Level Up with Ethan Evans (retired Amazon VP)
by The EZ Coach
Level Up is your source for career growth solutions by retired Amazon Vice President, Ethan Evans.In my 15+ years at Amazon, I led global teams of 800+ and invented businesses such as Prime Video, Amazon Appstore, Merch by Amazon, Prime Gaming, and Twitch Commerce. I hold 70+ patents. Have reviewed 10,000+ resumes, conducted 2,500+ interviews, and made 1,000+ hires. I was an Amazon Bar Raiser and Bar Raiser Core Leader. And I helped advocate for and draft the Amazon Leadership Principle (LP) "Ownership" — the words, "They never say 'that's not my job.'" are mine.I've promoted 8 reports from Senior Manager (Amazon L7) to Director (Amazon L8), contributed to 25+ Director promotions, hired 10+ Directors internally and externally, and drove the promotion of 3 engineers to Principal. Of my former reports, 2 are current Amazon VPs (L10) and 5 are C-Suite outside Amazon.I retired from Amazon as a VP in September 2020. Before Amazon, I spent 12 years at 3 startups.Now I am building Level U
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Dissecting Amazon Leadership Principles (LPs), for Amazonians & Non-Amazonians with Ethan Evans & David Anderson
Level Up Newsletter & Community paid members and the Scarlet Ink Newsletter paid members were invited to join this live event with Ethan Evans (retired Amazon VP) and David Anderson (former Amazon GM) dissecting Amazon Leadership Principles (LPs) followed by a live audience Q&A. David...
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Be a High-Value Connector & Networker with Andrew Yeung (Founder & Investor; ex-Google; ex-Meta)
Level Up Newsletter & Community paid members were invited to join this live event with Andrew Yeung and Jason Yoong discussing "How to Be a High-Value Connector & Networker". --- Show Notes: 00:00 Introduction and Welcome 00:46 Common Networking Mistakes 01:54 Building Goodwill in Networking…
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Make the Most from an Executive Coach with Ethan Evans & Sue Bethanis
Level Up Newsletter & Community paid members and the Mariposa Leadership Community were invited to join this live event with Ethan Evans and Sue Bethanis discussing "How to Get Support for an Executive Coach, and Make the Most of It" followed by a live audience Q&A. Sue was Ethan's...
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How To Achieve Long Term Goals | Finding Daily Motivation
If motivation was summed up to a single sentence it could be, motivation is the difference between short term goals and long-term goals. Basically, motivated people focus more on their long-term goals. They have found the energy to do a little more, every day, that gets them closer to that goal...
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Real Resume Review | Account Management
What does the perfect resume look like? What works and what doesn't? Here's a tip, there is no one size fits all approach. Resumes are supposed to tell your accomplishments: what you did, how you did it and what was the result. But everyone has different skills, different job history, and different
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Usefulness Leads To Happiness
t's no surprise that when you are doing something useful, you feel good. If that's the case, why is it so hard to find that life of usefulness and connection? Why can't we just be happy all the time? Simple question with a simple answer; being useful is a great motivator that leads to happiness.
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How To Find Motivation
We have all heard the saying, "if you want something, you have to work for it". Makes sense, but how do you stay motivated, doing something you really don't want to be doing? How do you get yourself to stop procrastinating when you have a lack of motivation to solve the problem at hand? Instead…
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Breaking Rules, Making Exceptions, Good Judgement
We have all been in the situation at work where there is a rule that doesn't make sense. The problem with rules is that once they are written down, they start to age and not all rules age well. This leads to exceptions to the rules and judgements calls needing to be made. When should an exception...
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How To Conquer Imposter Syndrome
At some point in your career, chances are you have had some feelings of self-doubt in the workplace. For some it could look like a project that feels a bit beyond your expertise and for others it maybe psychological pattern that hinders a workday completely. Feelings of personal incompetence that...
