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Ep. 29 Paul Jarvis, Author, "Company of One" Making A Case for Staying Small The Honest Field Guide®
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- Entrepreneurship
All of our entrepreneur lives, we've been told "If you don't grow, you will shrink, and if you shrink you will go out of business." Or, "Always be closing." Or, 'Always be growing." As a result, we've battled and fought our way to at least make ourselves look like what Tom Hanks wanted: TO BE BIG. From paying high rent for corporate spaces, getting augmented staff for presentations and meetings, giant websites with pages upon pages of stuff, and stumbling over our words after we share the volume of work we complete for clients, and yet people keep asking us in disbelief, "How many employees do you have?" without understanding that Entrepreneurs Don't Sleep.
The struggle to fake it until you make it to become a "real" company is exhausting.
We learned about "The Company of One," by Paul Jarvis, from our friend and fellow entrepreneur Keila Hill-Trawick, owner of Little Fish Accounting. She told us about the book on an earlier podcast, episode 22, that the book changed her life and gave her the courage to quit and walk away from her comfortable, government day job. Lucky for us, our podcast mastering engineer Chris Enns, introduced us to Paul and then that's the beginning of our story with How We Learned To Love Being Small.
Reading "The Company Of One" written by Paul Jarvis inspired so much greatness in our thoughts about our agency business Birk Creative, the book helped us refocus on the type of hard work that is meaningful and drives real success. We had to find out more. So, we did what any crazy entrepreneur would do: We took a flight to British Columbia, Vancouver, then took a ferry to Victoria Island and hit the road and drove another two hours to meet our new hero in person to ask him face to face: "How Can Anyone Win In Business If They Are Only One and Done?"
Our intimate conversation with Paul Jarvis will absolutely surprise you, and motivate you to rethink *everything* you've ever been told and believed about the business of getting big.
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The Honest Field Guide is a production of brand strategy and visual identity agency Birk Creative at http://www.birkcreative.com. Episode song "Misfits" can be downloaded on Apple here https://music.apple.com/us/album/misfits/206188206?i=206188212 and is written by Grant Birkenbeuel and JinJa Davis, from the band Utah Carol http://www.utahcarol.com. Recorded at Stomping Ground Studios. Podcast consultant: Chris Enns. Podcast Editing by Jason Marck. Custom episode artwork designed for this episode created by American printmaker and textile designer Jen Hewett https://jenhewett.com.
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All of our entrepreneur lives, we've been told "If you don't grow, you will shrink, and if you shrink you will go out of business." Or, "Always be closing." Or, 'Always be growing." As a result, we've battled and fought our way to at least make ourselves look like what Tom Hanks wanted: TO BE BIG. From paying high rent for corporate spaces, getting augmented staff for presentations and meetings, giant websites with pages upon pages of stuff, and stumbling over our words after we share the volume of work we complete for clients, and yet people keep asking us in disbelief, "How many employees do you have?" without understanding that Entrepreneurs Don't Sleep.
The struggle to fake it until you make it to become a "real" company is exhausting.
We learned about "The Company of One," by Paul Jarvis, from our friend and fellow entrepreneur Keila Hill-Trawick, owner of Little Fish Accounting. She told us about the book on an earlier podcast, episode 22, that the book changed her life and gave her the courage to quit and walk away from her comfortable, government day job. Lucky for us, our podcast mastering engineer Chris Enns, introduced us to Paul and then that's the beginning of our story with How We Learned To Love Being Small.
Reading "The Company Of One" written by Paul Jarvis inspired so much greatness in our thoughts about our agency business Birk Creative, the book helped us refocus on the type of hard work that is meaningful and drives real success. We had to find out more. So, we did what any crazy entrepreneur would do: We took a flight to British Columbia, Vancouver, then took a ferry to Victoria Island and hit the road and drove another two hours to meet our new hero in person to ask him face to face: "How Can Anyone Win In Business If They Are Only One and Done?"
Our intimate conversation with Paul Jarvis will absolutely surprise you, and motivate you to rethink *everything* you've ever been told and believed about the business of getting big.
--
The Honest Field Guide is a production of brand strategy and visual identity agency Birk Creative at http://www.birkcreative.com. Episode song "Misfits" can be downloaded on Apple here https://music.apple.com/us/album/misfits/206188206?i=206188212 and is written by Grant Birkenbeuel and JinJa Davis, from the band Utah Carol http://www.utahcarol.com. Recorded at Stomping Ground Studios. Podcast consultant: Chris Enns. Podcast Editing by Jason Marck. Custom episode artwork designed for this episode created by American printmaker and textile designer Jen Hewett https://jenhewett.com.
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Text The Honest Field Guide at (312) 445-0903! Send us a voice message and we will record it on an upcoming episode: https://anchor.fm/the-honest-field-guide/message Do you love our show? We would love your dollars to keep going! We can take a donation to support our podcast here and we will shout you our when you do it on an upcoming podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-honest-field-guide/support
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Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-honest-field-guide/message
Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-honest-field-guide/support
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