Podcast appearances and mentions of eric jorgensen

In this episode, we speak with Eric Jorgensen, Chair of the AAMVA International Board of Directors, to get a recap of the recent board meeting and what's ahead for AAMVA. Host: Ian Grossman Producer: Claire Jeffrey and Chelsey Hadwin Music: Gibson Arthur

In this, our 250th episode, we revisit our number one most downloaded episode: a discussion with AAMVA's Brian Ursino and our current Chair of the AAMVA International Board of Directors, Eric Jorgensen, on our resource, What to Do and Expect When Pulled Over by Law Enforcement.  Host: Ian Grossman Producer: Claire Jeffrey and Chelsey Hadwin Music: Gibson Arthur   This episode is brought to you by CHAMP. CHAMP's government suite modernizes DMVs with a secure, configurable platform that replaces or enhances existing systems. Say goodbye to paperwork and delays—CHAMP streamlines operations, accelerates transactions, and simplifies workflows so your team can focus on serving constituents efficiently. Learn more at CHAMPtitles.com.

Mimi Sheraton has seen it all in her 92 years. In this Reheat of our spinoff podcast from 2018, Ask Mimi, the legendary food critic offers advice on food and life to live callers and celebrity guests. The Sporkful's Dan Pashman moderates. In this episode, humorist Mo Rocca joins Mimi and Dan live on stage to ask for help with an issue involving his mom. Mimi died in April 2023 at the age of 97; read her New York Times obituary here.This episode originally aired on February 12, 2018, and was produced by Dan Pashman and Margaret Kelly and engineered by Jared O'Connell and Eric Jorgensen. The Sporkful production team now includes Dan Pashman, Emma Morgenstern, Andres O'Hara, Kameel Stanley, Jared O'Connell, and Giulia Leo.Transcript available at www.sporkful.com.Right now, Sporkful listeners can get three months free of the SiriusXM app by going to siriusxm.com/sporkful. Get all your favorite podcasts, more than 200 ad-free music channels curated by genre and era, and live sports coverage with the SiriusXM app.

Dans ce 114e épisode, je fais la synthèse du livre « L'almanach de Naval Ravikant » écrit par Eric Jorgensen en 2022 à partir de cinq éléments clés à retenir : 1. La richesse 2. Le bonheur 3. L'apprentissage 4. Le Singleplayer mode 5. Autres pensées inspirantes   Abonne-toi pour soutenir mon travail et obtenir un épisode supplémentaire chaque mois : https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/financesfondamentales/subscribe   Je t'invite aussi à suivre la page Facebook « Finances Fondamentales - éducation et investissement » pour avoir accès à l'image synthèse de l'épisode et pour me poser tes questions. Page Facebook : ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100088196588852⁠⁠⁠⁠  Tu pourras également y consulter l'analyse fondamentale des compagnies de la semaine.   Page Instagram du podcast : https://www.instagram.com/finances.fondamentales/?hl=fr   Pour un accompagnement avec Christine Pelletier, conseillère en sécurité financière et représentante en épargne collective : https://gfmgroupe.com/service/489/offre-finances-fondamentales   Chaque matin, le balado InfoBref résume l'actualité en 5 minutes: https://spoti.fi/3SiIdme L'infolettre qui donne l'essentiel des nouvelles en 5 minutes: https://infobref.com/ff   Gmail: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Financesfondamentales@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠⁠   Clause de non-responsabilité Investir comporte des risques de perte. Ce podcast est uniquement à des fins d'information et ne doit pas être considéré comme un conseil en investissement personnalisé ou être utilisé pour prendre des décisions d'investissement. L'animateur du podcast peut détenir des positions dans les titres discutés. L'animateur du podcast reçoit des paiements de diverses entités pour des publicités. L'inclusion de telles publicités ne constitue ni n'implique une approbation, un parrainage ou une recommandation de ceux-ci, ou toute affiliation avec ceux-ci. Les investissements dans des titres comportent des risques de perte. Toute mention d'un titre particulier et des données de performance associées ne constitue pas une recommandation d'acheter ou de vendre ce titre. Les informations fournies sur le podcast ne sont pas destinées à un investisseur ou à une catégorie d'investisseurs spécifiques et sont fournies uniquement à titre d'information générale. Évidemment, rien sur ce podcast ne doit être considéré comme un conseil financier personnalisé ou une sollicitation d'achat ou de vente de titres. Pour tout conseil spécifique, veuillez consulter un professionnel. L'animateur du podcast ne peut être tenu responsable de vos décisions financières.

In this episode, we speak with the Chair of the AAMVA Board of Directors, Eric Jorgensen, to get a recap of the discussions and progress made at the February 2025 board meeting. Host: Ian Grossman Producer: Claire Jeffrey and Chelsey Hadwin Music: Gibson Arthur

John Golden talks with Eric Jorgensen, CEO of Scribe Media, about the shift to self-publishing and its benefits for authors. Eric shares insights on retaining control, maximizing ROI, and connecting with audiences. He also provides tips on producing high-quality books, understanding the audience's needs, and leveraging a book for new opportunities. This episode offers aspiring authors practical guidance on navigating the publishing world and achieving success through self-publishing with the help of Scribe Media.

Why do some stories capture our attention while others fall flat? In this riveting conversation with Eric Jorgensen, we dive deep into the art of storytelling, media manipulation, and the power of narrative in shaping our worldview. Studio Sponsor: Cardio Miracle - "Unlock the secret to a healthier heart, increased energy levels, and transform your cardiovascular fitness like never before.": https://www.briannicholsshow.com/heart Discover how successful entrepreneurs like Naval Ravikant transformed adversity into advantage, building billion-dollar companies while unlocking the secrets to both wealth and happiness. Learn why traditional institutions are losing public trust and how new models of information sharing, like community notes, might reshape how we determine truth. Eric shares insider insights from his experience at Scribe Media, revealing how the publishing industry is being revolutionized by giving authors complete creative freedom and financial control. Find out why Tucker Max decided to challenge the traditional New York publishing houses and how this is changing the game for aspiring authors. We explore the fascinating psychology behind storytelling in sales and marketing, examining how messages are crafted to appeal to either our hopes or our fears. Plus, get actionable advice on developing critical thinking skills to navigate today's complex media landscape. The conversation wraps with powerful insights on maintaining perspective and gratitude in an increasingly negative world, offering practical wisdom for anyone seeking to make sense of our rapidly changing information ecosystem. ❤️ Order Cardio Miracle (https://www.briannicholsshow.com/heart) with code TBNS at checkout for 15% off and take a step towards better heart health and overall well-being!

What is Dravet Syndrome? Dravet syndrome, also known as Severe Myoclonic Epilepsy of Infancy (SMEI), is a rare form of intractable epilepsy that begins in infancy and proceeds with accumulating morbidity that significantly impacts individuals throughout their lifetime. It has an estimated incidence rate of 1:15,700 Enter the Dravet Syndrome Foundation (DSF). DSF is a nonprofit organization that acts as a convener of the Dravet syndrome community.  Since their founding in 2009, they have engaged and educated all of their community stakeholders – patient families, clinicians, researchers, industry partners, and others – to envision and fight for better treatments, and one day a cure for Dravet syndrome. They believe that efforts to improve the quality of life for those affected by Dravet syndrome must include the patient's voice and experience to help guide outcomes. DSF is proud to be the largest non-governmental funder of Dravet syndrome research, worldwide. DSF's steadfast commitment to advancing Dravet syndrome research, as well as our community's engagement throughout the clinical trial and drug development process, has helped enable three new treatments for the disease, with several additional clinical trials already underway or soon starting. We have made incredible progress, including the approvals by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of Diacomit® (stiripentol) Epidolex® (cannabidiol), and Fintepla® (fenfluramine). Dravet syndrome, also known as Severe Myoclonic Epilepsy of Infancy (SMEI), is a rare form of intractable epilepsy that begins in infancy and proceeds with accumulating morbidity that significantly impacts individuals throughout their lifetime. It has an estimated incidence rate of 1:15,700. Connect to learn more: Website: https://dravetfoundation.org/ Facebook: @DravetSyndromeFoundation X: @curedravet IG: @dravetsyndromefoundation Email: info@dravetfoundation.org Phone: (203) 392-1955 For more information about Eric Jorgensen you can find him here: Web: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://visiblenationaltrust.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠ Waypoints: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://waypoints.substack.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-jorgensen-visible-national-trust/⁠⁠⁠ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/abcs-disability-planning/support

The College Autism Network links varied stakeholders engaged in evidence-guided efforts to improve access, experiences, and outcomes for postsecondary students with autism. ADVOCACY: CAN empowers college students with autism by amplifying their voices within the academic community and providing free access to materials to facilitate their successful transition into, through, and out of college. RESEARCH: They facilitate research that uses qualitative and quantitative methods to examine the systemic, institutional, and personal conditions that shape college access, experiences, and outcomes for students on the autism spectrum. TRAINING: The College Autism Network conducts professional development workshops and distributes training materials to administrators, researchers, students, parents, and instructors Connect to Learn More: Website: https://collegeautismnetwork.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CollegeAutism X: @CollegeAutismIG: @collegeautismnetwork For more information about Eric Jorgensen you can find him here: Web: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://visiblenationaltrust.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠ Waypoints: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://waypoints.substack.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-jorgensen-visible-national-trust/⁠⁠⁠ As an Amazon Associate, I earn commissions from qualifying purchases. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/abcs-disability-planning/support

Givers hires, supports, and pays family caregivers. Are you caring for a loved one? See if you qualify to get hired, supported, and paid by Givers in 60 seconds. State-by-State Compensation Guide: https://www.joingivers.com/how-to-get-paid-caregiver Connect to learn more: Website: https://www.joingivers.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joingivers/ X: @joingivers IG: @joingivers LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/joingivers/ For more information about Eric Jorgensen you can find him here: Web: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://visiblenationaltrust.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Waypoints: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://waypoints.substack.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-jorgensen-visible-national-trust/⁠⁠⁠⁠ As an Amazon Associate, I earn commissions from qualifying purchases. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/abcs-disability-planning/support

Christy Nittrouer is a tenure-track, assistant professor in the management area at the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University. She earned her Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Rice University. She has raised over $1 million in grant dollars to support her research on allyship and the experiences of minoritized employees in the workplace from funding sources such as the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Texas State agencies. Her work has received a variety of awards including the 2023 Texas Tech University Alumni Association's New Faculty Award, the 2020 Ralph Alexander Best Dissertation Award from the Academy of Management, the 2019 Outtz Grant for Student Research in Diversity, and the 2019 Graduate Student Scholarship by the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) Foundation, and a 2019 Vaughn Fellowship awarded annually by Rice University. She has 28 published peer-reviewed papers and book chapters (at outlets including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Personnel Psychology, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Journal of Business and Psychology, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Harvard Business Review). She has given over 60 presentations on the impact of diversity in the workplace, with a special focus on selection. Her work has been featured in The Atlantic, National Public Radio (NPR), The New York Times, ABC News, and the Houston Chronicle. She was nominated for the 2023 Rawls Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching award and received Rice University's 2020 graduate teaching award for her outstanding work teaching undergraduates. She has consulted for companies and served on panels for NASA, as well as LyondellBasell (global legal team), Exxon Mobil (affinity group), Baylor College of Medicine (medical students), Proctor & Gamble (global talent assessment team), and non-profits (selection). Connect with Christy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christy-nittrouer/ Email: cnittrou@ttu.edu For more information about Eric Jorgensen you can find him here: Web: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://visiblenationaltrust.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Waypoints: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://waypoints.substack.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-jorgensen-visible-national-trust/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ As an Amazon Associate, I earn commissions from qualifying purchases. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/abcs-disability-planning/support

The Autistic People of Color Fund - At the intersections of disability justice, neurodiversity, and racial justice. The Fund practices redistributive justice and mutual aid by returning and sharing money directly to and with autistic people of color. They provide microgrants to Black, Brown, Native, Asian, and mixed-race people in the autistic community for survival, organizing, leisure, and pleasure. They are committed to the principles of Disability Justice, including leadership by those most impacted, intersectionality, anti-capitalist politics, cross-movement solidarity, interdependence, collective access, and collective liberation. Their work is grounded in the commitment to ending extractive economies and building and sustaining generative economies. Connect to learn more: Website: https://autismandrace.com/ Email: communityfund@autismandrace.com X: #autisticpoc For more information about Eric Jorgensen you can find him here: Web: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://visiblenationaltrust.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠ Waypoints: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://waypoints.substack.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-jorgensen-visible-national-trust/⁠⁠⁠ As an Amazon Associate, I earn commissions from qualifying purchases. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/abcs-disability-planning/support

In this episode, we welcome our new Chair of the AAMVA International Board of Directors, Eric Jorgensen, Director of the Arizona Motor Vehicle Division.  Host: Ian Grossman Producer: Claire Jeffrey and Chelsey Hadwin Music: Gibson Arthur

Get Relief from Hospital Bills Most hospitals offer discounts or bill forgiveness based on income. On average, a family of 4 earning less than $100,000 a year will qualify. Dollar For can help you apply — for free. Financial Assistance: Hospitals' Best-Kept Secret Hospital financial assistance is sometimes called “charity care.” By law, nonprofit hospitals must offer programs that forgive bills. Many for-profit hospitals also offer help. When patients are approved for charity care, their bills are reduced or eliminated. Connect to learn more: Website: https://dollarfor.org/ For more information about Eric Jorgensen you can find him here: Web: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://visiblenationaltrust.com/⁠⁠⁠ Waypoints: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://waypoints.substack.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-jorgensen-visible-national-trust/⁠⁠ As an Amazon Associate, I earn commissions from qualifying purchases. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/abcs-disability-planning/support

Job development, life skills, and fitness for ALL abilities! Kibu offers fun, bite-sized classes in fitness, life skills, community engagement, and job development in an inclusive environment. They offer over 300 pre-recorded video lessons on a variety of topics. Their lessons are designed to be accessible to everyone. They add 2 to 5 new videos every week! Kibu has expanded to include tools for disability providers, including data management, note-taking, and attendance. Their full suite of admin tooling and analytics helps providers spend more time doing what they're best at and less time dealing with paperwork. Connect to learn more: Website: https://kibuhq.com/ Email: hello@kibuhq.com Phone: 937-791-6219 IG: @kibuhq LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kibuhq/ Facebook: @kibuhq For more information about Eric Jorgensen you can find him here: Web: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://visiblenationaltrust.com/⁠⁠⁠ Waypoints: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://waypoints.substack.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-jorgensen-visible-national-trust/⁠⁠ As an Amazon Associate, I earn commissions from qualifying purchases. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/abcs-disability-planning/support

Goodmaps - Mapping the Future with Indoor Navigation. Empowering everyone with the freedom and autonomy to discover the world around them. Creating Smarter Spaces Through Digital Mapping Step 1: Scan your venue Step 2: A 3D Map of the Entire Space Step 3: Edit Your Map Step 4: Find Your Way GoodMaps is a global indoor mapping, positioning, and accessible navigation company that aims to make the world's indoor spaces more inclusive, interactive, and joyful for everyone. Their innovative, patented, indoor positioning technology and accessible app guide individuals – whether blind or low vision, deaf, mobility impaired, or directionally challenged – step by step from the front door to the indoor destination of their choice. From rail stations to airports, museums to sports complexes, university campuses to shopping centers, GoodMaps is helping more people find their way with ease and independence. For more information: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GoodMapsForAll Website: www.goodmaps.com For more information about Eric Jorgensen you can find him here: Web: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://visiblenationaltrust.com/⁠⁠ Waypoints: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://waypoints.substack.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-jorgensen-visible-national-trust/⁠ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/abcs-disability-planning/support

The CEO Commission for Disability Employment is leading the way to an inclusive workforce. It was founded by Voya Financial, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), and the National Down Syndrome Society (NDSS), to advance disability-inclusive employment by inspiring and engaging business leaders to drive change through policy, practice, and culture. The CEO Commission is designed to increase opportunities for people with disabilities to obtain and maintain employment. We aim to accomplish this by building a diverse coalition of private-sector organizations, including for-profit and non-profit businesses of different sizes. Through effective collaboration and research, the CEO Commission will promote best practices across the entire business community to decrease barriers individuals with disabilities face in accessing employment. Their Vision is a future in which federal, state, and local policies foster disability-inclusive employment; company practices ensure individuals with disabilities can thrive in inclusive settings, and workplace cultures welcome and value the contributions of each employee. Companies mentioned: Spectrum Designs Project Search Voya National Down Syndrome Society (NDSS) Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Connect to learn more: Website: ⁠https://ceocommission.org/ Company LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ceo-commission/ Rob Snow's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-snow-5bbb57166/ Email Rob: rsnow@ceocommission.org For more information about Eric Jorgensen you can find him here: Web: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://visiblenationaltrust.com/⁠⁠ Waypoints: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://waypoints.substack.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-jorgensen-visible-national-trust/⁠ As an Amazon Associate, I earn commissions from qualifying purchases. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/abcs-disability-planning/support

ADOT's Doug Nintzel sits down with MVD Director Eric Jorgensen to discuss the Digital Verifier App (buy booze with your phone ID). 

