The Darius Mora Show

Ever thought of your attention as a spotlight? It's always on, shining on your thoughts, fears, and hopes. Sometimes, it's lighting up old memories or future worries without you even noticing. In this episode, we chat about how our mind's spotlight can drift into the past or future, often led by our sneaky subconscious. Yet, the cool part is, we can grab hold of it and point it where we want, like the good stuff happening right now. Tune in and discover simple ways to take control of where your mind shines its light, making the here and now the star of your show.

David Alison is an Intuitive Coach, Trusted Advisor & Thinking Partner for High Performing Business Owners & Corporate Leaders. He is also a Mental Health Advocate, Author & Speaker. His typical clients are "successful" according to societies norms. In addition, they want more from life, whether that's in business, their corporate career or personal life. They are looking for “the edge”, to get to the next levels in life & business, and to eradicate the mental barriers that hold them back from creating and achieving the outcomes they desire. In his role he acts as trusted advisor and guide to his clients as they transform their mindset, beliefs, and personal psychology. Opening their minds to a world of possibilities, he helps them create and achieve the legacy and greatness they strive for.

Burnout is just an overachiever word for depression (usually induced by work). I have had symptoms, obvious ones, for months. People even told me what it might be, but depression wasn't in my dictionary, it wasn't in my universe. I ignored the symptoms until my mind clearly said “no, we are going to address these issues.” If this sounds familiar or you know someone who might be going through a similar situation, I recorded this for you. In the following sections I will share my journey, what I did to get back on track and most importantly my epiphany about what I call the Micros and Macros of life

Laurențiu-Victor Bălașa is the founder & CEO of Basmo.app. I'm happy to call him a friend and in this unusual episode we did NOT discuss business. Don't expect any tips on ASO and how to hack the App Store algorithms. We do not talk about subscriber conversions and all the usual topics you normally hear on this podcast. Instead, we discuss the most important topics in life. Just a few of the topics we discussed were: What happened to Laurentiu after he achieved his biggest life goal. What books saved his life. How to turn your sexual energy into creative energy. Why masturbation (especially for men) drains you of your creative juices (pun intended). Why Ferrari is a horrible car. What's the real cause of burnout, depression and anxiety. What are the red flags of burnout and depression? How to set goals without being attached to the outcome and why is that even important...and so much more. This episode might offend some people, it might even make you angry and that's okay with me. We have decided to publish this episode anyways. I hope you enjoy.

Stéphane Maarek is one of the the top 10 highest-earning Udemy instructors in the world. (Udemy is an online course marketplace, where you can learn or teach pretty much any skill.) Stéphane has achieved incredible success on Udemy, teaching over 600.000 paying students and he is not even 30 years old yet. We recorded this episode over a couple of glasses of great wine in Lisbon, Portugal. Apart from being one of the smartest people I know, he is also a lot of fun to hang out with. He could be the poster boy for the work hard & play hard slogan. I've never seen someone focus so hard he won't leave his home for days to record a massive course and then be the life of a party the very next day. If you enjoy this episode, make sure to subscribe to the podcast, or go to my website dariusmora.com, subscribe to the email list and I'll send you an email when I publish a new episode.

Martin Thomsen was an elite martial artists and discovered the transformative power of psychedelics 5 years ago. He has been guiding people underground on psychedelic journeys for the past 3 years, and now he's taking his guidance above ground, by creating psychedelic retreats for entrepreneurs and top performers. You can find his retreat at retreat.guidedbymartin.com Discloser: We (Martin and I) are not doctors or certified medical professionals. This is not medical advice. It's only two people discussing their own experiences.

