Making Work Fun

Transcript - Making Work Fun

Rich, Host: On this episode of Team Building Saves the World.

David Goldstein, COO: People would say, you know, we’d write the shows, and the shows would be engaging, and people would say, do you have to participate? It was easy to log into, it was easy to participate, and it was meaningful. There’s never been someone that’s basically said, you don’t have enough.

Rich, Host: How do you find these people, David?

David Goldstein, COO: I spend way too much time with the internet.

Rich, Host: Hello team, it’s me, your old friend Rich Rininsland, host of Team Building Saves the World. The show where I speak to thought leaders from around the world, discussing variable strategies and tools to help you and your team build a better work environment. And today, we’re taking it back to the beginning.

We’re talking about Team Building 101 with the TeamBonding creator of opportunities, our friend David Goldstein. But first, I’m gonna share some love with my all of my supporters of TeamBonding. If your team is ready to experience teamwork, the power of play, to visit TeamBonding.com to learn more. Now team, please join me in welcoming my guest, entrepreneur, creative mind, and the COO ,Creator of Opportunities for TeamBonding, and the best friend this show ever had. Mr. David Goldstein, ladies and gentlemen.

Oh, so good to have you back on boss. How you doing?

David Goldstein, COO: I’m good. How are you guys?

Rich, Host: So good. So, so good. Having a great season so far this year. I’m loving it.

David Goldstein, COO: It sounds really good. I think you guys have really stepped it up again.

Rich, Host: Nice. Nice to hear. So, but enough about me. Let’s talk about you and what you think of me. No, I’m just kidding. That’s the old joke. I love it.

David Goldstein, COO: How long do we have?

Rich, Host: We’ll save that for the, for the speed round at the end.

David Goldstein, COO: There you go. We’ll catch the speed round. Now I’m, now I’m.

Rich, Host: Yeah, now you’re remembering the show. Yeah. Welcome back, buddy. So let’s, let’s talk, I mean, I’ve had you on every season so far, David, because I love having you here, but I also love hearing about your really unique perspective, especially about this industry and about the world of team building in particular, but tell everybody out there who maybe hasn’t gone back to the previous seasons, a little bit about yourself.

Specifically, what interested you in team building as a method of employment?

David Goldstein, COO: Well, team building wasn’t the original goal. It was kind of the destination. Originally, I was an entrepreneur. I started a murder mystery dinner theater. The murder mystery dinner theater kind of led to a corporate entertainment company.

And the corporate entertainment company was nice, but it wasn’t essential.

Rich, Host: Okay.

David Goldstein, COO: And I came across team building and it became somewhat more essential, something that not only was entertaining, but was engaging and did good for the companies. So I really gravitated to that. Yeah. The idea of doing something that not only, you know, is entertaining, but something that helps the employees helps the companies really, you know, gets people together in a way that is fun and interesting for everyone.

Rich, Host: And you’ve been doing this since well, TeamBonding has been around since 99. Is that right?

David Goldstein, COO: It’s 99. But I’ve been doing this since 1987.

Rich, Host: That’s what a graduated high school.

David Goldstein, COO: I know, I’m old

Rich, Host: Not that much older than me, but still as the old men of the group though, let’s, let’s actually talk about that, that perspective.

What have you seen that has been the big changes in team building since, you know, pre millennium.

David Goldstein, COO: One of my favorite stories with as far as changes was when we first started Mystery Cafe, it was, people would say, you know, we’d, we’d, we’d involve, we’d write the shows and the shows would be engaging and people would say, do you have to participate?

They didn’t want to be the spotlight. They didn’t want to be questioned. They didn’t want to stand up. They didn’t want to move around. And over the years it’s gone so far in the other direction. It’s not only, you know, do we have to participate? It’s how do we participate? How do we get engaged? How do we do more?

You know, and every year we’re always doing something to. Step up the engagement. Step up the interaction. Step up the way that they can participate in and interact with their with their other employees or other guests. So that’s changed, 360 degrees.

