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Lauren Goodell: Selling With Soul

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Lauren Goodell, welcome to everybody in

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Charlotte.

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>> It's about time.

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>> It is about time. Great response. Uh

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yeah, so you came in here. I mean,

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you're right. Probably like a year ago.

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>> Yeah, it's been a while.

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>> It's been a while. Um we sat down. We

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talked about your company. And then over

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time, it was like, I think you should

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come in. I'd love to have you on mine.

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And you were like, okay. And then we

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rescheduled and rescheduled and

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reschedled and res.

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>> I think I had strep and then you had a

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flight delay and then I was traveling.

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It was it was always something.

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>> It was it was an amazing series of

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events. Uh but here we are. Thank you

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for coming in. Thank you for making the

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time. Um let's start. I have no agenda

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here. I have no prep. I don't prep. I I

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consider this you and I sitting down

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having coffee uh and just catching up.

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And I like to see where conversations go

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because I don't want them to be forced.

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Um naturally I will ask about your

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businesses and that kind of stuff. So,

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let's start with a little bit of bio.

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Um, for anyone that just per chance

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doesn't know who you are, uh, where are

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you from?

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>> I'm from Nebraska. Elorn, Nebraska

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originally.

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>> Wonderful. Nebraska. Where'd you go to

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college?

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>> I went to University of Nebraska.

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>> University of Nebraska.

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>> Of course I did. I'm a Corn Husker.

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>> Love it. Love it. All right. And then uh

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and then what?

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>> I Yeah, I grew up in Nebraska. I went to

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college there and then I went straight

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to Microsoft right out of undergrad and

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I moved to Dallas.

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>> Dallas Microsoft. Okay.

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>> Was there for about five years. Uh

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Microsoft's an incredible company to

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work for.

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>> Cool.

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>> Thought I would stay there forever. Um

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but one of my mentors was uh he called

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me and was like, "Hey, I want to let you

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know that I'm moving over to

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Salesforce."

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>> And I was like, "No, you can't leave me.

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You've been a great advocate, mentor to

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me." And he said, "Don't worry, I'm

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bringing you with me."

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>> Oh my god.

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>> He's like, "I don't want to leave." He's

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like, "I'll make it worth your time."

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He did and I left. And Salesforce was

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also an awesome company.

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>> Wow. Two incredible companies. That's

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amazing. Salesforce was that in

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Washington. Where was Salesforce?

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>> I was all I was remote. Gotcha. Um but I

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actually was working out of Charlotte at

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the time.

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>> Interesting. What brought you here?

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>> I moved here uh for the job.

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>> For the job. Got it. Salesforce

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Charlotte. How long have you been in

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Charlotte?

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>> I've been here for seven years now.

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>> Okay.

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>> Which is crazy to say. This is the

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longest I've lived anywhere since

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elementary school.

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>> So,

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>> do you like it?

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>> I do. I always say that Charlotte people

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don't get upset about this, but it's not

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the most exciting city, but it's a

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really great city to live in.

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>> Yeah.

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>> It's like I wouldn't be like, "Go visit

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Charlotte, but there's everything that

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you need. People are kind. It's safe.

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It's relatively affordable."

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>> Yeah.

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>> Although that's changing a bit, but

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>> it is changing. Well, and the I would

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say the excitement is changing. You

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know,

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>> I would agree with that. There's a lot

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more happening.

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>> I mean, I'm an advocate. I'm from here.

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I'm born and raised Charlotte, so I've

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seen it go from small town to small city

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to now fairly big city.

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>> And now the art and the culture and all

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the things are starting to catch up. I

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mean, I'm from here, so I know where the

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pockets of that stuff are. You know,

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people always say, "Oh, banking town,

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there's nothing here." I'm like, "Follow

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me around sometime. I'll show you where

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the cool stuff is because there it's

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around. It's just not as accessible and

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known in the public." Uh, and it's

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beginning to be, right? I mean,

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>> so what's your favorite neighborhood

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then?

