The Do What Is Necessary Podcast: Recent Episodes
Andrew Moon
Let's be honest: building a company from nothing is incredibly hard. It has been for me. I started my entrepreneurial journey at age 8. Yep, you read that right....8! Since then, I've started, run and sold multiple businesses with no partners and no funding. All my life I've had to build something from nothing, and that's what I've gotten really great at - tenacious, creative and extremely smart strategy coupled with hard work. Welcome to The Do What Is Necessary podcast—I’m your host, Andrew Moon.
Listen in as I share all the mistakes I’ve made and, more importantly, what I’ve learned from them, with no fluff, and no rose-colored glasses. The Do What Is Necessary Podcast is a show where we cut through the toxic hustle and grind mindset and dig into what it actually takes to start and grow a “calm business”. Calm is family first. Calm is more independence. Calm is sustainable practices for the long term. Calm is joyful. Running a calm company is a choice.
I’ll be giving unfiltered advice every week, 10 minutes per episode each. I want you to walk away from this podcast with the mindset and tools you need to be successful.
This podcast is for entrepreneurs, side hustlers, and busy professionals with a short attention span (like me)—you’ll get quick-hitting, actionable information in every single episode. If you give me your time, I promise it won't be wasted. Now let's get to work!
You built something. Maybe it's successful. But you're not sure you want to do this for the next ten years. The thing that excited you at 35 doesn't excite you at 50.
This episode asks the question most founders avoid: what comes next?
Learn the Next Chapter Framework and why the business doesn't need you to stay forever. And neither do you.
Transformation: STUCK → EVOLVING
You've built something. But have you built something that works without you? The real test isn't how the business runs when you're there. It's how it runs when you're gone.
This episode challenges you to prove your business can survive your absence.
Learn the Disappearance Test and why the things that break reveal exactly what you need to build.
Transformation: DEPENDENT → INDEPENDENT
You have the title. You're not doing the job. You're still acting like employee number one while the actual CEO work goes undone.
This episode defines the five things only a CEO can do and why the skills that built the business aren't the skills that scale it.
Learn the CEO Job Description and how to start acting like the leader the company needs.
Transformation: DOING → LEADING
Everyone says "work ON the business, not IN it." Nobody tells you how. You block CEO time and the inbox reclaims it within a week.
This episode cuts through the platitude and gives you the actual framework for elevation.
Learn the ON Test and why the goal isn't strategic thinking time. It's a business that runs while you think.
Transformation: OPERATOR → OWNER
Revenue is up. Marriage is stable. Friends think you have it made. And you've never felt more alone.
This episode names what most founders won't admit: the structural isolation of leadership and the weight of carrying what you can't share.
Learn the Inner Circle framework and why connection has to be intentional, not accidental.
Transformation: ISOLATED → CONNECTED
You're watching competitors instead of customers. Scrolling LinkedIn, measuring yourself against people playing a completely different game.
This episode exposes the comparison trap: why every minute spent watching them is a minute stolen from building yours.
Learn the Competitor Blackout and what happens when you redirect that attention to the only people who matter.
Transformation: JEALOUS → FOCUSED
The old playbook said hire to grow. More revenue, more people. More people, more management. More management, more overhead. More overhead, more stress.
This episode challenges that assumption. What if you could 10x your output without adding a single person to payroll?
Learn the AI Leverage Audit and how the best founders are building smaller teams with bigger impact.
Transformation: HIRING → MULTIPLYING
You love being the one with the answers. The fixer. The closer. The person who swoops in when things go sideways.
This episode exposes the dark side of heroism: how every save creates a dependency, and why your team's favorite phrase might be killing your growth.
Learn the Hero Detox and how to build solvers instead of being one.
Transformation: SAVING → ENABLING
Perfectionism isn't a strength. It's a tax you pay on every decision, every deliverable, every day.
This episode exposes the hidden cost of "just making it a little better" and why your competitor who ships ugly is beating you.
Learn the 80% Rule and how to recognize when "good enough" is actually "done."
Transformation: POLISHING → SHIPPING
You have a tool for email, a tool for projects, a tool for CRM, a tool for docs, a tool for chat—and none of them communicate.
Your team spends hours copying data between systems, things fall through the cracks, and nobody has a single source of truth.
This episode reveals how to stop the tool chaos and build an integrated system where information flows automatically.
"I just know my business."
No, you don't.
You have feelings about your business.
This episode destroys the myth of entrepreneurial intuition and reveals why the founders who measure everything outperform the ones who "trust their gut."
If you don't have a dashboard showing your vital signs in real-time, you're guessing.
And guessing is expensive.
