marketing and hosting they usually refer clients to their partner agencies. Want the Support of Amazing Digital Agency Owners? If you want to be around amazing agency owners that can see you may not be able to see and help you grow your agency, go to the Digital Agency Elite to learn all about our exclusive mastermind.

Replacing Yourself in Your Practice to Get More Time Episode #377 with Dr. Sully Sullivan Every dentist will one day reach their transition point. But replacing yourself doesn't mean you stop doing dentistry! And for insight into this process, Kirk Behrendt brings in Dr. Sully Sullivan, host and creator of the Millennial Dentist Podcast. He shares his eye-opening experiences and learnings about what it means to replace yourself in your practice, and how to do it effectively. For this millennial's advice on planning for your future, listen to Episode 377 of The Best Practices Show! Main Takeaways: Build something that can buy you more time in life. Don't get stuck in the hamster wheel of dentistry. The sooner you build financial stability, the faster you can grow. Don't be afraid to spend money on CE and technology. Every time you say yes to something, you're saying no to something else. Replacing yourself doesn't mean you're no longer doing dentistry. Mentorship needs to be scheduled in. Quotes: “We live in a social media world where you get on Instagram and you see people doing all this cool stuff, and you're like, ‘Gosh, I want to go and do that.' But a lot of it is challenging because people either don't want to put the work in to go do it, or what I think is the bigger problem, is that we're too busy doing other things. And so, when I say that, that could be you have clinical dentistry that's bogging you down, you have admin stuff that's bogging you down, personal stuff that's bogging you down.” (4:59—5:28) “Ultimately, as I've grown in our practice and as our practice has gone from two docs to four docs, from 3,000 square feet to 11,000 square feet, from 12 team members to 20-something team members, the one big thing that I keep trying to buy more of is time. It's bandwidth, because what I've found is that when I get more time, that allows me to actually look at the business as a business, not as a highly specialized monkey, which is, on some level, what we are. That, to me, was the biggest “why” behind it, was how can I get more time.” (5:28—6:08) “What's the best way to grow a practice? Do you bring on more people to do the same amount of dentistry, or do you expand the offerings that you have? Do you put more items on your shelf? Are you going to sell the same stuff, or are you going to add more items to the shelf?” (7:10—7:24) “I think the other challenge we have is, and I see this globally, that a lot of dentists will look to hire somebody to do stuff they feel uncomfortable doing. Take molar endo, for example. That's a hard thing to do that you're expecting some new grad to know how to do. That's difficult. And so, [my] dad really led the way. And even into his middle 50s and his late 50s, he was still clinically taking CE, going to Pikos, trying to push himself. So, then, all of a sudden, his idea was, ‘Okay, I'm going to stop doing dental school dentistry,' and not giving me grunt work, but stopped doing the stuff that I knew how to do to do the things that I didn't know how to do. So, early on, I was exposed to this idea that we could grow the practice with the same number of patients by just replacing the dentistry he was doing with more dentistry that I would come in to fill the gaps.” (7:29—8:28) “The start of 2017, I buy 50% of [my dad's] practice. And at that point, all of a sudden, [my dad] delegated a huge chunk of the administrative duties to me. Over time, that became a huge bog-down for me, because all of a sudden, now he basically replaced the admin part and a lot of the stuff he didn't like to do to where now he's getting to show up and just love the dentistry that he's doing. And what a spot to be in, to show up every day and love everything that you're going to do. That's the dream, right?” (9:46—10:23) “One of the surest things that I learned and know is that the sooner you can build some level of financial stability, meaning, you don't live outside your means, that you save...

