You Gotta Listen

You gotta listen.  Not to this podcast, of course.  Not to that voice in your head.  Nor, to the crazies.   And, certainly, not to QAnon.  (Remember, him  .... them ... it?  There's another pronoun debate for you.  Wonder how Texas -- or is it Florida? -- would come out on that one.)  Sales.  You gotta listen if you are in Sales.  And, after all, who isn't?

It reminds us of a job candidate we spoke to the other day.  She wanted to go into podcasting.  That's no field, we protested.  Even with Joe Rogan, the Doughboys, the Tiny Meat Gang (hmmm..... our favorite MAGA-ist's hands have gone meme and spawned allusions), the average income of the average podcaster is below water for sure, we told her.   She persisted.  

Why podcasting, we asked?  The answer, much like this episode, was underwhelming.  The lifestyle, she said.  She liked the lifestyle ... or, at least, her idea of the lifestyle of a podcaster.  Breadlines, we asked?  Had she factored that in?  No, of course not.  We suggested an internship.  Rogan's probly (yes, it's a word, not a typo) not an option, but we suggested she volunteer for any of the millions of other podcasters out there.  Who wouldn't want to offload some of the thankless burden of a regular podcast onto some idiot ... er, enthusiastic volunteer ... who thought they could make a career out of it.

But, you have to have a story, we told her.  Producers are flooded with requests from would-be podcast interns.  Yep, we lied. You'll need to distinguish yourself from all of the others.  Explain-away your past (like, that Ph.D. in applied mathematics) and wax eloquent about your future (there's always time to record an interview in the bread lines), we said.  But, it's got to be a story that makes sense.  One that resonates with your would-be boss.   Remember, they too had dreams, before the other 1,999,999 podcasters jumped into the fray.

And that brings us back, inexplicably, to today's episode:  You Gotta Listen.  (It's not you, by the way:  we're equally confused.  Alas, time is short and good copy writers are hard to find.)  Join the team (or, at least half of it) from Failure - the Podcast in a discussion of why you gotta listen, with Cal Reichwein.  He's a former star with the Lafayette Cougars mens basketball team and, now, an emerging star on the Hubspot sales team.  (Oh, by the way, for those of you who miss our co-host Mark, he makes cameos at 04'00", 20'02" and 41'17").