Risk Without Regret: Stories from Risk Takers, Inspiring Entrepreneurs, Small Business Owners

My Risk Without Regret podcast launched 5 years ago this weekend. I’ve taken too long of a break from it, but it’s time to finally get back. And what better way than to start creating videos on the 5 year anniversary. I’ve been terrified to be on video for so long, but that was just a stupid story I told myself. Zero excuses. Just start and keep going. Let go of perfection, just create now with whatever tools you have. So here’s me rambling for 23 minutes about myself and my podcast and my life and I’m finally ready to get my thoughts and stories back out there. The audio for this podcast was stripped out of the video that's on my YouTube channel (The Ran Plan). Thanks for listening. ======== Website: http://www.RiskWithoutRegret.com YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/theranplan Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/riskwithoutregret Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/riskwithoutregret

If you're a musician, you want more people to listen to your music. And you'd prefer to create music full-time. Which means you'll likely need to make money from it. Today's episode talks about various ways to increase your YouTube revenue. In the end, you should strive to connect with your fans more. And by giving them more of what they want, you'll also get more of what you want. Some of these strategies (which are probably obvious to most bands) can help you make a few extra bucks, and that should allow you to keep creating more music. Leveraging the technology that's available to us these days is cheap or free in some cases. You might as well use it to your advantage and turn your fans into raving fans. Everything mentioned YouTube's new monetization rules Every band or musician should have their own merch My YouTube channel Our Last Night I Prevail Bands should have an email list   Thanks for listening I hope you loved this episode, and if you did, be sure to share it with your friends, subscribe to the podcast, and leave a quick review!

Everyone hears the word "success" and instantly thinks of fame and fortune. But we all know (or should know) that happiness doesn't actually come from money. Unfortunately we all have to figure this out for ourselves. In this episode I talk about mundane tasks, people hating their jobs, feeling stuck, how money is an incentive to keep you there, going down the wrong path, making changes, how you have plenty of time every week to figure something else out, and asking questions like what do you really want in life. All of this and more. Enjoy! I hope you loved this episode, and if you did, be sure to share it with your friends, subscribe to the podcast, and leave a quick review!   Everything mentioned "Do what you love, and you'll never work a day in your life." "If you love the work you're doing, it doesn't always feel like work." 6 Stories That Prove Kobe Was The HARDEST WORKER In NBA HISTORY $1000 Diapers! Haha "How are you ever going to stop doing something you hate if the money keeps rolling in?" Depression, suicide problems for Wall Street bankers "The longer you do anything you dislike, the more painful it is to get out." "If you want to change your situation, you're gonna have to get uncomfortable." "If you want to change your life, change something that you do daily." "A lot of people build a lifestyle around shit that they hate." "If you don't know what you want, any path will take you there." "I hope everybody could get rich and famous and will have everything they ever dreamed of, so they will know that its not the answer." -Jim Carrey Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond "Sure, you might make a lot of money someday, but are you really successful if you don't have freedom and you're not happy?" "People know that money won't buy them happiness, but everyone has to find out for themselves."   Related reading Side Hustle: From Idea to Income in 27 Days Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur   Thanks for listening Be sure to subscribe to the podcast here and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon! And feel free to leave a comment below with any feedback or questions that you have.

Regardless if you're a stripper or a bartender or neither, I think this episode might give you some new ideas to think about. No matter what niche or industry you're in, there are always random ways to mix things up. Check out the complete show notes here: RiskWithoutRegret.com/strippers Thanks for listening! Be sure to subscribe to the show and leave a review if you have a second.

So about a year ago, I wanted to create my own monthly subscription box for my Low Label clothing brand. Everyone was doing them and I thought I could build something cool too. I had no idea what I was doing so it was a lot of trial and error, until I ultimately shut it down at the end of 2017. Throughout this episode, I explain the details of my monthly box and why it was a failure (even though most failures are great learning experiences). I talk about why it probably didn't work out, and then I go into some ways that I would do a subscription box differently in the future. This would definitely be helpful to anyone considering going down this path, and I'm sure you can pull a few tips out of this one. I hope you loved this episode, and if you did, be sure to subscribe to the podcast and leave a quick review! My Clothing Brand Course Merch From Scratch Master Course - Teaching you how to create your own clothing brand from scratch, with no experience. If you have an idea, I can help you turn that into a legit merchandise business! Sign up here... $100 OFF CODE, EXPIRES 4/30/18: RISK100 My E-Commerce Course Online Shop Master Course - Teaching you how to build your own e-commerce website so you can start selling your products online. With no software, even if you have zero web design experience! Sign up here... Everything mentioned Low Label @MiniTruckScene @HotRodAvenue #38 – How I Started Mini Truck Scene and Went From Photography to Apparel Club Low Private Facebook Group Online Shop Master Course Merch From Scratch Master Course ShipStation @EatGoodShit Thanks for listening Be sure to subscribe to the podcast here and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon! And feel free to leave a comment below with your feedback and any questions you have.

Here's a super short episode, only 3 minutes in length. I posted this quote on my personal Instagram a couple months ago (@bigran82). I wrote a long caption explaining my thoughts on it and how it relates to my life. I turned that caption into audio and now it's available through my podcast. Here's the text version of this episode: So much work over the past week, and it continues into another late one tonight. I think we are all lucky at times, but no one is lucky 24/7. Someone called me lucky again the other day, because sometimes my social media gives off the impression like I don't work at all, like I'm just traveling all the time or eating at Chipotle everyday or just sleeping. Like that's all I do. Haha I just work hard behind the scenes, although if you've followed my Snapchat (minitruckscene) for the past few years, you'd see what my daily life is like. I really enjoy my life, but 80% of the time it would look extremely boring from an outsider's perspective. Like here's my computer, here's a book, here's my food, here's a movie I'm watching, here's the orders I'm shipping, here's the music I'm listening to, etc. But that 20% or less of my time overpowers the majority. It blinds people and makes them forget what my daily life is like. Most of my waking hours are spent either: at my desk on my computer, in bed or on the couch updating social media accounts & responding to emails, or in some random place working from my laptop. But that's boring so I don't show it all the time. By not showing it all the time, I might have this image sometimes of extreme success with little to no work. Far from the truth. And I know I can make things look easy at times, but it took many years of work for it to appear that way. So maybe I should start posting more of my daily life (even though I think I'm extremely transparent on all social networks) so people can better understand what it takes to do the things I do. It's not easy by any means, and I don't think it's for most people, but it's 100% available to everyone. I just had a stronger push to go for it, and that opened my eyes. Maybe some day I can give that same push to hundreds or thousands of people. What are your thoughts on all of this? Back to work at 2:04am, at my desk, that I've been at for 4 hours, and before that I was on the couch updating social media til I passed out for a few hours. The ingredients are simple, but cooking the recipe can be challenging at times. Make it anyways. @riskwithoutregret #ranplan I hope you loved this episode, and if you did, be sure to subscribe to the podcast and leave a quick review! Most of these episodes are 30-60 minutes, so I'm trying out some shorter ones to get some feedback. Comment below if you dig these bite-size episodes better. Thanks! My Online Course Online Shop Master Course - Teaching you how to build your own e-commerce website so you can start selling your products online. With no software, even if you have zero web design experience! Sign up here... Thanks for listening Be sure to subscribe to the podcast here and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon! And feel free to leave a comment below with your feedback and any questions you have.

On today's episode, I have an amazing interview that I know you'll get some value out of. My guest is an entrepreneur located down in Texas, and although he's running a successful business these days, it wasn't always that way. In fact, for almost 10 years, he was an air force pilot flying all over the world. But after you hear his story, as well as the ups and downs along the way, you'll understand why he transitioned into something completely different: vending machines. He took a simple concept, found an industry that could benefit from his idea, found success with it, created a franchise program, and has been scaling the business ever since. If you've ever thought about starting a business on the side, but you don't know where to start, and you're really looking for a proven business model to get you going, that isn't going to take up all your spare time, this episode is definitely for you. Or maybe you have plans to quit your full-time job and want to switch careers altogether, but you want more freedom and flexibility instead of working another boring 9-5 job. Well, this episode is also for you too. And even if you aren't looking to become a franchisee or quit your job or whatever, I know you'll still love hearing all the details of this story, and I bet you'll learn some important life lessons regardless. Plus, if you stick around til the end (or scroll down this page), there's a free gift for everyone that's listening. And it might get you even more interested in this type of business after you check it out. Anyways, I've been excited to share this one with you for awhile, so let's just dive right into it. Here's my conversation with Matt Miller. Enjoy! I hope you loved this episode, and if you did, be sure to subscribe to the podcast and leave a quick review! My Online Course Online Shop Master Course - Teaching you how to build your own e-commerce website so you can start selling your products online. With no software, even if you have zero web design experience! Sign up here... Free Gift Just for being a loyal Risk Without Regret listener, Matt is offering you a free e-book! It's called "Live Your Dreams: Top 10 Reasons Why You Need To Start A Vending Business." All you have to do is visit SSVbusiness.com/RiskWithoutRegret and you can download it right away. Enjoy! Connect with Matt Website: SSVbusiness.com Facebook: facebook.com/SSVbusiness Twitter: @SSVbusiness Everything mentioned Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! School Spirit Vending School News Guru School Zone Podcast Marlin and Percy Outliers: The Story of Success Andrea Lake interview The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results Best quotes from this episode There are very few mistakes that you can make that you can't recover from. Too many people are getting ready to get ready to get ready to do something. You only have to succeed one time to completely change your family's financial future and to have an impact on society as a whole. We were willing to stick with it and adjust along the way. Inch by inch, everything's a cinch. Yard by yard, everything's hard. Change takes time. Especially real and long-term change. There's no shortcut, just get excited in the journey. I think we all take ourselves too seriously in a lot of ways. Design business systems that support your life and not a life that supports your business. I burned the ships. We were gonna make this happen. I had no choice. Thanks for listening Be sure to subscribe to the podcast here and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon! And feel free to leave a comment below with your feedback and any questions you have.

If someone comes to me and says they want to own their own business someday, but they have no skills and they have no idea what to do, the first thing I ask them is, "Do you enjoy being on a computer for long periods of time?" If they say no, I think they should be trying as many new things as possible to see what sticks and what they enjoy doing. Almost anything can be monetized at some point. But if they say yes, and they also say they are pretty tech-savvy, I instantly tell them they should learn web design. Once they start going down the web design path, they are going to have a million questions. And one that comes up often is: is it cheating for a web designer to be using themes/templates on client sites, or even their own website? It really comes down to who you ask, what their background is, and what type of business they are trying to run. My short answer is: you should definitely be starting every website with a premium theme. Hit play on this episode to learn more about why I feel strongly about this, and how this couldskyrocket the amount of clients you get, as well as increase the amount of money you make. Over the years, I've learned a thing or two when it comes to web design and running a business based around it. If you have any interest in this space, definitely listen to this one, it might open up your mind to new possibilities. I hope you loved this episode, and if you did, be sure to subscribe to the podcast and leave a quick review! And of course, share it with anyone else that might get value from it. My Online Course Online Shop Master Course - Teaching you how to build your own e-commerce website so you can start selling your products online. With no software, even if you have zero web design experience! Sign up here... [SAVE $100 WITH CODE: RISK100 - ENDS 12/31/17 AT MIDNIGHT!] Everything mentioned WordPress.org WooCommerce.com EmberSmith.com EightDeuce.com LowLabel.com CreateYourOnlineShop.com (save $100 with code: RISK100) Thanks for listening Be sure to subscribe to the podcast here and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon! And feel free to leave a comment below with your feedback and any questions you have.

Instagram is one of the most popular social media platforms out there. I use it constantly, and I have way too many accounts, more than any sane person should be able to handle. Hashtags are at the core of this app/tool, and it's a way for other people to find you and your content. But there are rules. And the rule is, no more than 30 hashtags, because people always abuse things like this, so they had to put a limit on it. But there's a loophole... In this episode, I talk about how I stumbled across this hack and how simple it is to do. This should be a quick way to start getting some new people finding your posts and following you as a result. Hopefully this is something you never knew about and I was able to teach you a new trick. If so, I'd love to hear how it has helped to grow your IG account and also if you have any other hacks that others might not know about, yet! I hope you loved this episode, and if you did, be sure to subscribe to the podcast and leave a quick review! And of course, share it with anyone else that might get value from it. My Online Course Online Shop Master Course - Teaching you how to build your own e-commerce website so you can start selling your products online. With no software, even if you have zero web design experience! Sign up here... Everything mentioned @riskwithoutregret Instagram @tonyhensonphotography Instagram @eatgoodshit Instagram Original article I found about 60 hashtags Thanks for listening Be sure to subscribe to the podcast here and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon! And feel free to leave a comment below with your feedback and any questions you have.

When it comes to growing a business, marketing is something that you'll have to spend money on. And once you figure it out and see the benefits, it's something you'll constantly want to invest in. One thing that you should definitely consider is incorporating FREE into your company somehow. In this episode, I talk about how I've used free with my clothing brands and some of my websites. I also share some other ideas that are pretty popular across various industries, whether it be products or services. Hopefully you learn some tips while listening to this one. And I'd love to hear how you've used free in your business or side hustle, so feel free to leave a quick comment below. I hope you loved this episode, and if you did, be sure to subscribe to the podcast and leave a quick review! My Online Course Online Shop Master Course - Teaching you how to build your own e-commerce website so you can start selling your products online. With no software, even if you have zero web design experience! Sign up here... Everything mentioned Low Label Lone Star Throwdown How I started Mini Truck Scene ClickFunnels Tucker Max interview Book in a Box ShipStation Create Your Online Shop Free Chocolate Experiment Thanks for listening Be sure to subscribe to the podcast here and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon! And feel free to leave a comment below with your feedback and any questions you have.

On this week's episode, I discuss a great quote from the book I'm currently reading called Essentialism. Here's the quote: Only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest contribution towards the things that really matter. -Greg McKeown These days, everyone seems to be overwhelmed, including me. I take on too many projects and it's easy to get stressed out by trying to do everything. Fortunately, there's a way out: essentialism. No it's not always going to be easy, but it is very simple. Figure out exactly what you want to do and where you want to be, and eliminate everything that isn't essential to reaching those goals. Getting rid of all the non-essentials allows you to completely focus on the one single priority that is the most important right now. And that's how you'll learn how to work better and put your energy in the best place possible. So give this short episode a listen and hear my thoughts on this awesome quote. Enjoy! I hope you loved this episode, and if you did, be sure to subscribe to the podcast and leave a quick review! My Online Course Online Shop Master Course - Teaching you how to build your own e-commerce website so you can start selling your products online. With no software, even if you have zero web design experience! Sign up here... Everything mentioned Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results The Minimalists Thanks for listening Be sure to subscribe to the podcast here and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon! And feel free to leave a comment below with your feedback and any questions you have.

On today's episode, I have Terry Gremaux joining us from Dallas, Texas. Terry is one of the leading social media trainers in the entrepreneurial space, as well as the author of a book that will help you Develop a Mind-Blowing Daily Routine and Create Your Dream Life. His story actually starts in a small town in Montana, and at one point he was living paycheck to paycheck. After going through several failures along the way, he finally figured out a system that worked for him. It worked so well that he was able to increase his revenue by over 10x in just a few years! During the call, Terry also shares a few tips that anyone can use to grow their audience on Facebook. Simple things that you can start taking advantage of today. And of course he brought a ton of inspiration with him, so I know you'll get value from this episode. But I don't want to give everything away in the intro, so I'll let him explain it all. And with that being said, here's my conversation with Terry Gremaux. Enjoy! I hope you loved this episode, and if you did, be sure to subscribe to the podcast and leave a quick review! Connect with Terry Website: thehashtaghunter.com/blog Facebook: facebook.com/terry.gremaux Twitter: @terryjgremaux Instagram: @terrygremaux YouTube: youtube.com/thehashtaghunter My Online Course Online Shop Master Course - Teaching you how to build your own e-commerce website so you can start selling your products online. With no software, even if you have zero web design experience! Sign up here... Everything mentioned The Hashtag Hunter Ready, Fire, Aim: Zero to $100 Million in No Time Flat 8 Prized Jewels of Wisdom: Develop a Mind-Blowing Daily Routine and Create Your Dream Life Gary Vaynerchuk Tony Robbins Best quotes from this episode I just wanted more. I wanted to control my life. I wanted to have freedom. I wanted something that I've never seen anybody in my family have. I'm very, incredibly introverted at the heart of me, and that obviously held me back in business for awhile. But I just learned to pick my spots. I've learned to do things that I have to do to win. That doesn't mean it has to be comfortable. At the end of the day, I had to change dramatically to have what most other people will never have. You can either believe that life happens to you or life happens for you. And I just choose to believe that life happens for me. Shitty stuff happens to you to make you stronger and make you become better. At that time, I didn't have the vision I have today. I just wanted to be something different. I believe that every decision happens in a moment. You're always gonna get what you tolerate. -Tony Robbins If you want something better, if you want a better life, if you want that business of your dreams, if you want all of that, you have to change what you tolerate and you have to change your priorities in life. When you have the right mindset, you're not gonna win every battle, but you're gonna win the war. The hardest thing to put money into is yourself. Knowledge is not power. Applied knowledge is power. Investing in yourself, through any mechanism possible, is not a choice, it's a priority. You have to make that a priority in your life or you just won't win. The way you treat money is the way you'll receive money. A coach isn't there to hold your hand and get you out of bed. That's not what they're for. A coach is there so you can use their wisdom to point you in the right direction so you don't make the same mistakes. Social media is about attention. This day in age, there's no real new. How can I disrupt attention? Social media is not a place to sell, so don't treat it like that. It's just a tool to get somebody on your email list. In entrepreneurship, we need to be our biggest critic. We have to be hard on ourselves. But we have to be our biggest forgiver as well, because we're gonna mess up every day. If you build relationships consistently, it makes life a heck of a lot easier. You see these people build these businesses and it looks like it happened overnight, but they've really been building relationships their whole life. Embrace the challenges, because they're gonna happen. Business is hard. It's the hardest game you'll ever play. With entrepreneurship, there's a lot of risk involved. But anything with a lot of risk always comes with amazing rewards.   Thanks for listening Be sure to subscribe to the podcast here and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon! And feel free to leave a comment below with your feedback and any questions you have.