Hope For The Soul Podcast | Ep #15 Replacing Yourself

Who Is Ryan? Ryan Begelman co-founded Summit Series, described as “TED meets Burning Man” & “The Davos of Gen Y” by Forbes They’ve become known for hosting incredible events with thousands of leading creators like Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos & Jessica Alba. Summit acquired Powder Mountain, America’s largest ski resort after pre-selling the opportunity to their community. Ryan also bought into Bisnow Media, became CEO & sold for a reported $50mil+, all without venture capital. What You’ll Learn Part 1: Business Frameworks + Backstory Framework For Business Ideas – a technique to generate ideas: marketing, monetization + markets Bootstrapping + Buying A Mountain – how they pre-sold an idea to their community to buy a mountain for $50mil + why you should consider bootstrapping too Joint Venture Waterfalls – applying a concept from private equity to real estate + businesses Dealflow – four ways to think about generating deal flow: hunting, trapping, farming, trading Replacing Yourself – how to find, hire & train someone to replace you Part 2: Holistic Entrepreneurship, Philosophy + Mental Fitness Redefining Wealthy + Holistic Entrepreneurship – creating a well-rounded, fun & meaningful life through entrepreneurship “Software For The Brain” – train your brain for mental fitness, developing awareness + neuroplasticity Practical Philosophy – concepts from greek philosophy, Buddhism & stoicism to help you be less reactive + less annoyed The Story of the Chinese Farmer – a parable about nature + grounding yourself in truth Ego – is wanting to leave an indelible mark on humanity a form of ego or something to strive for? Time Stamps (YouTube) 00:00:00 Preview 00:01:54 Welcome 00:04:16 Summit Series 00:10:12 Buying A Mountain 00:12:18 Revenue & Size of Summit & Bisnow Sale 00:15:28 Holistic Entrepreneurship: The Trap of Venture Capital 00:22:43 Life Cycle of Real Estate Investing 00:25:34 Joint Venture Waterfalls 00:31:22 Business Idea Framework 00:34:42 Pickleball Example 00:41:01 Finding Trends 00:42:39 Dealflow: Hunting, Trapping, Farming, Trading 00:47:20 Hiring Someone to Replace You 00:50:43 Part 2: Mental Fitness, Philosophy & Holistic Entrepreneurship 00:58:16 Mindfulness 01:05:53 Developing Awareness 01:08:30 The Story of the Chinese Farmer 01:11:14 “Don’t Be the Tree Limbs, Be the Trunk” 01:14:12 Assumptions and Biases 01:17:02 Dropping Your Concept of Right and Wrong 01:18:48 Appeal of Stoicism: Controlling What You Can Control 01:22:56 Training Your Brain 01:24:36 Getting Out Of The Worst Phase Of Your Life 01:28:37 Relationships Aren’t for Happiness 01:32:11 Dealing with Ego 01:34:00 Training Himself To Complain Less 01:35:40 Is Making An Impact On The World Driven By Ego? 01:37:30 Avoiding Unsolicited Feedback 01:38:22 Alternative To Jumping To The Solve 01:39:13 Wrap-Up   Thank You To Our Partner This week's episode is supported by Instasleep, the drug-free convenient sleep aid that melts in your mouth. Check them out at: https://instasleep.us/

Replacing Yourself by Job Description (LA 1046) Transcript: 00:00                                     Steven Butala here. Hi. Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala and Jill dewitt broadcasting from sunny southern California today. Jill and I talk about replacing yourself. Job description by job description. What real quick, what's the very first, without thinking about job description, the job that you want to replace yourself with, like ready, go transaction coordinator. Aw. How about you? Data scrubbing. Data scrubbing. Like replacing me. Like if I did this, if I was a one man show, I would quickly say that's not your, not your best talent. And I would sub that out. I gotta tell Ya. We'll get into it here in a minute. That's why we're together. I don't think you should sub that out. No, no. But I'd have a partner. Okay. So hold on a moment. Some questions, man, that scares me. You know why? Cause it's, that's my thing. I know. That's why I have you see, it's easy for me to say that cause I haven't had to get that into it. 01:00                                     Before we get into it though. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. 01:08                                     Let me get, let me clarify by saying that doesn't mean I'm not involved in picking the county pricing, the offers, getting into it like that. It's just the, the meat and the potatoes. You just are, you're, you have a Ph d in excel and you just whizzed through it and you make it look fun. You don't want, can I change my answer? Sure. Sales. Thanks. 01:29                                     I can't, I'm not good at that. I mean, I'm good at it. I don't like it. I don't want to talk to people on the phone, see if they want to buy the property or post that property on all over the Internet. Those are things that need to be outsourced, I think. And I'll tell you, if you talk to probably most of our members, I think they'd probably say, what are you talking about? That's the reason why I'm successful. Like our advanced members are all on the phone. And their personality is a reason that they, they're successful. Okay. 01:54                                     So we'll talk more about this. Nice here ongoing with that. Okay. Brian Ass. Well, I'm not exactly what you call a quickstarter. After much research and trying to figure out which course I wanted to take or if I wanted to wing it, I decided to join land academy. This is nice. This is, this is good. This is a huge first step for me. I found out about vacant land a couple months ago on a podcast. I think it was bigger pockets and I was instantly interested in it and began consuming all that I could to try and find out how to get started. I researched three other courses and while all three were less money, it didn't feel good about them. Too salesy, too much upselling, too slimy feeling. This is so cool. But after listening to about a hundred episodes of the podcast, emails with land, Academy support and even Facebook stalking the other members for reinsurance, this is, wow, Brian. 02:55                                     I'm so happy. This is great. I ultimately decided land academy was the bass and I was going all in. If you know me, you will know. It was a tough decision to join. I inherently doubt everything too. I doubt that it work. I doubt myself doing it. I doubt I worry when I worry. I do research, but at some point you just have to stop doubting, worrying, and reading and you have to jump in. Tonight I jumped to say, I'm excited about this. This is giving me goosebumps. I'm like, whoa. I'm just say that I'm excited about. This is the understatement of the year. Pay for publicity and publicity. So good. Like I told a family member, I will either fail miserably or I will succeed far beyond my expectations. I now have a monitor. I now have a monetary motivation staring at me,...