Innovation and optimism drive us toward an extraordinary future. In this episode, Jonathan interviews Eric Jorgenson, author of "The Almanac of Naval Ravikant." Eric discusses embracing an abundant mindset, potential advancements like multiplanetary living, and climate change solutions. He emphasizes growth, optimism, and balancing ambition with enjoying the process. Eric also shares lessons from industry giants, the value of persistence, and how he stays motivated and successful in entrepreneurship. 3 Key Takeaways from this episode: 1. Embrace Abundance: Focus on the vast opportunities for growth rather than dividing resources in a scarcity mindset. 2. Balance and Mindfulness: Enjoy the journey toward your goals by balancing urgency with patience and reflecting on past experiences. 3. Commitment to Consistency: Maintain consistent habits, like regular reading and personal growth practices, for long-term success. 00:00 Intro to Eric Jorgensen and his book 01:17 Helping others through his work 03:35 Creative mediums and timeless books 07:41 Impact of studying Naval Ravikant 14:04 Access to high-profile individuals 20:12 New venture as fund manager 25:00 Overcoming imposter syndrome 32:05 Investing in visionary tech 52:30 Reading habits and persistence Check out my FREE reading list: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://insidetheinspired.com/reading⁠⁠⁠⁠ For all of the courses, podcasts, blogs, contact, and merch, check out our website: https://insidetheinspired.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Listen on Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast⁠⁠⁠⁠ Listen on Spotify: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/1FV1VqP⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Jonathan on Instagram: @jonathanzcohen

“I could hardly form the words. My mouth wasn't working. My heart hammered in my ears and pins and needles burned my hands and feet. I squeezed my fists as hard as I could to get them to stop hurting as I stumbled into my office and fumbled through my laptop password, pulling up the message that had thrown me out of bed:  “Nat, someone found a way to hack us. It sounds bad. All of our funds might be at risk.” This was the absolute worst-case scenario. The one I'd pushed to the back of my mind. The one I pretended was impossible so I could sleep at night. I'd always accepted the risk that I could lose all of my money. But if I lost a hundred million dollars of other people's money…” Welcome back to another episode of Made You Think! Today's episode is extra special as we talk all things Crypto Confidential, a brand-new book by our very own co-host, Nathaniel Eliason. Join us as Nat shares the behind-the-scenes journey of writing and launching his book. Whether you're a seasoned crypto enthusiast or just curious, this episode offers a fascinating glimpse into the world of crypto through Nat's insightful storytelling.  We cover a wide range of topics including: Nat's journey of writing Crypto Confidential Differences in promoting fiction vs. nonfiction How Nat learned from other successful book marketers Challenges of book promotion and strategy The creative process behind book cover design And much more. Please enjoy, and make sure to follow Nat, Neil, and Adil on Twitter and share your thoughts on the episode. Links from the Episode: Mentioned in the Show: Crypto Confidential early release in Toronto (1:56)  Brandon Sanderson signing 5,000 copies in 3 hours (8:37) Brandon Sanderson advice and lectures (8:56) 10 Things I Learned Losing 10 Million Dollars (18:30) Olympus (50:55) Outside the System: Crypto Confidential with Nat Eliason (58:55) Books Mentioned: Crypto Confidential The Founders (22:24) Zero to One (23:23) (Nat's Book Notes) Red Rising (25:08) Atomic Habits (26:49) (Nat's Book Notes) The Three-Body Problem (28:33) (Book Episode) (Nat's Book Notes) The 4-Hour Body (36:11) The 4-Hour Workweek (36:26) (Nat's Book Notes) Trust Me, I'm Lying (38:48) The Obstacle Is the Way (40:40) Ego is the Enemy (41:00) (Nat's Book Notes) Deep Work (41:40) (Nat's Book Notes) Elantris (42:32) Endurance (43:58) Empire of the Summer Moon (44:09) Kitchen Confidential (59:00) People Mentioned: Brandon Sanderson (8:37) Jimmy Soni (22:21) Peter Thiel (23:43)  James Clear (26:50) Eric Jorgensen (32:04) Paul Millerd (32:17) Tim Ferriss (36:03) Ryan Holiday (38:32) Cal Newport (41:39) Cormac McCarthy (43:47) Show Topics: (0:00) In today's episode, we delve into Nat's upcoming book, Crypto Confidential, set to release on July 9th. Get your copy here! Nat discusses the book, the preparations for its launch, and the surprise of finding an early-released copy in a Toronto bookstore. (4:01) We explore the process of how bookstores order books, what it takes to keep them on the shelves, and the criteria for returning unsold copies. (7:40) Signed copies of books, and how authors get creative in distributing their signature across a wide number of publishings.  (12:52) Nat shares how he balanced promoting Crypto Confidential to his existing audience while also attracting new readers. He reveals his strategy of getting pre-ordered copies into readers' hands early to generate online testimonials by the release date, despite disagreement from his publishers. (19:38) We talk about how the promotion strategy may change after the book release. At what point do you take your foot off the gas? (24:16) The effectiveness of word-of-mouth marketing and why it's such a powerful strategy. We compare the promotion of fiction and nonfiction books, noting that fiction is often less promoted by authors and more by publishers. How does promotional work differ between these genres? (27:33) Nat talks a bit about his upcoming science-fiction book, HUSK, and how he would change his promotion strategy the next time around. (31:10) How can authors maintain momentum and sustain genuine interest in the book? The difference between organic enthusiasm surrounding the book vs. prompted posts. (36:00) Insights from successful book marketers and the strategies that contributed to their success. Spoiler: It's NOT about bombarding your email list. (38:29) The importance of incorporating valuable content into your books. Regardless of the niche, avoid creating “popcorn” books that lack substance. (43:44) Being committed for the long haul as an author, and how it can often take years and multiple books to see your success. (45:50) We dive deeper into the book and explore Nat's motivation behind writing it. Plus, Nat emphasizes the importance of portraying both the lows and highs to engage readers emotionally throughout the narrative. (50:31) What was something that Nat had to cut from the final version of the book? He shares more about his experience with Olympus and how easy it is for people to get carried away while trading.  (55:06) The story of Crypto Confidential began in early 2021 as Nat started to get more into crypto. He eventually found his writing sweet spot by focusing more on narration and less on detailed explanations, with the intermediary chapters providing essential, but non-critical, background information. (1:01:08) The cover of Crypto Confidential. What guidance was given in order to come up with the final cover of the book? (1:04:42) Nathaniel Eliason vs. Nat Eliason  (1:07:17) That wraps up this episode! If you'd like to order a copy of Crypto Confidential, you can do so here! Make sure to leave a review and let us know your thoughts on the new book. This is a great read for anyone regardless of if you're into the crypto world or not. Stay tuned for our next episode covering Endurance by Alfred Lansing. If you enjoyed this episode, let us know by leaving a review on iTunes and tell a friend. As always, let us know if you have any book recommendations! You can say hi to us on Twitter @TheRealNeilS, @adilmajid, @nateliason and share your thoughts on this episode. You can now support Made You Think using the Value-for-Value feature of Podcasting 2.0. This means you can directly tip the co-hosts in BTC with minimal transaction fees. To get started, simply download a podcast app (like Fountain or Breez) that supports Value-for-Value and send some BTC to your in-app wallet. You can then use that to support shows who have opted-in, including Made You Think! We'll be going with this direct support model moving forward, rather than ads. Thanks for listening. See you next time!

What wine should you have with dinner? What wine's good for just relaxing at the end of the day? Eric Jorgensen of WineBusiness.com says wines aren't really confusing if you keep a few simple facts in mind.

This week on Billion Dollar Creator, Nathan sits down with Eric Jorgensen, CEO of Scribe Media.Join us as we explore traditional and self-publishing, dissect book marketing dynamics, and discuss the strategic power of audience engagement and content creation.They also delve into Eric's journey from author to publishing company CEO, the concept of “creator capitalists,” and exactly how Warren Buffet leveraged his public image.If you enjoyed this episode, please like and subscribe, share it with your friends, and leave us a review. We read every single one.Know more about Billion Dollar Creator: https://www.billiondollarcreator.com/Follow Nathan:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nathanbarry/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanbarry/Twitter: https://twitter.com/nathanbarryWebsite: https://nathanbarry.com/Follow Eric:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/erjorgenson/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erjorgenson/Twitter: https://twitter.com/EricJorgensonWebsite: https://www.ejorgenson.com/Featured in this episode:The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: https://www.navalmanack.com/Berkshire Hathaway: https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/Epic Gardening: https://www.epicgardening.com/Missouri Star Quilt Company: https://www.missouriquiltco.com/Highlights:02:38 The Almanack of Naval Ravikant is one of Nathan's favourite books16:44 Nathan provides feedback on Scribe Media's business model27:14 Discussing Dan Martell's flywheel38:29 Uncertainty from Nathan on whether or not to publish his next book traditionally59:30 Nathan on Justin Rhodes who makes $3 million/year homesteading01:00:51 Nathan says Trent Dyrsmid has a plethora of transferrable skills01:03:05 Nick Huber and the power of an audience in professional niches01:04:22 How much of Warren Buffet's success is attributed to his public image?

What Is KAT? Ketamine-Assisted Therapy (KAT) refers to the use of ketamine in conjunction with facilitated therapy. KAT is a proven treatment for many mental health disorders, including major depression, PTSD, generalized anxiety, and substance abuse. Ketamine itself is a dissociative medicine that quiets sensory input and can give people a temporary change in their mental perspective. Its original use was as a surgical anesthetic, for which it received FDA approval in 1970. Since then it's been used worldwide as an anesthetic, has an outstanding safety record, and is on the World Health Organization's list of essential medicines. Enthea was founded by a team of industry experts who share a vision of access to safe and affordable psychedelic healthcare. Together, they are focused on effecting change to offer people the treatment they deserve. Connect to learn more: Website: https://www.enthea.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/entheahealth/ As an Amazon Associate, I earn commissions from qualifying purchases. For more information about Eric Jorgensen you can find him here: Web: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://visiblenationaltrust.com/⁠ Waypoints: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://waypoints.substack.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-jorgensen-visible-national-trust/⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/abcs-disability-planning/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/abcs-disability-planning/support

Dr. Geraldine Dawson is the William Cleland Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University, where she is a Professor of Pediatrics Psychology & Neuroscience.  Dr. Dawson also is the Founding Director of the Duke Center for Autism and Brain Development, an NIH Autism Center of Excellence, which is an interdisciplinary research program and clinic, aimed to improve the lives of those diagnosed with autism through research, education, clinical services, and policy. Dr. Dawson received a Ph.D. in Developmental and Child Clinical Psychology from the University of Washington and completed a clinical internship at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute. Dr. Dawson's work focuses on improving methods for early detection and intervention for autism, understanding brain function in autism, and validation of autism EEG biomarkers. She co-developed the Early Start Denver Model, an empirically validated early autism intervention that is used worldwide. She collaborates with colleagues in the departments of computer science and engineering, pediatrics, and biostatistics to develop novel digital health approaches to autism screening and outcome monitoring.  As an Amazon Associate, I earn commissions from qualifying purchases. For more information about Eric Jorgensen you can find him here: Web: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://visiblenationaltrust.com/ Waypoints: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://waypoints.substack.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-jorgensen-visible-national-trust/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/abcs-disability-planning/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/abcs-disability-planning/support

In this today's episode, Patrick Donley (@JPatrickDonley) sits down with our very own Shawn O'Malley and Matthew Gutierrez who are the main drivers of our financial newsletter, We Study Markets. You'll learn what it's been like creating and writing for We Study Markets, who their biggest influences have been, how they structure their own portfolios, what an average day is like for a newsletter writer, and what future plans they have to offer more value to our readers. Shawn O'Malley is the Chief Editor for WSM and has been working on the newsletter since the very first edition in July of 2022. He graduated magna cum laude from Elon University where he studied finance and entrepreneurship. He's an integral part of the TIP team and has grown the newsletter to over 30,000 readers. Matthew Gutierrez is a writer and editor that has reported for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. He graduated from Syracuse University with degrees in journalism and finance. He has also been critical to the success of the newsletter and has read widely and broadly as he hones the craft of writing.  IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN: 00:00 - Intro 03:09 - How both Shawn and Matthew got interested in the financial markets. 05:52 - What their first career steps out of college were. 08:32 - What books made the biggest impact on them. 12:09 - How Nassim Taleb's anti-fragile portfolio is structed. 16:10 - Which investors they admire the most and try to emulate. 18:56 - Why it's important to stick with an investment strategy during the downturns. 27:30 - What money moves they would encourage beginning investors to make. 29:02 - How Shawn and Matthew invest their own money. 35:23 - What is via negativa and how can you apply it. 44:10 - What it has been like to work at The Investor's Podcast Network. 50:46 - What it has been like building and growing a newsletter. 51:35 - What a day is like as a newsletter writer. 53:18 - How the newsletter has changed over time. 63:20 - What is We Study Markets Pro and how it can help you. *Disclaimer: Slight timestamp discrepancies may occur due to podcast platform differences. BOOKS AND RESOURCES Join the exclusive TIP Mastermind Community to engage in meaningful stock investing discussions with Kyle and the other community members. Recommended book: Incerto by Nicholas Nassim Taleb. Recommended book: The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel. Recommended book: Same as Ever by Morgan Housel. Recommended book: The Joys of Compouding by Gautum Baid. Recommended book: The Snowball by Alice Schroeder. Recommended book: Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn. Check out: MI306: Almanacks and Anthologies w/ Eric Jorgensen | YouTube video. Recommended book: The Almanak of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgensen. Recommended book: The Little Book That Beats the Market by Joel Greenblatt. Recommended book: The Warren Buffett Way by Robert Hagstrom. Check out the books mentioned in the podcast here. Enjoy ad-free episodes when you subscribe to our Premium Feed. NEW TO THE SHOW? Follow our official social media accounts: X (Twitter) | LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | TikTok. Check out our Millennial Investing Starter Packs. Browse through all our episodes (complete with transcripts) here. Try Kyle's favorite tool for picking stock winners and managing our portfolios: TIP Finance. Enjoy exclusive perks from our favorite Apps and Services. Stay up-to-date on financial markets and investing strategies through our daily newsletter, We Study Markets. Learn how to better start, manage, and grow your business with the best business podcasts. SPONSORS Support our free podcast by supporting our sponsors: DeleteMe NerdWallet Meyka Fundrise TurboTax Public NetSuite Connect with Patrick: Twitter   Connect with Shawn: Website  |  Twitter   Connect with Matthew: Website  | Email Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://theinvestorspodcastnetwork.supportingcast.fm

Eric Jorgensen is a Navy veteran and the founder of True North Disability Planning. True North's mission is to help their clients navigate the disability planning landscape, informing them of what they may be eligible for, how to apply, and how to keep those benefits. Eric is also the co-host of the Bullied Brain podcast where he and his cohost talk about how abuse and trauma impacts our brain and how we can work to heal from trauma.   Tune in for The Village Vision Podcast and connect with Eric on LinkedIn and email eric@specialneedsnavigator.us for more info. Dr. Crystal G. Morrison is a highly regarded executive advisor, strategist, leader, scientist, tech entrepreneur, and co-founder of Meerkat Village, a software company dedicated to improving outcomes for children with special needs by building collaboration and communication among adults providing care.  She create the Village Vision podcast to celebrate their stories and ignite action. Follow at TheVillageVision.com and on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube. Dr. Crystal Morrison along with Jeannette Paxia, bring you “SUPERHEROES on the Spectrum" unveiling a kaleidoscope of voices that span the spectrum of autism. WordofMomRadio.com   

In this episode, we speak with AAMVA Director of Identity Management Mike McCaskill and Eric Jorgensen, Director of the Arizona Motor Vehicle Division, about the Digital Trust Service and what it means for mDL interoperability. Host: Ian Grossman Producer: Claire Jeffrey and Chelsey Hadwin Music: Gibson Arthur This episode is brought to you by GET Mobile ID - the smart choice for mDL implementations. Put citizens in control with GET Mobile ID. Fully ISO compliant and UL certified for all transaction modes. Learn more at getgroupna.com.