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Well, it well, the one I live in for

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sure. I live in Dworth, which is just

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right next to Southoun, and Southoun's

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blowing up, and the proximity to

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everything is just perfect for me. I'm

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also older with a older child, and it's

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not even a child anymore. Go. Uh uh. So

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I love Dworth, but I mean, you know, if

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I were in my 20s, I could it would be,

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you know, it'd be Elizabeth or it'd be

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Plaza or it'd be Nota or one of these

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places that But shoot, now you're

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looking out at the Valentine Bowl and I

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mean is is brand new and is shiny and

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kind of, you know, a lot of people frown

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on that stuff. It's still phenomenal.

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It's a great place.

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>> It's a great place. I'm partial to Nota

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personally, but

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>> I mean, how do you not be? It's it's

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it's the that's the there's a heart in

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there. It's pretty cool.

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>> Mhm.

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>> It's small though and it's getting

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bigger, but it used to be such just that

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one strip back in the day. That area was

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called Fat City.

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>> I love it.

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>> Uh there's a building in there and there

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somebody's going to watch this and

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correct me on it, but because I don't

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remember it all, but uh I went to high

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school at West Charlotte and so that

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area was zoned for my high school and a

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lot of my brother's friends were from

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around that area and they always called

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it Bat City. There's a building out

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there that has a permanent etching in it

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that says Fat City something and so they

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just called the area Fat City.

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>> It's a great name.

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>> I might have to check it out.

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>> Yeah, we need to do a little history

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there. I should have I wish I knew the

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history because it's a cool name. Um but

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it's always been that kind of little

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>> call it the arts district which is such

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I moved from New Orleans. I spent four

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years in New Orleans.

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>> Exactly.

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>> And I came and I was like what's the

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closest thing to New Orleans? And I was

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like, "No, even though it is like one

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street, but it does have a little bit of

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that heart.

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>> It's got a little heart."

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>> A little bit.

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>> Yeah. Yeah. Nothing like New Orleans.

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No.

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>> I had a friend here who was from New

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Orleans who lived right down the street

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from us and she just moved here. I met

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her in New York City and she was so

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excited to come to Charlotte and she's

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like, "Oh, I hear there's an arts

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district." I was like,

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>> "There's not you're about to be sorely

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disappointed."

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>> She ended up moving back to New Orleans.

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>> Um, all right. So, we'll move forward.

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Um, so tell me the inception of uh is it

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inception? Yes,

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>> the inception.

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>> It's not conception.

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>> Sure not. It would not be that way.

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>> That would be strange.

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>> That would be in inception of Zenia.

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>> Yes. So my entire career at Microsoft in

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Salesforce, I was an account executive.

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So I was in sales, enterprise sales,

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closing, you know, five$10 million

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deals. And the kind of sale that is

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important there is really focusing on

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the human, what's important to them, all

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that kind of stuff. So, I did a lot of

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manual work to creep on who is Robbie,

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what's important to him, what's his

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personality type, what does the

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company's 10K or SEC filing say about

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them. All this is like super manual

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work. And I wanted to be able to take

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all that stuff that I did that made me

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the top rep and give that to every

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salesperson and give them time back. So,

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that was kind of the inception of Zenia.

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>> Got it. And AI is is bulldozing its way

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into the world. And what better way?

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>> Yeah, exactly. I mean,

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>> it makes perfect sense. We always say

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that we're trying to use AI to make

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people more human.

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>> Feels a little bit, you know,

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>> that's a good tagline.

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>> Yes.

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>> I just put up a post on LinkedIn this

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morning about optimization versus

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humanity.

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>> So good,

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>> right?