Every time an employee leaves, you lose institutional knowledge.
Every time you forget how you solved a problem, you solve it again from scratch.
Your business has a memory problem—and you're the only brain cell it has.
This episode reveals how to extract the knowledge trapped in people's heads and build a business that remembers everything, forever.
Every time a team member asks you something you've already answered, you're paying a tax.
A tax on your time, your energy, and your sanity.
This episode reveals why your team can't seem to remember anything—spoiler: it's your fault—and delivers the system that makes questions disappear forever.
If you're tired of being a human FAQ, this one's for you.
Being busy and being effective are completely different things—but most founders can't tell the difference.
This episode exposes why "busy" has become a status symbol that's actually destroying your business, and reveals the brutal framework for separating motion from progress.
Warning: Your to-do list is about to get a lot shorter.
What if the path to growing your business is doing LESS, not more?
In this episode, we tell the story of a founder who was working 80-hour weeks, "essential" to every function, completely burned out—and how stepping back actually doubled their revenue.
This isn't feel-good advice.
This is the counterintuitive playbook for building a business that scales without you.
Most meetings are expensive theater pretending to be work.
In this episode, we calculate the true cost of your meeting culture, expose the hidden agendas keeping your calendar bloated, and reveal how to cut meeting time by 50% while actually getting MORE done.
If you spend your days bouncing from Zoom to Zoom feeling busy but unproductive, this is your intervention.
You started a business for freedom.
Instead, you built a prison with better branding.
In this episode, we explore why most founders become hostages to their own companies—unable to take a vacation, step away for a day, or even turn off their phone without everything falling apart.
If your business would implode without you, you don't own a business.
You own a very demanding job.
Let's fix that.
That thing where you bolt awake at 3 A.M. in a cold sweat thinking about the email you forgot to send?
That's not dedication—that's your nervous system screaming for help.
In this episode, we dissect why founder brains won't shut off, the hidden cost of being "always on," and the simple framework that lets you actually rest without your business burning down.
What if your biggest strength is actually your biggest weakness? In this episode, we expose the "ambition trap" that keeps founders drowning in seventeen projects while making zero progress on any of them. If you've got a vision board that looks like a Pinterest fever dream and a to-do list longer than a CVS receipt, this one's for you. Warning: hustle bros will hate this.
🎬 This week's episode was inspired by a call I was on this week. I was talking with a good friend who sold his IT business like me. He started a new company, but is finding himself TRAPPED....AGAIN!!!! His new business has the same choke hold that his IT business had on him. That was one of biggest reasons he sold it. Now he doesn't know what to do.****
*He's working nearly 7 days a week with staff now in 5-6 time zones. He's crushed by the weight of managing all of this NOW while raising 3 kids.*
*If any of this sounds familiar: please know that you have a CHOICE. Break free from the choke hold by taking control. The flip side is a super scary place!!!!*
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WHO IS ANDREW MOON, aka the Orange Nomad 🍊 ⏬❓
I’m a lifelong entrepreneur who has launched and run several successful businesses of my own since age 8. After running a successful technology company (aka #MSP) of my own for 10 years, which I sold in 2014, I founded Orange Nomad to help MSPs, small businesses and entrepreneurs bridge the gap between strategy and execution.
I love helping the ’underdog.’ I’ve built my business from nothing and know how hard it can be to start and grow a business when you’ve got no money, no help and the world on your shoulders. I help small businesses like ourselves: members of the Fortune 5,000,000. With the Fortune 5,000,000 we have a real shot at making a real impact. That's more satisfying work. I’m proud to help my clients learn how to build a "calm company". Calm is family first. Calm is more independence. Calm is sustainable practices for the long term. Calm is joyful. Running a calm company is a choice.
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Overstimulation is the cause of our inability to focus on anything significant or challenging in our lives.
We'd rather sleep in our beds and surf through social media than accomplish things we're enthusiastic about.
Alternatively, we may spend the entire day playing video games till our eyes dry up.
We do this because we want to experience the rush of discovery that comes with discovering something new and controversial.
Unfortunately, not handling the hard stuff of running your business, like marketing for instance, will eventually kill your business.
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Although not everyone is born with the ability to sell, it is necessary to stay in business.
It is true that some people have a natural ability to sell.
Others may stand on the sidelines in astonishment as a naturally gifted salesman turns a perfectly ordinary product into a must-have for a potential buyer. (think Steve Jobs)
Natural selling ability can elicit strong feelings, including the envy button.
