- CEO Story: Jon grew up in a family of entrepreneurs, but he wanted Skiing. And so when he graduated college, had a job and skied all day. Then landed a job in the equity firm for a couple of years. He moved on to start his own consulting firm and jump into start-ups.
- Business Service: Livestreaming video social network.
- Secret Sauce: Community support. Human moderating including hate speech and bullying. Let the subscribers feel at home.
- CEO Hack: App Inbox zero – sorted everything on a to-do list. Pen and paper – taking notes while in a meeting (phone or paper).
- CEO Nugget: Not to be afraid of failures. It’s an opportunity to re-assess.
- CEO Defined: The largest ability to make the dreams of the people around you come true. Enabling creators to make a living.
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00:21 – Intro
Do you want to learn effective ways to build relationships, generate sales, and grow your business from successful entrepreneurs, startups, and CEOs without listening to a long, long, long interview? If so, you've come to the right place. Gresham Harkness values your time and is ready to share with you precisely the information you're in search of. This is the I AM CEO podcast.
00:48 – Gresham Harkless
Hello. Hello. Hello. This is Gresh from the I AM CEO podcast. I have a very special guest on the show today. I have Jonathan Brodsky of YouNow. Jonathan, it's great to have you on the show.
00:57 – Jon Brodsky
Nice to be here Gresham. Thanks for having me on.
01:00 – Gresham Harkless
Yes, it's exciting to have you on you're doing so many phenomenal things and of course, before we jumped into the interview I wanted to read a little bit more about John so you hear about some of those awesome things John is currently the CEO of you now, a top 50 social media who have previously the CEO of Finder US, which he steered from infancy to 8 figure revenue. And SVP at Chicken Soup for the Soul, where he spearheaded the social media, audience growth from 300, 000 people to over a billion.
He was also a director at 1-800 Flowers, where he completed 17 M&A transactions and grew the international business from 1 million to 40 million in revenue. He was the general manager for all menus, which he led from having, 000 restaurants to over a quarter of a million. He has also written and published a few books and still has time to go snowboarding during the winter. John, I'm super excited again to have you on the show. Are you a speaker of the I AM CEO community?
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01:57 – Jon Brodsky
Oh, I'm super psyched to be here and to get to know this community a lot better. So thank you again for having me, Gresham.
02:03 – Gresham Harkless
Yes. Well, let's make it happen then. So to kind of kick everything off, I know I touched on it a little bit, but I wanted to rewind the clock here a little bit more on how you got started, what I call your CEO story.
02:12 – Jon Brodsky
I grew up in a family where my parents were entrepreneurs. So it was something that was very, it was what we talked about around the dinner table. But I didn't actually want to do any of that when I was a kid. I wanted to be a ski bum. And when I graduated from college, that's exactly what I did. I moved furniture skied all day and looked off at chips. And you know, I had a really good time doing it. But I then got very lucky and fell into a job in private equity, which is one of those sentences that I just don't think many other people get to utter.
But I was working for one of the largest insurance companies in the world and they had a private equity arm, and they put me into it. And I got just exposed to all the different parts of running a business. It didn't take me very long to figure out I did not like being an investor in businesses that I wanted to be an operator. And so after a couple of years there, I left and started my own consulting firm and then jumped into startups from there where all Menus was the first really large one, there were a few before that that failed.
But, I realized very very quickly that I didn't have, the ability mentally to just sit there and not try and make something really big. I just wanted to push myself very hard all the time and 2 it was a lot more fun trying to build a startup than it was to do a turnaround when I was that age. Now I do a little bit of both.
03:50 – Gresham Harkless
Nice, well, I appreciate you sharing some of that story and all the aspects of it. And I think so many times you see the success, you see all the awesome things you're doing. You don't hear the journey, the behind-the-scenes, the things that you started out with, and with the skiing and having that vision of doing that and how life seems like it kind of just transitioned into that aspect where you were able to kind of do all the awesome things you're doing now.
04:12 – Jon Brodsky
It was really cool. I will not lie, there are lots and lots of days still where I'd rather now I snowboard instead of skiing, the equipment is a lot more comfortable. But there are a lot of days when I'd much rather be out in the mountains or out surfing than I would run the company because it's much more relaxing to do that than it is to run a company. And I would say for everybody in the community, I have failed probably 10 times or 20 times for every success I had.
