Zach Blank https://zachblank.com/Nilesh Ashra http://nileshashra.com/Music by Joakim Karud

Unbalanced

Episode 9: Making Products

Zach Blank https://zachblank.com/Nilesh Ashra http://nileshashra.com/Music by Joakim Karud https://www.youtube.com/joakimkarud

Episode 8: Impact and Safety

Zach Blank https://zachblank.com/Nilesh Ashra http://nileshashra.com/Music by Joakim Karud https://www.youtube.com/joakimkarud  

Episode 7: What we're trying to do

In this episode, Zach and Nilesh intentionally take the devil's advocate position that "jobs are great" – and we argue the various ways we feel that's true. Why are we doing this episode? It's good to check assumptions. And, given it's easy to "sell ourselves" on independence versus looking at independent work V salaried jobs in an objective manner, we figured you'd enjoy a thorough look at the other side.

Episode 5: Jobs Are Great (i.e. the Devil's Advocate Episode)

Nilesh shares his back story – what it was like being a maniac coder in London in the early part of his career, to founding the Lodge at W+K in Portland, and finding the gaps between technology, creativity, independence, risk, and reward.

Bonus: Nilesh's Origin Story

Nilesh's Book Recommendations in this EpisodeGetting Things Done (David Allen)The Perfect Health Diet (Paul Jaminet, Shou-Ching Jaminet)Music by Joakim Karud http://youtube.com/joakimkarud

Episode 4: The Most Important Other Things

We reference a book in this episode that is Nilesh's favorite book on pricing creative services, which is a book that Zach hasn't read but loves because Nilesh talks about it every day.Pricing Creativity by Blair Enns: https://www.winwithoutpitching.com/pricing-creativity/Music by Joakim Karud http://youtube.com/joakimkarud

Episode 3: Pricing, your value, and solving the hourly rate trap

Origin stories are the best. In this episode we hear how Zach got started as an entrepreneur, coder and independent consultant. All at 16 years old. That not so subtly leads us into what 4 showers a day will get you and how to get 1% better at anything. AND, what 37x better at something looks like.The real meat of this episode comes when one of the guys shares a story of how a client STOLE $5,000 from them, what they did, and what YOU can learn from the disaster.Music by Joakim Karud http://youtube.com/joakimkarud

Episode 2: Origin Story, Focus and Being 1% Better

Zach and Nilesh's introductory podcast episode! We discuss what it's like being independent and bucking the norm of a full time job. The highs, lows, risks and rewards. We discuss how we made the decision to be independent and why. Last but not least, we tell you the dark side of it all and why we started this podcast. We hope you like it!Music by Joakim Karud http://youtube.com/joakimkarud

Introducing: A show about independent work

Unbalanced is a show about independent work — the tips, techniques, and strategies to make it work you. Brought to you by Zach Blank and Nilesh Ashra.

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