I used to think "selling" was a dirty word, but I have since embraced this necessary skill and have actually learned to love it. On this episode, I share what I did to change. --> https://my.orangenomad.com/podcast
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“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas A. EdisonI just want to remind you. There's no shortcut. There's no easy button. There's no trick. There's no looking at somebody else and asking "How do they do it?" that I don't know. Well, you may not know it, but it's not a secret.
Any basic search engine, any book you read, listen to enough podcasts, you go to enough events. You'll learn it.
The secret of business success, and a lot of. It's just hard work. A lot of it is a learning as you go along and improvising, but the core tenants to business, as I talked to those of you who are trying to grow solo businesses, the smallest of small business owners is really simple.
On today's episode I talk all about the 5 basic tenants to make any business a success. Hope you enjoy!
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I’ve learned some important lessons looking back on my past, and I thought I’d share a few with you.
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For the last 8 years, I’ve been living a (relatively) simple life. At times, the complexity of my life grows, and I renew my commitment to living simply.
Living a simple life is about paring back, so that you have space to breathe.
It’s about doing with less, because you realize that having more and doing more doesn’t lead to happiness.
It’s about finding joys in the simple things, and being content with solitude, quiet, contemplation and savoring the moment.
I’ve learned some key lessons for living a simple life, and I thought I’d share a few with you.
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When someone takes a vacation at your company, (yourself included) it should feel like they don't work there anymore. You should be encouraging them to go completely dark.
Turn their computer off, delete Outlook from their phone, don't check in.
Go away for real. Be gone. Off your grid.
The whole purpose of a vacation is to get away. To not only be somewhere else entirely, but to think about something else entirely. Work should not be on your mind. Period.
But the reality is that most entrepreneurs end up taking a "fakecation", if they take any time off at all.
When was the last time you actually got to disconnect? I mean for real?
Not for a weekend, but for weeks. When you didn't feel any guilt or urge to check in and check up on work.
Very few entrepreneurs can claim such a thing nowadays. That's a tragedy, and a recipe for burnout.
Fakecations put you on a leash - you're liable to be yanked back and pulled into work at any moment.
We all start our business with the idea that we'll be able to get the time off we need. That's supposed to be one of the key benefits. Time off isn't much of a benefit if you never get it. It becomes more like a crappy loan with terrible terms. Plus interest. And worries. Enough is enough.
Just because you own a business doesn't mean that your company should be entitled to ALL of your night's, weekends, or vacations. That's life time. True emergencies are an exception, but those should only happen once or twice a year max.
When your company acts like it owns all of yours (and your employee's time), this breeds a culture of neurotic exhaustion.
EVERYONE needs a chance to truly get away and reboot. If your employees are denied that, or you deny yourself that, you'll both end up tired and resentful.
Clearly, time off is necessary, but only if you can take it without preoccupying yourself with more work. So, how can you do that as the committed entrepreneur you are?
Listen to this podcast episode to find out what the definition of "fakecation" is, and why it's time to institute a No Fakecations Allowed policy -
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As we are two years removed from the Great Lockdown, I have recently found myself struggling to get back into a state of Flow. I've had some recent life changes, like buying a new (100 year old) house. With moving to a new area and lots of remodeling projects, I've had a hard time being creative; especially when it comes to making content. Here's how I'm tackling this hurdle.
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Entrepreneurship is challenging to say the least. Some days it's just downright exhausting. For many entrepreneurs there. There comes a last straw breaking point. Where the conditions are so stressful and so overwhelming. That it just seems impossible to continue.
But for most others, the eventual loss of passion for entrepreneurship. Better known as burnout. Is something slower and more gradual. It's a creeping feeling that grows day after day. And eventually begins to affect your work performance.
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When you work for yourself, though, getting stuck can be very harmful.
When it comes to GETTING UNSTUCK, as entrepreneurs who are in charge of our own work flow and processes, we must be especially resourceful.
Here are 5 strategies to keep in your toolbox.
When you're stuck in a rut, try one of these solutions.
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It feels nice to grab out the hammer and slam that sucker back into the ground as quickly as possible so you can get back to digging yourself out of email jail.
In business, problem resolution is satisfying, but process solving is superior. On this episode, we'll break down the why and how of process solving as a better strategy to keep your sanity.
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In your daily life, you will experience the glow of shiny object syndrome today, tomorrow, or someday. You must first comprehend what it is, why it occurs, and how to deal with it.
When family or friends discuss how work is going, they frequently bring up the most recent news. They describe what is going on and how it affects them.
Unfortunately, many people's descriptions seem like they're suffering from shiny object syndrome (which I'll explain later). Their story reflects their intellectual and emotional fatigue.
Organizations and people (including you) are understandably looking for "it" in the form of ideas, technology, or processes to help them innovate and grow. They may, however, swiftly adopt a solution only to renounce it later.
