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Damns Given is a weekly podcast from CultureCraft® founder, Nick Richtsmeier, where he and sometimes guests break down the games (systems) entrapping values-driven leaders and together they co-create solutions to build with purpose and escape the extractive game.
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education format
2.23 - What it's going to take to heal our economy, a Town Hall
In this town hall setting, Nick explores the foundations of the trustbroken economy and what exactly needs to happen for businesses to build it back.
co-host format
3.04 - How to recognize and abandon what stops working w/ Jonathan Stark
Nick and Ditching Hourly founder Jonathan Stark break down how to recognize a system that's failing you, and making sure you're early off the Titanic.
mini-episode format
2.18 - Consulting is a little bit
F—D, a mini episode
In this mini episode, Nick does a quick takedown of the legacy consulting model, how it's undermining expertise, and what small consulting practices should do to fix it.
Earning your subscribe smash
The world didn't need another podcast. We created a conversation around solving for the real issues founders face in an economy built for extraction. And we do it each week, not by shoving best practices down your throat, but by playing in the unknown spaces, breaking down assumptions, and calling out tired B.S.
episode structure
We expose a failing system by empathizing with the habits that keep good people stuck
We get ravenously curious about what else is possible, knowing all systems decay
We break the rules of the bad system and play with new options toward trust-made growth
Recent episodes
Description:”If we want healthier economies, better markets, freer commerce, healthier neighborhoods, better streets, less dependence on big disgusting tech — the energetic force that’s going to make those things happen is you making more money by living your values. Plain and simple.”This is a special episode of Damns Given. Season two is wrapped, and while
Nick Richtsmeier, host of Damns Given and founder of CultureCraft® created Trust-Made Growth® to invite and nurture businesses at the systems layer where growth can too-often turn into decay and fragility, particularly when powered by extractive and hyper-tactical modern “scaling” strategies.
Trust-Made Growth is a decision ecology which takes every part of the venture and aligns it with the proven methodology for building resilient and long-term credibility that stimulates growth from trust, relationships, and value.
It is the counterbalance to an economic system designed to reduce value and punish expertise.
Six Trust-Made Growth Factors that underpin Damns Given:
How you build relationships around a venture
Clear beliefs and thinking about everything your venture touches
How you define your ability to solve your ideal client's problems
The implicit way of being in an organization
How a venture allocates authority, responsibility, and accountability
How you design your services around your ideal client
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