Since this is a milestone, I decided to make episode 50 a little different. I went back through all of the interviews and pulled out my favorite 2-3 quotes from each. This will definitely be one of the episodes that I tell everyone to listen to right after they discover my podcast. The amount of inspiration that's packed into this 24 minute episode will likely have you listening to it once a week. Anytime that I'm down, or in a funk, or having a creativity block, I read through tons of quotes that I have saved on my phone. Now I can bookmark this episode and get my motivation back anytime I can't get going. I hope it helps you out too! I hope you loved this episode, and if you did, be sure to subscribe to the podcast here! My Online Course Online Shop Master Course - Teaching you how to build your own e-commerce website so you can start selling your products online. With no software, even if you have zero web design experience! Sign up here... Interview episodes mentioned Episode 3 - Brandt Fuqua Episode 5 - Zephan Moses Blaxberg Episode 10 - Mike Alexander Episode 12 - Eric Zimmer Episode 14 - Nick & Gen Episode 16 - Trevor Gay Episode 19 - Joshua Santos Episode 21 - Fat Tony Episode 23 - Michael Carbone Episode 25 - Kolby Kolibas Episode 27 - Kayt Sukel Episode 29 - Geoff Woods Episode 31 - Joshua Fields Millburn Episode 33 - Zombie Dogz Episode 35 - Andrew Norelli Episode 37 - Tucker Max Episode 39 - Jake Kelfer Episode 41 - Andrea Lake Episode 42 - Pete Sisco Episode 43 - Maj Toure Episode 45 - PJ Jonas Episode 47 - RJ Hodges Top 50 quotes The business kind of led itself to the next thing at all times. I'm not some kind of genius. I think I made some smart moves along the way that made us what we are, but it kind of unfolded itself. It's like a paper airplane, you just kind of keep unfolding each wing and it keeps going. -Brandt Fuqua Any effort you put in early I think is coming back to you tenfold later. I believe that without question. But there's always a cost. Whether it's your time, your freedom, your social life, personal possessions, monetary value, whatever. We lived like we were poor for quite a few years just so we could be able to do some of the things we've done in the recent years. Some people don't know our full story, or they forget that we struggled all that time or didn't have things, so now that we have things it's like you're an overnight success. And that does happen, but not to many people, and it didn't happen to us. -Brandt Fuqua I don't feel guilty about sharing some of my successes in life, whether it be the equipment or the cars, or whatever, it's not a bragging thing. If it inspires even one person to go out and creates a business, even if they fail, if they give it a shot, I think that's worth it. If there aren't people out there showing you what you can do from nothing, there's not a lot of motivation for some people, they need to see the result. -Brandt Fuqua If you're not making it happen, then you don't want it bad enough. -Zephan Moses Blaxberg You really have to go after the things that you enjoy doing. We don't have enough time on this earth to do the things that we don't like doing. -Zephan Moses Blaxberg With the limited time you have in each and every day, who you surround yourself with is the biggest thing you can control that makes the most difference in your life. -Mike Alexander It's not doing what you love if you're still chained to a desk. -Mike Alexander There are ways to do your own thing and make your life different than what it is. There's a middle ground between staying at something you hate doing and quitting everything to chase what you want. There's a lot of play between those two things that people can do, and those options don't seem to be talked about a lot. -Eric Zimmer I don't see working for a big company as job security. Having skills that I know I can apply in a lot of different places and continuing to have connections, I see that as job security. I'm confident I can go find some way to make money with the skill set I have. I have no faith that Fortune 100 company “X” is any safer than being out on your own. -Eric Zimmer All the monthly payments were really killing us, and to be honest, we didn't even know how much we were spending on everything. We realized what's stopping a lot of people of traveling full time, including ourselves back then, is oftentimes a belief that they don't have the money. But it's just that, it's just a belief. Or they organize their life in a certain way and now they're stuck paying every month for stuff that in the end they don't really need. They'd rather travel than have cable TV, but they have cable TV because they have a TV and it's just convenient, which is the normal thing to do. So now we second guess every financial decision we do, because we're like, do we pay for a better flight or do we spend more money on that meaningless thing. And oftentimes, we choose the better flight. So really it's just our priorities have evolved a lot. -Nick & Gen When you do stuff differently, even though this is not what you're doing, you're questioning other people's lifestyle. They feel like you're challenging what they're doing. And they don't feel comfortable just because you're doing something different. Which doesn't make any sense because it doesn't apply to their life. This is why you sometimes get negative feedback to these kinds of decisions because people just want to feel normal and feel like they're doing the right thing. -Nick & Gen When you get rid of a bunch of stuff, there's definitely this huge sense of freedom that you just can't get anywhere else. -Trevor Gay Without a doubt, I think that just seeing those goals in front of you when you wake up and when you go to sleep are powerful. And it's not magic, it's just literally seeing your goals everyday and that's a simple reminder of what you're working towards. Ask yourself, “Have I done anything today to work towards that goal?” And if you say no, well, there's your motivation right there as soon as you get out of bed. -Trevor Gay Taking care of yourself regardless of your dietary choice is probably one of the most important things you could do in life period. -Trevor Gay One of my missions in life is to just wake people up, shake them up a little bit, and make them realize that you could be gone tomorrow. This is it. You have two decisions: become great and continue to do that, or sit on the couch and be forgotten. -Joshua Santos The ones who look weird to the world and society, those are the guys that I want to stick around with. -Joshua Santos It's so easy to have self-doubts. But maybe that's a good thing because maybe that means you're pushing yourself. -Fat Tony If you calculate the risk, then you're probably not gonna have many regrets. -Fat Tony I hired someone that knew what they were doing to help me and teach me what I needed to do. Then I put in a ton of work, and I'm getting results. -Michael Carbone When people think I'm crazy, that's when I know I'm doing something right. -Michael Carbone Even if you have the most basic knowledge, you shouldn't take it for granted. There's always people who don't know anything about that topic or are just new to it. So you can always find an audience of people who want to learn more. -Michael Carbone I'd rather be great at a couple things than good at everything. -Kolby Kolibas Who you know will get you there, what you know will keep you there. -Kolby Kolibas Risk is just being able to embrace uncertainty when you're going to make a decision. And there are very few decisions that we make that don't have some amount of uncertainty involved. -Kayt Sukel Success to me isn't just about making money, it's about carving out a life for yourself that has wealth in all aspects of it. -Kayt Sukel It all comes down to creating quality content and figuring out how you can get that content in front of as many people as possible (the right people) to the point where it actually makes an impact in their life first. Just give incredible value to the point where they're willing to give you an email address, they're willing to buy your stuff & do business with you, and to really scale that. -Geoff Woods You need to figure out what you're passionate about. You need to surround yourself with people who inspire you, who are already doing what you want to be doing, what you could only hope one day to have the opportunity to do. And when you surround yourself with those types of people they end up opening your eyes and showing you ways that you can do things that you never thought you could do before. -Geoff Woods It took getting everything I thought I wanted to realize that everything I ever wanted wasn't actually what I wanted at all. -Joshua Fields Millburn I don't have a college degree at all and I've never taken a writing class. The reason I started teaching a writing class online was because a lot of people kept asking me a ton of questions about writing. -Joshua Fields Millburn The path that I was on was leading me to a place that I didn't want to be. And so, the bigger risk for me would be staying. -Joshua Fields Millburn Planning on paper is very different than implementing it in real life. -Zombie Dogz It's a big leap and it's scary but you just gotta do it. You gotta commit, just like anything in life. -Zombie Dogz You gotta be willing to work. You gotta be very self-disciplined when you're self-employed. And when you're carving your own path, that's probably one of the hardest parts. -Andrew Norelli Accept that life happens and don't let things side-track you. -Andrew Norelli Something you love doing, something people will pay you for, and something that you're good at. Where those three areas intersect, that's where you can build a business. -Tucker Max If you want to start a business, the easiest thing to do is find a problem that is really painful to people. Then create a solution that they will pay for. -Tucker Max I'm young, I'm ambitious, and if I fail, and it doesn't work out, oh well, at least I tried. And now I know what doesn't work and I can learn from that. But if I never tried, I didn't want to look back ten years from now and say I wish I would have followed my heart and pursued my passions. -Jake Kelfer A lot of people still don't understand why I'm doing what I'm doing, but that doesn't mean they're correct. That just means they don't understand yet. -Jake Kelfer I think that for me, working on one thing solely is ineffective because I will choke it to death, I will worry about it, I'll obsess on it. Whereas, if I have multiple things going, I can work on whatever feels best in whichever company, and I don't worry as much. -Andrea Lake If you can't make your business work with a few thousand dollars starting out, it's probably not going to work, and more money isn't the answer. -Andrea Lake The day that you launch your website is the worst it's ever gonna look, because you're going to improve upon it from there. And then we extended that out and said, the day that you launch any business is the worst that that business is every going to be. So stop waiting until everything is perfect. -Andrea Lake I can tell ya, when you get it working and you realize how free a person you can be, it's absolutely intoxicating. There's actually an adjustment period to get your head around the fact that you can basically do whatever you want. -Pete Sisco I've never met anyone who doesn't have a skill, an ability, or at the very least a passion that can't be of service to somebody who would be happy to pay money for it. -Pete Sisco If you had all the money that you ever needed, if you were 100% debt-free, and you had money in the bank that was going to last you for the rest of your life, you just didn't have to think about it, what would you do? What would you want to do every day? -Pete Sisco The talents are natural, the skills come from repetition. But you have to do the work to get the skill. The talent is something that you're just naturally good at. But ironically, you won't figure out if you're naturally good at it until you do it. -Maj Toure What I do on my social media is, I make little motivational videos. The general public thinks that's for them. It's not. I use it for me at times when I'm down to keep myself motivated. It's like my future self talking to my present self. -Maj Toure We didn't realize it at the time, but the fact that we spent so many years living below our means, not having any debt except for the mortgage, and paying down the mortgage, that's what enabled us to build Goat Milk Stuff so quickly. -PJ Jonas I wasn't going to let someone else or their experience tell me what I could and could not do. I don't let other people's reality impact my reality. -PJ Jonas I think the best entrepreneurs in the world are those that can remain mentally, spiritually, and emotionally peaceful even in the midst of chaos. -RJ Hodges There's no way that you can keep talking about a thing and you don't finally at some point take action on it. Because when you have a deep-rooted desire, it will not let you rest. -RJ Hodges   Thanks for listening Be sure to subscribe to the podcast here and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon! And feel free to leave a comment below with your feedback and any questions you have.

Most of the successful people I follow or have read about usually have a specific morning routine that helps them accomplish more or increases their happiness throughout the day. In this episode, I explain what I'm currently doing during the first couple hours of each day. Plus I also talk about the one big thing that gets me out of bed right away almost every single day, no matter how tired I feel. I'm not perfect, so every day isn't exactly like this, but for the most part, I try to do these things as much as possible when I'm at home. When I stick to this routine, I start the day on fire and continue throughout the day with that positive momentum. If you're struggling with getting started in the morning or you're always feeling sluggish, listen to this short episode and also check out the books I recommend below. Enjoy! I hope you loved this episode, and if you did, be sure to subscribe to the podcast here! My Online Course Online Shop Master Course - Teaching you how to build your own e-commerce website so you can start selling your products online. With no software, even if you have zero web design experience! Sign up here... Everything mentioned The Model Health Show Sleep Smarter book Morning Pages article Tim Ferriss and his routine Vitamix blender The ONE Thing book The Starch Solution Thanks for listening Be sure to subscribe to the podcast here and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon! And feel free to leave a comment below with your feedback and any questions you have.

I read somewhere that the average adult makes around 35,000 decisions a day. Think how stressed out you'd be if you were indecisive about all of those! I'm a very indecisive person, and sometimes I just have to force myself to make a decision and move on. In most cases, even if it turns out to be the wrong choice, it's not the end of the world. In this episode, I dig into this quote: "Be decisive. A wrong decision is generally less disastrous than indecision." -Bernhard Langer These days, there are so many options for everything. We are all overwhelmed. But if you treat decision-making like a skill, one that you can constantly practice and get better at, you're gonna reduce your stress level drastically. The last thing you want to do is get stuck in the over-analysis paralysis mode! Hit play and listen to this short episode all about taking action and moving on. Stop wasting your time worrying about every little detail. Make a few mistakes and learn from your real-word experiences. Enjoy! I hope you loved this episode, and if you did, be sure to subscribe to the podcast here!   My Online Course Online Shop Master Course - Teaching you how to build your own e-commerce website so you can start selling your products online. With no software, even if you have zero web design experience! Sign up here...   Thanks for listening Be sure to subscribe to the podcast here and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon! And feel free to leave a comment below with your feedback and any questions you have.