Rich, Host: Let’s talk a bit more personally. If you don’t mind the company itself. I mean, you are the C. O. O. Creative Opportunities. You have a number of people under you. How do you create a safe and fun environment? You know, how important is it to you? First off, that everybody feels that way in the industry work and, you know, the actual office as opposed to just diligently getting the job done during the day,

David Goldstein, COO: I think, one of the things that I’ve been lucky to be able to do is as the company has grown and as we’ve done more things and as we’ve, you know, gotten involved in a, you know, an international global partnership, you know, I’m able to do the things that I like to do, you know, I’ve always, you know, when I first started, I was the marketing director, you know, and that was a one job.

Now we’ve got probably 7 people in marketing. You know, so I, I focus on marketing, which, you know, basically, you know, creates the image of TeamBonding in the, in the eyes of the customers.

Rich, Host: Right.

David Goldstein, COO: And I also get involved in new programs. I love new programs, trying to figure out what’s the latest, greatest, you know, what people want to do, what, you know, how can we push the envelope, how can we do something a little bit different than no one else is doing you know, what, what charitable thing haven’t we done, you know, that’s the, so I’ve been able to focus my efforts on things that I really enjoy.

Rich, Host: And do we have anything new coming down the pipe that, you know, I don’t want you to give away the, you know, give away the gravy, but what do we have that’s coming that, that you’re really looking forward to?

David Goldstein, COO: We have a program called AI Invasion. And it’s just like it sounds. It’s a virtual program, though, and it’s developed by a guy in Austin, Texas, you know, right in the capital of the high tech stuff.

And he calls himself the Overlord. So he very much lives a part of what he’s written.

Rich, Host: How do you find these people, David?

David Goldstein, COO: I spend way too much time on the internet.

Rich, Host: But go ahead, go ahead, tell me more about it.

David Goldstein, COO: So I think, you know, AI is going to be the next, you know, the frontier, and there’s been a lot of frontiers as, you know, over the, over the years, you know, there’s been scavenger hunts, you know, we started with Polaroid scavenger hunts and then went to digital and then went to, you know you know, the next level. And now we’re back to Polaroid again.

Rich, Host: I mean, you also own the oldest mystery murder mystery cafe, you know, in the United States.

David Goldstein, COO: Right. And we’re still doing that, which is, which is super fun. And we’ve done that and we’ve engaged in different ways of, of, of murder mysteries and, you know, dining in the dark.

And we’ve, we’ve expanded to different things within that genre. So it’s not just creating new things. It’s, it’s taking things that, that are successful and trying to figure out how you might be able to combine them. So one of the things we’ve got in the, in the works, and it’s, it’s being done by the Irish Catalyst partner.

They’re doing a game show murder mystery. So we’re gonna do a game show murder mystery because

Rich, Host: Love it.

David Goldstein, COO: People love it and people love murder mysteries. And I think the combination of the two should be super successful.

Rich, Host: Nice. Nice. I look forward to you forcing me to do that.

David Goldstein, COO: Absolutely. . It’s got your name all over it.

Excellent. What else? What else do we have going?

Rich, Host: Anything? Anything that within the company itself, just TeamBonding itself that we have that, you know, you want to promote or you want to actually shine a light on.

David Goldstein, COO: Well, I think the thing, you know, if I look back at all the years I’ve been doing this, I think the thing that I like the best is the things that we do for charity.

Rich, Host: Yeah.

David Goldstein, COO: The fact that it’s not just building a team within the company, but it does build the team within the company. But it shows the employees within the company that the company that they work for cares about their community and wants to give back and wants to invest in them as, you know, as well. So the charitable things are fantastic.

And I think that the prosthetic hands one, we’ve, we’ve done the birthday party one. We’re constantly, you know, opening new frontiers within the charitable programs. And I, and I really liked that. I think, you know, I think it just feels so good to get, you know, to be able to know that, you know, we gave, you know, 50 bicycles, we gave cancer care kits. We’ve given, you know, we built hands in, you know, in Africa, just to, there are water filters in, in different places. It just. It’s the best thing that I think we, we do.