So even though, you know, Some of the things I've done sound really impressive on paper, like growing chicken soup for the soul from 300, 000 people following it to about a billion social impressions. I'm not talking at all about the 20 projects that we ran there that just totally failed or did not work. And that's true of every company I've been at. You got the big headline number, but you have the things that really didn't work and you learn from them and you move on.
05:14 – Gresham Harkless
I appreciate that so much. And you telling that behind the scenes. Cause I think again, you see that snapshot of, those impressions, you see those numbers, but you don't see the 20 things, 10, 20 things that you kind of talked about. And I think a lot of times when people go into starting a business or even trying to reach a different level, We don't always hear about those behind-the-scenes things and the things that didn't work out to get you to where you want to be. And I often say like, you know, the plate of success is much more like a plate of spaghetti than the straight path and straight line that is sometimes perceived to be.
05:44 – Jon Brodsky
Yeah, I wish it was as simple as eating a bowl of spaghetti sometimes.
05:50 – Gresham Harkless
Absolutely. Well, I wanted to drill down a little bit more and hear a little bit more about you now. Could you take us through a little bit more on what that is and what you're doing to kind of make an impact there?
05:58 – Jon Brodsky
Yeah. So we are one of the largest live-streaming video, social networks out there. It's really a place where people go and they meet their tribe, they meet their friends, and where they hang out with their friends all the time. It's all live videos. There's nothing like you would see on Instagram where there are posts, there are no prerecorded videos on YouNow either. This is all just you interacting with your friends live. And we've been around for about 10 years. They brought me in a little under a year ago.
One of the big things that differentiates us from other social networks out there is that we are completely community-supported. So there's no ads, there's no corporate sponsorship on our site, or on the apps, or anything else. Everything is paid for through the gift system that we have, which most people would be familiar with Reddit, tip jar, or tic tocs, tip jar slash gift system. Ours is very similar to that. They've, they've, they've learned some, some stuff from what we've done.
07:02 – Gresham Harkless
Yeah, that makes so much sense. And so do you feel like that aspect, and this could be the secret sauce for the organization, it could be for yourself or a combination of both, but do you feel like that community support is really the secret sauce and the thing that sets you all apart and makes you unique?
07:19 – Jon Brodsky
It would be hard for me to argue any other way. We've got a community. Many of our users have been around for the entire 10-year life of the company. We're always getting new ones too, but the people who come to you now, love you now, and they stick it out and they stay there because that is where their friends are, that is where their community is. And that's where they know that we as a company have their back. We have pretty strong moderation rules in place.
We have actual humans moderating, so we are pretty careful about bullying and hate speech and anything else that you might hear about that happens more regularly or at least more visibly on some other social networks. And we work really hard to keep our communities safe and they work hard at it too. So it feels like their home and we work hard to keep it their home.
08:14 – Gresham Harkless
Nice, I love that. And especially that home aspect and you know filling especially when you're, especially if you're a creator you're anybody that you're doing some type of, you know, live or your, your, your giving of yourself and talking about those things you want to make sure that you do have that home feel that safe space. And you are you know protected from certain things So I love that you all have those things in place. So at the end of the day, people can create whatever they desire and need to create.
08:40 – Jon Brodsky
That's my hope and my goal for everybody who's on you now right now.
08:43 – Gresham Harkless
Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. So I wanted to switch gears a little bit, and I wanted to ask you for what I call a CEO hack. So this could be like an app, a book, or a habit that you have, but what's something that makes you more effective and efficient?
08:56 – Jon Brodsky
Sure. So I've got a few tricks that I use that I've noticed a bunch of my friends who are also CEOs use. So one, I'm a very, very big believer in inbox 0. I use my inbox as a to-do list and it is at 0 every single day. Slack is at 0 at the end of every single day. It doesn't mean I've gotten everything done, but it means I have sorted everything, and put reminders on things that I have to do later, either in a calendar or as a flag or however else I need to do it. But I make sure that by the end of the day, there's nothing out there that's outstanding that I forgot to do or really as CEO forgot to check in on because there's very little day-to-day work that I have to do.
I'm generally not the person writing things or coding anything or anything else. I just want to check in and make sure it's moving forward and that I have a picture of it all. So Inbox 0 is definitely one of those. And the other one is pen and paper. You know, I've been in so many meetings where everyone types everything that happens in the meeting and they're just sitting there banging away on their keyboard as notes. I write a couple of small notes.
