Liz Hutson
Appearances
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Building Tenacity: How to Cultivate Grit and Confidence with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 4-23-25
And when I think about the tempo that our world keeps today, if it's not sharp and pithy and pushes forward, those ideas, you know, like even a personality, a person is brushed aside really quickly. And so if we're not positioning it well and we're not having a healthy dose of push, those ideas can stay behind.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Building Tenacity: How to Cultivate Grit and Confidence with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 4-23-25
And the question that you asked, I think, is a good one, which is, are we born with tenacity or is it something that can be built? Und mein Gedanke darauf ist, dass bestimmte Persönlichkeiten innere Persönlichkeiten haben, die mehr oder weniger komfortabel mit dem Anstrengen sind, mehr oder weniger komfortabel mit der Konzentration sind.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Building Tenacity: How to Cultivate Grit and Confidence with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 4-23-25
Jedoch glaube ich, dass es eine Fähigkeit ist, die entwickelt und gewachsen werden kann. Und heute, Scott, würde ich gerne darüber sprechen, wie wir damit umgehen.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Building Tenacity: How to Cultivate Grit and Confidence with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 4-23-25
Ja, ich denke, es geht um drei Dinge, die ich erwähnt habe. Ich nehme Thema Nummer eins. The first thing is I believe you've got to work hard and build confidence in your ideas and work. Because I think tenacity is so much easier to manifest and just channel the push and the drive when we feel confident in the work that we've done and we've put in that work up front.
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Building Tenacity: How to Cultivate Grit and Confidence with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 4-23-25
And I think about when all of us were kids and were in school setting, college setting, when we're taking a test. And we come in really well prepared. We've done the homework. We did the practice test. We drilled the materials. We come into that test and we feel confident. We feel dominant. Like I'm going to do well on this test because I did a great job preparing for this.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Building Tenacity: How to Cultivate Grit and Confidence with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 4-23-25
And I think it's no different in work settings or presentations or whatever that is. You exude confidence. when you come in prepared. And then others feel that as well from you. They can see, you know what you're talking about. So channeling tenacity is so much easier when you've done the work up front. That's the first point, Scott.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Building Tenacity: How to Cultivate Grit and Confidence with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 4-23-25
Exactly, exactly.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Building Tenacity: How to Cultivate Grit and Confidence with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 4-23-25
Yeah, second point. ist, dass ich glaube, dass Neugier nicht kommt und nur kämpft und drückt, und das ist das Einzige. Du musst es in der richtigen Weise machen. Ich denke, es gibt eine Balance von Neugier, die einen Sinn von Leidenschaft mit, ich sage, Verrücktheit verbindet.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Building Tenacity: How to Cultivate Grit and Confidence with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 4-23-25
Und wenn ich das sage, denke ich oft, wenn wir Neugier denken, ich werde diese Neugier channeln, kommt man manchmal mit dieser starken Intensität. And you may come across as like, I know what I'm doing and I'm going to push this. But you run the risk of having your audience dig into their point of view even harder. You kind of bulldoze them.
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Building Tenacity: How to Cultivate Grit and Confidence with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 4-23-25
And then they may concede out of fear, but not out of belief. And I don't think that's good. But I believe that if you meet people where they're at, and that's what I talk about, like doing it the right way, meet people where they're at, but then also don't be afraid to press. And at the right times, you escalate both in your voice and your power, your research, like all the things.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Building Tenacity: How to Cultivate Grit and Confidence with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 4-23-25
But I think there's that balance of don't come at it with, um die Leute aufzunehmen, aber gleichzeitig mit denen zu treffen, wo sie sind und dann einen Weg finden, um ein bisschen weiter zu gehen. Ich denke, das ist Punkt Nummer zwei.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Building Tenacity: How to Cultivate Grit and Confidence with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 4-23-25
Genau. Genau. Und der letzte Punkt, Scott, ist, starte klein. Also ich denke, für einige Leute ist es sehr einfach, Tänzung zu finden und zu channeln. Wiederum, es ist nur Teil dessen, wer du bist. Vielleicht praktizierst du viel, aber ich würde sagen, für Leute, bei denen es schwierig ist, vielleicht ist es schwierig, deine Stimme zu finden, vielleicht fühlst du dich ein bisschen timid.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Building Tenacity: How to Cultivate Grit and Confidence with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 4-23-25
Was ich sagen würde, ist, starte klein mit dem. Lege dich in deine Tänzung in kleine Späße. Vielleicht praktiziere mit Themen, die etwas niedrig sind. Vielleicht Leute, mit denen du dir mehr zufrieden bist, mit denen du ein bisschen besser weißt. As you start to gain some wins and you build some traction with that, you're going to build confidence.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Building Tenacity: How to Cultivate Grit and Confidence with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 4-23-25