Nick is the Chief Technology Officer at YourSuper. The team at yoursuper.com creates superfood and plant protein mixes so you can improve your health and feel your best every day. This episode was so much fun to record because Nick is a fastinacing character and has tried pretty much all engineering roles from back-end, to front-end and even no code. Now as a CTO he shifted more towards management. However, we don't really discuss business and engineering. We talk about Nick's journey and how he keeps his mental health as strong as possible by using meditations, mantras, flotation tanks and even psychedelic experiences. Remember to subscribe to the podcast and you'll be notified when new episodes come out. To get exclusive insights about growth hacking that I only share with members, go to http://dariusmora.com and sign up for free.

Cliff is the Founder and CEO of Speechify which turns text into audio and is mostly used by auditory learners. Today, Speechify is the #1 iOS app in its category, above the New York Times. Cliff launched Speechify only 2 years ago to help himself because he is dyslexic. He's one of the youngest people on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Originally from Israel, Cliff moved to the US with his family when he was 13 years old. In college, he built 36 different products and won the MIT and Stanford hackathons twice. He studied renewable energy engineering and used this knowledge to optimize his workouts as a parkour athlete. Thanks to Speechify, he now listens to over 100 books a year.

Ryan is in charge of running growth at Revolut, he has worked on a ton of fun campaigns, focusing a lot on influencer and viral marketing. This is a great chat if you're interested in growth hacking. Ryan has used a lot of great hacks to scale the banking product across Europe. Before Revolut, Ryan paid off his college debt by growing and selling off Instagram accounts from Bali, that's what I call a true growth hacker!

Mik is the founder of Tattoodo, world's biggest tattoo community. I visited their Copenhagen office and had a great chat about the process of creating and building Tattoodo. I've know Mik for a few years but this was the first time we had the opportunity to diver deeper into the early stories of how they got off the ground. Mik is a great story teller so this episode was a lot of fun for me to record. Mik is very straight forward in his communication, no bs. In college his studies philosophy and we also discuss how that influenced him as a founder of a startup and how he uses philosophy in his every-day life.

We sit down with Matt who's the Head of Product at Zero fasting (previously Fitbit). We have a great discussion about building habit forming products. Both Zero and Reflectly are focusing on building new habits. We discuss common mistakes companies make with trying to form new habits and Matt shares some of his experience and explains what works best, when you try to change someone's behavior.

Hello and welcome to the Darius Mora Show. My name is Darius Mora and I will be your host. In this podcast I will interview top performers from around the world and try to find out what are their beliefs, thoughts patterns and mental frameworks we can all learn from. In the first season, most of the guests will be from the business world, more specifically from the mobile app space. I myself am the Chief Marketing Officer at Reflectly which is the world's most popular journaling app. Before that I've basically tried building app companies my whole life. In my last company which was in language learning, we took the Silicon Valley route, moved to San Francisco, raised capital but that didn't work. Now Reflectly is on fire, we're at about 10mil users, acquiring 10 - 30k users a day and we started to acquire other companies, building a mental fitness empire. If you want to know, you can check out my YouTube channel Darius Mora where I share practical tutorials about app marketing And I have a couple of courses on Udemy which are best sellers and highest rated in the app marketing and general marketing categories. Here are a couple of highlights of what you can expect in the next couple of episodes. Mik Thobo-Carlsen, founder and chairman of Tattoodo talks about how he convinced Ami James from Miami Ink to become a co-founder. Andreas Kambanis, founder and CEO of Nibble Apps shares the story of launching his apps while backpack. Ryan Holiday, senior growth at Revolut explains how he paid off his college debt by using his growth hacking skills. Matt Silva, Head of Product at Zero Fasting explains what insights learned by building habit-forming products.

Andreas Kambanis is the founder and CEO of Nibble Apps. In this episode Andreas talks about his beginnings and how he started building companies and app right after collage. Nibble Apps is an app studio with lots of cool projects, but Meal Prep Pro is their most popular app. Andreas shares some very important metrics like their CPI (Cost Per Install) which is otherwise very difficult to find. Of course we discuss the beliefs and mental frameworks of Andreas as an entrepreneur and what he does to stay on top of his game.