ADOT's Doug Nintzel talks with ADOT MVD's Director, Eric Jorgensen about the service improvements MVD has made both on site and online.

In this episode, Eric Jorgensen, CEO of Scribe Media and author of "Almanack of Naval Ravikant" and "Anthology of Balaji” discusses his journey to becoming the CEO of Scribe Media, the success of his books, and the importance of understanding different disciplines. He also delves into topics such as the role of technology in various industries, the impact of AI on jobs, cryptocurrency, and the influence of technology on political order. Erics shares his views on truth, media, and the impact of negative news. He also expresses his admiration for Elon Musk and his mission-driven approach to entrepreneurship and much more!TimestampsThe Journey to Becoming CEO of Scribe Media (00:00:21)The Success and Impact of the Almanack of Naval Ravikant (00:01:56)The Unique Perspective and Optimism of Naval Ravikant (00:06:02)The self-driving car controversy (00:18:27)Balaji's bet on Bitcoin (00:19:40)Technology's impact on political order (00:22:59)The pursuit of truth (00:30:16)Media misalignment with truth (00:35:27)The Tragedy of Negative News (00:38:45)Optimism and Building a Beneficial Future (00:39:49)Next book on Elon Musk (00:51:22)Eric's LinksBook - https://balajianthology.com/Almanack of Naval Ravikant - https://www.navalmanack.com/Website - Ejorgenson.comTwitter – https://twitter.com/EricJorgensonMy Links Podcast: https://lifeselfmastery.com/itunes YouTube: youtube.com/lifeselfmastery Twitter: https://twitter.com/rohitmal

Our guest this week is Eric Jorgensen of Frederick, MD a retired Navy veteran, widower, founder of True North Disability Planning, cancer survivor and father of two, including a son with Autism.Eric and his wife, Christine, were married for 12 years before, very sadly, she passed away in April 2012, after a short battle with HLH (Hemophagocytic Lympho Histiocystosis), a rare autoimmune disease. They are the proud parents of two; including William (23), who has Autism, is non-verbal with learning & intellectual disabilities, and mental health challenges. Eric reflects on his 20+ years in the Navy and work aboard submarines as well as his more recent battle with cancer. He also talks about his frustration navigating the world of disability resources that lead to creating Spectrum Needs Navigator, which starting in 2020 lead to creating True North Disability Planning, a company whose mission is: to make Disability Planning accessible to all.Eric also publishes a weekly newsletter entitled: Waypoints and is the host of the ABCs of Disability Planning podcast.We'll hear Eric's story and how he found his calling to help families invest in their future. That's all on this episode of the SFN Dad to Dad podcast.Show Notes - Email – eric@specialneedsnavigator.usWebsite - https://truenorthdisabilityplanning.com/Podcast – https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/abcs-disability-planningLinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-jorgensen-true-north-disability-planning/The Arc of Montgomery County -https://thearcmontgomerycounty.orgSpecial Fathers Network - SFN is a dad to dad mentoring program for fathers raising children with special needs. Many of the 500+ SFN Mentor Fathers, who are raising kids with special needs, have said: "I wish there was something like this when we first received our child's diagnosis. I felt so isolated. There was no one within my family, at work, at church or within my friend group who understood or could relate to what I was going through."SFN Mentor Fathers share their experiences with younger dads closer to the beginning of their journey raising a child with the same or similar special needs. The SFN Mentor Fathers do NOT offer legal or medical advice, that is what lawyers and doctors do. They simply share their experiences and how they have made the most of challenging situations.Check out the 21CD YouTube Channel with dozens of videos on topics relevant to dads raising children with special needs - https://www.youtube.com/channe... Please support the SFN. Click here to donate: https://21stcenturydads.org/do...Special Fathers Network: https://21stcenturydads.org/SFN Dads Mastermind Group - https://21stcenturydads.org/sfn-mastermind-group/Discover more about the Dads Honor Ride 2023 - https://21stcenturydads.org/2023-dads-honor-ride/Find out about Horizon Therapeutics – Science and Compassion Working Together To Transform Lives. https://www.horizontherapeutics.com/

In an emotionally charged conversation with Eric Jorgensen of True North Disability Planning, we venture deep into the heart of community and its indispensable role in special needs parenting. Through recounting her own journey with her daughter Elizabeth, born with a mitochondrial defect, Host Annette Hines unveils how community acted as their family lifeline, providing a shared belief system and collective elasticity to push forward. Eric, embodying his Navy ethos, emphasizes the value of a supportive community, a nurturing fixture that provides control and personalization, strikingly different from social media's impersonal landscape.Driven by our shared experiences, we're excited to introduce our latest venture - a membership-based community platform. This is more than just a gathering spot; it's a space designed to bring resources together, fostering inclusivity and support. In our discussion, we dissect the potential of a community-based platform and how it allows users to personalize their experience, connect on a more profound level, and access vital resources. We invite service representatives to engage in sincere Q&As, moving beyond sales pitches to provide meaningful insights to the community.To conclude, we extend an invitation to continue this enlightening conversation on Mighty Networks, our newly launched platform. It's a safe space to learn, share, and express ourselves as we navigate the challenging journey of special needs parenting together. As we embark on this transformative journey, we ask, "What does community mean to you?" We're eager to hear your thoughts, experiences, and insights as we work together to build a community that serves us all. Share your thoughts with us on our website:  https://specialneedscompanies.com/podcasts/ Have you been searching for a law firm that understands the unique challenges of your family? We can help you at Special Needs Law Group put legal planning in place to protect you and your loved ones now and in the future. Book a free call today with our team or contact us via our website: specialneeds-law.com/contact.

Eric Jorgensen is the Founder of True North Disability Planning, the go-to resource for families who have children with intellectual/developmental disabilities and the professionals who serve them. He is the host of the “ABCs of Disability Planning” podcast which introduces listeners to organizations and resources they may have never heard of or weren't sure how to use. And he is the author of Waypoints – a monthly deep dive into disability planning topics. Timeline: 01:45 Eric's Backstory 08:31 Seeing a need and taking action. 09:39 How does Eric help families? 13:05 SSI vs SSDI 17:58 Preserving Medicaid benefits for persons with disabilities 19:48 Eric's roadmaps for 50 States to navigate the maze of disability resources and benefits 20:25 Eric's podcast: The ABC's of Disability Planning 25:00 Eric's vision for disability planning and recommendations for some other podcasts he enjoys: Lomah, Parenting Impossible and Afford Anything. This episode is Sponsored by Dyersburg State Community College. The transcript is available at www.raisingkellan.org --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/marsh-naidoo/message

"You were in a wasteland. And not only were you in a wasteland, but the two of them were predatory. I mean it's pretty unbelievable." Link to download the transcript - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_DWFHwg1VYGdXogg_Erp5tZlc5VfDwWg/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=117716030289987185197&rtpof=true&sd=true Jennifer Fraser is the author of "The Bullied Brain: Heal Your Scars and Restore Your Health". She has a PhD in Comparative Literature and The Bullied Brain is her fourth book. She draws on medical, neuroscientific, and neurobiological research to examine what happens to brains that are bullied and abused. Jennifer's an award-winning educator and works as a coach, consultant, and international presenter.  Neither Jennifer nor I are mental health professionals. If you feel you need help please seek out a licensed professional in your area. We are creating these episodes to show you what is possible. There was a time when I felt broken. That I didn't fit in anywhere. I'm not going to lie and say everything is rainbows and unicorns, but my good days far outnumber my bad. It's taken a LOT of work, both on my own and with therapists. Everyone's journey is going to be different. The only constant is if you want something to change you need to take action. Link to Jennifer's website: https://bulliedbrain.com/ Jennifer is available to consult or speak, you can reach her at JenniferFraserPhD@gmail.com. Please consider following/subscribing. Here's a link to the website - ⁠https://shows.acast.com/bullied-brain-healing-and-overcoming-trauma⁠ New episodes will be released every other week. As an Amazon Associate, I earn commissions from qualifying purchases. For more information about Eric Jorgensen and True North Disability Planning you can find us here: Email: eric@specialneedsnavigator.us Web: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://truenorthdisabilityplanning.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Podcast (ABC's of Disability Planning) - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://anchor.fm/abcs-disability-planning⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Waypoints - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://waypoints.substack.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Facebook: @TrueNorthDisabilityPlanning Twitter: @NeedsNavigator --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/abcs-disability-planning/message

This episode of Bookworm is sponsored by: Today's author promises to deliver us a guide to wealth and happiness by sharing wisdom from entrepreneur, philosopher, and investor Naval Ravikant. Join Joe & Mike as they attempt to discover what it really means to live a rich life. Links Support the Show April 2023 LifeTheme cohort […]

“Neuroscience research shows that the only way we can change the way we feel is by becoming aware of our inner experience and learning to befriend what is going inside ourselves.” Welcome back to another episode of Made You Think! In this episode, we discuss The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel van der Kolk, and the effects that traumatic stress can have on our mind and body.  We cover a wide range of topics including: Why the mind and body should not be viewed as unrelated entities The role of both parents in raising a well-adjusted child Breathwork, meditation, and starting early How movement and exercise can rewire your brain The rise of therapy and importance of social support And much more. Please enjoy, and make sure to follow Nat, Neil, and Adil on Twitter and share your thoughts on the episode. Links from the Episode: Mentioned in the Show: Agamemnon (1:11) Shiva (27:55) 40th Day after death (28:09) Bonobos (43:30) EMDR (1:00:14) Wim Hof Breathing (1:03:08) Books Mentioned The Body Keeps the Score Merchants of Doubt (3:09) (Nat's Book Notes) (Book Episode) Gödel, Escher, Bach (6:17) (Nat's Book Notes) (Book Episode) Burn Rate (43:22) Breath (1:01:58) (Nat's Book Notes) Deep (1:02:07) The Art of War (1:08:32) People Mentioned Andy Dunn (43:20) Eric Jorgensen (54:23) (Book Episode) James Nestor (1:02:01) Show Topics: (0:00) The Body Keeps The Score seeks to change the discourse around trauma and its symptoms, and it pokes some holes in the way that people have historically thought about mental health. (3:28) The way we think about our bodily health was traditionally very individualistic, when in reality, it's very complex. The brain and body connection: They're not two totally different things, rather they're deeply connected.  (8:09) In addition to the mental and emotional affects of anxiety, there are physical effects too: stomach aches, shortness of breath, muscle tension, and more. We also talk about the importance of gut health. (12:10) Fermentation of beer and sourdough, and the differences when it's fermented commercially vs. at-home. (17:07) A lot of what we consume may have been fermented at least partially in the past, but that's not the case with most foods anymore. Our bodies have evolved to it, and it likely has an impact on our gut health. (19:58) PTSD with veterans and why they could be in one world mentally but another world physically.  (25:49) Handling difficult experiences with social support vs. isolation. If you grew up without a positive parental figure, you may try to find that support somewhere else, even if that support is negative such as joining a gang. (27:11) The rise of therapy. Traditionally, people would use their social or religious communities as the support to confide in and get them through difficult times. Today, there's more individualized support from someone that you previously did not know. (31:30) You don't process trauma the same way you process language, so talking about these traumatic events can become difficult. There's a difference between going to therapy and actually doing the work at therapy. (36:00) The book highlights many stories of people where events experienced early on in life are still unresolved for many years into their adulthood. It can take decades to identify where some of our behaviors and thoughts stem from.  (39:54) Imprinting your child. Not everyone is aware of bad habits they show in their parenting style that came from their own parents. It's all about reflecting on how you want to do things differently than your parents as a parent yourself. (45:49) The author argues that it's hard to have an emotionally well adjusted child without both a male and female role model that embodies some of the stereotypical traits for the child. (56:13) Movement and exercise can rewire your brain and change how you feel about something. It also takes us back to the mind-body connection where you're more likely to feel emotionally better if you physically feel well, too. (58:32) Nat and Neil share their advice on reading the book and how the stories within the book can be helpful, but at the same time, difficult to read. (1:01:51) The benefits of breathwork and meditation, and how you can teach those skills very early on in life. (1:07:59) That wraps up this episode! Join us next time as we cover The Art of War by Sun Tzu. If you enjoyed this episode, let us know by leaving a review on iTunes and tell a friend. As always, let us know if you have any book recommendations! You can say hi to us on Twitter @TheRealNeilS, @adilmajid, @nateliason and share your thoughts on this episode. You can now support Made You Think using the Value-for-Value feature of Podcasting 2.0. This means you can directly tip the co-hosts in BTC with minimal transaction fees. To get started, simply download a podcast app (like Fountain or Breez) that supports Value-for-Value and send some BTC to your in-app wallet. You can then use that to support shows who have opted-in, including Made You Think! We'll be going with this direct support model moving forward, rather than ads. Thanks for listening. See you next time!

Host Annette Hines welcomes guest Eric Jorgensen of True North Disability Planning whose life mission is to change the reality of the fact that: "It is too hard for the average person to find out what they qualify for, and reach out and get those benefits in place."  His roadmaps are downloadable resources for print and online use that are specific to each state to help people build momentum in gaining access to benefit programs and supports.  They include links the the specific Medicaid programs in each state, timelines, and checklists for individuals with disabilities to identify and gain access to benefits and resources. Plus, they are available in English and Spanish! You can find the roadmaps and other resources on the True North Disability Website: https://truenorthdisabilityplanning.com/idd-roadmaps Plus, look for upcoming collaborations between Host Annette Hines and Eric Jorgensen coming soon! Leave a comment letting them know what types of resources you'd like to see for the disability community: : https://specialneedscompanies.com/podcasts/

In this episode, we speak with Brian Ursino, AAMVA's Director of Law Enforcement and Eric Jorgensen, Director of the Arizona Motor Vehicle Division and Second Vice Chair of the AAMVA International Board of Directors about the new resource, What to Do and Expect When Stopped by Law Enforcement. Host: Ian Grossman Producer: Claire Jeffrey and Chelsey Hadwin Music: Gibson Arthur This episode is brought to you by GET Mobile ID by GET Group North America, the smart choice for ID implementations. Put citizens in control with GET Mobile ID. Fully ISO compliant 18013-5 and surpasses AAMVA guidelines. Learn more at getgroupna.com.

