Awesome Office: Lead. Create. Inspire

By Sean Spear

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What's Awesome Office: Lead. Create. Inspire about?

Welcome to the Awesome Office Show, the podcast that’s all about leading people, creating culture, and inspiring Awesome for businesses of all shapes and sizes.

Each week we talk to an inspiring leader leading and awesome company and learn what it takes to create a winning business and all-around Awesome Office.

This is a behind the curtain look that you’re not going to find anywhere else. If you care about developing stellar cultures that provide lasting value for employees, customers, and shareholders, then this is the podcast for you.

The Awesome Office Show is hosted by Hughes Marino Senior Vice President Sean Spear.

Similar to Entreleadership, HBR Ideacast, Tim Ferriss, NPR's How I Built This, Smart Passive Income.

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The Power of Momentum... Co...

11.27.2023

Heyo! You ever heard of Hiyo? Well in today's episode, we all have the pleasure of getting to know Hiyo's co-founder, George Youmans. Back in 2019, George took the leap of faith to move away from his then-current job and ...

Awesome Office: Lead. Create. Inspire episodes:

11.27.2023 The Power of Momentum... Controlling Your Own Destiny with George Youmans Heyo! You ever heard of Hiyo? Well in today's episode, we all have the pleasure of getting to know Hiyo's co-founder, George Youmans. Back in 2019, George took the leap of faith to move away from his then-current job and ...
11.20.2023 Finding Partners and Place as an Entrepreneur with Scott Alderton Scott Alderton is both a laywer and an entrepreneur, imbedding his widespread influence from the likes of West Los Angeles. Owner and Partner at Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP, Scott advises clients across the board stretching from cyber security and ...
10.20.2023 "One More" Call... Email... Podcast! with Mitchel Zelinger This week on the Awesome Office Podcast, we welcome Executive Vice President of Business Development at Tangram Interiors, Mitchel Zelinger! Tangram is a full-service office furnishings and commercial interiors company that is certainly doing their part in helping companies create ...
10.18.2023 Awesome "Studio"? Redefining The Workspace with Shawn Gehle One of the missions of the Awesome Office podcast is to redefine what "office" really means. It's not always your stereotypical corporate cubicle grid! The "office" can look and feel incredibly different (in fact, it should!) from company to company ...
10.14.2023 Where? When? Why? Investing Talk with Accountant Troy Smith In an industry with plenty of demand for work, but not enough manpower to get it done, Troy Smith has been on an expedition to make accounting "sexy" again with his company, The Pandora Group. Troy has dedicated years to ...
10.11.2023 Educate Yourself! Today's "Teacher": Joe Lozowski Welcome back to the Awesome Office podcast! Before starting the episode, think about this question: why do we listen to podcasts like this one at all? The answer is simple. To continue to learn. This week's guest, Tangram CEO Joe ...
10.07.2023 Managing Wealth and Growing as an Entrepreneur: The Story and Insight of Mikey Taylor Pro skateboarder turned entrepreneur turned city council member, Mikey Taylor is a jack of all trades and a master of... well, apparently all of them! Join us as Sean and Mikey take us through the lifelong journey of one of ...
10.03.2023 Sean Spear's 34 Things Boy it's great to have the Awesome Office podcast back! But who is this new voice? We all remember Sean, but now get to know...... Sean! Sean Spear that is! Sean Spear, former co-host of the podcast, has taken it ...
09.12.2023 Awesome Office Relaunch with Sean and Sean Ladies and gentlemen... the moment you've all been waiting for... The Awesome Office Podcast is back! This episode, we are taking it all the way back to where we started with our guest: Awesome Office's former host Sean Kelly! As ...
05.11.2018 How to Achieve 7x Growth While Giving Your Team More Ownership, with WorldBlu Founder and CEO Traci Fenton Reminder - we’re combining the Awesome Office and Brand Builder podcasts into one show. (Think of it as Awesome Office 2.0.) What’s different? In a way, not a lot. We’ll still do culture-focused features and interviews every other Thursday, led ...