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>> Um, so let's talk some of that sales

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stuff just because I'm interested in it

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because I I I mean people I'm kind of a

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salesperson at heart, but I'm more of

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just kind of a social being. I I do

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enjoy

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>> intimate conversations,

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um, authentic conversations, even

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vulnerable. I was a therapist for over

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10 years and and so this kind of

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conversation where there's no music,

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there's no phones, we are looking at

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each other and we are talking. This is

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the good stuff. It's my favorite thing

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because I feel like I can get to know so

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much about a person, not just through

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their words, but through this proximity,

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this vibe, you know, and sales is such a

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piece of that. Yes, you can do all your

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research and you can look into who

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people are, but then it comes to this.

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>> Absolutely.

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>> And how effective can you be here?

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>> Absolutely

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>> love it.

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>> It's all about just understanding

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somebody from a human level. And the

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thing I say all the time is you could

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have every tool in the world. You could

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be told everything. You could be told

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exactly what to say, but unless you

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actually care about the person on the

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other end of the phone or across the

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room from you, nothing's ever going to

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going to work.

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>> Yeah. Yeah. And how and I mean, you

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know, when you're when you're in when

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you're in the volume game, how do you

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care about each and every one of them?

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>> Uh, you learn to I guess. I mean, you

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just kind of you have to care about the

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whole thing.

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>> Yes. It's um so I don't know if you've

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heard the parable of the guy that is on

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the beach with a million washed up

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starfishes. Starfish. Yeah. And he's

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grabbing them and throwing them back in

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the water and someone's like, "You're

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not going to be able to save all of

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them." And he's like, "Yeah, but I saved

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this one."

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>> Love it.

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>> I love that. I think about it all the

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time. It's like, "No, you can't give

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everybody the most perfect experience."

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And you can't deeply care about every

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single person you meet, especially if

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you're a BDR or if you're in this more

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like high volume sales. But the people

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that you are working closely with, if

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you do just give a damn, then you know

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you're making a difference for that one

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person, for that one sale.

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>> You know, Will Broly, right?

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>> Yes, of course. He's wonderful.

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>> He is wonderful. He loves that quote.

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>> He tells We've never talked about this.

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>> Yeah. That's funny that you bring it up

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because he's the first person I think

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of. He tells me that story all the time

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about the starfish. He's always talks

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about starfish.

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>> Yeah. And you can save one.

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>> Yeah.

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>> It's all that matters.

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>> Love it. Um, all right. So, give me some

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of your

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sales. All right, let's go backwards.

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You're going around the country. You're

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talking in all kinds of different places

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and and I say that and it's very vague

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and general because I don't know

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everything you do. I just see you

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everywhere. What all are you doing out

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there?

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>> We're still figuring that out.

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>> Okay. No, it's interesting as a tech

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founder, especially an AI startup in the

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southeast, it's a whole different

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dynamic than if you were a startup

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founder in San Francisco or New York,

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>> uh, capital is a little bit harder to

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come by. Um, but also just the game is a

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little bit different. And what I mean by

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that is here investors expect for

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sustainable growth where in maybe some

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of the more venture focused cities,

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they're expecting growth at all costs.

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So, it's like very different things. Um

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with us we're really focused on

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profitability and part of that is you

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know cash flow whether that's with a

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software whether that's with services

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and what we're finding in the industry

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is that so many people want to adopt AI

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but they don't even have the groundwork

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for it.

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>> So our clients actually started coming

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to us and saying like hey we want we

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want this software but we need you to

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train our teams first. Mhm.

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>> And so I kind of oopsied my way into

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being a keynote speaker for

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>> sales kickoffs almost weekly and doing

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trainings for sales teams where I go and

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talk to them about the basics of sales

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crawling if you will and teaching them

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how to do it manually walking and then

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running with our software. So it's just

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been a really interesting We've really

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leaned into this advisory services side.

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>> Very cool. So it's all I mean most a lot

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of what you're doing as far as traveling

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around is you're speaking to your

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clients.

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>> Yeah.

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>> Training them. They're paying me to

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speak to them and sell to them, which is

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very interesting.

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>> That's cool, though. That's great. I

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mean, the tool is the tool.

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>> How do you use the tool most

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effectively? I mean, that's of course we

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all I mean, whenever I get on Zenia, I'm

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emailing your customer service. Same

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thing.

