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Unconventional Wisdom About Conventional Wisdom

Unconventional Wisdom About Conventional Wisdom

著者： Kim Miller - Hershon
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Unconventional Wisdom About Conventional Wisdom: Where clichés come to retire and fresh thinking we inspire. Smart minds don’t think alike—and that’s the point. Unconventional Wisdom About Conventional Wisdom takes you inside the messy, brilliant, and bold thought processes of high-achieving leaders, entrepreneurs, and out-of-the-box thinkers. We skip the clichés and spotlight the real talk: the strange decisions that worked, the brilliant ideas that bombed, and the thought patterns that defy the rulebook—but still lead to growth, impact, and the occasional mic drop. If you’re tired of surface-level advice and crave the kind of wisdom that makes you pause, laugh, and level up—this is your new favorite listen. Because let’s face it: playing it safe never built anything worth bragging about.Copyright 2025 All rights reserved. マネジメント・リーダーシップ リーダーシップ 経済学
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  • Building a Career Without Pretending to Be Someone Else | Jason Clark

    Building a Career Without Pretending to Be Someone Else | Jason Clark
    2026/07/14
    In this episode of Unconventional Wisdom About Conventional Wisdom, Kim Miller-Hershon sits down with Jason Clark creative leader and marketing strategist with a career spanning more than three decades. Since 1990, Jason has worked at the intersection of design, technology, and storytelling, helping organizations translate complex ideas into clear, compelling brands. He bought into a small ad agency in 2003, bought out his partner, grew the business to 18 employees, and in 2023 almost exactly 20 years later sold and merged it into a larger digital services firm now known as Tectonic, where he serves as chief marketing officer. He's also spent 30-plus years throwing dance music parties, and opens the conversation with a genuinely uncanny story about hunting a rare set of books for years and walking into a Chicago bookstore fifteen minutes after someone sold them across the counter. In this conversation, Jason challenges the piece of conventional wisdom most professionals absorb without question: that you should keep who you really are separate from who you are at work. Early in his career he assumed he'd have to hide the tattoos, sand down the weirdness, keep the LinkedIn profile safely bland. Then his business partner said something that rearranged his thinking if someone won't do business with us because of your tattoos, I don't want to do business with them. The reframe wasn't "be weird and you'll succeed." It was that people want to work with people who are actually interesting, and the real task is finding a way to connect your values to your work rather than performing a version of yourself you can't sustain. Jason and Kim also dig into the myth of the one-size-fits-all playbook. He can trace the line from high schooler to near-retirement at 55, but only backward he had no idea what he was doing moving forward, and the path that got him here won't get anyone else there. If a single program really worked every time, they agree, we'd all be billionaires and they'd teach it in grade school. They talk about mining unlikely life experience for real transferable skill (his rave promotion taught him P&Ls; Kim's volunteer work taught her operations), about the difficult transition from business to enterprise, and about the founders who stay in everyone's way until the stress becomes a health issue. And on imposter syndrome, Jason offers the cleanest antidote in the episode: self-awareness beats omniscience. "I don't know" is a complete sentence. "I'll find out for you" is another. This episode explores: Why keeping your real self out of your work eventually breaks youThe tattoo conversation that changed how Jason ran his businessFinding a way to align your values with your career without "finding your passion"Why there's no one-size-fits-all path, and every playbook is someone else'sMining unconventional life experience for transferable skillsMaking the shift from technical skill to leadership skill IQ to EQKnowing when you need a coach (and when you just need to get out of your own way)Why so much flowing through the founder stunts the whole teamThe hard transition from business to enterpriseBuilding something that outlasts you, then letting it go Jason's perspective is a powerful reminder that success rarely follows the map you were handed and that the parts of yourself you were told to hide are often the parts that make the work worth doing. His arc from a kid with no money to an agency owner to a CMO shows that money buys choices, but a life spent performing someone else's version of professionalism buys misery. If you're a business owner, creative, or leader stuck in your own way, this conversation offers practical insight, honest talk about growth and self-awareness, and a refreshing case that the most interesting person in the room is usually the one asking the questions. Connect with me here: Website: https://www.kimmillerhershon.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmillerhershonNewsletter: https://link.kimmillerhershon.com/widget/form/aEdmdA1W5MhoMCMfy5O8Webinar: https://webinar.kimmillerhershon.com/?utm_source=Podcast Guest Details: Guest: Jason ClarkCompany: Tectonic — Chief Marketing OfficerFocus: Design, technology, and brand storytelling Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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    40 分
  • Business Exit, a Fortune 500 Lawsuit, and Building Resilience Through Hard Times | Kettia Ming