04.26.2018 How “Inside the Box” Innovation Helped Project 7 Disrupt the Gum Industry Exciting news - we’re combining the Awesome Office and Brand Builder podcasts. Think of it as Awesome Office 2.0. What’s different? In a way, not a lot. We’ll still do culture-focused features and interviews every other Thursday, led by host ...
04.17.2018 Top 5 Shortcuts To Scale Your Brand, an updated conversation with M13's Courtney Reum We’re currently experiencing a golden age for startup brands. It’s easier today to launch, build, and scale a consumer brand than perhaps any other time in history. But that’s not to say it’s easy. Startup brands still face obstacles, old ...
03.17.2018 How Scott Painter is Turning Fairness Into a Global Brand, with Fair and True Car founder Scott Painter This week’s Awesome Office guest is a builder of disruptive brands. We’re talking about Scott Painter, probably best known as the founder and CEO of both True Car and Cars Direct. He’s made a name for himself by launching and ...
03.02.2018 The 12 Dos and Don’ts of Employee Appreciation Today is Employee Appreciation Day, but this week’s Awesome Office episode is not about that. (Well, not really....) Our focus this week isn’t how to appreciate your employees once a year - or even once in a while. It’s about ...
02.23.2018 How to Maximize Joy in the Workplace, Richard Sheridan Redux This week we dig into the Awesome Office archives to bring you one of our absolute favorite conversations. From kid programmer in 1971 to Forbes cover story in 2003, Joy, Inc. author and Menlo Innovations CEO Richard Sheridan has never ...
02.14.2018 How to Build an Authentic Culture from the Bottom-Up, with SnackNation's Joey Joyce Building an authentic, employee-led company culture is what most of aspire to. It can be the key to making your org a magnet for talent. Retention and engagement suddenly become a breeze. The problem - it’s a lot easier said ...
02.06.2018 13 Tips for Throwing a Kick-Ass Company Summit Is your company locked in departmental silos? Has communication stalled out? Is energy down, or morale dipped a little low? A Company Summit might just be what the doctor ordered. Company Summits are a great way to unleash your creativity ...
01.24.2018 How to Manage the Whole Person, w/ SnackNation President and COO Ryan Schneider By now you’re probably familiar with the concept of "work-life integration," which is rapidly replacing the outdated notion of "work-life balance." Work-life integration simply acknowledges the reality that work is a major part of our lives. Most of us spend ...
01.19.2018 How a Ketogenic Diet Can Help You Achieve Your 2018 Health Goals, with author Mark Sisson In our last episode we focused on 2018 goal setting. Considering that health- and fitness-related goals account for nearly half of all New Year's resolutions, there's a good chance that a many of you are currently engaged in the noble ...
01.08.2018 Forgot to Set 2018 Goals? Here’s the Procrastinator’s Guide to Winning the Year The New Year has a way of sneaking up on us. During the hectic months of November and December, we sprint like crazy to hit our Q4 goals. The next thing you know, it’s the holidays, and family obligations kick ...
12.13.2017 How to Hack Your Job for Optimal Meaning and Fulfillment, with SnackNation CEO Sean Kelly According to a 2014 survey of 20,000 U.S. employees, only 36% of workers find meaning in their work. In other words, nearly two thirds of employees don’t find their jobs meaningful at all. If that statistic alarms you (it should), ...
12.06.2017 How to Become a Magnet for Talent & Build a Top Performing Team, with ForceBrands CEO Josh Wand Josh Wand believes that entrepreneurs need to "find their magic." What does that mean? Simply that entrepreneurs need to discover the things they do that nobody else can duplicate. By all accounts Josh has found his. He's a master connector, ...
11.27.2017 How to Develop an Irresistible Employer Brand, with SnackNation CEO Sean Kelly “Employer Brand” is a pretty buzzy word these days. It seems like it's on the lips of every recruiter, HR pro, and CEO as they try and figure out how to differentiate their workplace from the rest. But is it ...