I either do it on my phone. I have a phone that has a pen attached to it, or I'll do it on an actual pad and paper or use a remarkable when my remarkable pen is not broken, which is unfortunately a lot of the time. But some version of actually writing it down, having a checklist that I go through later on to say like, this is what I learned and this is what I need to follow up from here. That is very much part of my day-to-day work.
10:46 – Gresham Harkless
Yeah, absolutely. I love that. So I want to ask you now for what I call a CEO nugget. So this is a little bit more of a word of wisdom or piece of advice. I like to say it might be something if you were to hop into a time machine, you would tell your younger business self.
10:59 – Jon Brodsky
Oh, if I was gonna hop in a time machine and tell my younger business self something, it would be not to leave the company I was at when I was 23. Because I would be a multi-millionaire. All of the other people who were there were. And I definitely, definitely made a financial mistake doing that. But I don't think I made a life mistake. I think I'm actually pretty happy as a result, but I do, there were 25 people in that company, 24 of them were millionaires and then there's me. Or multi-multi-millionaires, I should say. The advice I'd give though is really to not be afraid of failure. I think I spent a lot of my 20s worrying that if I didn't get it right the first time, I was never going to have another chance to get it right.
And I was very lucky in that I did get it right a bunch of times, but I got it wrong an awful lot too. And it was really very difficult for me to see that there was another side to that. Now, when I get things wrong, I know it's an opportunity for me to go and reassess and correct course, but when I was in my 20s and even in my early 30s, I did not get it that way, and I thought that every failure was essentially the end of the world. And, yeah, I would have, I would have liked to slap myself a bit at that point in time.
I mean, certainly seeing, my parents have their successes and their failures was helpful because they would, there, there were definitely their ups and downs. What, during my childhood where I saw them have incredible success and then a year or 2 later have things that were not such incredible successes happen to them. And they were very conscious of insulating me from that. And they did a pretty good job of that when it went really far down. So, I'm very thankful for that. That's something I take into account with my own family as well.
13:01 – Gresham Harkless
Yeah. And that's so powerful to kind of hear that because I think so many times when you think, you know, what it means to be a CEO or entrepreneur, business owner, it's one thing. But I think once you start to do that, kind of have that introspection, that creates that space to do that, you realize that you can create that success in the way that you want to. So I love that you've been able to do that. And he might have already touched on this, but I want to ask you, what does being a CEO mean to you? We're hoping to have different quote-unquote CEOs on the show. So John, what does being a CEO mean to you?
13:29 – Jon Brodsky
Really means something to me as a title or a job. It means something to me as the person who has the largest ability to, within a company at least, the largest ability to make the dreams of those people around you come true. Cause that's really what you're enabling. You know, I am enabling our creators to make a living doing what they love. That is hugely satisfying. I'm enabling our staff, who really loves our product and really cares an awful lot about the community to know that they're going to work every day and doing something that actually helps those people and as a proxy helps humanity, right? We're not trying to be divisive. We're trying to help people actually create long-lasting human connections and friendships. And we do that really, really well. And so being able to enable that for everybody who's around me is just hugely, hugely satisfying.
14:27 – Gresham Harkless
Well, John, truly appreciate that definition. And of course, I appreciate your time even more. So what I want to do now is pass you the mic, so to speak, just to see if there's anything additional that you can let our readers and listeners know. And of course, how best people could get a hold of you about all the awesome things you and your team are working on.
14:42 – Jon Brodsky
Sure. Well, the easiest way to get a hold of me, is I broadcast all the time on YouNow. So you just follow me or fan me on YouNow. I'm John Brodsky at YouNow. So that is super easy for you all to do. And I'm always happy to talk directly to people in the community. I do often talk to members of the community about being a CEO, my vision for the company, or just life in general because I've been an influencer on other platforms as well. So I know what it's like to be on the other side of this and be a creator, creative.
Yeah, the other thing I just leave the community with though is don't, you know, I wouldn't get too hung up on what the title is. I get really hung up on the differences you're making in the lives of those people around you. Making that difference is what will help you sleep well at night, what will wake you up make you energized in the morning, and will keep you going. And whether you were doing that as a CEO, which is an absolute privilege, or whether you're doing that as an engineer and just playing like a part in it and doing your piece of it, or you're doing this as the salesperson or something else in the organization. It doesn't really matter as long as you are really aligned with a purpose that you believe in.
