Miki Agrawal
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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A hundred percent. And we're not perfect.
PMS sometimes, too. And we, you know, sometimes there's so much going on that we're like barking orders sometimes. But our team feels so loved, celebrated by us. Like, you know what I mean? Like, it's a beautifully textured relationship. but ultimately it is that cheerleading. It is that, it is that like the passion that keeps all of us so motivated.
And I think there's a, there's a, there's a fine line between, just being a cheerleader and holding someone also to their highest and their best. And I think, actually, people really value and feel more motivated when they have a manager or a team leader who's holding you accountable to sort of pushing you, hey, Alyssa, I know you could do better than that.
I know you've got, like, a deeper, more magical, you know, like... Can you go all the way?
Yeah, you know, and I think, like, it's not just leading from, like, Paula Abdul on American Idol. Like, people, like, look at Simon Cowell, even if he's kind of an asshole, but he's like, but they respect him because he often gives really specific pointed advice.
That's helpful, and he's right. And so I think that mixing the cheerleader with a really sort of, like, Tough love feedback, but loving. So that they want to show up with their best self, and there's an excitement for that. One of my friends, David Yarris, who's working for a company right now, he's like it's the first time he feels excited to work for this company.
He owns an agency, and his client is this big functional medicine company. And he's just like, it's the first time I feel challenged. He's like, usually I can just coast my way through by just sort of like sharing presentations or whatever. But like, they're pushing back. They're pushing me to do better. They're pushing me. They're motivating me.
And I'm staying up till three o'clock in the morning for the first time in like 15 years and like working my ass off because I feel so challenged and excited. I want to prove myself. And there's something exciting about a manager or a partner or a leader or a company or a coach who's going to hold you to that.
Exactly. And I feel that way even as we're building our new company and with Tushy, our design teams, both teams, they know that I don't mince my words when it comes to creativity. It's like, I think you can go further. I want to create something that's iconic. Is this iconic? It's not iconic. And it's sort of like, will other people copy us? If this is not copyable, then it's not iconic enough.
And so they're like, okay.
And a way to do it is like, okay, put three Pinterest boards together, the most iconic shit you've ever seen in these three different directions and then come back to me. And then it's like, then it crystallizes. Then it's like, okay. And then all of a sudden they surprise themselves and produce something that they didn't think they could.
They need enough direction to then go and be creative. Because you need a sandbox to play in. Because if it's just like full on, there's like, where do you start? It's like, give me the sandbox and let me play and create as much as I can inside the sandbox. But everyone, including children, adults, like boundaries. Boundaries are really important.
And that's, and that's, and that's coaching. Learned boundaries. Wow.
But when it comes to, to, to feedback, when it comes to, you know, like pushing the, pushing people to think bigger and think further, you know, is requires, um, that's the visionary piece that I think is required, but then, but then giving them enough rope to go and like create the coolest knot and the coolest ribbons and the whatever they want to create with the rope.
And to celebrate it when they do. And when they come back, you're like, that's it. And I think, like, if you're gonna be a leader, you have to love teaching, right? I really feel that. It's like you as a coach, you as a leader, you love to teach. You know, I love teaching. Mickey loves teaching. I love... might teaching my masterclass on community building.
I love teaching the next generation of community builders how to do it, how to design experiences, how to build scalable communities, you know, all across the world. And when I think about just like the passion for teaching, that's in service of the other person. I think so often in this life, in this world that we live in, it's like, what do I get out of it? Me, me, me.
I, I, I. And I just think that the more you can teach them, the more they'll actually not only call themselves forward, but they will also, they will become teachers themselves for their next generation. It's like, it really becomes a trickle down. And also they'll get like a bit more like calloused hands in that like, right now everyone is so like, you know, like, like fragile, you know?
And so it's sort of like, no, when you're giving them like feedback with love and say like, you've got this, I believe in you. Like, come on, like you can do better like that. It's like there, it's a training ground for life. It's not just like, you're doing great, fired, find someone else. It's like actually like, let's see what you've got, but like, you gotta dig deeper. You've gotta dig deeper.
And I think like, so often, like there's a fear of like, does it make me feel like a bad boss? Am I like being too, like, you know, overbearing? Am I, you know, like being too critical? Am I intense? And I beat myself up a lot about like, did I come off intense?
Like, cause sometimes we're moving so quickly of so many things, like, you know, then you're just like, shit, but like, but then they come back and they bring something and you're just like, okay, like, You know, it's always a calibration. It's like a game of calibration when it comes to leadership. You know, there's so much calibration happens internally, externally, in relationship.
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