On today's episode, I have RJ Hodges joining us. RJ is an inspirational speaker, entrepreneur, and certified life coach. He is also a bestselling co-author of the book Mission Unstoppable, as well as the author of You Can’t Practice At The Game, The Art of Mastering You, Volume One. He says his philosophy of mastering yourself applies to bettering your overall relationships, self esteem, business, the way one perceives, and many other issues we all face daily. The common strategy is to perfect those things that are external, but oftentimes it’s the internal relationship with ourselves that either hinders or allows us to thrive. In many instances our internal conflicts will stop us from going after our dreams and goals. In this episode, RJ also explains the #1 thing about entrepreneurship that if neglected will kill you and your business. This conversation will definitely provide some insight to all entrepreneurs, even the aspiring entrepreneurs, or those with huge goals who are looking to take the next big step. Plus if you listen all the way to the end, RJ has a bonus offer for everyone listening. Enjoy! I hope you loved this episode, and if you did, be sure to subscribe to the podcast and leave a quick review!   Connect with RJ Website: rjhodgesspeaks.com Facebook: facebook.com/rjhodgesspeaks Twitter: @rjhodgesspeaks Instagram: @rjhodgesspeaks Email: rjhodgesspeaks@gmail.com   My Online Course Online Shop Master Course - Teaching you how to build your own e-commerce website so you can start selling your products online. With no software, even if you have zero web design experience! Sign up here...   Bonus Offer Just for being a loyal Risk Without Regret listener, RJ is giving you a free 20-minute coaching session when you purchase one of his books from him website! All you have to do is buy one of his books and mention this offer. Enjoy!   Best quotes from this episode When you're young, nothing is about purpose. Nothing is about passion. Everything is about "how much money can I make?" The 1-on-1 coaching, it allows me to be personable. I get the chance to give you the exact thing that you need. Writing allows me to express not just messages that I want to get to other people, but it allows me to express the messages that I feel that are kind of going off in my head. It allows me to get those things out. There's an inner voice that's always talking to us, that's trying to lead and direct our path. We're not always hearing that voice. But writing allows me to kind of just really sit down and pay attention to that voice and just kind of pour some things out and some expressions that a lot of times I think they're for me, they just happen to touch the other people as well. It's something about you being you, that's what the world is looking for. I don't have a problem with you modeling other people, but you can't model another person to the point where you become not authentically you. I don't try to give you something that I haven't done. Everything that I talk about, everything that I teach is something that I've personally gone through. How bad do you really want what you say you want? There's a price behind everything that you want. Everything that we ask for, we're not really prepared to do what's behind it in order to get there. You've been in these particular conditions in your life simply because you're a direct contradiction to what you say you want. If you look at most of us, we want one thing, but everything else about us (mentally, spiritually, physically, emotionally) is the direct opposite of the thing that we want. I don't believe in wasting time. If I can't change the way you see it, we probably can't change the way it is. Results are results. You can't argue with results. If you're going to do anything that a lot of people are doing, you need to first and foremost find your voice. How do you do this different? What particular problem or issue can you solve and for who? Take what is and make it better. Google gives me a window to the world. I'm really big on maintaining a level of peace within myself. I think the best entrepreneurs in the world are those that can remain mentally, spiritually, and emotionally peaceful even in the midst of chaos. There's nothing like seeing a person transform. There have been other people I've not had the privilege to meet personally that I consider mentors. A principle is only as good as the person that it comes into contact with. If I don't learn to take care of me, then I am of no good for anybody else. I can never give what I don't have. Before we can get you to where you're going, we first gotta locate where you are. If I told you that you weren't going to make money for the next two years, would you still pursue this? When you stop chasing money and you start chasing passion and purpose, the money just seems to chase you. I'm going to do it because I love it and because it's the only thing that moves me. Once I got introduced to the world of entrepreneurship, I've never been the same since. It's funny how randomly losing your job motivates you. Everything that you don't think you can do, you figure out a way to do it. When I think about "Risk Without Regret," I think about life and how we play life so safe sometimes. Sometimes we play life so safe that when we look back we ask ourselves, "why didn't I do that?" You're not getting out of this thing alive. You're not going to get a second chance at this life. Calculated risks are very important in life. There's no way that you can keep talking about a thing and you don't finally at some point take action on it. Because when you have a deep-rooted desire, it will not let you rest. The reason most people don't act on a desire is because it's too big for them at the moment. Not understanding that you only see a vision from its end result. I may not be able to fulfill this entire vision today, but what can I do today. When you initiate, direction comes. Sometimes we neglect the baby steps and the growth process. I think the entrepreneur life has some sacrifices. There are some things that you're gonna have to do that the next person is not willing to do. The reward is going to feel so much greater than what I feel right now. Win at life, don't just survive. If it's not going exactly the way you want it to go right now, don't quit. Don't give up because every great person that has reached anything, they have a dark story somewhere. I have not found one extremely successful person to where I couldn't dig somewhere in their past and find something that they went through. The beautiful thing about when you come out of something and it's great and you get everything that you ever desired, you don't even remember how painful it was before. I remember that feeling of not knowing what's next. And sometimes I take myself there because I never want to put myself in that position to where somebody else is able to dictate my life in that way. And that keeps me pushing every single day. It's a little bit difficult in the beginning, but if you fully turn this page, there's always something better coming. Any doors that have ever closed in my life, no matter how hard they were, the next door that opened was so much better. It was 20 times better.   Thanks for listening Be sure to subscribe to the podcast here and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon! And feel free to leave a comment below with your feedback and any questions you have.

Do you have goals? Sure you do. Is everything you're doing getting you closer to those goals? Probably not. "Ask yourself if what you're doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow." Listen to this episode where I dig into this quote and explain how it pertains to me. I give a few personal examples and as well as some tips to help you with the things you're working on. When it comes to a task, it comes down to either doing it, delegating it, or dropping it. And there are plenty of things that you CAN be doing, but SHOULD you be doing them all? Hit play and give this one a listen. I hope you loved this episode, and if you did, be sure to subscribe to the podcast here!   My Online Course Online Shop Master Course - Teaching you how to build your own e-commerce website so you can start selling your products online. With no software, even if you have zero web design experience! Sign up here...   Best quotes from this episode Ask yourself if what you're doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow. Show me where you spend your time and money, and I'll tell you what your priorities are.   Everything else I talked about Vinyl Cutter Stickers Andrea Lake's podcast episode Enclosed Trailer Stop Doing List   Thanks for listening Be sure to subscribe to the podcast here and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon! And feel free to leave a comment below with your feedback and any questions you have.

Today's guest sure has her hands full. PJ Jonas is married with eight children in rural Indiana. For almost ten years, the entire family has been running a business called Goat Milk Stuff. When I first heard about the company, I was like, someone is making things out of goat milk? So obviously I had to check it out since my curiosity couldn't take it anymore. I'll let PJ explain the full story about how she came up with this idea, but essentially, she was tired of seeing all of the products that everyone is always using filled with harsh chemicals. So she decided to do something about it. Initially it was just for herself and her family, but she quickly realized that this idea could help a ton of people all around the world. It's primarily an online company, but it is constantly growing into a tourist attraction for people that want to come and check everything out in person. Just like a lot of stories you'll hear on this show, most start off with humble beginnings before the idea really takes off. The Jonas family story is no different. In this episode, you're gonna learn about patience, hard work, taking care of your customers, creativity, and plenty other lessons in business and in life. Plus if you listen all the way to the end, PJ has a surprise for everyone listening! So get comfy, block out all the distractions, and listen to my amazing conversation with PJ Jonas of Goat Milk Stuff. Enjoy! I hope you loved this episode, and if you did, be sure to subscribe to the podcast and leave a quick review! Connect with PJ Website: GoatMilkStuff.com Facebook: facebook.com/GoatMilkStuff Instagram: @GoatMilkStuff YouTube: youtube.com/GoatMilkStuff My Online Course Online Shop Master Course - Teaching you how to build your own e-commerce website so you can start selling your products online. With no software, even if you have zero web design experience! Sign up here... Free Gift Just for being a loyal Risk Without Regret listener, PJ is offering you a free bar of goat milk soap so you can try them out! All you have to do is visit GoatMilkStuff.com/RiskSoap. Enjoy! Best quotes from this episode We really understood our target market, because we were our target market. Word of mouth at the beginning, that was really how we had most of our initial growth. Social media is definitely been worth it for us but it's something that we definitely keep in it's perspective and do just try to keep it social. You don't have 8 children in today's society without sacrificing a lot. We didn't realize it at the time, but the fact that we spent so many years living below our means, not having any debt except for the mortgage, and paying down the mortgage, that's what enabled us to build Goat Milk Stuff so quickly. If we had been on the Today Show and we were trying to make it out of the kitchen, there's no way we could have filled those orders. It's kind of the myth of the overnight success, people think it happens so quickly, but they don't see the years and years of hard work and prep work that went into it. It's not about having a profitable business, it's about cash flow. There are plenty of profitable businesses that go out of business because they don't have the cash flow. It's better to grow slowly, because so many businesses will die because of growing too quickly. For every dollar of pre-tax income you want to make, you have to sell five dollars worth of stuff. Your expenses grow so much more the bigger your business gets. Everyday, if you can look and save yourself two steps or save yourself one action, that's going to add up over time. We really underestimate children in our country. They're capable of so much more than we give them credit for. And with the right support and the right tools, so many of them can do great things and I'd love to see more of that. You need to have the work ethic. Hard work covers a multitude of sins and a multitude of weaknesses. I've never met a problem I couldn't solve. You're never staying at one point, you're either growing or you're shrinking. You have to constantly be moving and adjusting and adapting. There were businesses that started, grew, and thrived during the Great Depression. So to say it's not a good time and you can't succeed, I think it's completely false. You always have lots of opportunities, but don't let the good distract you from what's the best. Work hard. Be financially responsible. Have integrity. You don't need all the best stuff to get started. You have to put things in perspective and you have to put money into the things that are going to have a return. If you don't live what you speak and speak what you live, that's going to come back and hurt you. If I'm not willing to use something on my children, I am not willing to sell it. I wasn't going to let someone else or their experience tell me what I could and could not do. I don't let other people's reality impact my reality. I don't want to get bogged down into worrying about what my competitors are doing. I want to care about my customers, I want to give my customers what they want at the best price that I can, and I've got to believe that that's going to take care of itself in the end. It was such a learning experience for my children, to know that what we do isn't just about making money so we can feed ourselves and pay our bills, it's about impacting the lives of others. I tell my children all the time, we are so blessed because we are able to work together, we are able to help people, and we're able to support ourselves doing it. I can't even imagine anything better than that. It doesn't matter what, I have to push through this. I have people counting on me to make all of this work.   Thanks for listening Be sure to subscribe to the podcast here and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon! And feel free to leave a comment below with your feedback and any questions you have.

When it comes to your small business, trying to be everything to everybody is the perfect plan for failure. If you try to offer everything for the masses, you'll likely attract nobody. Figure out exactly what you want to do, based around something you enjoy doing, then decide exactly who you want to create this product/service for. Once you know who it's for, then you can go find those people in the world. Then talk to them, talk to as many people as you can in your target audience, and figure out what it is that they really want. It usually ends up being a problem that they need a solution for. Reveal the problem, then develop a cure. Listen to this episode and see how I try to use that mindset throughout all of the businesses that I run. I mention 2 quotes that I recently came across (posted below) that really explain what this all means. And I also talk about my online course that is 95% finished and I even give you and the rest of the listeners a limited time offer that will save you some cash. So definitely listen all the way through! The moral of the story, build an audience of raving fans around a specific niche, and care for those people as much as you can. Instead of spending all of your time and money and effort trying to out-market the competition and get as many new customers as you can, focus on building badass relationships with current customers that have already proven they trust you and enjoy what you do. I hope you loved this episode, and if you did, be sure to subscribe to the podcast here! Check out my Online Course OnlineShopCourse.com - Teaching you how to build your own e-commerce website so you can start selling your products online, with no software, even if you have zero web design knowledge! SAVE $100! From now until 12/31/16 at midnight, you can save $100 by entering the coupon code "RISK100" when checking out. Simply go to OnlineShopCourse.com, add the course to your cart, enter the code, save cash, and jump right into the training videos! Contact me here if you have any questions at all. Quotes I mentioned You know you can't please everyone, right? But notice that most businesses are trying to be everything to everybody. And they wonder why they can't get people's attention! You need to confidently exclude people, and proudly say what you're not. By doing so, you will win the hearts of the people you want. -Derek Sivers Tricked into playing the wrong game. The intelligent writer who dumbs down her work in order to make it more popular. The successful small businessperson who gives up the edge that made the business work in order to make it bigger. The entrepreneur who stops leading in order to chase a trend and get funded. The interesting website that stops caring about content so it can focus on clicks. The happy kid who abandons good friends in a search to be the cool kid instead. The beloved brand that walks away from integrity in order to chase mass. The engaged employee who gives up the craft in order to move up and become an unhappy manager instead... Bigger isn't better. It's merely bigger. And the mass market might want what the mass market wants, but that doesn't mean that it's your market. -Seth Godin Everything else I talked about Anything You Want - 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur Tribes - We Need You to Lead Us All Marketers Are Liars Eight Deuce Shave Trucks Not Beards Tshirt Online Shop Course The One Thing Thanks for listening Be sure to subscribe to the podcast here and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon! And feel free to leave a comment below with your feedback and any questions you have. (Featured image from Motor Trend.)

On the podcast this week, I have Maj Toure joining us. He's from Philadelphia and is currently on a tour around the country promoting his Black Guns Matter movement. If you haven't heard about it yet, he'll go into all the details in this episode. But the basic idea is to educate as many people about gun safety as well as offer firearm training to anyone that wants to learn. The organization has been going on for about a year now, but it's been gaining a lot of traction over the past few months. He's been featured on several other podcasts, blogs, as well as some of the biggest news stations out there. So I was honored for him to take time out of his busy day to share his story with the Risk Without Regret audience. Just like I tell all guests that come on the show, "Be yourself, say whatever you want, curse if you need to, but above all, share stories that will inspire and motivate anyone that hears this." This episode is exactly that. Maj is raw and really gets to the point of how to reach your goals. It's easier than you think, but it's not for the lazy. Anyways, I'm excited to share this one with you, and if you find value in this episode, definitely check out his GoFundMe page (linked below) to support Maj and the Black Guns Matter movement. Now that I've given you a brief overview, it's time to get to the good part. So sit back, relax, and listen to our conversation. Enjoy! I hope you loved this episode, and if you did, be sure to subscribe to the podcast here! Connect with Maj Support the BGM Movement: gofundme.com/blackgunsmatter Personal Facebook: fb.com/100012689356097 BGM Facebook: fb.com/blackgunsmattermajtoure Twitter: @majtoure Instagram: @majtoure Everything mentioned Rick Ector / LAID: Legally Armed In Detroit Colin Kaepernick Surrogates movie Fear is a choice... Booker's Bourbon Dunkin' Donuts coffee Henrik Fisker / Fisker Karma Mercedes G-Wagon Bentley Continental GT V8 Colion Noir Greg Kinman (Hickok45) Chris Costa Black Guns Matter GoFundMe SHOT Show 2017 Amber Rose Harriet Tubman on the 20 dollar bill Glock Ruger Heckler & Koch Smith & Wesson NRA Purchase my Online Course Online Shop Master Course - Teaching you how to build your own e-commerce website so you can start selling your products online! Best quotes from this episode I was just a regular dude that had bad information. The information is there, but people need a little bit of guidance. I don't believe in jobs. I believe in passions and work. I believe in hard work. I believe in working smart and being happy. As far as punching the clock somewhere I don't wanna be, I'm way too strong for that, that's just not for me. We present a different option, a more productive option. I respect their right to disagree, that's the beauty of democracy. I don't complain and I don't explain. There's no such thing as haters, they're just misguided lovers. I have a passion for firearms and I'm not a criminal. I'm on the ground looking. I'm here with the people. I'm not up in the ivory tower. MEDIA: Most Effective Destroyer In America People don't want to get outside. They've been conditioned to stay in and just let things happen. Pick the first thing that you want to do and just start doing it. Fuck up along the way. Apologize for your mistakes. Then you move forward. Just do the work. Everybody sees how I'm moving out here. I'm like everywhere. And that's not because I'm this great super person, you just do the work. The opportunity will never be perfect. Use what you have, where you are, and do what you can. You're afraid of success or you're afraid of failure. Either way, the root of that is fear. Fuck fear, that shit ain't real. FEAR: False Evidence Appearing Real The talents are natural, the skills come from repetition. But you have to do the work to get the skill. The talent is something that you're just naturally good at. But ironically, you won't figure out if you're naturally good at it until you do it. If you can't be used, you're useless. And in order to be used, you have to do some work. Stop thinking you're a celebrity. You're just a human with a lot more zeros in your bank account. When you're in the public, you're a servant. This shit is gonna take over your life, or you're not doing it right. The small individual moments are priceless and motivational. Sleep is the cousin of death. I'm old enough to get off the porch, but am I brave enough to get off the porch? There's a difference between what's right, what's morally accurate, and what's legally accepted. People respect my movement because of how I moved before the movement. What I do on my social media is, I make little motivational videos. The general public thinks that's for them. It's not. I use it for me at times when I'm down to keep myself motivated. It's like my future self talking to my present self. Stop talking so much, just do shit. Motivate yourself by using yourself, because you know your dreams better than anybody. Everybody thinks they're bigger than the couch, but the couch is undefeated. Thanks for listening Be sure to subscribe to the podcast here and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon! And feel free to leave a comment below with your feedback and any questions you have.

