Podcast appearances and mentions of tim farris

As part of Clairsy & Lisa's Perth's Lost Landmarks series, they guys spoke to Mark Anderson who used to work at Bullen's African Lion Safari Park. He reminisced about a very naughty monkey and how working there was a bit of a family affair. There's an alarming new trend across a few museums in Europe at the moment. If you visit on certain days and times, be prepared to cop quite an eye full. During Clairsy & Lisa's Perth Pub Crawl, they spoke to Tim Farris from INXS and The Farriss Brothers about being the manager as well as a member of the band, as well as road trips to do gigs up north going wrong.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We all have TV shows that we want to watch but Clairsy & Lisa opened the phones and text line to ask What Can't You Watch When Your Partner Is Around. In The Shaw Report, A biopic about Saturday Night Live is in the works plus how you could own a pair of glasses designed by Dianne Keaton. Clairsy & Lisa's Perth Pub Crawl continued with Tim Farris. He was part of The Farris Brothers before they became INXS. He told Clairsy & Lisa the story of playing the Perth Pub Scene and how the band made it over East and ultimately internationally. Ben O'Shea reviewed the new Matt Damon & Casey Affleck movie The Instigators which is on AppleTV+See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Shay Cochrane built her own business by working 16 hours a week and continues to do that today to balance family and entrepreneurship. Shay is a  commercial photographer and product stylist who has worked with top global brands like Sugarfina Candy, Pure Fiji, Truffle Bags, and more. Her work has also helped powerhouse female entrepreneurs like Jenna Kutcher & Marie Forleo. Thousands of clients know & love Shay's work in her company Elevae Visuals, a membership program where you can find highly curated stock imagery of elevated images and videos for online brands. Her vision is to enable more women to find greater success by sharing their ideas & business. Shay has been Married for nearly 19 years to her husband Graham Cochrane. They are the proud parents of two daughters and are the hosts of the Family Goals Podcast.In this meaningful interview & conversation, Shay and host Mindi Linscombe dive into: 

Dropping names and personal stories about Hank Williams Jr., Vince Gill, Alan Jackson, Patty Loveless, Diamond Rio and more.. Tim Farris joins the guys for his part 2 on Musician's Cafe! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/musicians-cafe/support

An extra special guest, Tim Farris, joins us for episode 8! Think you know Tim? I bet not!

Today we're breaking apart the 85% rule. I first heard about this rule on the Tim Ferris show during an interview with actor Hugh Jackman and it has changed the way I look at productivity. The 85% rule is this idea that when you give 100% you're actually hurting yourself and burning yourself out. (I see you, perfectionists). If you give 85% you allow room to breathe, relax, and actually have fun while accomplishing more. Enjoy! Tim Farris and Hugh Jackman podcast episode: https://tim.blog/2020/06/26/hugh-jackman/ - -more- - Unsubscribing from Perfectionism: The Mini Course Bundle In each of these in depth Mini Courses, you'll learn about YOUR perfectionism type, plus you'll be guided through step-by-step exercises you can use to get you out of perfectionism once and for all!! Best part? Each mini course is just $7! Choose just your type or bundle all three! I'm the Overachiever! I'm the Procrastinator! I'm the People Pleaser! I want to bundle all three! Don't know which type you are? You can take the free quiz HERE! ---more— Don't forget to rate and review the podcast either on iTunes, Youtube or send me a video for a chance to get a shoutout on the next review of the episode. Please send video/audio reviews to hello@lifecoachbaker.com And, of course, don't forget to hit that subscribe button! IG- @lifecoachbaker This podcast is produced and edited by the WONDERFUL Ariel Villafane!

This really is a “thing”! Universities have entire departments with focused research on happiness and gratitude. In fact, researchers from Berkeley identified how gratitude might actually work on our minds and bodies. And Robert Emmons, perhaps the world's leading scientific expert on gratitude, argues that gratitude has two key components – tune in to hear the key components and the science of gratitude.   What Is Gratitude? Robert Emmons, perhaps the world's leading scientific expert on gratitude, argues that gratitude has two key components, which he describes in a Greater Good essay, “Why Gratitude Is Good.”   “First,” he writes, “it's an affirmation of goodness. We affirm that there are good things in the world, gifts and benefits we've received.”   In the second part of gratitude, he explains, “we recognize that the sources of this goodness are outside of ourselves. … We acknowledge that other people—or even higher powers, if you're of a spiritual mindset—gave us many gifts, big and small, to help us achieve the goodness in our lives.”   Emmons and other researchers see the social dimension as being especially important to gratitude. “I see it as a relationship-strengthening emotion,“ writes Emmons, “because it requires us to see how we've been supported and affirmed by other people.”   Because gratitude encourages us not only to appreciate gifts but to repay them (or pay them forward), the sociologist Georg Simmel called it “the moral memory of mankind.” This is how gratitude may have evolved: by strengthening bonds between members of the same species who mutually helped each other out.   This really is a ‘thing'! Universities have entire departments with focused research on happiness and gratitude. Researchers from Berkeley identified how gratitude might actually work on our minds and bodies. They provided four insights from their research suggesting what causes the psychological benefits of gratitude. Gratitude unshackles us from toxic emotions Gratitude helps even if you don't share it Gratitude's benefits take time & practice. You might not feel it right away. Gratitude has lasting effects on the brain   Breakdown of Benefits Physical• Stronger immune systems • Less bothered by aches and pains • Lower blood pressure • Exercise more and take better care of their health • Sleep longer and feel more refreshed upon waking   Psychological• Higher levels of positive emotions • More alert, alive, and awake • More joy and pleasure • More optimism and happiness   Social• More helpful, generous, and compassionate • More forgiving • More outgoing • Feel less lonely and isolated.   The Key to Well-Being? “Building the best life does not require fealty to feelings in the name of authenticity, but rather rebelling against negative impulses and acting right even when we don't feel like it,” says Arthur C. Brooks, author of Gross National Happiness, in a column in the New York Times. In the article, from 2015, he argues that “acting grateful can actually make you grateful” and uses science to prove it.   A 2003 study compared the well-being of participants who kept a weekly list of things they were grateful for to participants who kept a list of things that irritated them or neutral things. The researchers showed that the gratitude-focused participants exhibited increased well-being and they concluded that “a conscious focus on blessings may have emotional and interpersonal benefits.”   Understand this…..The participants didn't begin the study any more grateful or ungrateful than anyone else, and they didn't change their lives during the study so that they'd have more to be thankful for. They just turned their outlook to one of gratitude, and they were happier for it.   How Do You Practice Gratitude? Tony Robbins' Guided Imagery – Gratitude Practice He was on a podcast with Tim Farris, and he did like a seven-minute clip, and he walks you through how to feel gratitude from a way he's learned how to do it.   Resources: Robert Emmons "Why Gratitude Is Good" Greater Good Magazine – "What Is Gratitude?" Psychology Today – "Happiness" Arthur C. Brooks article in the New York Times 2003 Study from Robert Emmons Tony Robbins Gratitude Exercise 13 Practical & Proven Ways to Be Happier How Feeling Grateful Can Change Your Life… and Your Health

This really is a “thing”! Universities have entire departments with focused research on happiness and gratitude. In fact, researchers from Berkeley identified how gratitude might actually work on our minds and bodies. And Robert Emmons, perhaps the world's leading scientific expert on gratitude, argues that gratitude has two key components – tune in to hear the key components and the science of gratitude.   What Is Gratitude? Robert Emmons, perhaps the world's leading scientific expert on gratitude, argues that gratitude has two key components, which he describes in a Greater Good essay, “Why Gratitude Is Good.”   “First,” he writes, “it's an affirmation of goodness. We affirm that there are good things in the world, gifts and benefits we've received.”   In the second part of gratitude, he explains, “we recognize that the sources of this goodness are outside of ourselves. … We acknowledge that other people—or even higher powers, if you're of a spiritual mindset—gave us many gifts, big and small, to help us achieve the goodness in our lives.”   Emmons and other researchers see the social dimension as being especially important to gratitude. “I see it as a relationship-strengthening emotion,“ writes Emmons, “because it requires us to see how we've been supported and affirmed by other people.”   Because gratitude encourages us not only to appreciate gifts but to repay them (or pay them forward), the sociologist Georg Simmel called it “the moral memory of mankind.” This is how gratitude may have evolved: by strengthening bonds between members of the same species who mutually helped each other out.   This really is a ‘thing'! Universities have entire departments with focused research on happiness and gratitude. Researchers from Berkeley identified how gratitude might actually work on our minds and bodies. They provided four insights from their research suggesting what causes the psychological benefits of gratitude. Gratitude unshackles us from toxic emotions Gratitude helps even if you don't share it Gratitude's benefits take time & practice. You might not feel it right away. Gratitude has lasting effects on the brain   Breakdown of Benefits Physical• Stronger immune systems • Less bothered by aches and pains • Lower blood pressure • Exercise more and take better care of their health • Sleep longer and feel more refreshed upon waking   Psychological• Higher levels of positive emotions • More alert, alive, and awake • More joy and pleasure • More optimism and happiness   Social• More helpful, generous, and compassionate • More forgiving • More outgoing • Feel less lonely and isolated.   The Key to Well-Being? “Building the best life does not require fealty to feelings in the name of authenticity, but rather rebelling against negative impulses and acting right even when we don't feel like it,” says Arthur C. Brooks, author of Gross National Happiness, in a column in the New York Times. In the article, from 2015, he argues that “acting grateful can actually make you grateful” and uses science to prove it.   A 2003 study compared the well-being of participants who kept a weekly list of things they were grateful for to participants who kept a list of things that irritated them or neutral things. The researchers showed that the gratitude-focused participants exhibited increased well-being and they concluded that “a conscious focus on blessings may have emotional and interpersonal benefits.”   Understand this…..The participants didn't begin the study any more grateful or ungrateful than anyone else, and they didn't change their lives during the study so that they'd have more to be thankful for. They just turned their outlook to one of gratitude, and they were happier for it.   How Do You Practice Gratitude? Tony Robbins' Guided Imagery – Gratitude Practice He was on a podcast with Tim Farris, and he did like a seven-minute clip, and he walks you through how to feel gratitude from a way he's learned how to do it.   Resources: Robert Emmons "Why Gratitude Is Good" Greater Good Magazine – "What Is Gratitude?" Psychology Today – "Happiness" Arthur C. Brooks article in the New York Times 2003 Study from Robert Emmons Tony Robbins Gratitude Exercise 13 Practical & Proven Ways to Be Happier How Feeling Grateful Can Change Your Life… and Your Health

The leader of Fire Nation is in the house  John Lee Dumas the founder of Fire Nation and the host of the Entrepreneur on Fire podcast and the author of The Common Path to Uncommon Success joins Justin Benton  for this motivational interview.   Having interviewed over 3,000 incredible entrepreneurs including Tony Robbins, Seth Godin, Gary Vaynerchuk, Barbara Corcoran and Tim Farris, JLD has helped thousands of entrepreneurs realize their dreams.   During today's episode he discusses the need to combine passion with expertise to break through.  He shares some tips to help entrepreneurs position themselves for success.Produced by PodCONX       #HealTheWorld #3BX2025 Miracle Plant - https://podconx.com/podcasts/miracle-plantMiracle Plant - www.themiracleplant.orgEbook Offer -  https://themiracleplant.org/the-miracle-plant-free-ebook-offer/101CBD - info@101CBD.orgAmbassador Program - https://101cbd.org/101-cbd-brand-ambassador-2-0/Ask Janet -  https://askjanet.orgJustin Benton - https://podconx.com/guests/justin-bentonJanet Benton Gaillard - https://podconx.com/guests/janet-benton-gaillardJohn Lee Dumas -  https://podconx.com/guests/john-lee-dumasFire Nation - https://www.eofire.com/Entrepreneur of Fire Podcast - https://www.eofire.com/podcast/The Common Path to Uncommon Success -  https://uncommonsuccessbook.com/ 

We have our first guest in this episode, Dr.Tim Farris who shares some interesting info about the calendar. And we discuss what happens after the Maccabees in Judea.