“What if this life were the paradise we were promised, and we're just squandering it?”-Naval RavikantBeing happy and rich are learnable skills, and our guest today, Eric Jorgenson, has learned from the very best. His compilation of wisdom and winning business strategies from legendary tech innovator Naval Ravikant took the internet by storm, and his unbelievably popular book, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant, holds a prominent place on the bookshelves of rich and happy people all over the world.Even more impressively, though, he's brought these ideas and timeless insights back into the real world again to create the foundations of a legendary career for himself as well. Eric Jorgenson consistently proves the truth and value of this wisdom via his own work and positive example. During our conversation, he holds nothing back and lets us inside two fascinating minds, both his and Naval's.In this episode, we cover:- What it's like working with Naval Ravikant- How to decide which book to read next- Why it's more effective to focus on your trajectory than your current results- Why everything is getting better all the time- Using leverage to get to the point where you're only doing what you want to do- The importance of honing in on your specific knowledge- Allowing your path to unfold organically as the fast track to genuine expertiseOne of the greatest lessons you'll learn in this episode, though, is that where you start off doesn't have to be where you end up. If there's a skill you lack, you can learn it; if there's a big scary problem looming over you, you can overcome it; if you want more out of life, you can have it. About Our Guest:Eric Jorgenson is an entrepreneur, writer, and investor. He is on the founding team of Zaarly, and has been publishing online since 2014. His blog has educated and entertained over a million readers.Naval Ravikant (not present) is an Indian-American entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder, chairman, and former CEO of AngelList. He has invested early-stage in over 200 companies including Uber, FourSquare, Twitter, Wish.com, Poshmark, Postmates, Thumbtack, Notion, SnapLogic, Opendoor, Clubhouse, Stack Overflow, Bolt, OpenDNS, Yammer, and Clearview AI, with over 70 total exits and more than 10 Unicorn companies. He is also a podcaster who shares advice on pursuing health, wealth, and happiness.Please leave a review if you enjoy The HighExistence podcast. You've gone Down The Rabbit Hole. Now it's time to walk up The Stairway to Wisdom.Introducing a brand new weekly newsletter from the minds at HighExistence.Over the past year, we've been publishing the wonder-inducing weekly email known as “Down The Rabbit Hole,” and now we're taking it a step further.We want our readers not only to feel a deep sense of enchantment towards the world around them but also to apply deep teachings to their daily life so they can experience the life-transforming benefits of wisdom-in-action.The Stairway to Wisdom is a premium weekly newsletter for those who are ready to dive deeper. We've partnered with independent researcher and knowledge connoisseur, Matt Karamazov, who has taken sharp, meticulous notes on over 1000 books so that he could share the most inspiring pearls of wisdom with the world.Learn more here

In June of 2022, I was honored to be a guest on the podcast, “The ABCs of Disability Planning', hosted by Eric Jorgensen.  He had invited me on his show to learn more about my podcast and my work. The conversation turned out to be amazing, and we chatted about some of the key themes that have emerged in my podcast over the past couple of years. So I thought I would share some of the interview I did with Eric right here. I hope you enjoy the discussion! Key Highlights: [00:01 - 06:52] Opening Segment • Why Stephen decided to start a podcast about housing and accessibility • Accessible housing in the event of a natural disaster or non-natural disaster • There is a lot of discrepancy between states when it comes to accessible housing Some don't do anything, while others are 10-20 years behind. [06:53 - 13:50] What's Going on in the Other States • What's happening in other states with regards to accessible housing Support systems for people with developmental disabilities, and the political disparity between different disability communities • Stephen's outlook on the fragmentation of disability communities [13:51 - 20:38] Accessibility Specialist Shares Tips for Real Estate Professionals • Why the private sector will be the key to solving the housing crisis • There is a role for government in universal design, but it needs to be approached with a mindset change • How the lack of accessibility specialists in the real estate industry limits the marketability of those who are interested in working with people with disabilities [20:39 - 30:00] Closing Segment • Agents need to think about housing differently, and realtors can help to create this change • The need for private home developers to be more accessible, and how education can help to make this happen Key Quotes: "There isn't a one size fits all housing solution, the more broadly we can think about a variety of ways that we can make housing safe, accessible, affordable, and allow people to live independently, the better." - Stephen Beard "Technology is somewhat an equalizer." - Stephen Beard To learn more about Eric's work helping out people with disabilities and their families, check out his website True North Disability Planning: https://truenorthdisabilityplanning.com/ To hear the full podcast interview I recorded with Eric, which included a lot more good stuff, including my thoughts about how to find a good real estate agent, here's a link to that: https://anchor.fm/abcs-disability-planning/episodes/Accessible-Housing-Matters-with-Stephen-Beard-e1mho4c Please check out videos of many of the podcast episodes on my YouTube channel: Accessible Housing Matters, To learn more, share feedback, or share guest ideas, please visit my website, or contact me on Facebook and Twitter. Like what you've heard? Please review us! That helps let other people know about the podcast. Accessible Housing Matters is dedicated to raising awareness about important issues around accessibility and housing, and getting conversations going. I'd love to learn more about what's on your mind and get your feedback about the show. Contact me directly at stephen@accessiblehousingmatters.com to share your thoughts or arrange a call.

In this episode, Debra interviews Eric Jorgensen, creator of True North Disability Planning, an organization that helps families and professionals navigate the maze of benefits, resources, and services available to those with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities. You can learn more about his efforts at his website: https://truenorthdisabilityplanning.com/

In this episode, we speak with Mike McCaskill, AAMVA Director of Identity Management, and Eric Jorgensen, Motor Vehicle Division (MVD) Director with the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT), about the mDL Digital Trust Service. Host: Ian Grossman Producer: Claire Jeffrey & Chelsey Hadwin Music: Gibson Arthur This episode is brought to you by GET Mobile ID by GET Group North America, the smart choice for ID implementations. Put citizens in control with GET Mobile ID. Fully ISO compliant 18013-5 and surpasses AAMVA guidelines. Learn more at getgroupna.com.

What is the most important thing above all other things. I believe it to be your health. There is nothing more important than your health. Once you lose your health you are pretty much worthless. No, you actually become a burden to yourself and even worse to others. "Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life" - Jerzy Gergorek If we want to make health our #1 priority we have to make hard choices, but it is worth it because your life will become easier. For most of us when we finally make that choice and decide we will make our health our #1 priority, we will not know where to start. It was made confusing for a reason, to make it look hard so you will pick the easy life and enrich a few people that want you sick and dependent on their system. The hard choice makes us as Eric Jorgensen wrote optimistic contrarians. He describes a contrarian as someone who isn't one who always objects - that's a conformist of a different sort. A contrarian reasons independently from the ground up and resists pressure to conform. We must not conform, we must surround ourselves with people that will not conform. I would be honored to be one of those people. Here are some of the things I am doing to not conform. I hope they help you on your never ending journey called health. I simplify health to its basics I eat in this order and as often as possible meat, fat, organs, eggs, fruit, honey, some vegetables and very little of everything else. I am a barefooter I get out in the sun as much as possible I lift heavy, I stretch long I sleep early and wake up early I build healthy relationships with myself and those I love I treat others as I want to be treated   This a grassroots movement. This grows because we get the word out one person at a time. Rate and review the podcast. Join my email list to never miss an episode and by doing that you also get a my book Earth and Us heal naturally absolutely free.  If you are in the States get 30% off  with the coupon code "gift" when buying my books Playing in the Dirt, The 4 pillars of health and a short ebook Mental wellbeing made simple at https://pastosverdesfarm.com/shop/.  Join my membership where we go so much more deeper into how we bring the garden and our connection to nature and earth into the forefront of our journey for greater health and well-being. Go to https://pastosverdesfarm.com/subscription and let's start this journey together. If you are getting value out of this podcast, hopefully you are, you can now help me! help me by: Supporting me on Patreon. Buy my book Playing in the Dirt. Joining my email list so you don't miss anything and get my book "The Earth and Us, heal naturally" and other great stuff absolutely free. buy my book "The 4 pillars of Health" Be part of a likeminded community of wellness farmers, join my membership

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If you are searching for a wine industry job on one of those big job search engines you might as well be looking for a needle in a haystack.  Today, my guest is Eric Jorgensen, President of Wine Communications Group, which is the parent company of WineJobs.com.  This episode is packed with great ideas to help YOU get in or move up in the wine industry.  And, don't miss Eric's recommendations at the end.  They will have you revved up and motivated to start your job search. Additional Show Notes: Book a private career coaching session with Karen Wetzel at https://go.oncehub.com/KarenWetzel Receive a 5% discount on any Napa Valley Wine Academy classes, including WSET. Register for your course at napavalleywineacademy and use promo-code NVWApodcast Sign up for our newsletter at https://go.napavalleywineacademy.com/wine-news-that-educates to learn about upcoming events, new courses and free webinars

The “Cliff”….it's what every father of an autistic child dreads.  The cliff is when ASD children age out of support and services, typically between 18-21- and are left alone and unsupported to navigate young adulthood.   In this podcast, Paul interviews Eric Jorgensen, Founder of Special Needs Navigator – an organization dedicated to help parents navigate the maze of benefits, resources, and services available to those with intellectual or developmental disabilities.   Paul and Eric discuss the following: Eric's own journey as the father of an ASD son   Common struggles Dads encounter when it comes to autism-related benefits and services    How Dads can prepare in advance for “the cliff”…………..   Financial and estate planning questions Dads must answer for the benefit of their kids

On today's episode we had the privilege of speaking with Eric Jorgensen from Express Employment Professionals located in Grosse Pointe Park. Express Pros work with local businesses to provide them with the skilled workers that they require, and with local workers to find them meaningful careers. Today we talked about the current job market and what both employers and employees can anticipate during a job search for 2022. Learn more about Express Employment Professionals at https://www.expresspros.com or by calling 786-262-0022 Learn more about the Grosse Pointe Chamber of Commerce at https://www.grossepointechamber.com/

In this episode we have on Eric Jorgensen to talk all things Web3: -What is Web 1, 2, and now 3 -What problems is it solving -Different projects he is excited about -How to build in public and how that changed his life forever

In this episode, we speak with Eric Jorgensen, Director of the Arizona Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Division, member of the AAMVA Region 4 Board, and  Secretary of the AAMVA International Board of Directors, about his agency's partnership in a mobile driver's license pilot with TSA and Apple, and virtual customer service. Host: Ian Grossman Producer: Claire Jeffrey & Chelsey Hadwin Music: Gibson Arthur This episode is brought to you by VINsmart. Need help with your recall campaigns? DMVs, government agencies, and fleet owners can learn more by visiting  www.VINsmart.com/for-Businesses or call 1-888-950-9550.  

Show SummaryWe loved this conversation with Eric Jorgensen, and we're sure you'll walk away with as many insights as we did. If you're a parent of a child with special needs, you'll gain tremendous value from hearing Eric's story and learning about the resources he's created. Eric also shared valuable tips and an insider's perspective on making the hiring process more accessible for people with special needs, why it's so important, and practical ideas on accessible accommodations in the workplace. Listen in to be a better advocate and ally to those with disabilities or special needs. Show NotesEric's journey of navigating the benefits and services in the disability world for his son that ultimately led to creating Special Needs NavigatorWhat's inside of the booklets he creates for families in all 50 states to help them figure out how to transition their child from child services to adult services successfullyThe difference between the terms “disability” and “special needs” Practical tips for employers to make job interviews more accessibleWhy employers shouldn't be overly intimidated by the term “reasonable accommodations” and key mindsets to think about accessibility in the workplaceAn insider's perspective on accommodations within the workplace and the big difference these can makeWhy it's so important to be mindful about trying to do things for someone with special needs and to give them instead a chance to go at their own pace Eric would like other parents with children with disabilities to know: you aren't aloneTips for aspiring underrepresented entrepreneurs Eric's Frederick FactorGuest Bio:Eric Jorgensen, ChSNC, is the founder of Special Needs Navigator and a retired Navy Chief Petty Officer. His company was born out of his journey of being the father to a son with autism. After his wife's sudden and unexpected death right when he was retiring from the Navy, Eric was thrust into navigating the special needs world as a single father in a new state. He promised himself he would do what he could to prevent other families from experiencing what he'd lived through. This led to starting his business, Special Needs Navigator, which helps caregivers, families, and individuals navigate the maze of benefits, resources, and services for their children with special needs.Show Links:Learn More About Eric's Business and Get In Touch: Special Needs NavigatorTeaching the Autism Community TradesAbout the Frederick Factor:The Frederick Factor Podcast highlights the stories of underrepresented business owners, professionals, and community leaders making an impact in Frederick, Maryland. You can visit our website at  https://frederickfactor.com/. Or, follow the Frederick Factor on:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frederickfactor_/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FrederickFactor1748About the Frederick Factor: The Frederick Factor Podcast highlights the stories of underrepresented business owners, professionals, and community leaders making an impact in Frederick, Maryland. You can visit our website at https://frederickfactor.com/. Or, follow the Frederick Factor on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frederickfactor_/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheFrederickFactor

Episode 3 of 3!!!!! What are we NEVER supposed to talk about? MONEY And if we do talk about money...... we are supposed to say things like "Money Doesn't Buy Happiness" "Money is the Root of All Evil" OR "Just do your best and the money will come" It is HERESY to utter the phrase "I want to get rich" Only witches talk like that But...... NAVAL REJECTS YOUR SOCIAL NORMS AND SUBSTITUTES HIS OWN In this wide-ranging episode, Naval teaches us how to get rich without getting lucky, how to make decisions, and HOW TO THINK If you've ever been curious if liquid gold is a food....... you don't want to miss this episode WHAT

Most of us at one time or another have driven down a dark road and found ahead of us a deer transfixed, staring into our headlights? Have you ever felt like you have something in common with the deer? In the disability community we face a labyrinth of rules, regulations, benefit levels, service options, waivers, forms and...well you get the picture. It all looks more like and obstacle course than a path forward. It's in unchartered waters like these that a navigator, someone who knows and has experienced the challenges, is a life saver. Eric Jorgensen is one of those navigators who do their best to simplify the path in front while covering all essential bases to help families and individuals with disabilities experience a more fulfilling and meaningful life.Check our Eric's website for info about his services and podcastOr stop by his Facebook page and say hi!

Episode 2 of 3 What are we NEVER supposed to talk about? MONEY And if we do talk about money...... we are supposed to say things like "Money Doesn't Buy Happiness" "Money is the Root of All Evil" OR "Just do your best and the money will come" It is HERESY to utter the phrase "I want to get rich" Only witches talk like that But...... NAVAL REJECTS YOUR SOCIAL NORMS AND SUBSTITUTES HIS OWN In this wide-ranging episode, Naval teaches us how to get rich without getting lucky, how to make decisions, and HOW TO THINK If you've ever been curious if liquid gold is a food....... you don't want to miss this episode WHAT

What are we NEVER supposed to talk about? MONEY And if we do talk about money...... we are supposed to say things like "Money Doesn't Buy Happiness" "Money is the Root of All Evil" OR "Just do your best and the money will come" It is HERESY to utter the phrase "I want to get rich" Only witches talk like that But...... NAVAL REJECTS YOUR SOCIAL NORMS AND SUBSTITUTES HIS OWN In this wide-ranging episode, Naval teaches us how to get rich without getting lucky, how to make decisions, and HOW TO THINK If you've ever been curious if liquid gold is a food....... you don't want to miss this episode WHAT