Then you start to take slightly bigger risks in meetings or in opportunities. You just eke that out a little bit. It's a practice. It's a skill. Are people born with it or is it something that can be built? I believe it's something that can be built. You start small. At the end of the day, Scott, I think you probably have experienced this more than most people in this world.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Building Tenacity: How to Cultivate Grit and Confidence with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 4-23-25
I think people are people. You have interviewed presidents of the United States, top athletes, subject matter experts in all areas and facets of healthcare. People are people. And I think each one of us, we step into our pants one leg at a time. And I don't think a title... someone more important than the other or has better ideas than the other.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Building Tenacity: How to Cultivate Grit and Confidence with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 4-23-25
I think we lean into the idea, the passion, the hard work that we put in and we find those spaces again to meet people where they're at and then get tenacious and press forward. But I think we start small and we just recognize that people are people and we can connect with them wherever they're at.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Building Tenacity: How to Cultivate Grit and Confidence with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 4-23-25
Thank you. Thank you so much, Scott. Great to talk with you.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Building Tenacity: How to Cultivate Grit and Confidence with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 4-23-25
Ja, das klingt großartig. Scott, danke dir so sehr für deine Zeit heute. Ich dachte mir, warum ist Genesse wichtig? Ich denke, wenn wir heute die Welt betrachten, wollen wir eine Idee von uns erreichen, sei es in einem Geschäftsbereich oder in einem Gemeinschaftsbereich. Wir wollen unsere Arbeit präsentieren.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Building Tenacity: How to Cultivate Grit and Confidence with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 4-23-25
Wir wollen für eine Möglichkeit betrachtet werden, ob es ein nächstes-Level-Job ist, ein neues Job, was auch immer es sein könnte. Wir müssen Genesse haben. Wir können all diese Ideen haben, aber wenn sie nie gehört werden, What good is it?
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The Hyphenate Conundrum: Managing Multiple Careers and Identities with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 3-19-25
Yeah, it's so beautifully put, those ideas of pivots. So I was introduced to this term hyphenate by a friend of mine, Maura Brinkman, just a couple weeks back. And I said, what is that? What does that even mean, hyphenate? And she said, you know, she described it as somebody who performs or excels at more than one craft or an occupation.
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The Hyphenate Conundrum: Managing Multiple Careers and Identities with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 3-19-25
So we know a lot of people that are like that, maybe somebody that started in one area like you described in some certain area of a career, and then all of a sudden they flipped to do something different or they're doing something at the same time. And so that might be someone who started off as like my husband, for example, is an engineer. He worked in that space.
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The Hyphenate Conundrum: Managing Multiple Careers and Identities with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 3-19-25
He even joined me in my consulting firm and runs the operations for a business. And then he wrote a book on Chicago architecture. I mean, those are three really completely different areas. And I think sometimes We look at that and go, wow, that's really fascinating. Going from one space to a seemingly totally different area and excelling in those different things.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
The Hyphenate Conundrum: Managing Multiple Careers and Identities with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 3-19-25
And a lot like you, Scott, you're a hyphenate for sure, right? Somebody who was in the legal space, a lawyer, partner, an entrepreneur, an author, a golfer, a tennis player. You wear a lot of different hats. That's a hyphenate, right?
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The Hyphenate Conundrum: Managing Multiple Careers and Identities with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 3-19-25
Yes. And that, I think, is the conundrum, right? That is it. And I think what you described is important. You weren't jumping from one thing to the next every six months. You spent depth and time. in the legal area and being a dad and then shifting and spending depth and time in the media company and then writing your book and all those kinds of things. For me, it was similar.
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The Hyphenate Conundrum: Managing Multiple Careers and Identities with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 3-19-25
I spent a good amount of time in each of those areas and I built a depth. It's not to say that I abandoned those other things. I still have a lot of love and passion for them and I still have a skill set there. But to your point, somebody that's looking on the outside in it can be confusing. It can feel like, well, what's your segment?
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The Hyphenate Conundrum: Managing Multiple Careers and Identities with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 3-19-25
You feel like you're all over the place and there's a questionability. Can you really believe it? Is there a believability in that depth? And it can feel confusing. Like you said, jack of all trades, master of none, or you hear the phrase of a mile wide and inch deep, and it can be hard to overcome that. And recently, especially as I've been moving into the speaking space, I know
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The Hyphenate Conundrum: Managing Multiple Careers and Identities with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 3-19-25
friends and colleagues, you know, they're watching some of the posts of me on LinkedIn. They're like, you know, sort of nicely, but in a bit of a giggle, what are you up to these days? I'm a little confused on that. And I don't blame them, right? That's confusing when you're looking from the outside. It's chaotic.