This really is a “thing”! Universities have entire departments with focused research on happiness and gratitude. In fact, researchers from Berkeley identified how gratitude might actually work on our minds and bodies. And Robert Emmons, perhaps the world’s leading scientific expert on gratitude, argues that gratitude has two key components - tune in to hear the key components and the science of gratitude.    What Is Gratitude?   Robert Emmons, perhaps the world’s leading scientific expert on gratitude, argues that gratitude has two key components, which he describes in a Greater Good essay, “Why Gratitude Is Good.”  “First,” he writes, “it’s an affirmation of goodness. We affirm that there are good things in the world, gifts and benefits we’ve received.”   In the second part of gratitude, he explains, “we recognize that the sources of this goodness are outside of ourselves. … We acknowledge that other people—or even higher powers, if you’re of a spiritual mindset—gave us many gifts, big and small, to help us achieve the goodness in our lives.”   Emmons and other researchers see the social dimension as being especially important to gratitude. “I see it as a relationship-strengthening emotion,“ writes Emmons, “because it requires us to see how we’ve been supported and affirmed by other people.”   Because gratitude encourages us not only to appreciate gifts but to repay them (or pay them forward), the sociologist Georg Simmel called it “the moral memory of mankind.” This is how gratitude may have evolved: by strengthening bonds between members of the same species who mutually helped each other out.     This really is a ‘thing’!   Universities have entire departments with focused research on happiness and gratitude. Researchers from Berkeley identified how gratitude might actually work on our minds and bodies. They provided four insights from their research suggesting what causes the psychological benefits of gratitude.  Gratitude unshackles us from toxic emotions  Gratitude helps even if you don’t share it  Gratitude’s benefits take time & practice. You might not feel it right away.  Gratitude has lasting effects on the brain     Breakdown of Benefits  Physical  • Stronger immune systems  • Less bothered by aches and pains  • Lower blood pressure  • Exercise more and take better care of their health  • Sleep longer and feel more refreshed upon waking    Psychological  • Higher levels of positive emotions  • More alert, alive, and awake  • More joy and pleasure  • More optimism and happiness    Social  • More helpful, generous, and compassionate  • More forgiving  • More outgoing  • Feel less lonely and isolated.    The Key to Well-Being?  “Building the best life does not require fealty to feelings in the name of authenticity, but rather rebelling against negative impulses and acting right even when we don’t feel like it,” says Arthur C. Brooks, author of Gross National Happiness, in a column in the New York Times. In the article, from 2015, he argues that “acting grateful can actually make you grateful” and uses science to prove it.   A 2003 study compared the well-being of participants who kept a weekly list of things they were grateful for to participants who kept a list of things that irritated them or neutral things. The researchers showed that the gratitude-focused participants exhibited increased well-being and they concluded that “a conscious focus on blessings may have emotional and interpersonal benefits.”   Understand this…..The participants didn’t begin the study any more grateful or ungrateful than anyone else, and they didn’t change their lives during the study so that they’d have more to be thankful for. They just turned their outlook to one of gratitude, and they were happier for it.     How Do You Practice Gratitude?  Tony Robbins’ Guided Imagery – Gratitude Practice  He was on a podcast with Tim Farris, and he did like a seven-minute clip, and he walks you through how to feel gratitude from a way he's learned how to do it.    * * *   Deeper Dive Resources    Robert Emmons "Why Gratitude Is Good"  https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/why_gratitude_is_good    Greater Good Magazine – "What Is Gratitude?"  https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/topic/gratitude/definition    Psychology Today – "Happiness"  https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/happiness    Arthur C. Brooks article in the New York Times  https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/opinion/sunday/choose-to-be-grateful-it-will-make-you-happier.html    2003 Study from Robert Emmons  https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/images/application_uploads/Emmons-CountingBlessings.pdf    Tony Robbins Gratitude Exercise  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-1mxzHlEKI   

Gratitude. It’s just not something to shine a light on in November each year. We’ve dug up some fascinating research on the positive benefits having an attitude of gratitude will make on your health and well-being. Tune in to hear the research and tips on starting your own daily gratitude practice.  This really is a “thing”! Universities have entire departments with focused research on happiness and gratitude. In fact, researchers from Berkeley identified how gratitude might actually work on our minds and bodies. And Robert Emmons, perhaps the world’s leading scientific expert on gratitude, argues that gratitude has two key components - tune in to hear the key components and the science of gratitude.    What Is Gratitude?   Robert Emmons, perhaps the world’s leading scientific expert on gratitude, argues that gratitude has two key components, which he describes in a Greater Good essay, “Why Gratitude Is Good.”   “First,” he writes, “it’s an affirmation of goodness. We affirm that there are good things in the world, gifts and benefits we’ve received.”   In the second part of gratitude, he explains, “we recognize that the sources of this goodness are outside of ourselves. … We acknowledge that other people—or even higher powers, if you’re of a spiritual mindset—gave us many gifts, big and small, to help us achieve the goodness in our lives.”   Emmons and other researchers see the social dimension as being especially important to gratitude. “I see it as a relationship-strengthening emotion,“ writes Emmons, “because it requires us to see how we’ve been supported and affirmed by other people.”  Because gratitude encourages us not only to appreciate gifts but to repay them (or pay them forward), the sociologist Georg Simmel called it “the moral memory of mankind.” This is how gratitude may have evolved: by strengthening bonds between members of the same species who mutually helped each other out.    This really is a ‘thing’!   Universities have entire departments with focused research on happiness and gratitude. Researchers from Berkeley identified how gratitude might actually work on our minds and bodies. They provided four insights from their research suggesting what causes the psychological benefits of gratitude.  Gratitude unshackles us from toxic emotions  Gratitude helps even if you don’t share it  Gratitude’s benefits take time & practice. You might not feel it right away.  Gratitude has lasting effects on the brain     Breakdown of Benefits  Physical  • Stronger immune systems  • Less bothered by aches and pains  • Lower blood pressure  • Exercise more and take better care of their health  • Sleep longer and feel more refreshed upon waking    Psychological  • Higher levels of positive emotions  • More alert, alive, and awake  • More joy and pleasure  • More optimism and happiness    Social  • More helpful, generous, and compassionate  • More forgiving  • More outgoing  • Feel less lonely and isolated.    The Key to Well-Being?  “Building the best life does not require fealty to feelings in the name of authenticity, but rather rebelling against negative impulses and acting right even when we don’t feel like it,” says Arthur C. Brooks, author of Gross National Happiness, in a column in the New York Times. In the article, from 2015, he argues that “acting grateful can actually make you grateful” and uses science to prove it.  A 2003 study compared the well-being of participants who kept a weekly list of things they were grateful for to participants who kept a list of things that irritated them or neutral things. The researchers showed that the gratitude-focused participants exhibited increased well-being and they concluded that “a conscious focus on blessings may have emotional and interpersonal benefits.”  Understand this…..The participants didn’t begin the study any more grateful or ungrateful than anyone else, and they didn’t change their lives during the study so that they’d have more to be thankful for. They just turned their outlook to one of gratitude, and they were happier for it.   How Do You Practice Gratitude?  Tony Robbins’ Guided Imagery – Gratitude Practice  He was on a podcast with Tim Farris, and he did like a seven-minute clip, and he walks you through how to feel gratitude from a way he's learned how to do it.      * * *    Deeper Dive Resources    Robert Emmons "Why Gratitude Is Good"  https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/why_gratitude_is_good    Greater Good Magazine – "What Is Gratitude?"  https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/topic/gratitude/definition    Psychology Today – "Happiness"  https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/happiness    Arthur C. Brooks article in the New York Times  https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/opinion/sunday/choose-to-be-grateful-it-will-make-you-happier.html    2003 Study from Robert Emmons  https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/images/application_uploads/Emmons-CountingBlessings.pdf    Tony Robbins Gratitude Exercise  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-1mxzHlEKI   

Have you ever wondered what makes entrepreneurs like Gary Vee run? He has tons of pursuits, is always changing, always learning and it's not just copious amounts of caffeine that makes him successful.  In today's episode, we discuss two different mindsets that might have you reflecting on how you react to other people. Think about when someone tells you that you're wrong, do you tense up and get defensive, or does it strike your curiosity? You can't have a right or wrong answer to this, but it may give you insight into just what kind of mindset you hold, the soldier or the scout.  We talk about the balance needed between these two mindsets and how you can practically work towards a more open mind that will have you growing, changing, and learning faster than you ever have before. Understanding where you are in your journey for unlimited potential comes with being honest with yourself, and those around you to create stronger, more valuable, and more communicative relationships.  Admitting you are wrong and changing your mind is not a sign of weakness, but rather, is the ultimate strength.  For more info on the soldier vs. scout mindset and how you can continue your mindset journey check out the video links below!    More Of What We Cover  How you communicate is more important than what you communicate Keeping your audience in mind How to turn everything into an opportunity to serve The importance of focusing on things outside of yourself Soldier mindset vs. Scout Mindset How being aware can help keep an open mind Looking at things from other perspectives Understanding that its ok to be wrong How to balance the two mindsets   And much more!      LINKS:  5 Reasons To Change Your Mind Video Scout Mindset Video   Private Facebook Community:  www.facebook.com/groups/unlimitedpotentialpodcast   Personal Websites:  morrellfirm.com ramcheruvu.wixsite.com/doctorram   Youtube Channel:  www.youtube.com/channel/UCtSIgawdfsNk0bk4Rwotz7w   Social Media:  www.linkedin.com/in/doctorram https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-morrell www.instagram.com/doctorram.pharmd   Episode Minute By Minute:  0:18 Welcome to the show 0:39 How to display confidence while communicating 5:38 Quote of the day 10:27 What purpose is really about 12:06 A shoulder vs a scout mindset 21:09 Clarifying questions to ask yourself 24:11 Wisdom from Gary Vee 32:35 Chris' thoughts on politics  37:26 Lessons from Tim Farris 43:03 The idea of openness 

This is the second part of a longer recorded rant from 12/11/2020. In this episode I talk about the implementation of this idea of “Lifestyle Design”. I first heard of this from Tim Farris’s book the 4-hour work week. Tim talks about it in the sense of travel, though in this episode I’m looking at it holistically. I talk about how we as artist can use it in a multitude of ways to improve our lives. The main underlying idea is that we all waste so much time. If we streamline our time-wasting activities, we can utilize that time in different capacities. As artists this found time could be used to create new work, research a new project, spend time with our family, travel, or do pretty much anything else you could possibly think of. It’s worth noting, that since this was recorded, I have put this idea into action in my life. I’m currently sitting in quarantine in Bangkok Thailand. This shit works if you believe it can and you take the steps to make the things you want to happen. Enjoy!Mark Farrell “The Jeweler”For more info about growing your art-based business head to out BuffaloCraft.com now!

This idea of “Lifestyle Design” is something I learned from Tim Farris’s book the 4-hour work week. I lay out what it is and how we as artist can use it to our benefit. In this first part of a longer recorded rant I talk about how we as a society (at least the US) think incorrectly about our goals. I lay out some of the misconceptions of achieving the things that you want, your goals. I shed light on this idea, that we as people have to put off the things that we really want our “desires”, because we need to pay our dues first. I hope we can all see how backwards, incorrect and damaging this line of thinking actually is.Enjoy!Mark Farrell “The Jeweler”For more info about growing your art-based business head to out BuffaloCraft.com now!