Eric Jorgenson is a writer, course creator, blogger, and podcaster. He is also on the founding team of Zaarly, an online marketplace for hiring home service providers.Eric has been publishing online since 2014, and operates a monthly newsletter. His business blog, Evergreen, has educated and entertained over a million readers.Eric is the author of The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness. Naval Ravikant is an entrepreneur, philosopher, and investor. Naval's principles for building wealth and creating long-term happiness have captivated the world.The Almanack of Naval Ravikant is a collection of Naval's wisdom and experience from the last ten years. It's a curation of his most insightful interviews and poignant reflections.Eric's current project, Building a Mountain of Levers, teaches “how to accomplish superhuman feats by playing a different game — building leverage.”In this episode, you'll learn: The most important things to do when starting a newsletter What leverage is, and how to use it to exponentially scale your business How a random tweet blossomed into Eric's best-selling book Links & Resources The Almanack of Naval Ravikant Naval Ravikant's podcast @FAKEGRIMLOCK Ben Caballero Rework Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur Peter Bevelin Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T Munger Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders Eric Jorgenson's Links Eric's website: ejorgenson.com Twitter: @EricJorgenson Episode TranscriptEric: [00:00:00]Munger said the best thing a human being can do is to help someone else to know more. Everyone has something to teach. Everyone can participate as a student and as a teacher at different points in their lives. There's always somebody who's one step ahead of you to learn from, and always somebody who's one step behind you that you can help.I think counseling and learning keeps us humble and keeps life exciting. Teaching is rewarding. The fact that we can all kind of be a part of it is really fun.Nathan: [00:00:29]In this episode, I talked to Eric Jorgensen, who is the author of one of my favorite books. It's actually the book that I have gifted the most recently, and that is The Almanack of Naval Ravikant, which is a distillation of the wisdom writing podcast episodes of Naval. So Eric did this awesome project where you compile all this edited down into a book.And I know we talked about that at the end of the episode, but throughout the episode, we talk about online education, leverage—we spend a lot of time talking about leverage—which is sort of this thing that Naval has really made the centerpiece to a lot of his content that he's produced.Eric has gone even further and produced a course on and talked about so much great stuff. Really important concepts that I think you're really gonna enjoy. So I'll get out of the way and we'll just dive in.Eric, thanks for joining me.Eric: [00:01:18]Thanks for having me. You're on like the Mount Rushmore of heroes of like bootstrappers, turned content creators, turned bootstrappers. So like I'm super excited to be talking to you in any context. This is going to be fun.Nathan: [00:01:30]Well, good. And now, now I'm curious who else is on Mount Rushmore?Eric: [00:01:33]I knew you were going to ask me that. And I don't, I, I don't know. I have not prepared for it, but we can start Photoshopping it up later.Nathan: [00:01:41]Yeah, exactly. That'd be a really good use of both of our time.Reading through all of your stuff online, you are obsessed with education, specifically online education. You've got Course Correctly where you're like reviewing online courses with a friend of yours.You've got like there's a lot going on and you truly care a lot about the details of online education, and I'm curious, like why, where does that come from? Where does the interest turn into obsession?Eric: [00:02:12]So long-term I think like going to Mars is awesome, and curing cancer is awesome, and like solving world hunger is awesome. But education is the variable with the biggest coefficient into all of those things over the long term. So, like all of us who are alive right now are kind of like, Oh God, we've got to solve all these problems that are like affecting us.But if we just kind of look at the species over like a few hundred years or a few thousand years, like our ability to educate ourselves. And then the next generation is like a huge, huge, heavily weighted variable. I guess into like the outcome that we achieve over a long period of time and like how we can affect that.And I think like there's no, you know, the, the first principles kind of like where's the laws of physics limitedness is like, we have the ability to be so much better at education than we are, and we are. There's some specific context where we're incredible educators. Like our doctors are incredibly well-educated; the rigor of like a pilot's education or doctor's education compared to, you know, somebody who maybe like a writer, like different creative pursuits or do an MBA, like is just, we're just missing easy opportunities to kind to become significantly better.And the internet lowers the cost of that and increases the accessibility of it. And so I think we're going to see like a really kind of cool transformation of that over our lifetimes. I was excited to kind of see it, see it come together.Nathan: [00:03:40]Yeah. So what I hear in that is there's individual pursuits, you know, that will like advanced civilization. You know, in like one very specific and highly effective area, but then education is like the rising tide for everything of like, if you can help people teach well, you know, learn well, any of those things and make those, those tools and Content, everything available, then that can go in any, any, and every direction.Eric: [00:04:09]Yeah. Yeah. I mean, like Munger said, like the best thing that human being can do is to like help someone else to know more. And I think that's a really, like everyone has something to teach and. We are all trying to learn. And, it's something that everyone can participate in as a student and as a teacher at different points in their lives.And there's always somebody who's like one step ahead of you to learn from, and always somebody who's one step behind you that you can help, kind of all the way. You know, through your, through your life. so I think it's a really interesting thing and I think constantly learning keeps us, keeps us humble, and keeps life exciting.And teaching is fun and rewarding in a way to kind of solidify the things that you're learning. It's just a really, it's an exciting thing. And like the fact that we can all kind of be a part of it is, is really fun and that the internet is making it much more accessible for everybody, and change, transforming it, right?You can learn while you're doing while you're like in the context of a project that you're already trying to accomplish, is really cool and kind of a new thing. And. I, the rate of change is just so crazy that like the rate of learning has to match it and where I don't think we're quite ready for that yet.Nathan: [00:05:23]Yeah, there's a lot of stuff in there, but what about when someone is maybe when someone's starting a newsletter or starting online, like coming into this world of online business and audiences and all of that, what are some of those things that you really try to teach them that. Are like those two or three really pivotal things where like, when you understand this, you will see the world differently.Eric: [00:05:45]Yeah. So I think there's. The first thing. I mean, if somebody is at zero, like the first thing I was, I was like, start doing like you, you will learn much better in the context of doing, which is not a thing I used to appreciate. And I actually wasted a lot of time, like trying to learn before I did. I think,Nathan: [00:06:02]You had a tweet at one point. I think you were saying like, and I'm trying to remember if you were like, find yourself reading something for the third time, or like learning about something for the third time. Like it's time to start doing instead.Eric: [00:06:15]Yeah. Yeah. And it's like, it feels good to learn and like, feel like you're getting closer to knowing how to do it, but like, Learning how to do something is a cheap way to get a fraction of the dopamine of actually doing it. But it doesn't really get you that much closer to doing it, especially if you're on like your second or third rep through.So yeah, I would think like, you know, start that newsletter, like send an email to like five people throw up a Google form, like. It's really, it's easy to get started. And when you encounter a roadblock, like go learn how to remove or overcome that roadblock. but don't try to anticipate too many steps out, just like get work done.Even if you do end up down a dead end, like that proof of work and effort will help you. Kind of contextualize when you hear the right answer or when you go, you know, find a friend or mentor or teacher and say like, Hey, look, I tried this thing and like, it didn't work. And I don't know why I'm like, that happened to me this morning.I was like working on this XY project and like, like I'm in a dead end and I don't know what to do. And I call the front and he's like, here's what I would told you if you talked to me two weeks ago and I was a part of me was like, shit, that was, that was like expensive. Mistake time-wise. but it's also like a lesson, a cute lesson learned. So I'm going to remember that one, much more.Nathan: [00:07:37]I like the idea of working towards something like until you get stuck. it's probably 2011 to 10, somewhere in there is really getting into designing and building an iPhone applications, which I didn't have a strong background as a developer. I was, I knew the design side, but you know, I was like objective to like, let's learn this.Let's dive in. And. One app that I was building, I would code until I got stuck and could not figure it out in one direction and be like, okay. But then there's also the other feature I'd code that way until I got stuck in like stack overflow, couldn't help me anymore. And you know, and I do that like three different directions.So I'm like, okay, I actually can't really meaningfully work on this anymore before I, either get help or substantially level up my code knowledge. And so then on like a Saturday, I would go over to a co-worker's house and. Say like, okay. Here's the areas that I'm stuck, you know? And he'd been developing iOS apps for a couple of years.Well, it's still pretty early, so yeah, I guess two years, three years at that point, And he'd be like, okay, I see where you're stuck, but let's take a step back. Let me under, like, let me explain number of types to you. Do you know about floats and integers? And I'd be like, now he's like, alright, well, computer science one-on-one, you know, like some of those things, but it was really important to go far enough to where I got stuck myself. Rather than just being like, I don't know. I need somebody to teach me how to build life on apps.Eric: [00:09:00]Yeah, that like is he has a similar thing. So when you were, w were you writing that book at the exact same time that you were like learning that stuff yourself for the first time?Nathan: [00:09:10]I had learned the design side pretty extensively and that's what the book was about. and so it was probably a year before I wrote the book. and so I had been doing a lot of the design side and then I was also trying to do the development because sometimes there's this weird debate that happened.Of like, is it better to be a designer or a developer, which is the dumbest debate you could ever get into, but you'd see it like popping up all throughout the internet. And I remember thinking in my head like, well, office is better be a designer because I am a designer. But then I had this moment where I thought about it and I was like, wait if a developer build something, it will function, but it'd be ugly.If a designer design something, it will look pretty. And it won't do Jack, like it's not actually useful. And so like in that realization, I was like, Oh, I guess I'm going to, like, if I want to keep doing like indie projects on my own, I'm going to learn to code. And that's when I got into that side. And then probably a year later I wrote the book on, designing iPhone applications.Eric: [00:10:11]Yeah. That whole period, everybody, every designer was trying to become a developer and every developer is trying to become a designer, but like the same timeNathan: [00:10:17]Yeah, I it's interesting. let's see, where were we going with that?Oh, particular things that, so that people should learn. So we're talking about like, the first thing is actually do it,Eric: [00:10:29]Yeah, just let's start, like, yeah. Start putting skin in the game, like set a goal, set a mission.Nathan: [00:10:35]Yeah.Eric: [00:10:36]You know, open up a page, build something tiny, no matter how small, like, just start doing before you start learning. Cause learning like as important as education is like, you can spend your whole life learning and no time doing.And like it's a lot like a designer designing an iPhone, have those like a very pretty wireframe. It's like, wow, you have a lot of PhDs. Did you ever do anything with Elvis? He was like, Nope.Nathan: [00:10:59]Yep. That makes sense. One of the other things that you're like really obsessed with that I'm also obsessed with and I love talking about, which would probably be what I would put in the list of like the second thing to teach people. it would be leverage you and just. How, how that works. I feel like so much of your personal brand online now is tied into like being the guy, talking about leverage, which is amazing because more people need to learn that.So how do you think about leverage and, and what are the parts of that fascinate you the most?Eric: [00:11:28]Yeah, I think it's, I think leverage is super important to know. I mean, I think everybody should know the mental model at the very least, especially when they're starting out. even if they don't know a ton of the mechanics, it's like compounding, right? Like. You're told you're supposed to like save money, but you're not really sure, like what the point is, unless you get compounding.And then you're kind of like, Oh, like I should be saving and investing because it means I'll be able to retire like 20 years earlier. And leverage is kind of the same way. Like when you're first starting out, you're trying to figure out like what you want to do and how you want to do it and how to kind of plan for growth in your career over time. And if you don't understand if you're, if you are blind to leverage and like where that leads you, you're going to end up down a little bit of a dead end or in a spot where, you know, you're maybe in a job where you're just trading time for money or you're in a job that's extremely unlevered and you end up feeling like you'll never earn more than $60,000 a year because you don't have a way to apply, leverage to what you're doing.So I think like, it's, it's really interesting to see all the people. I think you are a prime example of this who kind of like without ever, probably using the word leverage, you'd like intuited, what it was and how to get more of it and build it over time, the last like 10 years. so I like leverage from my perspective and the way I kind of organize and share thoughts around this, kind of comes in four forms, which is tools, product people, capital.So tools being like anything from a hammer to a chainsaw, to Xavier, product being any form of like capturing and preserving your judgment or experience in code in media, you know, we're, we're recording a product right now. but it could be a blog post. It could be a book. it could be a movie and then working into people.So everything from like, Fiber. So task-based labor up through like building a whole team. and capital kind of comes in a variety of forms, but like usually money. so all of those kinds of things build on each other and you can sort of trade them for each other and you'll end up with like constraints and bottlenecks and things, but like over time, you know, you go from.Starting a newsletter to writing a book, to building a course, to building a software platform. and you go from, you know, some very specific tasks based help. to maybe a part-time assistant to maybe hiring an agency to maybe a hundred people full-time, and the capital grows and the margins grow.And like you sort of increasingly reinvest in higher margins of leverage that are more self-sufficient and longer levers so that they can move, you know, have quote unquote heavier loads, and help you kind of accomplish more with the time and experience and judgment that you have.Nathan: [00:14:14]Yeah, it's as simple as an example of that, like in my life would be going from designing iPhone applications for other people, you know, which is very. One-to-one like conveniently, it's a high paid skill, so that's better than other activities, but you know, it's still not there. And then teach, you know, creating a, running a book, creating a course teaching that.Now there's real leverage because money and time are disconnected. And then going up from there would be. What did I do now? I mean, I guess the next thing was like creating that leverage from software in a recurring way, or like the number of people that are going to buy a course or consume content compared to the number of people that now use ConvertKit.And the other thing is the. Because, like you said, the compounding effect and that's the magic in SaaS and they're occurring in the, you know, the recurring business. It's like, you don't even have to have that good of a growth rate, but it compounding over time, and continuing to do it for a long time, then it gets to the point that the leverage is just pretty incredible.And like now, you know, 350,000 people use ConvertKit and it's like, Oh, well, that's sort of a different scale than. You know, the, the like the hours I put into designing an iPhone app for, you know, an individual client .Eric: [00:15:32]Yeah. And it would have been correct me if I'm wrong. Like, I don't know that the details of the story there, but I think it would have been really tough to just make that huge leap. Right. Like even if you knew you wanted to end up building a SAS app, you know, in a high margin business, like even if you knew that that was your destination, would you have been able to just kind of like jump straight there without some of those intermediate steps?Nathan: [00:15:54]I don't think they think. So there's so many lessons that you have to learn along the way of like, well, so I've read about this a little bit. In my blog posts, the ladders of wealth creation is like making some of these leaps between steps of like me selling you on something. One-to-one that there's a certain amount of skills that I have to understand why you would want to buy it.And other things like that. But then me. Getting you to go to a website and buy the same thing without me talking to you when there's real leverage in that, because now like a thousand people or one person could read the website and it works the same either way, but it's really hard. Like that is a whole skill in building trust and copywriting and understanding and all of that.And so when you're like, I'm going to go from a client work to a SAS application, there's like a thousand of those skills. You know, there's probably actually like 50, if we're gonna break it down, you know? But,Eric: [00:16:48]It feels like a thousand. Yeah.Nathan: [00:16:50]Yeah. It feels like a thousand and that's why like it's so insurmountable.And if you want to try to learn all of those things in a single step, you, you can, there's plenty of people who do it, but then don't be surprised them that step, instead of you're like, Oh, it should only take six months. and it takes six years instead, like, just know that because there were six years worth of lessons that you chose to do in one step. Whereas other people chose to do it in incremental.Eric: [00:17:15]Yeah. And, and in my experience has been that each kind of, one of those steps is gives you increasing resources and confidence and skills to like, know that you're, that like the next one is in reach. Right. I actually use your ladders of wealth creation as an example in the book it's like, of course the laboratories, it's a very similar kind of framework to like, Hey, look, leverage is like this big, important idea.And it's going to define your life. If you let it in the same way that compounding can, but one, you have to be willing to start small and be patient, but look at how we can connect the dots going forward. but you do have to. Respect to the idea and kind of pay homage to it in each little decision that you make for years before you start to see that payoff, just like compounding.I like that. It's a painful, you watch that graph for so long. Look really flat until it takes off. And when you can layer, actually have some like graphs in the, in the course that show like, You know, here's the margin of a book. Here's the margin of a course. Here's the margin. And when you layer these products onto each other, with increasing skill and increasing leverage in each one, the top of the graph looks exponential, but you can break it down into like what's actually stacked up on top of itself.And it's this very similar idea to ladders and wealth creation.Nathan: [00:18:38]Yeah, that that really resonates. And I think one thing that you reminded me of in there is like the leverage of relationships, because it takes so many relationships to build the SAS company. You know, not only in who you need to, like you're talking about, you know, the cat, like, human leverage, you know, like getting wrangling a whole bunch of people and getting them to go in, in a single direction.You know, if you have relationships and reputation, that's so much easier to do. And, you know, and see if you're jumping right into that, people are like, no, I don't want to come and work for you for less money for, you know, any of these things. I don't even want to work for you for more money. No. You know?But in. In compounding reputation, from like the first, you know, the first of all iPhone app. So the book, so the building audience, then when it comes time to do this thing, you know, I hate when you buy this, people are like, Oh, I trust you from this. Like, I was just having a conversation with, Justin Jackson, over Twitter DMS.And so he's the founder of transistor, who we used to host this podcast and doing amazing things. He's actually the longest running, paying customer of ConvertKit. And I know him, you know, from like, blogging's like that whole world, you know, it nine years ago. and like that relationship has been super valuable, I think for both of us, but it started. You know, way back here and isnow, you know, valuable to both of us as we run software companies. So I'm curious for you, like what's your take on, on relationships and how those play into leverage and compounding.Eric: [00:20:16]Naval originally called it labor leverage, and I think I've reframed it as people because I think that's so like, what you said is exactly true and people leverage is so much broader than labor, right? Like if you, if you're stuckNathan: [00:20:27]Labor implies that, like I founded Walmart and now I've got a hundredEric: [00:20:31]Yeah.That is permission that I'm compensating people directly, that it's like all or nothing that it's, you know, you just kind of have that image of like people, you know, dragging stones around building the period pyramids. And you're like today, People leverage, it looks much more like a network of kind of trusted, like high credibility people.It looks more like an audience. and that's not, it's not compensated leverage, right? Like some of those influential, like highly leveraged people on earth are just people with big fan bases. And that's all kind of like double opt in. People are expressing themselves through their dedication to a person and an artist, you know, a writer, a musician, Or so there's the, there's kind of like the audience fan base.And then there's the, kind of what you're alluding to though, like friendship, credibility, network support, and then, then all the team and people that actually like who skills and vision and belief you need to kind of. Build a product that takes more than one person's skillset. you know, we talked about building those 50 skills, but like practically what happens is, you know, you build 10 or 15 and you find other people with 10 or 15 and you kind of combine them into like, Hey, I've got this credibility and this experience and this audience and this product idea.And they're like, Oh great. I have this engineering expertise in this, you know, this credibility and I can build a team and I can make architecture decisions. And somebody else comes in with like, You know, some, some Content expertise and like those, you, you are all, each other's leverage. Like that's the other thing that people want, which is like, leverage is a little bit of a.There's this connotation that it's like to get leverage over somebody like the mafia kind of leverage. and I think that some people will kind of hear people leverage and they're like, Oh, I don't like it. which is totally fair. Like this is not about coercion or persuasion or anything. This is about like, we are all using each other's skills and expertise.And like, you know, you are writing a book to serve your readers. They are buying a book to serve, you know, to reward you for that. And like they're getting 10 years of your experience. For $40, like that's a bargain of a lifetime. so there there's a lot of, you know, I think we need to get comfortable with that.You know, we're all, we're all serving somebody. We're all somebody's customer. We're all, you know, somebody's, somebody's chef somebody somebody's waiter, somebody Writer, somebody entertainer like.Nathan: [00:22:57]Yeah. And I think. Even on the relationship side of having the ability to email someone, and then, you know, have them say like, yes, I'll make an introduction to this person or, or like you and I have built leverage in like personal brands where in both ways, right. I'm emailing you and say, Hey, will you come on my podcast because I'm a fan of your work.And you're saying like, yes, I would love to come on your podcast. Cause I'm also a fan of your work.Eric: [00:23:24]I'm a fan of your work. Yeah, exactly.Nathan: [00:23:26]You know, and so that's because we've both built leverage in those areas from like ultimately, but started with writing and teaching and, you know, in some way, and then that just compounding over time.Eric: [00:23:37]Yeah. And there's no, one of the questions I get from people is like, do I have to like go be a public internet person in order to like, build leverage? and I know Lisa, like the short answer, I think there's, you know, every, like, Industry probably has their own version of this. Like you still have reputation yourself, credibility, you still have network.You know, you don't have to be out there writing blog posts in order to build, leverage through network and friendships and experience and, all those things. Although there is a unique dynamics to like an uncapped audience, like worldwide audience, that I think is worth people paying attention to.Nathan: [00:24:14]What are some of those other things? Right. So if someone's saying I don't want to be. The public internet person, which I think is something that people wrestle with a lot, especially today, as you see it, like it's always been a really high upside thing, but we're also seeing, like, it can be fairly high downside, you know, especially if you don't have, a thick skin or, you know, like if you, you, there's more to lose now.There was always a lot, but I think maybe there's more examples of, the negative side of things.I'm curious. What other types of leverage you would point people to when they're thinking of like, I don't like the whole audience blogging podcasting thing, like I'll stay as a reader, listener things.Eric: [00:24:55]Yeah. I think so. There's, there's definitely there's people who are increasingly doing it anonymously. so there's, you know, there's, there's the pseudonym, there's the anonymous route.Nathan: [00:25:05]What do you think about that?Eric: [00:25:06]I support it. I support it.Nathan: [00:25:07]Yeah. Would you have, like, have you considered doing it yourself of like, as you, you know, spinning up?Eric: [00:25:13]Yeah. Yeah. I've always, I've always thought about like, if you had to just like drop a match and like get rid of your identity and like start over tomorrow anonymously, like what would it be like, how would you do it? What could you do? Like, I think that was like a fun mental exercise. And then people were doing, I saw some, I saw, I don't know if it was a guy actually tweet the other day.He's like, I just like abandoned my public persona with 30,000 followers and like started over with an anonymous account. And like, I'll never tell you who I was, but like, here we go on while you're unplugging and plugging it back in. and I think for some people that's like, I think it will be increasingly common in the crypto world.Like we're we can see a bunch of that already. I mean, there's like. Anonymous accounts at the head of like a billion dollar Dow, treasury, like that's crazy. but makes sense. It's also like I was, I was thinking about this earlier. There's like, have you read the sovereign individual and like all of the logic of violence and it's like a very fashionable will kind of like crypto book to read.It basically says like the logic of violence determines the structure of society. and you can kind of get into this thing where like, if. No one knows who you are. Like the safest thing you can be as anonymous, in a world where like anybody could show up at your house at any time. Like the safest thing to do is just have nobody know who you are and where you are.Because if they know you're in control of a billion dollar Dow, treasury, that's not a good thing like this, like there's no physical thing that can protect you or as much more expensive than just being digitally anonymous and untrackable. to the extent that you can. So I think there'll be increasingly common.I think like it's a very simple solution to kind of like workplace equity and fairness is just like your, your track record is associated with a pseudonym. not, not a real