Seth Godin
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635 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 11 Jul
Seth Godin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's hard to go call on people who need your services.
It's hard to lean out of the boat and bring somebody else in to do the job.
And it's very hard to have, if you're used to be a freelancer, to have someone to come in who's not as good and not as fast as you.
Right?
So you're looking at them and say, what are you talking about?
I could do this so much faster and so much better.
Get out of my way.
then you're a freelancer.
Be a freelancer.
It's fine.
Every single time you are tempted to hire yourself to do a job, ask, what am I hiding from?
Because you're avoiding your real job, which is to build the assets that enable you to do none of the jobs.
It's thrilling.
I started one of the first internet companies, Mel, and grew it to almost a hundred people.
50 of them reported directly to me.
It was thrilling.
I would walk in at eight o'clock in the morning, and just nothing all day, but interacting, answering questions, solving problems.
And I was hiding from the important work of where am I going to find the big partnership that's going to transform this institution?
And I'm really proud in the three months before we sold the company, I managed to make it so that there were whole parts of the operation that I didn't touch.
That's how I grew up as an entrepreneur.
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