We hear a lot about how we must take actions in order to achieve our goals in any motivational books or personal growth seminars. On the other hand, we also know about the importance of surrender. Sometimes, the way how things turn out is not up to our desire or control. If we are fixated to a certain outcome, we may suffer for that reason. So where do we need to draw the line? When should we pull back and surrender to the universe? I was listening to a podcast last week and the hosts mentioned about the book The Surrender Experiment, and that sparked my intense interest.  There has been a theme emerging in my world since last week, the question of when do we say, it’s time to surrender versus we need to try harder? I am very aware of the fact that surrender does not equal giving up, but it is about leaving to the universe, I have done my best, I let go. Then there is also the ideas of doing more or working smarter.  I understand sometimes the truth of the matter is, we need to put more time and energy in a pursuit or master a skill. Often times it means self-directed effort, determination, will and perhaps, faith in yourself. These are the times we need to say we should never give up. Spiritual forces may also inspire or encourage us to push through or endure a lengthy pursue. So taking actions is also highly important. Again, when do we know it is time to let go then? Or if we are letting go for the reasons? What if we want to quit because we are overly worried that we are investing more time and effort but only to find out we are going to fail anyway? Where do we draw the line between Self-Acceptance and Complacency? I was also watching an interview between Brene Brown and Tim Farris about a similar topic. And they discussed this very question. Where is the line? How do we know we are practicing self-acceptance, which is an important part for our personal growth, and at the same time, we are not just “lazy” and stay at where we are instead of moving forward and upward?  These questions have been lingering my mind for the entire week and I will try to answer it with what I know and understand, as well as from my personal experience. I’d love to hear what you may think about this as well.  Reading The Surrender Experiment brought tears to my eyes while I was reading the book within a couple of days. The way how the universe unfold its miraculous power and how the author followed the flow of life, and stepped away from his personal preference were simply astounding. It is very clear to me that if he have allowed his emotions or ego or impulsive reaction to run the course of his life, he wouldn’t have found the meditation temple, a building and construction company, a multi-billion dollar business and had so many life-changing experiences. The fact that he let-go and surrendered to life brought him joy, peace, friendships, wealth and incredible experiences more than he could ever imaged. What I found really clear to me is that the intention to surrender to life is a guiding principle for his actions, but he is a hard working and busy man from what I’ve read. It doesn’t mean he was doing nothing all day long. Even in his early years of attempting to live like a helmet and in solitude, it didn’t quite happened that way. There were plenty of actions and effort, but they simply do not come across as such. It was like when a fish is swimming downstream, it seems so natural and effortless to watch. The long hours he poured in to write his computer program didn't seem like effort or work. It was just him doing what life moved him to do. It's not about forcing the effort, but to allow forceful effort emerge from our heart and soul As I reflect on the “best” things that happened in my life, I realised they all shared a common theme. It came from no where that I could foresee, and it seems effortless to attain. However, before the opportunity arises,

Gratitude. It’s just not something to shine a light on in November each year. We’ve dug up some fascinating research on the positive benefits having an attitude of gratitude will make on your health and well-being. Tune in to hear the research and tips on starting your own daily gratitude practice.   Featured Product Organixx Ageless Brain Delivers powerful natural compounds scientifically shown to grow new brain cells and BOOST memory Rejuvenates and re-energizes your brain cells – and helps your brain stay YOUNG as you age Puts an end to brain fog… embarrassing senior moments… forgetfulness… trouble concentrating… and more! Promotes a calm, focused mind and balanced mood Supports healthy inflammation levels Made with organic herbal ingredients sourced from the Amazon rainforest   * * *   The holidays are here and it’s historically a hard time emotionally for many. And as we’ve discussed often… your emotions do impact your health and overall well-being! We wanted to explore the science of gratitude with you and offer some tips to help make the holidays just a little bit brighter this year. Scientists have discovered that feelings of gratitude can actually change your brain. Feeling gratitude can also be a great tool for overcoming depression and anxiety.   What Is Gratitude? Robert Emmons, perhaps the world’s leading scientific expert on gratitude, argues that gratitude has two key components, which he describes in a Greater Good essay, “Why Gratitude Is Good.” “First,” he writes, “it’s an affirmation of goodness. We affirm that there are good things in the world, gifts and benefits we’ve received.” In the second part of gratitude, he explains, “we recognize that the sources of this goodness are outside of ourselves. … We acknowledge that other people—or even higher powers, if you’re of a spiritual mindset—gave us many gifts, big and small, to help us achieve the goodness in our lives.” Emmons and other researchers see the social dimension as being especially important to gratitude. “I see it as a relationship-strengthening emotion,“ writes Emmons, “because it requires us to see how we’ve been supported and affirmed by other people.” Because gratitude encourages us not only to appreciate gifts but to repay them (or pay them forward), the sociologist Georg Simmel called it “the moral memory of mankind.” This is how gratitude may have evolved: by strengthening bonds between members of the same species who mutually helped each other out.   This really is a ‘thing’! Universities have entire departments with focused research on happiness and gratitude. Researchers from Berkeley identified how gratitude might actually work on our minds and bodies. They provided four insights from their research suggesting what causes the psychological benefits of gratitude. Gratitude unshackles us from toxic emotions Gratitude helps even if you don’t share it Gratitude’s benefits take time & practice. You might not feel it right away. Gratitude has lasting effects on the brain   Breakdown of Benefits Physical• Stronger immune systems • Less bothered by aches and pains • Lower blood pressure • Exercise more and take better care of their health • Sleep longer and feel more refreshed upon waking   Psychological• Higher levels of positive emotions • More alert, alive, and awake • More joy and pleasure • More optimism and happiness   Social• More helpful, generous, and compassionate • More forgiving • More outgoing • Feel less lonely and isolated.   The Key to Well-Being? “Building the best life does not require fealty to feelings in the name of authenticity, but rather rebelling against negative impulses and acting right even when we don’t feel like it,” says Arthur C. Brooks, author of Gross National Happiness, in a column in the New York Times. In the article, from 2015, he argues that “acting grateful can actually make you grateful” and uses science to prove it. A 2003 study compared the well-being of participants who kept a weekly list of things they were grateful for to participants who kept a list of things that irritated them or neutral things. The researchers showed that the gratitude-focused participants exhibited increased well-being and they concluded that “a conscious focus on blessings may have emotional and interpersonal benefits.” Understand this…..The participants didn’t begin the study any more grateful or ungrateful than anyone else, and they didn’t change their lives during the study so that they’d have more to be thankful for. They just turned their outlook to one of gratitude, and they were happier for it.   How Do You Practice Gratitude? Tony Robbins’ Guided Imagery – Gratitude Practice He was on a podcast with Tim Farris, and he did like a seven-minute clip, and he walks you through how to feel gratitude from a way he's learned how to do it.   * * *   Deeper Dive Resources   Robert Emmons "Why Gratitude Is Good" https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/why_gratitude_is_good   Greater Good Magazine – "What Is Gratitude?" https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/topic/gratitude/definition   Psychology Today – "Happiness" https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/happiness   Arthur C. Brooks article in the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/opinion/sunday/choose-to-be-grateful-it-will-make-you-happier.html   2003 Study from Robert Emmons https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/images/application_uploads/Emmons-CountingBlessings.pdf   Tony Robbins Gratitude Exercise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-1mxzHlEKI

Gratitude. It’s just not something to shine a light on in November each year. We’ve dug up some fascinating research on the positive benefits having an attitude of gratitude will make on your health and well-being. Tune in to hear the research and tips on starting your own daily gratitude practice.   Featured Product Organixx Ageless Brain Delivers powerful natural compounds scientifically shown to grow new brain cells and BOOST memory Rejuvenates and re-energizes your brain cells – and helps your brain stay YOUNG as you age Puts an end to brain fog… embarrassing senior moments… forgetfulness… trouble concentrating… and more! Promotes a calm, focused mind and balanced mood Supports healthy inflammation levels Made with organic herbal ingredients sourced from the Amazon rainforest   * * *   The holidays are here and it’s historically a hard time emotionally for many. And as we’ve discussed often… your emotions do impact your health and overall well-being! We wanted to explore the science of gratitude with you and offer some tips to help make the holidays just a little bit brighter this year. Scientists have discovered that feelings of gratitude can actually change your brain. Feeling gratitude can also be a great tool for overcoming depression and anxiety.   What Is Gratitude? Robert Emmons, perhaps the world’s leading scientific expert on gratitude, argues that gratitude has two key components, which he describes in a Greater Good essay, “Why Gratitude Is Good.” “First,” he writes, “it’s an affirmation of goodness. We affirm that there are good things in the world, gifts and benefits we’ve received.” In the second part of gratitude, he explains, “we recognize that the sources of this goodness are outside of ourselves. … We acknowledge that other people—or even higher powers, if you’re of a spiritual mindset—gave us many gifts, big and small, to help us achieve the goodness in our lives.” Emmons and other researchers see the social dimension as being especially important to gratitude. “I see it as a relationship-strengthening emotion,“ writes Emmons, “because it requires us to see how we’ve been supported and affirmed by other people.” Because gratitude encourages us not only to appreciate gifts but to repay them (or pay them forward), the sociologist Georg Simmel called it “the moral memory of mankind.” This is how gratitude may have evolved: by strengthening bonds between members of the same species who mutually helped each other out.   This really is a ‘thing’! Universities have entire departments with focused research on happiness and gratitude. Researchers from Berkeley identified how gratitude might actually work on our minds and bodies. They provided four insights from their research suggesting what causes the psychological benefits of gratitude. Gratitude unshackles us from toxic emotions Gratitude helps even if you don’t share it Gratitude’s benefits take time & practice. You might not feel it right away. Gratitude has lasting effects on the brain   Breakdown of Benefits Physical• Stronger immune systems • Less bothered by aches and pains • Lower blood pressure • Exercise more and take better care of their health • Sleep longer and feel more refreshed upon waking   Psychological• Higher levels of positive emotions • More alert, alive, and awake • More joy and pleasure • More optimism and happiness   Social• More helpful, generous, and compassionate • More forgiving • More outgoing • Feel less lonely and isolated.   The Key to Well-Being? “Building the best life does not require fealty to feelings in the name of authenticity, but rather rebelling against negative impulses and acting right even when we don’t feel like it,” says Arthur C. Brooks, author of Gross National Happiness, in a column in the New York Times. In the article, from 2015, he argues that “acting grateful can actually make you grateful” and uses science to prove it. A 2003 study compared the well-being of participants who kept a weekly list of things they were grateful for to participants who kept a list of things that irritated them or neutral things. The researchers showed that the gratitude-focused participants exhibited increased well-being and they concluded that “a conscious focus on blessings may have emotional and interpersonal benefits.” Understand this…..The participants didn’t begin the study any more grateful or ungrateful than anyone else, and they didn’t change their lives during the study so that they’d have more to be thankful for. They just turned their outlook to one of gratitude, and they were happier for it.   How Do You Practice Gratitude? Tony Robbins’ Guided Imagery – Gratitude Practice He was on a podcast with Tim Farris, and he did like a seven-minute clip, and he walks you through how to feel gratitude from a way he's learned how to do it.   * * *   Deeper Dive Resources   Robert Emmons "Why Gratitude Is Good" https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/why_gratitude_is_good   Greater Good Magazine – "What Is Gratitude?" https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/topic/gratitude/definition   Psychology Today – "Happiness" https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/happiness   Arthur C. Brooks article in the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/22/opinion/sunday/choose-to-be-grateful-it-will-make-you-happier.html   2003 Study from Robert Emmons https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/images/application_uploads/Emmons-CountingBlessings.pdf   Tony Robbins Gratitude Exercise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-1mxzHlEKI

What's Up, Creative Hustlers! Steven & Melissa here. Today, from sunny San Diego, we're talking with Anton Kraley, creator at Drop Ship Lifestyle, an online platform giving students the knowledge and tools necessary to create freedom through entrepreneurship by leveraging the power of drop shipping. [00:00] This episode is brought to you by your interim CMOs, Latin & Code. [00:17] What's up, Creative Hustlers! [00:45] This interview episode is sponsored by The Agency Guy. If you're overwhelmed with your Marketing and SEO, visit The Agency Guy for strategic advice! [01:11] Today we're taking with Anton Kraley, the creator of Drop Ship Lifestyle. [01:27] Why Anton is a creative hustler in 60 seconds or less… [01:41] Anton has been hustling since age 21, starting with cookies. [02:07] Anton was selling rainbow cookies and S cookies for his first business. [03:00] Why Anton invested $25,000 in a cookie business. [04:56] The connection to Drop Ship Lifestyle and how it connects. [05:37] He sold expensive items, and imported them from China, getting into high ticket items. [06:09] Anton thought there might be other people who had advice for him, and realized that a beginner wouldn't get the information they needed. [06:54] In 2016, he launched the first version of the eCourse that is Drop Ship Now. [07:20] A cliff notes version of what drop shipping is. [09:10] Drop shipping is essentially helping them market their product and get it out. [09:45] How open are retailers are with working with internet retailers? [11:01] What's the next step after the beginner level? [12:15] The main points in the Drop Ship Lifestyle courses. [13:30] Other broad tips on Drop Shipping from Anton. [14:11] Items & trends that Anton is super jazzed about. [15:18] Anton is looking for longevity and the lifestyle. [15:38] Anton's customer acquisition plan. [17:22] A Marketing channel that just did not work. [18:50] What the Drop Ship Lifestyle business team is composed of. [20:05] Any software or tools that they use internally that are amazing. [21:45] When you have too many tools people won't use them. [22:27] What Anton is excited out for next year! [23:08] Anton has a podcast launching in 2019. [23:56] Anton will not be the one doing everything again. [24:45] Anton would share a beer with Tim Farris because 4 hour Work Week is what got him into online business! [26:23] That's a Wrap, Creative Hustlers! [26:28] Where Anton lives on the Internet. [26:47] Make sure to check us out at The Creative Hustler and Latin & Code, as well as leave us a review on iTunes or Sticher. [27:05] Melissa's Moment of Hustle   Contact: https://www.dropshiplifestyle.com https://www.ecommercelifestyle.com https://www.youtube.com/dropshiplifestyle https://www.facebook.com/dropshiplifestyle https://www.instagram.com/dropshiplifestyle

