Welcome to The Kurty D Show, a podcast presenting unique perspectives shaping the world. Each week will showcase conversations and stories of personal fulfillment and overcoming what life throws your way. In this episode, Kurt welcomes to the show Andrew Warner. Andrew is an Internet startup entrepreneur and author who founded Mixergy.com, an organization that invites proven Entrepreneurs to teach how they built their startups. In this episode, Kurt and Andrew talk about some of the entrepreneurs Andrew interviewed on Mixergy.com. Andrew goes on to talk about how vulnerability and humility have been critical components to his journey to success. Andrew also discusses his new book about mastering the interview called "Stop Asking Questions", and shares some of the insights he gleaned from writing it. Finally, Andrew regales the audience with the story of his Seven Continent Marathon Journey.
What we covered:
01:54 – Kurt welcomes to the show, Andrew Warner, who speaks to the work he’s been doing at Mixergy to help entrepreneurs and early-stage founders scale
12:53 – Andrew talks about some of the exciting entrepreneurs he works with and their creative concepts
20:47 – Kurt opens up about his struggles with hearing and speech throughout his life
25:17 – Andrew discusses why he sometimes likes to be contrarian
28:37 – Vulnerability and humility
34:24 – Stop Asking Questions
37:57 – The Shoved Fact
40:18 – Other insights Andrew had from writing his book
45:37 – Andrew defines what success looks like for his book
47:30 – The decision to move to Austin, what’s the same and what’s different
53:02 – The best boss Andrew ever had and the one band he would go see play live if he could
55:26 – Andrew’s seven continents escapade
59:50 – Kurt thanks Andrew for joining the show and let’s listeners know where they can connect with him and how they can be of service to Andrew
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Tweetable Quotes:
“What I realized was the interviews that I learned the most from are the ones where someone interviews me and forces me to battle through some of what I believe and what I’ve done and question and think about and remember. That’s just incredibly useful.”
“To examine what you’ve done, to find the things that work, label them and remember the examples is just incredibly helpful. It’s a manual for doing the thing that you’re spending your time on, doing it better and passing it along to other people.”
“My big thing is I wonder how many people are out there who are dying to do interviews who just need a little bit of a push. All they need is to get on one of these platforms, find somebody and just set up the conversation with a real purpose, and guide the person towards answering the questions you’ve been wondering about. My hope for my book "Stop Asking Questions" is to foster more learning through conversations.”
“I don’t understand why connecting with people and leading people is not higher level than programming.”
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