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Paul Wiedel

Consultant at Solution Design Group (St Paul, MN) and guest on The SDG Podcast, covering consulting practice topics like managing multiple clients.

Oct 12, 2026

speaker_1HOST
6:24
So the mute is all built in.
6:26
Absolutely.
6:26
Okay.
6:27
I've found you can wear two.
6:31
Each one's a little cockeyed, and one here in the right ear, one here in the left ear, and both the mics are close enough that they can pick you up.
6:40
All you need to really do is make sure when you need to speak, make sure you speak in the right meeting.
6:46
And prior to me setting this personal rule about have the same headsets, One mute would turn a red light on when it was live and the other would turn the red light on

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KatiePANELIST
22:26
my
9:18
yeah
9:20
But there's a corollary to what you started with there, Kyle, about us representing a company, being part of a company.
9:31
There's a jag on that.
9:34
Sometimes we have to think differently than we would if we were a full-time employee or just an independent representing ourselves.
9:45
Sometimes there are things that we could do that are in our interest that are not in SDG's interest.
9:53
Especially, let's just, I don't know a good example, but I can think of one.
10:01
I was in a place where somebody was acting inappropriately around me.

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31:45
But having that running list of things I did makes it a lot easier to have that discussion.

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