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Joey Osborne

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
208 total appearances

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Watching the Activators in Action

Like you can follow Nancy Pelosi or whatever.

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Watching the Activators in Action

You can do whatever she does.

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I mean, it's pretty amazing the rags to riches stories of a lot of these, you know, politicians who've made whatever they make, $180,000 a year or something.

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And it's a better story.

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It's very like, you know, I mean, it's such a great outlier.

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Yeah, for sure.

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But I love this.

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I like that idea of what Dan mentioned about finding the top, the influencers.

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And what struck me, I don't know whether I've shared this with you, but there's a podcast called How I Built This by Guy Raz.

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And he interviews founders of companies and they tell the story of starting up.

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And there was one podcast called

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that he did with Miles Copeland, who was the brother of Stuart Copeland and the manager of the police, the band.

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And he was telling the stories of, you know, he basically learned management because he was managing his brother's band.

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That was how he got into the music business, right?

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And his reflection on it was that

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the number one job of a manager is to make sure that people know your band exists.

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That was, he surmised, that's the number one thing.

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But then he thought that some people matter more