Vocal De Frag Episode 176 Winning The Super Bowl As A Team Of One

Massive corporate cutbacks are nothing new. Being part of the broadcast industry for 46 years we've walked through many many tight situations based not on delivering quality but quantity with the fewest number of players. While with the big motha of them all broadcast companies I found peace in my heart when I realized I don't front a physical department. I am a team of won. And we did win!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, I just wanted to let you know that ero
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
Again?

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Yeah, ero dot net a r r oe dot net. Hey, Saro.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
And this is vocal D frag. Vocal D fragging is
asking yourself the questions and questioning the answers. It's not
asking Johnny down the street, it's not talking to a
co worker. It's asking yourself the questions and then questioning
the answers, doing your own homework. Because you know, so
many times in life we bitch and moan about how
we didn't get something. Well, why is that? Why didn't

(00:36):
it happen? Why didn't it materialize the way that you
envisioned it when it first hit your noggin. Is it
possible that somebody else's ambitions controlled the fate of your
final steps before you decided that, Hey, look, I'm gonna
stop going this direction. So ask yourself the questions and
then question the answers. This is vocal D frag. Facing

(00:58):
the wall of being a team of one. That's our
subject today, Facing the wall of being a team of one. Once,
I was part of a very very large production company
and I was the only one in the production room.
But this production company, which is attached to a very

(01:19):
large radio broadcasting industry, they didn't need it because they
believed in multitasking. And that's where the term a team
of one pretty much came into my heart. And so
I've always been a little bit on the jealous side
when I hear of these people that have teams, physical
teams that build, restructure, replenish, find success, stumble a little bit,

(01:39):
and then put themselves back together again. But you know,
I'm not the only one who has been the team
of one. No, no. But what I've done is I've
asked the questions and question the answers on how to
survive in those situations where so many people are depending
on you but aren't willing to lend a helping hand.

(02:00):
Oh they'll encourage you, they'll try to shape you, they'll
tell you what to do, how to do it, when
to do it, and why you're going to do it,
but they're not doing the physical work. That's just lip
service right there. So how do you survive being a
team of one? I do a lot of writing. I
do a lot of breaking things down. That's what defragging is.
It's taking a situation as a team player of one

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and building up the platform, giving it the opportunity and
the honor of existing without having to rely on other
people to get in the way or to sit there
and say, hey, we changed our mind, We're going to
go a different direction. Well what happened here? I don't know.
We just weren't failing it. Being that team of one

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is being a leader to yourself.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
First.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
You've got to be able to say, Okay, here's what
I'm going to do as this team of one, and
we're going to really construct a great formation and foundation.
And when it is challenged, okay, it happens, changes every
day and we face those walls every day to get
around it. The best way to find your purpose and

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plan is to be truthful to yourself, to be able
to say, man, that is a tough little walk that
I'm choosing to be on right now, but the only
way I'm going to get around this is to stop
bitching and moaning and find my focus. That's where a
lot of people go wrong. They say, hey, I can't

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do this alone, and then they walk away and then wonder, well,
why didn't it succeed? Why did this not become what
I envisioned? It felt so good while it was coming
to me, because being a team of one didn't have
a real importance in your life. And when you decide
to make it that important thing, that important decision, then

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you're going to see the importance of being a team
of one. They always say there's no I in team.
I don't know about that. Somebody has to lead and
with that leadership comes responsibility. So even though you might
be a team of one, how you handle yourself, how
you deliver your product, how you bring things forward, people

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will be attracted to you. Then this way you become
a team of many because you remained positive, you stood
up as a leader. You found yourself being a student
at times, but you still showed yourself the way it
starts with one. You that team of one, ask the questions,

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question the answers. I call it defragging. I'm Eryl