Rich, Host: The amazing thing that I’ve always discovered once we started doing charity, of course, when I first came on, the first thing I ever did with it was a bike build with Paul.

But the thing that I have since observed, especially when I get to leading them, is the fact that I have had so many people, so many client groups different team members of each client come up to me and just say, you know, I was that kid who didn’t have a bike. Or you know, I was in Africa and noticed how hard it is just to get like a sustainable drinking source for people, or wherever it happens to go, you know, everybody has that moment of, even if it’s just there, there, but for the grace of God, go I, that it could have been me who doesn’t have a home or suffered from an abusive relationship and had to get myself out as fast as I could. Now I have these people who are building packs to help me survive that experience. It’s, it’s incredible. That we get to do this and we get to see this and that everybody gets to have those moments of connectivity, even while they’re giving to needy sources throughout Boston and the world.

David Goldstein, COO: I think the first one we did, we did it, we did a program for It was a teddy bear build and it was for…

Rich, Host: I have one next week.

David Goldstein, COO: And the facilitator said to me, he said, David, you know, he said at the end between, you know, the kids that we gave the teddy bears to, who came to the event, the people that built the teddy bears, the venue, everyone was crying.

Rich, Host: Nice.

David Goldstein, COO: Can you imagine success in this scenario is the fact that everyone that you touched on that event cried.

Rich, Host: Yeah,

David Goldstein, COO: It’s beautiful. It’s really what I think is hopefully is going to be one of the legacies that I leave behind.

Rich, Host: That would be fantastic. And hopefully not anytime soon, my friend.

David Goldstein, COO: That’s that’s the plan.

Rich, Host: But let’s talk more about you. What have you been seeing in the world that I mean, we have the pandemic four years ago.

We and I got to give you full marks because we pivoted so fast. When it came to everything shutting down, we were losing work. Left, right and center.

David Goldstein, COO: Not just work, we lost everything. Every week within, within a matter of weeks, we had, it would, the whole 2019 was gone.

Rich, Host: I got it.

David Goldstein, COO: 2000, 2020 was gone.

Rich, Host: I got to tell this story. I was doing a gig. I was doing a job for us. Came back to the office to drop the supplies off, went into the office to say hi to you and let you know how it went. You called me into the office, sat me down and just immediately started going, I don’t know what you’ve heard. I don’t know what’s good. I don’t know how much you know about what’s going on.

But I want you to know we are planning for this, we’re gonna pivot hard, we’re gonna pivot fast, and you are one of the centerpieces that I’m building all these new things around. And so I don’t want you to worry this, the words this man actually said to me, folks, he was, I don’t want you to worry, I want you to know we’ve got this handled, all the plans are in motion, we are going to be okay, you are going to be okay, to which I replied, I don’t know what the hell you’re talking about.

I mean, at that point, all that I had heard was this pandemic was something that was happening in China and Italy. That’s how early, thanks to the Catalyst connections that we have, that you had been hearing that it was coming to the United States and that it was going to hit us hard.

Yeah, and then we really, you’re right, we pivoted really well.

David Goldstein, COO: I think, you know, it’s probably one of the things I’m most proud of, the fact that, you know, I was able to recognize, you know, what was going on. I was able to make the decision. I was able to invest in the idea that we could do virtual programs.

Rich, Host: Yes.

David Goldstein, COO: And, you know, and we, we all came together to develop kind of a plan to write out what some, you know, what some people thought in the beginning was, yeah, we can do this for a couple of weeks.

Rich, Host: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

David Goldstein, COO: But if, but if you remember, I mean, you were doing events in your basement or area or your sunroom and you were doing, you know, five o’clock in New York and five o’clock in Chicago and five o’clock in, you know, in California and then, you know, Singapore. Yeah. I mean, it just was, it was, unbelievable how technology just happened to be at the right time. And we happen to, you know, embrace it.

Rich, Host: It’s, it’s fascinating now looking back and watching how zoom was so quickly growing with us as a, as a marketplace where we could actually come and bring our wares and allow people to come on and join us and play.