Replacing Yourself by Job Description (LA 1046) Transcript: 00:00                                     Steven Butala here. Hi. Welcome to the Land Academy show, entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala and Jill dewitt broadcasting from sunny southern California today. Jill and I talk about replacing yourself. Job description by job description. What real quick, what's the very first, without thinking about job description, the job that you want to replace yourself with, like ready, go transaction coordinator. Aw. How about you? Data scrubbing. Data scrubbing. Like replacing me. Like if I did this, if I was a one man show, I would quickly say that's not your, not your best talent. And I would sub that out. I gotta tell Ya. We'll get into it here in a minute. That's why we're together. I don't think you should sub that out. No, no. But I'd have a partner. Okay. So hold on a moment. Some questions, man, that scares me. You know why? Cause it's, that's my thing. I know. That's why I have you see, it's easy for me to say that cause I haven't had to get that into it. 01:00                                     Before we get into it though. Let's take a question posted by one of our members on the landinvestors.com online community. It's free. 01:08                                     Let me get, let me clarify by saying that doesn't mean I'm not involved in picking the county pricing, the offers, getting into it like that. It's just the, the meat and the potatoes. You just are, you're, you have a Ph d in excel and you just whizzed through it and you make it look fun. You don't want, can I change my answer? Sure. Sales. Thanks. 01:29                                     I can't, I'm not good at that. I mean, I'm good at it. I don't like it. I don't want to talk to people on the phone, see if they want to buy the property or post that property on all over the Internet. Those are things that need to be outsourced, I think. And I'll tell you, if you talk to probably most of our members, I think they'd probably say, what are you talking about? That's the reason why I'm successful. Like our advanced members are all on the phone. And their personality is a reason that they, they're successful. Okay. 01:54                                     So we'll talk more about this. Nice here ongoing with that. Okay. Brian Ass. Well, I'm not exactly what you call a quickstarter. After much research and trying to figure out which course I wanted to take or if I wanted to wing it, I decided to join land academy. This is nice. This is, this is good. This is a huge first step for me. I found out about vacant land a couple months ago on a podcast. I think it was bigger pockets and I was instantly interested in it and began consuming all that I could to try and find out how to get started. I researched three other courses and while all three were less money, it didn't feel good about them. Too salesy, too much upselling, too slimy feeling. This is so cool. But after listening to about a hundred episodes of the podcast, emails with land, Academy support and even Facebook stalking the other members for reinsurance, this is, wow, Brian. 02:55                                     I'm so happy. This is great. I ultimately decided land academy was the bass and I was going all in. If you know me, you will know. It was a tough decision to join. I inherently doubt everything too. I doubt that it work. I doubt myself doing it. I doubt I worry when I worry. I do research, but at some point you just have to stop doubting, worrying, and reading and you have to jump in. Tonight I jumped to say, I'm excited about this. This is giving me goosebumps. I'm like, whoa. I'm just say that I'm excited about. This is the understatement of the year. Pay for publicity and publicity. So good. Like I told a family member, I will either fail miserably or I will succeed far beyond my expectations. I now have a monitor. I now have a monetary motivation staring at me,...

