WEBVTT - My Hot Take on Remote Work 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.160 Welcome to business and the podcast for people making it 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:07.320 all happen. Running a successful business completely takes over your life, 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:10.120 but I'm a believer that there is still room for 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:14.560 some ands like health, wealth, beauty, and maybe even some fashion. 0:00:14.840 --> 0:00:16.960 On this podcast, I'll share with you what's working for 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:19.840 scaling my nine figure business while keeping you up to 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:23.040 date on the latest trends, news and fun finds. This 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:25.920 is a place for business and let's dive in! 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:29.400 Welcome to business. And one of the things I'm very 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:32.440 passionate about is getting people to work in an office. 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:35.640 We've spent millions of dollars in order to build great 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:39.320 offices where people enjoy working. We want people in office. 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:42.400 I believe that somebody inside my environment, I'm able to 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:45.200 more significantly impact than if they are just left on 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:47.639 their own in order to create their own environment, in 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:49.640 their own home, in a place that isn't inspiring to 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:52.519 them currently. So this episode is all about how you 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:56.360 stay firm on working in office, what the perks of 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:58.320 working in office are, and how you get the best 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:00.990 team members who want to help you work in office 0:01:00.990 --> 0:01:03.870 and crush your goals. Let's dive in. The first reason 0:01:03.870 --> 0:01:07.590 CEOs are done with remote work. It kills momentum. It 0:01:07.590 --> 0:01:11.110 is so tempting to work remotely, I get it, there 0:01:11.110 --> 0:01:13.630 is nothing that sounds nicer than being able to have 0:01:13.630 --> 0:01:16.750 a pile of laundry that's actually getting done while you're 0:01:16.750 --> 0:01:19.470 on a call and moving certain initiatives forward, but what 0:01:19.470 --> 0:01:22.950 I found is that remote work actually slows your progress. 0:01:22.950 --> 0:01:25.509 It doesn't make it faster, because all of a sudden, 0:01:25.510 --> 0:01:27.470 that laundry list of things that you had to do, 0:01:27.510 --> 0:01:29.590 you start slowly chipping away at those things, but you 0:01:29.590 --> 0:01:33.150 don't ever get any one thing done to the full extent. 0:01:33.150 --> 0:01:35.990 Your brain is scattered in multiple places and you're solving 0:01:35.990 --> 0:01:40.830 multiple problems all at once. You're solving home personal fitness problems, 0:01:40.830 --> 0:01:43.950 all while you're also trying to solve financial problems. If 0:01:43.950 --> 0:01:45.430 you really want to make a lot of money, you 0:01:45.430 --> 0:01:48.670 should spend the majority of your brainpower focused on your 0:01:48.670 --> 0:01:52.510 financial related problems. Not trying to be more effective at home, 0:01:52.510 --> 0:01:54.750 not trying to be more productive. Not trying to have 0:01:54.750 --> 0:01:58.340 this perfectly run household. None of that makes you money 0:01:58.340 --> 0:02:00.620 and it also slows you in your career. So if 0:02:00.620 --> 0:02:04.540 you are feeling slow, unmotivated, or disconnected from your passions 0:02:04.540 --> 0:02:08.380 and your goals, it might just be because you're working remotely. 0:02:08.540 --> 0:02:10.780 Get back in office. And I have a feeling that 0:02:10.780 --> 0:02:12.340 all of a sudden you're going to make progress on 0:02:12.340 --> 0:02:14.940 the most important things and the things that don't matter. 