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38. Fractional COO Beata Rouleau on Scaling Without the Bloat · Scrappy but Successful [Consultant's Personalities When No One's Watching]

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  Jack: Yeah. Yeah, I I'm in the same boat there. You gotta just like I'm a
• 37:54
  Jack: fan of failing fast and typically those conversations don't fail. but so you just you
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  Jack: just gotta start, right? I mean it's the same thing for the entrepreneurship. If you're
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  Jack: in one of those conversations and it's really run its course, how do you get
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  Jack: out of that?
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  Beata: you know, I will I will just say, hey, it was great meeting you. Like
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  Beata: I'll just say something like that, Hey, it's great meeting you. I hope you have
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  Beata: a good rest of your night, and just exit it that way. so I don't
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  Beata: typically have a problem doing that. It's tougher if you're see if it's a seated
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  Beata: environment. If you're standing, it's really easy. If it's a seated environment, yeah, it's gonna
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  Beata: be tough to get out of that. So I would say stand as long as
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  Beata: you can when you find someone you're excited with.
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  Jack: Yeah.
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  Beata: Go sit with them somewhere.
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  Jack: Yep. And then they say, Hey, thanks, it's been nice talking to you and then
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  Jack: they leave you. do you recommend books or do you recommend podcasts?
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  Beata: Yeah. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Like leave me alone. I like podcasts. Easier. Yeah. For for
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  Beata: business, easier bite size for me to break down. But I've actually been doing less
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  Beata: podcast, feeling like so much information overload. I've actually been trying to spend car rides
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  Beata: and things like that, just sometimes in silence. I'll send I talk with a bunch
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  Beata: of my business friends, we'll send audio messages back and forth. So less consuming, more
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  Beata: freeing up some space in my brain.
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  Jack: Okay. Okay. I had a similar thought the other day. I was like, all right,
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  Jack: what was the last time that I wasn't receiving information? So like I go from
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  Jack: computer and if I go shower, I'm throwing on a podcast and then I'm gonna
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  Jack: go watch T V. Like what if I just turn everything off? And that's the
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  Jack: best time I thought the whole week.
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  Beata: Absolutely. And that's why a lot of people, the shower thoughts, if you've heard that
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  Beata: term before, you get really creative ideas in the shower right when you wake up,
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  Beata: when you're going to bed, because it's the first time your your brain is relaxing.
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  Beata: But now in the shower you can prop yeah, you can put a podcast, put
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  Beata: a YouTube video. So it's really hard, but every time I do it I'm glad
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  Beata: I did.
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  Jack: Course, yeah. Yeah, hundred percent agree. Alright, take me inside the kitchen a little bit.
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  Jack: You ever use a clean tupperware as a bowl because all the bowls were dirty?
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  Beata: Gosh, that's a good question. Probably. Yeah, I'm in charge of the the keeping the
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  Beata: dishes clean, so I'm sure that's happened. Maybe more for people than me.
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  Jack: Yeah. Okay. Okay. Do you ever use two already used dryer sheets instead of one
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  Jack: new dryer sheet?
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  Beata: I actually don't use dryer sheets. Yeah.
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  Jack: that's crazy. Are you do you use some ord other fabrics oftener?
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  Beata: No, I don't I don't know. I'm not very I'm not a very like sophisticated
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  Beata: housewife, I'll say that. so I just use like detergent and I just put things
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  Beata: in the dryer.
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  Jack: Yeah. Okay. All right. I mean, hey, that's I think that does it. Hundred percent
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  Jack: scrappy. There's there's some sophistication going on for sure, but I love it. I think
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  Jack: the area that you're in is really cool. thank you so much for coming on,
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  Jack: Bayata. What do you want the folks out there to know? Anything you want to
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  Jack: promote?
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  Beata: Nothing's working so far. No, I mean, obviously if people want to have a conversation
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  Beata: with me, I my LinkedIn LinkedIn's gonna be the best way to do that. I'm
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  Beata: always happy to talk with CEOs, doing interesting things, see if I can help in
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  Beata: any way, even if it's just a quick call, provide some advice, share what's working
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  Beata: for others. outside of that though, just encourage people to have a bias towards action.
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  Beata: Like if you have an idea, how quickly can you take the first step on
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  Beata: that? Most people get stuck where they have an idea and then They have the
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  Beata: next idea and then they have the next idea. So at least take one step
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  Beata: if you have an idea would be my encouragement.
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  Jack: There you go. Remember lesson one, everybody. Don't build the product first. Who's buying it?
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  Jack: A hundred percent scrappy. I love it. Bayada, thank you so much for coming on.
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  Jack: It's been a blast. And stay data driven, everybody.
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  Beata: Yeah, yeah. Thanks. Bye guys.