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>> I hope my team's taking care of you.

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>> They are. They do. They're very quick to

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respond.

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>> Good. Good. Yeah. I I think the one

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thing that we focus on at our team is

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that it's always human first. Whether

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that's you know putting our employees

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first, putting our customers first, like

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we are always about the the other human

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on the end. So

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>> So give me an idea of where this goes

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>> because as we all know AI continues to

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evolve and and you know you build one

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thing here and then all of a sudden

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that's a part of something else and then

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that's a part of I mean how does this

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how does this sustain?

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>> Yeah, I think it's going to be a huge

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shakeup the next couple years. There's

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this AI bubble right now. everyone's

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talking about it, but a lot of AI

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companies have raised massive amounts of

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money and then the products aren't

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actually delivering or they're getting

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commoditized or somebody else is popping

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up and selling it for half the cost,

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>> right?

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>> Um, so I don't think it's sustainable

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and I think that we're probably going to

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see a lot of companies fade out very

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quickly because they were focused on

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growth at all costs.

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>> Um, but the other thing I think we're

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seeing is with vibe coding, if you've

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ever used like lovable or any of these

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vibe vibe coding tools,

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>> tell me what that is. So you basically

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can put in a prompt just like ChachiBT

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and it will actually code for you and

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create an interface that is a workable

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prototype that you can actually publish

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as a working product

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>> like an app like a function website

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>> and you can do this in just a couple of

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verbal prompts. You can talk to it if

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you want. You can tell it to iterate.

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Now there's still limitations like it

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won't plug into databases very well. You

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still need some hard code. You um don't

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have security parameters, things like

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that.

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>> Okay. But somebody rebuilt Kalanley, you

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know, the multi-billion dollar company

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>> and lovable in a day.

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>> Oh my god, that is so nuts.

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>> And so if we can do that to a company

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that's been sustainable, it's been

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around for a long time, then what

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stands? What's your moat? How do you

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defend it? You know, like what you said,

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what's the longevity here? And I really

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do think it comes back to the human

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element is where's the loyalty? Are they

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getting relationships with uh the team?

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Are they being supported from a human

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level? Are the services wrapped around

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it really going to be focused on

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sustaining the business? I think that

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that's really where we're going to see

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it go.

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>> There's obviously there's there's two

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kind of modes of thinking and one is

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that doom and gloom. Where in the world

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are we going and is this really as scary

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as some of these people make it out to

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be? Or optimism as it relates to we're

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all human. We don't want it to go that

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way. So, let's figure out how to not

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make it go that way. I'll say I take

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everything as an optimist.

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>> Good.

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>> So I think it's important to be aware of

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what's possible in a negative way just

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so that we can avoid it. And there's

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always going to be every, you know,

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every tool out there, every software

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machinery out there has been used for

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bad.

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>> But I think ultimately it could be used

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for good.

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>> And I don't know if you ever watch Dark

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Mirror or Black Mirror on Netflix. Yes.

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>> Yeah. And you see all these futuristic

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things, it's like so many of that so

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much of that in that show is already

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happening.

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>> Yeah. But uh the loneliness pandemic or

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epidemic, right, is everyone is feeling

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like they don't have as much human

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connection. I think a lot of that is

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because that we're told to work all the

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time.

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>> And if we can start using AI to optimize

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some of that work so we can go back to

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the important stuff, which is connecting

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with each other,

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>> connecting with other humans, doing the

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things that matter, not the busy work, I

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think that that's really where we can

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lean into it for good.

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>> Yeah. Yeah. Me, too.

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You sound like you totally agree.

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>> Uh I do agree in the optimism.

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>> Yes.

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>> Uh I do worry of course. I mean it's

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it's

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>> I don't think anybody can predict what's

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what it's going to look like. I mean of

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course we're there's going to be parts

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of us that need connection. Now now what

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does that even mean? Mhm.