David Goldstein, COO: Yeah, there was, there were other things in zoom. We decided that zoom was the most stable and the most adoptable platform for us. But I remember there was something called Vertway and I think Vertway is still around, but you know, they would have like castle walls built and then you, you know, you’d have an avatar and, you know, and we just never went that far in that direction.

We wanted to go in a direction that people could relate to, however, the, you know, they were, you know, connecting to us. But I think that was part of the secret too. We, we set on something that people could relate to. It was easy to, to, to log into, it was easy to participate and it was meaningful. You know, in the beginning, I remember that people, all they thought we could do was cocktail parties and trivia.

Rich, Host: Right.

David Goldstein, COO: And by the end, we were doing so many different things virtually, you know, between the kits that we were sending and, or the, the, the various things that we would do online, we, we will really took advantage of every different way we could do these type of programs.

Rich, Host: To the effect that one of our major clients, regular returning clients. Only uses virtual as their, as their place to gather their people together because they can’t do it. They have so many people across the entire country, if not the world, who need to connect at the exact same time, but not be flown everywhere to make it happen.

David Goldstein, COO: And that’s why I want to give our clients credit to for sticking with us and appreciate that.

Matter of fact, we had one client yesterday that 15th year in a row. And that’s just, speaks volumes about them and about us.

Rich, Host: Nice.

David Goldstein, COO: And they’ve done 15 different things. Yesterday was Project Runway.

Rich, Host: Oh, excellent. Good for them.

David Goldstein, COO: Yeah.

Rich, Host: Yeah. Do we have anything new coming on to virtual? Because a lot of people I assume out there in the corporate world are thinking that that went the way of the pandemic, you know, and that maybe it’s something we want to, if we need to, we’ll use, but are we still continuing to build that side of the brand?

David Goldstein, COO: We are. I mean, it’s, it’s certainly not what it was, what it was, you know, during the pandemic, but Lindsey, who, you know, your producer here and Jayne, you know, they’re going to present to us next week different ideas that they have for new virtual programs.

Rich, Host: Excellent.

David Goldstein, COO: Some of the virtual programs are still, you know, very successful, very popular. And you’re right, you know, companies have people, not only just different parts of the country, they have it in different parts of the world. And it’s really hard to go back when, you know, in the pandemic, they got together with, you know, their teams completely.

There’s no reason that they can’t still do it. I mean, it really opened up a new door for us as a company. It opened up a new door for them as a company. Companies that engage, embrace, and invest in their employees to get them to work better together.

Rich, Host: David, stick around for me. You’re going to love this part.

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David, first off, I want to say congratulations, my friend. This is the hundred and first episode of the podcast. That we’re on five years, 101 episodes. Tell my friends out there, where did this come from?

David Goldstein, COO: Well, when we were doing, you know, we were in the pandemic, we were trying to figure out how we can, you know, still engage in people that were out in the world, you know, and we did a set of webinars.

And then we decided to do the podcast and the podcast started initially because it was the year after we joined the Catalyst Global Network.

Rich, Host: Right.

David Goldstein, COO: This wasn’t originally, you know the same title. I think it was team building around the world. Yep. And we, you know, the people that we interviewed was, was different producers like me who did team building in their countries.

So we were doing, you know, people like you know, Mexico and people like Italy and, and Ireland and,

Rich, Host: we went to Transylvania.

David Goldstein, COO: Yeah,

Rich, Host: That first year that’s that’s the part that still blows my mind

David Goldstein, COO: And just, you know, what the, what was interesting about that and what I thought was interesting for the audience was it just showed people that, you know, what we did wasn’t just the U. S. based. It was something that people did successfully all over the world. Same plans, same programs similar stories. And it was just nice to see that what we did was duplicatable and successful wherever we did it.

Rich, Host: So

David Goldstein, COO: We’ve got one thing coming up. You mentioned what’s new. We, we’ve got a virtual Olympics and virtual Olympics is we invited, invited some of the partners to compete against us.

Rich, Host: Nice

David Goldstein, COO: Coming up in a couple of weeks. is Quickfire Olympics, and basically we’re going to be competing with other teams around the world, but just, you know, in the spirit of the Olympics, that’s something that we’re going to be doing to promote what we do for companies, as well as play with the others.