Episode #591 December 22, 2017 – We have a variety of questions, success stories and helpful resources that will help you find or develop passion in your work and your life — from the 17-year-old looking to take college classes outside her primary interests to the 49-year-old still searching to define his talents, skills and interest and the millennials in between who are looking for ways to pay student loans. Hi, this is Dan Miller – and yes you're listening to the 48 Days Radio show – where each week we take 48 minutes to dive into real life questions about finding your passion, deciding what kind of life you want to live – and then finding or creating work that allows you to show up every day, excited to be able to do something that is meaningful, fulfilling – and profitable.  This is where normal, indecision and ambiguity come to die.  Welcome to the 48 Days Radio Show. Questions: I took your advice and was able to leave my job in 12 months. Should our 17-yr-old daughter take college classes outside her primary interests? With a salary of around $40,000 a year I feel completely stuck, and like the only way out is homelessness.  (Tom Peters – the most important business advice you'll ever hear.) Emily shares free college and career guides I have no clearly identifiable talents or skills.  No clear purpose or strong interest in any one area. Plus good news and more. Cliff Feightner poem: When you finally get your degreeDo you post it for all to seeDoes what you possessOnly serve to impressAnd get from most a “whoopie” Quotation: [spp-tweet tweet=”“I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.” -Louisa May Alcott”] Timestamped Notes: 3:12 – Dan shares some of the exciting things happening in the 48 Days Eagles Community, including this week's Monday Mentor training featuring David Ballentine's business. Most recently, he has created courses for tradesmen (plumbers, electricians, contractors) who need CEU credits for their licenses. You can still join 48 Days Eagles and be locked in at the $30/month rate for a few more days. The price will go up Jan. 1, 2018. Act now. [spp-timestamp time=”5:44 “]- Our business partner this week is Freshbooks. Get your business or side business off to a great start in the new year. Click here to get a free month — just list 48 Days in the how did you hear about us section. Good News 7:30 – Good News this week: A man who buys every toy in Goodwill for the children who shop there to get one free. Someone who helped develop a way to ship gifts and packages to homeless people. Folks who are leaving snacks for delivery drivers to ease this crazy time of year for them. A child who bought blankets for the homeless instead of getting a new XBox. [spp-timestamp time=”13:24″] – A success story of a fourth grade teacher who moved into financial coaching full time and is now giving back by offering the first 30 days of his membership site to help you get out of debt for just 48 cents. Click here and use code 48DAYS. Broadening Your Horizons 15:50 – The father of a 17-year-old who is being homeschooled asked Dan if he should encourage his daughter to take entrepreneurial classes and those not necessarily connected to her interests. Dan's advice:  Broaden your horizons before you narrow too quickly. Most noteworthy remember that you shouldn't go to college just  to have a piece of paper so someone will give you a job. College and Debt 19:30 – Dan has gotten a lot of response from the man who had a master's degree and lives in a homeless shelter. The most recent from a man making $40,000/year and working side jobs but can't pay off his college debt and is sleeping on his parent's couch. He says: “going to college set me up for failure. I should have self-taught myself.” 26:45 – Dan recommendation: find a creative way to generate income. He shares some success stories of folks in the 48 Days Community who have created a side business, including a retired pastor and his wife who are selling shoes on Amazon and generated $200,000 in profit. [spp-tweet tweet=”If you're only looking at a ‘regular job,' you're only looking at 5% of the opportunities to make money.”]   [spp-timestamp time=”30:22″] – Tom Peters, author of In Search of Excellence, shares in Tim Farris' book, Tribe of Mentors his advice for the smart, driven college student. “Good manners pay off big time. Being civil and decent and kind is the bed rock of career success as well as personal fulfillment.” Be a superstar, all-pro listener. Read. Love Your Job [spp-timestamp time=”32:13″] – Dan shares the story of a doorman in Chicago who has served well for 22 years because he loves interacting with people. He has developed personal skills to make him distinct. Click here to check out the video of him talking about why he loves his job. Resources 36:17 – Emily Sorenson with the Center for School, College and Career Resources, shares a myriad of resources and guides. See the resource section below for a full list of link. Selling Online 38:04 – A follow-up question from a pastor Dan featured a few months ago who was looking for ways to pay for his PhD. He now has two e-books and is looking for the best way to sell them online. His question: should he sell on Amazon or on his own website. Dan's answer: Both! Developing Passion 42:03 – Dan shares a heartbreaking story from a man who has been looking for work he loves since 2003, having had 11 jobs and 3 professional licenses. As a result, he feels like a misfit in the marketplace. He says he has no clearly identifiable talents or skills and no clear purpose or strong interest in any one area. Dan's recommendations: [spp-tweet tweet=”Hoping and praying are not enough. You have to have a clear plan of action.”] [spp-tweet tweet=”Passion is not something that just shows up. It's something that can be developed. Decide to do something. Learn how to do it well, and passion will develop as you do that with excellence. “] Calls to Action: Get your Goal Planning Guide now Meet Dan at Social Media Marketing World 2018 – Click here to choose your ticket  Our business partner this week is Freshbooks To claim your month long unrestricted free trial with no credit card required, go to https://www.freshbooks.com/pages/48days and enter '48 Days” in the “How Did You Hear About Us?” section. Recommended Resources:   Homeless College Students will be homeless slaves with massive debt – my old blog that continues to attract comments FundingFreedomU – use code 48DAYS to get first 30 days for $.48 (listener Craig Dacy resource) Resources and Tools for Entrepreneurship in School – https://www.affordablecollegesonline.org/college-resource-center/college-entrepreneurship/ Career Guide for Students with Disabilities – https://www.affordablecollegesonline.org/students-with-disabilities-careers/ Guide to Finding a Job Online – https://www.learnhowtobecome.org/online-job-search-guide/ Perfecting Your LinkedIn Profile – https://www.learnhowtobecome.org/ultimate-linkedin-guide/ Tips on the Perfect Resume – https://www.learnhowtobecome.org/resume-guide/       So many of you continue to ask for more information about the Amazon Merch program.  This is the only program I recommend: provenamazoncourse.com/48days 48DaysEagles.com To submit a question for the Podcast, send your note to askdan@48Days.com The post I'm not afraid of storms – I'm learning how to sail! appeared first on Official Site Dan Miller.

Silicon Valley software engineer reads Tim Farris's 4 Hour Work Week after freaking out about his life on the hamster wheel and it changed everything in his life. On this episode of the Digital Journey Podcast, Matt Diggity tells his story how he started with zero knowledge about website SEO and became a multi-million dollar Amazon affiliate website owner. Learn how he struggled to become a location independent entrepreneur "digital nomad" in Chaing Mai, Thailand that has sold several of his Amazon Affiliate sites for more than 6 figures. Matt has become such a well-respected SEO expert that he and his other SEO friend are hosting their first SEO conference in NOV of 2017 in Chiang Mai where he and the world's best SEO experts share their inside SEO secrets.

The process of going from hot to warm to cold traffic. On today's episode Russell talks about re-launching the Marketing In Your Car podcast and how that is going. He also talks about building a Dream 100 list and how that helps you grab big piles of cash before trying to market to a cold audience. Here are some cool things in this episode: The exciting new things happening with the Marketing In Your Car podcast. Why Russell tells people in his Inner Circle to grab the piles of cash in front of them before doing extra work to market to a cold audience. Find out what is happening with Russellbrunson.com and how you'll be able to watch him go from 0 to a million of his books sold. And how you can watch the each process by subscribing to the podcast, following Russell's blog, and by watching Funnel Hacker TV. So listen below to hear Russell's thoughts on the podcast, and his Dream 100 list. ---Transcript--- Hey everyone, this is Russell Brunson. Welcome to a freezing cold Marketing In Your Car. Boise has been covered in feet of snow, not foot, feet. Many feet of snow. Everything has been frozen. We've had three snow days in a row, back to back to back. But I had to get to the office today because we were doing a webinar, and I don't trust my home internet connection as much as the office. Plus I miss everybody, I wanted to see them all again. I've been working from home the last few days. I still haven't finished the book, it's killing me. But we did get launched the Marketing In Your Car free MP3 player. So if you haven't got yours yet go to marketinginyourcar.com. I'm guessing though if you're listening right now, you're probably on. We had to do a couple of things, I think I told you. Our old RSS feed, I totally screwed up on so we retired that podcast. So it's, that one's kind of paused. It says archived image there. And then if you come to the new one, that's the one you're listening to right now. And we're all hanging out and having fun over here. And what's been fun, by kind of restarting the thing and launching the free MP3 player, we were able to do a new launch around it, which is fun. So we've got over a thousand people in the first 24 hours have gotten a free MP3 player. So hopefully a thousand of you guys are listening to this, or more, that are new. And hopefully we'll keep growing. I just appreciate all of you guys sharing and all the good feedback for the podcast. Makes me happy. In fact, today was really, really cool. One of my friends, he's the Clickfunnels member and someone I met, I think at the first Funnel Hacking event, anyway, his name is Travis Cody. He sent me, I got this box in the mail today and I opened it up and there's a video playing on the screen of this box, talking and it's Travis talking. And then I looked down and inside of the box there's these two huge books, and I pull them out and a lot of you guys know I'm Mormon, so there's a Book of Mormon. It looks like a special font on it, different color and everything. And it looks like two Book of Mormons, but it's the Book of Brunson. I'm like, what? I open it up and it's all of my podcasts put in this book. It was the coolest gift I've ever gotten. I don't know, he says he's got an idea, so maybe we're going to start selling these as an actual product, but it was super cool. So I got the Book of Brunson now. So if I start quoting scripture, I'm like, “The Book of Brunson, Chapter 2, Verse 16.” You'll know what I'm talking about. It's all coming from this podcast. It was a super cool gift from him. So thank you Travis if you're listening. Appreciate that, it was really fun. It's just been fun re-getting excited about this podcast. I've been doing it for so long now and at first, I don't think anyone listened for a long time. But I was doing it because I thought it was fun. And the cool thing is that, because of the way I set up the RSS feed, I had no way to check if people are actually listening. Which is actually helpful because then I didn't know if anyone was listening, so I didn't assume people were listening. Now,  a few years later, I know we've got a lot of listeners. Now that we're moving things over I'll actually be able to see how many people are listening and downloads and all that kind of stuff. So that will be kind of fun. But regardless, it's something I enjoy and it's been hugely beneficial for me, just to get out my thoughts and ideas and what I'm thinking. And you guys have obviously have been a huge sounding board for me as we've gone from near bankruptcy when I started this podcast, to where we're at today. And I just appreciate you guys listening and sharing and commenting. So if you guys are listening, please I love for you to come and comment on the new feed because we switched over, obviously there were zero stars, I think we're like 35 or 40 stars now, so that's good. But the more you guys can come and comment, let me know. Right now, especially for the next week or two, I'm really intently reading comments. So feel free to drop a comment. I'm sure I'll read it, which will be kind of fun. With that said, welcome to the podcast, those of you guys who are new. So for those who are new, the way this works is as I'm driving to the office and back I just share cool ideas and things we are working on and stuff that I think would be helpful for you. I'm heading home from the office right now. I had a webinar today with JLD, John Lee Dumas, which was fun and worked awesomely. We helped serve his people well. We sold a bunch of Clickfunnels, which is the key to happiness for me and for them as entrepreneurs, as you know, which is really cool. And then afterwards we had a Dream 100 meeting. What is a Dream 100? As you listen and you guys catch up on my podcast, I talk about this a lot, but this is the foundation of promotion of business for me. So go back and find some of those calls where we go deeper. Basically Dream 100, who are the 100 people in your market that have your dream customers on their list right now, and how can you get them to promote you to their audience? When we launched the Dotcom Secrets book, we built the dream 100 list, and we started sending people Dream 100 gifts in the mail. We sent them copies of the new book that was coming out, we sent Ferrari key chains because we were giving away a Ferrari.  We did all these cool things, we kept sending them out. And we did that to get people to promote. And it's funny because from that Dream 100 campaign, we got a whole bunch of people promoting the book that I didn't have relationships with at all. We found who were all the top business podcasters that are out there. So I had a bunch of them and we started sending them the book and stuff. John Lee Dumas was one of them, I never met him at the time. A couple of days later I get an email saying, “Russell, your book is awesome. I want to promote it.” And now we've done 3 funnel hack webinars, he's sold a few thousand copies of my book and we've made a bunch of money together. And it came from the Dream 100 concept. John was just one of the many people we did it with. But I built lists of 100 people, and honestly my Dream 100 list keeps growing and growing. And that's what today's meeting was about, kind of trimming that down. Who's our Dream 100 for my next book launch coming up in April? And we're putting those things together and kind of mapping out a strategy. And a couple of things I want to know. One thing, the book launch is at the end of April, so we're like almost 3 1/2 months away. And we're doing this now. A big part of this is digging the well before you're thirsty. A lot of you will launch a product and then start going and bugging JV partners and stuff and it's like no, do that work ahead of time. So we're planning out now, we'll be contacting everyone and getting people information so they can get it on the calendar,  and we'll be sending copies of the book as soon as they come out. We're trying to prepare for that and get it ready and build a good relationship with everybody before that. Just to kind of get people excited for the book. But it's the foundation. So what's cool is we have our new reality show that's close to done called Funnel Hacker TV as well. So we filmed the Dream 100 process today so you guys will be able to see it soon. You'll see how this is the foundation for everything we do in our business, building that list of partners. And initially…..my biggest goal of the Dream 100, if I can get them to promote my book or whatever the thing is that we're selling, that's the best. If I can get them to promote on a podcast, or through their blog or email, that's number one. So we try that initially, but a lot of people can't or won't. So after that is done, we try the first phase, which is let's get them to promote it, that's a warm audience, excuse me that's the hot. We got the hot and transition down to warm. The warm audience may not know me but I can market to Toni Robbins' followers, or Tim Farris' followers, or things like that on Facebook, so that's a warm audience. People may know Toni and not me, but I can create a bridge page that bridges that gap between Toni and me, and then get them to buy the book or whatever the thing is, register for the webinar. So we start building bridge pages to our warm audience to bring them from there over. So that's the second thing, taking the Dream 100 list we have and then going after them as a warm audience. We're advertising directly to them as opposed to Toni or someone directly marketing to his people. So that's phase number two in our Dream 100. And then phase number three is to go into cold traffic and stuff like that. So one cool thing we're doing that's not live yet, but may be live by the time you guys get this. Changing up Russellbrunson.com. So again, depending on when you go there. If you go there and see a picture of me standing there with a bunch of links around the sides of me, that's the new one. I'm doing this blog and the blog I'm going to be documenting this journey of how we're doing this whole thing from the dream 100 to the book launch and trying to take you on a journey from how we went from 0 to selling hopefully a million copies of my book. So that's kind of cool. So you'll see the transitions we go from hot traffic, our own existing lists, then our partners lists, then shifting and transforming down to a warm audience. From there trying to saturate that, and from there transition down to a cold audience. And what's the differences between going after warm traffic versus cold. Because it's different. The way I position hot, if you've read the Dotcom Secrets book you know about hot traffic, warm traffic, cold traffic, but it's different the way I sell to each of them. So we start with the hot, it's funny in my Inner Circle, everyone's trying to convert cold traffic. I'm like, “Wait, there's a huge pile of cash sitting right in front of you. Grab the big pile of cash first. That's your warm market, grab them first. That's the hot market, excuse me. Then there's the warm market, which is one step back, that's the next big pile of cash, so grab that before you go for the cold.” Make all the money you can out of the hot market, then go to the warm market, then you go to the cold. And each level of that process, moving from hot to warm to cold, the sales process, the funnels, the messaging, the language patterns, all those things change. I'll be sharing those and documenting them on the new Russell Brunson blog. How we went from 0 to a million copies of my book here over the next, I mean who knows how long it takes to get me a million bucks, probably a couple of years, which will be kind of cool. We're going to be doing all sorts of stuff. We already have in the works, plans to do infomercial, radio campaigns, mass market, PR. It's going to be a ride. It's going to be a fun journey. So hopefully you guys will come along on the journey with me. But just know that that's kind of what we're doing. The goal is to show the strategy. How we roll out a book and how we take that book and help it to, the Dotcom Secrets book, when we launched that, it was the foundation that got us, to now we're almost 30 thousand active customers inside of Clickfunnels. So that's the goal, how do we do that and how do we leverage a book or any kind of front end product, to build the back end of your company. So that's the journey that I'll be taking you guys on. I hope you can join me for the ride. With that said, I'm home. In a day or two or whatever check out russellbrunson.com, check out the blog and we'll start the first post. I already wrote the first post, and we're going to start doing that once a week. Sharing the journey and showing you how many books we sold from each of the things and that'll be the game plan. With that said, I'm home. Appreciate you guys, thanks for listening, thanks for subscribing. Please come comment and share, let me know what you're thinking. I'm excited to be on this journey with you guys. Talk to you all again soon. Bye.

