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6 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a podcast-style YouTube interview (uploaded by Andy Neary) in which a speaker—identifying as a producer—reflects on the resilience and drive common to producers, notes that those strengths can harm staff and teams when misapplied, acknowledges there are some bad actors, and emphasizes that productivity cannot outweigh negative team impacts; the speaker also says when someone probably needs to move on, the situation is usually worse than it appears.

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I love producers. I'm a producer at my core. But some of the same skill sets that makes these producers just indomitable in this resilience, that they have this amazing ability to get rejected constantly and keep going and this need to conquer, which is great. If it's not applied correctly, then it's trampling over staff and team and some of that. And there's certainly some not, you know, there's some bad actors out there. But I think a lot of times, I think a lot of producers don't. Don't even fully understand the weight that they create behind them, because most of the time those skill sets are amazing talents that help them get where they're at in life. But that's one of the things we've worked on really hard and I have appreciated over the years. I didn't early on, but there's just no level or amount of productivity that can outweigh that. I've found that when you think there's somebody that probably needs to move on, it's usually even worse than you think it is.