Permission with Dr. Sherry Walling

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March 17, 2017 Episode 108: Breaking Up (With Clients) Is Hard to Do
Sherry talks with Karim Marucchi, CEO of Crowd Favorite, about the pains of ending a client relationship and how it can be an emotional challenge. Karim shares some past experiences ending a relationship with a client, how it felt, and his philosophies.
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March 10, 2017 Episode 107: Just Breathe
Sherry gives an update on her families health problems and its impact on her schedule. She also talks about the importance of deep breaths and takes you through a breathing exercise to end the episode.
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March 10, 2017 Episode 107: Just Breathe
Sherry gives an update on her families health problems and its impact on her schedule. She also talks about the importance of deep breaths and takes you through a breathing exercise to end the episode.
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Episode Transcript
Sherry Walling:
Yeah nothing like an emergency root canal to make the week awesome.
Rob Walling:
Yeah. Yeah that’s crazy. You’ve just never had trouble with your teeth.
Sherry Walling:
I have very well cared for teeth.
Rob Walling:
Yeah.
Sherry Walling:
So, it’s been like a month, I think, since we’ve been on podcast together.
Rob Walling:
I know. Cause I recorded one solo one, or two? An interview or something I don’t even remember but yeah.
Sherry Walling:
Why was it? I did a couple solo ones.
Rob Walling:
You did.
Sherry Walling:
And then we did one together, and then you did one alone, and then last week we didn’t do one. So, yeah it’s been a little here, there and everywhere on the ZenFounder podcast these days.
Rob Walling:
Yeah for sure.
Rob Walling:
So updates, where have you been for 3 and or 4 weeks? I guess it’s probably 2 or 3 weeks at this point.
Sherry Walling:
Yeah, I have had the craziest rollercoaster of family health problems. Really like beyond anything that’s ever happened in the life of my family, so, you know, a few weeks ago on the podcast, we talked about the fact that my dad was recently diagnosed with cancer, and just how that’s kind of changed our lives and how that’s shaped how I’ve been thinking about my business and, you know, it’s just the reality that family health stuff effects who you are as a professional and as an entrepreneur.
So my parents have been here in Minneapolis with us, my dad’s been receiving his care at Mayo Clinic, and in the midst of that kind of major crisis, my brother ended up in the ICU in Montana. So I won’t go into all the details of his story, but basically I’ve made 3 trips in 3 weeks to Montana, in addition to lots of trips out to Rochester to Mayo with my dad. So, I have been in lots of hospitals and spent lots of time in hospital waiting rooms, and that has kind of derailed, well maybe not derailed, but it’s just added, like, a whole new element to my life in the last month.
Rob Walling:
Yeah you’ve been on and off planes 5 or 6 times in the past 3 weeks. One was a conference, and then you went to Montana 3 different times, and it just feels like kinda you’ve been on the road nonstop. And during that time, while you’re trying to manage everything, and you were, you know, driving your dad to get – it wasn’t chemo yet – but it was to get all the tests and everything, you drank some hot coffee and burned your mouth.
Sherry Walling:
This is just insult to injury. So I’m –
Rob Walling:
I couldn’t believe it when you told me. You’re like I burnt my – My mouth hurts. You know, as you’re sitting in the hospital with your brother who’s in a coma. And I’m like, what is go
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February 24, 2017 Episode 106: Play Long Ball
In this episode Rob talks about "playing long ball", thinking about as a founder or significant other of a founder, how to stay in this space for the long haul. He highlights three points to achieve this and goes into details on each.
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February 24, 2017 Episode 106: Play Long Ball
In this episode Rob talks about “playing long ball”, thinking about as a founder or significant other of a founder, how to stay in this space for the long haul. He highlights three points to achieve this and goes into details on each.
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Episode Transcript
Rob Walling:
So I needed an opener for the show, and I Googled “podcasting jokes,” and I guess the big joke is that most podcasts don’t have big audiences, or don’t have audiences at all. A bunch of the jokes are things like “What did the podcaster say to their audience? Is anybody out there?” And “what do you call a podcaster with an audience of one? Successful.” So while these jokes are not funny, it did make me thankful for you, our listeners. We have thousands of listeners every week, and we really appreciate you hanging around with us and sticking with us through these journeys.

We know that some of our shows are Sherry and I getting on the mic and talking about things we’re going through; other times it’s really instructional, educational, and then other times we’re interviewing successful people to find out what makes them tick and how they’ve done it in a sustainable fashion. This week, Sherry is on the road, and she’s actually dealing with multiple health issues in her family as well as doing a lot of one-on-ones at a conference on the West Coast, and so I’m flying solo, and I think it’s going to be awesome.
Rob Walling:
So this week, it’s just me, as I said in the intro. I’m going to be talking about playing longball, thinking about, as a founder or significant other of a founder, how to be in this game for the long term. I’ve picked three points that I want to talk about: the first one is valuing relationships over success. The reason that I find this so important is that I see founders who basically value their own success over the relationships around them, and they’re willing to either burn relationships or just burn people in general over this.

What I’ve learned over my 20 years, almost 20 years as an entrepreneur, is that you don’t become successful without relationships. It is such a monumental task to climb up this tower and reach the top and have some success as an entrepreneur, and at a certain point in my career, I thought that you could do it alone. I thought that I could accomplish this without anybody’s help, and the further that I’ve gone along, the more I’ve realized, there’s an old African proverb, it says “If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together.”

That’s how I think about this, is like, playing longball in entrepreneurship and not just coming in and trying to do something for one or two years because you want to make some money or you want to create your job. That’s not a sustainable approach to this. If you want to do it, value your relationships. And what I mean by that, there’s a number of things. I’m going to talk four of five different things that you can do to make sure that you’re valuing the people around you and you’re building relationships in a way where you’re not using people and where you’re not screwing them over.

So one thing is not to steal other people’s ideas. This is widespread, it’s insane how many times I’ve said something or written something or done something in a talk, and I will literally hear someone say it a couple weeks later in their own blog and act as if they came up with this,
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February 17, 2017 Episode 105: Founder Families – Coping with Cancer
With a recent cancer diagnoses of a family member, Sherry and Rob talk about some the ways they will be impacted including added stress, unknown schedules, and trouble planning future events. They give some strategies they will implement in order to help the family deal with the situation.
18 min
February 17, 2017 Episode 105: Founder Families – Coping with Cancer
With a recent cancer diagnoses of a family member, Sherry and Rob talk about some the ways they will be impacted including added stress, unknown schedules, and trouble planning future events. They give some strategies they will implement in order to help the family deal with the situation.
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February 10, 2017 Episode 104: A Brief Update
In the middle of both Rob and Sherry traveling to attend conferences, Rob gives a brief update on what they are up to as well as a podcast recommendation featuring Sherry.
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February 10, 2017 Episode 104: A Brief Update
In the middle of both Rob and Sherry traveling to attend conferences, Rob gives a brief update on what they are up to as well as a podcast recommendation featuring Sherry.
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The Psychology of the Entrepreneur,with Sherry Walling
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February 03, 2017 Episode 103: Responding to the Ugliness of the World
Sherry talks about the importance of appreciating what is good about life and to honor, protect, and love things that are beautiful in response to the ugliness that is going on in the world.
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