The process of going from hot to warm to cold traffic. On today’s episode Russell talks about re-launching the Marketing In Your Car podcast and how that is going. He also talks about building a Dream 100 list and how that helps you grab big piles of cash before trying to market to a cold audience. Here are some cool things in this episode: The exciting new things happening with the Marketing In Your Car podcast. Why Russell tells people in his Inner Circle to grab the piles of cash in front of them before doing extra work to market to a cold audience. Find out what is happening with Russellbrunson.com and how you’ll be able to watch him go from 0 to a million of his books sold. And how you can watch the each process by subscribing to the podcast, following Russell’s blog, and by watching Funnel Hacker TV. So listen below to hear Russell’s thoughts on the podcast, and his Dream 100 list. ---Transcript--- Hey everyone, this is Russell Brunson. Welcome to a freezing cold Marketing In Your Car. Boise has been covered in feet of snow, not foot, feet. Many feet of snow. Everything has been frozen. We’ve had three snow days in a row, back to back to back. But I had to get to the office today because we were doing a webinar, and I don’t trust my home internet connection as much as the office. Plus I miss everybody, I wanted to see them all again. I’ve been working from home the last few days. I still haven’t finished the book, it’s killing me. But we did get launched the Marketing In Your Car free MP3 player. So if you haven’t got yours yet go to marketinginyourcar.com. I’m guessing though if you’re listening right now, you’re probably on. We had to do a couple of things, I think I told you. Our old RSS feed, I totally screwed up on so we retired that podcast. So it’s, that one’s kind of paused. It says archived image there. And then if you come to the new one, that’s the one you’re listening to right now. And we’re all hanging out and having fun over here. And what’s been fun, by kind of restarting the thing and launching the free MP3 player, we were able to do a new launch around it, which is fun. So we’ve got over a thousand people in the first 24 hours have gotten a free MP3 player. So hopefully a thousand of you guys are listening to this, or more, that are new. And hopefully we’ll keep growing. I just appreciate all of you guys sharing and all the good feedback for the podcast. Makes me happy. In fact, today was really, really cool. One of my friends, he’s the Clickfunnels member and someone I met, I think at the first Funnel Hacking event, anyway, his name is Travis Cody. He sent me, I got this box in the mail today and I opened it up and there’s a video playing on the screen of this box, talking and it’s Travis talking. And then I looked down and inside of the box there’s these two huge books, and I pull them out and a lot of you guys know I’m Mormon, so there’s a Book of Mormon. It looks like a special font on it, different color and everything. And it looks like two Book of Mormons, but it’s the Book of Brunson. I’m like, what? I open it up and it’s all of my podcasts put in this book. It was the coolest gift I’ve ever gotten. I don’t know, he says he’s got an idea, so maybe we’re going to start selling these as an actual product, but it was super cool. So I got the Book of Brunson now. So if I start quoting scripture, I’m like, “The Book of Brunson, Chapter 2, Verse 16.” You’ll know what I’m talking about. It’s all coming from this podcast. It was a super cool gift from him. So thank you Travis if you’re listening. Appreciate that, it was really fun. It’s just been fun re-getting excited about this podcast. I’ve been doing it for so long now and at first, I don’t think anyone listened for a long time. But I was doing it because I thought it was fun. And the cool thing is that, because of the way I set up the RSS feed, I had no way to check if people are actually listening. Which is actually helpful because then I didn’t know if anyone was listening, so I didn’t assume people were listening. Now,  a few years later, I know we’ve got a lot of listeners. Now that we’re moving things over I’ll actually be able to see how many people are listening and downloads and all that kind of stuff. So that will be kind of fun. But regardless, it’s something I enjoy and it’s been hugely beneficial for me, just to get out my thoughts and ideas and what I’m thinking. And you guys have obviously have been a huge sounding board for me as we’ve gone from near bankruptcy when I started this podcast, to where we’re at today. And I just appreciate you guys listening and sharing and commenting. So if you guys are listening, please I love for you to come and comment on the new feed because we switched over, obviously there were zero stars, I think we’re like 35 or 40 stars now, so that’s good. But the more you guys can come and comment, let me know. Right now, especially for the next week or two, I’m really intently reading comments. So feel free to drop a comment. I’m sure I’ll read it, which will be kind of fun. With that said, welcome to the podcast, those of you guys who are new. So for those who are new, the way this works is as I’m driving to the office and back I just share cool ideas and things we are working on and stuff that I think would be helpful for you. I’m heading home from the office right now. I had a webinar today with JLD, John Lee Dumas, which was fun and worked awesomely. We helped serve his people well. We sold a bunch of Clickfunnels, which is the key to happiness for me and for them as entrepreneurs, as you know, which is really cool. And then afterwards we had a Dream 100 meeting. What is a Dream 100? As you listen and you guys catch up on my podcast, I talk about this a lot, but this is the foundation of promotion of business for me. So go back and find some of those calls where we go deeper. Basically Dream 100, who are the 100 people in your market that have your dream customers on their list right now, and how can you get them to promote you to their audience? When we launched the Dotcom Secrets book, we built the dream 100 list, and we started sending people Dream 100 gifts in the mail. We sent them copies of the new book that was coming out, we sent Ferrari key chains because we were giving away a Ferrari.  We did all these cool things, we kept sending them out. And we did that to get people to promote. And it’s funny because from that Dream 100 campaign, we got a whole bunch of people promoting the book that I didn’t have relationships with at all. We found who were all the top business podcasters that are out there. So I had a bunch of them and we started sending them the book and stuff. John Lee Dumas was one of them, I never met him at the time. A couple of days later I get an email saying, “Russell, your book is awesome. I want to promote it.” And now we’ve done 3 funnel hack webinars, he’s sold a few thousand copies of my book and we’ve made a bunch of money together. And it came from the Dream 100 concept. John was just one of the many people we did it with. But I built lists of 100 people, and honestly my Dream 100 list keeps growing and growing. And that’s what today’s meeting was about, kind of trimming that down. Who’s our Dream 100 for my next book launch coming up in April? And we’re putting those things together and kind of mapping out a strategy. And a couple of things I want to know. One thing, the book launch is at the end of April, so we’re like almost 3 1/2 months away. And we’re doing this now. A big part of this is digging the well before you’re thirsty. A lot of you will launch a product and then start going and bugging JV partners and stuff and it’s like no, do that work ahead of time. So we’re planning out now, we’ll be contacting everyone and getting people information so they can get it on the calendar,  and we’ll be sending copies of the book as soon as they come out. We’re trying to prepare for that and get it ready and build a good relationship with everybody before that. Just to kind of get people excited for the book. But it’s the foundation. So what’s cool is we have our new reality show that’s close to done called Funnel Hacker TV as well. So we filmed the Dream 100 process today so you guys will be able to see it soon. You’ll see how this is the foundation for everything we do in our business, building that list of partners. And initially…..my biggest goal of the Dream 100, if I can get them to promote my book or whatever the thing is that we’re selling, that’s the best. If I can get them to promote on a podcast, or through their blog or email, that’s number one. So we try that initially, but a lot of people can’t or won’t. So after that is done, we try the first phase, which is let’s get them to promote it, that’s a warm audience, excuse me that’s the hot. We got the hot and transition down to warm. The warm audience may not know me but I can market to Toni Robbins’ followers, or Tim Farris’ followers, or things like that on Facebook, so that’s a warm audience. People may know Toni and not me, but I can create a bridge page that bridges that gap between Toni and me, and then get them to buy the book or whatever the thing is, register for the webinar. So we start building bridge pages to our warm audience to bring them from there over. So that’s the second thing, taking the Dream 100 list we have and then going after them as a warm audience. We’re advertising directly to them as opposed to Toni or someone directly marketing to his people. So that’s phase number two in our Dream 100. And then phase number three is to go into cold traffic and stuff like that. So one cool thing we’re doing that’s not live yet, but may be live by the time you guys get this. Changing up Russellbrunson.com. So again, depending on when you go there. If you go there and see a picture of me standing there with a bunch of links around the sides of me, that’s the new one. I’m doing this blog and the blog I’m going to be documenting this journey of how we’re doing this whole thing from the dream 100 to the book launch and trying to take you on a journey from how we went from 0 to selling hopefully a million copies of my book. So that’s kind of cool. So you’ll see the transitions we go from hot traffic, our own existing lists, then our partners lists, then shifting and transforming down to a warm audience. From there trying to saturate that, and from there transition down to a cold audience. And what’s the differences between going after warm traffic versus cold. Because it’s different. The way I position hot, if you’ve read the Dotcom Secrets book you know about hot traffic, warm traffic, cold traffic, but it’s different the way I sell to each of them. So we start with the hot, it’s funny in my Inner Circle, everyone’s trying to convert cold traffic. I’m like, “Wait, there’s a huge pile of cash sitting right in front of you. Grab the big pile of cash first. That’s your warm market, grab them first. That’s the hot market, excuse me. Then there’s the warm market, which is one step back, that’s the next big pile of cash, so grab that before you go for the cold.” Make all the money you can out of the hot market, then go to the warm market, then you go to the cold. And each level of that process, moving from hot to warm to cold, the sales process, the funnels, the messaging, the language patterns, all those things change. I’ll be sharing those and documenting them on the new Russell Brunson blog. How we went from 0 to a million copies of my book here over the next, I mean who knows how long it takes to get me a million bucks, probably a couple of years, which will be kind of cool. We’re going to be doing all sorts of stuff. We already have in the works, plans to do infomercial, radio campaigns, mass market, PR. It’s going to be a ride. It’s going to be a fun journey. So hopefully you guys will come along on the journey with me. But just know that that’s kind of what we’re doing. The goal is to show the strategy. How we roll out a book and how we take that book and help it to, the Dotcom Secrets book, when we launched that, it was the foundation that got us, to now we’re almost 30 thousand active customers inside of Clickfunnels. So that’s the goal, how do we do that and how do we leverage a book or any kind of front end product, to build the back end of your company. So that’s the journey that I’ll be taking you guys on. I hope you can join me for the ride. With that said, I’m home. In a day or two or whatever check out russellbrunson.com, check out the blog and we’ll start the first post. I already wrote the first post, and we’re going to start doing that once a week. Sharing the journey and showing you how many books we sold from each of the things and that’ll be the game plan. With that said, I’m home. Appreciate you guys, thanks for listening, thanks for subscribing. Please come comment and share, let me know what you’re thinking. I’m excited to be on this journey with you guys. Talk to you all again soon. Bye.