    Business Exit, a Fortune 500 Lawsuit, and Building Resilience Through Hard Times | Kettia Ming
    2026/07/10
    In this episode of Unconventional Wisdom About Conventional Wisdom, Kim Miller-Hershon sits down with Kettia Ming entrepreneur, author, business strategist, and nonprofit executive whose work explores resilience, reinvention, and the realities of building a meaningful life and business. Kettia founded and scaled a childcare company in New York City before selling it in a multimillion-dollar acquisition, and now serves as executive director of Black Theatre United, where she leads programs and partnerships designed to expand access and opportunity across the Broadway industry. She's also the founder of The Childcare Collective and Evergreen House Press, and the author of Run the Mile You're In: One Founder's Journey Through Success, Loss & Reinvention. A lifelong runner who has completed 13 marathons, including Boston, she brings the lessons of endurance, identity, and starting again into everything she does and the medals on her wall are less about the finish line than the journey it took to get there. In this conversation, Kettia challenges one of the most reflexive beliefs in business: that success always means growth. Early on, she assumed a successful business meant more locations, more revenue, more employees just more, because that's what the internet tells you. But growth brings complexity, and in a business built on leases and the licensed care of small humans, more can quietly become unsustainable. The better questions, she found, weren't about scale at all: What am I building? Why? And what will it require of me to sustain it? A turning point in Kettia's story arrived the day after the Boston Marathon, on the Amtrak home, when she finally opened a string of emails she'd been ignoring. A Fortune 500 buyer claimed her new center violated a non-compete by 100 feet. She had measured the distance carefully, the way you walk, drive, and run it; they measured it "as the crow flies," a term she'd never encountered, calculated by a surveyor she didn't know existed. With her family's future, home, and the proceeds of her sale all sunk into the new startup, she moved through denial, anger, and fear — then did the opposite of panic. She went completely still, went inward, and focused on one question: how do I get through this in one piece, with my family intact? The episode closes on the tools that keep her steady: walking away from a problem to let the solution surface (wisdom from her late father, who believed every problem already contains its answer if you get quiet enough), and treating imposter syndrome the way she treats the voice of doubt — acknowledge it, refuse to fight it, and don't give it a vote. This episode explores: Why "always grow" is the wrong default — and the better questions to askBuilding for sustainability instead of scale for its own sakeHow owners become employees of their own business — and how to stopMoving forward before you feel confident, because the answers come as you moveThe 100-feet "as the crow flies" lawsuit and what she couldn't have knownLetting go of "I should have known" when you did everything rightGoing still under pressure instead of spinning outThrowing out the belief that a leader must have all the answersWhy psychological safety has to start at the topLeading a multigenerational, multicultural team with a real sense of belongingWalking away from a problem to let the solution find youAsking your subconscious the question before you sleepWorking with imposter syndrome instead of against it Kettia's perspective is a powerful reminder that resilience isn't loud sometimes it's the stillness you find when everything's in jeopardy, and the refusal to beat yourself up for what you couldn't have known. Her journey from a basement childcare startup to a Fortune 500 legal fight to a thriving nonprofit shows that you don't have to run all 26 miles at once. You just have to run the mile you're in. If you're an entrepreneur, nonprofit leader, or anyone facing something hard right now, this conversation offers practical wisdom, hard-won honesty about doubt and imposter syndrome, and a refreshing case that surviving the worst can leave you stronger than before. Connect with me here: Website: https://www.kimmillerhershon.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmillerhershonNewsletter: https://link.kimmillerhershon.com/widget/form/aEdmdA1W5MhoMCMfy5O8Webinar: https://webinar.kimmillerhershon.com/?utm_source=Podcast Guest Details: Guest: Kettia Ming entrepreneur, author, business strategist, and executive director of Black Theatre United; founder of The Childcare Collective and Evergreen House PressBook: Run the Mile You're In: One Founder's Journey Through Success, Loss & ReinventionWebsite: https://www.kettiaming.com Find Kettia online: Website: https://www.kettiaming.comNewsletter — Run the Mile You're In on SubstackInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/kettia/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kettiamingSpeaking, podcast, and partnership inquiries: mingkettia...
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    38 分
  • Building a Team That Doesn't Need You: Resourcefulness, Focus, and the "I Belong" Mindset | Christian Espinosa

