Ep. 46: Is This a SCAM?

 Ep. 46- Is This a Scam?  Lindsay  00:00I'm Lindsay Mustain, and this is the career design podcast made for driven ambitious square pegs and round holes type professionals who see things differently and challenge the status quo. We obliterate obstacles and unlock hidden pathways to overcome and succeed where others have not stagnation feels like death. And we are unwilling to compromise our integrity and settle for being average in any way. We are the backbone of any successful business and those who overlook our potential are doomed to a slow demise. We do work that truly matters aligns with our purpose, and in turn, we make our lasting mark on the world. We are the dreamers, doers, legends and visionaries who are called to make our most meaningful contribution and love what we do.  Lindsay00:42Is this a scam? You know what? I'm getting that question a lot these days. So welcome to the Career Design Podcast. I'm Lindsay Mustain. I want to answer this question for you. Because a lot of our lives we have been told like that's a scam, people are always out to try to get something from you. Guys, I'm going to tell you, if you listen to me for more than a hot second, you know that I have 1000s of success stories, okay. And in fact, I have a very strange business operating model, which is that when you work with me, I hope you don't ever need me again. Now, when you want to go to the next level in your career, let's talk. But for the most part, my goal is not actually to be here to try to get you to be a lifetime customer. My goal is get you out the door get you massive success, and then you can send me all your friends. Okay, I have a very strange business model. And the reason why is that I don't want to be in the business I'm in. I know, let me just be really clear here. That's that's a strange, provocative thing to say. But I'm really like, want to be very transparent that the what I have to teach you is a failure of a system that has designed you to fail 99.6% of the time. Now, I was a part of that system. I mean, it was Amazon's most visible employee, I hired 10,000 people. Do you know the percentage of times that I said, No, it's over 99%. I said no to somebody 99% of time. In fact, I did a training yesterday and somebody came on, they said Lindsey, you said no to me and Amazon. And I was like, Okay, let's talk about that. And she said, in fact, you had an actual conversation with me. This is before I started my entrepreneurial journey. And you said, this is a no right now. I want you to it's not a no for forever. It's a no for this job. But honestly, I see that there's more for you. And so I want you to keep going. And I gave her some tools. And seriously, she came back and said she's actually increased her salary three times over. Now, I love the really clear, I had never actually talked to her since that moment. So this was like an unprecedented testimonial, I have to pull it out. So I can share with you guys. But that message was so powerful to me, because I told her she told me this after I told the story about being and perpetuating the system that actually causes you to think that something's wrong with you. So I don't want to be in this business. Okay, so in the meantime, while I'm working to correct the system, I'm going to teach you how to hack it for your advantage. That is my big goal. Okay. So like, that's the first belief that you have to believe here. Now when I say it, I'm going to destroy it. I'm going to destroy your perceptions of what the system is. And I'm going to say a lot of us we're kind of like playing in the matrix, we don't understand that we've actually been perpetuating this is what I had this this was like, so, so powerful for me. So let me tell you how I got to this point, I was sitting at Amazon and I was recruiting for a job. I had like three people in the world that we're qualified for it. This job is in Singapore. And I got a message from one of the the only woman I was interviewing and she said, I just want to let you know how much of an asshole you guys treated me like I mean, she said it a lot, much nicer way that I'm saying it. And I would never consider working for your company. And I know this is like really important to you. So it really shocked me that this was how the behavior was. And when I saw that, like I like First off, I turned completely red. I was mortified. And then you what I did, I cried. I cried. I mean, it was a Sunday. Like right now I'm recording this on a Sunday was a Sunday, I was sitting on my couch, my kids are running around. And I sat there and I just sobbed. I just saw. And it was like the most powerful moment when the realization of my paradigm completely shifted. And I realized that I was part of the problem that I was working in a system that actually is designed to make sure that you fail the majority of the time that we don't actually care about you were you are lucky to even get a shot to talk to us. That was the ...