[1:12] – Monique introduces her guest, Yuri Kruman.

[1:29] – I want to know  who you are, where are you from, and what do you do?

• I do HR consulting.
• I do executive coaching.
• I write as well, I speak.

[7:24] – Share with me about the Soviet Union that you have experienced.

• It was a place that had its own very specific rules.
• I just kind of grew up with that awareness like, “keep it to yourself, don’t rely on anyone else. Don’t ask anyone for help because you don’t want to be beholden to anyone”.

[12:45] – Yuri talks about Semitism.

[17:53] – So do you think there should be more conversations about how anti Semitism looks these days? And how can we change that?

• The trouble with anti semitism, it’s always rearing its ugly head.
• If you really dig what it is, that’s the modern anti-Semitism.

[21:25] – How was it for you, as a nine year old?

• I was probably a little bit too serious even for a Soviet kid.
• My childhood was anything but conventional.

[26:55] – Yuri talks about his experiences having a Russian identity and American identity.

[52:01] – What does efficiency mean to you?

• Efficiency is basically more or less cutting away all the junk and all the wrong people and leaving whatever is left in some kind of digestible order that can allow you to maybe get sleep once in a while.

[53:37] – Which of the three things would you keep doing over and over again to get back to success?

• Time management.
• Block out the wrong things.
• Go back to default lenses.