15:57 – Gresham Harkless
Yeah, that's so powerful. And we will definitely, of course, have the links and information in the show notes as well too, so that everybody can follow up with you. Truly appreciate your time and I hope you have a phenomenal rest of the day.
16:08 – Jon Brodsky
Thank you. You too, Gresham.
16:09 – Outro
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00:21 - Intro
Do you want to learn effective ways to build relationships, generate sales, and grow your business from successful entrepreneurs, startups, and CEOs without listening to a long, long, long interview? If so, you've come to the right place. Gresham Harkness values your time and is ready to share with you precisely the information you're in search of. This is the I AM CEO podcast.
00:48 - Gresham Harkless
Hello. Hello. Hello. This is Gresh from the I AM CEO podcast. I have a very special guest on the show today. I have Jonathan Brodsky of YouNow. Jonathan, it's great to have you on the show.
00:57 - Jon Brodsky
Nice to be here Gresham. Thanks for having me on.
01:00 - Gresham Harkless
Yes, it's exciting to have you on you're doing so many phenomenal things and of course, before we jumped into the interview I wanted to read a little bit more about John so you hear about some of those awesome things John is currently the CEO of you now, a top 50 social media who have previously the CEO of Finder US, which he steered from infancy to 8 figure revenue. And SVP at Chicken Soup for the Soul, where he spearheaded the social media, audience growth from 300, 000 people to over a billion.
He was also a director at 1-800 Flowers, where he completed 17 M&A transactions and grew the international business from 1 million to 40 million in revenue. He was the general manager for all menus, which he led from having, 000 restaurants to over a quarter of a million. He has also written and published a few books and still has time to go snowboarding during the winter. John, I'm super excited again to have you on the show. Are you a speaker of the I AM CEO community?
01:57 - Jon Brodsky
Oh, I'm super psyched to be here and to get to know this community a lot better. So thank you again for having me, Gresham.
02:03 - Gresham Harkless
Yes. Well, let's make it happen then. So to kind of kick everything off, I know I touched on it a little bit, but I wanted to rewind the clock here a little bit more on how you got started, what I call your CEO story.
02:12 - Jon Brodsky
I grew up in a family where my parents were entrepreneurs. So it was something that was very, it was what we talked about around the dinner table. But I didn't actually want to do any of that when I was a kid. I wanted to be a ski bum. And when I graduated from college, that's exactly what I did. I moved furniture skied all day and looked off at chips. And you know, I had a really good time doing it. But I then got very lucky and fell into a job in private equity, which is one of those sentences that I just don't think many other people get to utter.
But I was working for one of the largest insurance companies in the world and they had a private equity arm, and they put me into it. And I got just exposed to all the different parts of running a business. It didn't take me very long to figure out I did not like being an investor in businesses that I wanted to be an operator. And so after a couple of years there, I left and started my own consulting firm and then jumped into startups from there where all Menus was the first really large one, there were a few before that that failed.
But, I realized very very quickly that I didn't have, the ability mentally to just sit there and not try and make something really big. I just wanted to push myself very hard all the time and 2 it was a lot more fun trying to build a startup than it was to do a turnaround when I was that age. Now I do a little bit of both.
03:50 - Gresham Harkless
Nice, well, I appreciate you sharing some of that story and all the aspects of it. And I think so many times you see the success, you see all the awesome things you're doing. You don't hear the journey, the behind-the-scenes, the things that you started out with, and with the skiing and having that vision of doing that and how life seems like it kind of just transitioned into that aspect where you were able to kind of do all the awesome things you're doing now.
04:12 - Jon Brodsky
It was really cool. I will not lie, there are lots and lots of days still where I'd rather now I snowboard instead of skiing, the equipment is a lot more comfortable. But there are a lot of days when I'd much rather be out in the mountains or out surfing than I would run the company because it's much more relaxing to do that than it is to run a company. And I would say for everybody in the community, I have failed probably 10 times or 20 times for every success I had.
So even though, you know, Some of the things I've done sound really impressive on paper, like growing chicken soup for the soul from 300, 000 people following it to about a billion social impressions. I'm not talking at all about the 20 projects that we ran there that just totally failed or did not work. And that's true of every company I've been at. You got the big headline number, but you have the things that really didn't work and you learn from them and you move on.
