This week’s Learning Nugget comes from a special two-guest episode.

Paul Millerd is a former consultant at McKinsey and BCG turned author, writer of a weekly newsletter, and committed solopreneur. He teaches consulting secrets at StrategyU and is best known for hosting hundreds of Curiosity Conversations with strangers online, making friends worldwide.

Joining Paul is Steve Schlafman, a certified professional coach, speaker, newsletter writer, podcaster, angel investor, and recovering venture capitalist inspired to help high performers manifest their next calling.

This conversation originated on Twitter (now X), where Schlaf announced that he was shutting down the fund he was about to launch. He had raised tens of millions of dollars but decided to give all of that back to investors to concentrate on his coaching business.

Schlaf was done with the solopreneur path, or in his case, the solo-capitalist path, and was ready to find his posse.

Paul jumped in and said, “I am whatever the opposite of this is.”

At first it seemed obvious that they have fundamentally different outlooks on work and life. But the more our conversation evolved, the more lessons we unearthed that are applicable to anyone, no matter the path you take.

Please sit back, relax, and enjoy this Learning Nugget with Paul Millerd and Steve Schlafman.

For Paul:

• LinkedIn
• Boundless by Paul Millerd
• StrategyU
• Curiosity Conversations
• X (formerly Twitter)

For Steve:

• LinkedIn
• Website
• Where the Road Bends Podcast
• X (formerly Twitter)

Andrew LinkedIn

Joining me this week is Nicolas Cole.

Nicolas Cole is 1/3 of Category Pirates - together with Eddie Yoon and Christopher Lochhead. This trio is pioneering the work around the concept of Category Design. 

The part that really intrigued me about Category Design is that by creating a category, you can go about credibly marketing the category as opposed to your business, which for many business owners feels more than a little bit uncomfortable. In contrast, talking about the category or the passion that drives the business could be something you do endlessly.

In this conversation with Nicolas, we are able to break apart what it means to create a category, and how to go about category design. 

If you have any interest in understanding how the likes of Steve Jobs and Elon Musk have created massive value as inventors of new products, then this is the episode for you.

Please sit back, relax and enjoy my conversation with Nicolas Cole.

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Joining me this week is Jack Murray.

Jack is the CEO of MediaHQ, a media contacts and press release distribution platform. Jack started his career as a political and media adviser to a political party in Ireland. He released an incredible book called, The Magic Slice: How to Master the Art of Storytelling for Business. You'll realize from listening to this conversation just how powerful it is to reframe what the mission of the company is in that way.

In this episode, we talk through the six steps in the framework for The Magic Slice, which is the intersection between the mission for your company, and what your audience is interested in.

We also spend a lot of time talking about practicing creativity, how creativity is not something that you are born with - it is a discipline, it is a way of doing things. One of the great things he says in the episode is how creativity is about putting yourself in a position where you're forced to do the things that you want to be good at.

Whether you have a company or you're working in a company, you're going to learn a lot from listening to Jack, and you'll learn even more from getting his book.

Please sit back and enjoy my episode with Jack Murray.

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