This is referred to as "shiny object syndrome."
Let's have a look at what we've got. Put your glasses on!
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This issue is known as "time scarcity," and it is one of our society's most common pressures.
So, what are our options? Unfortunately, there is no simple solution - but there are a few things I've discovered to be really effective.
Let's start with the problem and then move on to the solution.
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When you're feeling worried and overwhelmed by life's apparently never-ending rotation of duties and responsibilities, the last thing you want to do is do less.
But, almost always, that's exactly what needs to happen. Similarly, if we can't keep our homes organized, it nearly always indicates we have too many things to try to keep in order, if we can't get through our days without feeling completely overwhelmed, it means we're trying to take on too much at once. Trying to cram too much into your schedule won't help you be more productive. It reduces your productivity.
On this episode, I break down why time mangement hacks don't work, and the ONE thing you need to manage each day.
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The idea of having concrete, achievable goals seems to be deeply ingrained in our culture.
In the past, I’d set a goal or three for the year, and then sub-goals for each month. Then I’d figure out what action steps to take each week and each day, and try to focus my day on those steps.
Unfortunately, it never, ever works out this neatly. We all know this. You know you need to work on an action step, and you try to keep the end goal in mind to motivate yourself. But this action step might be something you dread, and so you procrastinate. You do other work, or you check email or Facebook, or you goof off.
And so your weekly goals and monthly goals get pushed back or side-tracked, and you get discouraged because you have no discipline. And goals are too hard to achieve. So now what? Well, you review your goals and reset them. You create a new set of sub-goals and action plans. You know where you’re going, because you have goals!
Of course, you don’t actually end up getting there. Sometimes you achieve the goal and then you feel amazing. But most of the time you don’t achieve them and you blame it on yourself.
Here’s the secret: the problem isn’t you, it’s the system! Goals as a system are set up for failure.
Today I break down my issues with goals, and a new mindset I'm learning to embrace.
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How often have you heard someone refer to their company as their baby? Maybe you've done that yourself. I've had that same feeling myself and I've had that same viewpoint in the past with past businesses. Given the blood sweat in emotional tears that we pour into our businesses, it seems like a logical analogy, but there comes a time when we have to take a step back, and view our businesses in a different light.
The early stages of your business growth may require constant attention. When you first start out, it's just like having a kid. I remember when my son was born. I mean, if you're a parent, you understand this. They can't do anything for themselves. You have to do everything for them. But after a certain point of time, you should be able to relax a little bit and especially when it comes to sleep. I remember when my son was born, every two hours he either needed fed or changed.
But at some point he started sleeping through the night. And I think that we know this was probably like month four or month five, he started sleeping through the night. So at some point they grow up at some point they wipe their own butt. So it's the same mentality we need to take her with our businesses. And today I want to talk about three reasons why you should ditch that mentality that your business is "your baby".
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Become the entrepreneur you've always wanted to be! Put your money on yourself!
Excuse my passion, but there are far too many wonderfully bright people who are content with their current situation, aka a job, because they are afraid to risk it all. Don't be the one that gets caught in the middle of success!
I have no ill will toward those who work. However, that should not be your sole focus and effort on a daily basis. You must have a side business, something you are enthusiastic about, and something you are growing for yourself.
Enough is enough with placing your entire destiny in the hands of others. Betting on oneself is the quickest road to success. Period! So, here are five methods to go about it...
Underdogs, by definition, finish second — a position no one likes to claim. No one really wants to be in second place. But being the underdog is to me, I think it's a strategic advantage. And today I want to talk about why I think that's the case.
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For many years, I mistakenly assumed that because I'd spent the majority of my professional life building companies, conducting sales meetings, and speaking engagements, I was an extrovert. I didn't understand why I needed full recovery days of silence after delivering training courses or a day full of meetings until I realized I was a true introvert trying to pass myself off as an extrovert.
Today, it's not uncommon for me to plan my leaving so that I don't get inundated with party invitations. To protect my energy, I've learned to set kind boundaries and not apologize for being myself. Nothing makes me happier than snuggling up with a blanket, reading, writing, or watching a TV show with my family. In fact, I've discovered that the more time I set aside for self-reflection, the more present and effective I can be in people-oriented events.
I wish I had learned this sooner.
02:11 - The World Is Built for Extroversion
3:55 - Growing as a Leader Meant Accepting My Introverted Power
3 Myths That Will Hold You Back as an Introverted Leader
5:34 - Myth #1
7:01 - Myth #2
8:13 - Myth #3
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As a culture, we've come to believe that when building a business bigger is always better. More revenue, more employees, more followers, more square feet, more locations. Those are the metrics that impress people, but can this relentless pursuit of more backfire?
