#20 - Listen to all episodes of a podcast (95/101).

I enjoy listening to podcasts. I told my grandmother I was listening to a podcast the other day and she didn't know what it was, so for those who do not know what podcasts are, Wikipedia says they are "episodic series of digital audio or video files which a user can download and listen to". I have found podcasts to be a great source of content to listen to when in transit - in the car, on the subway, on a plane, on a walk, etc. Over the last months, I have been listening to every episode of a podcast called How I Built This with Guy Raz, a NPR podcast that "dives into the stories behind some of the world's best known companies -- weaves a narrative journey about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the movements they built". There have been about seventy episodes of the podcast so far (as of February 2018), which began in Fall 2016.

It was so interesting to listen to the stories behind many companies I am familiar with, some I use daily (like Instagram), some I had never heard of (like Radio One) and many that have great stories about resilience, grit, discipline, risk, entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship, phases of growth (startup, scale, etc.), luck, and more. I definitely suggest picking a few to listen to when you have time.

Some of my favorite episodes (and a memorable quote from each) include:

• Edible Arrangements: Tariq Farid: "Well if no one else does it, why do you think you will be successful? So I would encourage you to stick to your daytime job"
• Spanx: Sara Blakely: “In the middle of my meeting with her, I could tell I was losing her…so I said, “You know what, will you come with me to the bathroom?”
• Real Estate Mogul Barbara Corcoran: “we are going to have to make a lot of changes…and the hardest change of all is me firing my mother."
• Radio One: Cathy Hughes: "you have to be so very careful about who you discuss your hard times with because those who love you and care for you the most, like your mother, like your best friend, they'll give you the worst damn advice in the world"
• Zumba: Beto Perez & Alberto Perlman: "We had zero in the bank, we created this beautiful email, we pressed send and were praying, please, please, and suddenly four hundred and fifty instructors joined"
• TOMS: Blake Mycoskie: "Muchas zapatos rapido!"