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The Hyphenate Conundrum: Managing Multiple Careers and Identities with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 3-19-25
That sounds great, Scott. Thank you so much for having me on. Yeah, I do wear a lot of hats. You described it well. I'm an engineer turned marketer, turned consultant, turned speaker, turned fitness instructor. I wear a lot of different hats and sometimes that can be confusing. And that's exactly the topic I want to talk about today, which I'm terming the hyphenate conundrum.
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The Hyphenate Conundrum: Managing Multiple Careers and Identities with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 3-19-25
Thank you, Scott. I appreciate that encouragement. I feel like I'm getting some good therapy in here. I appreciate that. But, you know, I do think as I look back on all these different areas and the constant evolution, I think you're right. I mean, this is how we keep ourselves interested, engaged, constantly learning. And
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The Hyphenate Conundrum: Managing Multiple Careers and Identities with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 3-19-25
As I reflect on different things that you've been up to and different things that I'm up to, I do find that if there is, and there is, I believe, a single thing, a single tie that brings it all together. What's like the through line that's coming through this? Because then it feels like there's a little bit of clarity in the chaos.
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The Hyphenate Conundrum: Managing Multiple Careers and Identities with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 3-19-25
It sort of brings sense to that lack of what seems like lack of focus or it centers around you know, all the different tentacles that appear to be disparate.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
The Hyphenate Conundrum: Managing Multiple Careers and Identities with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 3-19-25
And, you know, like for you, Scott, as I've gotten to know you in the last few years, one thing that comes to mind, and you tell me if this is true or not, but I find you to be in all those different areas that you've worked on, somebody who really amplifies ideas, somebody who really empowers the voices of others, and particularly ones that might not otherwise have been heard.
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The Hyphenate Conundrum: Managing Multiple Careers and Identities with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 3-19-25
Thank you. I mean, to be put in the category with Amber Walsh is a big compliment to me. So thank you for that. I appreciate that.
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The Hyphenate Conundrum: Managing Multiple Careers and Identities with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 3-19-25
Sounds like a great plan, Scott.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
The Hyphenate Conundrum: Managing Multiple Careers and Identities with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 3-19-25
And, you know, oftentimes, Scott, when you and I talk, I'm coming in with definitive ideas and perspectives that I want to share, maybe a path or a process that works. But today I feel like it's going to be a little different in that this is something that I'm actively figuring out, wrestling through, brainstorming through.
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The Hyphenate Conundrum: Managing Multiple Careers and Identities with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 3-19-25
And I'm actually really curious about your ideas on some of this, because I don't know that I have a clear picture, but sort of some of the beginnings of some ideas on the matter.
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Narrowing the Focus: How to Achieve More by Doing Less with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 2-1-25
And so those three ideas, we'll start with the first one is the reality is we can actually do a lot more with less. So when we reduce our list from 20 things or 25 things on there and just focus on one or two things, we can actually make some real progress. You know, I think when our energies are focused on just a couple few things, we can move those things along.
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Narrowing the Focus: How to Achieve More by Doing Less with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 2-1-25
And even more and more studies, I'm just reading a book, just finished a book by Sanjay Gupta called Keep Sharp on Brain Health. And in that book and other studies that I've read as well, see more and more that multitasking is actually really not good for the brain. It affects negatively cognitive function, such as attention and memory and problem solving.
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Narrowing the Focus: How to Achieve More by Doing Less with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 2-1-25
It just makes it difficult to focus on any single task and our productivity comes down. We have a lot more errors. So if we take all those different things and just say, I'm just going to work on one, maybe two things, we can actually do more with less. That's the first idea.
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Narrowing the Focus: How to Achieve More by Doing Less with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 2-1-25
Yeah. So I think that the important thing here is when we do more with less, the second thing that starts to happen is actually a great catalyst, a great fuel for what happens is when we knock that one thing off the list or two things off the list, that win builds momentum, both for yourself and for your team or other people that are watching. They're like, oh, that's really great.
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Narrowing the Focus: How to Achieve More by Doing Less with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 2-1-25
Absolutely. Chanel, great to talk with you. We're sitting here at the middle of January, the beginning of 2025. And many of us, myself included, started the new year off with tons of ideas, energy, and just countless resolutions and goals. But oftentimes what happens, we burn out. And sometimes it takes a few days. Sometimes it takes a few weeks.