Rich, Host: Fantastic. Is this just in the office or can anybody just happen to show up and play?

David Goldstein, COO: Well, each, each country will have a team.

Rich, Host: Okay.

David Goldstein, COO: So four or five people will, will compete, you know, within the, the challenges that are set, set forward.

Rich, Host: Nice.

David Goldstein, COO: And we’ll produce, we’ll produce and share it on social media.

Rich, Host: I, I just want to remind you the first time we started getting into escape rooms, that every time we played the game, because this is what we normally do folks, we play the stuff to make sure how well it functions for you out there in the audience. But the first time we started doing escape rooms, you always said that I was on your team every time I came and joined you.

David Goldstein, COO: Absolutely. There are certain people that are good, good at certain things. And that one of your, one of your many skills.

Rich, Host: Speaking of internationally, gimme one of your favorite memories, one of your favorite stories. Concerning either international client or. Something that, that we had to take care of in an international method.

David Goldstein, COO: I think we, one of the things we did after the pandemic is we the Catalyst Global Network got together in Ireland. It was so fun to meet people from all over the world that did what I do, that did what we do. You know, we were in addition to the fact that, you know, we, we, we played with them and we, we learned new games.

We were recognized as the, you know, one of the largest partners. As far as growth. So it was nice to be recognized amongst our peers. And it was nice to learn new programs and to see people that we’ve, you know, only, you know, talk to, or, you know, over the internet or whatever, or work with, but we’ve certainly, you know, we’ve done events in Greece. We’ve done events in Mexico. We’ve done events all over the world. And now it’s much easier because we have partners in those places.

Rich, Host: So let’s look into the future if we can, because you’re the thing I love about you, man. And, and I do, I absolutely adore you. Just as a friend, not only as the guy who signs my paychecks every couple of weeks, but you are as positive for this work now as you were when I first met you back in 2009 when I came on board.

So let’s share that positivity. I mean, what is it about team building that we used to love and look forward to? And that you think the, that the clients out there who maybe haven’t come on board yet, that they can look forward to.

David Goldstein, COO: Well, I think the world has changed and the pandemic changed things too.

There’s definitely a challenge to companies on how they can get their people to work better together. Right. You know, some people are working at home, some people are working in the office, some people are working, you know, wherever they happen to be working. There is a challenge to. You know, to be more productive and, and I think one of the ways, you know, whether it be, you know, corporate retreats or, or, or just a day off or a day out together some way they need to bond together so they’re able to, you know, have each other’s back.

I mean, cause if you don’t meet someone, you know, and you, you know, you need help. You can’t just reach out to someone you’ve never met. But if you’ve had a shared experience, if you’ve done something, if you’ve built something, or solved something, or donated something, you’ve got a way to bond with that person.

Hey, Rich, you know, remember when we did this?

Rich, Host: Yeah.

David Goldstein, COO: You know, help me with that. I really could use your help with this. You know, and, you know, within that two, three hour period, I learned a lot about you and your family and, you know, your daughter that just graduated and, you know, the things that are, that allow me to bond with you, right.

It can’t be done in any other way than these type of events.

Rich, Host: Plus everybody out there should know that TeamBonding over the years has become from, you know, that the family industry that you’ve created. is still very much a family industry. I mean, how many of your kids are actually involved in the company now?

David Goldstein, COO: Well, my, my wife is the operations manager and she’s my personal operations manager.

And then my daughter Sam is director of sales and Bailey is part of the CSR team. She runs the CSR team, which is, which is fantastic. And it just, it goes back to the fact that, you know, when we were, when they were growing up, you know, we lived this business.

Rich, Host: Yeah.

David Goldstein, COO: We would take reservations in a supermarket, on the car and, you know, in the house, on a beach, you know, wherever we happen to be, we were, we were always working and we never realized that, you know, that they would come on to what we do and love it as much as we do.