This week's guest is Pete Sisco from Resilient Personal Freedom. In 1996, he decided to invest $300 in himself and start his first online business. Five years later, he monetized that website. 15 years later, it has made him millions, and he still consistently makes an income from it, among other online businesses. After living the conventional life in Idaho with his wife for many years, and after his 6 kids grew up and moved out, Pete and his wife were ready for a different lifestyle. Knowing that their online income source was portable, they decided to sell everything and live out of their suitcases while traveling the world. 10 years later, they're still at it. In fact, he did the interview at the place they're currently staying at in Ireland. We talk about how technology is helping people make predictable monthly income online, why minimalism is a smart way to live, why working in a cubicle is actually more of a risk, how you can achieve an insane amount of personal freedom, and so much more. This is honestly one of the most inspiring conversations that I've had personally. I know you'll find a lot of value in this episode, but for me, Pete really confirmed a lot of things for me that I already knew, but I just needed to hear it from someone like him. After our call, I was so motivated that I began working harder on my online course. And now, I've actually opened up the pre-order for it! So depending on when you hear this episode, it might still be going on, or the full course might have been launched. Either way, you can check it out by visiting: CreateYourOnlineShop.com/PREORDER. All of the details are there and you can get a sneak peek into the course as well. And if the pre-order is still open, you can get it at a discount as well as some free bonuses. Again, it's CreateYourOnlineShop.com/PREORDER. Anyways, I'm so glad Pete reached out to me, and I'm stoked for you to hear this one. So without further adieu, here's my conversation with Pete Sisco. Enjoy! I hope you enjoy this episode and be sure to subscribe to the podcast here! Connect with Pete Website: petesisco.com Twitter: @petesisco Facebook: facebook.com/pete.sisco.7 Pete's Other Websites Resilient Personal Freedom Precision Training Purchase my Online Course Website: Online Shop Master Course Best quotes from this episode When you have internet income, it's completely portable. I've had a lifelong passion for the concept of living in freedom. The only passive income I know about is inheritance. You don't have to reinvent wheels, you just have to apply fundamentals in ways that are effective. We're living in a time now, where people can take risks like this, like being completely independent and having a lot more personal freedom. And the risk is actually hugely mitigated. There's 10,000 ways to reliably make money online. When people talk about big dreams, they get discouraged. Find something where you can make solid, reliable money and then use that money to do the dream life. There's this explosion of technology that is changing the world and a lot of people are threatened by it. But at the same time, there is enough technology that any individual can set himself up to make a reliable, durable, predictable income every month that's substantial. People start to realize that more than half of the stuff they're paying for is related to just having their job. The guy trapped in the cubicle is getting to be the anomaly. I like keeping the business the size where I run the business and it doesn't run me and I have maximum personal freedom. There's never been less risk than there is now. I can tell ya, when you get it working and you realize how free a person you can be, it's absolutely intoxicating. There's actually an adjustment period to get your head around the fact that you can basically do whatever you want. You can't do it overnight, but you really can engineer a lifestyle that gives you whatever amount of freedom you want. Offer something of quality, do what you say you're gonna do, and treat people right. The things that work online, the fundamentals, are the things that worked 100 years ago. And they'll work 100 years from today. If you want to sleep well at night, spend time constructing a business that has durable elements to it that will offer honest value and keep offering. You have to be in the game before you get lucky. There's just nothing that delivers the independence and the personal freedom that having an online business does. I've never met anyone who doesn't have a skill, an ability, or at the very least a passion that can't be of service to somebody who would be happy to pay money for it. If you had all the money that you ever needed, if you were 100% debt-free, and you had money in the bank that was going to last you for the rest of your life, you just didn't have to think about it, what would you do? What would you want to do every day? Some people climb the ladder of success only to discover you put it against the wrong wall. -Joseph Campbell That's the thing about the online world, it's a big transparent economy and the answers are right there. You don't require luck in order to succeed. Thanks for listening Be sure to subscribe to the podcast here and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon! And feel free to leave a comment below with your feedback and any questions you have.

Today's featured guest is Andrea Lake. Back when she was 18, she decided to skip college and just go straight into building a business. Her first business started as small as a business can start, but it still grew pretty quick, especially for someone right out of high school. A few years later, Andrea decided to give clothing a chance and built her first apparel business. I'll let her explain all the various things she did with the clothing lines, but this was also around the time when she had some stickers printed too. In the late 90's, she ended up starting a whole business around just stickers. At the time of this recording, she actually started 14 companies! More recently, she has a new company called Lessons.biz where she teaches others exactly how to build a tshirt empire along side her business partner Dan Caldwell. Dan was a co-founder of the huge clothing brand Tapout, so obviously you know they are more than qualified to be teaching on this topic. Anyways, we talk about various ways to hyper-accelerate a brand, why stickers are like minting money, when to hire people, why competition is a good thing, and how you can easily prove if your business idea is a viable concept or not. There are so many great takeaways from this episode and I've been eagerly waiting to get this one out to you. So without further adieu, here's my conversation with Andrea Lake. Enjoy! I hope you enjoy this episode and be sure to subscribe to the podcast here! Connect with Andrea Website: andrealake.com Twitter: @andrealake101 Instagram: @andrealake101 Lessons.biz: lessons.biz Sticker Junkie: stickerjunkie.com Everything mentioned Rhythm Styx Merch by Amazon Alibaba Dan Caldwell Tapout Clothing Warped Tour Blink-182 System of a Down Good Charlotte Hot Topic High Times Magazine Lessons.biz Mentor Mojo Yoga Junkie Sticker Junkie Emerson Spartz Travis Steffen AutoLotto Matt Griffin Combat Flip Flops Best quotes from this episode I will never be poor. I will never be short of money again. I know that I can just make something and go sell it now. I had very recently quit smoking pot, which made me far more productive. One night, I got a 6-pack of Sierra Nevada, invited over one of my best friends, and sat down and came up with like 200 slogans. And then I chose 98 of them and launched the line with 98 slogans, which is ridiculous, it's way too many, but it worked out well. We had a connection with Blink 182, but they saw my stuff at Warped Tour when they were not famous yet, and they were like, "We love your stuff." And I'm like, "Here's a bag full of stuff, just wear it on stage today." And they felt this loyalty to my brand. Every entrepreneur has this moment where you just feel like your company is gonna fail. And the people that make it in life, and certainly in business, are the people that just keep trying something else and will pivot with it and will not stick really strongly to the concept that they think should work. It's like the Craigslist model, where you don't have to have the most beautiful thing, but you do have to have something that is very functional. Stickers are like magic, it's like minting money. People buy them, you print them for them, they get the stickers, they give them away for free, and then they order more. I created lessons.biz because I was so tired of seeing people on the internet that were making 100% of their money from selling products that just teach people how to make money. Like these people literally don't know how to make money, they know how to con people into giving them money. There is actually a formula on how to run most companies. I think that for me, working on one thing solely is ineffective because I will choke it to death, I will worry about it, I'll obsess on it. Whereas, if I have multiple things going, I can work on whatever feels best in whichever company, and I don't worry as much. I think worrying is a really damaging thing. I think it's underrated because people see it as normal, but I think it's super problematic to spend your time worrying. In general, when you're starting out, until you have a company that's supporting you, obviously you shouldn't spread yourself too thin. If somebody isn't competing against you, there's probably a good reason why it's an ineffective space to be in. If you have something that a million people are doing, it means that a million people want whatever that product is. So you just have to do it better than them, or market better than them. You can pack boxes better than anybody else at your business, but is that how you want to be spending your time today? Put a dollar figure on your time. If it's not something that is making my company money, or something that I truly must do, or something that I love, somebody else should be doing it. If you can't make your business work with a few thousand dollars starting out, it's probably not going to work, and more money isn't the answer. Make money first. If you can make money first, then you know you have a viable concept. You have to prove your concept first. And you have to know that your concept is something that people will actually pick up their wallet out of their pocket and take money out of it and hand it to you. Not just tell you that they'll buy something, but actually physically buy something. I knew nothing when I started out, and I went about it the really hard way. You will hyper accelerate the growth of any company if you're surrounded by like-minded people that are entrepreneurs, even if they have really diverse business backgrounds compared to you. I think every entrepreneur should have a really good filter between what they're thinking and what they actually say. The day that you launch your website is the worst it's ever gonna look, because you're going to improve upon it from there. And then we extended that out and said, the day that you launch any business is the worst that that business is every going to be. So stop waiting until everything is perfect. Just launch something and start making money and then correct from there. Don't be good, don't be great, it is your job to be extraordinary and become irreplaceable. I self-financed all of my companies which is possibly the biggest risk and I ended up severely in debt because of it.   Thanks for listening Be sure to subscribe to the podcast here and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon! And feel free to leave a comment below with your feedback and any questions you have.

So it's been a couple months since I posted the last episode. I know. I'm sorry. I needed a break, and I kept making the break longer and longer. After two months, I said, this is enough, let's dive back into this podcast hardcore. Episode 40 is all about the things I've learned in my first year of podcasting. I've learned a lot about the process, people, the tech side of things, the world, and myself. There were 39 episodes posted in the first year, I took a two month break, and from now until the end of July 2017, I hope to publish at least 50 episodes. It's all about consistency, and just putting in the work. Taking action is so simple, but things that are simple aren't always easy. But it just takes that first step. Anyways, I hope you're glad to have more Risk Without Regret episodes coming through your feed, and I really appreciate you for listening and for following along with me on this exciting journey! Enjoy this episode and be sure to subscribe to the podcast here! Everything mentioned Podcast Movement Audio-Technica ATR2100 Microphone Adobe Audition Mackie 402VLZ4 Mixer Zoom H4N Digital Recorder Andrea Lake Things I've learned I'm ok with my voice. I'm glad I started when I did. Anybody can do this. It's cheap to get into. I've met a lot of great people and had amazing conversations with the guests, with listeners, and people who've never even heard the show yet. I've gained a lot of interview and communication skills. Editing takes forever. Great things happen when you get out of your comfort zone, and I've still nervous to start every interview. Thanks for listening Be sure to subscribe to the podcast here and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon! And feel free to leave a comment below with your feedback and any questions you have.

When Jake reached out to me, I was instantly intrigued by him. At the young age of 23, he has accomplished a lot of things, and has even inspired me to hustle harder. He recently launched his new book, Elevate Beyond, and it has already seen instant success. We'll talk about the book, his speaking engagements, and why he left his internship with the Los Angeles Lakers. I don't want to give away the whole story, so be sure to listen and I promise you'll be motivated to take action after hearing Jake's story. I hope you enjoy this episode and be sure to subscribe to the podcast here! Buy Jake's Book Elevate Beyond Everything mentioned USC ZBT Fraternity Straight Curve Marketing Fundamental Mindset Elevate Beyond (Jake's book) Idea Factory Jake Kassan MVMT Watches Saving Innocence Jon Gordon Kobe Bryant's Last Game Brock Vereen Jeff Fellenzer Connect with Jake Website: jakekelfer.com Facebook: facebook.com/jakekelferjourney Twitter: @jakekelfer Instagram: @jakekelfer Email: jakekelferjourney@gmail.com Best quotes from this episode I asked myself, "What do I know, and how can I help people?" I'm a big believer in taking the risks and following your heart, as long as you're willing to put in the work. Take advantage of the opportunities that are in front of you. One of the things I like to do is listen to those that are more experienced than me, because I'm so young and I have so much to learn. I have mentors in all different aspects of my life, and I think that's a huge reason for a lot of my success so far. My first company was just an incredible start to entrepreneurship and really fired me up for my future and what I'm currently working on. When I was growing up, it was go to school, get good grades, go to college, and then you're probably just gonna end up getting a job and start paying the bills. Things change and situations come up where you have to adapt and make different decisions. I'm young, I'm ambitious, and if I fail, and it doesn't work out, oh well, at least I tried. And now I know what doesn't work and I can learn from that. But if I never tried, I didn't want to look back ten years from now and say I wish I would have followed my heart and pursued my passions. I don't have the knowledge of somebody that has had ten extra years of life experience on me, but what I do have is just an immense hunger and desire to learn and continue to grow and to make an impact. The only shortcut in life is to start now. -David Kelfer A lot of people still don't understand why I'm doing what I'm doing, but that doesn't mean they're correct. That just means they don't understand yet. It's all about achieving your own definition of success, not just what everyone wants you to achieve and what everyone might assume success is. When you can combine hustle with working hard and working smart, I think that's when you really create something great. Enjoy the journey and be in the moment. -Sheri Kelfer Sometimes entrepreneurship scares the shit out of me, but at the same time, that's what excites me. Fear is important to acknowledge as long as it doesn't control you. Everytime you meet someone, it is an interview. When you combine entertainment with education, and to do it in a good organized way, the result and the value can be extraordinary. One of the biggest risks that I've taken was turning down multiple full-time job offers before graduation and deciding that I was going to pursue my passion. At the time, a lot of people criticized my decision. But I knew that it's what I wanted to do and it was aligning with my goals and my definition of success. And so I took that risk and I have not regretted it one day since then. Thanks for listening Be sure to subscribe to the podcast here and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon! And feel free to leave a comment below with your feedback and any questions you have.

Back in 2011, I had no idea what a simple domain name purchase would lead to. It initially started as a place to store my truck show photography, but over the years, that grew to all sorts of merchandise. I started small, just some stickers, koozies, and super basic tshirts. For awhile, I even carried some products like DVDs from other companies in the scene. In early 2013, I was ready to take this idea to a whole new level. My first vendor booth weekend was a success and I was hooked. Listen to my story from how this idea became a reality, how my photography led to starting a clothing line, how I was able to finance everything, some simple tips I learned along the way, and so much more. I hope you enjoy this episode and be sure to subscribe to the podcast here! And of course, leave a comment below if you have any questions or feel free to drop me an email. Everything mentioned Mini Truck Scene Low Label Angry Birds Feast of Flesh Layd Out at the Park SoLo Films Weekend Celebrity Productions Surface DVD Layed Out Video Kyle Griffin Dropt-N-Destroyed Mautofied Hurricane Sandy Graphic Disorder Brandt Fuqua RWR Interview Erik Jones Lone Star Throwdown Garage Built Dime Nick Crouch (Surface Nick) Koapono Patrick (KP) 10' x 10' E-Z Up Canopy 5' Folding Tables Follow Mini Truck Scene Website: minitruckscene.com Shop (Low Label): lowlabel.com/product-tag/mini-truck-scene Facebook: facebook.com/minitruckscene Instagram: @minitruckscene Twitter: @minitruckscene Follow Low Label Website: lowlabel.com Facebook: facebook.com/lowlabel Instagram: @lowlabel Thanks for listening Be sure to subscribe to the podcast here and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon! And feel free to leave a comment below with your feedback and any questions you have.

Bestselling author Tucker Max has changed his image over the years. He's most well-known for writing about getting drunk and hooking up with random girls, but he's since turned his knowledge about book publishing into a massively successful business. While he doesn't think everyone has a book in them, he believes those that do might never get it published. Whether you hate writing, your intimidated by the traditional publishing process, or you simply don't have the time to do it, his newest company (Book in a Box) solves all of these problems for you. In about 12 hours of your time, you can go from an idea to a finished book that your target audience will rave about. Listen to our conversation as we touch on a variety of topics. He explains the transition period between law school and becoming an author, he talks about how the Book in a Box business idea came about, and we also discuss how you can get paid for doing something you love. Enjoy! I hope you enjoy this episode and be sure to subscribe to the podcast here! Everything mentioned I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell (book) I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell (movie) Book In A Box Alex Dooley Andrew Warner / Mixergy interview with Tucker Zach Obront Lewis Howes / School of Greatness interview with Tucker Melissa Gonzalez The Pop Up Paradigm: How Brands Build Human Connections in a Digital Age Gary Vaynerchuk Vayner Media Jack Dorsey Daily Burn Dr. David Kashmer The Hidden Curriculum: What They Don't Teach You At Medical School Thrive Market Deep Eddy Vodka The Book In A Box Method: The New Way to Quickly and Easily Write Your Book (Even If You're Not a Writer) Connect with Tucker Company Website: bookinabox.com Personal Website: tuckermax.me Facebook: facebook.com/tuckermax Twitter: @tuckermax Instagram: @realtuckermax Email: tucker@bookinabox.com Best quotes from this episode The things that are exciting in your 20s aren't usually very exciting in your 30s. If you're in the entertainment business, you've got to be able to tell a great story. That was fine for awhile. I made pretty good money, it was fun, it was interesting, but I had no desire to be a marketing guru. It's hard for me to think of a writer that I've ever met who's a real entrepreneur. It's a totally different mindset. Everyone wants to be a star, no one wants to put in the work. I became obsessed with this idea because she called me out on it. Socrates didn't write a word down. Plato wrote everything down. Jesus never wrote any of his words down. Buddha never wrote any of his words down. None of these people wrote their words down, a scribe did. So why can't I create a modern process for scribes? I felt so stupid, I felt so dumb. Because there was nothing stopping me from doing this idea like 6 years ago. I could have had this years ago if I didn't have such limited thinking. Very few people have big ideas in them. Most people know something that's valuable to a small group of people. If you're a professional and you get paid to do something, you're probably getting paid for the knowledge and wisdom in your head. So it's not "How can I sell copies of my book?", the question is, "How can I put my knowledge and wisdom in my book and use the book as an all-purpose marketing tool for me or my company or my career?" Once you look at a book not as an end goal but as a marketing tool, then it totally changes everything. The ideas that most people hold in their head about publishing are ideas that publishing companies think are important, not ideas that people think are important. We're in the business of producing the absolute best books possible for the author. I would say, at best, 20% of people have genuinely either new or original ideas. What do you have to say that's interesting and valuable to an audience? I wish I was one of those people who from an early age was always hustling and selling and creating value. At Book in a Box, I just fired myself. We just hired a CEO to take over for me. There's no bigger waste of time than trying to learn how to do something you're bad at. You're way better off hiring someone to do that for you so you can do the things you're really good at. All the critical mistakes we've made in our business have either come down to being too arrogant about our knowledge & not questioning enough, and hiring the wrong people. That's the cool thing about business though, it's like baseball. It's even better than baseball. In baseball, if you hit .300, you're a Hall of Famer. In business, you can hit .100 and be a massive success. If you're going to fail, that's fine. But you need to understand why. If you're taking 9 different ideas and failing 9 different times, I think the problem might be you. There's so many people trying to teach the wrong things. Some people want lifestyle businesses and there's nothing wrong with that. If you want to be a baller entrepreneur and you want to build a massive baller company, you don't want to be selling your time. You don't want to be in the business, you want to be in the business of creating leverage for other people. There's a limit to how big you can scale an agency. There's no limit to how big you can scale a software-based process. If you have problems turning what you love into a business, it's probably some psychological issue you have, it's not the process. The process is very simple. It's not easy to do, but it's very simple to understand. Something you love doing, something people will pay you for, and something that you're good at. Where those three areas intersect, that's where you can build a business. Most people, when they say "how do I turn my passion into a business," what they are really asking is "how can I get paid to do nothing." That's bullshit. No way to do that. If you want to start a business, the easiest thing to do is find a problem that is really painful to people. Then create a solution that they will pay for. Starting a business is really easy if all you do is think about it in terms of other people's problems.   Thanks for listening Be sure to subscribe to the podcast here and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon! And feel free to leave a comment below with your feedback and any questions you have.

