Sherry and Rob talk about ADD/ADHD and its prevalence in the founder community. They help inform people on what it looks it and when its considered a disorder versus just a behavioral profile.

Sherry and Rob talk about ADD/ADHD and its prevalence in the founder community. They help inform people on what it looks it and when its considered a disorder versus just a behavioral profile.

ADD Symptoms:

Careless mistakes, difficulty attending to details

Problems with sustained attention

Difficulty following through on instructions

Does not seem to listen

Difficulty organizing tasks

Often loses things

Forgetful in daily activities

ADHD Symptoms:

Fidgets

Leaves seat in situations where remaining in seat is expected

Restless movement

Difficulty being quiet

“On the go” “driven by a motor”

Talks excessively

Blurts out an answer before a question has been completed

Difficulty taking turns

Often interrupts or intrudes on others

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Sherry Walling:

How are you doing? How’s your Monday treating you?

Rob Walling:

So far, so good.

Sherry Walling:

Despite starting the day with water dripping down the ceiling of our kitchen?

Rob Walling:

Yeah.

Sherry Walling:

Or pouring. Pouring, I should say.

Rob Walling:

Out of a light, a can light. It was just coming right between the bulb, so you’re waiting for something to start sparking but it never did. Yeah. There was that. There was dropping of my car at the mechanic to get the side mirror fixed because it got smacked by a car when it was parked on the street. And then so far, so good today with our email queues. Monday mornings are always the trickiest days because a lot of sending happens, and so far we’re holding up well. So some pluses and some minuses, I’d say.

Sherry Walling:

Hey. Good deal, man. At least no one was injured in the kitchen flood of 2017.

Rob Walling:

I know. And the nice part is I walk in the door from dropping one of our kids off at essentially science, math … it’s like a STEM program before school. And I walk back in, and you’re at yoga, and our six-year-old who was here with your parents, but he had seen the water come down and had grabbed a bowl and had put it underneath it. And I was really proud of him for his kind of quick thinking and doing the right thing. He didn’t just let water pour all over the wood floor. It’s pretty cool.

Sherry Walling:

He’s a smart kid. I think we should keep him.

Rob Walling:

Yeah. Indeed.

Sherry Walling:

So I thought we might talk about ADHD today. How do you feel about that?

In this episode Rob talks about why you should find a crew, how to find a crew, and why it is critical to your success as an entrepreneur. He shares how he has met his crew throughout the years and divides them into 3 different roles.

In this episode Rob talks about why you should find a crew, how to find a crew, and why it is critical to your success as an entrepreneur. He shares how he has met his crew throughout the years and divides them into 3 different roles.

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Rob Walling:

If you enjoy the Zen Founder podcast and feel like you get some value out of it we’d love a five star review in iTunes or Stitcher or Downcast or whichever podcatcher you use and even more, we’d love it if you’d head on over to support zenfounder.com and pledging even $1 or $2 an episode is a huge help towards keeping us on the air and keeping the show at the highest quality possible.

 

I’m flying solo again this week I received some positive feedback about the episode playing long ball that I recorded a couple of weeks ago, Sherry’s at south … By South West this week in Austin, Texas, meeting up with some important folks and exploring opportunities and doing fancy business type things and so here I am, sitting in a closet that’s turned into an office just recording for you.

 

This week I’m gonna be talking about finding your crew, how to find your crew, why you should find your crew and how critical it is to your success.

 

So I’m actually enjoying these solo episodes and it’s not often I get to sit and kind of diatribe for 14, 15 minutes, but it’s funny how many detailed thoughts like this that have occurred to me over the years that I’ve always wanted to put into a blog post and just don’t have the time to spend the two or three hours, well I should say two to eight hours for me to actually get it published and the quality that I want, so here I am someday maybe these will become blog posts but for now these are kind of off the top of my head types things I am putting together outlines and following on them so that there is a decent flow to the episode, but these are things that I’ve been thinking about for a while.

 

This week I wanna talk about finding your crew and what I mean by that, you know when I saw your crew, what I mean is like three to five people who are really going to be all in with you on your entrepreneurial journey so this is not your spouse, it’s not your kids, it’s very, very unlikely that it’s anyone in even in your extended family, that’s a possibility but I would doubt it. These are three to five people who are gonna support you, who are gonna be either a mentor, a peer or in the long run, a mentee and it’s a small group of people and that’s why I call it a crew, you know there’s this concept that Seth Godin talks about where it’s find your tribe and I do think you need to find your tribe and you probably define your tribe first before you go try to find your crew ’cause your crew’s probably gonna come out of that tribe.

 

When Seth Godin talks about it he’s basically saying, “Find the people who are doing the same thing you are and love the same things you do and have the same aspirations that you do.”. But what I found is that finding your tribe doesn’t tend to be enough, the tribe is just too big and it’s just too impersonal and I think as I said you’re gonna need to find your tribe and then dig into it and try to find that handful of people who are really gonna be all in with you and this is why you know I’ve long valued mastermind groups as far as I know, the first person to really dig into mastermind groups in the

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.

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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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.

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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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

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.

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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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,