0:02:14.980 --> 0:02:18.139 They don't matter. Next is number two. CEOs know that 0:02:18.139 --> 0:02:21.540 the secret to company culture is actually having people show 0:02:21.540 --> 0:02:24.339 up and listen, I have tried. You see, I do 0:02:24.340 --> 0:02:28.260 a daily team call every single morning, and this daily 0:02:28.260 --> 0:02:31.740 call has as much energy as it can possibly have 0:02:31.780 --> 0:02:34.660 for being a zoom call, but it doesn't replace real 0:02:34.660 --> 0:02:38.460 in-person interactions. You don't make best friends. You don't run 0:02:38.460 --> 0:02:41.380 up against people on a zoom call. You just see 0:02:41.380 --> 0:02:43.579 them as screens. And sure, you may learn a little 0:02:43.620 --> 0:02:45.980 bit about them just by them being in their home 0:02:45.980 --> 0:02:47.859 and you being able to see different things that they're 0:02:47.860 --> 0:02:50.220 interested in, plans that they have, books that they have. 0:02:50.260 --> 0:02:52.859 We started our business in 2019, and the moment that 0:02:52.860 --> 0:02:56.210 Covid hit, we moved to a remote work environment. And 0:02:56.210 --> 0:02:57.930 what I can tell you is that as soon as 0:02:57.930 --> 0:03:01.169 we went remote, our team members figured out ways to 0:03:01.210 --> 0:03:04.250 meet in person and to do work in person. Not 0:03:04.250 --> 0:03:07.450 because we forced them to, but because they wanted to. 0:03:07.610 --> 0:03:10.130 People who are high performers want to be around other 0:03:10.130 --> 0:03:13.170 people who are high performers. They met in person because 0:03:13.210 --> 0:03:15.970 in-person matters. And the more that we move into a 0:03:15.970 --> 0:03:20.090 digital age with AI generating images, which are very difficult 0:03:20.090 --> 0:03:22.769 to determine whether or not they're real or fake, the 0:03:22.770 --> 0:03:27.810 in-person contact for high performers changes everything. You can see energy, 0:03:27.810 --> 0:03:30.570 you can see the tone, you can make eye contact. 0:03:30.570 --> 0:03:33.769 And that is really hard to replicate virtually if you've 0:03:33.770 --> 0:03:38.050 been feeling disengaged or uninspired at work. The missing ingredient 0:03:38.050 --> 0:03:41.730 might be the proximity to the culture and fun energy 0:03:41.730 --> 0:03:44.050 of the place that you work. I am so passionate 0:03:44.050 --> 0:03:46.810 about this topic that I actually wrote an entire book 0:03:46.850 --> 0:03:49.290 about it. It is called Start the Work and if 0:03:49.290 --> 0:03:52.930 you go to start the work, I can get you 0:03:52.930 --> 0:03:56.320 a free copy. Now back over to number three. Next 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:58.960 is number three. This is the one that CEOs never 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:02.640 say out loud. Remote work makes it way easier to quit. 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:04.680 You see, the number one reason why people stay in 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:07.480 an organization is because they have a work bestie. There's 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:09.720 somebody at work that they enjoy spending time with. They 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:13.000 enjoy hanging out with and having that in person person 0:04:13.000 --> 0:04:16.560 allows the team to be more cohesive and gives a 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:20.320 reason to people to stay, especially when times are tough. 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:23.760 There's a contraction. There are issues in the business. The 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:27.600 people are what make the business actually work, and the 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:30.680 people are the reason that your best people stay. When 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.640 we made the shift after quarantine was over from remote 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:36.960 to in-person, there were definitely some employees who chose to leave, 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:39.039 and they chose to leave because they didn't have people 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:42.800 that they were connected to. But those who stayed, they 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:47.040 thrived because of their