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Narrowing the Focus: How to Achieve More by Doing Less with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 2-1-25
I made some progress. It generates that momentum. And And when that momentum comes, we build confidence. Like, hey, I knocked that one thing off. I knocked that two things off. I'm ready to take on the next thing. And then that confidence takes us to number three and number four on the list.
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Narrowing the Focus: How to Achieve More by Doing Less with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 2-1-25
And what we're seeing is that we're not only knocking off things one and two and three and four, but we're taking on harder things and we're successful with them because we have a confidence and a momentum that's built with that. And just that third idea is that, you know, it's not that when we take the 25 things and narrow it down to one or two, that the other things don't happen. That's not it.
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Narrowing the Focus: How to Achieve More by Doing Less with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 2-1-25
We're just basically saying it doesn't come off the list. It's just down the list. Right. So we just prioritize it. We look and say, what is it that I need to do right now? What's my most important thing or what's maybe one of the easiest things to just get some momentum and feel good about this? However you want to pick what number one is going to be.
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Narrowing the Focus: How to Achieve More by Doing Less with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 2-1-25
But we just take the other things and shift them to later. We're going to start to do things in series, not in parallel. And one of my favorite quotes, and I think it's so true when we talk about this as our own team and with our clients, is that, If everything is a priority, then nothing is a priority, right?
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Narrowing the Focus: How to Achieve More by Doing Less with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 2-1-25
So I think this is a good concept to understand and to really focus on and say we're just going to do a couple few things. One thing that we work with our clients on, especially as we're setting mission, vision, goals, objectives, and key results and things like that for the upcoming year or whatever it is that they're planning is, we love the book Measure What Matters by John Doerr.
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Narrowing the Focus: How to Achieve More by Doing Less with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 2-1-25
And he talks about this idea of objectives and key results. And in there, he too, and that system really focuses on a couple of few things, right? Not a hundred things, but what are the one macro idea and maybe two, possibly three objectives that fall under that big umbrella, that key rallying cry. And then how do we measure that? How do we keep progress among those things?
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Narrowing the Focus: How to Achieve More by Doing Less with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 2-1-25
And we do them in sprints. And I love that idea. I love that concept.
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Narrowing the Focus: How to Achieve More by Doing Less with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 2-1-25
No, just keep going with those goals. I think let's not be a quitter. Let's put that second Friday in January aside and say now we're going to really lean into it and focus and prioritize so that we can make a really powerful and impactful 2025. Love it.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Narrowing the Focus: How to Achieve More by Doing Less with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 2-1-25
Sounds great. Thank you, Chanel.
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Narrowing the Focus: How to Achieve More by Doing Less with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 2-1-25
I just learned of this, and maybe I should have known this before, but there's actually a name for the day that this happens, believe it or not. it's the second Friday in January, they term it the Quitters Day. And this is the day that a lot of people give up on their resolution.
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Narrowing the Focus: How to Achieve More by Doing Less with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 2-1-25
And as I think about it, you know, what, why is it that people quit on that day after, you know, just a few weeks earlier, being so excited about what they wanted to do? I think it's because we lose motivation, because we realize, the thing that we're trying to do is hard, right? It takes effort.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Narrowing the Focus: How to Achieve More by Doing Less with Liz Hutson of EGH, LLC 2-1-25
And the important thing, though, the thing that is actually really difficult is that we have too many things that we're trying to do. So I think one of the things that we can help with that in terms of keeping those goals alive is instead of quitting them, maybe it's time to work on narrowing the focus. And I think there's some ideas on how we make that happen or why this is important.
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Navigating the Middle: Staying Committed Through the Toughest Part of the Journey with Liz Hutson 5-19-25
Perfect. That's great. So there's three ideas here that I want to talk through. So the first one is When you're in the middle and you're just kind of spinning and it feels frustrating and that's where most of the work is, first thing is remind yourself of why you're there. Your why is really important because I think that helps with context. What problem are you trying to solve?
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Navigating the Middle: Staying Committed Through the Toughest Part of the Journey with Liz Hutson 5-19-25
If it's product development, can you visualize the ideal future state of what you're trying to do? So if it's a new company that you're starting, if it's an integration that you're doing, if it's navigating a manufacturing transition, whatever that is, can you visualize that ideal future state and then almost manifest that ending, right? What is it that you're trying to do in all of that?
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Navigating the Middle: Staying Committed Through the Toughest Part of the Journey with Liz Hutson 5-19-25
And when you can focus on the why, when you can focus on the bigger context, it gives value to the hours, to the debate, to the frustration, to the dollars that you're spending on it. It gives it some sense of purpose. So that's the first thing is just reminding yourself why you're there.