05:14 - Gresham Harkless
I appreciate that so much. And you telling that behind the scenes. Cause I think again, you see that snapshot of, those impressions, you see those numbers, but you don't see the 20 things, 10, 20 things that you kind of talked about. And I think a lot of times when people go into starting a business or even trying to reach a different level, We don't always hear about those behind-the-scenes things and the things that didn't work out to get you to where you want to be. And I often say like, you know, the plate of success is much more like a plate of spaghetti than the straight path and straight line that is sometimes perceived to be.
05:44 - Jon Brodsky
Yeah, I wish it was as simple as eating a bowl of spaghetti sometimes.
05:50 - Gresham Harkless
Absolutely. Well, I wanted to drill down a little bit more and hear a little bit more about you now. Could you take us through a little bit more on what that is and what you're doing to kind of make an impact there?
05:58 - Jon Brodsky
Yeah. So we are one of the largest live-streaming video, social networks out there. It's really a place where people go and they meet their tribe, they meet their friends, and where they hang out with their friends all the time. It's all live videos. There's nothing like you would see on Instagram where there are posts, there are no prerecorded videos on YouNow either. This is all just you interacting with your friends live. And we've been around for about 10 years. They brought me in a little under a year ago.
One of the big things that differentiates us from other social networks out there is that we are completely community-supported. So there's no ads, there's no corporate sponsorship on our site, or on the apps, or anything else. Everything is paid for through the gift system that we have, which most people would be familiar with Reddit, tip jar, or tic tocs, tip jar slash gift system. Ours is very similar to that. They've, they've, they've learned some, some stuff from what we've done.
07:02 - Gresham Harkless
Yeah, that makes so much sense. And so do you feel like that aspect, and this could be the secret sauce for the organization, it could be for yourself or a combination of both, but do you feel like that community support is really the secret sauce and the thing that sets you all apart and makes you unique?
07:19 - Jon Brodsky
It would be hard for me to argue any other way. We've got a community. Many of our users have been around for the entire 10-year life of the company. We're always getting new ones too, but the people who come to you now, love you now, and they stick it out and they stay there because that is where their friends are, that is where their community is. And that's where they know that we as a company have their back. We have pretty strong moderation rules in place.
We have actual humans moderating, so we are pretty careful about bullying and hate speech and anything else that you might hear about that happens more regularly or at least more visibly on some other social networks. And we work really hard to keep our communities safe and they work hard at it too. So it feels like their home and we work hard to keep it their home.
08:14 - Gresham Harkless
Nice, I love that. And especially that home aspect and you know filling especially when you're, especially if you're a creator you're anybody that you're doing some type of, you know, live or your, your, your giving of yourself and talking about those things you want to make sure that you do have that home feel that safe space. And you are you know protected from certain things So I love that you all have those things in place. So at the end of the day, people can create whatever they desire and need to create.
08:40 - Jon Brodsky
That's my hope and my goal for everybody who's on you now right now.
08:43 - Gresham Harkless
Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. So I wanted to switch gears a little bit, and I wanted to ask you for what I call a CEO hack. So this could be like an app, a book, or a habit that you have, but what's something that makes you more effective and efficient?
08:56 - Jon Brodsky
Sure. So I've got a few tricks that I use that I've noticed a bunch of my friends who are also CEOs use. So one, I'm a very, very big believer in inbox 0. I use my inbox as a to-do list and it is at 0 every single day. Slack is at 0 at the end of every single day. It doesn't mean I've gotten everything done, but it means I have sorted everything, and put reminders on things that I have to do later, either in a calendar or as a flag or however else I need to do it. But I make sure that by the end of the day, there's nothing out there that's outstanding that I forgot to do or really as CEO forgot to check in on because there's very little day-to-day work that I have to do.
I'm generally not the person writing things or coding anything or anything else. I just want to check in and make sure it's moving forward and that I have a picture of it all. So Inbox 0 is definitely one of those. And the other one is pen and paper. You know, I've been in so many meetings where everyone types everything that happens in the meeting and they're just sitting there banging away on their keyboard as notes. I write a couple of small notes.
I either do it on my phone. I have a phone that has a pen attached to it, or I'll do it on an actual pad and paper or use a remarkable when my remarkable pen is not broken, which is unfortunately a lot of the time. But some version of actually writing it down, having a checklist that I go through later on to say like, this is what I learned and this is what I need to follow up from here. That is very much part of my day-to-day work.
