Built On Purpose

Louis Efron, Author of How to Find a Job, Career, and Life you Love

This episode features an interview with Louis Efron, The Voice Of Purpose. He’s the author of How to Find a Job, Career, and Life you Love, and is on a mission to inspire everyone to live a life of purpose.

Louis’ career has spanned industries from theatre to medical devices, and from software to electric cars. Throughout his journey, one thing has become abundantly clear, a life of purpose matters more than anything else.

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Patty McCord, former Chief Talent Officer of Netflix

Patty McCord, Principal of Patty McCord Consulting and former Chief Talent Officer of Netflix.

Patty is someone who is truly helping push the boundaries of the way we think about work. She created the famous Netflix Culture Deck, which Sheryl Sandberg said, “may be the most important document ever to come out of Silicon Valley.” It’s been viewed more than 13 Million times on Slideshare.

More recently, Patty has been focused on advising innovative companies like Warby Parker, HubSpot and GitHub to name a few - about developing culture and leadership.

In this interview we’ll explore culture, we’ll discuss leadership, and we’ll ask Patty all about how we can be innovative when it comes to thinking about work.

Here’s the interview with Patty.

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Michelle Gielan, Founder of the Institute for Applied Positive Research

In this episode of Work That Matters we interview Michelle Gielan, Founder of the Institute for Applied Positive Research, and the author of Broadcasting Happiness, the Science of Igniting and Sustaining Positive Change.

Michelle had one of the most desired jobs every broadcaster dreams of, a news anchor gig at CBS News. So, why did she decide to leave that job to go back to school? We’ll explore that story in this episode. 

We’ll also dive into the science of positive psychology and the impact it is having with the businesses she and her team are working with. Michelle is a barrel full of energy - sit back relax and enjoy my interview with Michelle Gielan.

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Vince Siciliano, President & CEO of New Resource Bank

This episode features an interview with Vince Siciliano, the President & CEO of New Resource Bank in San Francisco. Vince wants to change the way people think about banking - and the way they use their money. And in this episode, we’ll explore the concept that banking should be for people, planet and profit. Here’s the interview with Vince.

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Kat Taylor, Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Beneficial State Bank

This podcast interview is with Kat Taylor, the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Beneficial State Bank.

Kat is really smart. Harvard grad. JD & MBA from Stanford. Sits on Harvard’s Board of Overseers. The list goes on.

But beyond her impressive accolades, Kat’s purpose in work is restoring social justice and environmental well being. And what’s fascinating is that Kat is working to restore that social justice and environmental well being in banking - an industry she describes as “just above oil, gas and government in popularity.”

We’ll get to more of that in a minute in our show.

In this interview we’ll dive deep into why Kat is motivated to keep the affection in business for good, the business model behind Beneficial State Bank, and of course, Kat’s tattoos.

Without further ado, please enjoy this interview with Kat Taylor.

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Barry Schwartz, Author of Why We Work

Barry Schwartz gave one of the most viewed TED Talks of all time called the Paradox Of Choice. It’s been viewed more than 8 million times.

More recently, Barry has been focused on talking about why work is broken. He literally wrote the book on purpose in work with his book, “Why We Work.”

And why do we work? Do you ever think about that question? Barry does. A lot. And that’s why in this interview, I’m going to ask Barry to take us on a tour of the purpose of work in our lives, and what you can do to help yourself, and your employees, work with purpose.

Here’s the interview with Barry.

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Clayton Christopher, CAVU Venture Partners

Clayton Christopher is an entrepreneur who has founded or has co-founded food and beverage brands like Sweet Leaf Tea, Deep Eddy Vodka and Rhythm Super Foods to name a few. Clayton is one of 3 principals of CAVU, a venture fund that invests in consumer products. The fund has raised $156 million for it's debut.

Clayton has a classic entrepreneurship story, and we’ll dive into a few of those stories in this episode, but the big one that stands out to me is that Clayton started Sweet Leaf Tea on $12,000 and his grandmother’s recipe before selling the company to Nestle 13 years later for $183M. We’ll talk about that story in this interview. We'll also talk about Deep Eddy Vodka and his sale of the brand to a Kentucky distiller for nearly $400M.

Clayton is passionate about entrepreneurship, he loves helping small food and beverage companies scale, and he’s out in Austin, Texas - the epicenter of consumer innovation - let’s just dive right into it. 

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