Replacing Yourself in Your Land Company (LA 949) Transcript: Steven Butala:                   Steve and Jill here. Jill DeWit:                            Good morning. Steven Butala:                   Welcome to the Land Academy show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala. Jill DeWit:                            And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sunny southern California. Steven Butala:                   Today Jill and I talk about replacing yourself with a land company virtual assistant. Replacing yourself let's say ... Jill DeWit:                            I just say replacing yourself in general. What if it's not a VA, seriously what if you bring in some, a partner. Steven Butala:                   Well I read the title wrong. Jill DeWit:                            Oh. Steven Butala:                   Before we get into let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free. Jill DeWit:                            Okay. Steven Butala:                   Let's read. Jill DeWit:                            We'll cover the title. We'll fix it here in just a few minutes. Hang in there. Steven Butala:                   No the title is ... Jill DeWit:                            Replacing yourself in your land company. Steven Butala:                   Yes. Jill DeWit:                            Thank you. Steven Butala:                   The VA comes a few shows from now. Jill DeWit:                            Right. If you even use one. Steven Butala:                   Yeah. Jill DeWit:                            There's a lot of people and I was one of them that didn't see the value. I was afraid of it, but I got over it and I do see the value/however, there's stuff I just can't do. Steven Butala:                   You know what that would be a good show. Jill DeWit:                            Mm-hmm (affirmative). Steven Butala:                   A good episode like there's some stuff that I fought you on in the beginning and there was some stuff that you fought me on. Jill DeWit:                            There's stuff you're still fighting me on. Steven Butala:                   Yeah, well that's a different show too. Jill DeWit:                            Like today. Steven Butala:                   But there's some stuff that we ended up using that I said, "No this is a terrible idea." And then like a year later it turns out we're full blown using it. Jill DeWit:                            Right. Steven Butala:                   And then Vice versa. It's always like that. I mean- Jill DeWit:                            Exactly. Steven Butala:                   That's why you have partners. It's free. Jill DeWit:                            So the question Sandy asks, "If Redfin data," everyone knows Redfin.com. It's a great source for a lot of information. "If Redfin data doesn't have information on the county or zip code is there an alternative source that might have the data." Now this is something that we use in our ... In our equity planner in our program. We have a red, yellow, green chart which is helping you pick a city or zip code a county where to send mail to. And one to the things that we look at now 'cause we have it now is some of the data that's out there from comps. And so we'll pull that in and that's kind of what she's referring to so what's great is a couple of our members have already responded here. Jill DeWit:                            One of 'em is Kevin. Kevin [Farrell 00:02:23] said, "Sandy. I used Realtor.com for the similar map function. I also use Land Watch and Zillow. Redfin is great, but it only covers certain markets. My comments here is to apply to vacant land searches." Steven Butala:                   Kevin's a moderator on LandInvestors.com and he's also a very successful member. Jill DeWit:                            Exactly. Steven Butala:                   And he's absolutely right...

Replacing Yourself in Your Land Company (LA 949) Transcript: Steven Butala:                   Steve and Jill here. Jill DeWit:                            Good morning. Steven Butala:                   Welcome to the Land Academy show entertaining land investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala. Jill DeWit:                            And I'm Jill DeWit broadcasting from sunny southern California. Steven Butala:                   Today Jill and I talk about replacing yourself with a land company virtual assistant. Replacing yourself let's say ... Jill DeWit:                            I just say replacing yourself in general. What if it's not a VA, seriously what if you bring in some, a partner. Steven Butala:                   Well I read the title wrong. Jill DeWit:                            Oh. Steven Butala:                   Before we get into let's take a question posted by one of our members on the LandInvestors.com online community. It's free. Jill DeWit:                            Okay. Steven Butala:                   Let's read. Jill DeWit:                            We'll cover the title. We'll fix it here in just a few minutes. Hang in there. Steven Butala:                   No the title is ... Jill DeWit:                            Replacing yourself in your land company. Steven Butala:                   Yes. Jill DeWit:                            Thank you. Steven Butala:                   The VA comes a few shows from now. Jill DeWit:                            Right. If you even use one. Steven Butala:                   Yeah. Jill DeWit:                            There's a lot of people and I was one of them that didn't see the value. I was afraid of it, but