Accountability: Preparing to Ignite

Hello!

For this accountability session I can confirm that I have completed my podcast goal, smashing it by blitzing through a stack of business and entrepreneur podcasts. The focus of this accountability will be on Entrepreneur on Fire and Entreleadership. Both entrepreneur business podcasts with an interview format, but both different enough to warrant listening to both, despite cross-pollenation of guests.

Entrepreneur on Fire is the brainchild of John Lee Dumas who quit his city job and decided to inspire. Dumas has admitted on multiple times in his podcasts that has captured lightning in a bottle and any one attempting to directly emulate his formula is unlikely to match his results.

Entrepreneur on Fire invites a new guest every day, 7 days a week to discuss their success and best practices in a simple interview format. Every guest gets the same questions including describing their failures, their moments of success and a new recent addition '1 minute mindset' where John asks his guests how they start their day in a positive way. John has grown his business in to a podcasting empire which is as inspirational as the nuggets of wisdom he pulls from his guests. I feel that I've been on this journey with him first listening in on him around episode 40 or so, he's currently comfortably north of 900.

As a member of the so-called 'Fire-Nation' I feel that I get inspiration from a multitude of sources when I listen, despite not knowing any others that listen to it, I do feel like part of a collective family and a large part of that is down to Dumas. He engages his guests with exuberance and positivity and no snark, even when guests who claim to be massive fans of the show get blindsided by John's acronym for focus (On the off chance any of the fire nation read this, of course it is: Follow One Course Until Success!).

In a different vein of the entrepreneur and business podcast we have Entreleadership, the podcast accompaniment to Dave Ramsey's Entreleadership course. The podcast has gone under a few incarnations in the past few years however the core messages and values purported by Ramsey and Lampo remain the same. Often the guest is promoting their latest book and will give a brief description, however the interviewers always try to get past the surface of the promotional interview and into the meat of the messages and values, which can often be boiled down to a paragraph or so. Some may not agree with the faith based views and values inflected onto the podcast, as an atheist I don't mind it, and if you get past the religious connotations the messages are simple; don't be a prick, just be a good person and treat others with respect.

Entrepreneur on Fire is released every day, without fail whilst Entreleadership is released every two weeks and I recommend each one. EOFire to inspire and Entreleadership to enforce culture.

What have I learned from the podcasts?

• Positive culture in the workplace improves work immensely
• No gossip
• Positivity
• All employees pulling together towards a vision
• Businesses can start from anywhere
• Find your niche, solve their problems
• Be a servant leader and a servant employee
• You work to serve something bigger than yourself, be it your team or an ideal, don't inflate your ego above that
• An overnight success usually comes after years of hardwork
• Follow One Course Until Success
• I'd be remiss not to mention that ;)
• Your network is your net worth
• Just ask...
• Dumas reached out to the biggest players in the game with no name to himself, many rejections happened but he persevered and is now a multi award winning podcast host

Now that this is marked off on my board I plan to maintain listening to these resources and supplement them further, adding them to my habits and adding more tasks onto my next sprint!

Cheers for reading!

The Agile Timelord on Fire