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>> Does that mean society society halts and

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and stays kind of in this place that

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makes us all somewhat purposeful and and

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content? No, it doesn't mean that it it

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this is going to shift our world

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tremendously and nobody really knows

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what it means.

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>> Have you read the book tribe?

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>> No.

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>> Okay. So, this book is fantastic, but

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it's all about humanity's need to have a

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tribe around them. Yep.

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>> A group of people around them. And what

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it actually talks about is um during uh

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world wars like for example the

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Holocaust there was actually a lot of

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studies done where people look back

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fondly not fondly at the time but the

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people that were

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>> you know the ones that were really

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negatively affected were like but yes

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but that was the time I had community

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around me

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>> and while everything else was horrific

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>> it was like that was the power of

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humanity and they actually added a

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chapter to it after about uh 2020. 20

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when it's like everything else shuts

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down when you're in hiding, if you will.

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Um, what happens is the neighbors that

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show up with the bread,

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>> right? It's the kids playing chalk

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outside. It's all of the things that we

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have gotten too busy in life to actually

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focus on and went back to our roots.

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Like I know that, you know, I had losses

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from from COVID and um, you know, it was

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a very hard time for for many many

15:54

people, but I also do look back fondly

15:56

at some of that stuff. It's like, dang,

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we really got back to the real stuff.

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>> I know.

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>> I know. I know. I I went out to dinner

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with my daughter who's about to be 16.

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Uh and we were she's taking a psych

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course in high school and we were just

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looking at like all the things that have

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sparked her curiosity from that class.

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And we started talking about co and just

16:18

kind of societal, you know, norms and

16:20

behaviors and she's just starting to

16:22

kind of open her eyes to these things.

16:23

And it's it's a really fun conversation

16:25

with a younger person who has such a

16:27

clean slate. And you know, I was

16:29

bringing up CO and and I was like, you

16:31

know, there are things that occur in our

16:32

in our lifetimes that that shift

16:35

society. I mean, for me, 911 was one of

16:37

those big ones.

16:38

>> Um, but then CO occurred and that was

16:41

when she was, you know, 11.

16:43

>> Wow.

16:44

>> And and you know, I I was saying I I as

16:47

an observer of this young girl's life,

16:50

like I'm not sure I can pinpoint things

16:53

that changed about her as a result of

16:56

CO. Now, I'm probably looking for

16:58

negative things and there probably are a

17:00

bunch of positive things.

17:02

>> Uh, to your point and so she and I

17:05

started kind of um remembering our time

17:08

together. My wife is a physician, so she

17:10

was in the throws during that time. I

17:12

mean, it was brutal. Like, she asked us

17:14

to go up to the mountains and live up

17:15

there while she worked here because she

17:17

didn't want to expose us to anything

17:19

from the hospital.

17:20

>> And so, my daughter and I spent all this

17:22

time one- on-one in the mountains, you

17:25

know, for months. And it was delightful.

17:28

>> Yep. Yeah. My partner at the time was

17:30

also a physician. So, um my the other

17:33

partners and I uh would actually all

17:35

stayed in a house together for a while.

17:37

>> Yeah.

17:37

>> We're like, "All right, well, it was

17:38

like a girls club. We had a sleepover.

17:40

It was great.

17:40

>> Delightful."

17:41

>> Yeah.

17:43

It's uh yeah, it's interesting to and

17:46

it's interesting to think kind of the

17:47

pendulum swing that occurred in that as

17:49

well

17:50

>> because I think at first there was this

17:55

almost like freedom like to party kind

17:59

of a thing. I mean to just be

18:03

fat and like eat whatever you want,

18:06

drink whatever you want, smoke whatever

18:08

you want, and then and then, you know,

18:10

then a few months go by and everybody

18:11

kind of, oh god, I don't feel as good.

18:13

And interestingly, like the the

18:15

alcohol-free world picked up, the

18:17

wellness industry picked up all during

18:19

that time. And I feel like that was a

18:20

big pendulum swing from the beginning.

