Dan Martell - November 21, 2023


The time I fired my assistant so she could follow her dreams…

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Dan Martell
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Episode Stats


Length

38 seconds

Words per minute

262.03

Word count

167

Sentence count

1


Summary

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In this episode, I talk about my philosophy of how I deal with losing talented people and how I handle it so that I can keep them on the team and keep them in the business. I also talk about how important it is to have a solid foundation in order to be able to grow a business.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 had an incredible assistant for a really long period and then she had a dream theater major
00:00:04.880 in new york city broadway and she got the call i remember the conversation she was beside herself
00:00:09.600 because she was torn supporting what i was doing or going for her dreams and she didn't want to
00:00:13.520 quit so i said you're fired she was so loyal she chose you over her dream she was going to and you
00:00:19.760 chose her dream over you that's just always going to be how i'm going to show up my philosophy is
00:00:23.760 anytime somebody gets fired or they leave and i didn't want them to leave that's a feedback loop
00:00:28.000 so i always stop and i say what do we learn from this how did they get on the team because we fired
00:00:31.920 them or if they left we didn't want them to what's going wrong in the business because
00:00:35.600 i don't want to hire top talent and then not keep them