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Yes... you are not seeing things. This is really a call for your assistance with Episode 017, which was originally published about 6-7 years ago.

In that episode we interview Sabrina Mancini Johnson and every 2-3 months we get a request from a listener if we could please send them the templates mentioned in that episode from way back when.

Unfortunately... we don't have them. But maybe you do?

So if you happen to be a long time listener to the podcast and you still have a copy of those templates from Sabrina, then please send them to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and everyones gratitude will be yours!

Episode Transcript

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Cornelius Fichtner (00:00):

Hello everyone. This is Cornelius Fichtner. with a quick call for every body's help back in episode 17 of the project management podcast. Yes, almost six years ago, seven years ago. I believe we did an interview with Sabrina Mancini Johnson. And there we talk about how to turn the search for your next job into a project. And Sabrina for this interview had created templates deliverables and all, and at the time she said, Oh, just tell your listeners to give me a drop me a line, sent me an email and I will send them the templates. So unfortunately I never got those templates. And every two to three months, one listener, a fresh listener writes to me and says, Hey, how can I get these templates from Sabrina? Now I've contacted Sabrina's she doesn't have those templates anymore. And I was just wondering, are there any old time listeners out there who by pure chance still have these templates from episode seventeen? So if you are one of those old time listeners and you still have the templates from episode 17 from Sabrina Mancini Johnson, then why don't you attach them to an email and send them to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. so that I have a copy, I can upload them to the PM podcast website, and then everybody in the future has access to them. So thank you very much. And of course, until next time.

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