Click above to listen in iTunes... "Oh the economy, the economy!" Guess What? There's TWO Of Them… Which Are You In??? (Bit Of A Secret To The Mainstream) Hey, what's going on everyone? This is Steve Larsen and this is Sales Funnel Radio. Welcome to Sales Funnel Radio, where you'll learn marketing strategies to grow your online business using today's best internet sales funnels. Now, here's your host, Steve Larsen. Man, I'm not going to lie. I'm trying to just sit up straight. I'm so tired. It's almost midnight, which is not that late, but the last month has just been crazy. Been filming a lot for Funnel Hacking TV. I built out 11 funnels. 11 sales funnels in a single day... It was crazy. It can't take credit all on my own for that one, but I did take 11 funnels in a day. It was fantastic. Really, really cool. It is ... Like I said, it's almost midnight, and I'm here still at the office and I'm waiting for the dumb video to finish rendering and it's going to take like 40 minutes. It's crazy. The only problem with really liking to do video stuff and loving most of the Adobe Suite and... funnels and writing script and like I feel like I'm a renaissance man on some of those things. I'm not trying to pat my own back, I'm just saying oh my gosh. I need to go take a break. Someone else can do some of this for a little while, all right? Hey, so I got something here that's actually been on my mind a little bit and I was listening to Dan Sullivan and soon as I heard it I was like, "Oh my gosh, people need to hear this. If they've not heard this, this can actually effect the way they look at the world. This is great." It's from his book or program or whatever it is, Pure Genius, and he was talking ... I'll just tell you, I got to it. I was listening to his program. I was kind of driving around. Most of the time I was listening to music, something like that just kind of relaxes me. Sometimes I just ... For a while go through these huge stints where I'd just listen to audiobooks and programs. I'd put them on 2 times speed so I can get them down faster. It's funny though because I pause them enough to just think about what someone said. It would probably be just as fast if I just played it at normal speed. Anyways. Hey, so I was listening to Dan Sullivan thing and he came across this concept and he was talking and he as saying, "I want you guys to know, think about this, think about where you are. Put yourself in this scenario." He said, "There are actually 2 economies in the world... ...Most people go and they talk about the economy. Oh, the economy's this. The economy's that. The economy's bad or whatever it is, or the economy's gone up. But they talk about it like it's one economy." Dan says that's actually not true at all. A lot of the conflict that comes from like you know the difference between a white collar worker and a blue collar worker and a lot of the clashing comes because of this. He said, "Hey, there's actually 2 different economies. The first is the economy of time and effort." Now, I used to do residential pool construction, like swimming pools. I did ... I worked at a golf course. I worked at a tire factory, or discount tire. I was a tire buster. I worked at a plastics factory. We made anything from syringes to M16 boat stocks to CD cases. I mean everything. It was all over the place. It was crazy. I worked at a sports store for a while. I had a ton of jobs. A ton of jobs growing up. It was very much in the time and effort economy. If I was not there, I did not make money. You know what I mean? It's kind of cool, so I was talking to one of my coworker's sons about this. Chandler, if you're listening, big old shout out to you, buddy. I was talking to him and he was saying ... I think he asked for some kind of advice or something like that. I said, "You understand that there's two different economies. The first [inaudible 00:04:06] said is the time and the effort economy. That's where most people live. That's where most people breathe. That's what they know. It's just time and effort and all the leverage they have over their life. But there is a second economy. It is so real. It's so real. It is the results economy." Now, I can come in to work and build out a funnel, build out 11 funnels in a single day and have someone else drive some traffic to it or drive it myself and walk away the rest of the week and as long as I know it actually converts and I've done my homework so to speak, I've made sure it does convert, it actually does make money. That's a results based economy. I can walk way from that, right? That's a full out asset. That's amazing. Like I said, I have this ... It's called the MLM Down Line Recruiting Funnel. I'm not actually in an MLM right now. I know MLM... love what I create for funnel stuff. I got one of those funnels in the market place. I... market place, and it makes like 500 to $1000 a week. It's nuts. That's completely the results based economy. You know what I went and did today? I bought a motorcycle because of that. I just walked over to the dealer and that's the fastest sale that dude's ever had. I was like, "Yeah, I already know I want this." He was like, "Well, what's holding you back?" I said, "Nothing," so I walked inside and signed the paper work and walked away. Like, "I'll be back tomorrow night and pick it up." Like, "Okay." I think I shocked him pretty bad. Anyways, kind of funny. As a result of the results based economy. Ask yourself, are you actually in the results based economy? It's possible to be working in a results based I guess enabled company but still not be benefiting from it. Meaning, I could be completely obsessed with building sales funnels, which I am, and even though I could benefit from being in a results based economy, I could still be addicted to the fact that I need to build funnels all the time. Tim Farris talks about this actually in the 4 hour work week. He talked about how a lot of times even though your basic needs to live and go do the cool dreams that you want, even though you'll have those means to do that, the mere fact that you don't know what else you want to do with your life keeps you working at your job. That's kind of the next step of the results based economy is that you might be in an industry where you could benefit from just results. Right? Well, I produced X, Y and Z. What else do I do? I don't know, just work I guess. That's one of the dangers of it. There's cool stories out there like, hey, there's a really cool CPA that he does all of his taxes for all of his clients like every February. He doesn't even wait. He actually tells all of these people, "Hey, I'm actually traveling the entire month of April, so get your taxes in." He has people collect all these forms, all these things. Suddenly people open up their schedules. They know he's fantastic and he does tons of client work in February, goes and does whatever he wants the rest of the year. That's a client based economy, but people wouldn't normally look at a CPA as a results based economic job or whatever. What can you do? That's the only reason I wanted to point it out, is what could you do for a results based economy? I remember when I worked at this pool construction place for a while. We would go build the pools and then a lot of times go service them. It was actually a really cool job. I was in the middle of college at the time, was kind of just starting college at the time. I was cleaning pools for a lot of the Denver Broncos team players, like Denver Nuggets, the Rockies baseball team. It was pretty cool actually. A lot of cool huge golf players and things like that. It was actually a pretty rare job and it was actually pretty cool. There was one issue I had with it... I got really fast at the job. Really fast. It's not like I still got the same pay, I got home earlier and got paid less. I was like what the heck? I realized this like a month in. I'm like this is getting dumb. I'm getting paid less because I'm getting better at my job. That's stupid, I hate this... I remember I was really pissed off about it and I remember at the last day, getting up and grabbing this ... There was this piece of broken tile on the ground and I had worked a lot of construction jobs at the time, a lot of labor intensive jobs at the time. Some of them made me really sick, some of them made me miss out a lot of health at the time, I wasn't taking care of myself, wasn't doing the cool things I want to with friends and things like that. I remember there was this piece of broken tile on the ground and I picked it up and I swore to myself, I will never do another job like this again for the rest of my entire life and I never have. That's kind of when I pledged to at least start learning how to get into the results based economy. I didn't realize that's what I was doing at the time, but that's what I was doing. What's nice about it is the harder you work when you're in a results based economy, your income actually can go up. If it doesn't, it means you're in the time and effort economy. That's one of the catch alls, so ask yourself. If I work harder at my job, will I make more money? If you aren't, you are not in the correct economy. Unless you want to stay there, but I don't know why you would. That's one of the big tall tale things that you can go through and say ... Find a way to leverage your position and leverage your job so you are in a more results based thing. That way if you want and you want to take on more work and take on more money you can. I want a little side project, want a little side job that I can go build a little business on the side or whatever, do something on my own. Then you'll have the leeway to do so, but otherwise, you will stay in a time and effort economy which will keep you there forever. It's not like anyone wants you to get out. No one wants you to get out of ... Your boss doesn't. That's not the normal thing to go do. I'm not trying to tell you guys you should jump out and quit your job or whatever. It's midnight. I'm here still at the office. I'm rendering out this video for a super cool affiliate thing. This is a results based activity that I'm doing right now. I know that me making this, there are thousands of people that are going to go see it and then my income's going to go up. It is. It's real exciting. This is one of the things that keeps me motivated, because I know when I'm actually pushing forward on things, I have control over it. It's kind of a base amount of money that I make just by having a job, but there's all these other things that I can go do and all these other fun stuff that is totally a results based thing. I want to offer to you guys something. I got up this morning ... I've actually almost been working for 24 hours now. I'm completely exhausted. I've been doing this for like a month. I'm really super tired right now to be honest. We're in the middle of a results season and we know that next month is going to be really relaxed and we're just going to be excited about it. We're pushing out super hard right now results and results on top of results. It's really exciting. Super cool. But it's going to pay off. It already has been. It's actually been really fun to watch monetary results come in which is not something that usually a boss in a normal job or some other employer that you might have that he's not going to give you that thing. Hey, they reward you with some sports tickets or something like that. You can't control your own monetary income then I said you are not in a results based economy at all. This is what I would say to you guys though. I got up early. I got here way before 6:00 this morning and it's already past midnight. I'm super tired but the reason I did it is because I am getting one to three people every day ask me if not to build their funnel then at least some other funnel related question. Tons of you are and it's awesome because I love building funnels. I was like man, I got to control this a little more. I got a wife and 2 kids, I want to go and hang out with them. I can't do this all the time. It's understandable you're there but this is not a lifestyle I want to keep going at. What I did, and if you guys are interested in it, go to sales funnel broker dot com forward slash services, or you could just go to sales funnel broker dot com and click on services on the top and you'll see there are 4 categories or questions that I continuously get asked over and over again... It's pretty interesting. The first one is people want me to build their funnel for them. That's understandable. I like doing it and I think it's awesome. It's one of my natural, unique abilities. You have your natural, unique abilities. Mine is building funnels for marketing and stuff. The second category of question I get, sometimes people just want me to critique their current funnel, which I actually get a lot of those. A lot of people want me to critique it, go through it, kind of break it down, figure out what kinds of things, issues they might be having, explore those with them, maybe things they can do to make them extra money they didn't know about, things they can leverage. The third category is people a lot of times ... It's almost like the Papa Murphy's model. They want me to go plan it, but then they go build it, right? Go pick up the pizza and then go cook it on your own. The fourth is people just have general questions. I have a lot of people just, "Hey, can I pick your brain?" That's awesome, but again, I'm trying to stay in a results based economy so it's really hard. I haven't taken a lunch in like 5 months. I don't know if people do take lunch. I don't get it... I like instead to just push out results and you can just live really cool like that. If you have any question that has to do with funnels, I am totally pitching you right now. I want you to know that I can 100% help you with your funnel questions. It is ... I do charge a little bit more for a one hour consultation call... It's like nothing compared to the cost of a funnel. It's just for me to start vetting out the people who are serious about this so I actually work with people who are willing to go out and take action on what I tell them to do. There seems to be a correlation. If you don't pay for the advice, a lot of times, you don't value it. You're not going to do what I say anyway, so why should I sit here and tell you things to do that I know your not going to do. This is a favor for both of us. If you pay me money, you're going to do a lot more what I tell you to go do. I'll tell you to do freaking cool stuff that makes rocking tunnel. Anyways, I am ... This is me telling you, I am staying in a results based economy so I went and built that. Again, go check out sales funnel broker dot com forward slash services and then you guys, go do the same thing. Create something that can make money without you being there and only requires ads. Secret MLM hacks dot com is that for me. There's a lot of other little funnels I have that are out there also that is that for me. You can come back and my favorite noise is the one the strike makes when I see money came in. Chirps on my phone. I never like to turn that noise off. Anyways guys, I'm rambling on right now. I'm getting super tired. My throat hurts. It's crazy late, but I know that next month is going to be awesome because it's going to be a lot more relaxing. Anyways, guys I'll talk to you later. Yeah, get in the right economy... Thanks for listening to sales funnel radio. Please remember to subscribe and leave feedback. Have a question you want answered on the show? Get your free t-shirt when your question gets answered on the live "HeySteve!" show. Visit sales funnel broker dot com now to submit your question.    