relationships and the personal connections that 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:50.520 they had with team members. You see, CEOs rely on 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:54.910 empathy and connection and employees, motivating each other to create 0:04:54.910 --> 0:04:58.950 a working environment that attracts and retains top talent. The 0:04:58.950 --> 0:05:01.750 best workplaces are the workplaces where you feel like you're 0:05:01.750 --> 0:05:04.990 rubbing shoulders against people who are high performers, people who 0:05:04.990 --> 0:05:08.469 you can learn from. So if you work remote and 0:05:08.470 --> 0:05:12.750 you feel disconnected or unfulfilled, try to form new relationships 0:05:12.750 --> 0:05:16.390 with your coworkers in person if you can. Next is 0:05:16.390 --> 0:05:20.589 number four. Leaders can't fix what they can't see. Countless 0:05:20.589 --> 0:05:26.150 problems go entirely unnoticed in a remote environment, and it's 0:05:26.150 --> 0:05:30.070 very challenging for a senior leader to see what's going 0:05:30.070 --> 0:05:34.510 on when the problem is not really visible. I remember 0:05:34.510 --> 0:05:37.190 a specific team that I worked with when they were remote, 0:05:37.190 --> 0:05:40.190 and the senior leader was confused as to why their 0:05:40.190 --> 0:05:43.430 team members weren't actually hitting results. And week after week, 0:05:43.470 --> 0:05:46.029 the senior team member became more and more frustrated because 0:05:46.029 --> 0:05:48.909 their junior team members weren't doing what they wanted them 0:05:48.910 --> 0:05:50.830 to do. And I said, have you looked at where 0:05:50.830 --> 0:05:53.140 they're spending their time? And he's like, what do you mean? 0:05:53.140 --> 0:05:54.740 How could I look at where they're spending their time? 0:05:54.779 --> 0:05:56.740 It's like, well, pull up their calendars with them and 0:05:56.740 --> 0:05:59.060 their one on ones and ask them where they're spending 0:05:59.060 --> 0:06:01.380 their time. And when he did this the following week, 0:06:01.380 --> 0:06:04.419 he was shocked to find out that the team members 0:06:04.420 --> 0:06:08.740 were prioritizing two things taking approximately 50% of their time 0:06:08.740 --> 0:06:11.659 that they didn't even need to do, which was causing 0:06:11.660 --> 0:06:14.460 a significant lack of productivity. But you see, the senior 0:06:14.500 --> 0:06:17.339 person couldn't see that this was happening because they couldn't 0:06:17.339 --> 0:06:20.260 see that people were actually meeting about some project that 0:06:20.260 --> 0:06:22.500 wasn't germane to what they were supposed to be doing. 0:06:22.500 --> 0:06:25.180 They were meeting without the senior team member even knowing 0:06:25.180 --> 0:06:27.860 about it. So the ability to see what's going on 0:06:27.860 --> 0:06:30.659 in your environment when you're a leader allows you to 0:06:30.700 --> 0:06:33.739 have instant feedback of whether or not somebody is spending 0:06:33.740 --> 0:06:35.580 their time, right, or if they're spending their time in 0:06:35.580 --> 0:06:38.180 the wrong places. And as you grow a business, it 0:06:38.180 --> 0:06:41.100 becomes more and more important for your team members to 0:06:41.100 --> 0:06:44.700 be solving the right problems. So this real time feedback 0:06:44.700 --> 0:06:47.940 is the missing component. If you feel like your career 0:06:47.940 --> 0:06:50.930 is not going anywhere. It's likely not because of a 0:06:50.930 --> 0:06:54.050 lack of skill. It's a lack of visibility. Nobody knows 0:06:54.050 --> 0:06:57.170 that you're solving the wrong problems, and nobody's guiding you 0:06:57.170 --> 0:07:00.690 to solve better problems and more important problems. If you're 0:07:00.690 --> 0:07:04.250 early in your career, embrace going into the office and 0:07:04.250 --> 0:07:08.049 looking for an in-office role. You will grow so much 0:07:08.050 --> 0:07:11.770 faster than your peers who think that it's really convenient 0:07:11.770 --> 0:07:14.770 to have a remote job. Sure, it might be convenient, 0:07:14.770 --> 0:07:17.530 and it sounds nice and it's the sexy thing to do, 0:07:17.530 --> 0:07:19.610 but I can assure you they will not progress as 0:07:19.610 --> 0:07:22.090 fast as you will. If you pick the right place 0:07:22.090 --> 0:07:24.970 with the right team and take a lot of action 0:07:24.970 --> 0:07:26.530 in order to make sure that you're moving the most 0:07:26.530 --> 0:07:29.770 important things forward. Next is one of the biggest secrets 0:07:29.810 --> 0:07:34.970 CEOs won't admit. They build beautiful offices because they understand 0:07:34.970 --> 0:07:38.770 that your work environment shapes your dreams. You see, behind 0:07:38.770 --> 0:07:43.170 me is one of our many beautiful office spaces. I 0:07:43.170 --> 0:07:46.929 have meticulously picked out every color, every surface, every texture 0:07:46.930 --> 0:07:49.760 inside this office. And I did it for two purposes. 