E158 – Leadership & Growth W/ Amanda Orson

In this 3rd episode of the Leadership Series we are joined by Amanda Orson. She has been involved in affiliate marketing, SEO, growth marketing and much more. Her background is likely quite unique and her insights from it can help all of us be better managers, leaders and people (so says Dave!).

Military, Firefighting & EMT Background

From leadership, following, and training what has she taken away from them? Anything good? Anything bad?

The answer is a bit complicated and best answered by the transcript or listening to the episode. So hit play and listen!

Leadership Series Guests & Episodes

Building and Hiring Digital Teams W/ Sean McGinnisManaging Marketing Teams W/ Lauren VaccarelloLeadership & Growth W/ Amanda OrsonLeadership & Teams W/ Mark Barrera

How to Power Through a "No" in the Office

Amanda talks through how she refuses to takes no from a coworker or stakeholder and works to make it a yes. People will say no to projects, feature requests, and just overall any changes in the office for a number of reasons. Listen and hear how she works through objections to win over approval and that Yes in the end for her requests.

Founder vs. Manager

Does that impact your interview and hiring?As in do you approach things differently depending on your role? (in good or bad way) As founder I imagine you have a bigger longer term vision so that could impact hiring where Manager is worried more about that project/quarter and maybe that year.

For Amanda she sees things a bit differently than some others and approaches projects and jobs the same way. Listen and around the 15 minute mark Amanda will dig in and walk your though how she approaches this question.

Full Transcript

Matt Siltala: [00:00:00] Welcome to another exciting episode of the business of digital podcast, featuring your host, Matt  and Dave roar. Hey guys, excited to have everyone join us on another one of these business of digital podcast episodes. Um, I think we got Dave over there, I'm going to catch him off guard. Cause I saw that he put himself on mute and I loved doing that to him, but I was gone, Dave,

Dave Rohrer: [00:00:24] it's going beeping.

Well,

Matt Siltala: [00:00:26] I wanted to get that out of there because we're going to hear a beep in today from Dave because neighbors

Dave Rohrer: [00:00:34] pretty much doomed all summer. You are

Matt Siltala: [00:00:37] well, let's talk about the good stuff that, uh, you know, the, the good news for today. We actually have a special guest. I'm very excited to, um, Talk with Amanda, Amanda Orson, head of North America curve.

And Amanda, I do appreciate you taking the time to join us and, uh, talk, uh, you know, talk with us this morning. So welcome.

Amanda Orson: [00:00:56] Thank you for having me.

Matt Siltala: [00:00:58] And so, um, before we really [00:01:00] jump into anything, um, maybe just take a few minutes and let people know exactly what you want us to know about you and what head of North America curd means.

And we'll just go from there.

Amanda Orson: [00:01:09] Sure. So, uh, I'll start with the latter first head of North America. Curved means that my job is to launch and expand curve. Which is a UK based FinTech company in the United States curve is a $250 million company in the UK. We have over a million customers and over 800,000 cards issued.

Um, basically it's an, all your cards in one proposition and the UK right now, we're working on what that product construct will look like specifically for the U S our regulations, as you might imagine, are a little bit different. And, uh, yeah, we hope to launch in beta. At the end of this year, the wait list is currently open and a full consumer launch.

We'll probably be at the top of next year. Awesome. That's

Matt Siltala: [00:01:50] great. Well, I'm going to hand it over to Dave and let Dave kick this off and what we wanted, you know, we're doing this little, uh,