Ep 150 | How to run your agency more like an Alaskan fishing boat with Dave Maricich

Can working on an Alaskan fishing boat make you a better agency leader?

Assuming you survive, it certainly can’t hurt.

Dave Maricich and his brother Mark had this experience as teenagers. While other SoCal kids were cleaning beach club cabanas, the Maricich brothers were swabbing decks, hauling massive nets and trying to avoid becoming Orca food.

This high-stress, everyone-better-pitch-in-or-get-off-the-boat crew mentality really stuck with Dave.

It also helped train his nervous system for agency life.

Now, he and Mark bring the same all-hands approach to Maricich Health. They co-lead the agency their mother founded 40 years ago, but they are in the work every day.

Owners are often told to build a business that doesn’t depend on you.

But that’s not the Maricich way. You do your part. You support the team. And you get your hands dirty.

Is this the best way to run every agency? Maybe not. But it’s the best way to run their agency.

And that’s what it’s all a-boat.

Welcome to the DesuckifyWork® podcast. The show where we cut through the BS and find ways to make work less chaotic, more human and less ridiculous. All of which makes your business more profitable, by the way.

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Let the desuckifying begin. Here’s Dave.

You can follow Dave on LinkedIn and learn more about Maricich Health at maricich.com.

If you’d like to make your agency 20% less crazy, let’s talk. Schedule a free half-hour Demuckify Session and we’ll identify one thing that will move the needle right now.

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Bye, everyone!

Bonus question from Dave:What problem do you have right now?