18:23

>> And I'm bringing all this up because I

18:24

relate it to where I see the AI

18:27

>> Yeah. put the U swing going. I I just

18:30

think it's going to be a big old thing

18:32

that happens and we're all like, "Oh my

18:33

god, oh my god."

18:35

>> And then all of a sudden it's going to

18:36

kind of neutralize out.

18:38

>> I mean, that's that's what we're seeing

18:39

in sales, right? Is these companies came

18:41

out with mass automation to be able to

18:43

send a thousand emails a day and do

18:44

cadences and sequences

18:46

>> and now I'm sure both of us get hundreds

18:49

of spam emails a day of people trying to

18:51

sell me stuff. Yep.

18:52

>> And it's all the same AI slop, you know,

18:55

and

18:55

>> delete, delete, delete. And so now we're

18:57

seeing buyers that actually are

18:59

overcorrecting way the other way of

19:00

like, no, I want the person to show up

19:02

in person. I want them to get on a plane

19:03

and come meet me and break bread and I

19:06

want to do this. And so I think we're

19:08

we're seeing this overcorrection to

19:10

needing that human element, which is

19:12

obviously less efficient than getting on

19:14

Zoom calls,

19:15

>> but I think it's it's a good thing over

19:17

here.

19:18

>> Less efficient and more effective.

19:20

>> Yes. Yeah. I'll take five wins every day

19:22

over a thousand shots in the dark.

19:24

>> Oh my god. And that is that I love that

19:27

because that is exactly where I believe

19:29

like you said that is where we're headed

19:31

and that is a pendulum swing backwards

19:33

and it's a very quick one.

19:34

>> Yeah.

19:35

>> Right. Like these mass emails and these

19:38

mass AIdriven sales strategies are very

19:41

new.

19:42

>> Oh yeah. Oh yeah. But people are getting

19:45

sick of it. And the thing that I think

19:47

is so funny is if you look at every AI

19:49

tool out there, it's focused on how do

19:51

we make robotic mass automation sound

19:54

like human.

19:55

>> Oh yeah.

19:56

>> Like every video tool, right? It's like

19:58

how do we make this seem real?

19:59

>> How do we make it seem like we're not

20:00

doing what we're actually doing?

20:01

>> Exactly. And so it's like then why don't

20:03

we actually just do what we want it to

20:04

do,

20:05

>> right?

20:06

>> It's fascinating.

20:07

>> It is fascinating. And it's and that is

20:10

that is the optimistic piece

20:12

>> because it's you know six months ago

20:15

even it's like oh my god we're we got to

20:17

all get get on the train or get run over

20:19

kind of mentality and then very quickly

20:21

it's like this this

20:23

>> it may have worked early but like it's

20:25

not really working anymore.

20:27

>> Yeah. It's not I mean the amount of

20:29

deletes and interestingly like you know

20:32

as a company and and as you know

20:35

implementing some sales strategy and

20:37

some outreach it's like well we got to

20:39

do this we got to do that. I'm like

20:40

don't do that. Like I don't respond to

20:42

any of that stuff.

20:44

>> It's like if they don't respond to the

20:45

first one then send the second one and

20:47

then say this and if they don't respond

20:48

to the second one say the send the third

20:49

one. I'm like if you send me three

20:51

emails that I don't respond to I don't

20:53

like you anymore.

20:54

>> Yes.

20:55

>> You're getting the opposite of what you

20:56

want. I was um on a a sal the sell

21:00

better show a couple days ago. It's a

21:01

sales training show and we were actually

21:04

talking about exactly this. It's like

21:06

well you know the difference between

21:07

persistence well you know it takes 17

21:09

touch points. I'm like if you send me 17

21:11

emails

21:12

>> Yeah.

21:13

>> No we're not friends anymore.

