Sketchy Ideas

By Sketchy Ideas Show

Sketchy Ideas is a video podcast where Michael and Brad illustrate and debate concepts surrounding leadership, business, and personal achievement in a way that'll make you think twice before you imple... more

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How many episodes does Sketchy Ideas have?

The podcast currently has 95 episodes available.

Sketchy Ideas episodes:

June 09, 2022 Episode 95: Make Meetings Matter - How to Fill your Day with Productive Collaboration and Fewer Naps
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29min
June 06, 2022 Episode 94: Lead Your Ship - Get the Crew Rowing the Right Direction
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33min
May 26, 2022Episode 93: No More Bad Meetings - Find more time and get more done, by design
Sketchy Ideas Episode 93 Show Notes
:10 Intro
Producer panicking

Sponsors

Cream City Marketing
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Spearity and the Idea Collective

WASC leadership camp
5:00 How to avoid bad meetings
Don’t get together just to get together

Have intentions for said meeting

Have a plan
Why are we meeting

What is the context

What needs to be discussed/decided

What is our next steps

13:30 One-pager
Make an agenda
One page - NO MORE

Past 5 bullet points need to be prioritized

20:00 How to stay useful in meetings
Create buffers for yourself

Roberts’s rule of order

Present meetings differently.
32:00 Wrap up
Next week: find out
Send questions to [email protected]
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35min
May 19, 2022Episode 92: I’m Back, Now What? -– Maximizing the post-retreat glow
Sketchy Ideas Episode 92 Show Notes
:10 Intro
Producer panicking

Sponsors

Cream City Marketing
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Spearity and the Idea Collective
2:30 Retreat recap
Idea collective
Savannah Bananas baseball game

Connect with others weather business related or not

Recognize the burn out and take the trip

Goals made on trip
The future of Sketchy Ideas

Guest lists

Future topics

12:30 Glow
Goals going in

Low hanging fruit

Overview/summary

Work the plan
21:30 Words to work in
Each week Brad and Michael will be given a word that they have to work in to the sho that week

Value of a scoreboard
22:00 Planing
Have a plan or you will make an excuse to not work

Don't have meetings that are pointless
26:00 Brad is a doer - what are you?
Don't let your schedule overload and overwhelm you
Make it productive with structure

32:00 Wrap up
Next week: find out
Send questions to [email protected]
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34min
May 05, 2022 Episode 91: Unplugged and off-grid - Rekindling the fire to prevent burnout
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34min
April 28, 2022Episode 90: When the ship pulls a 180...
Sketchy Ideas Episode 90 Show Notes
:10 Intro
Sponsors

Cream City Marketing
www.creamcitymarketing.com/

Spearity
2:30 New changes
Episode 100 coming, 90th today

At 100, we get ‘cool’
03:00 When the ship turns a 180
When big things happen and they affect us little guys

As a small business owner you should pay attention to the world - both big and small episodes

Some people pay to much attention to noise
They fall down a rabbit hole

If you choose to be a business owner you think are a leader
Not always because you need to pay attention to the things happening in the world

6:00 Twitter has been bought - Elon Musk
What does this mean

Be the rock for your tribe
Whatever that looks like and be the rational thinker

Don't go done the irrational thinker rabbit hole

10:00 Don't be afraid to say “I dont know”
Things can feel like noise if it doesn't pertain to you.

How to pay attention:
Prioritize time

Limit time

Open up

Practice filtering the difference

What is the motivation of the source
20:00 Show empathy and opportunity
Clubhouse

House

Pay attention and learn new things

Detox from scrolling
Not trolling and re-sharing things that are irrelevant

Dont focus all on twitter or you will miss out on other things happening
25:00 Don't be do gunhoe
You have to open the tunnel vision or you will be blindsided

Build your own thoughts

Don't get overwhelmed and stuck in the noise

32:00 Wrap up
Admin’s day, shout out to Nichole,Katelynn, Amanda
Next week: Road trips and retreats. Fires. Let them burn for your mental state

Send questions to [email protected]
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35min
April 21, 2022Episode 89: Split Offers - How to part the sales sea
Sketchy Ideas Episode 89 Show Notes
:10 Intro
Sponsors

Cream City Marketing
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Spearity
3:00 Sales Life
Is it an epic adventure

Real growing business and problems

Sketchy Ideas Real people with real problems - Michael
08:00 Splintering your offering
Offer stack
Physical goods

Complex items
Everything has values

Michaels sales process
Phase contractings

Extra sketchy not etchy sketchy - Brad

13:00 When you find out your good, you say yes
Find your niche

Results that are measurable

Take one item and break it down
Physical deliveries

Time

Result driven item/service

20:00 Grocery list
Lay it all out as a grocery list

Example from Beepods

Don't leave money on the table, don't trade time for money

“The complete system” you know it going to work
30:00 fake it to you make it
Figuring it out as you go

Brad offers an hour of his time at [email protected]

