HeyJaredStories for Business
Your expertise is already there, you just don't know how to talk about it yet. I share real stories from founders on Naked at the Top and stories from the week to help you connect more freely.
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Your business shouldn't need you: how to let go (opens the original)
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You built the business so you'd have more time. So where did it go?In this episode of Naked at the Top, the founder of an outsourced bookkeeping and CFO firm, 19 years in with a team of 30, explains why he never wanted to be the person who runs it. Damian Scodella of SquarePenny has lived by one rule in every job since his early twenties: make yourself redundant. He has handed the running of the business over twice, most recently to a leader promoted from within. He also wears a jacket covered i
You Don’t Have To Be an Open Book To Be Authentic (opens the original)
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Happy Sunday. Today I want to talk about something I hear a lot: ‘I feel uncomfortable showing up in public’. And I get it. It’s hard to know how to show up, especially when we’re told to ‘just be your authentic self.’ Like, seriously, what does that even mean? This week I got into a wee debate in the comments section of one of my LinkedIn posts. A guy said honesty and authenticity are the same thing. I respectfully disagreed. Being honest at another person’s expense doesn’t reflect true authent
Your best qualities are already there. Let’s get them seen. (opens the original)
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Last week, a student put her hand up at the end of a workshop I was running for school students, part of my personal brand and storytelling program. She’d been one of the loudest voices in the room for an hour. She asked how she could be seen as someone who listens and cares about her friends.Her partner had just described her in five words. Confident. Loud. Bubbly. Curious. Passionate. All true, but it wasn’t all of her, and she worried people thought she didn’t care.Most of the adults I work w
Stop hiding what got you here (opens the original)
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This week’s guest used to stand outside business conferences pretending to take phone calls. He’d go to the toilets. He’d go and get a coffee. He’d hang around the front of the venue doing anything at all until someone rang the bell for everyone to sit down, and that was the moment he’d make his entrance. He’s a CEO now. He also co-runs a free network of about twenty-five executives who meet every other month, and if you’re young and ask him what to work on, he says networking.This is the writte
Business Owner Honesty: I Posted That I was Broke (opens the original)
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Being the person everyone leans on is lovely until the day you need to lean back.In this episode of Naked at the Top, a marketing consultant who has built a community of 18,000 marketers across Australia and New Zealand talks about the LinkedIn post she almost did not send: the one where she told everyone she was broke. Chanel, founder of The Marketing Club and of a new co-working space in Brisbane, walks through what it costs to be the person who builds the room, and what happened when she had
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