    Building a Team That Doesn't Need You: Resourcefulness, Focus, and the "I Belong" Mindset | Christian Espinosa
    2026/07/07

    In this episode of Unconventional Wisdom About Conventional Wisdom, Kim Miller-Hershon sits down with Christian Espinosa best-selling author, cybersecurity entrepreneur, and 24-time Ironman triathlete who built and sold Alpine Security and now leads Blue Goat Cyber, securing medical devices for FDA compliance. A blood clot survivor, Christian shares practical strategies for overcoming adversity, building resilient leadership, and navigating cybersecurity challenges. His books, The Smartest Person in the Room and The In-Between, explore how mindset shifts and emotional intelligence drive success. He's also, it turns out, a qualified Formula Four driver and the conversation opens on the track, where he's learned that slow is smooth, smooth is fast, and brute force only runs you off the road.

    In this conversation, Christian challenges a piece of conventional wisdom he swallowed whole with his first company: that everybody needs what you sell, so you should sell to everybody. Trying to push fifteen cybersecurity services to every vertical at once, he diluted his brand, diluted his messaging, and landed nowhere. The fix was counterintuitive — say no to fourteen things and go all in on one. At Blue Goat Cyber, doing one thing extremely well brings in far more revenue than chasing everything did. Niche down, know your ideal client, solve one real pain point.

    Christian and Kim also dig into a leadership habit that separates founders who scale from founders who don't: refusing to be the answer to everything. When his team asks him something he could easily answer, he often points them to the resources instead, because handing over the answer every time keeps people dependent and keeps him the constraint. As Kim frames it, a leader who supplies every answer becomes a slave to the business, unable to unplug, unable to step away, unable to grow the thing past themselves. A successful business, Christian insists, shouldn't need him at all.

    The two also explore the stories we tell ourselves — the theme of Christian's next book. They trade notes on the power of "I am" statements as identity, the smoker who quits versus the non-smoker who simply is one, and the danger of ignoring the gut voice that already knows. They talk about tuning in rather than tuning out, choosing yourself over reliving old trauma, and doing the inner work so you stop recreating the same circumstance. And when the talk turns to imposter syndrome, Christian offers the most concrete fix of the episode: a bracelet engraved "I belong," worn and read every day until the room he doubted became the room he owned. Change the story, and the conversations change with it.

    This episode explores:

    • Why "everybody needs it" is a trap — and how niching down grows revenue
    • Unlearning the craving for security to step into entrepreneurship
    • Teaching your team to be resourceful instead of dependent
    • Why a leader who answers everything becomes a slave to the business
    • Tuning in to the gut voice instead of rationalizing it away
    • Choosing yourself over reliving old trauma
    • The stories we tell ourselves, and the power of "I am" statements
    • Interrogating a big reaction before responding to the trigger
    • Doing the inner work so you stop recreating the same situation

    If you're an entrepreneur, leader, or anyone wrestling with the gap between what you know and what you do, this conversation offers practical insight, honest talk about imposter syndrome, and a refreshing case that the story you tell yourself is the one thing you always get to rewrite.

    Connect with me here:

    • Website: https://www.kimmillerhershon.com
    • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmillerhershon
    • Newsletter: https://link.kimmillerhershon.com/widget/form/aEdmdA1W5MhoMCMfy5O8
    • Webinar: https://webinar.kimmillerhershon.com/?utm_source=Podcast

    Guest Details:

    • Guest: Christian Espinosa
    • Company: Blue Goat Cyber
    • Books: The Smartest Person in the Room and The In-Between (with a new book on the stories we tell ourselves expected early next year)

    Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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