Rich, Host: And they’re fantastic. I mean, I will be honest, and it’s just me, this has nothing to do with anybody else. There was that brief moment of here come the Goldsteins, especially when you have like a casino night and your son robs me of my winnings at the very last second.

David Goldstein, COO: Well, he doesn’t work for the company.

Rich, Host: No, I know. So why was he there, David?

David Goldstein, COO: That’s true. He’s getting slowly acclimated into the TeamBonding way.

Rich, Host: Excellent. Excellent. Oh, yeah. Yeah. One game where I lose at a time. Thanks, man. But I gotta tell you, I mean, they, when they came on board, they were breath of fresh air. Sam and Bailey both is working with them has been not only are they still very much in line of thinking as you and Wendy, but like you said, it was like they they were born to this job.

So when they came on board, they made life so much easier.

David Goldstein, COO: They’ve got the work ethic, you know, they’ve got the work ethic to, you know, to understand kind of what, what we did.

And they realized, you know, the stories I’ve told before were. You know, I had a choice where of what I was gonna do, whether I was gonna work for someone else or work for myself.

Rich, Host: Right.

David Goldstein, COO: But I chose to work for myself because I wanted to see them grow up. You know, I wanted, you know, I wanted to see, you know, go to their sporting events. I wanted to, you know, go to their events. I wanted to be part of their lives as they grew up. I think they see value in that, and I think they want to do the same thing for, you know, for their families.

Rich, Host: Sounds good. Sounds good. And I’m telling you, the office is, it’s become even more welcoming than it was back in the day.

David Goldstein, COO: Well, that’s nice. Well done. It’s really good.

Rich, Host: And I’m being completely serious. I’m being completely earnest. I mean, you step in the door, and all the dogs that your family contains group wise come and join, come and meet you, and Some of them bark, but, but they’re just, it’s, it’s lovely. It’s just lovely even to be there, man.

David Goldstein, COO: That’s nice. I mean, it’s nice to be able to, we, Wendy and I joke all the time. We should have had more kids.

Rich, Host: You kind of do. Some of them are only a few years younger than you.

David Goldstein, COO: That is true,

Rich, Host: but let’s, let’s talk about the industry here with that culture that you have the, this office space that you’ve, that you’ve built, I mean, including the, every summer we have the food truck Tuesdays you, you guys, you, you make this, you make the culture of the company, something that we want to emulate to the clients that we go and meet every other day.

David Goldstein, COO: So we have to practice what we preach. I mean, you know, we, you know, it’s, it’s difficult, you know, we are just like any other client that we have. There are some people that are in the office all the time. There are some people that are in the office one day a week, some people that are never in the office.

Rich, Host: Right.

David Goldstein, COO: So we, you know, we want to, you know, make it fun to be in the office, you know, because I, I personally think people are better together.

Rich, Host: But how can we, how can you, I should say for those clients out there that we already have and the ones that are going to be coming on after they hear this episode, wink, wink.

How can you help them to emulate that ethic that you’ve brought to the workplace? What recommendations you can give them?

David Goldstein, COO: We can show them that what we do is successful as a company. We, you know, we have one of the things I think TeamBonding is best at is that we are not only innovators in new programs, but we are very good at the programs that we do. So, you know the company that you know did their 15th event that was 15 different events over 15 years

Rich, Host: Right

David Goldstein, COO: So so we have enough variety that we can match their goals with a program that fits their needs.

Rich, Host: I mean, we’re over a hundred now between live and virtual.

David Goldstein, COO: Oh, probably. Yeah. Probably closer to 150 or more.

Rich, Host: Nice.

David Goldstein, COO: And then they can, and if we don’t have something that matches, then we have the programs that are customized.

You know, we’ve got the department that creates new programs. You know, we’ve got Shannon who is, you know, involved in, you know finding and creating new programs. So we, we’ve developed a Harry Potter program. We developed kind of a Star games program. We, you know, we developed. A lot of the programs that we’ve developed over the years are based on client requests.

So I think, you know, there’s, there’s never been someone that’s basically said you don’t have enough . You know, it’s, it’s just matching, you know, what we, what they have with what we what we can deliver.

