Jul 21, 2026 · 56 min · 12 segments
In this episode of PodCrash, Matt Ebert sits down with entrepreneur and performance coach Matt Granados for a practical conversation about people problems, leadership, burnout, and the systems that…
Matt GranadosGuest
Matt EbertHost
You expose the truth, you offer a bridge to a- then bridge the gap, so ex- expose, bridge, and then sustain.
What are you offering for them to bridge that gap that actually is sustaining it? If I can do that, what happens is instead of us enabling our team or enabling ourselves, we're actually equipping our team to deal with their own problems.
So when we were over at, when we were at Mountain View out with, uh, with Google, we were going through this conversation, and they brought us out for work-life balance stuff, and I'm sitting there going like, "W- work-life balance at Google? We just sat at a five-star restaurant to eat lunch on campus." And what was happening was we realized that a lot of these people were enabled.
So instead of managing, the managers were babysitting, but if we equip the people to deal with the problems, the managers can actually do their job, and that's in every industry.
It's not just, you know, big tech, blue collar spots, right? Anything from, uh, blue collar to white collar.
They all desire value." It's just what is it they value, and how do we teach them to use that to motivate themselves to get where they wanna go?
I think that the industry has done such a good job to terrify hirers to make a bad hire that I think we don't have a hiring problem anymore.
I think it used to be a thing where it was just kinda get a body in and figure it out.
I've been told, and I live this, I feel very much you can build a good business one of two ways.
You expose the truth, you offer a bridge to a- then bridge the gap, so ex- expose, bridge, and then sustain.
What are you offering for them to bridge that gap that actually is sustaining it? If I can do that, what happens is instead of us enabling our team or enabling ourselves, we're actually equipping our team to deal with their own problems.
So when we were over at, when we were at Mountain View out with, uh, with Google, we were going through this conversation, and they brought us out for work-life balance stuff, and I'm sitting there going like, "W- work-life balance at Google? We just sat at a five-star restaurant to eat lunch on campus." And what was happening was we realized that a lot of these people were enabled.
So instead of managing, the managers were babysitting, but if we equip the people to deal with the problems, the managers can actually do their job, and that's in every industry.
It's not just, you know, big tech, blue collar spots, right? Anything from, uh, blue collar to white collar.
They all desire value." It's just what is it they value, and how do we teach them to use that to motivate themselves to get where they wanna go?
I think that the industry has done such a good job to terrify hirers to make a bad hire that I think we don't have a hiring problem anymore.
I think it used to be a thing where it was just kinda get a body in and figure it out.
I've been told, and I live this, I feel very much you can build a good business one of two ways.
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