I got over it and I do see the value/however, there's stuff I just can't do. Steven Butala:                   You know what that would be a good show. Jill DeWit:                            Mm-hmm (affirmative). Steven Butala:                   A good episode like there's some stuff that I fought you on in the beginning and there was some stuff that you fought me on. Jill DeWit:                            There's stuff you're still fighting me on. Steven Butala:                   Yeah, well that's a different show too. Jill DeWit:                            Like today. Steven Butala:                   But there's some stuff that we ended up using that I said, "No this is a terrible idea." And then like a year later it turns out we're full blown using it. Jill DeWit:                            Right. Steven Butala:                   And then Vice versa. It's always like that. I mean- Jill DeWit:                            Exactly. Steven Butala:                   That's why you have partners. It's free. Jill DeWit:                            So the question Sandy asks, "If Redfin data," everyone knows Redfin.com. It's a great source for a lot of information. "If Redfin data doesn't have information on the county or zip code is there an alternative source that might have the data." Now this is something that we use in our ... In our equity planner in our program. We have a red, yellow, green chart which is helping you pick a city or zip code a county where to send mail to. And one to the things that we look at now 'cause we have it now is some of the data that's out there from comps. And so we'll pull that in and that's kind of what she's referring to so what's great is a couple of our members have already responded here. Jill DeWit:                            One of 'em is Kevin. Kevin [Farrell 00:02:23] said, "Sandy. I used Realtor.com for the similar map function. I also use Land Watch and Zillow. Redfin is great, but it only covers certain markets. My comments here is to apply to vacant land searches." Steven Butala:                   Kevin's a moderator on LandInvestors.com and he's also a very successful member. Jill DeWit:                            Exactly. Steven Butala:                   And he's absolutely right...

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Audio File:  Download MP3Transcript: Interview with Hilary Mason Lucy Sanders:  Hi, this is Lucy Sanders. I'm the CEO for the National Center for Women in Information Technology, or NCWIT. Today, we're continuing with our series of wonderful interviews with women who have founded technology companies. We really love this interview series and are very excited about the person we're talking to today. With me is Larry Nelson from W3W3.com. Hi, Larry. Larry Nelson:  Hi. Boy, I'm really happy to be here. This is a wonderful series. It's extremely popular on our W3W3.com website. In fact, we archive all the interviews so you can go back and listen to them also. Lucy:  Also, listeners you can find this interview on the NCWIT website as well. Today, we're interviewing a very special person, Hilary Mason, who is the chief scientist at Bitly. We'll have to have Hilary explain it more precisely than I will, of course. But Bitly is primarily a URL shortening service, a bookmarking service. It really provides a fun and easy way to save and share and discover links from the web, by using links that they call bit marks. Reducing that URLs pretty important. Those things can get pretty beefy. You can't really share them very easily when you have only so many bytes that you can send along. This is pretty important to services like Twitter, for example, and others. Hilary's got a great job at Bitly. She's the chief scientist and her work crosses peer research, math and the development of product focused systems. Another thing we know about Hilary. She loves New York. Absolutely loves New York. Loves everything about New York, entrepreneurship, I'm sure she's going to tell us about that. She also gave one of my very favorite TED talks of all time, Replacing Yourself with a Very Small Shell Script, which I listened to several times. Hillary, welcome. Hilary Mason:  Thank you so much. Lucy:  Tell us a little bit about what's going on at Bitly. Hilary:  You gave a great overview of what Bitly is. But it's a fantastic example of something that is extremely simple that becomes quite interesting at a large scale. At Bitly, we see the links that people are sharing across all their different social networks. These are things like Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, WordPress, Live Journal. Even strange places like YouTube or inside a virtual world like Habbo Hotel. Then we analyze the data in aggregate that comes from that social behavior. The kind of work that my team does is looking at human behavior through our social data. We work on things like building a search engine to try and find the most popular links about any topic you might be interested in. We also work on content recommendations. Some other really fun applications that are only possible because of the data set that comes from that very simple mechanism of shortening and sharing a link. Larry:  Wow. Lucy:  That's pretty interesting. All the social networking and sharing that's going on, we just redeveloped our website so we could more easily share our resources and also shorten our URLs. Very timely for us. Hilary, tell us a little bit about how you first got into technology and as you look out across the landscape today, which technologies do you find particularly interesting? Hilary:  The question about how I first got interested