Ben Gilbert: belief

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…That's one thing actually that my wife, Jenny, pointed out to me after listening to the session we did with Jason. She was like, it was interesting. It was good. You guys could have gone way harder on diving into the emotional side of Jason's lived experience and his feelings, especially when he mentioned Tony Hsieh's passing, how that really impacted him, and led to him deciding to make some changes in how he approached life and his work for the next few years. She was like, that was an opportunity that you just let fall on the floor. You could have gone way deeper into that. I think that's a great point. The other thing that I was implying in that statement is we could have people on almost as a prop. We're not interviewing them, but they're instead a piece of whatever discussion you and I wanted to have anyway. What if we had Eric Vishria just hanging out next to you on the couch, and we weren't talking about Benchmark, but Eric was just chiming in on a lot of this stuff and sharing his ideas? He's not the subject of the interview. He's a piece of the show. He's the heart of the conversation. He's a foil to bounce ideas off of. I would, for sure, do that with Eric. That would be an amazing and a great privilege. You know who would be truly the most interesting person to have as playing that role? It would be Peter Fenton.…

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