Today I want to talk about why staying small is the next big thing for business, why I think it's time to rethink growth as the status quo, how social media has changed the way we think about success and the three questions you should ask yourself before working towards any goal.
1:30 - MORE ISN'T ALWAYS BETTER
4:09 - 3 QUESTIONS TO ASK YOURSELF
5:35 - HOW SOCIAL MEDIA HAS CHANGED OUR VIEW OF SUCCESS
7:07 - ACQUISITION/GROWTH VS. RETENTION
8:55 - RECAP/TAKEAWAYS
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We've gotten sidetracked somewhere along the route. Perhaps we don't understand how much our daily rituals, favorite devices and apps, and where we focus our attention have an impact on us. As my compulsive relationship with distractions reached a breaking point, I needed a way to hold up a mirror and reveal a new me.
We think we can multitask because it's normal. It's what we do every day - text and walk, Facebook/Insta and drive, email and surf while in meetings, check our phones while reading and studying. But with all this multitasking, are we actually learning to work more efficiently? On this week's show, we'll talk about my battle with this addiction to distraction, and how it nearly wrecked the life I am trying to create.
Who is in control of your fate? Is it possible that it's your devices? If you can't go more than a few minutes without checking your phone, or if you're prone to other addictions, you definitely want to check out this show.
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The hustle started as a beacon for me when I was 8 years old. Coming from humble beginnings, hustling meant trying to outwork and outsmart those who had more than I did. But now, hustle has become synonymous with grinding 24/7 at the expense of health, relationships and legacy.
It's no surprise that individuals are working longer hours, sooner and later in the day, on weekends, and whenever they have free time. People are no longer able to complete tasks at work. If you run a business, it's even worse because you wear so many hats that it becomes a never ending battle.
Worse, for many people these days, working long hours, being overly occupied, and sleeping little has become a badge of honor. Sustained tiredness is a sign of stupidity, not a badge of honor. Companies who push their employees into this deal are cooking up something stupid at the expense of their workers.
Many folks are ending up broken, wasted, and burned out with nothing to show for it. And for what?
It's time we stop the hustlemania!!
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We've all been there: you set out to start a business out of passion, and it soon turns into growth at all costs. Work takes precedence over everything else in your life, causing everything else to go by the wayside.
Suddenly, you're working 12, 14, 18 hours a day, responding to emails from home at all hours of the night, and battling the million to-dos going through your mind in order to get a few hours of sleep. You get your exercise by dashing between your desk and the printer, and you can't recall the last time you ate food that wasn't packaged.
"Work-life balance–what the heck is that?" you might wonder.
Stressful periods at work may be unavoidable, and while they may be bearable in the short term, they can lead to exhaustion and burnout if you don't take steps to keep the stress under control.
On this episode, I unpack the 2 biggest causes of this toxic mindset, and what I did to deal with my own bout of exhaustion and burnout.
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Welcome to the first episode of the Do What Is Necessary podcast with your host Andrew Moon. As the Founder and CEO of Orange Nomad, Andrew has bootstrapped multiple companies with no partners and zero funding. Are you building your company? Are you trying to climb in your career? Andrew is doing the exact same thing right now. If you want to go on this journey with someone right there with you, you’re in the right place. Throughout these 10 min podcast episodes, you will get candid advice on what it takes to grow a company. Are you ready to do the work? Then let’s go!
Let's be honest: building a company from nothing is incredibly hard. It has been for me. I started my entrepreneurial journey at age 8. Yep, you read that right....8! Since then, I've started, run and sold multiple businesses with no partners and no funding. All my life I've had to build something from nothing, and that's what I've gotten really great at - tenacious, creative and extremely smart strategy coupled with hard work. Welcome to The Do What Is Necessary podcast—I’m your host, Andrew Moon.
Listen in as I share all the mistakes I’ve made and, more importantly, what I’ve learned from them, with no fluff, and no rose-colored glasses. The Do What Is Necessary Podcast is a show where we cut through the toxic hustle and grind mindset and dig into what it actually takes to start and grow a “calm business”. Calm is family first. Calm is more independence. Calm is sustainable practices for the long term. Calm is joyful. Running a calm company is a choice.
I’ll be giving unfiltered advice every week, 10 minutes per episode each. I want you to walk away from this podcast with the mindset and tools you need to be successful.
This podcast is for entrepreneurs, side hustlers, and busy professionals with a short attention span (like me)—you’ll get quick-hitting, actionable information in every single episode. If you give me your time, I promise it won't be wasted. Now let's get to work!