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How to ACTUALLY Work Smarter
Most of us work a minimum 40-hour work week. Now with working from home, we tend to put in more eight-hour workdays than we did before Covid-19. We've all heard the phrase "Work Smarter Not Harder", but what does that really mean? What does it look like and how can we work smarter? There are…
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Live Coaching with Kristen: How to Justify a Raise
It doesn't matter if you're in the interview process or years into your career, eventually you will have to negotiate your pay. As your career grows you take on more responsibility, however how do you make sure your pay increases along with your career? The main problem is simple: most people…
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Leading at Massive Scale with co-host Devin Nash and guest General Christopher Hughes
Major General Chris Hughes led 49,000 soldiers at Ft. Knox as well as all army officer recruiting and education. The Army ROTC program has 36,000 college cadets while the high school program has over 300,000 participants. Come learn the key leadership traits that go General Hughes through six...
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How (and why) You Should Self Educate
Everyone seems to agree that lifelong learning and skill improvement is critical to success in the modern business world. Technology, business models, and global conditions change rapidly enough that your speed of learning, as individuals and as companies, matters. However, most companies have…
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How To Use Your Network | Real World Example
There are multiple streams about how to use LinkedIn, how to build a network, why it's important to have a network and the list goes on. Whether you're seeking a new job, an entrepreneur looking to bring attention to your idea, or simply looking to connect with other professionals, networks such…
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Mentorship Network | The Role of the Mentee
A little background, a couple months ago the idea was formed to start a mentor network. This was based on feedback from the community (previous streams go through each step of the journey). Now we are at the point in the mentor network where it is being opened up to the applicants. How will be…
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My Resume as an Example
I share my resume, written as best I can to follow the advice I talk about in other videos, as an example. The resume contains 25+ years of experience in two pages, with an optional partial third page that can be cut if desired. It focuses on showing impact (demonstrating through accomplishments...
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Real Resume Review | Product Design Engineer
What does the perfect resume look like? What works and what doesn't? Here's a tip, there is no one size fits all approach. Resumes are supposed to tell your accomplishments: what you did, how you did it and what was the result. But everyone has different skills, different job history, and…
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Real Resume Review | Quality Assurance, Chemical Engineer
What does the perfect resume look like? What works and what doesn't? Here's a tip, there is no one size fits all approach. Resumes are supposed to tell your accomplishments: what you did, how you did it and what was the result. But everyone has different skills, different job history, and…
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Real Resume Review | Data Analysis Engineer
What does the perfect resume look like? What works and what doesn't? Here's a tip, there is no one size fits all approach. Resumes are supposed to tell your accomplishments: what you did, how you did it and what was the result. But everyone has different skills, different job history, and…
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Real Resume Review | Full Stack Engineer
What does the perfect resume look like? What works and what doesn't? Here's a tip, there is no one size fits all approach. Resumes are supposed to tell your accomplishments: what you did, how you did it and what was the result. But everyone has different skills, different job history, and…
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Mentorship Needs | Why You Need A Coach
We are discussing the results of the mentorship survey and the type of mentorship people need to be mentored on. It's a simple question but with lots of answers, such as Productivity, Time Management, Project Management, Difficult Co-worker, Bad Boss, and When to Leave a Job. While these are just…
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Real Resume Review | Theatrical Production
What does the perfect resume look like? What works and what doesn't? Here's a tip, there is no one size fits all approach. Resumes are supposed to tell your accomplishments: what you did, how you did it and what was the result. But everyone has different skills, different job history, and…
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Mentorship Design Contest Winners | Proposal Writing Tips
After reaching out to my Twitch, Discord and LinkedIn communities, it became very clear that the number one need is mentorship. Based on this, a mentorship design contest was started to crowdsource the best ideas to design such a network. Watch Ethan Evans, former VP of Twitch Prime at Amazon;...
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Mentorship Design Contest show
Ever wonder what goes into starting a business? What about something easier, how to grow your career. After reaching out to my community, the number one item requested was mentorship. Makes sense as the most common career challenge people face is not knowing exactly what they want to do next in...