10:46 - Gresham Harkless
Yeah, absolutely. I love that. So I want to ask you now for what I call a CEO nugget. So this is a little bit more of a word of wisdom or piece of advice. I like to say it might be something if you were to hop into a time machine, you would tell your younger business self.
10:59 - Jon Brodsky
Oh, if I was gonna hop in a time machine and tell my younger business self something, it would be not to leave the company I was at when I was 23. Because I would be a multi-millionaire. All of the other people who were there were. And I definitely, definitely made a financial mistake doing that. But I don't think I made a life mistake. I think I'm actually pretty happy as a result, but I do, there were 25 people in that company, 24 of them were millionaires and then there's me. Or multi-multi-millionaires, I should say. The advice I'd give though is really to not be afraid of failure. I think I spent a lot of my 20s worrying that if I didn't get it right the first time, I was never going to have another chance to get it right.
And I was very lucky in that I did get it right a bunch of times, but I got it wrong an awful lot too. And it was really very difficult for me to see that there was another side to that. Now, when I get things wrong, I know it's an opportunity for me to go and reassess and correct course, but when I was in my 20s and even in my early 30s, I did not get it that way, and I thought that every failure was essentially the end of the world. And, yeah, I would have, I would have liked to slap myself a bit at that point in time.
I mean, certainly seeing, my parents have their successes and their failures was helpful because they would, there, there were definitely their ups and downs. What, during my childhood where I saw them have incredible success and then a year or 2 later have things that were not such incredible successes happen to them. And they were very conscious of insulating me from that. And they did a pretty good job of that when it went really far down. So, I'm very thankful for that. That's something I take into account with my own family as well.
13:01 - Gresham Harkless
Yeah. And that's so powerful to kind of hear that because I think so many times when you think, you know, what it means to be a CEO or entrepreneur, business owner, it's one thing. But I think once you start to do that, kind of have that introspection, that creates that space to do that, you realize that you can create that success in the way that you want to. So I love that you've been able to do that. And he might have already touched on this, but I want to ask you, what does being a CEO mean to you? We're hoping to have different quote-unquote CEOs on the show. So John, what does being a CEO mean to you?
13:29 - Jon Brodsky
Really means something to me as a title or a job. It means something to me as the person who has the largest ability to, within a company at least, the largest ability to make the dreams of those people around you come true. Cause that's really what you're enabling. You know, I am enabling our creators to make a living doing what they love. That is hugely satisfying. I'm enabling our staff, who really loves our product and really cares an awful lot about the community to know that they're going to work every day and doing something that actually helps those people and as a proxy helps humanity, right? We're not trying to be divisive. We're trying to help people actually create long-lasting human connections and friendships. And we do that really, really well. And so being able to enable that for everybody who's around me is just hugely, hugely satisfying.
14:27 - Gresham Harkless
Well, John, truly appreciate that definition. And of course, I appreciate your time even more. So what I want to do now is pass you the mic, so to speak, just to see if there's anything additional that you can let our readers and listeners know. And of course, how best people could get a hold of you about all the awesome things you and your team are working on.
14:42 - Jon Brodsky
Sure. Well, the easiest way to get a hold of me, is I broadcast all the time on YouNow. So you just follow me or fan me on YouNow. I'm John Brodsky at YouNow. So that is super easy for you all to do. And I'm always happy to talk directly to people in the community. I do often talk to members of the community about being a CEO, my vision for the company, or just life in general because I've been an influencer on other platforms as well. So I know what it's like to be on the other side of this and be a creator, creative.
Yeah, the other thing I just leave the community with though is don't, you know, I wouldn't get too hung up on what the title is. I get really hung up on the differences you're making in the lives of those people around you. Making that difference is what will help you sleep well at night, what will wake you up make you energized in the morning, and will keep you going. And whether you were doing that as a CEO, which is an absolute privilege, or whether you're doing that as an engineer and just playing like a part in it and doing your piece of it, or you're doing this as the salesperson or something else in the organization. It doesn't really matter as long as you are really aligned with a purpose that you believe in.
15:57 - Gresham Harkless
Yeah, that's so powerful. And we will definitely, of course, have the links and information in the show notes as well too, so that everybody can follow up with you. Truly appreciate your time and I hope you have a phenomenal rest of the day.
16:08 - Jon Brodsky
Thank you. You too, Gresham.
16:09 - Outro
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