A play-by-play of what I got done this morning before most people were even awake. On today's episode Russell talks about his morning routine and what has been working for him. He also talks about his plans to film his morning routine so that it can help inspire others to do the same thing. Here are some of the interesting things you will hear in this episode: How a morning routine actually begins the night before. How Russell is able to go from 4:30 in the morning until 2 in the afternoon before he eats, and how he isn't even hungry. And what having “a big domino of the day” means and why it's important. So listen below to hear about Russell's morning routine and feel inspired to do something similar with your own morning. ---Transcript--- Good Morning everybody, I hope you guys are having an amazing day today. Welcome back to Marketing IN Your Car. I appreciate you guys hanging out with me. I'm heading into the office right now and I've had an amazing morning. It's 8:49, I have a meeting in 11 minutes with the entire Clickfunnels Dev team, which is exciting. We're making a big directional change today, which is always scary, fear and scary. But it's going to be the best for the customers, which is all that really matters when all is said and done. It's going to be good for you guys, so congratulations. I've got 10 miles left until I'm out of gas. I'm hope I make it to the office before then, because I need to make it. And I've had an amazing morning so far. I want to talk about it because we've talked about this in the past, but I think that the more I focus on it, the more everything else becomes more amazing. And it's your morning routine. In fact, I bought a domain; I think I bought, whatsyourmorningroutine.com. I think this week we're going to record my morning routine because people always ask me what is it and how does it work? There's some weird things I do and some cool things I do. I just wanted to show a little bit of all that put together. That is the game plan, so it'll be kind of fun. I want to walk you guys through basically what the morning routine looks like, because it's getting more and more exciting and fun and hopefully you guys get some ideas for yours. So the first thing I found out is your morning routine starts the night before. It's the hardest thing to get to bed on time. So I've been trying to get to bed by 10 o'clock each night. Kids go down about 9, and then I've got an hour to just scramble and get everything done and go to bed, which is hard because I'm a night owl. I'm the guy that usually goes to bed at 1 or 2 in the morning. So that's been a big shift. And then days that I get to bed on time, everything works good. The day's I don't become really, really hard. So I'm trying better. And on thing that's been helping a lot, Joseph Clough who is one of our Clickfunnels inner circle members, he built a custom hypnosis track for me. He's got an am one a pm one and a boost one for whenever in the day you need to take over the world, you listen to this other one. So it's been cool, every single night I go to bed, I listen to that. It's kind of getting me excited to go to bed each night because there's this really cool thing I've been looking forward to and I get excited for it. So last night I listened to that. In the future I'm going to try  to….I have a float tank, so I'm going to try to listen to it while I float at night. It'll be like float while I listen to that and then go to bed. This light's been red forever. The day's you're in a rush, the light takes forever to change. Anyway, sorry my ADD kicked in again. So that's how it began, and then fell asleep. And under my bed I have these pulse….I think it's called Earth Pulse. These electromagnetic fields that go under my bed. And it's kind of geeky and amazing at the same time to make you sleep better, recover faster and a bunch of other awesome stuff. So that's the night before. Then I wake up in the morning. I've been setting my alarm for 4:45, I think I'm going to start setting it for 4:30 though, because my pre-morning stuff seems to take longer than I hope. I keep thinking I'm going to get done in 15 minutes, but it takes 20 to 25 minutes. Anyway, today was 4:45, tomorrow it'll be 4:30. So 4:30 my alarm goes off, I wake up, there are 3 major goals. One is thanks to Alex Charfen, hyper hydration. So I get a big Clickfunnels bottle full of water, I try to pound it as fast as I can, no matter how much it hurts and it usually hurts. I don't know how people do that, especially first thing in the morning. It's hard, drink as fast as I can. Number two I mix together like 30 different powders. A lot of them are like mushrooms and B Manna, and Green Drink and Red Drink and a whole bunch of powders, so I drink that. So hyper nutrition's number two. I want to get as many nutrients in my body as possible because I'm not going to be eating until 2 in the afternoon, so I want my body to have as many goods as it needs to run off of. Number 3 is hyper oxygenation, which Anthony, my buddy at Biohackersguide.com, and Wim Hof. Wim Hof kind of developed this method, and Anthony recorded this really cool audio for me where I can just push play on my phone and then I can actually listen to Anthony coach me through the Wim Hof. So I sit in my backyard in the fresh air and I do it. It's hard, it's what I dread the most in the day because it takes work to breathe hard, to hold your breath and all that kind of stuff, it's not my favorite when it happens but when I'm done, it's the equivalent of having like 10 shots of caffeine. You're just wide awake and you feel good. So that's kind of what happens in the first….trying to get that all done by 5 o'clock. So 5 o'clock I hit the road running. I'm trying to spend 30 minutes of spiritual time. So some of you guys may or may not know, I talked about this probably a dozen episodes ago, I wanted to buy a first edition Book of Mormon on ebay, but I didn't. But I almost did. I eventually did it. So right now I am actually reading the original copy of the Book of Mormon, one of the first 5,000 that were ever printed. Which for me, is totally geeking out. Most of you guys who are Mormon are thinking, that's awesome. The rest of you are thinking, that's weird, why would you spend that much money on an old book? But for me, it's awesome. So I've been reading that in the mornings, which has been cool. Try to get at least 30 minutes of reading in there. And the last 30 minutes is, I try to nickname all my different times, so I'm nicknaming this my  big domino time. Where I have the next 30 minutes to figure out what is the big domino of the day. The big domino comes from Tim Farris, I heard him speak one time, “A lot of people go and make these huge to-do list and try to knock out a million things. I usually just sit around for 3 or 4 days at a time trying to identify what's the one big domino and if I knock down that domino it makes every other domino, it knocks them down or makes them irrelevant. So that's been my bid domino time. Where I'm planning and figuring out, for me to succeed today, what is that one big domino I gotta knock down? This funnel or this piece, whatever that big thing is and make that the priority and try to task out everything else to either help me knock down that domino or to get everything else off my place so I can focus on it. So that's what's going to be happening. That's kind of a new edition to the morning routine. From 5:30 til 6. Then at 6 o'clock, at least on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, Dave and Stephen and sometimes Brent and John show up and we go for a morning jog to try and get more oxygen pumping through our body and then we lift hard. We lift for about an hour, probably about 45 minutes. Really heavy because that's the way I like it. And then from there we jump in the Cryosauna, freeze the crap out of ourselves. And then go in and hang out with my kids, get them out the door.  And then clean up and head out the door as well. At this point I still have not eaten anything, and I won't. It's 9 o'clock. So I'll eat in about 5 hours from now and that's the first time I will eat. And it's funny because I used to always think, I have to eat to have fuel to have energy. But the interesting thing is if you are doing all these things, you get energy from oxygen, you get energy from the nutrients, you get energy from the water, you get energy from all these things. I don't even feel hungry anymore. It's kind of weird. I should be starving right now, and I'm feeling pretty good. And my lunch time at about 2 o'clock, I'll have the biggest salad known to man. It literally takes about 3 or 4 hours to eat. It's got kale, and peppers, avocados, salmon, and a bunch of other cool stuff. And that's….I eat that, and then I'm not that hungry the rest of the day. Usually at night I'll eat some stuff because I like to socially eat with my kids and my family. And then start the process over. So that's my morning routine. So I think we're going to record it and film it and show all the fun stuff and intricacies and hopefully inspire a couple of you to tweak yours. It's been a fun development over the last 2 years trying to really think through it and figure it out and add things to it. I'm still not perfect, not going to lie. But the days that I execute on it correctly, like today, I feel like a million bucks. I'm excited to go in and conquer the world. So I hope that inspires you guys to kind of sit back and think through your stuff and figure out what your dream morning routine is going to be. Because when your day starts right, it ends right. When you start wrong, it ends wrong. I know that because the days when I wake up and go and get French toast for breakfast, the whole day is done. I get nothing done that day. The day's I wake up and Wim Hof breathe, drink a ton of vitamins and minerals and get some spiritual time in, and figure out my big domino are the days that I actually knock down the big domino. And the days that I get home and have energy for my kids and my wife and it's awesome. So there you go, you guys. So what's your morning routine, that's my question. Check out soon to a funnel near you. I think it's whatsyourmorningroutine.com. I'll be posting that here in a little bit. And it'll be fun to actually show you guys behind the scenes what I'm doing and then hopefully get some of you guys inspired enough to go and do it on your own. That's all I got today. Appreciate you all, have an amazing day and I'll talk to you all again soon. Bye everybody.