36:00 Wrap up
Next week: find out
Send questions to [email protected]
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37min
April 14, 2022Episode 88: What's It Worth To You - How To Calculate The True Value Of a Project
Sketchy Ideas Episode 88 Show Notes
:10 Intro
Meet Evan

Sponsors

Cream City Marketing
www.creamcitymarketing.com/

Spearity
2:00 calculating the true value of a project
Lets build it as we go

To much or to little value
Provide more value

What are things worth to you..thats your value

How do you even price
08:00 What did you drawl
Its an iceberg

Consultant vs contractor pricing
13:00 Ttwwadi
Don't keep buying bandaids, just because

Don't undervalue yourself
What would you pay yourself for doing X

18:00 Connect those dots
You're being paid mostly for your brain rather than the work
20:00 Treasure
The deeper you go, the more credible you are
The more they will pay you

Happy wife, happy life
Multiplier effect

Find the different multiplier effect for yur clients

25:00 Layers of the iceberg
Pain is the top

Under the water is the root cause/need

Bottom of iceberg is open to growth multiplier
30:00 Recap
Out of the blue

Call for guest
Who wants to be a guest

38:00 Wrap up
Next week; Spilt offers
Send questions to [email protected]
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33min
April 07, 2022 Rerun: Sketchy Ideas Episode 10: VUCA Deep Dive
0:57- Introduction
1:24 Topic intro: Good VUCA
Each part of VUCA is a function of something else, therefore they can be addressed, maybe even prevented
2:40 VUCA 2.0
Vison Understanding Courage Adaptability “In the face of volatility, what do we need to be ready for?” -M Consistency
7:00 Brad takes a shot at VUCA 2.0 (V)
“Vision is the guiding north star” -B “If you don’t have a vision, you don’t have a direction. If you don’t have a direction, you probably have VUCA” -B
8:06 Law of leadership (U)
First understand, then be understood Understand first to get a baseline picture of what is going on “Take care of yourself, but not at the expense of other’s health or wellbeing” -B
10:57 (C)
A sign of courage is making a decision “People often fall into indecision because it’s safe” -B In the long run, indecisiveness does more harm than good Make a choice, stick to that path, learn from it “Courage shows the willingness to be wrong” -B “We’re not retreating, we’re advancing in another direction” -M Pause, reevaluate, make the best choice to move forward Most people think of a plan and only focus on the end goal, when there are plenty of steps along the way.
17:30 (A)
In the words of Eagle Scout Brad James: Improvise Adapt Overcome “The opposite of adaptability is rigidity” -M “There’s always room for improvement” -B
19:43 TTWWADI
That’s the way we’ve always done it If the answer to why something is being done in a particular way is TTWWADI, then we have a problem. TTWWADI is a red flag Dig deeper “60% of small businesses aren’t on the internet” -B Correction: 46% of U.S. small businesses still don’t have a website for their company 59% if you consider most major countries Positive note that there are plenty of business to help market The negative note is that these businesses are getting far less traffic What is stopping you from adapting and getting your business online? SALES is HARD “Change or die” -M In regards to businesses “We are living in a world that Darwin would be proud of” -B
28:10 COVID
Relationships are either going to get stronger or weaker at home during covid More time together Advertisers are spending more on dating apps since they are getting more traffic during the pandemic
29:15 Startups
Hope to get bought out because they never know if they’ll make it Technological advancement/acceleration
30:00 Moore’s Law
Advancement of technology and computing power “Now is a good time to sell your house as long as you don’t need to move into a different one” -M
33:10 Good VUCA
Mixture of a strategic plan Low-level skills A way to counteract the bad VUCA Have your playbook! How will you adjust and prepare If, then map
35:30 Ending remarks/closeout
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39min
March 31, 2022Episode 87: The risk of assumption
Sketchy Ideas Episode 87 Show Notes
:10 Intro
Meet Evan

Sponsors

Cream City Marketing
www.creamcitymarketing.com/

Idea Collective
2:30 Last day of Quarter
Counting down to episode 100
04:00 Assumptions
Most people make assumptions

Poor Ume

Askew
07:00 Personal example
Brad - In the event space especially, you often assume you will get the same work
That is your brain making an assumption on past events - before the dotted line is signed

Michael - made assumptions about previous workplaces when making a scope of work
11:00 assumption vs intuition
The assumption is without proof
14:00 TTwwadi
That’s the way we have always done it
We don’t know anymore that’s why we do it

Monkeys in the shower
Don’t climb the ladder

20:00 Challenging the norm
A Square is a square and a rectangle is a rectangle

Common sense is a myth
But not the easter bunny

Don’t bang your head on a brick wall
25:00 Logic does exist
You cant assume people know
You have to let people ask questions

38:00 Recap
30:00 Wrap up
Next week; turn them into production action to move forward
Send questions to [email protected]
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31min

FAQs about Sketchy Ideas:

How many episodes does Sketchy Ideas have?

The podcast currently has 95 episodes available.