We all need some amount of money, that's a fact. How we spend that money is vastly different. I would classify myself as a frugal person: someone that spends money on the things that add value to my life, and saving money on the things that don't matter as much. In this episode, I'll dig into the difference between being frugal and being a cheapskate. We all love saving money, but there are times when it makes sense to spend. Enjoy! I hope you enjoy this episode and be sure to subscribe to the podcast here! Everything mentioned Shipstation shipping software Dymo thermal label printer Podcast Movement 2016 Mackie 402VLZ4 mixer Audio-Technica headphones Zoom H4N audio recorder Audio-Technica ATR-2100 dynamic microphone Kayak - great travel deals Article about frugality Best quotes from this episode If you need a machine and don't buy it, then you will ultimately find that you have paid for it and you don't have it. -Henry Ford Cheap and frugal people both love to save money, but frugal people will not do so at the expense of others. Frugality is about assessing the bigger picture and having the patience to cash in on the simple savings strategies. Being cheap is about spending less; being frugal is about prioritizing your spending so that you can have more of the things you really care about. You don't need the best of everything to get started. Stop being a cheapskate on the things that matter to you. Thanks for listening Be sure to subscribe to the podcast here and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon! And feel free to leave a comment below with your feedback and any questions you have.

On today's episode, I talk with Andrew Norelli. Andrew is a standup comedian and has been doing comedy for the past 18 years. He talks about working a boring sales job for a few years that eventually helped push him into comedy. From open mic nights where nobody would show up to several years later performing on all the popular late night shows, we'll go through his whole journey from the beginning. We also talk about what it takes to be a comedian these days, the type of dedication that is needed, and how all of this can relate to you if you're thinking about going down a path that's different than the typical 9-5. Which most of you hopefully are. I hope you enjoy this episode and be sure to subscribe to the podcast here! Book I'm reading Virtual Freedom - Written by Chris Ducker, this book is all about hiring virtual staff to take over some of the tasks you either don't know how to do, or hate doing, or frankly shouldn't be doing. I'm at a point where I'm doing so many things that I'm spreading myself too thin. So if you're like me and have the superhero syndrome where you try to do everything yourself, you should definitely check this book out. Learn more... Learn e-commerce Create Your Online Shop - Grab my free cheat sheet where I explain the 9 simple steps to selling your products online. These are the EXACT same steps I use on every successful online store that I create. Not to mention, you don't need any software or web design experience. Get access to my process now so you can sell more products and buy some tacos! Learn more... Everything we mentioned Bones (Andrew's latest album) Jim Gaffigan Jerry Seinfeld Stryper concert George Carlin Tibbits Opera House Laughs Comedy Club The Improv at Harrah's Connect with Andrew Website: andrewnorelli.com Facebook: facebook.com/andrew.norelli Twitter: @andrewnorelli Best quotes from this episode You gotta be willing to work. You gotta be very self-disciplined when you're self-employed. And when you're carving your own path, that's probably one of the hardest parts. I think part of success in any alternative career path is to start as early as you can. The risk part comes when you're basically doing something and you're making no money. I think that's another mistake people make, they start then stop. They start and they stop like five or six times. Accept that life happens and don't let things side-track you. I think you have to have hustle and work hard, I don't care how funny you are. You can't just be funny. If you don't have fear, then you don't know what you're doing. What's wrong with you if you don't have fear? You should have some fear or you're not paying attention to life or to your career. There has to be some level of fear that's at least driving you and making you better at the very least. Definitely some self-doubt too. That's how you get better. Nobody's stuff is perfect. If I feel like I did everything that I could've done and had planned on doing and it didn't work, no, that's perfectly ok. That does not bother me. Not at all. You'll drive yourself crazy if it does. If you start trying to please everybody all at once, whether it be industry people or crowd-members, then you're probably gonna end up pleasing either no one or you're gonna end up pleasing people and it's not gonna matter. All art and entertainment needs to have segments that are completely uncensored and totally free. It's proven in every society to be important. An important part for people to express themselves, to challenge conventional thinking, and to fight the establishment & people with power. People pay a little closer attention to a message in their inbox, as long as it's from someone they know. Why do we have words when we have cleavage? I think that's maybe why I kept going in comedy. I've had a lot of little moments where I was so glad that I didn't stop trying and that I never quit. And that keeps me going. You appreciate it more when it's a long process and you have to learn everything along the way. If you don't know whether to say yes or no, then just say yes. It's a balancing act, because there are times when it actually is in your benefit to say no. Hopefully when you say no, you do something else constructive.   Thanks for listening Be sure to subscribe to the podcast here and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon! And feel free to leave a comment below with your feedback and any questions you have.

So many people struggle trying to start a business because they think they have to know everything. And if there's something they don't know, they think they have to figure it out on there own. Search around on the internet and you can literally find the answers to every single question you could possibly have. But a lot of times, it makes sense to seek out advice from others. The problem lies in who you ask though. If you're trying to start a food truck, you shouldn't get getting advice from a lawyer. True, the lawyer might be successful, but you should be reaching out to people that are doing exactly what you're trying to do. And those people better be successful at it and be a couple steps further than you are. Hopefully this episode makes you realize that a lot of people out there are willing to help you. You just have to build up your confidence to ask them for help or to pick their brain for an hour. Remember, if you want to get something you've never had, you're gonna have to do things you've never done. Get out of your comfort zone, that's where the magic happens! Thanks again for listening and reading the show notes. Be sure to subscribe to the podcast here and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon! And feel free to leave a comment below with your feedback and any questions you have. My online course Create Your Online Shop - In this course, I will teach you how to create your own e-commerce website without any web design experience and with no software. If you have products or services for sale, but you don't sell them online yet, this course is perfect for you. Click the link and signup to be one of the first people to get access to this at the lowest price ever offered. I'll also be hosting a webinar very soon that will give you a behind the scenes look at what you can expect, so be sure to signup to get notified about that as well. Learn more...

If you're like me, you love good food. Even better when it's something unique and local, right? Zombie Dogz is a super popular food truck here in Dayton, Ohio, and I sat down with the creators this week on the podcast. Hot dogs have been an American classic for decades, and in most cases, they've been boring the whole time. Not anymore. David and Lee Ann VanArtsdalen have created a culinary experience like no other with their gourmet hot dogs and the amazing toppings they add to each one. But don't just take my word for it, check out their Facebook page. A quick glance and you'll see tens of thousands of fans—and I'm talking diehard/raving fans—that spread the Zombie Dogz brand like wildfire. I hope you enjoy this episode and be sure to subscribe to the podcast here! My online course Create Your Online Shop - In this course, I will teach you how to create your own e-commerce website without any web design experience and with no software. If you have products or services for sale, but you don't sell them online yet, this course is perfect for you. Click the link and signup to be one of the first people to get access to this at the lowest price ever offered. I'll also be hosting a webinar very soon that will give you a behind the scenes look at what you can expect, so be sure to signup to get notified about that as well. Learn more... Connect with Zombie Dogz Facebook: facebook.com/zombiedogzdayton Instagram: @zombiedogzdayton Everything we mentioned HorrorHound Oktoberfest Americana Festival Cyclops Fest Yellow Springs Street Fair Bell, Book and Comic Bighorn Pretzel Company Best quotes from this episode Planning on paper is very different than implementing it in real life. We're a caring business. It's important to be socially-responsible and we're not just in it for the money. People really respected the fact that we admitted when we were wrong and just made it right. And that's all you can do. We aren't perfect, we're still human beings. It's our business, it's our livelihood. We have to make it work, and you have to make adjustments. Location is the most important thing. Just because you have a concept and a good idea, you're not gonna put it in the worst spot in town. Obviously you want a lot of people in your line, but you want to see the other people succeeding also. I think if I knew everything we know now before we started, I don't know if I would have done it. We work 90-100 hours a week for 8-9 months straight. A lot of people don't implement their ideas because they're fearful. We don't want to disappoint anybody, and we take that very seriously. You can't teach people experience. You just have to do it. I can't tell you how your business is going to run, but here's the basics. And it's up to you now to implement it and work hard and make it work on your own. Your heart has to be in it, you have to want it. You can't just think about the money, because that didn't come to us for a long time. You need to give first, then receive later. It's in our blood, but I never saw myself running my own business. Take your time and do it right the first time. We could have just done it one or two days a week on the weekends and it would have been fine, but you have to do it full-time. It's a big leap and it's scary but you just gotta do it. You gotta commit, just like anything in life. Thanks again for listening and reading the show notes. Be sure to subscribe to the podcast here and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon! And feel free to leave a comment below with your feedback and any questions you have.

When I hear people say they are bored, it blows my mind. How can anybody be bored these days? With all of the technological advances, everyone has access to everything and we are all connected 24/7. There's no reason anyone should ever be bored. Being lazy on the other hand, I think we all get stuck in that phase from time to time. People that say they are bored, some of these things come to mind: no goals, they are on cruise control, no imagination, taking things for granted, no hobbies, and more. I get lazy sometimes, and it's usually because I get distracted too much, I procrastinate, lack of motivation, and poor habits. If you notice the people around you are saying they are bored, be careful, they might drag you down to their level. But don't think that means it's ok to be lazy. Both are places you don't want to be stuck. My quick tips would be to eat better, exercise, get high-quality sleep, get some hobbies, increase your skills, and cancel all distractions. Easier said than done, but everything in life is a marathon, not a sprint. Take it one step at a time and you'll get there with consistent action and positive daily habits. Thanks again for listening! Be sure to subscribe to the podcast on iTunes and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon. Until next time, take those risks and have no regrets along the way!

One of my favorite people to follow is Joshua Fields Millburn of The Minimalists. His style of writing and the way he explains minimalism really resonates with me. If you ever wanted to live a more meaningful life, you're going to love this episode. Subscribe to the podcast! Things I recommend: Bluehost - Best website hosting! Audible - Get your FREE audio book here! People, websites, & products mentioned: Ryan Nicodemus Essential: Essays by The Minimalists Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists As a Decade Fades Create Your Online Shop SXSW Spyr Media Matt D'Avella Connect with Joshua: Website: theminimalists.com Documentary: minimalismfilm.com Twitter: @jfm / @theminimalists Facebook: facebook.com/joshuafieldsmillburn / facebook.com/theminimalists Instagram: @joshuafieldsmillburn / @theminimalists Best quotes: While living the "American Dream," I learned it wasn't my dream. It took getting everything I thought I wanted to realize that everything I ever wanted wasn't actually what I wanted at all. I made really good money in the corporate world (six figures), but I spent even better money. And that equation never works. Why the hell are you so happy? -Ryan Nicodemus When I find value in something, I tend to share it with my friends and family. I think that's the meaning in life: growing and giving. The more you grow, the more you have to give. When you look in the rearview, your scars make up the best part of yourself. When you buy stuff to be happy, the happiness doesn't last far past the checkout line. Happiness is when our short term actions align with our long term values. Just being busy for the sake of busy is a supposed sign of productivity. But it's not necessarily productive. Busy usually gets in the way of true meaningful work. I was living the ideal life to a lot of people. And the reason it was ideal to them is it was something they aspired to be. But they didn't realize that once they got there, it wasn't going to make them happy. As I climbed the corporate ladder, I got closer to these guys that I aspired to be like. And what I realized as I got closer to them, they were miserable. At least the majority of them were. There's nothing wrong with making money, I'm certainly not allergic to money. But it's no longer the primary driver for doing what I do. Debt is an anchor in our lives. There is no such thing as good debt. I found that the best way to give myself a pay raise was to spend less money. Minimalism is a tool that allows me to get rid of the excess so I can focus on whats truly important. It doesn't mean it's a perfect life, and it's certainly not an easy life. It's just about living a simpler life, one that is within our means. Being on autopilot tends to lead us into bad decisions. Going with the flow is easy. And if you go with the flow long enough, you end up at the rapids. And then you're in a world of hurt because you weren't prepared for that. That's why you'll never see me tweet a picture of my breakfast, because I don't find that it adds value to other peoples lives. I like to do other things that make me uncomfortable, it's what I call my discomfort zone. I find that the place from which I grow the most is when I put myself in a bit of an uncomfortable situation. As we move along a path from a novice to intermediate to an expert, it just has to do with putting in the work. Being willing to drudge through the drudgery. I don't have a college degree at all and I've never taken a writing class. The reason I started teaching a writing class online was because a lot of people kept asking me a ton of questions about writing. Don't start a business until someone asks you to start it. -Derek Sivers The teacher learns more than the student. If you want to get better at just about anything, teach it. Even if you're not very good at it. Because it will force you to communicate to yourself in the same way you would communicate to others. I'm constantly trying to find new ways to spread the minimalism message to people. We wanted to show people that minimalism isn't a radical lifestyle, it's a practical lifestyle. While all these people lead considerably different lives, they all share one thing in common: they're all striving to live a meaningful life with less. Sometimes you wake up in the middle of the day. Sometimes you wake up in the middle of your life. -Yarrow Kraner That's what happened to me. I woke up in the middle of my life and realized that there was more to life than just bills and money and status and achievement. There was something else, and I needed to find that. Ultimately, we all just want to live a more meaningful life. The path that I was on was leading me to a place that I didn't want to be. And so, the bigger risk for me would be staying. Thanks again for listening and reading the show notes. Be sure to subscribe and leave a review on iTunes and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon. Until next time, hustle harder and take massive action to reach your dreams!

No matter how much money you make, if you're spending more than you make, your equation is broke. It's simple math. Most wealthy people live within their means, and actually live far below their means. Most people that complain about bills and stress about money, they are living beyond their means, often well beyond them. Hit play on this short 10 minute episode and listen to my thoughts about this quote. Enjoy! Subscribe to the podcast! Thanks again for listening! Be sure to subscribe/review the podcast on iTunes and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon. Until next time, take those risks and have no regrets along the way!