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Navigating the Middle: Staying Committed Through the Toughest Part of the Journey with Liz Hutson 5-19-25
That's exactly right. That's exactly right. The second thing is to remind ourselves that in that depth of that V shape that I was just talking about in the beginning is to remember that the journey itself has great value. Because not only are we moving our way towards the end or to the ideal future state, but we're learning things that we probably didn't expect we were going to learn.
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Navigating the Middle: Staying Committed Through the Toughest Part of the Journey with Liz Hutson 5-19-25
So it's not just about getting to the end. It's not just about the win.
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Navigating the Middle: Staying Committed Through the Toughest Part of the Journey with Liz Hutson 5-19-25
But it's about that growth mindset that we have that's really critical to success because it's about the process of learning and discovering and really having this open-handed sort of posture of willingness to curiosity and discovery, not just thinking, okay, I've got to the end and so I win and it's done, but really having that growth mindset of I'm learning something and maybe it's not exactly how I thought it was going to shake out, but there's value in that as well.
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Navigating the Middle: Staying Committed Through the Toughest Part of the Journey with Liz Hutson 5-19-25
Sounds great. Thanks, Scott. Yes. Today's topic is navigating the middle. When I say that, recently I was reading about a company called IDEO. They're a design and innovation company, and they talk about this
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Navigating the Middle: Staying Committed Through the Toughest Part of the Journey with Liz Hutson 5-19-25
So the second idea is The journey itself has great value.
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Navigating the Middle: Staying Committed Through the Toughest Part of the Journey with Liz Hutson 5-19-25
Yeah. And the third and final point, and this is a hard one, because I think when we get into something exciting, new company, new product, new something, whatever that project, we're excited when we start. And we can anticipate the excitement when we'll be done. But in the middle, it is a slog, as I said. And we have to remember, it's not about the feeling. It's really about a commitment.
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Navigating the Middle: Staying Committed Through the Toughest Part of the Journey with Liz Hutson 5-19-25
Because if we quit the first time, we didn't feel like it, or we encounter some kind of pushback or argument or debate or whatever that is, some kind of thing that gets in the way, most of our projects would be abandoned, right? The middle isn't fun. It's oftentimes annoying. It's tedious. It's a process of experimentation where you're failing and failing and failing, but it's
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Navigating the Middle: Staying Committed Through the Toughest Part of the Journey with Liz Hutson 5-19-25
It's something that takes persistence. And so I would say, of course, we want to make sure that we're pulling the plug on something where it doesn't longer make sense, right? We want to check context and check strategy. But once we are sure, yes, this is still a good idea, it's just hard right now, then commit to finding a solution, even when it's not fun, even when you don't feel like it.
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Navigating the Middle: Staying Committed Through the Toughest Part of the Journey with Liz Hutson 5-19-25
So that's the third idea. It's not about a feeling. It's not about having that excitement, enthusiastic feeling through this log of it, but really committing to saying, I'm going to figure this out. I'm going to work through this even when I don't feel like it.
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Navigating the Middle: Staying Committed Through the Toughest Part of the Journey with Liz Hutson 5-19-25
v-shaped curve that they call the project mood chart and what it is is basically imagine a v at the beginning of the v you're very positive very excited very hopeful uh things are things are just you know you have these ideas that are cooking and of course once you make it through the project or make it through the kickoff of a company of a project of a product development
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Navigating the Middle: Staying Committed Through the Toughest Part of the Journey with Liz Hutson 5-19-25
You got it. So when we're navigating the middle, three ideas. One, remind yourself of why you're there. Number two, the journey itself has great value because we learn things that we did not expect. And number three, it's not about a feeling. It's really about a commitment to success.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Navigating the Middle: Staying Committed Through the Toughest Part of the Journey with Liz Hutson 5-19-25
Thank you, Scott. Great to talk with you.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Navigating the Middle: Staying Committed Through the Toughest Part of the Journey with Liz Hutson 5-19-25
At the end of it, you also feel very excited because you're confident that you just solved it. But the middle, from the beginning to the end, that middle part of the here to there can have some negative, hard parts on this. And so I found myself really just kind of reflecting on this idea of that middle. And how do we get through that slog? Because that's actually where we spend time.
Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
Navigating the Middle: Staying Committed Through the Toughest Part of the Journey with Liz Hutson 5-19-25
most of our time is in that middle. So there were three tips that came to mind, Scott, that I felt like would be worthwhile to share with you and with your audience.