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Leading Change With A Small Fashion Business by Seth Godin

25m · Better Business Founder · 18 Nov 00:00

ON How A Small Fashion Business can effectively create change and even lead change. (3:28)

ON How Can A Small Fashion Business Be Seen And Heard in a Noisy World and Why Seth Thinks it's Great News to be Copied (5:46)

ON The Purpose of Words: To CONNECT (8:41)

ON Idiosyncrasy (10:58)

ON Empathy (12:14)

ON The Smallest Viable Audience (12:47)

ON Authenticity (13:37)

ON Why Running A Business Is A Creative Endeavour (14:21)

ON Tools For Modern Business Owners That Want to Make A Difference (16:33)

ON How Seth Chooses Which Projects to Work On (18:54)

ON Showing Up and 8000 blog posts in the time capsule for future generations (20:26)

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CONNECT WITH Seth Godin

Seth's Blog: https://seths.blog/

Seth's Podcast AKIMBO https://www.akimbo.link/

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MENTIONED IN THE CONVERSATION:

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blog post: Tools For Modern Citizens

Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke

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Check out Seth's on Wikipedia

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Host: Leekei Tang

Contact: hello (at) betterbusinessfounder.com

Music credits: Ukulele Fun by Liosound Music / Wooden Xylophone by Floraphonic

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