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Real Resume Review | Recent College Grad
What does the perfect resume look like? What works and what doesn't? Here's a tip, there is no one size fits all approach. Resumes are supposed to tell your accomplishments: what you did, how you did it and what was the result. But everyone has different skills, different job history, and…
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Dealing With Executives | Working Through Fears
Many people are anxious or even fearful when working with executives, company owners, or other "powerful" people at work. Ethan has dealt with this from both sides, when his own team has been nervous speaking to him and when he has had to speak face to face with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos or Tesla CEO...
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How To Stay Focused | Achieve Long Term Goals
One of the most talked about topics is weight. With more than one third of adults in the United States obese and another one third of adults overweight, weight is often a sensitive topic for many people. It is not an easy journey to lose weight and it can require a lot of sacrifice, hard work…
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Real Resume Review | Computer Science Student
What does the perfect resume look like? What works and what doesn't? Here's a tip, there is no one size fits all approach. Resumes are supposed to tell your accomplishments: what you did, how you did it and what was the result. But everyone has different skills, different job history, and…
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Racism and Diversity | Are they MY Problem?
Racism and Diversity are topics we all need to address, especially in the workplace. Passively agreeing with topics such as Black Lives Matter is not being part of the solution or driving change. Whether its women or men, minorities, drinking alcohol, certain sports or activities, or staying late...
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Real Resume Review, Before & After | Engineering Project Manager
What does the perfect resume look like? What works and what doesn't? Here's a tip, there is no one size fits all approach. Resumes are supposed to tell your accomplishments: what you did, how you did it and what was the result. But everyone has different skills, different job history, and…
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Real Resume Review, Before & After | Project Manager
What does the perfect resume look like? What works and what doesn't? Here's a tip, there is no one size fits all approach. Resumes are supposed to tell your accomplishments: what you did, how you did it and what was the result. But everyone has different skills, different job history, and…
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Real Resume Review | College Student
What does the perfect resume look like? What works and what doesn't? Here's a tip, there is no one size fits all approach. Resumes are supposed to tell your accomplishments: what you did, how you did it and what was the result. But everyone has different skills, different job history, and…
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New Year's Resolutions | Live from Hawaii
We've all made New Year's Resolutions and most likely they have been broken. It starts with good intentions but often times we get disappointed that our resolution was not completed. Instead of resolutions, why not start with just setting goals. As a former VP of Amazon (Newly Retired), watch…
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Real LinkedIn Review | Pharma Industry & More
What does the perfect LinkedIn profile look like? What works and what doesn't? Here's a tip: LinkedIn is not the same as your resume. For your resume, you are focusing on high level job details, whereas LinkedIn has space for you to give a lot more information. Similar to a resume this…
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Winning the Career Game | Work-Life Balance, Does It Exist?
Most of us need to work. We have all heard of work life balance but does that exist and if so, how do we achieve this? Seems like such a simple concept but when in the moment of work and deadlines we often find ourselves living to work. Just as in video games, you know when a gamer becomes...
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Real Resume Review | Software Engineer Intern
What does the perfect resume look like? What works and what doesn't? Here's a tip, there is no one size fits all approach. Resumes are supposed to tell your accomplishments: what you did, how you did it and what was the result. But everyone has different skills, different job history, and…
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Real LinkedIn Review | Project Manager & More
What does the perfect LinkedIn profile look like? What works and what doesn't? Here's a tip: LinkedIn is not the same as your resume. For your resume, you are focusing on high level job details, whereas LinkedIn has space for you to give a lot more information. Similar to a resume this…
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Real Resume Review | Pharmaceutical Industry
What does the perfect resume look like? What works and what doesn't? Here's a tip, there is no one size fits all approach. Resumes are supposed to tell your accomplishments: what you did, how you did it and what was the result. But everyone has different skills, different job history, and…
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Real Resume Review | Technical Product Manager (TPM)
What does the perfect resume look like? What works and what doesn't? Here's a tip, there is no one size fits all approach. Resumes are supposed to tell your accomplishments: what you did, how you did it and what was the result. But everyone has different skills, different job history, and…
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How To Pitch Your Business Idea | Enkidu
What makes the perfect business pitch? Is it the idea, the market size, the competition? These questions get asked time and time again without getting clear direction on how to answer them. If you want to learn what makes a great startup pitch and what investors are looking for then this video is...
