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 do you do when the rug gets pulled out twice?
Anthony Casazza knows. He’s a senior business analyst at Delta Defense and the Chief Sales and Strategy Officer for Shank It Golf. He’s also someone who survived back-to-back layoffs, both while navigating new fatherhood, a new home, and a job market that wasn’t cooperating.
Anthony and Kyle dig into what it really costs to be laid off twice in short succession, what Anthony learned about remote work and invisible value, and the “fixer identity” that was quietly draining him. Plus: the spiral staircase theory of career growth that Anthony’s president shared with him on an eight by ten sheet of paper.
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
(01:11) Meet Anthony Casazza
(02:27) New baby, new move, first time unemployed against his will
(04:39) What the doubt actually feels like and what to do about it
(06:27) Upskilling into project management
(07:52) The high school connection that changed everything
(09:30) Another layoff while at the PGA Expo
(11:11) What the VP of product told him he couldn’t quantify
(13:08) Shank It Golf: keeping a side hustle alive through career chaos
(19:20) The fixer identity and what it cost him
(22:54) How to rebuild a value set from the ground up
(25:08) How Anthony asked his company president to mentor him
(32:08) Advice to past Anthony: the spiral staircase theory of growth
Connect with Kyle Lacy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylelacy/
Subscribe to Revenue Diaries: https://www.therevenuediaries.com/subscribe
Find Anthony Casazza on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonycasazza/
Check out Delta Defense LLC: https://www.deltadefense.com/
Check out Shank It Golf: https://shankitgolf.com/
Produced in partnership with Share Your Genius: https://shareyourgenius.com/
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