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:52.840 The first, I wanted to give our clients an experience. 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:54.760 When they walk in the office. I wanted to represent 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:56.400 the quality of the work that we do. But the 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:59.040 second reason was to give my team members access to 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:02.000 something that they could touch, that they could feel that 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:04.040 they could be a part of every single day that 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:07.080 made their dreams feel like they're possible. When I first 0:08:07.080 --> 0:08:10.280 started my career, I dreamed of having The Devil Wears 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:14.280 Prada moment, where she walks across the big entryway in 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:17.160 some gorgeous New York building, and she goes up this 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:20.920 beautiful elevator, and she's entering these glass doors with the 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:24.760 Vogue logo behind a very chic counter. And the office 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:27.240 just looked inspiring. It looked like someplace you'd want to 0:08:27.280 --> 0:08:30.000 work and spend 12 hours a day or 14 hours 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:32.520 a day, because it was actually a cool place to be. 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:34.679 And when I was creating this office, I wanted that 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:36.679 same experience for my team members. And this is what 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:39.960 great CEOs do. JP Morgan just spent tens of millions 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:42.360 of dollars on their most recent build out, so that 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:45.560 they could have restaurants and different types of food, and 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:48.150 all sorts of different services available to their team members 0:08:48.150 --> 0:08:50.350 to optimize their ability to work. Now, we've done this 0:08:50.390 --> 0:08:52.950 in small ways and are continuing to iterate on this 0:08:52.950 --> 0:08:55.429 for the sole purpose of having our team members have 0:08:55.429 --> 0:09:01.510 an experience that they enjoy. Because your environment subconsciously reinforces identity, 0:09:01.510 --> 0:09:06.150 and walking into a polished, high aesthetic space elevates your standards. 0:09:06.150 --> 0:09:08.670 If you want to level up your output. Start by 0:09:08.670 --> 0:09:12.110 working at big companies where you can feel the inspiration 0:09:12.110 --> 0:09:15.790 and the energy inside that environment. That brings us to 0:09:15.830 --> 0:09:19.070 the final insight, which is CEOs know that in office 0:09:19.110 --> 0:09:22.870 work provides more job security for employees. You see, here 0:09:22.870 --> 0:09:27.390 is the real data remote. First, startups grow 30% slower, 0:09:27.429 --> 0:09:31.189 according to the Startup Genome report, and they are 40% 0:09:31.190 --> 0:09:34.830 more likely to fail after early fundraising. And office based 0:09:34.830 --> 0:09:39.429 companies are twice as likely to hit major growth milestones, 0:09:39.470 --> 0:09:43.870 according to Crunchbase. So data never lies. It is so 0:09:43.870 --> 0:09:46.900 easy in today's society to think that remote work is 0:09:46.900 --> 0:09:48.860 just the greatest thing, and that this is the new 0:09:48.860 --> 0:09:50.820 era and that this is what