Do you know what it takes for your business to be discovered by the right customers online? For today’s guest on Getting Work To Work, the answer is in knowing the foundations of your business: your core values and unique selling proposition, who your ideal customers are, the competition and pricing strategies, how to run […]

How do you make policy-making and civic engagement relatable to everybody who needs that information? This question guided today’s guests Jen Wick and Alex Chiu as they created a zine for the City of Portland’s Office of Community & Civic Life called This is Your Portland. In this conversation, Jen & Alex share details about that […]

What do you do when you see a problem in your organization? Do you wait for someone else to notice and solve it? Do you complain to your co-workers about it or even play the victim explaining why you could never fix it? Or maybe you are a doer and take action to solve the […]

Over the past three days, all I’ve had enough energy to do is lay in bed and read books. After pushing as hard as I could to avoid thinking about the pandemic, my body finally let me know it’s time to rest and recover. Late last night, my mind turned on with a vengeance and […]

Do you want to grow your business, but don’t know how to go about finding the right people to hire, let alone how to manage them for success? Today’s guest on the show is Nathan Hirsch, an entrepreneur whose latest venture is Outsource School, the ultimate education for outsourcing, where you can learn the process […]

Do you put yourself in positions where you will only get a resounding yes? Are you actively avoiding situations where a no is more likely to happen? How do you deal with the silence between hearing yes or no? Recently, I went through an experience that resulted in no. It was a long, drawn-out process […]

What do you do when you are five minutes into writing a 20-minute film and realize that your joke has run its course? You figure out a way to write yourself out of the corner and bust through the cliché. No stranger to Getting Work To Work, gough is an Australian filmmaker on the show […]

What do you do when you recognize and acknowledge a profound symptom of your suffering? Do you dive in and explore it, or do shove it back down into your inner being so you can deal with it when you’re ready? One of the symptoms of suffering popping up in my life through the past […]

Are you a designer who people see, or are you a designer who they hear? A powerful question that today’s guest on Getting Work To Work asked that reflects the depth at which he approaches his life and work. David Jon Walker embraces his duality as an educator and entrepreneur to prepare his students for the […]

When I set out on my podcast journey, interviewing people wasn’t part of the plan. Coming from a documentary production background, I knew how to talk to someone; I just didn’t know how to handle it with only audio. Instead, I planned on weekly short monologues, ten minutes or less, with my thoughts and insights […]