21:14

>> No no

21:15

>> but my whole thing is just how can you

21:16

add value at every interaction so even

21:19

if they don't respond to you that they

21:20

found your interaction valuable. So, if

21:22

you send them an email like, "Hey,

21:23

there's here's a news article that is

21:24

relevant to you and your business." Not

21:26

a mass automated one,

21:27

>> but like, "Hey, I saw that you guys were

21:29

doing XYZ. Here's a resource that we

21:31

have."

21:32

>> Or, "I did an audit of your website.

21:33

Here's some improvements you can make."

21:35

Even if you don't ever buy our software,

21:36

>> it's like adding value is where people

21:39

are going to remember you.

21:40

>> Yeah. I got somebody who and and I'm

21:43

sure the the problem is like once you

21:45

get something that works and that is

21:47

effective, so quickly everybody starts

21:50

doing it, right? and then it kind of

21:52

loses its luster.

21:53

>> I hate that. But somebody sent me a

21:56

video on LinkedIn

21:59

>> and it was the first person that I had

22:01

seen do this and this was a few months

22:02

ago, but we were talking about some just

22:04

random stuff and they were going to come

22:06

into the studio and we kept rescheduling

22:08

and then all of a sudden I get this

22:09

video and it's just her talking to her

22:11

phone and she just talk she's talking to

22:13

me.

22:14

>> Yeah.

22:14

>> Robbie, hey, I just didn't want to type

22:16

anything else. I just wanted to let you

22:17

know, you know. And I was like, man,

22:20

come in next week. You know, I'm going

22:22

to make time.

22:23

>> Yes,

22:24

>> it was perfect.

22:25

>> I So, this is the thing is um if you

22:28

know Darren Mickey, he's in

22:29

>> I don't know.

22:30

>> He's in out of Raleigh. He teaches

22:32

LinkedIn and and branding training. He's

22:34

amazing individual. He's just so cool.

22:36

But, um he this is one of the things he

22:38

preaches is like do things differently.

22:40

Send people a video and not one that's

22:42

standing in front of a whiteboard or

22:43

something like that like well you're

22:44

walking so it looks more human and it is

22:46

more and it's not scripted. It's like,

22:47

"Hey, hey, Robbie, what's up?" You know,

22:49

>> little burp or something there.

22:51

>> And it works. It works. I'm a big

22:53

proponent of voice notes on LinkedIn.

22:55

>> Yeah.

22:55

>> You know, I again, I'm typing things all

22:57

day. So, it's like, "Hey, what's up?

22:59

Thanks for the ad. I love what you're

23:00

doing in XYZ.

23:02

>> If I can be helpful, great."

23:04

>> You know, and it's like I actually mean

23:06

that. I genuinely um but I I've gotten

23:09

to make some really cool connections

23:10

just from that.

23:11

>> Love it. Love it. Well, um All right. We

23:15

could probably do this for an hour, but

23:17

let's just keep it efficient and give me

23:21

or our listeners a little bit of a

23:24

runway out into the next six months of

23:26

Zenia and Lauren Goodell.

23:29

>> Yes.

23:30

>> What do we expect?

23:31

>> Well, I I always joke that we can make

23:33

as many plans as we want and of course

23:36

the the world the universe is going to

23:38

do whatever it wants. Um

23:39

>> two weeks. Next two weeks.

23:41

>> In the next two weeks. But no, I mean, I

23:43

think we're at a really interesting

23:44

inflection point with my company. Uh,

23:46

Zineia, we have this rockstar team that

23:48

we've built and we finally are all in

23:50

flow. You know, I just brought on my

23:52

last couple employees a couple weeks

23:53

ago. So, we had our first offsite, all

23:55

this stuff. So, now we're really in in

23:57

growth mode. We've been in build mode

23:59

and now we're we're all about growth.

24:01

So, we're bringing on a couple large

24:02

enterprise customers over the next

24:04

couple months, which is great. Um we're

24:07

going to be probably be focusing more on

24:09

some of these old school industries like

24:11

manufacturing, media, things like that.

24:13

>> Yeah.