makes sense. But I 0:09:50.820 --> 0:09:53.179 promise you that working remote is the fastest way for 0:09:53.179 --> 0:09:55.740 you to get confused, for you to get insecure, and 0:09:55.740 --> 0:09:58.620 for you not to make the progress that you want. Now, 0:09:58.620 --> 0:10:00.260 there might be a handful of people out there who 0:10:00.260 --> 0:10:02.740 can make remote work for them. I am not one 0:10:02.740 --> 0:10:05.580 of those people. I need to interact with leaders. I 0:10:05.580 --> 0:10:08.100 need to create energy. I need to see what is 0:10:08.100 --> 0:10:10.660 happening in my environment, and I want to be around 0:10:10.660 --> 0:10:12.820 people that are pushing me to the next level. That's 0:10:12.820 --> 0:10:15.500 what nobody's talking about when they talk about remote work. 0:10:15.540 --> 0:10:18.939 You in your bedroom, you in your office, you working 0:10:18.940 --> 0:10:22.300 at your kitchen means you are stuck inside your existing environment. 0:10:22.300 --> 0:10:25.620 There is no you going outside the environment outside of 0:10:25.620 --> 0:10:28.100 your normal day to day routine tasks like going to 0:10:28.140 --> 0:10:31.300 the grocery store, getting gas at the gas station so 0:10:31.340 --> 0:10:33.380 you're not going in places that are going to make 0:10:33.380 --> 0:10:35.860 you more money. You're in the exact same places, making 0:10:35.860 --> 0:10:37.580 the same amount of money that you already make. In 0:10:37.580 --> 0:10:39.819 order to make more money, nine times out of ten, 0:10:39.820 --> 0:10:41.740 you have to leave where you are in order to 0:10:41.780 --> 0:10:45.090 go someplace new to be uncomfortable, to connect with new people. 0:10:45.090 --> 0:10:46.890 And you're not going to do that while sitting comfortably 0:10:46.890 --> 0:10:48.450 in your home. In fact, you're going to get so 0:10:48.450 --> 0:10:50.850 comfortable that it's going to be even harder for you 0:10:50.850 --> 0:10:53.089 to go out and feel confident talking to people. It's 0:10:53.090 --> 0:10:54.610 going to be even harder for you to go to 0:10:54.650 --> 0:10:56.610 the networking event, because you have to change out of 0:10:56.610 --> 0:10:59.209 your pajamas and everything feels like you're just not ready 0:10:59.210 --> 0:11:01.809 for it, because you aren't actually ready for it. You 0:11:01.809 --> 0:11:05.370 are compromising your growth for your comfort when you are 0:11:05.370 --> 0:11:07.809 working remote. If you're in a certain phase of life 0:11:07.809 --> 0:11:11.570 that requires you to do that, okay, cool, that makes sense. 0:11:11.570 --> 0:11:14.810 But don't complain about not making more forward progression at 0:11:14.809 --> 0:11:18.010 the same time as you're actually choosing comfort, because the 0:11:18.010 --> 0:11:20.770 lack of forward progression is quite literally because you are 0:11:20.770 --> 0:11:24.090 not putting yourself in uncomfortable situations with new people and 0:11:24.090 --> 0:11:26.569 forcing yourself to do something over and over again that 0:11:26.570 --> 0:11:28.610 you likely don't want to do in order to get 0:11:28.610 --> 0:11:31.370 a great outcome. You see, when people choose to show 0:11:31.370 --> 0:11:34.970 up in office and they work hard alongside other people 0:11:34.970 --> 0:11:37.490 who are working hard, who they feel inspired by, their 0:11:37.490 --> 0:11:41.400 chances of success increase remarkably. If you want job security. 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:44.559 You probably shouldn't work remote because those companies are more 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:47.480 likely to fail. So moving into a city in your 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:50.439 20s where you work for a big corporate company is 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:53.440 something that I strongly recommend. You'll not only connect with 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:56.920 people and make friends, but you'll have more job security 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.360 than remote work can ever give you, and you will 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:02.080 create more confidence in yourself by doing something that you 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:06.000 are incredibly uncomfortable doing. 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