Rich, Host: David, I love it. I love it so much. Thank you for coming on, my friend, my team out there. Please give a big round of applause to a man I respect and admire, Mr.

David Goldstein, everybody.

You still like coming on, David? Still having a good time?

David Goldstein, COO: I still like coming on. I still like the people under your desk. I’m wondering if they’re unionized yet.

Rich, Host: Oh, I mean, I mean, sure. Yeah, I’ll, I’ll help them with that. But I hope you’re still feeling good pal because you know what it is It’s time for my speed round.

David, you’re an old fan of this. You’re an old champ. But we’re going to just to remind everybody else out there. This is 60 seconds where I’m going to ask David just a series of completely innocuous questions. This is a method of getting to know him a little bit better for all of you out there.

David, if you are feeling at all competitive, we’ve hit 15 questions this season.

David Goldstein, COO: Wow.

Rich, Host: Yeah. Don’t feel like you have to, but it’s there if you want the ring, buddy. All right. Fantastic. Here we go. I’m going to start the music. I’ll ask the first question. Good luck, pal.

What’s your name?

David Goldstein, COO: David.

Rich, Host: How many kids you have?

David Goldstein, COO: Three.

Rich, Host: Who’s your favorite?

David Goldstein, COO: All three.

Rich, Host: How many pets do you have?

David Goldstein, COO: We have two. We have a dog, a puggle, and a cat who is now 20 years old.

Rich, Host: If you could ask any of your pets a question and get an answer, what would that question be?

David Goldstein, COO: I would ask the cat to speak with her long life.

Rich, Host: What’s your favorite ice cream flavor?

David Goldstein, COO: Pistachio.

Rich, Host: Name something you’ve created you are most proud of.

David Goldstein, COO: Mystery cafe.

Rich, Host: Where would you like to live for just one day?

David Goldstein, COO: I would love to live in Italy for just one day.

Rich, Host: What’s your most embarrassing childhood memory?

David Goldstein, COO: Almost drowning by falling through ice.

Rich, Host: Ooh! What’s your favorite childhood memory?

David Goldstein, COO: Yeah Camping with my family

Rich, Host: Would you rather live in the past, the present, or the future?

David Goldstein, COO: I would rather live in the past.

Rich, Host: What would you do if you were invisible for just one day?

David Goldstein, COO: I would live my day as if I was living a regular day, just to see what it was like being invisible. What people said about me, and you know, that type of thing.

Rich, Host: Awesome. 13, buddy. You got 13. That is fantastic. Yeah. Yeah. Oh my man. David, where can everybody reach you? So if they want to learn more about TeamBonding or just more about you.

David Goldstein, COO: Oh, I’m pretty accessible on social media, but my email is David@TeamBonding.Com. That’s it. But that’s pretty well It’s all it takes.

Thank you again, man. I I love when you’re on every season. I look forward to these episodes with you

I

Rich, Host: hope I added some Value to you know to what your your season this year, but thanks for doing it what you’re doing five years is a pretty thing to be impressed. Yeah

Yep. Yep. And you know, can I just say not only to you but to everybody at TeamBonding including my team under me Lindsey, Camille, everyone who comes along and plays with me on this and makes this, makes my job so much easier just for being there. Thank you guys. 101 episodes.

David Goldstein, COO: Fantastic. And you’ve, you’ve transitioned nicely and Lindsey’s done a great job and I’m really happy for it.

Rich, Host: Thanks pal. And thank you, especially my team out there. That’s it. We’re wrapping up this 101st episode of Team Building Saves The World. If you’ve enjoyed this episode, whether you’re new to the podcast or an old fan of the show, please be sure to share it with everyone, you know, whether they’re a coworker, a friend or family member, it just helps us to share all of this vital information.

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Leave us a message. Tell me what you liked about the show. Tell me if you have an idea for a future topic. I do want to hear from you. So before we say farewells for this 101st episode of Team Building Saves the World. Never forget, my friends, that if you are within the sound of my voice, you’re on my team now.

And I am forever going to be on yours. So long, team! I’ll see you next time!

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