in technology was actually when I was a little girl. I was fascinated by computers. I taught myself to write code from reading the back of magazines when I was still in elementary school. I remember my first program. It was the Absolutely Wonderful 10 Print Hilary is Great 20 Go to 10 Run. [laughter] Hilary:  I thought it was amazing because it was an infinite loop and my teacher had no idea how to turn it off, who was even funnier. Lucy:  I know, infinite loops are pretty funny anyway. Larry:  Yes. [laughter] Hilary:  Yes, so I've always been fascinated by it and I always knew that it was what I wanted to study. Then I went off and majored in computer science. As to what technologies I think are exciting right now, they're so many different ways to think about that. On the human side, I think the way that I can carry a computer in my pocket that's more powerful than that computer I had when I was in elementary school is amazing. I'm excited to see how our devices interact with the real world in the next few years through projects like Google Glass and other sorts of augmented reality things, things people have been trying to build for decades. Only now has the tide caught up to the idea that people have. I'm also really excited about data technologies and the way that we can use data. We have data available, we have compute capacity available. We can use it to make our lives better and more interesting. As a throwaway side project, I went and got all the menu data for all of the restaurants that are not fast‑food restaurants in Manhattan and was able to find...If you want Thai food, you should go to the area around Hell's Kitchen because it has the highest density of high‑quality Thai restaurants in the city. That's something I could do in a day that never would've been possible even a couple years ago. Larry:  Wow. Lucy:  Things are changing really quickly. Larry:  Very quickly. I must say, just a couple days ago, a colleague of mine sent me an email. The link was so long, it was incredible and I get these long links from him frequently. I'm going to make sure I send him your website. [laughs] Hilary:  Definitely should. I think email is still the biggest social network. Larry:  Yes. Now, let me ask this, Hilary. It's two parts, all related. Why are you an entrepreneur and what is it about entrepreneurism that makes you tick? Hilary:  I've always had mixed feelings about the word "entrepreneur" because it's so overloaded in our culture and it's become really trendy in a way that I'm not sure is healthy. The way that I like to describe the work that I do is that I tend to find problems and then try to make things that solve those problems. Sometime those things might be hacks, like the one I just described to you. At one point, we also built a door knob that you could text to unlock a door. That was very clearly a hack to solve a problem. It was not a company, it was not a product. Sometimes they're products, sometimes they're companies, sometimes they're non‑profits, like HackNY, which is an organization I co‑founded a couple years ago. The way I like to think about it is more engineering the right thing to solve the problem. Not so much about starting a business just for the sake of being an entrepreneur. Lucy:  That's pretty interesting. Larry:  It is. Lucy:  What is it about that problem solving that you really like? Can you expand a bit more on that? Hilary:  Sure. It's very much my philosophy about how we should build and develop technology. I really think it should give us super powers. The ability to do something we really couldn't do before. We're extremely lucky to live at a moment in time, when if you're willing to put in the time and energy, it is actually possible to build things that have not existed before, that actually do make people's lives a bit more interesting. Lucy:  That's a great answer. I have to think a lot about your answer around entrepreneur being too overloaded. Larry:  Yes, me, too. Lucy:  That's a fascinating point of view. So far along your career path, who would you say influenced you? Who would your role models be, or your mentors? Hilary:  That's a really wonderful question. I've had a few. One of them is definitely my mother, who, in her retirement years, went and became a ski instructor. Because it was something she really wanted to do. Now she's kicking ass with people much younger than her and having a great time. But really, I realized a couple years ago that the idea of entrepreneurship has always been in my family. I think it's also tied to the traits of stubbornness and impatience that tend to run in our family as well. But several people in my family who I admire, including my dad, have started their own businesses. Generally doing something that was not entirely normal. So, creating a solution to something that had never quite existed before. I've also really been inspired by certain authors. People who write things that just change the way you think about the world. In computer science, I've been reading the work of Richard Hamming, who was a mathematician who worked on the Manhattan Project and taught at West Point for many years. He has a wonderful book called On Science and Engineering that has quotes like, "In science, if you know what you're doing, you should stop. In engineering, if you don't know what you're doing, you should stop." Most of us live in the middle of that. I'd highly recommend it to any scientist and engineer. Lucy:  I need to get out and read it because I love quotes like that. Larry:  Boy, yeah, me, too. Lucy:  I think that's really interesting. Larry:  You've done so many different