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Sanchez: Feedback at Contrarian Thinking is Delivered in Groups, Not One-on-Ones
“Any feedback I have to give goes to those two groups as opposed to one-on-ones. I do not do one-on-ones.”
Sanchez: Employees saying "not my job" or "can't do that" get fired
“And I like kind of proactively will say to the team, if you ever say like, we can't do that, or that's not my job, like you're fired.”
Sanchez says leaders must build incentive friction into their teams
“In fact, if you're running a team right now in the business sense, one of the most important things that I've realized is you have to have built in incentive friction on your teams.”
Sanchez: Attention is the 21st century's highest form of leverage
“And today more than ever, I think attention is critical. And so one of the reasons I got online is because our businesses need the lifeblood of the 21st century highest form of leverage, which is attention.”
Sanchez: Financial freedom typically precedes physical and mental freedom
“We kind of believe that you need to have Financial freedom, typically, before you can have physical freedom, aka, like, work where you want, when you want, on what you want, and then finally you could have philosophical freedom, freedom of your mind.”
Sanchez: Employees Must Attempt Direct Peer Resolution Before Escalating Conflicts
“If you guys talk to each other and you can't work it out and you are doing it direct, then you can bring it to me. But if you are not even having a conversation, I don't want to hear about it because all you're teaching me is that you're not good enough or str…”
Sanchez: Creators should treat every piece of content as their life resume
“Like what you are doing is building a Rolodex of pieces of content that are your life resume. And so let's make sure that it's really good and that what we do is so interesting that when somebody else sees it they wanna steal even the napkin that we left behin…”
Sanchez aims to build a multi-billion dollar Bloomberg competitor
“I want this business to be a multi-billion dollar media and investment firm. I want it to be like the Bloomberg plus CNBC plus like the trusted investment firm of our generation.”
Sanchez: Teams judge managers entirely by how they treat departing employees
“Your people actually are watching the way that you let people leave a company more than anything else. They are watching the way that you let high performers go and the way that you let low performers go. And when you let a high performer go and you talk shit …”
Sanchez: Replacing remote content managers with in-person hires 3x'd short-form growth
“When he left the company, we like two to three X our short form growth because we were just able to move faster locally.”
Sanchez: Employees must leave meetings if they are not adding value
“Now, at our companies, I say, if you're not relevant, leave. If you don't send a brief, start. How can we waste less time?”
Sanchez: Contrarian Thinking Cut Dev Spend From $74K to $12K Monthly
“He finds that he has to immediately off-board the agency, screens over 40 people to fill out the team, built senior, built a team around senior, senior engineers, And does all of this offboarding and onboarding inside of 90 days and gets the cost down from lik…”
Sanchez: Contrarian Thinking launched with a $499 weekly lifetime membership
“And when I started Contrarian Thinking, I offered a lifetime membership to something that required my time every single week And I think I charged people like 499 bucks for it for a lifetime of access.”
Sanchez: Community members complete $300M in small business deals annually
“Our members do like three hundred million dollars in small business transactions a year.”
Sanchez says her media company Contrarian Thinking makes eight figures annually
“Contrarian thinking, our media company is the same. That business definitely makes good eight figures a year in revenue.”
Operator mismanagement left Sanchez's Contrarian Thinking four weeks from insolvency
“Actually, contrarian thinking at one point, I put somebody in charge of the business. And, you know, my fault, I thought they were a really good operator. I was actually running the holding company and talent, which felt like a lot at the time. And my fault, I…”
Sanchez: Media brand reached 10M followers and 120M monthly impressions
“And brand is really what led us to be able to go from zero followers online to a hundred and twenty million monthly impressions, to ten million followers, to having a really big company, and eventually taking all of our attention that we got and funneling it t…”
Sanchez details her exact weekly, monthly, and annual meeting cadence
“I have weekly check-ins with the team. Those weekly check-ins take about two hours per week. Then I've got monthly reviews. That's where we look at, how are we doing on those quarterly goals? And we just pull it up every single time. Then we've got quarterly s…”