11.20.2017 How to Discover Your Unique Ability - and Bring It Out in Others Think about the one thing you love to do. It could be a task you perform in your job, in school, or in your everyday life. This is the thing that energizes you when you think about it, and motivates ...
11.13.2017 How FabFitFun Made the Swag Bag a Big Business, w/ FabFitFun co-CEO Daniel Broukhim You could say that FabFitFun is one of the more successful subscription box companies out there - and you wouldn’t be wrong - but I’m guessing that co-founder and co-CEO Daniel Broukhim might not totally agree. That’s because he and ...
11.09.2017 How Deep River is Changing the World with Culture, w/ Deep River Snacks CEO Jim Goldberg This week we’ve got an in-depth look at one of the most inspiring and authentic company cultures that we've ever come across - Deep River Snacks. If you want to understand Deep River Snacks, look no further than their infamous ...
10.30.2017 How to Become a Better Public Speaker at Work For most people, it's scarier than dying. Of course, we're talking about public speaking, the most dreaded of all workplace activities. Despite the fear, public speaking is an incredibly useful skill for employees - and not just executives. It's an ...
10.23.2017 How to Lead with Radical Candor Radical Candor is de rigeur in business these days. It's a concept that pops up again and again - in business books, conference keynotes, and even, dare I say, podcasts. But what is Radical Candor? And how do you pull ...
10.16.2017 Advanced Hiring Secrets w/ Sean Kelly Have you ever wondered where the word 'company' comes from? Most of us use it interchangeably with 'business,' but it's not quite the same thing. It's actually a lot simpler than that. The etymology tells us that company is a ...
10.10.2017 Introducing Brand Builder This week we’ve got something a little different. We’re debuting a brand new podcast called Brand Builder, and we’re giving Awesome Office listeners an exclusive first listen. Brand Builder is a new podcast from the folks behind Awesome Office that ...
10.02.2017 How to Approach Your Day Like a CEO, with Sean Kelly These days, CEOs are kind of the new rockstars. Our collective obsession with entrepreneurship and innovation has transformed the Zuckerbergs, Musks, and Bezos’ of the world into pop culture icons. It can be easy to forget that Chief Executive Officer ...
09.25.2017 How to Adopt The Champion’s Mindset, w/ NFL Running Back Reggie Bush At Awesome Office, we often say that your company is like a sports team, and I think after hearing this interview you’ll definitely agree. This week we’re bring you a conversation with Reggie Bush Yes, that Reggie Bush: Super Bowl ...
09.18.2017 How to Transform Your Company by Creating a Culture of Deep Connection This week on the podcast we’re featuring a recent presentation that I gave at the Human Capital Institute conference in San Francisco. It’s all about transforming your company - not with things like new technology or processes or management techniques ...
09.11.2017 How Top Performers Train their Minds to Win, w/ Dr. Glenn Fox of USC’s Performance Science Institute When we think about training for high performance, we usually think about training our bodies. We might even think about working our craft. But how often do we consider training our emotions? Not very often, right? Well, if we care ...
09.05.2017 How to Turn Your Biggest Competitor Into Your Best Friend Starting a business is hard. Scaling a business is much harder. That’s one of the biggest takeaways from our interview with Brandon Weber, the co-founder and chief product officer of VTS. VTS is the world's leading asset management and leasing ...
08.28.2017 How to Know When a Pivot is the Right Move, with Hutch CEO & Co-Founder Beatrice Fischel-Bock We all want to experience success. But how do you get there? Is it a straight line? When do you know to adjust course or make big moves away from your original strategy? This episode will dive into all of ...
08.21.2017 Why You Should Care About the Current State of Education, w/ SeekU Co-Founder Avriel Epps At Awesome Office, we think that education is magic. If you've heard the show, you know we're big on personal growth, and there are few things as crucial to growth as investing in yourself via education. But our current system ...
