Introducing Jeff Large

Jeff is an agency owner, teacher, and podcaster. He leads his team at Come Alive Creative in producing podcasts for businesses and brands.

Show Notes

Website | JeffLarge.com

Website | Come Alive Creative

Website | Come Alive Academy

Website | Equipment For Podcasting

Twitter | @realjefflarge

Episode Transcript

Liam: This is Hallway Chats, where we talk with some of the unique people in and around WordPress.

Tara: Together, we meet and chat with folks you may not know about in our community.

Liam: With our guests, we’ll explore stories of living – and of making a living with WordPress.

Tara: And now the conversation begins. This is episode 37.

Liam: Welcome to Hallway Chats. I’m Liam Dempsey.

Tara: And I’m Tara Claeys. Today, we’re joined by Jeff Large. Jeff is an agency owner, teacher, and podcaster. He leads his team at Come Alive Creative in producing podcasts for businesses and brands. If you’re into Myers-Briggs, Jeff is an ESTJA, but also almost an ENTJA, which makes him a mix of driven and flexible. Hi, Jeff, welcome.

Jeff: Hello, hello.

Liam: Hey, Jeff. Thanks for joining us today.

Jeff: Yeah, thank you for having me.

Liam: Tell us a little bit more about yourself than what Tara just shared, please?

Jeff: What would you like to know, because that is a huge question?

Liam: Well, let’s start with what I don’t understand is the Myers-Briggs. What’s the driving factor behind taking the tests for you? Not for everybody, not the public, necessarily, but why did you get into that, why did you focus on that?

Jeff: I like learning. I was a teacher before I did agency stuff or even started a business or anything. I taught. My formal education’s all in education so I have my bachelors, and under bachelors in literature and language arts for elementary, and then almost masters for the same thing, language arts, except for secondary. I’ve always just cared a lot about it. I think understanding yourself and being sort of– introverted is not the word I want. It’s alluding me, the word that I want. Just to know yourself well, I think, can make you better and so it’s always–

Tara: Introspective.

Jeff: Yeah, introspective, that’s the word that I wanted. Thank you, Tara. It has always helped. I don’t necessarily care about Myers-Briggs, per se, but I really like just ways to sort of look at who I am and where my strengths lie, that type of thing.

Liam: Yeah, that’s interesting to me. Part of me always wonders, if I take the test and it tells me– and I don’t have the letters memorized. If it tells me ‘A’, does that automatically mean I am ‘A’ or is that what I was on the day and am I going to sort of try to conform to ‘A’ because I was told by a reputable test that I am ‘A’?

Jeff: Yeah, I definitely hear that. There’s ones that I think are better than others. If I had to pick one, it’s the one that goes along with the Strenghtsfinder 2.0 book, and it’s just the strength finders test. Out of all of those, definitely– I’m going to pull up, not on my site, I think I have it on my phone, too. Yeah, my number one is learner. My top five that I rank for are learner, achiever, intellection, input, and responsibility. It kind of just breaks to I think a lot, I research a lot, and then as soon as I feel like I know, I just get on it and get it done, type of a thing.