24:14

>> Um we're just seeing a lot of growth

24:16

there and a lot a lot of help that we

24:17

can provide. It's been great results for

24:19

our customers.

24:20

>> So we'll probably continue to do that.

24:22

But our focus is on extend extending the

24:24

platform for every single step of the

24:27

sales process. So that'll be fun. Right

24:28

now we're helping in the beginning in

24:30

the middle, but we want to bring it to

24:31

close.

24:31

>> So it's kind of allin-one workflow. And

24:34

then we're just doing a heck of a lot

24:36

more like workshops and speaking

24:37

engagements and sales kickoffs, which

24:40

out of everything in my business, I love

24:41

product. I love sales, but I really love

24:43

speaking.

24:44

>> Yeah.

24:44

>> It really lights me up and helps our

24:46

company and

24:47

>> I enjoy it. So, probably a lot more of

24:49

that for me.

24:50

>> Love it. Well, of course, that sparked

24:52

another question I want to ask. Um, so

24:55

obviously the the goal is are the

24:58

enterprise clients. That's where you're

24:59

going to, you know, be become profitable

25:01

and make make money as a business.

25:04

um my company. I need help with sales.

25:08

I'm a oneman sales team. Tell me how

25:11

Zenia can help me.

25:12

>> Well, right now I I think we have you on

25:14

the beta, too. So, we're giving you all

25:15

the new tools and features. Okay.

25:17

>> Um but so you'll see a lot of this

25:19

earlier. Um right now what we do is we

25:22

say, "Okay, here's your day. Start your

25:24

day. You have five meetings. Let me help

25:25

you prepare for those meetings. You have

25:26

five podcasts. Here's the people in the

25:28

room. Here's what's important to them.

25:30

Here's how your product or service could

25:31

fit into their business.

25:33

Um, and then after the call, we will

25:35

say, "Okay, we took the call recording,

25:37

we took the transcript, we wrote the

25:39

follow-up email, and created the action

25:40

items for you." And then once you're

25:42

done with preparing for meetings,

25:44

following up from any meetings, then we

25:45

say, "Okay, it's time to prospect." And

25:47

what we'll actually start doing, uh, and

25:49

I don't think you have this yet, is

25:51

we'll pull anything from your CRM, CSV

25:53

files, if you have a list of leads, and

25:56

we'll say, "Here's the top 10, and not

25:57

only here's the top 10 companies, but

25:59

here's the right individuals at each of

26:00

those companies you should be reaching

26:01

out to."

26:02

>> Okay? and here's the right messaging or

26:04

video script or voice note script.

26:06

>> Wow.

26:06

>> To be able to reach out. So it kind of

26:08

helps you formulate your day. Um and so

26:11

even for a sales team of one where you

26:13

have a million other things going on.

26:15

It's like here's the things that you can

26:16

do to move your business forward.

26:17

>> And that's what I mean that's the point,

26:18

right? Like I have all these other

26:20

things going on. I don't have a team.

26:22

>> I I we are in growth mode. Like I've got

26:25

to start reaching out and finding people

26:28

that make sense. and we have things

26:30

that, you know, my team is trying to

26:32

work through, but it sounds like Zenia

26:34

is what I really need to be using. I

26:36

mean, there's a CRM obviously, but

26:38

integrate

26:40

>> and then go from there.

26:41

>> Yeah, absolutely. Integrate in and we'll

26:43

help you find the right leads and know

26:45

the right messaging that will actually

26:47

resonate with them. Not mass automation.

26:49

It'll focus on what's important to

26:51

Robbie, what's his personality type,

26:52

what's going to resonate, and how can

26:53

you be valuable.

26:56

>> All right. All right. I'm gonna hold you

26:58

to it.

26:59

>> Let's do it.

27:00

>> All right, Lauren, thank you so much for

27:01

coming on. I really appreciate your

27:03

time.

27:03

>> Thank you so much. This has been fun.

27:04

>> Congrats on your success

27:06

>> and yours, too.

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