world identity or name or photo and like, that's fine. I would have no problem hiring anonymous people. I kind of do it accidentally online already through marketplaces.Right. I don't know if the person I hire on Upwork. Is that real name or no, there's a real photo. Like I just know that they have a bunch of good reviews and I pay them to do the work and they do it. And that's great.Nathan: [00:27:33]It's interesting to think about. Like people doing that with audiences. And there's plenty of examples that we've come to, like, you know, a Twitter account, like Ram capital or, or, you know, there's, there's plenty of them.And I don't think it really holds you back. Like, in some ways, I wonder if it's speed things like speeds up audience growth or, or leverage in some of those ways. So, okay. Ways it's harder, right? I can't be like, Hey Eric, Hey, you know, David who like texted a bunch of friends and be like,Eric: [00:28:05]Yeah.Nathan: [00:28:06]Wrote this post, will you promote it? That kind of thing.Eric: [00:28:08]For, for people who are yeah. Starting from zero without those friends and connections, it's probably, that was probably a wash. but it's definitely a challenge if you already have them. I think it's a little harder to trust somebody. Like, it takes me a little bit longer to build a mental model of an anonymous.Person. but you can mean advantages. You can build a brand that's much more extreme than a real world person is willing to be.Nathan: [00:28:37]Right,Eric: [00:28:38]I don't know, there's always been like a joke accounts that are justNathan: [00:28:42]Right.Eric: [00:28:43]Things. th that tend to grow really quickly,Nathan: [00:28:46]What was the, like, in the, start of space? Fake Grimlock.Eric: [00:28:50]Yeah, that's what I was thinking. That that's the name I was trying to come up with. Yeah. The like caps lock, dinosaur monster guy. I mean, startup startup called Jackson was a really famous one. yeah. And it's like those accounts build credibility, like huge credibility. and I think, I don't know, I don't have a good example off the top of my head of somebody who's like turned that into a really big business, but like, I think there's plenty of people doing, doing great through anonymous accounts.Nathan: [00:29:16]Yeah. It's interesting. Once it probably is harder to get traction in some ways, but then what you're talking about of being able to take strong stances, you know, the internet, both rewards and punishes. Strong stances. Like if you're out here going, like, you know, leverage is, is, is nice. Like if you can get it, I don't, know.You don't, you're like all soft about it. No, one's going to pay any attention. But if you're like, Hey, this is a thing you have to understand. Here's why it matters. And all of thatEric: [00:29:40]Yeah.Nathan: [00:29:41]But they'll really pay attention. They'll read the posts, they'll share it.Eric: [00:29:44]So that's a thing I'm like, that's a card I'm pretty unwilling to play because I'm like a normal person who wants to actually represent myself as a normal person online. And like, it is pretty. I think it's kind of trivially easy to win the like outrage retweet game. And there's people who just like tweet hot takes in deliberately clumsy ways to like, get the reach of people, like quote tweeting and like dunking on them.But like all the time they're getting more followers and people show up to defend them. And I'm just like unwilling to do that, even though it clearly obviously like works for gaining a bunch of followers. but like if you were to set off at a, as an anonymous account to do that, like easy, right.Nothing to lose. That's your brand from the beginning.Nathan: [00:30:27]Okay. So we were, before we went off the anonymous direction, we, we were talking about, like other types of leverage that, you know, isn't relying on, on that audience or reputation.Eric: [00:30:38]Product is leveraged and a very common like starting place. Right? So anything you can record, you know, at the end of the course, I kind of try to codify these like 10 laws of leverage. That's like these little triggers to like remind you and like turn this into instinctive behaviors.And one of them is don't repeat yourself, record yourself. So when you hear yourself telling the same story over and over again, you should be writing it down. You should be recording it as a video you should do as a Podcast, you should, whatever. And I think it's easy to underestimate the power of like creating something that can serve hundreds or thousands of people in parallel and into the future.And like, you know, people will make a YouTube video and it only gets like a hundred views and they're kinda like bummed about it. I was like, Like do the math on that, like ROI, like that is a miracle. Like if a hundred people listen to this podcast probably way more are going to, but if a hundred people listen to this podcast from one hour of our time, like, That's a crazy miracle that couldn't possibly have happened a hundred people in a room and I'd be like sweating, but like 5,000 people are going to listen to this.And that's absolutely wild. so think like product leverage at almost any scale is like a miracle that we see every day that we've just forgotten is a miracle. and. When you are prolific with that, even if you don't like you get good at it fast, and that leverage has its own kind of compounding, in, in, in a way being prolific is like its own form of credibility.Like you make a thousand podcasts, like you're probably not going to suck by your thousands Podcast, no matter how slowly you improve, you just can't not get better.Nathan: [00:32:23]What makes Seth Godin has this thing that he says, like, I will come on anyone's Podcast. You just have to have recorded at least a hundred episodes. You know, and partially cause he's going to, like, I want you, I want to make sure that you're consistent with it. I don't wanna be your third guest on your fifth guest.You know, like most Podcast die after, you know, probably three episodes. and so he's like saying, I want to help you, you know, I like encourage that, but like here's the bar that you have to get to. And hopefully you won't be a terrible interviewer by the time you get to a hundred episodes, you know?Eric: [00:32:54]Yeah.Nathan: [00:32:54]Credibility and, and all of that, that comes with being prolific.Eric: [00:32:58]Yeah, that's a great rule. And then you're not evaluating it, then you're not thinking about it, then there's going to be, there's certain to be like some sort of guaranteed minimum audience, probably by the time they get to a hundred episodes. yeah, that's, that's really smart.Nathan: [00:33:10]Something else, on productizing level or product as a leverage side of things that maybe it made me think of is we have a internal Podcast for that ConvertKit team. that is each team member being interviewed about their life story. by another team member. And so you're like outgoing on your run.And you're thinking about like Charlie, who's our creative director and you're like listening to her life story. And so there's a bunch of, she records that once, for an hour, you know, and then now the 67 other people on the team, and then everyone who joins from today. Forward, like listens to that. And then now when I sit down or anyone sits down and talks to Charlie, then it's just like, Oh, tell me about growing up in Brunei.And like this whole thing, like, we can shortcut so much for that becauseEric: [00:34:01]Yeah.Nathan: [00:34:01]story and she's listened to mine. And like, weEric: [00:34:05]That's as a brilliant application, as a brilliant, there's so many, like so many. Onboarding's have the like, Oh, like go get coffee with the whole team. And so like that just breaks so fast. As soon as you have like an onboarding class of five as like what, I've five coffees this week. Like I'm going to spend 10 hours, likeNathan: [00:34:22]Yeah.Eric: [00:34:23]hanging out with new members of the team every week.But that's brilliant. And then you can just kind of wait until you're like, Oh, I have my first meeting with Charlie next week. like I better. Go get some contacts and they hear what it's like. Yeah. Listen to her episode, hear what it's like to meet her here, like where she's coming from, what she does here, what her goal is. That's super, really, I love that.Nathan: [00:34:43]You said there's 10 rules, or like the key things that you reminding people of? What are a few others of this.Eric: [00:34:49]Oh, okay. so one I have, that's like the one I probably have to tell myself the most often, is, is do the things only you can do. I find myself like do the work only you can do is a really good way to remind yourself, like, what's my highest invest use, how much stuff am I doing that? Like, Either doesn't need to be done.Someone else can do for me, or could be automated, could be, you know, delegated, whatever. that one is, I catch myself doing that a lot. and then sometimes I'm like, no, I'm kind of enjoying this. Like, I'm good. Like, I'm fine with that. but usually the stuff that only you can do, is the highest impact, like.Longest term outcome stuff. It's usually like talking to customers, giving, like creating a new sort of standard operating procedure, like figuring out, you know, some sort of high leverage like cops situation, which is speaking of, I have listened to maybe two or three separate interviews about your profit sharing system.And I absolutely adore it. I think it's brilliant. I love kind of collecting the stories of like Nucor steel and Glen.Nathan: [00:36:02]yeah.Eric: [00:36:03]I feel like you are. In that lineage in a amazing way.Nathan: [00:36:06]Well, thanks. We'll, we'll give it some time to see how it all plays out, but those are also the kinds of stories that I, that I like to collect. I'm curious in the, in like the collection of stories, side of things, like what are some of the stories, like favorite examples of stories of leverage, you know, or in different types of leverage, applied that are your go-to.Eric: [00:36:26]I think, I really like this like example of, real estate agents. So I worked with real estate agents a lot over the last few years, and I kind of like Naval uses them as an example in the book of just being a high leverage job because your inputs and your outputs are disconnected. Most realtors are not actually it's.Using that like, they're not actually adding leverage, but the ability is there for any of them to add it. if they, if they choose it's really independent contracting sales job, right. and most sales jobs have, this is just, everybody can relate to realtor. So one, one lesson I have in the course takes like realtors, four different realtors that are operating from like the first one is just like a very normal, basic, you know, Linear sort of time and money relationships.She does like 10 clients a year. It makes 50,000 a year. Okay. Normal, normal day job. The like best realtor in a typical office makes like. $400,000 a year. and it's usually because they have like a full-time personal assistant or to the transaction coordinator. They're usually spending money on advertising.They're usually spending money on, tools like upgraded tools and systems. and they have like enough of a, more speaking of like opt in people leverage. They have past clients who are driving word of mouth for them. so like that is a really. That is a high leverage thing that people don't think of as leverage, because it's not labor is not even really audience.It's just like happy customer base. and then you get into the order of magnitude above that, and you've got the realtor. Who's like the number one realtor in the city. And they've got a team of 50 agents below them that are all doing the stuff that the best agents in the office are doing. They're all paying for personal assistants, they're all paying for marketing.And that person is like coaching and managing and recruiting all of those agents and building a team, a whole team of them in a culture that. Helps those agents become better and earns a percentage of all of their earnings. and this guy, I was wondering how far this went. And so I looked up, who's the number one real estate agent in the country.And it's this guy in Texas named Ben Cabalero caviar, I think is his name. And he started out as just like a normal realtor and he kind of found his way into this, like a niche of new home builders. And so he's got now. this team, like, I don't know a team dozens under him. And like half of them kind of work on these partnerships with new home builders who are companies that build like dozens to hundreds, to maybe thousands of homes per year.And they have to figure out how to sell them involved. And so they just don't give him like here's a thousand listings, like go sell all these houses. And then he's got a software team that is building a platform to actually like manage the inventory of all these houses and all of their listings and all their sales.And then like, So he, he's basically like a founder of a software company with a BD team and like designers and marketers and engineers, but he's still functionally a realtor. And he earns commissions as a realtor on thousands of homes a year. And my napkin math is that this guy makes like a hundred million dollars a year.That could be like 50 million high or low, but like it's crazy either way. And is the ultimate illustration of like, if you add system, if you systematically add leverage. Is of these four types. You can go from a very normal job, to an absolutely insane kind of like founder situation and the mindset and the instinct to like add leverage where you can and in a safe kind of, sustainable way.That's manageable. Like. Is a huge, huge difference. You have to find your way into a place where you don't have that ceiling and you can reinvest in that leverage and like you get the benefits of that. and there's a lot of traps or places where that's not as true. but if you can find that place and you can develop that mindset and like get into it as a habit and then go for, you know, 10 or 20 years, you can get to some crazy, crazy places.Nathan: [00:40:32]Yeah, it's not that leverage plus compounding, but the two of them together, pretty powerful. You have another tweet, You talked about blockbuster. he's a Netflix didn't kill blockbuster being over leveraged, killed blockbuster. I'm curious some of the, like the downsides of leverage or people misuse it or, yeah, don't understand what they're flying with it.Eric: [00:40:55]Yeah, yeah. Leverage. I mean the lever goes both ways, right? Like leverage pushback. and that's actually like, so leverage law eight and nine levers. A lot of our aid is live by the lever.by the lever. Like if this is the game you choose to play, like understand that it can hurt you. and levers a lot.Number nine is like leave room for things to go wrong. which is just kind of the like normal. Peterson way that all the investing nerds would say margin for margin of error. but there's a difference between being over leveraged and being super leveraged. So like you can have really, really long levers, right?Like Warren buffet has a really long letters. he's got billions of dollars. He's got multiple many companies. He's got, you know, 250,000 employees. but if those levers push back on him, they're not dangerous amounts of large and he can. Absorb that pushback, kind of with equanimity, because it's not just because this long does it mean the travel is high and doesn't mean there's like a huge force pushing on the other side.And so there are people who, you know, if you make $50 an hour and you hire an assistant for $40 an hour, And try to outsource your whole job and then like, there's no room for things to go wrong. And if there's pushback on that other side of that lever, you know, your revenue changes, your costs, change.Something happens like all of a sudden you're in deep shit because that lever is pushed back too hard on you. You don't have the like capacity to absorb that blow. and now all of a sudden this is like launch you into space and, and you're done.Nathan: [00:42:31]Gross margin matters. When you'reEric: [00:42:33]Yeah.Nathan: [00:42:34]how, like, to what degree you can use leverageEric: [00:42:37]And, and as you layer things on top, right? Like if you're making a hundred dollars an hour and $10 an hour system makes a ton of sense, but if you hire five of them like that stacks. And so all of a sudden, so like you've got to run the math and, and be cognizant of all the other levers, things like product leverage.Like we talked about the risk of being. Public person. And so like, that's less quantitative, but it's still intangible and it's still a form of risk. but you can layer a lot of those on top of each other before you have like financial risk associated with that. but that's not true, you know, when you're, when you're playing like leverage trading games and like, you know, I've, I've seen plenty of people lose way more money than they thought was possible because they were using leverage that they did not understand.And when those good. Multiplied out, things can move really quickly. and leverage, leverage just gets you more of what you're already getting. It doesn't change your outcome. So like, if things are going poorly and you add a bunch of money to it and make things happen poorly, faster, and more often than like you have not done yourself, any favors, except that maybe we make it more clear.What were you were already getting? so yeah, it's a very, I, you know, I say to anybody, who's thinking about the course, like this is not for people who do not know. What they're doing, or do not, are confident in the direction that they're heading and are confident, like investing money to get more of the results that are already getting.Nathan: [00:44:05]yep.Eric: [00:44:06]Is for like, getting more of what you're already getting.Nathan: [00:44:08]Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. somebody else that I want to turn to talk to a bit is the, the book, the Almanac of involve Africa, which is, has replaced, well first rework, and then anything you want as my most gifted books. so thanks for, thanks for writing that. it's just one of those things where I'm like talking to someone, whether it's a sibling or a friend or someone else I'm like.This will change your world. Know like it is the most condensed way I can get them to think in a completely different way. So thank you for doing all of the work to, to put that together. I'm curious how that started. like, what, what inspired that project and then how did you start working on it?Eric: [00:44:51]Yeah. I mean that, the inspiration came really from a podcast that navel did with Shane Parrish. on the knowledge project, it was an awesome interview. I listened to it two or three times. and I was a little, like I'd been following them all for 10 years, right? Like, since 2009, maybe when he like, started writing on venture hacks, there's really still an awesome blog.I've been following him and learning all these, you know, what are used, mostly talking about startups and investing for a long time. And this interview with Shane Parrish was the first time he kind of talked about like some of his, some of his like principles for how to build wealth and some of his principles that he had been like kind of teaching himself about the philosophies and practice and habits of happiness and building happiness, and that you are totally in control of your own happiness.And I thought this was such a good Podcast. And I love podcasts. I listen to them a lot, but I'm also very aware that like, most people don't listen to podcasts and even if they do the discovery is not great of whole episodes or even within them. And I just thought it was such a tragedy that most of the stuff that of all is shared on Twitter and in Podcast is just in such a like difficult to access kind of subcultural like ephemeral format.And I spent. I mean, I'm, I'm, I've been curating and assembling and editing and writing for a long time. And, it was kind of between projects. I was like, all right, I'm going to go like, Just throw this idea out there. and I was like, you know, I saw the tweet is so dumb and I just thought up a Twitter poll is like, if I wrote the book of knowledge and like compiled a few of his important transcripts, like, do you want that?And like treated it and went to bed. And I woke up to find that Naval had retweeted it and like, you know, 5,000 people were like, Oh my God, yes, please do this. And Naval was like, I'm not gonna provide you all the materials, like rock on. And I, I don't have any reasonably that he knew who I was. I had no connection or, kind of prior access or anything like that.And, I mean, he gave me an export of his whole Twitter history and everything else was public record. I just started doing transcripts of the podcasts and interviews and books and, just kind of like threw it all on the table. It was like, all right, let me like start kind of. Learning to condense this and makes sense of it.And I mean, it was well over a million words of source material that I just kind of like started organizing and distilling and lumping into ideas and categories. And, I just, I mean, I was excited to like swim around and all these ideas and like absorb them and learn them. And. spend time like reading and rereading and just do this giant, like weird conceptual jigsaw puzzle and make it easy for people to read and get these ideas in their own head and put it into a format that would last for, you know, hopefully decades and be relevant for people for a long time.Nathan: [00:47:30]I didn't realize how early in the project didn't have all got involved or like, you know,Eric: [00:47:35]Yeah.Nathan: [00:47:36]gave his blessing. That's pretty cool,Eric: [00:47:37]Yeah. I mean, he's got, I have no idea. He was probably like, yeah, sure. Go for it. Like there's no chance you're actually gonna finish it. I I've, I have no idea. but he's, he's pretty like, you know, and then we, we kind of came to terms he's like, make sure there's a, you know, free version available for everybody and, make sure that it's clear that like I'm not selling it.And not earning money from it. because it would be critical to some of the material that's in the book and all like done and done, like. Let's go and it took me three years to finish it and publish it, but it's, we got out there and I'm really, I'm proud of it. And I think it's a really, I like, I really enjoy hearing that people got a lot out of it.I wish I'd had it at 18. but the next best thing is, you know, making sure that the next next generation can have it and are better educated than we were. soNathan: [00:48:27]right?Eric: [00:48:28]we all end up better off in the future, you know?Nathan: [00:48:29]Yeah. What are some of those other cool things that have come from it? You know, maybe unexpected you go from, I'm gonna throw out this random tweet and go to bed and then fast forward a few years and you're like, okay. This, you know, this thing happened And, it's because of what ultimately started with a tweet after it podcast episode.Eric: [00:48:45]Yeah. I mean, it's, it's a thousand little things, you know? just like getting DMS for people that are like, you know, I gave this to my 18 year old brother and like, it totally changed his life. people who are like actually made me drop out of law school and like go become a software engineer because I didn't.I didn't understand why technology was going to be so key. And, it's just, it's really interesting to hear, you know, it's a bunch of individual stories, I think, you know, it's been cool to like kind of come on podcasts and talk to people and meet them. And, I'm really excited about, this format.Like I think there's so much valuable stuff that's created in a femoral digital mediums, and I think books just will always have a place. And, and that kind of transformation and that, that practice of curating things into like something really timeless and taking somebody's whole body of work. And.Turning that into, like this has always been my favorite genre of book, right? Like I love Peter Beth Mullins books, and I love Porcelli's Almanac and the letters of Warren buffet and, like principles. I think, like it's not, everybody's going to sit down and write their own book and dedicate years to doing it.But I think the ability to kind of like condense someone's best advice and worldview and things into, into a book that someone can read in a few hours and like really get the experience of a lifetime. Is really cool and valuable, and I hope we see more of those. I certainly intend to keep, keep doing them.Nathan: [00:50:21]Yeah. Yeah, that's great. is there something that you're working onEric: [00:50:24]not, not that I can talk about yet, but,Nathan: [00:50:26]yeah,Eric: [00:50:27]Yeah, I got it. I got a new spreadsheet. I'm working on it.Nathan: [00:50:31]I know they're new million words of source material out there.Eric: [00:50:33]Yes. Yes. I know there are New million ways.Nathan: [00:50:35]That's not intimidating at all.Any numbers that you can share from like the book launch or something like that? I'm always curious how, like the scale of something like this, especially when it has the free version. And so even in the number of people who read it or anything like that?Eric: [00:50:51]Yeah. I mean, we have like the site, the page views on the site are, are like, I think, well into the millions now. or somewhere in the mid six figures for, I think like digital downloads, that's harder to track, but it's like,Nathan: [00:51:09]Yeah.Eric: [00:51:10]Yeah. It's a lot.Nathan: [00:51:11]And then I assume a substantial number of people going like, no, I don't want the digital version. Like, I'll take the, you know,Eric: [00:51:17]Yeah.Nathan: [00:51:18]like, I think I've bought eight or 10 copies of the book.Eric: [00:51:23]Yeah. Impossible. The answer is like what the effect the net effect has been like, does the free version drive more sales? Like, I've definitely have heard stories of people. Like I read the free version and it was a few chapters in and the like, then I went and bought the physical version or finished the free version.I loved it. And so like, I wanted it as a trophy, a physical version, or they read it and then they gift it or like, whatever. so yeah, it's, it's impossible to know, I think, but like, you know, my goal for this was just like, Please. I hope it gets back to cash that I put into like making it professional and like well-designed and well-published and, it has done that and more.Nathan: [00:52:02]Right.Eric: [00:52:03]You know, Naval seems happy with it as a like representation of, of him.Nathan: [00:52:10]Have there been like, did it result in more conversations in interaction with evolve over time or has he been pretty much like thumbs up from a distance?Eric: [00:52:19]Like, you know, we, we actually never spoke live about this. Like we did it all through email. I kind of kept them updated and he was kinda like, cool, let's go ahead and like, as comprehensive, as that's a lot, like yeah. yeah, so, no, I appreciate, I mean he was, his support has been like.Super super valuable. And I'm actually not sure that I would have felt good about doing it because like, there's this huge risk of kind of like putting words in his mouth. and in opening him up to misinterpretation by just like recontextualizing all of this stuff, which is kind of like what I'm doing by definition.So it's, it took a lot of faith I think. and I, I appreciate the kind of trust he put in me there to do it. and yeah, I'm glad to see it's, you know, if I can, I can be positive, like a piece of people finding their way to him and understanding that better. Like that's, that's awesome.Nathan: [00:53:20]Yeah, that's great. And I'm excited for more of that format, because like you said, there's a lot of people who have this like wealth of knowledge and, and Content, but it's not like packaged nicely that I can either read myself or like give to my brother or anything like that.Eric: [00:53:35]I can't wait to do the Almanac of Nathan Berry.Nathan: [00:53:37]Yeah. hopefully I'll be one of those people that like writes it all down myself rather than me, you know, but I'd be down, Yeah, well, I'm, I'm curious, like as we, as we wrap up, where should, well, first, what are you working on most right now?And then where should people go to, to follow you?Eric: [00:53:55]Yeah. My main project right now is a course on leverage. So, this is, this is all very top of mind for me. The biggest question I get from the books, people who read the leverage chapter and are kind of like, that's awesome. I totally get the importance of this idea but, I don't know how to apply it to my life.So I kind of have been really distilling frameworks and ideas and collecting stories and like putting them all in this course, that will launch soon. And it's kind of like quietly in beta, letting people in as we get confident that like we got, the right kind of level of fidelity and things here.So, that's, that's a huge focus for me right now. I'm really excited to be like building my first course and like getting to kind of put my hat in this ring of education. And I think, I really am enjoying experimenting with like, I want to provide the flexibility and availability and like kind of perfectly available, of, of asynchronous, like evergreen course with a layer of kind of very light accountability and social connections, and community that comes with it.So I'm trying to pull the very best of like a high-end very expensive cohort-based course and, like, permanently available kind of course and like merge them into one here. So it's a little bit of experiment in medium and like getting to explore this topic that I really like. so that's really cool.That's on my website: ejorgenson.com, And, I spend like way too much time on Twitter. So, if anybody wants to come hang out with me, like I'm easy to find.Nathan: [00:55:29]Sounds good. Well, thanks for coming on. We'll both had our separate ways. We've got stuff going on this evening, but, it was good to catch up and I'm excited to see the course come to life.Eric: [00:55:38]Yeah. Great to talk to you. I can't wait to, to flip the mix and, have you on my podcasts and, get to dive into more of the story. I think, I think you're going to be a perfect, like exemplar case study of intuition of leverage and building that ladder. And I can't wait to dig into it.Nathan: [00:55:54]I love it. All right. We'll chat soon.Eric: [00:55:56]All right.