On today's episode, I talk with Geoff Woods. He is an entrepreneur who has spent most of his life in Southern California, but he recently moved to Austin, Texas. We'll discuss why he moved there and some of the defining moments that led him to start thinking differently about life and business. We'll also talk about his podcast and how he teamed up with some amazing people along the way and how you can do the same.Subscribe to the podcast!Things I recommend:Bluehost - Best website hosting!Audible - Get your FREE audio book here!Show notes:Was in medical device sales for the last 5-6 years. Awesome job, made a lot of money, work from home.A series of defining moments cause you to take action. End of 2013, colleague had a stroke at 35.Geoff and his wife just had a baby and just bought a house, wife was a stay at home mom. If something happens to him, the income stops. He didn't have passive income, that kept him up at night.The week after this, his company decided to slash his income by 40%. Wondered how he was gonna pay the mortgage and put food on the table. Heard the Jim Rohn quote, "You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with."If I wanted to be earning 7-figures a year, I needed to surround myself with 7-figure-earners. If I wanted to be in control of my schedule and be a successful entrepreneur then I needed to surround myself with people who are already living that life and seeking advice from them instead of seeking advice from the people who had not done it.It all started because I focused on one thing, which was forming relationships with the right people.Launched The Mentee Podcast in January 2015. Fast forward a year later, was able to quit a $200k a year sales job in just 10 months.Partnered up with Gary Keller and Jay Papasan of Keller Williams Realty to launch a big media company, required him to relocate to Austin, Texas. He was in SoCal almost his whole life.This is a job where at any single moment, my company can decide to shrink my territory, boost my quota, or change my commission rate. I have zero control. Or I could legitimately decide to leave and partner up with the guy who's built the largest real estate company in the world, a guy who is a billionaire. What's more secure for my long term growth and my long term well being?How would you describe what you do these days? Content.It all comes down to creating quality content and figuring out how you can get that content in front of as many people as possible (the right people) to the point where it actually makes an impact in their life first. Just give incredible value to the point where they're willing to give you an email address, they're willing to buy your stuff & do business with you, and to really scale that.I was limiting myself. My perception of what was possible was clearly off.The first time he sat down with a heavy hitter, and they asked how they could help him, he said his goal is to get $12k/month in passive income within the next 7 years. (That was a year ago that he said that.) And as he said it, he didn't really feel confident. He couldn't see how that could ever possibly happen in his life.At the end of the day, you have to be able to describe where you need help in one sentence, very clearly.And the guy went, "No way man." Geoff said, "Ya I know, it's too high of a goal." And the guy said, "You'll do it way faster than that." And since that guy had already done it, it was qualified, and it really opened Geoff's mind. He was limiting himself.I know exactly what my one thing is, and I'm integrating it into every conversation.80% of everything you need already exists in your circle of influence. The people you know, your existing relationships could already give you what you need 80% of the time, but the problem is you just don't tap into your relationships.Fast forward, he surrounded himself with amazing people for a year. Now Geoff's goal is to get to $25k/month within the next 6 months. Now what changed? Simple. He just surrounded himself with people who had already done it instead of trying to figure it out on his own and crossing his fingers.I'm going to the people that have done it and said tell me what to do.I didn't ask for anything. They asked "what's up" and I told them what's up. What ends up happening is they start asking questions. Now I'm able to tell them exactly what I'm looking for and either they're the person, they know the person, or I've planted a seed and when they meet that person they're gonna remember me and they'll consider making the introduction.This is how I have made so many connections, because I just simply tell everybody and their mom where I need help.Don't let the simplicity undermine the significance.It's not that hard, you just gotta put some consistency behind it.Stop whining. Stop making up excuses because there's gonna be another guy out there or another girl out there who won't make an excuse and who will take action. And they will be the one's who get it done.His mentor Dave, he heard him speak at an event, and he knew he had to talk to him. Had no idea what he could say to him.I have mentors for everything. From business to finances to relationships to health.I tried something different, I dropped my ego.It's situations like that, that you can't help but say it's meant to be. But you'd never know if you didn't take action.There's so many things laying right in front of you in your life right now and you have no idea because you don't dare to take action. You don't dare to step out of your comfort zone and take a shot.Recognizing that the worst thing that could happen is that you get a no and you're just as well off as you would be if you did nothing at all.For his membership program, his goal is to have 700 people paying him $37/month ($25k/mo).I don't believe that you need to go to college or that you need to get a higher level of degree to be successful.When I look at the things that I actually learned in college, I'm not applying a single damn thing. I invested six figures for an experience. Which I loved the experience, but if I had invested that in starting a business, I'd be way further off now.You need to figure out what you're passionate about. You need to surround yourself with people who inspire you, who are already doing what you want to be doing, what you could only hope one day to have the opportunity to do. And when you surround yourself with those types of people they end up opening your eyes and showing you ways that you can do things that you never thought you could do before.You don't have to look at what society tells you is the way, you can write your own ticket. You can do it your way, you just gotta surround yourself with the right people along that way.You end up making a lot of sacrifices but you have to recognize that sometimes you have to do what it takes even when you don't want to, to get what you want in the long run.I surround myself with frickin ridiculously amazing people. It's my drug. I can't help but feel inspired when I'm around people who are making an impact in the world and are making a killing doing it.People, websites, & products mentioned:Jim RohnJohn Lee DumasGary KellerJay PapasanThe ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary ResultsRyan Moran - The conversation that will get me to $25k/mo in passive incomeGeoff's Entrepreneur.com articlesShark Tank's Daymond John on building an empire with no money & the power of brokeJerry Maguire - Show Me The Money!David DunnGene McNaughtonTony RobbinsChet HolmesCreate Your Online ShopPat Flynn & David Siteman GarlandMichael Carbone - Risk Without Regret InterviewFree 15-minute call with Geoff Woods!Mike Dillard on becoming financially freeJoshua Santos - Risk Without Regret InterviewAmy Woods - An interview with Geoff's wifeThink and Grow Rich: The Landmark BestsellerHow to Win Friends & Influence PeopleNever Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a TimeWisdom from Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money, That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!Rich Dad's CASHFLOW Quadrant: Rich Dad's Guide to Financial FreedomThe Mentee PodcastDownload Geoff's Free Guide - 7 Steps to a 7 Figure NetworkJoin Geoff's Mastermind - The Inner CircleConnect with Geoff:Website: geoffwoods.comTwitter: @geoffwoodsFacebook: facebook.com/geoffreywoodsThanks again for listening and reading the show notes. Be sure to subscribe and leave a review on iTunes and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon. Until next time, hustle harder and take massive action to reach your dreams!

No matter how much you want it to be true, it just isn't. Humans cannot successfully multitask. Our brains are fast, but not that fast. Even computers can't multitask, they just work faster than the human brain, so it appears like they are processing code simultaneously, when they really aren't.I was motivated to record a podcast on this subject after reading a chapter out of this book. I literally couldn't put this new book down last night. Also, it's 2016, and everyone claims to be an expert at multitasking. So I'm here to share why they're not. Hit the play button and enjoy!Check out The One Thing book here!Subscribe to the podcast!Best quotes from this episode:If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. -Russian ProverbTo do two things at once is to do neither. -Publilius SyrusMultitasking is merely the opportunity to screw up more than one thing at a time. -Steve UzzellYou can do two things at once, but you can't focus effectively on two things at once. -Gary KellerIf you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?Check out The One Thing book here!Thanks again for listening! Be sure to subscribe/review the podcast on iTunes and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon. Until next time, take those risks and have no regrets along the way!

On today's show, I talk with a passionate traveler and science writer from Houston, Texas by the name of Kayt Sukel. Some of the topics that she often talks about range from love to politics to sex to neuroscience and everything in between. Her work has appeared in USA Today, The Washington Post, National Geographic Traveler, and several other well-known publications. She's the author of two books, she does public speaking at events like TEDMED, she claims to overshare on Twitter, and if you asked Forbes, they would say she knows more about sex than you do. Without giving it all away, hit play and listen to my conversation with Kayt!Subscribe to the podcast!Things I recommend:Sleep Smarter: 21 Essential Strategies to Sleep Your Way to A Better Body, Better Health, and Bigger SuccessBluehost - Best Website HostingGet your FREE audio book here!Best quotes from this episode:I may not have 20 million Twitter followers or be some famous writer's daughter, but I have something to say and this is what I'd like to talk about.But also, I understood as I accepted his invitation, that it was gonna help me tell a better story.I'm ok with that, because I think this work is important.If you talk to anybody who's currently incarcerated in prison, they're gonna tell you that they're there for love or money.I wasn't depressed, I just felt the weight of all my responsibilities.We're all risk-takers.It's not a personality trait, risk-taking is a process.Risk is just being able to embrace uncertainty when you're going to make a decision. And there are very few decisions that we make that don't have some amount of uncertainty involved.Neurosurgery is really a series of adjustments, but then again, most of life is.What did I learn here so I can do this better next time? What is the lesson? How can I apply this so I can actually achieve whatever long term goal I've set for myself?If you want to get better at dealing with risk, you gotta take more risks.You're never gonna improve or gain new skills unless you're willing to take a risk.Success can eliminate as many options as failure. -Tom RobbinsEasier isn't always better.I think a lot of times, we mistake fear with intensity.The brain puts a lot of stock in novelty. That pushes our limits and yet it gives us a lot of rewards as well.I think when you understand that ultimately any decision is one big calculation in your brain, and that risk is a part of it, a calculated risk makes sense.Success to me isn't just about making money, it's about carving out a life for yourself that has wealth in all aspects of it.Risking without regrets means making time to go after the things that you've always dreamed of.Risk is not a one size fits all approach.And as you're making those little small changes, over time, they make it so you're more comfortable with the big ones.What would you do if you weren't afraid?What's the worst that can happen?Connect with Kayt:Website: kaytsukel.comTwitter: @kaytsukelFacebook: facebook.com/KaytSukelPeople, websites, & products mentioned:This Is Your Brain on Sex: The Science Behind the Search for LoveThe Art of Risk: The New Science of Courage, Caution, and ChancefMRI orgasmForbes articleSteph DavisTom RobbinsTEDMED talk - Eliminating Penalties for Playing Out of BoundsThink Again – a Big Think PodcastDeath, Sex & Money PodcastSerial PodcastAdulthood Made Easy PodcastReply All PodcastThinking, Fast and SlowThe Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive UsSecret Sex Lives: A Year on the Fringes of American SexualityUnbound Book FestivalThanks again for listening and reading the show notes. Be sure to subscribe and leave a review on iTunes and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon. Until next time, hustle harder and take massive action to reach your dreams!

"To be really successful at anything, you don't have to be the best. Being the best is too hard and there's only one person who gets to be that. It's too elite. You can be an expert if you know a little more than the average person. If you read 3 books on any topic or learn that amount of information on a skill or industry, you can make a good living at it on your own. You just have to want to do it. If you're passionate about it, the money will follow."Subscribe to the podcast!When people think of the word expert, they instantly think of the best of the best. While that person would be an expert, you don't have the best the number one in the world at something to truly be an expert.Take a listen to this episode and listen to the examples of why I think everyone out there is an expert at something. If people constantly ask you questions about a certain thing, guess what, you're probably an expert at that thing.People, websites, & products mentioned:Create Your Online ShopUber (discount code: randyj440ue)Lyft (discount code: randy711364)NSNG LifeBig MeasEight DeuceThanks again for listening! Be sure to subscribe/review the podcast on iTunes and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon. Until next time, take those risks and have no regrets along the way!

Thanks for checking out my conversation with Kolby Kolibas. He shares his story from the Olympics to corporate America, to The Healthy Primate, and so much more! He also talks about stress and why your life is killing you.

After reading that title, you must be thinking I'm crazy. How could someone be happy or grateful about losing a job? That sounds terrible! Well, trust me, so many good things can come from a negative situation like this.Today marks four years of being free from the 9-5 mindset. It's crazy how fast time flies, but they say that happens when you're having fun, right? There are probable more than 13 reasons why I'm glad to be where I'm at but these are the main ones. Hopefully when you listen to this episode, you're able to think how this relates to you and your job and what changes you might want to make in your career or life. Enjoy!Subscribe to the podcast!Thanks again for listening! Be sure to subscribe/review the podcast on iTunes and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon. Until next time, take those risks and have no regrets along the way!

Today's guest is Michael Carbone. He's originally from Canada where he went down the typical path of going to college and getting a corporate job. You know, just doing the standard 9-5 grind that so many people do. Everything seemed great from the outside, but inside, he was feeling unfulfilled. Unfortunately, most people stay in this position their whole lives and never make a change. But Michael was different.He's going to share his story about how an Ironman race changed his life, how teaching others to win more at online poker was a gamechanger, why webinars are so lucrative, as well as using fear to force you to take more action in your life. And towards the end, he talks about traveling to Paris a few months ago... the day after the terrorist attacks. He elaborates on how that experience can relate to business, as well as showing you how fragile life is and why you should live your life to the fullest everyday.This is definitely one of my favorite conversations so far, and I know you're going to take several things away from this episode. Enjoy!Subscribe to the podcast!Featured books:Stop Chasing Influencers by Kimanzi Constable and Jared Easley. I took a quote out of that book and dug deeper into it in the last episode. Since then, I finished the book and I highly recommend it to anyone that wants to start an online business. It gives you so many new ideas that you can use with your podcast, online course, online coaching business, e-commerce website, and more. If you want to check it out, just go to riskwithoutregret.com/influencers.Will It Fly by Pat Flynn. As you probably know, I'm a big fan of Pat as I've mentioned him in several of the episodes, so it was a no-brainer to add this book to my Amazon wishlist. About a week ago, I jumped on a Skype call with my friend Jason Reaves from the Live Life Loudly podcast. After helping him for a couple hours, he said he wanted to thank me by sending me this book. Thanks again Jason, it was much appreciated!So it showed up a few days later and I started reading it instantly. It's already adding a lot of value but the coolest part is the free online companion course that comes with it. This book is all about testing your next business idea at the beginning so you don't waste a lot of time and money. Most people just build something and hope people want it. You know that old quote, "If you build it, they will come." That's terrible biz advice and that's why their business usually fails. So if this sounds awesome to you, just visit riskwithoutregret.com/willitfly and order this book today!Best quotes from this episode:I teach something I know and then package it up beautifully and offer it to people who want to learn that topic.We all have something that we know and love and are passionate about that other people want to learn as well.I didn't want a backup plan, because to me, that's a distraction.If you're not hosting webinars at this point, you're probably leaving money on the table.Webinars help you build your list, create relationships, and make sales, all at once.I'm really passionate about being on that stage and helping inspire people.These influencers are not these untouchable people.I remember thinking about how insane the idea was, and that made me want to do it.I hired someone that knew what they were doing to help me and teach me what I needed to do. Then I put in a ton of work, and I'm getting results.I don't need a Plan B. I just obsess over Plan A and find a way to get it done.I needed the risk of quitting my job to get results. I needed that risk to scare me into taking action.For me, comfort equals complacency.The more fear I had of failure, that fear makes me take action.If you're spending all day working on it because you have nothing else and nothing is paying your bills, trust me, you'll find a way to make it work.It's always easier to see someone else do something first and then you can do it because it becomes simpler.When people think I'm crazy, that's when I know I'm doing something right.Remove yourself from toxic environments and from people that tell you that you can't do it. Surround yourself with people who are more positive and more motivating.You can know the most basic thing and there's still people who have never heard of it.Even if you have the most basic knowledge, you shouldn't take it for granted. There's always people who don't know anything about that topic or are just new to it. So you can always find an audience of people who want to learn more.If you're struggling with something, tell your struggles. People will relate to it.Life is very fragile, and the more you sit and think about it, the more it makes you want to live your life.There's a lot of beauty in facing situations where you're afraid.If you just think about things and don't actually dive into them yourself, you might feel a little more afraid until you actually do it.The more you think about something—versus actually doing it—the riskier it will seem.Never in a hurry, never worried, never desperate, and never stopping short.If you're not where you want to be, do something about it.Live your truth and live your dream.No one ever did anything big out of comfort. Because comfort makes you sit back and take things for granted.When you're in a moment of discomfort, that's when you take massive action to get out of it, because you want to move away from that pain into a moment of pleasure.Connect with Michael:Website: michaelcarbone.caUnleash Yourself Podcast: michaelcarbone.ca/unleashyourselfInstagram: @michaelcarbone8Twitter: @michaelcarbone8Facebook: facebook.com/michaelcarbone8People, websites, & products mentioned:Tim FerrissThe 4-Hour Work WeekLewis HowesThe School of GreatnessMarc FittJon NastorKeith BreseéThanks again for listening and reading the show notes. Be sure to subscribe and leave a review on iTunes and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon. Until next time, hustle harder and take massive action to reach your dreams!

I'm in the middle of this amazing book and I stumbled across this epic quote: "You can make your dream happen a lot quicker with two simple tips: 1) cutting out the distractions, and 2) focusing on what is most important." This quote was taken from the book Stop Chasing Influencers by Kimanzi Constable and Jared Easley. Listen to this short podcast episode where I dig in deeper and really explain what this quote means and how it can relate to you.Subscribe to the podcast!Let's face it, distractions are everywhere. It's 2016 and you are flooded with social media, smart phones, movies, tv, etc. everywhere you go. It's extremely hard to block all of that out unless you lock yourself in a dark room with no connection to the outside world.Ok, that's probably a bit extreme, but in this day in age, you must focus on what's important. To do that, you have to discipline yourself. Remove everything that distracts you as best as you can. I took the tv out of my bedroom and cancelled my Netflix. That's a start and it was something easy to let go of.So what are your big goals? What do you want to accomplish with your time in your life? What's the one thing you need to focus on that will get you there? Go do that one thing. Today. Right now.Again, I highly recommend this book. If it sounds like something you'd love to check out, buy it here!Thanks again for listening! Be sure to subscribe/review the podcast on iTunes and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon. Until next time, take those risks, have no regrets along the way!