things. I want to congratulate you for that. But let me just ask you this... What is the toughest thing that you've ever had to do in your career? Hilary:  Wow. Thank you. I really feel like I'm just getting started so it's really a pleasure to hear something like that. I think the toughest thing I ever had to do, and this may be an artifact of my own failings and weaknesses, is that it took me a long time to realize that, to succeed at anything, you really need other people to want you to succeed. And you need their help. The hardest thing, for me, was to learn how to get other people excited about the things I'm excited about and to work with them, hopefully helping them at the same time, to build things together in a community. Lucy:  That's a hard lesson for, I think, a lot of people. That kind of a lesson, they don't teach that in school. Larry:  Nope. Hilary:  Not at all. Especially for somebody who grew up very nerdy and very independent, it's a hard thing to realize that you really do need other people to accomplish what you want to accomplish. Lucy:  That leads directly to being able to communicate about, to be able to enlist people to be passionate about it in some external way, right? Hilary:  Absolutely. Lucy:  So that people can really sign on. When I worked at Bell Labs we had, obviously, hundreds and hundreds of engineers who had to excite other engineers about their approaches. Many of us had to learn that the hard way. That's a great lesson to learn for anybody, entrepreneur or not, I think. I you were sitting here, though, with a young person and giving them advice about entrepreneurship, given our prior conversation about the word itself... But given that we'll call it that for now. If you were giving a young person advice, what would you tell them? Hilary:  Funny. I was invited to speak to a bunch of college students from NYU on Saturday. I spent quite a long time thinking about the answer to this question. I actually do have one for you. My answer to that is just to have adventures and to say yes when you're not sure about something. You're going to learn something fascinating along the way. Larry:  That's really good. I like that. Hilary:  Also, if you keep that spirit of adventure with you, even if the thing you're doing is a total failure, you'll have had a great time. It doesn't matter. Lucy:  This is important for technologists, especially, because technology's on the edge. Like Hilary and others, who are inventing new things. That whole invention process is really an adventure. You can't invent something you already know what the end is. Larry:  [laughs] Yes. Lucy:  That's a pretty important observation. Larry:  There's a real good question here that's good for any entrepreneur. They ought to take a look at it. That is, how do you, Hilary, bring balance into your personal and your professional lives? Hilary:  Another good question. It's one that, I think, we tend to set up personal life and work life as if they're diametrically opposed and they're two things that should have a wall between them. I don't really look at it that way. I try and make sure I enjoy what I'm doing in my professional life. I try to make sure that it doesn't overwhelm what I'm doing in my personal life. But, in general, a lot of the things that I do are on that line of both. Where, for example, I'm taking a trip to San Francisco this week. I'm giving three talks. That's definitely professional. I'm also meeting up with friends. It's going to be a great time. I think it is a challenge. But it's one that, as long as you're happy, it's OK. Lucy:  That blended answer, we get that a lot. One of our most popular answers and also an answer that says, "What balance?" Larry:  [laughs] Yeah. Lucy:  Totally imbalanced. You've already achieved a lot. You mentioned you were just starting out. You mentioned your love of adventure and always keeping that adventuresome attitude. What can you say about your next big adventure? Hilary:  That's really a good question and one that I try to think about quite a lot. There are a couple of things I'm pretty excited about that I don't think have really caught on in the community, which means it might be an opportunity. Or it might be a terrible idea. I'd like to pursue those things. In general, themes around how technology can help us be better people. Lucy:  That's interesting. That's one of the themes today, in fact, as the beginning of computer science education week. Some of the themes around technology to serve the world, technology to make people better, those are great things. Larry:  Yes, absolutely. I love it. Lucy:  Well, thank you so much, Hilary. It's been a pleasure talking to you. Have fun on your trip to San Francisco. Hilary:  It's been great speaking with both of you, too. Lucy:  I just want to remind listeners that they can find this interview at w3w.com and ncwit.org. Larry:  All right. Lucy:  All right, thank you. Larry:  Thanks Hilary. Hilary:  Thank you. Lucy:  Have a safe trip and have fun. [music] Series: Entrepreneurial HeroesInterviewee: Hilary MasonInterview Summary: Hilary Mason, Chief Scientist at bitly, describes problem solving and the development of technology as a super power - "the ability to do something we really couldn't do before." She goes on to say "we're extremely lucky to live at a moment in time, when if you're willing to put in the time and energy, it is actually possible to build things that have not existed before, that actually do make people's lives a bit more interesting. Release Date: February 1, 2013Interview Subject: Hilary MasonInterviewer(s): Lucy Sanders, Larry NelsonDuration: 13:57