Creating the Almanak of Naval Ravikant with Eric Jorgenson Eric Jorgenson is a founding team member at Zaarly and is the brains behind The Almanack of Naval Ravikant. In today’s episode, we talk in great depth about Eric’s book, as well as the business and personal growth that came with writing it. We kick off the show by hearing about Eric’s background and discovering his business mindset and knack for creating opportunities. Eric tells us more about his early years and why he has to try every idea that comes into his mind. Turning our scope toward Eric’s book, we ask him about what he aimed to get out of it. Following this, we uncover Eric’s methods for cherry-picking the best, most useful content about Naval Ravikant, and the long process behind sieving through information and creating drafts. Eric’s book is nothing short of a huge success, and he goes on to tell us how he managed to collaborate with big names like Tim Ferriss and Jack Butcher. We also talk about the substance of his publication and why Eric chose to write a book instead of creating a collection of blog posts or an audiobook. He then notes his favorite aspects of his book and touches on other influential publications. To find out what these are and much, much more, be sure to tune into this episode! TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:16] Introducing today’s guest, Eric Jorgensen. [00:35] Today’s topics of business and personal growth. [00:50] Eric tells us about his background. [02:01] What projects Eric worked on in San Francisco and the risks that came with them. [03:10] How Eric came to realize he needed to be in San Francisco.   [03:53] How small experiments helped Eric get to a point where he could write a book. [04:20] What Eric was aiming to get out of his book.  [05:55] How it felt when Eric received a physical copy of his book for the first time. [06:39] Eric’s approach to pulling up all the best, most useful pieces of content.  [08:44] Hear about Eric’s publishing methods. [10:19] How Eric got the likes of Tim Ferriss and Jack Butcher to be part of his project.  [11:19] Twitter DMs were part of Eric’s success in creating his book. [12:14] Eric tells us about his 1,400 ratings and what it took to reach this number.  [13:42] How Eric feels about being the “Almanac” guy. [15:33] Eric talks about how his relationship with Naval has evolved.  [18:42] The methods behind Eric’s book updates. [19:53] Why Eric would choose to write a book over creating an audio book or blog.  [22:26] How Eric’s book has given back to him. [25:05] Hear what Eric’s favorite philosophy book is. [25:48] Eric’s best tool for business.  [26:33] The most compelling content that Eric has consumed recently [27:31] That’s it for today!    Resources From The Interview:   Eric Jorgenson  Eric Jorgenson on LinkedIn Eric Jorgenson on Twitter Zaarly Almanack of Naval Ravikant Scribe Media Jack Butcher Tim Ferriss  Christian Murdy Poor Charlie’s Almanack on Amazon The System’s Bible on Amazon Otter.ai Gong Grain Acquired podcast James Clear Farnam Street   Leave Some Feedback:   What should I talk about next? Who should I interview? Please let me know on Twitter or in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review here Subscribe to Leveling Up on iTunes Get the non-iTunes RSS Feed   Connect with Eric Siu:    Growth Everywhere Single Grain Eric Siu on Twitter

