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Donna Lichaw: The leader's journey
May 30, 2023

Donna Lichaw: The leader's journey

Donna Lichaw is an executive coach for unconventional leaders, and the author of the newly-released book The Leader’s Journey . Donna brings a background in design and product to her executive coaching and helps unconventiona...

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Adam Thomas: Operationalizing product strategy
May 17, 2023

Adam Thomas: Operationalizing product strategy

Adam Thomas is a coach that helps product teams operationalize strategy so they spend more time focused on building the right products and less time fighting fires. In this conversation, we discuss Adam's decision making fram...

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Mike Saloio: Leadership, meditation, ego, and ubuntu
April 11, 2023

Mike Saloio: Leadership, meditation, ego, and ubuntu

Mike Saloio is the CEO and cofounder of Huddle, a startup that brings together fractional swat teams of expert builders to help startups generate real momentum on their most important projects within a week. This is a candid ...

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Rob Walling: The SaaS playbook and gut intuition
March 27, 2023

Rob Walling: The SaaS playbook and gut intuition

Rob Walling is a serial entrepreneur and the internet godfather of indie SaaS businesses who has built six companies and has been a long-standing voice in creative, independent paths into product building and entrepreneurship since 2010.

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Double click on the love
March 7, 2023

Double click on the love

What do you do when one of your top three KPIs is stagnant, and the product isn't growing? A micro case study in debugging retention and unlocking growth.

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Petra Wille: Building a community of practice
Feb. 28, 2023

Petra Wille: Building a community of practice

Petra Wille is a product leadership coach and the author of Strong Product People, which is my go-to book for the people development side of being a product leader. In this conversation, we dive deep into: * why and how …

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Bob Moesta: Prototyping to learn & applying JTBD theory
Feb. 7, 2023

Bob Moesta: Prototyping to learn & applying JTBD theory

Bob Moesta is one of the pioneers of Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) theory, which has fundamentally changed the way we think about building products and discovering what progress people actually need and want from the products they h...

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Sahil Lavingia: Independent Thinking + Pricing Changes at Gumroad
Jan. 25, 2023

Sahil Lavingia: Independent Thinking + Pricing Changes at Gumroad

Sahil Lavingia has had an epic journey as an entrepreneur: he dropped out of college to become employee #2 at Pinterest and then went on to found Gumroad, one of the largest platforms for creators to sell their work and …

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5 Takeaways from a week with some of the world's best product coaches
Jan. 10, 2023

5 Takeaways from a week with some of the world's best product coaches

Five things I (re)learned from spending a week with SVPG + some of the best product coaches in the world. ===== You can read this episode here. Sign up here to get upcoming audio essays emailed to you Follow the …

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#60 DJ DiDonna: Navigating sabbaticals and career breaks
Dec. 27, 2022

#60 DJ DiDonna: Navigating sabbaticals and career breaks

DJ DiDonna helps us approach taking REAL time off and evolving our identity along with our career. Whether you’re feeling like you need to take time off, or if you’re curious about what sabbaticals are and why they might be …

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#59 Kenny Borg: Identity transformation + embodying fulfillment
Nov. 1, 2022

#59 Kenny Borg: Identity transformation + embodying fulfillment

Kenny Borg helps us explore the ongoing evolution of our identity, deal with imposter syndrome, and embody fulfillment throughout the journey instead of putting it off to the end.

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#58 Scott Young: Learning for Real Life
June 28, 2022

#58 Scott Young: Learning for Real Life

Scott Young is an expert on rapid, effective learning. This ep will help you learn new skills effectively and quickly amidst the chaos of real life.

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#57 Rob Fitzpatrick: Shaping an Entrepreneurial Career
May 31, 2022

#57 Rob Fitzpatrick: Shaping an Entrepreneurial Career

Rob Fitzpatrick is the author of The Mom Test, and he'll help you fight the good fight to bring your ideas into the world.

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#56 Ash Maurya: The Innovator's Gift
April 7, 2022

#56 Ash Maurya: The Innovator's Gift

Ash Maurya introduces "The Innovator's Gift" to help you find problems worth solving, and navigate the uncertainty of new product ideas.

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How do I do continuous discovery for a new product, pre-PMF?
March 1, 2022

How do I do continuous discovery for a new product, pre-PMF?

How to apply continuous discovery techniques to a nascent, early stage product that doesn't yet have product-market fit.

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#54 David Kadavy: Creative self-actualization
Jan. 11, 2022

#54 David Kadavy: Creative self-actualization

David Kadavy will help you follow your curiosity, find your way to creative self-actualization, and learn to discern what you really want.

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#53: Turning over a tough year
Dec. 26, 2021

#53: Turning over a tough year

Some short thoughts on how to review and close out a tough year, and set ourselves up for a powerful, generative new year.

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#52 How to get more creative flow in your work day
Dec. 9, 2021

#52 How to get more creative flow in your work day

Flow is defined as an optimal state of consciousness, where you feel and perform at your best. This episode will help you get more of it in your day.

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#51 Two years in: Making things that matter
Nov. 9, 2021

#51 Two years in: Making things that matter

Wow: two years of making things that matter! Andrew checks in with lessons learned in year two, impactful episodes and show updates.

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#50 Bo Burlingham: Small Giants & the roots of great businesses
Sept. 7, 2021

#50 Bo Burlingham: Small Giants & the roots of great businesses

Best known for his books Small Giants and The Great Game of Business, Bo is an editor-at-large of Inc. magazine and the author of five books which have profoundly impacted values-led business creation. I don't know of anyone that has …

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#49: Thoughts on entrepreneurship and philanthropy
Aug. 10, 2021

#49: Thoughts on entrepreneurship and philanthropy

This episode flips the script and makes Andrew the guest, exploring his views on entrepreneurship and philanthropy.

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#48 ARM redux: 4 nuances of fulfilling work
July 27, 2021

#48 ARM redux: 4 nuances of fulfilling work

This episode explores four nuances of creative and fulfilling work. It share lessons from follow-on conversations to ep42 about ARM, a mental model for fulfilling work.

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#47 Matt Kressy: Love as creative fuel
July 13, 2021

#47 Matt Kressy: Love as creative fuel

Matt Kressy is the founding director of the Integrated Design & Management (IDM) program at MIT. This conversation is a heartfelt exploration about art, design, and the inner drives that fuel our creative work.

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#46 The Infinite Game, by Simon Sinek: Book summary
June 29, 2021

#46 The Infinite Game, by Simon Sinek: Book summary

This episode reviews the key ideas from "The Infinite Game," a massively transformative book by Simon Sinek, and explores how to apply them to your work.

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