08.16.2017 Why Virtual Reality is Going to Change Your Life, with Survios Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer James Iliff Sometimes Virtual Reality gets a bad rap. Everything new is a little scary, and there’s a fear on the part of some that widespread adoption of VR means that we’ll somehow get “lost in the Matrix.” But as this week’s ...
08.07.2017 Why Work Environment Can Be Your Biggest Competitive Advantage, with Russell Shubin of Shubin Donaldson We’ve talked a lot about why your work environment is so important when it comes to maintaining an outstanding company culture, but no one has summed it up as succinctly as this week’s guest, Russell Shubin: “Form follows intention.” These ...
07.31.2017 How to Scale Giving and Fun, with Movember’s Adam Garone How do you start a global philanthropic movement? If this week’s guest is any indication, all it really takes is a few beers and about 30 mustaches. Seriously. According to Adam Garone, that’s exactly how The Movember Foundation was born ...
07.19.2017 How Irrational Generosity Drives Today’s Most Successful Leaders, with PTTOW! and Worldz CEO Roman Tsunder Rarely do you meet someone who exudes as much positivity, joy, and generosity as today’s guest, Roman Tsunder. Roman is the CEO and co-founder of PTTOW! and Worldz, two premier events that unite the top business leaders from around the ...
07.17.2017 AO 100 - Ten Quotes That Will Make You a More Successful Leader Welcome to the 100th episode of the Awesome Office show. Yep, you read that correctly - 100 episodes. (Crazy, right?) Those of you who have been on this journey with us from the beginning know that the show has evolved ...
07.10.2017 How Erik Oberholtzer Turned Tender Greens Into a Multi-Million Dollar Success with Conscious Capitalism Food for thought - what we eat matters. It might seem obvious, but the daily decision about what we eat has implications that ripple through our lives in unexpected ways. It’s not just about how our food choices affect things ...
07.05.2017 How Self-Driving Cars Will Reshape the Way We Live and Work, w/ Fifth Wall Co-Founder Brendan Wallace Did you ever wonder why we’re so passionate about creating awesome offices? It’s really pretty simple - Where you work often determines how you work. And how you work ultimately determines your success. This week’s guest is Brendan Wallace, the ...
06.26.2017 How hmbldt Plans to Become the Coca-Cola of Cannabis, w/ hmbldt CEO Gunner Winston Hmbldt CEO Gunner Winston doesn’t want to settle for best-in-class. In part, that’s because hmbldt’s space - the cannabis industry - is so nascent, that beating their competitors just isn’t a big enough challenge. But more than that, Gunner sees ...
06.19.2017 How to Become A World-Class Communicator - Hank Fortener Redux This week we’re going back to the archives, to bring you one of our earliest and best guests, Hank Fortener. Hank Fortener is an adoption expert, speaker, and sought-after authority on culture and leadership. As the founder of AdoptTogether.org and ...
06.12.2017 Why Hawke Media Just Does it Better, with Hawke Media CEO Erik Huberman Ask Erik Huberman what sets Hawke Media apart from other marketing agencies, and he doesn’t mince words: “Most agencies suck.” In fact, that’s one of the main reasons that Erik founded Hawke Media more than three years ago. Hawke Media ...
06.05.2017 How Esports Became Bigger than Baseball, with Team Liquid COO Mike Milanov In case you haven’t heard, esports are kind of a big deal. They’ve attracted massive worldwide audiences, sold out live events at Staple Center and Madison Square Garden in mere minutes, and boast an aggregate viewership that has eclipsed traditional ...
05.30.2017 Sun Basket’s Recipe for Startup Success, w/ Sun Basket founder and CEO Adam Zbar How’s this for a recipe for success: Work at McKinsey. Go to film school. Take over a high-level strategy role when your colleague has a mental breakdown. Start your first company in your mid-thirties. Sound a bit... circuitous? Well it's ...
05.22.2017 How An Appetite for Risk Helped MeUndies Ship More than 3 Million Pairs of Underwear, with MeUndies CEO Bryan Lalezarian Sometimes being the company that VCs just don’t “get” can actually work to your advantage. Take MeUndies, the wildly successful direct-to-consumer lifestyle brand on a mission to produce the world’s most comfortable and sustainable underwear. After a seed round in ...

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