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How To Pitch Your Business Idea | Robot Service
What makes the perfect business pitch? Is it the idea, the market size, the competition? These questions get asked time and time again without getting clear direction on how to answer them. If you want to learn what makes a great startup pitch and what investors are looking for then this video is...
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How To Pitch Your Business Idea | Water Taxi's
What makes the perfect business pitch? Is it the idea, the market size, the competition? These questions get asked time and time again without getting clear direction on how to answer them. If you want to learn what makes a great startup pitch and what investors are looking for then this video is...
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How To Pitch Your Business Idea | Kappa Anchor
What makes the perfect business pitch? Is it the idea, the market size, the competition? These questions get asked time and time again without getting clear direction on how to answer them. If you want to learn what makes a great startup pitch and what investors are looking for then this video is...
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How To Plan A Career Change with special guest Matt McCloskey
Most people will change careers at least once in their lives. Think about that for a moment; at least one time in your life, you will change careers to something new. Now the question is, where do you even start? Are you looking for a slight career pivot or maybe a major career transition into a...
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How Amazon Builds High Performing Teams
Amazon is one of the largest and most complex companies to work for. But Amazon didn't start out that way. Learn how Amazon structures their teams, why they do it that way and most importantly, how can you benefit. Watch Ethan Evans, former VP of Twitch Prime at Amazon; chat with returning guest...
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Real Resume Review | Data Analyst
What does the perfect resume look like? What works and what doesn't? Here's a tip, there is no one size fits all approach. Resumes are supposed to tell your accomplishments: what you did, how you did it and what was the result. But everyone has different skills, different job history, and…
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New Business Idea Pitch Example | How to Fix Fake News
Politics and Fake News, two things that somehow became linked together. What is the root cause on having such a divide that people feel it is ok to riot? Why do people believe one viewpoint and then completely ignore anything that doesn't reinforce that view? What happened to critical thinking?...
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Real Resume Review | Computer Science
What does the perfect resume look like? What works and what doesn't? Here's a tip, there is no one size fits all approach. Resumes are supposed to tell your accomplishments: what you did, how you did it and what was the result. But everyone has different skills, different job history, and…
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Extreme Ownership Fails | How Leaders Should Act
Ownership comes in many forms. If you have a job, then you own your job. Leaders are owners. What do you do when you make a mistake or have failed? You take ownership and don't pass the blame on others such as your colleagues, vendors or even worse the customer. Watch Ethan Evans, former VP of...
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Real Resume Review | Biomedical Engineer
What does the perfect resume look like? What works and what doesn't? Here's a tip, there is no one size fits all approach. Resumes are supposed to tell your accomplishments: what you did, how you did it and what was the result. But everyone has different skills, different job history, and…
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About this show
Level Up is your source for career growth solutions by retired Amazon Vice President, Ethan Evans.In my 15+ years at Amazon, I led global teams of 800+ and invented businesses such as Prime Video, Amazon Appstore, Merch by Amazon, Prime Gaming, and Twitch Commerce. I hold 70+ patents. Have reviewed 10,000+ resumes, conducted 2,500+ interviews, and made 1,000+ hires. I was an Amazon Bar Raiser and Bar Raiser Core Leader. And I helped advocate for and draft the Amazon Leadership Principle (LP) "Ownership" — the words, "They never say 'that's not my job.'" are mine.I've promoted 8 reports from Senior Manager (Amazon L7) to Director (Amazon L8), contributed to 25+ Director promotions, hired 10+ Directors internally and externally, and drove the promotion of 3 engineers to Principal. Of my former reports, 2 are current Amazon VPs (L10) and 5 are C-Suite outside Amazon.I retired from Amazon as a VP in September 2020. Before Amazon, I spent 12 years at 3 startups.Now I am building Level U
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