In Season 1, Episode 5 of Breaking Walls: The WallBreakers Podcast, we sit down with bar manager & nightlife promoter Tom Mauriello for a conversation about gaining confidence in the workplace in order to get to "yes" when pitching ideas to your bosses, superiors, or clients.

Highlights

• Why the best way to have an ego is to have no ego

• Doing the necessary research/homework to feel confident in yourself in a pitch

• The importance of knowing your client or bosses' past successes to lead them towards the successes you want to try to achieve next. Knowing the past to understand the future

• Learning from past business mistakes and understanding that just because an idea failed, it doesn't mean that all aspects of the idea were failures

• Why you need to follow your passions to be good at things in life - you will just care more

• The reality that you will get knocked down in life, but you can and should learn from it and come back stronger

• Why quitting/failure is actually continually choosing to do something you hate and that isn't in your best interests because it demeans your own self-worth

• The importance of your ideas being marketable and generating revenue in the real world

• The need to know what your bread and butter is so that you can expand on it. It is your core.

• Why Tommy's motto is "educate, entertain, retain" and how that can help you

Tommy’s Social Media Info:

https://twitter.com/officialt_mauri

Whiskey Park & Gerber Bars Social Media Info:

https://Gerberbars.com

https://twitter.com/WHISKEYPARKNYC

http://instagram.com/WHISKEYPARKNYC

https://www.facebook.com/wpnyc