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No One Knows What They're Doing · Jun 24, 2024 · 56 min

Special: Best Career & Life Advice From My Dad (ft. Chris McGoff)

LIVE from Yosemite National Park: Episode 10 is our first ~Special Episode~ ever! Erin interviews her dad, Scranton-born, Maryland-living business owner, speaker, and author (and father of 6 kids). We discuss topics ranging from planning beers, UFO, answering questions in job interviews, deathbed confessions, and much, much more. If you're looking for good ol' fashion life advice from a Dad, you found it! ➞ In this episode: 0:00 Meet Chris McGoff 1:14 Growing up in Scranton in a funeral home 5:19 The Planning Beer 8:55 Seeing a UFO 11:20 Because of/In order to 14:00 Choose vs. Decide 17:04 "Enjoy the Gap" 22:28 How to work with someone you don't like 32:45 Business Card 32:24 Best Career Advice 38:25 Best Financial Advice 40:00 Best Piece of Life Advice Ever 48:49 How to answer "why do you want to work here?" 50:53 Relationship Advice after 43 Years of Marriage 54:40 Concluding Beers & a Dad Joke ~~~~~~~~~ ↳ Connect with Chris on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismcgoff/ ↳ Buy The Primes: https://amzn.to/3KX3New ↳ Buy Match in the Root Cellar: https://amzn.to/3VRtLpT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 🎙️ Listen on Apple → https://apple.co/3SNBpPu 🎙️ Listen on Spotify → https://spoti.fi/3I6j6Qz ~~~~~~~~~ → Mics are Rode 🎙️ → Chairs are from Target 🪑 → Table is Article 🍸 https://bit.ly/42HJU37 → Plants are from Bloomscape 🪴 https://bit.ly/48hjC8Y ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ↳ AdviceWithErin Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/advicewitherin/ ↳ NOKWTD Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/nooneknows.show/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ↳ Need advice? Submit here → https://bit.ly/nokwtd ↳ Get my emails → https://advicewitherin.com/show

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LIVE from Yosemite National Park: Episode 10 is our first ~Special Episode~ ever! Erin interviews her dad, Scranton-born, Maryland-living business owner, speaker, and author (and father of 6 kids). We discuss topics ranging from planning beers, UFO, answering questions in job interviews, deathbed confessions, and much, much more. If you're looking for good ol' fashion life advice from a Dad, you found it!

➞ In this episode:

0:00 Meet Chris McGoff

1:14 Growing up in Scranton in a funeral home

5:19 The Planning Beer

8:55 Seeing a UFO

11:20 Because of/In order to

14:00 Choose vs. Decide

17:04 "Enjoy the Gap"

22:28 How to work with someone you don't like

32:45 Business Card

32:24 Best Career Advice

38:25 Best Financial Advice

40:00 Best Piece of Life Advice Ever

48:49 How to answer "why do you want to work here?"

50:53 Relationship Advice after 43 Years of Marriage

54:40 Concluding Beers & a Dad Joke

~~~~~~~~~

↳ Connect with Chris on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismcgoff/

↳ Buy The Primes: https://amzn.to/3KX3New

↳ Buy Match in the Root Cellar: https://amzn.to/3VRtLpT

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

🎙️ Listen on Apple → https://apple.co/3SNBpPu

🎙️ Listen on Spotify → https://spoti.fi/3I6j6Qz

~~~~~~~~~

→ Mics are Rode 🎙️

→ Chairs are from Target 🪑

→ Table is Article 🍸 https://bit.ly/42HJU37

→ Plants are from Bloomscape 🪴 https://bit.ly/48hjC8Y

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

↳ AdviceWithErin Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/advicewitherin/

↳ NOKWTD Instagram → https://www.instagram.com/nooneknows.show/

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

↳ Need advice? Submit here → https://bit.ly/nokwtd

↳ Get my emails → https://advicewitherin.com/show