Revenue Diaries
Revenue Diaries
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Revenue Diaries is a podcast and videocast hosted by Kyle Lacy, offering a raw and unfiltered look into the personal lives of the country's top revenue leaders. They discuss everything but work—no topic is off-limits, and there are no wrong questions or answers.
The twist? They never see the questions in advance.
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The podcast focuses on a wide range of topics, including personal growth, the challenges of entrepreneurship, family dynamics, and mental health. It highlights unique experiences such as balancing startup life and parenthood, navigating grief after a family's tragedy, and exploring personal passions like art and running, with episodes featuring insights on prioritization, burnout, and the nuances of the 'motherhood penalty'.
Revenue Diaries is a podcast and videocast hosted by Kyle Lacy, offering a raw and unfiltered look into the personal lives of the country’s top revenue leaders. They discuss everything but work—no topic is off-limits, and there are no wrong questions or answers.
The twist? They never see the questions in advance.
What does a former design agency CEO who lost his wife, his business, and his identity have in common with a high-achieving VC investor whose body was keeping score long before her brain caught up?
Richard Banfield and Devon Warwick McDonald, co-founders of Second Harvest, bring the design thinking principles of MVP and experimentation to one of the most overlooked challenges in professional life: the midlife pivot. They make the case that the same logic that validates a product idea (small experiment, get evidence, build from there) is exactly what works when the thing you’re testing is your own second chapter.
This episode is part of the Carrying Fire series, where I sit down with leaders and innovators to explore how they use continuous learning to navigate massive change and come out stronger on the other side.
Jump into the action:
(00:00) Intro
(00:35) Introducing Second Harvest and how it started
(01:57) About OpenView, loss, and pandemic clarity
(06:01) How misalignment shows up in your relationships
(10:48) Why some people see misalignment and still don’t act
(11:50) The mantra that changes everything
(17:00) The thin slice experiment: an MVP for your personal life
(19:08) Why your LinkedIn profile is the number one obstacle to change
(23:36) The disease of turning every passion into a business
(26:34) How success is built on dysfunction
(32:31) There’s no generic solution and that’s the whole point
(36:27) Three things only humans can do that machines can’t replicate
(41:45) The relationships you have while you’re changing are the most important ones
(44:36) The loneliness nobody talks about at the C-suite level
Connect with Kyle Lacy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylelacy/ Subscribe to Revenue Diaries: https://www.therevenuediaries.com/subscribe Connect with Richard Banfield: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardbanfield/Connect with Devon Warwick McDonald:https://www.linkedin.com/in/devonemcdonald/ Check out Second Harvest: https://secondharvest.co
Produced in partnership with Share Your Genius: https://shareyourgenius.com/
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