I love it when people reach out to me about being on the podcast, which is exactly what this episode's featured guest did. Fat Tony is a 33 year old freelance photographer and entrepreneur from Long Beach, California. As soon as the call started, I could tell this was gonna be a super exciting and entertaining episode to be a part of. As well as the type of episode I couldn't wait to share with you, so here we are!He's been to 35 countries, he landed his dream job right out of college at one of the top magazines in the world, and everything seemed to be going just as he planned. But then he just wasn't feeling it anymore, he was searching for new dreams. With no plan B or safety net, most people would be terrified. Not this guy. Hhe quit his job and went straight back to traveling around the globe like a badass!Well I don't wanna give too much away, so hit that play button below and get to know Fat Tony's story and what he's currently working on. This is an episode you won't stop listening to, so get comfy or turn the cruise control on in your car, and enjoy!Subscribe to the podcast!Featured products/services:Ask. by Ryan Levesque. I finished this book in less than 2 days. I was so interested in the content and I literally couldn't put it down. The first half talks about his story and the second half explains the "Ask Formula" that he's developed. It's basically about asking questions to prospects, getting them into a really advanced sales funnel, and then transitioning them into customers through a series of surveys and stories. But it's all about asking the right questions, which most businesses don't do, which means they think they know what customers want when they actually don't. So if this sounds interesting to you, go check it out at here!Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook by Gary Vaynerchuk. The second book is by one of my favorite entrepreneurs and this is his 3rd book. I've talked about his first book before called Crush It!, and I have his second book on my Amazon Wishlist called The Thank You Economy, and now I just started reading this one a couple days ago. It's all about how to tell your story in a noisy social world. The title of the book means that, just like boxing, you want to throw a few small punches before you throw the big knockout punch. So that means a few subtle soft sells then a more direct sell. It's about building trust with your community and speaking the native language for each individual social media platform. I'll have this book done in a few days and I'll be anxiously awaiting his next book which is due out in March. But if you want to grab this book and really ramp up your social media strategy, just visit this link now!Show notes:[04:45] Tell us who you are...[05:50] Did you go to college for photo/video?I realized that the designer sits at a computer all day and a photographer travels the world and does a bunch of cool shit.[07:05] Did you do freelance work while you had a fulltime job?I got a taste of this lifestyle, of this freedom, and world travel, and adventure. That was really what made me think, eventually I want to have a life more like this.[09:55] Seems like you have the world traveler life for sure now. Do you?I definitely got bit by the travel bug when I was at the job because I was getting paid to do the traveling.You can have a great time in a shitty place or you can have a shitty time in a great place, depending on who you're with and your experiences while you're there.[15:15] How did you get into the vegan lifestyle?If you don't know what the ingredients are, don't put it in your body.[18:40] Have you always been a person that goes to the gym?[23:00] Talk about the 5th grade family trip in NYC and how you fell in love with photography...I love that feeling of looking through a viewfinder, finding a composition, taking the image, getting it back, and being able to share that with people.If I put my mind to something, I was going to do it.If you set goals and work towards them, it's gonna happen.[25:25] Have you always wanted to be an entrepreneur?[27:00] How did you get into video?I basically learned on the job which was great because I was getting paid to hone in my skills and become better at this.Everybody watches YouTube videos and now I'm just one of the people who makes them.[31:25] What did that feel like on your last day of your job to quit and go on your own?I don't want to change these things about myself. This is who I am. I'm proud of this. This is what I think is right for me.[37:45] Did you go straight into freelance right after you quit?When you're pretty good at a lot of things, it's hard to release some control and trust other people.I needed to work with people on a more regular basis than just sitting in my condo by myself.Having a partner not only helps keep me sane, it helps me push myself further, and it gives me another creative eye to help look at the stuff that I might oversee. It also gives me more ideas, plus it's a lot more fun to work with somebody than alone all the time.[42:30] Talk about the podcast you started...As I was listening to these a ton, it just became natural for me to want to create my own.I just want to have interesting conversations with people that I might not normally have otherwise, record them, and share them with people. -Tim FerrissIf you do the homework, the test is easy. -Dave Mirra[49:35] What is Break Parallel?[56:55] Has social media helped you over the years?I've definitely had interactions with people that have followed my personal Instagram and have been inspired to make positive changes in their lives just because I set a good example that they can follow.It's a no-brainer, it's 2016 now, so social media is a part of everything.[59:55] Do people always tell you that you're "living the dream?"Yes, this is my dream, but if you have your own dreams, then it's up to you to make it happen.You can have everything else you need, but if you don't have the mindset to make it happen, then you're going nowhere.If there's something ingrained in you that is holding you back, you need to do a little self-analysis on yourself to figure out why you're like that, undo that, then change that about yourself.[1:02:30] What inspires you?[1:04:10] Is there anything unique about what you do?I accel at telling those stories and I accel at that quick workflow that allows me to deliver the product faster than just about anyone else.[1:06:20] Were there things you had to give up early on to get to where you are now?I had given up so much, and didn't even realize it, to have a full-time job.[1:07:25] Any fears you had back then or now?It was hard for me to give it up because it was what I knew and what I loved.Leaving the full-time job? Not so much. But making a full transition to a different industry was a big fear.There was definitely an ego component to it where I enjoyed having a certain status, I enjoyed people knowing who I was. And nowadays that I'm making that transition, I don't really care if people know who I am.I want to do the work that inspires me and that energizes me and that leads me to my goals, but I don't necessarily need to be the face of the work. I'm happy enough now letting the work speak for itself.[1:12:05] Any mastermind groups or mentors in your life?It's so easy to have self-doubts. But maybe that's a good thing because maybe that means you're pushing yourself.[1:14:40] Where did the name Fat Tony come from?[1:16:45] Has there been a moment that stands out that really makes you proud to do what you do?I think the biggest compliment you can ever get is for somebody to say that you've inspired them.[1:20:45] Is being an entrepreneur easier if you're single?This is cool and I'm appreciative, but even though I'm here and doing these things, I'm lonely.[1:22:30] What's a big risk you've taken?If you calculate the risk, then you're probably not gonna have many regrets.[1:23:20] What's the best way to connect with you?Connect with Fat Tony:Website: fattonybmx.comInstagram: @fattonybmxTwitter: @fattonybmxFacebook: facebook.com/fattonybmxBreak Parallel: breakparallel.comThe Expansion Project Podcast: theexpansionprojectpodcast.comPeople, websites, & products mentioned:Best Speech You Will Ever Hear - Gary YourofskyForks Over KnivesCrossFitRob DardenPurePharmaA Day in the Life of Brooke EnceFUEL TVJoe RoganTim FerrissAndy HurleyDave Mirrahttp://theexpansionprojectpodcast.com/Ben BergeronJohn ResigSecrets of the Millionaire MindDarlene AdamusikThanks again for listening and reading the show notes. Be sure to leave me a review on iTunes and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon. Until next time, think less, risk more, regret nothing!

When it comes to being happy, you really need to do things you love. People always say, "Follow your passion." While I believe that and agree, I think there's more to it than just that. In this short episode, I break down this quote and explain how it relates to me, and how you should think about it this way... "Find three hobbies you love: one to make you money, one to keep you in shape, and one to be creative."Thanks again for listening! Be sure to leave me a review on iTunes and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon. Until next time, think less, risk more, regret nothing!

A Facebook friend of mine, Jason Reaves, reached out to me about a month or so ago. He actually initiated a group message on Facebook which also included Joshua Santos, a person I was not familiar with. Jason gave the backstory and was basically the middle man, connecting Joshua and myself together.After learning more about Joshua, I knew he was the perfect candidate to be on this podcast, so I set out to make that happen. One of the coolest things he's done recently was connecting Andy Frisella and Sean Whalen together. Both of these guys are in your face, smart business men, and have big followings. Funny thing, Joshua didn't really know either of them, and both guys thought the other knew Joshua. Turns out, he just wanted to bring them together to create magic, which is exactly what happened.Sit back, relax, and listen to Joshua's inspiring story about building relationships and consistently adding value. Enjoy!Subscribe to the podcast!Featured products/services:Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel by Rolf Potts. I'm over halfway through with this awesome book and I'm ready to buy my first international flight very soon. If you've always wanted to travel the world, buy this book. Seriously. Check it out now...Create Your Online Shop is the online course I'm building to teach people how they can start selling their products and services on the web. Trust me, it's not as tough as you might think. And to help get you going, I'm giving away my 5-Step Guide for free! Just visit this link and download it right now. To learn even more about the course, listen to episode 9 where I really go into all the details.Show notes:[02:55] Tell us who you are...If you're value-based and you're not trying to cheapskate your customers, then things end up turning out pretty well for you in the long run.[06:15] Did you go to college?I never really went to class, I just kinda dropped out.The name of the game is showing the hustle. Showing that you really want it.Putting yourself on the line without really thinking about what your friends and family are thinking about you at the time.[08:50] Explain the "concierge" title...I had a knack for connecting people to other people and building these relationships.I've been providing some value to them just as they've done to me and so many other people.[10:35] Is this monetized?I've never asked for any payment ever.Provide value and you won't be able to not accept any money. -Ray HigdonYou'll dictate money the more value you provide.It just goes to show that what I'm doing right now is paying off, not just monetarily but from a passion perspective.[13:00] Did you have a regular job while you were building this up?[14:05] How did you get connected with the MFCEO podcast?Create the legacy that you want to create for your family.Most people just wanna hit play on their laptop and hopefully the money comes out of the sky. They wanna live this laptop lifestyle and that's just not the way it is.[16:35] What fears do you have?My main goal is to experience fear.If I take the foundational values that I have right now, the integrity, the hustle, the vision, I'll make it anywhere.When you're entering in a field 100% full throttle, like taking that risk without any regret, that's when things really start happening for you.[21:35] Why are you moving to California this year?[22:55] Explain the kinds of people in your mastermind group, and masterminds in general...You are the average of the five people you hang out with.You're gonna have to cut out a lot of people in your life, and that's gonna be on a consistent basis.A mastermind is all about having fun, learning, growing, assessing where it is that you are and where you want to be, and going out there and doing it.[27:45] What have you had to give up?I had to give up the time that I would sit and do nothing.[30:15] Any advice you don't agree with?Whatever you decide to listen to needs to be congruent with the person that you want to become.If you know there's something that you want to do—that you may have some serious fear towards, but you know you have to get over that hurdle to see what's on the other side of the hedge—then go ahead and explore it.You just need to be yourself.[34:05] Talk about Mike Dillard / Self Made Man...[34:35] Skills everyone needs...Be relentless in your desire to learn, even if you don't feel like it sometimes.Always be willing to take another person's perspective and welcome the meta-level of learning.[37:50] Is hustle more important than talent or skills?The person with a hustle mentality is eventually going to get good at what they do.When [a hustler] gets good at what they do, and they still have that hustle in their blood, that person is going to have the most opportunities down the road.Always be the first one to get there and the last one to leave so you can be ahead of the curve.[40:35] Is there a specific moment that stands out that makes you proud?When you're working hard, other people will notice.At the end of the day, my main goal is to provide value.It's because of the possibility of this really working out that makes me want to chase it even more.One of my missions in life is to just wake people up, shake them up a little bit, and make them realize that you could be gone tomorrow. This is it. You have two decisions: become great and continue to do that, or sit on the couch and be forgotten.The ones who look weird to the world and society, those are the guys that I want to stick around with.[46:00] Any specific habits that keep you going?[48:55] What inspires you?Favorite Book: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven PressfieldGet off your ass and continue to work—continue to master your craft—because the world is begging you for it.Wherever you go, there you are.But rest assured, if your actions are aligned with your vision, the Law of Attraction will work for you.[58:00] How has social media helped you over the years?[1:01:00] Did you ever have an "aha moment" in your journey?When you truly find what you want to do, and you can do it day, night, weekend, Chirstmas, New Years... you really get to experience the full power of following your passion.[1:04:00] What's a big risk you've taken?When you've crossed a certain threshold in your life and you're married to your passion and the vision that you've created in your mind and you're going to do anything in the world to manifest it into reality, nothing matters anymore.Connect with Joshua:Facebook: facebook.com/joshua.santos.31337Twitter: @joshuajsantosInstagram: @jsconsultinghubPeople, websites, & products mentioned:Gary VaynerchukRay HigdonAndy FrisellaThe MFCEO Project - PodcastSean WhalenMike DillardSelf Made Man - PodcastWesley ChapmanJoshua JordisonTai LopezMark CubanJohn Lee DumasSteven PressfieldTim FerrissOrder of Man - PodcastJoe Rogan - PodcastLewis HowesThanks again for listening and reading the show notes. Be sure to leave me a review on iTunes and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon. Until next time, think less, risk more, regret nothing!

On today's episode, I dig into this quote: "Everyone wants to be successful until they see what it actually takes." It's true, we all want to be successful, but in reality, only a handful of people really want to put in the work. The work that goes on behind the scenes.Subscribe to the podcast!Most people just see someone's "highlight reel" and consider everything they've done an overnight success. It's almost never the case. Ever. There are early mornings, late nights, skipped meals, mood swings, working on vacation, missing parties, blood, sweat, tears, and more. But these things usually aren't published for the world to see.People also have a bad habit of attributing success to luck, which also isn't usually the case. Unless you define luck the way I do: "Luck is where preparation meets opportunity." If you spend your life working your ass off, consistently cruising down the path towards your goals, you will undoubtedly run into some pretty amazing opportunities. When these opportunities come knocking at your door, you'll be ready and you'll accept them with open arms. You prepared for them, you were not quote unquote lucky.So the next time you see an instagram post of someone jetsetting across Europe, or stoked about all these new clients they are booking, or how insanely happy they are to be getting paid for doing work they love, don't roll your eyes. There are years of hustling and grinding it out that they aren't posting about. But I guarantee you, if you ask them what their key to success is, they will say things like: patience, putting in the work, consistency, positive habits, exercise, research, taking action, setting huge goals, Thanks again for listening! Be sure to leave me a review on iTunes and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon. Until next time, think less, risk more, regret nothing!

Today's quote is: "The trouble is, you think you have time." Everyone procrastinates from time to time, just don't make a habit of it. Don't wait until tomorrow, because tomorrow may never come. We live in a world of distractions, but if you can stay focused, you'll accomplish more things than you can imagine.Subscribe to the podcast!I think we all tell ourselves what we are going to do in 5 years, or 20 years, or before we die, but we totally forget that tomorrow is not promised. Tomorrow, as in less than 24 hours from now. So with the 24 hours that you might have laid out in front of you, you should be doing everything you love in life. Work on projects that you're passionate about, travel more, spend time with people you love, start that business, write that book, record that song, whatever it is, do it, and do it now.Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. -Steve JobsYou can find out what someone's real priorities are by looking at where they spend their time.The biggest illusion in this world is time. So what are you waiting for?Thanks again for listening! Be sure to leave me a review on iTunes and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon. Until next time, think less, risk more, regret nothing!