In this podcast, Paul interviews Eric Jorgensen, founder of Special Needs Navigator.  More importantly, Eric is a single father of an ASD child who has an amazing & compelling life story that led him to single parenthood.  This is an intense, emotional podcast between two Dads “going deep”.   In this episode, Paul reviews the following: Eric's career in the US Navy His sudden thrust into single fatherhood due to the passing of his wife How 2020 was one of the most challenging years of his life due to his and his son's health issues His creation of Special Needs Navigator as a result of the events in his life The top themes he hears from parents in his work with Special Needs Navigator   Eric Jorgensen is Founder & Creator of Special Needs Navigator, an organization dedicated to creating a new category of services - Special Needs Navigating - to bridge the gap between education, financial, legal, medical, and social services. Special Needs Navigator

Just because it turned January 1st and we're into a new year doesn't mean anything is going to change unless people make it change. We are all in a cocoon time and it means that we, as marketers, entrepreneurs and category designers can design the future of our choosing. The Future Is Not Like The Weather Christopher poses his observation on some people and how they comment about the future. Some people wish to have a better 2021 but do not think about who is responsible for positive change to happen. “I think it's important to underscore that the future does not just happen. It's not like the weather. People make things happen. The seminal question for all of us is: what kind of future do we want to design?” - Christopher Lochhead The Future, From A Business Perspective Christopher thinks, from a business perspective, that most definitely someone from your category is doing something. They may be working on or beginning to implement something to get to a different future.  “Someone in your category is examining new business models and ideas, new emerging technologies, new product strategies, looking at problems in new and different ways. As a result, discovering potential to either redesign your category or launch a new adjacent category that could change the game dramatically in your space.” - Christopher Lochhead The Future, Designed By Legends In this episode, Christopher cites some noteworthy, legendary entrepreneurs who did massive actions to design their future. He cites Allie Haverstraw, who did extraordinary efforts to help small businesses. He also talks about Eric Jorgensen's legendary story of triumph over extraordinary despair. Lastly, he talks about the main man of 2021 himself, Eric Yuan of Zoom Technologies. “What do I hope you take from examples? This, now, is our time. Those of us who are in a position to make a difference, can make a giant difference because the future needs you, regardless of how you can make a difference. Now is the time in spite of all of the misery that many of us, myself included have been through over the last year or so. I say there's never been a greater time to design the future of our choosing.” - Christopher Lochhead To know more about why the future needs you, download and listen to this episode.  Bio: Christopher Lochhead is a #1 Apple podcaster and #1 Amazon bestselling co-author of books: Niche Down and Play Bigger. He has been an advisor to over 50 venture-backed startups; a former three-time Silicon Valley public company CMO and an entrepreneur. Furthermore, he has been called “one of the best minds in marketing” by The Marketing Journal, a “Human Exclamation Point” by Fast Company, a “quasar” by NBA legend Bill Walton and “off-putting to some” by The Economist. In addition, he served as a chief marketing officer of software juggernaut Mercury Interactive. Hewlett-Packard acquired the company in 2006, for $4.5 billion. He also co-founded the marketing consulting firm LOCHHEAD; was the founding CMO of Internet consulting firm Scient, and served as head of marketing at the CRM software firm Vantive. We hope you enjoyed this episode of Lochhead on Marketing™! Christopher loves hearing from his listeners. Feel free to email him, connect on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and subscribe on Apple Podcast! You may also subscribe to his newsletter, The Difference, for some amazing content.

At the moment, there is a big rise in “diseases of despair.” These are things like substance abuse, alcohol dependency, suicidal thoughts and behaviors. As a matter of fact, according to the medical journal BMJ, diseases of despair have soared in the United States over the past decade, rising 68% between 2009 and 2018. The study also shows suicidal thoughts and behaviors were up 70%. And all of that was of course before COVID. However, despair doesn't have to mean defeat. Our guest today, Eric Jorgensen is an extraordinary man. His son, William was born with significant disabilities. What you're about to hear is the extraordinary tale of how Eric's life turned to tragedy, the horrible suffering that he endured and the painful events of Eric and William's life. You'll also hear how this real American hero transformed, unbearable despair into triumph. Bio: Eric has been helping families with intellectual and developmental disabilities since his retirement from the Navy in 2012. He was widowed the same year he retired. At the time his 12 y/o autistic son, William, was completely dependent on his wife for everything. It was his frustration with the difficulty of figuring out what to do and navigating services for his son which led him to found Special Needs Navigator. Eric created the category of Special Needs Planning to help families, individuals and caregivers connect the dots when working with attorneys, financial advisors, and other professionals. His specialty is helping them identify what they don’t know and provide clarity. He works with his clients around the country to develop individualized solutions best suited to their circumstances. In addition to working with clients one on one; Special Needs Navigator has a blog, YouTube channel and podcast. Eric uses the blog to do a deep dive every week into subjects like ABLE accounts, Special Needs Trusts and other topics families frequently have questions about. The podcast and YouTube channel focus on benefits, resources and services families may not know, or want to learn more, about. Links: Website: Special Needs Navigator Podcast: ABC's of Disability Planning Facebook: @SpecNeedsNav Twitter: @NeedsNavigator Trends in the diagnosis of diseases of despair in the United States, 2009–2018: a retrospective cohort study A New Study Found ‘Deaths Of Despair’ Soared Over The Past Decade

At the moment, there is a big rise in “diseases of despair.” These are things like substance abuse, alcohol dependency, suicidal thoughts and behaviors. As a matter of fact, according to the medical journal BMJ, diseases of despair have soared in the United States over the past decade, rising 68% between 2009 and 2018. The study also shows suicidal thoughts and behaviors were up 70%. And all of that was of course before COVID. However, despair doesn't have to mean defeat. Our guest today, Eric Jorgensen is an extraordinary man. His son, William was born with significant disabilities. What you're about to hear is the extraordinary tale of how Eric's life turned to tragedy, the horrible suffering that he endured and the painful events of Eric and William's life. You'll also hear how this real American hero transformed, unbearable despair into triumph. Bio: Eric has been helping families with intellectual and developmental disabilities since his retirement from the Navy in 2012. He was widowed the same year he retired. At the time his 12 y/o autistic son, William, was completely dependent on his wife for everything. It was his frustration with the difficulty of figuring out what to do and navigating services for his son which led him to found Special Needs Navigator. Eric created the category of Special Needs Planning to help families, individuals and caregivers connect the dots when working with attorneys, financial advisors, and other professionals. His specialty is helping them identify what they don’t know and provide clarity. He works with his clients around the country to develop individualized solutions best suited to their circumstances. In addition to working with clients one on one; Special Needs Navigator has a blog, YouTube channel and podcast. Eric uses the blog to do a deep dive every week into subjects like ABLE accounts, Special Needs Trusts and other topics families frequently have questions about. The podcast and YouTube channel focus on benefits, resources and services families may not know, or want to learn more, about. Links: Website: Special Needs Navigator Podcast: ABC's of Disability Planning Facebook: @SpecNeedsNav Twitter: @NeedsNavigator Trends in the diagnosis of diseases of despair in the United States, 2009–2018: a retrospective cohort study A New Study Found ‘Deaths Of Despair’ Soared Over The Past Decade

On today's episode we have Eric Jorgensen of Special Needs Navigator. Eric has been helping families with intellectual and developmental disabilities since hisretirement from the Navy in 2012. He was widowed the same year he retired, and it was hisfrustration with the difficulty of getting clear and direct guidance of what to do & when whichled him to start Special Needs Navigator. He now helps caregivers, families and individualsnavigate the maze of benefits, resources and services around the country.In addition to his MS in Finance & Information Systems and an MBA; Eric has earned theCertified Financial Planner (CFP), Chartered Federal Employee Benefit Consultant, CertifiedDivorce Financial Analyst and Chartered Special Needs Consultant designations. Eric and his son, William, currently reside in Frederick, MD.Learn more: https://www.specialneedsnavigator.us/

Welcome to Special Need Navigator's ABC's of Disability Planning podcast. I'm your host Eric Jorgensen. I'm also the Founder of Special Needs Navigator. Like many of you, I'm a parent. In this episode, I am going to share what led me to start Special Needs Navigator and what you can expect from this podcast. As an Amazon Associate, I earn commissions from qualifying purchases. For more information about True North Disability Planning you can find us here: Web: https://truenorthdisabilityplanning.com/ Blog - https://ejorgensenwordpresscom.wordpress.com Podcast (ABC's of Disability Planning) - https://anchor.fm/abcs-disability-planning Waypoints - https://waypoints.substack.com/ Facebook: @TrueNorthDisabilityPlanning Twitter: @NeedsNavigator Resource store (free downloads too) - https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/True-North-Disability-Planning --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/abcs-disability-planning/message

Having disabilities brings its own challenges, and caregivers, families, and individuals often struggle with finding support and services. Learn how to take the next steps. Special Needs Navigator Twitter: @NeedsNavigator Instagram: @specneedsnav

Having disabilities brings its own challenges, and caregivers, families, and individuals often struggle with finding support and services. Learn how to take the next steps. Special Needs Navigator Twitter: @NeedsNavigator Instagram: @specneedsnav

Eric Jorgensen is the founder and owner of Special Needs Navigator. He started it to help families and professionals navigate the maze of benefits, resources, and services. As a dad with an adult son with Autism, ID and other challenges; Eric experienced first-hand the challenges of getting clear and direct instructions about what he needed to do to help his son prepare to transition from school into the work force. He was widowed the same year he retired from the Navy when he needed support the most. Eric's focus is ensuring the families he works with don't experience the same headaches and stress. In addition to families, Eric works with professionals – providing back office support and answers to experts like financial advisors, social workers, attorneys and trust officers – around the country. In this episode, we talk about the shared frustration of navigating the adulthood disability services system, what he’s learned along the way in helping families, and 3 actionable steps that families can do now to get started with navigating their own maze of benefits, resources, and services. AUTISM GROWN UP SHOWNOTES: https://www.autismgrownup.com/agupodcast/ AUTISM GROWN UP DONATIONS: www.autismgrownup.com/support-agu

Eric Jorgensen is the founder and owner of Special Needs Navigator. He started it to help families and professionals navigate the maze of benefits, resources, and services. As a dad with an adult son with Autism, ID and other challenges; Eric experienced first-hand the challenges of getting clear and direct instructions about what he needed to do to help his son prepare to transition from school into the work force. He was widowed the same year he retired from the Navy when he needed support the most. Eric's focus is ensuring the families he works with don't experience the same headaches and stress. In addition to families, Eric works with professionals – providing back office support and answers to experts like financial advisors, social workers, attorneys and trust officers – around the country. In this episode, we talk about the shared frustration of navigating the adulthood disability services system, what he’s learned along the way in helping families, and 3 actionable steps that families can do now to get started with navigating their own maze of benefits, resources, and services. AUTISM GROWN UP SHOWNOTES: https://www.autismgrownup.com/agupodcast/ AUTISM GROWN UP DONATIONS: www.autismgrownup.com/support-agu --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/autism-grown-up-podcast/support

Hello Everyone and welcome to another great episode of the JOY of Financial Planning podcast. The topics of this podcast are a compliment to the book JOY of Financial Planning, available in stores including Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com JOY of Financial Planning is about the belief that we can overcome the unique economic, and life challenges we face as a generation, by first getting our financial house in order. In fact, we have, no other choice. Now more than ever, we must grow our wealth, follow our passions, live with compassion and find a way to achieve a personalized version of the American Dream. This episode is part of a series of recorded “Zoominars” from my Jason Howell Company YouTube channel; that's where you'll find the video versions. In my business life, my wealth management firm collaborates with many experts; together we transform regular investors into patriarchs and matriarchs of their families and their communities. This episode features some of that expertise. COVID-19 and civil unrest have heightened concerns about caring for individuals who are differently abled and will remain neurodiverse throughout their lifetimes. We invited Eric Jorgensen of Special Needs Navigator (SpecialNeedsNavigator.US) and David Whiting of Oak Hill Law Group, PLLC (OakHillLawGroup.com), who are also parents of special needs children, to discuss family benefits, their expertise and their experience. Please send your feedback to Jason@JasonHowell.com and give this episode a rating, especially on Apple Podcasts, if, that's the kind of thing you do. For more about my unique brand of family wealth management, just go to JasonHowell.com Links: Special Needs Navigator: https://www.specialneedsnavigator.us/ Oak Hill Law Group, PLLC: https://www.oakhilllawgroup.com/ Sponsored by: Jason Howell Company https://www.JasonHowell.com Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/author/jasonhowell Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/JoyofFinancialPlanning/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGm8ggXF11D4cbA4vWye3Ng/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/JasonHowellCo Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonhowell

In this episode Kendall, rachel, and Eric Jorgensen discuss: Is it weird that Kendall goes to https://thewirecutter.com/ before buying any product, sometimes even ones that are not reviewed there? Impostor syndrome affects everyone: Eric is a successful self-taught engineer, rachel comes from an astrophysics and English literature background, Kendall has 2 masters degrees in religion...but sometimes (always?) we feel inadequate to the challenge and expect to be found out at any moment. When does it makes sense to delegate vs. doing it yourself? Delegate more than you feel comfortable with. As a manager, you don't get the instant gratification of turning in a project like you do as a team member, how do you prevent yourself from feeling you have accomplished nothing? Leadership feels different when you're working at an agency and responsible for billable hours. Eric thinks there's strong correlation between companies with a lack of management and high turnover rate--what do you think? Being a leader has helped Eric become more patient? Are you sure? :) Eric can be found as ericmjorgensen on all the cool (and not so cool) social media platforms. Special thanks to Mel Stanley for our theme music

Alongside the Mount Baker highway is a brewery you’ve probably passed many times without realizing it. The North Fork Beer Shrine opened their doors in 1997 and started with a focus on traditional British ales. In recent years they’ve become known for their sour beers as well. I sat down with their brewmaster Eric Jorgensen to learn about the styles he makes and the technical creativity in their brewery. The North Fork Beer Shrine Website: http://www.northforkbrewery.com/ Cascadian Beer Podcast Website: http://cascadian.beer/ Podcast created and hosted by: Aaron Johnson Recorded on location at The North Fork - Deming, WA Editing & mixing by: Aaron Johnson Theme music by: A:M (Aaron Johnson & Danny Moffat) Support the show.

Welcome to the second episode of Tapped In!, a podcast from the Bellingham Tap Trail. We’ll be bringing you the people, news, and events in and around the Bellingham craft beer scene. Located on the way to Mt Baker, the North Fork Brewery and Beer Shrine is a testament to beer paraphernalia, great beer, and amazing pizza. Eric and I talk about favorite beers, dork out on sour beers, and delve into how bears seem to love being around him. North Fork Brewery and Beer Shrine 6186 Mt Baker Hwy Deming, WA 98244 https://www.northforkbrewery.com This episode was recorded on-location at Dave's house. Episode hosted & produced by Dave Morales | Tapped In Content Director: Scott Pelton More information at http://taptrail.com/