About 3 months ago, I posted a photo of a 500 square foot tiny house on my instagram. Something about a small living space really interests me. The idea of just using it to do the basic things in life. Something like this would most definitely encourage you to get outdoors more and live more.In the comments, one of my friends said I should talk to Trevor Gay from Heart Of It All House. I had never heard of him before, so my curiosity led me to his profile where I did some basic research on him and what he was up to. Turns out he only lives about 30 minutes away, we have mutual friends, and share a lot of common interests. I wondered how we never crossed paths over the years!With that being said, you'll have to listen to this inspiring episode where we talk about his tiny house journey, why he's vegan, some of his favorite books, and so much more. Enjoy!Subscribe to the podcast!Show notes:[03:10] Meet Trevor! Tell us who you are, where you work, etc.It's a little ironic, risk without regret could be used to describe my entire career.[06:20] Have you always been into bikes?I didn't care about getting paid, I just wanted to work there.[10:05] Talk about the clothing line you started...I learned a really hard and valuable lesson at an early age and that's really stuck with me ever since.[12:00] If you could do another clothing line, what would you do different? Explain the non-profit you work with...Your morals, your values, and your mission need to be pretty clear, because people are more conscious than ever of everything.[13:45] Have you always lived in Ohio?[15:55] The HGTV show, how did that come about? Talk about your tiny house and minimalism...You really find out how much stuff you actually have when you reduce by 80%.When you get rid of a bunch of stuff, there's definitely this huge sense of freedom that you just can't get anywhere else.To detach from things and to let go of things that you think you care about is really mentally healthy.[23:35] Do you have any side businesses?[25:50] Has video work always been a passion of yours?Show Sponsor: I will teach you how to build your very own e-commerce website![29:30] What made you decide to go vegan?We are saving all of these animals, we love all of these animals, how can we do that and then eat another one?I can't tell you enough that a plant-based diet is where it's at.[32:10] Talk about Wild Again...Every animal here has a story.[35:10] Is your tiny house permanence or mobile?[36:10] What inspires you?People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing, that's why we recommend it daily. -Zig ZiglarDo it, and then you will feel motivated to do it. —Zig ZiglarFor me, being involved with so many different things does keep me on my toes, it does keep me sharp, and it does keep me motivated.[37:05] Any skills every entrepreneur, or most people in general, should have?I like to be honorable. My word is extremely important to me.Just because you hear that someone else can do it that way doesn't mean that you should do it that way or that you can do it that way.You shouldn't engage in any deal if it isn't beneficial to both parties.[40:40] Is hustle or ambition more important than talent?If you're someone like myself (who doesn't consider himself naturally gifted or talented at anything) who has had to work as hard as you possibly could for the things that you have and the things that you've done, that's when hustle is extremely important. Because without it, you're not moving, you're at a standstill.Know how to sell yourself at all times and to preserve your self image. That's why your word is so important, because in the end, that's all you have.I do believe that if you surround yourself with the things that you want to be attracted to you, things just inevitably end up working out that way. And it's not magic, it's just the power of networking.I think if you don't find balance in your life, you might be regretful that you missed out on things. But at the same time, you also risk looking back and being like, "Wow, I didn't do anything."If you set goals, you're already on the right path.I think that being a good person and sticking to your morals really goes a long way.If you're burned out, if you're stressed out, and if you're tired all the time, you're not gonna perform.No one can tell you that you're right or wrong about what you actually want out of life.[48:05] You have a normal job, do you ever think of just doing your own thing? Explain vision boards...One of the pieces on my vision board says "working for myself by 2016." I set that about 2.5 years ago. And the absolutely, wildly terrifying thing is that I think that could happen next year. That definitely scares the hell out of me in a good way.I've always had all these side brands but they were safe because I had my 9-5. Stepping out of that comfort zone, ya, that's a scary thing.Without a doubt, I think that just seeing those goals in front of you when you wake up and when you go to sleep are powerful. And it's not magic, it's just literally seeing your goals everyday and that's a simple reminder of what you're working towards. Ask yourself, "Have I done anything today to work towards that goal?" And if you say no, well, there's your motivation right there as soon as you get out of bed.[52:15] How important is it to have a significant other with the same goals?Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage. -Zig ZiglarYour significant other is your rock, your foundation.In my situation, ya I'm extremely lucky, but I wouldn't say luck. That's your selection process.Find someone who does coordinate with you.A relationship could make or break your dream.Show Sponsor: Try ShipStation completely FREE for 30 Days![57:25] Do you still have fears?It's really important to do the things instead of wondering what would happen if you would have done them. It's better to at least do it wrong and learn from that.When you hear how many people welcome mistakes and failures, we're like, "Ya, I'm totally on board!" But on the inside, we're like, "I don't want to fail. I'm terrified of failing." You still have this fear of making mistakes or looking bad, especially now with how vulnerable we are through social media.Your morals and your ethics will really show what kind of person you are when you fail or when you make a mistake.[1:00:30] How has social media played a role in what you do?[1:02:30] Have you ever had a mentor or coach?If there's someone in a position that you want to be in, study their life.[1:04:50] What is a big risk that you've taken?I think one of the risky things was choosing not to go to college and be self-taught.If you're in a spot for a long time and you feel yourself getting stagnant, it's time to go. Even if you've been there for 8 years and you're in a good spot, you're risking your career. Don't burn out.Move on before it's too late. And it's not only for your sake, but don't hurt the brand that you're associated with too. If you're comfortable and feel like you're on auto-pilot everyday and things are easy and you're almost bored, it's time to move on.[1:08:00] If you could recommend one book, what would it be?The Magic of Believing by Claude M. BristolTaking care of yourself regardless of your dietary choice is probably one of the most important things you could do in life period.[1:12:35] What do you wish you knew more about before starting the tiny house project?[1:14:50] Any specific moments that stand out on that journey?I really just wanted to pay it forward and do the same for people who have the same goal of trying to live with less and just be simpler.Not forgetting why you started the whole journey is pretty important.[1:18:10] What would you say to someone thinking about going down the tiny house path?I do still find myself tempted to look at these big mansions, but to not get confused with having that house and having success.[1:20:35] What does stories over stuff mean to you?I'm definitely not regretful that I did this now in life because i think that everything happens for a reason.[1:22:45] When you hear risk without regret, what comes to mind?Bet on your strengths and don't give a fuck about your weaknesses. -Gary VaynerchukKeep moving forward. Take those risks. As long as you don't die, don't regret it."Risk Without Regret" really resonated well with me. It made me smile for a few minutes just thinking about all the risks I've taken.I would suggest the same to everybody else, to not be afraid and to just go for it."What if's" will go to the grave with you.Connect with Trevor:Instagram: @trevorgayFacebook: facebook.com/trevorgayTwitter: @trevorgayConnect with Heart Of It All House:Website: heartofitallhouse.comInstagram: @heartofitallhouseFacebook: facebook.com/heartofitallhouseThis episode is brought to you by:Create Your Online Shop - In episode 9 of the podcast, I talk about my new web design course I've been working on. This online course will teach you how you can start selling online and take your business to the next level. If you've ever wanted to know about e-commerce, and how to accept payments right on your site, this is for you. If you sign up to the free email list, you'll be the first to have access before I release it to the public, as well as get the course at a big discount. Sign up now!ShipStation - I've only been using this shipping software for about 2-3 months, but I know I'll be using it for a long time. Saves me so much time and a bunch of money compared to what I was using. Definitely paid itself off in the first week. You can use it on any web browser on any computer, it has a clean interface, and easy to use with 4-5 of my companies. Get your FREE 30-Day Trial now to try out the full, complete version. They even give you a free Stamps.com account, as well as a free Express1.com account. Seriously, try it out today!People, websites, & products mentioned:Mary BenasuttiWild Again Animal RescueTumbleweed Tiny House CompanyTiny House BuildNick Pineault & Gen Gauvin of The Great AnomalyThe MinimalistsJawbreaker Road RallyHelping HandsPower of Now - Guide To Spiritual EnlightenmentGary VaynerchukThe Law of AttractionPsycho-CyberneticsThe ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary ResultsHow to Win Friends & Influence PeopleThink and Grow RichThrive: The Vegan Nutrition Guide to Optimal Performance in Sports and LifeBig MeasVision BoardsThe SecretThe Miracle MorningSecrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of WealthThe Secret Language of BirthdaysVega - Plant-Based Nutrition CompanyThanks again for listening and reading the show notes. Be sure to leave me a review on iTunes and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon. Until next time, think less, risk more, regret nothing!

Today's quote is: "The most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later." Tomorrow is not promised, so stop procrastinating and go do what you love.Subscribe to the podcast!The longer you wait, the harder it will be to reprogram your mind to do whatever you want. As we get older, we get more stubborn and stuck in our ways. Now it the time, today. Stop doing shit you dislike, quit working the job you hate, end the terrible relationship, etc. You're not getting any younger, and time is always running out for all of us. I read something that talked about people's wishes at the end of their lives. The most common answer was, "I wish I did more." Or something along the lines of, I put things off for various reasons my whole life, and I wish I could go back and do those things. Now it's too late. Don't be that person, be different, be you. And start today following your passions!Thanks again for listening and reading the show notes. Be sure to leave me a review on iTunes and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon. Until next time, think less, risk more, regret nothing!

Nick and Gen from The Great Anomaly share their story about how they became minimalists and ran towards their passion for traveling the world. They explain how they built their location independent life and how you can too!Subscribe to the podcast!Show Sponsor: I will teach you how to build your very own e-commerce website! Show Sponsor: Try ShipStation completely FREE for 30 Days!Connect with Nick & Gen:http://thegreatanomaly.com/http://thegreatanomaly.com/podcast/https://instagram.com/thegreatanomaly/http://nickandgenhealthylife.com/https://twitter.com/imagreatanomalyhttps://www.facebook.com/thegreatanomalyhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/worklesstravelmore/http://www.yourfreedomvisa.com/This episode is brought to you by:Create Your Online Shop - In episode 9 of the podcast, I talk about my new web design course I've been working on. This online course will teach you how you can start selling online and take your business to the next level. If you've ever wanted to know about e-commerce, and how to accept payments right on your site, this is for you. If you sign up to the free email list, you'll be the first to have access before I release it to the public, as well as get the course at a big discount. Sign up now!ShipStation - I've only been using this shipping software for about 2-3 months, but I know I'll be using it for a long time. Saves me so much time and a bunch of money compared to what I was using. Definitely paid itself off in the first week. You can use it on any web browser on any computer, it has a clean interface, and easy to use with 4-5 of my companies. Get your FREE 30-Day Trial now to try out the full, complete version. They even give you a free Stamps.com account, as well as a free Express1.com account. Seriously, try it out today!Thanks again for listening and reading the show notes. Be sure to leave me a review on iTunes and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon. Until next time, think less, risk more, regret nothing!

Today's quote is: "Don't complain about things you're not willing to change." Seriously, stop complaining about everything. It is getting you nowhere. Be positive and change your mindset!Subscribe to the podcast!People, websites, & products mentioned:The Art of WorkThe Miracle MorningSecrets of the Millionaire MindThe School of GreatnessThanks again for listening and reading the show notes. Be sure to leave me a review on iTunes and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon. Until next time, think less, risk more, regret nothing!

On this episode, Eric Zimmer explains how he has always had the entrepreneur mindset. From a paperboy to owning a small landscaping company to working in various small startups to starting his own companies and so much more.But all that could have been cut short as he developed a nasty drug problem early on. Luckily for him, he was able to kick that habit and create a lot of success for himself!At the beginning of 2014, he launched The One You Feed Podcast, and by the end of the year, he was voted one of the Best of iTunes Podcasts of 2014. But it doesn't stop there, he also does e-commerce consulting for large businesses on huge projects.I'm excited to share this story with you today, I think you're really gonna find it motivating and relatable! So without further ado, here's Eric...Subscribe to the podcast!Show notes:[00:45] Tell us a bit about yourself...[02:40] Did you go to college for computer programming?[05:00] Unqualified but did it anywayWhen you're starting a company, you have to build what you can with what you have.[06:00] Where do you live?[06:45] How were you able to get sober?I hit a point where I just had no idea what else to do. No idea of the next step, so I checked myself into treatment. Something happened in that period where I started to get a little bit of hope, that maybe I could live a different way. So I threw myself into that pretty hard, and that was really all I was focused on for at least a year and a half.[07:40] Did family or friends or a mentor help you get through all of this?[08:00] Tell us about your award-winning podcast...An old grandfather told his grandson, "My son, there is a battle between two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, and resentment. The other is good. It is joy, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy, and bravery." The boy thought about it, and asked, "Grandfather, which wolf wins?" The old man quietly replied, "The one you feed."[09:30] What type of guests do you have on your show?I interview anyone that I find interesting, who I think has something useful to say about how do we make good decisions. What do we think about and where do we spend our time, and that totally determines the quality of our life. And the show is focused on how can we do that better.I didn't start the podcast to necessarily be a business. It would be good for me and i get to spend more time with my best friend. The fact that it blew up isn't the primary focus of why I'm doing it. It really started as a hobby more than anything else.[11:40] What did you think of the Best of iTunes award?[12:30] Talk about the solar energy biz you started...The idea came from something I got interested in, I tend to follow my curiosity. I was at the library browsing around and saw a book on clean energy. I thought there was a great opportunity there and I thought that kind of work was really important.I just hit a point where I didn't see the path forward from here, that I didn't think this was going to make me happy. So I just decided to change directions.What's the point of owning your own company and doing your own thing if you're not enjoying it anymore?[17:40] Started a non-profit at age 16...It started when I just wanted to take some kids to the zoo, and it turned into something more. But my transition out of it was hastened by my problems with alcohol and drugs. So I sort of helped to kill that. That's certainly one of the regrets I have.[19:20] Have you always had the entrepreneur mind?If you can find someone who has a lot of credibility who will take you seriously, then to some degree you can leverage that credibility.I think you're always projecting an image or you're selling something that's a little bit beyond where you are. There ends up being a gap between what you're out there selling and what you're capable of at that exact moment. The key is that you don't let that gap get too big that you can't jump it when you have to.[23:15] Did you start the solar company right after you got sober?[24:00] As the solar company was being put on hold, is that when you got into the e-commerce stuff?There are ways at any juncture along your career that you can take risks and not expose yourself to complete ruin.[26:40] How old are you? Is age a factor?There are ways to do your own thing and make your life different than what it is. There's a middle ground between staying at something you hate doing and quitting everything to chase what you want. There's a lot of play between those two things that people can do, and those options don't seem to be talked about a lot.[28:50] Do you think a regular job is secure?I don't see working for a big company as job security. Having skills that I know I can apply in a lot of different places and continuing to have connections, I see that as job security. I'm confident I can go find some way to make money with the skill set I have. I have no faith that Fortune 100 company "X" is any safer than being out on your own.Show Sponsor: Try ShipStation completely FREE for 30 Days![34:25] Your e-commerce biz doesn't have a name?[37:30] How important is networking?[38:40] What is more stressful, the larger or smaller projects?[40:25] Tell us about the coaching and public speaking that you do...[41:45] People come to you, you don't have to sell yourself as hard anymore...[42:35] Do you travel much or is Columbus good for what you do?[45:45] How did you meet Lewis Howes?[47:05] What do you wish you knew before starting a biz?A skill worth investing in is learning how to learn things.[51:45] If you could only read one book, what would you recommend?The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change[52:40] What have you given up to start a biz?There are definitely sacrifices. I think anybody that says there are not is probably not being honest, or is not real successful.[55:35] Some people feel like they are stuck in what they have chosen for their life. What are your thoughts?[56:35] Any daily rituals?The president exercises probably nearly everyday, I cannot, with a straight face, say that I'm busier than him or that the stuff I have to do is more important.Try replacing "I don't have time for that." with "I'm not prioritizing that right now." And once you do that, you really are making choices about your time.If you want a different life, you make different choices.I'm amazed at what I'm able to get done when I'm that laser-focused.I think I've kinda become one of those people that a lot of people look at and go, "How on earth do you do that?" And I think you have to know how to work smart to do that.We only have 24 hours, I can't manufacture any more. I have to think and be as disciplined as I can at what I spend my time on. And, while I'm spending that time, that I am using it well.Show Sponsor: I will teach you how to build your very own e-commerce website![01:05:25] Doing whatever you want to do everyday is harder than it seems...The people that have nothing that they have to do or don't have any set schedule, they find it the hardest to be productive. Those are the people that tend to get the least amount done because there's just no structure of any sort, and it's just really hard to function in that.A wandering mind is an unhappy mind.[01:07:45] Who motivates and inspires you? Favorite interview you've done? Favorite quote?A lot of times for me, inspiration, or feeling better when I'm down, comes from listening to loud music more than reading somebody's blog post.I think that changing our ratio of what we create versus what we consume is a really great thing. I think a lot of us, we just consume and consume and consume. I found that I get a lot more out of slowing way down, consuming less, and actually learning it then applying it.Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can. -Arthur AsheThere is no substitute for starting the work. Plan the best you can, but just start.If you have an idea, go find a customer and see if anybody would ever actually even want that thing.[01:16:00] What is one moment that really makes you proud to do what you do?[01:18:05] How does social media affect what you do?[01:19:50] What skills should every entrepreneur have?One way to not have regret about risks is learn how to take small risks, and do those often. Learn to take a risk and try, versus just thinking about it.The old saying goes, "Ready. Aim. Fire." But I think a lot of entrepreneurs are a lot more like, "Ready. Fire. Aim."I'm taking a risk, but I've got a lot of good information here telling me that this is a smart risk to take.[01:22:45] What's a big risk you've taken?The other way to take risks is if you get to the other side of it, are you gonna know a whole lot more than you know now? And is that going to make you valuable in other ways?[01:25:50] Any cool companies that have caught your attention lately?[01:28:30] Is that popular advice that you don't 100% agree with?[01:30:45] Are you the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with?[01:33:55] What are you working on next?I think behavioral change has a lot to do with how you structure your life and the environment. There's a lot of studies, a lot of science, and a lot of best practice in trying to change habits that I just think most of us don't ever know.[01:36:10] Best way to contact you...Connect with Eric:Twitter: @OneYouFeedThe One You Feed Podcast: oneyoufeed.netPersonal Website: about.me/erictzimmerThis episode is brought to you by:ShipStation - I've only been using this shipping software for about 2-3 months, but I know I'll be using it for a long time. Saves me so much time and a bunch of money compared to what I was using. Definitely paid itself off in the first week. You can use it on any web browser on any computer, it has a clean interface, and easy to use with 4-5 of my companies. Get your FREE 30-Day Trial now to try out the full, complete version. They even give you a free Stamps.com account, as well as a free Express1.com account. Seriously, try it out today!Create Your Online Shop - In episode 9 of the podcast, I talk about my new web design course I've been working on. This online course will teach you how you can start selling online and take your business to the next level. If you've ever wanted to know about e-commerce, and how to accept payments right on your site, this is for you. If you sign up to the free email list, you'll be the first to have access before I release it to the public, as well as get the course at a big discount. Sign up now!People, websites, & products mentioned:The One You Feed PodcastCompuServeThe Good Wolf/Bad Wolf ParableTipping Point Renewable EnergyLewis Howes - The School of GreatnessThe 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal ChangeDropTime AppCoach.me AppCommitTo3 AppWunderlist Appjames clear interviewMichael Taft InterviewJames Clear InterviewTesla MotorsGood Life Project RadioJonathan Fields"I'm Fine, Thanks" DocumentaryThanks again for listening and reading the show notes. Be sure to leave me a review on iTunes and I can't wait to share the next episode with you soon. Until next time, think less, risk more, regret nothing!