A play-by-play of what I got done this morning before most people were even awake. On today’s episode Russell talks about his morning routine and what has been working for him. He also talks about his plans to film his morning routine so that it can help inspire others to do the same thing. Here are some of the interesting things you will hear in this episode: How a morning routine actually begins the night before. How Russell is able to go from 4:30 in the morning until 2 in the afternoon before he eats, and how he isn’t even hungry. And what having “a big domino of the day” means and why it’s important. So listen below to hear about Russell’s morning routine and feel inspired to do something similar with your own morning. ---Transcript--- Good Morning everybody, I hope you guys are having an amazing day today. Welcome back to Marketing IN Your Car. I appreciate you guys hanging out with me. I’m heading into the office right now and I’ve had an amazing morning. It’s 8:49, I have a meeting in 11 minutes with the entire Clickfunnels Dev team, which is exciting. We’re making a big directional change today, which is always scary, fear and scary. But it’s going to be the best for the customers, which is all that really matters when all is said and done. It’s going to be good for you guys, so congratulations. I’ve got 10 miles left until I’m out of gas. I’m hope I make it to the office before then, because I need to make it. And I’ve had an amazing morning so far. I want to talk about it because we’ve talked about this in the past, but I think that the more I focus on it, the more everything else becomes more amazing. And it’s your morning routine. In fact, I bought a domain; I think I bought, whatsyourmorningroutine.com. I think this week we’re going to record my morning routine because people always ask me what is it and how does it work? There’s some weird things I do and some cool things I do. I just wanted to show a little bit of all that put together. That is the game plan, so it’ll be kind of fun. I want to walk you guys through basically what the morning routine looks like, because it’s getting more and more exciting and fun and hopefully you guys get some ideas for yours. So the first thing I found out is your morning routine starts the night before. It’s the hardest thing to get to bed on time. So I’ve been trying to get to bed by 10 o’clock each night. Kids go down about 9, and then I’ve got an hour to just scramble and get everything done and go to bed, which is hard because I’m a night owl. I’m the guy that usually goes to bed at 1 or 2 in the morning. So that’s been a big shift. And then days that I get to bed on time, everything works good. The day’s I don’t become really, really hard. So I’m trying better. And on thing that’s been helping a lot, Joseph Clough who is one of our Clickfunnels inner circle members, he built a custom hypnosis track for me. He’s got an am one a pm one and a boost one for whenever in the day you need to take over the world, you listen to this other one. So it’s been cool, every single night I go to bed, I listen to that. It’s kind of getting me excited to go to bed each night because there’s this really cool thing I’ve been looking forward to and I get excited for it. So last night I listened to that. In the future I’m going to try  to….I have a float tank, so I’m going to try to listen to it while I float at night. It’ll be like float while I listen to that and then go to bed. This light’s been red forever. The day’s you’re in a rush, the light takes forever to change. Anyway, sorry my ADD kicked in again. So that’s how it began, and then fell asleep. And under my bed I have these pulse….I think it’s called Earth Pulse. These electromagnetic fields that go under my bed. And it’s kind of geeky and amazing at the same time to make you sleep better, recover faster and a bunch of other awesome stuff. So that’s the night before. Then I wake up in the morning. I’ve been setting my alarm for 4:45, I think I’m going to start setting it for 4:30 though, because my pre-morning stuff seems to take longer than I hope. I keep thinking I’m going to get done in 15 minutes, but it takes 20 to 25 minutes. Anyway, today was 4:45, tomorrow it’ll be 4:30. So 4:30 my alarm goes off, I wake up, there are 3 major goals. One is thanks to Alex Charfen, hyper hydration. So I get a big Clickfunnels bottle full of water, I try to pound it as fast as I can, no matter how much it hurts and it usually hurts. I don’t know how people do that, especially first thing in the morning. It’s hard, drink as fast as I can. Number two I mix together like 30 different powders. A lot of them are like mushrooms and B Manna, and Green Drink and Red Drink and a whole bunch of powders, so I drink that. So hyper nutrition’s number two. I want to get as many nutrients in my body as possible because I’m not going to be eating until 2 in the afternoon, so I want my body to have as many goods as it needs to run off of. Number 3 is hyper oxygenation, which Anthony, my buddy at Biohackersguide.com, and Wim Hof. Wim Hof kind of developed this method, and Anthony recorded this really cool audio for me where I can just push play on my phone and then I can actually listen to Anthony coach me through the Wim Hof. So I sit in my backyard in the fresh air and I do it. It’s hard, it’s what I dread the most in the day because it takes work to breathe hard, to hold your breath and all that kind of stuff, it’s not my favorite when it happens but when I’m done, it’s the equivalent of having like 10 shots of caffeine. You’re just wide awake and you feel good. So that’s kind of what happens in the first….trying to get that all done by 5 o’clock. So 5 o’clock I hit the road running. I’m trying to spend 30 minutes of spiritual time. So some of you guys may or may not know, I talked about this probably a dozen episodes ago, I wanted to buy a first edition Book of Mormon on ebay, but I didn’t. But I almost did. I eventually did it. So right now I am actually reading the original copy of the Book of Mormon, one of the first 5,000 that were ever printed. Which for me, is totally geeking out. Most of you guys who are Mormon are thinking, that’s awesome. The rest of you are thinking, that’s weird, why would you spend that much money on an old book? But for me, it’s awesome. So I’ve been reading that in the mornings, which has been cool. Try to get at least 30 minutes of reading in there. And the last 30 minutes is, I try to nickname all my different times, so I’m nicknaming this my  big domino time. Where I have the next 30 minutes to figure out what is the big domino of the day. The big domino comes from Tim Farris, I heard him speak one time, “A lot of people go and make these huge to-do list and try to knock out a million things. I usually just sit around for 3 or 4 days at a time trying to identify what’s the one big domino and if I knock down that domino it makes every other domino, it knocks them down or makes them irrelevant. So that’s been my bid domino time. Where I’m planning and figuring out, for me to succeed today, what is that one big domino I gotta knock down? This funnel or this piece, whatever that big thing is and make that the priority and try to task out everything else to either help me knock down that domino or to get everything else off my place so I can focus on it. So that’s what’s going to be happening. That’s kind of a new edition to the morning routine. From 5:30 til 6. Then at 6 o’clock, at least on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, Dave and Stephen and sometimes Brent and John show up and we go for a morning jog to try and get more oxygen pumping through our body and then we lift hard. We lift for about an hour, probably about 45 minutes. Really heavy because that’s the way I like it. And then from there we jump in the Cryosauna, freeze the crap out of ourselves. And then go in and hang out with my kids, get them out the door.  And then clean up and head out the door as well. At this point I still have not eaten anything, and I won’t. It’s 9 o’clock. So I’ll eat in about 5 hours from now and that’s the first time I will eat. And it’s funny because I used to always think, I have to eat to have fuel to have energy. But the interesting thing is if you are doing all these things, you get energy from oxygen, you get energy from the nutrients, you get energy from the water, you get energy from all these things. I don’t even feel hungry anymore. It’s kind of weird. I should be starving right now, and I’m feeling pretty good. And my lunch time at about 2 o’clock, I’ll have the biggest salad known to man. It literally takes about 3 or 4 hours to eat. It’s got kale, and peppers, avocados, salmon, and a bunch of other cool stuff. And that’s….I eat that, and then I’m not that hungry the rest of the day. Usually at night I’ll eat some stuff because I like to socially eat with my kids and my family. And then start the process over. So that’s my morning routine. So I think we’re going to record it and film it and show all the fun stuff and intricacies and hopefully inspire a couple of you to tweak yours. It’s been a fun development over the last 2 years trying to really think through it and figure it out and add things to it. I’m still not perfect, not going to lie. But the days that I execute on it correctly, like today, I feel like a million bucks. I’m excited to go in and conquer the world. So I hope that inspires you guys to kind of sit back and think through your stuff and figure out what your dream morning routine is going to be. Because when your day starts right, it ends right. When you start wrong, it ends wrong. I know that because the days when I wake up and go and get French toast for breakfast, the whole day is done. I get nothing done that day. The day’s I wake up and Wim Hof breathe, drink a ton of vitamins and minerals and get some spiritual time in, and figure out my big domino are the days that I actually knock down the big domino. And the days that I get home and have energy for my kids and my wife and it’s awesome. So there you go, you guys. So what’s your morning routine, that’s my question. Check out soon to a funnel near you. I think it’s whatsyourmorningroutine.com. I’ll be posting that here in a little bit. And it’ll be fun to actually show you guys behind the scenes what I’m doing and then hopefully get some of you guys inspired enough to go and do it on your own. That’s all I got today. Appreciate you all, have an amazing day and I’ll talk to you all again soon. Bye everybody.

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a:hover{color:#8f8f8f !important;} www.fullcirclemusic.orgFCM007_-_Relationships_with_Steve_FordDuration: 00:50:21You're listening to The Full Circle Music Show. The why of the music biz.Chris: Welcome back to the Full Circle Music Show, it’s Chris Murphy and I'm sitting right beside Seth Mosley. How are you buddy?Seth: I'm good man. It's a busy week, lots of good stuff going on over here at the studio. And I’m excited to take just a few minutes out of our schedule to talk to one of our favorite people in the industry, Mister Steve Ford.Steve has been a guy that I've known for a long time, was one of the people that I met moving to Nashville in the music business. And we've talked to a lot of people on the creative side so far but we haven't yet talked to anybody on the label side. So, you think of the guy that sits in a dark room with a suit in a corner office, that's this guy! Except for not, he actually sits in a what is a pretty awesome office, he's the general manager of a label company called Centricity Music; has been pretty massively successful in the past couple of years and really since they opened. But, he's a really great leader and speaks to what they look for in a good producer, in a good artist, in a good team member at their label.So, if you're wanting to get involved in the music industry, this is a great episode to listened to. I learned a ton and I think you will too.Chris: You know, being a podcast junky, it's nice to meet a fellow podcast enthusiast as well. We had some great conversations in the episode but also talked a lot about our favorite podcasts on and off the mic. He's just a great guy, great to get to know him and I really appreciate Seth you setting this up. Another great interview and I can't wait to listen to it.Seth: And you can check out his company at centricitymusic.com. They have a lot of great artists that I think you'll dig.Audio clip commencesHey podcast listeners, something is coming February 1st 2016. Have you ever thought about a career in song writing or music production? We have created a couple courses with you guys in mind. We've been getting a lot of feedback on people wanting to know more about how to become a song worker; how to become a professional music producer or engineer. These courses were designed to answer some of those questions. Go to fullcirclemusic.org and sign up there for more information.Audio clip endsChris: You were saying earlier before we started rolling that you were a podcast guy.Steve: Oh yeah, big podcast guy.Chris: And, you've heard this podcast before?Steve: Yeah. I've listened to the first three.Chris: Okay. So, can I ask you to go out on a limb and give us a grade so far?Steve: You know what? I'd give them a solid B+. I want them longer. That's my thing; I want to go into the background. I want to hear when you did Brown Banishers which is funny because I've worked a lot with Brown but you didn't get past Amy Grant.Seth: Sure.Steve: I mean, this is the guy who worked with from everybody from Third Day to Mercy Me to Why Heart, he's done everybody like come one there are stories there. I tell people I'm on the corporate side because of Brown Banisher because of how he worked. I was an engineer in LA for ten years and he would come out and mix records with us, it was at a little place called Mama Joes and I would see him on the phone going, “Happy birthday sweetie.” Later knowing that it was Ellie; missed her first walk and all of these other things. And when my daughter was born, I was like, I can't do this. I needed a life and so I started praying and Peter York calls. So it’s because of him so it's fun to hear some his stories. I did a lot of records win Jack Joseph Puig and–Seth: And you were engineering at the time?Steve: Yeah. I was an engineer at LA.Seth: And at the time that was really engineering?Steve: Oh my gosh.Seth: You were cutting tape and…Steve: Yeah! I've cut a lot of two inch tape, quarter inch tape, half inch–Seth: Stuff that I hope to never do.Steve: You don't have to, Jericho does it for you.[Laughter] Seth: I don't know if Jericho has ever cut tape? In school he did.Steve: Now, I feel really old.Chris: Is that kind of like when you're in a biology class and not in any other time of your life will you need to dissect a frog but you just have to do it for the experience of it. Is that what it's become cutting tape?Steve: I don't know if you have to do it even that. It's sort of like this legend of starting a fire with flint, you know? It's sort of like, “Yeah. I used to cut tape.”[Laughter] Seth: I mean there's probably a resurgence. I would imagine knowing the process of what coffee has become and how artists.Steve: Yeah.Seth: I think there's a big thing in maybe it's the millennial generation or whatever it is but I think people are drawn back to slower, older more hands on processes it seems like than just pushing the button or going through the drive through–Steve: And somethings, don't you think, in some things its like just give me the button. Give me the filter on Instagram.Seth: That is true! That's true but then you've got the whole wave of people roasting their own coffee beans now and then they're grinding the with a hand grinder, and then they're putting in a… And, I'm saying this because we have like three artists that we work with; that come in and they bring their whole coffee apparatus.Steve: And they measure how much coffee goes in, weigh it?Chris: Yeah.Steve: My son has one of those has a scale that weighs, how much coffee goes in. Oh yeah just …Chris: Yeah, I thought you were going to say some of the artists that you work with, they actually bring their own barista in the studio because–Steve: I'm sure that will happen.Seth: That’s kind of a prerequisite to be in a band. There has to be at least one barista.Steve: True.Seth: In the band.Steve: There has to be one business guy in every band and one guy who can make great coffee.Seth: And then the guy who can actually play the instruments.Steve: Yeah. Then the artist.[Laughter]Chris: And then the fourth guy on base who just knows how to shape everybody's beards. He's more of a grooming guy.Seth: And sometime there's a drummer.[Laughter] Steve: You don't need a drummer; there are machines for that now.[Laughter] Seth: Yeah. I mean, just take us through a little bit of your journey, you started in L.A.?Steve: I was born and raised in L.A.; read an article when I was 14 years old about this guy named Sir George Martin. And I was like, “What? You can do that for a living?”Seth: Who is George Martin?Steve: He produced this little band called the Beatles, probably never heard of…most 20 year olds haven't heard of them so…Chris: And then isn't true that he went on from there to write The Game of Thrones?Steve: Did he? I'm not a Game of Throne person–Chris: Okay that's R.R. Martin, sorry.Steve: Wrong one. But I mean, you read about these guys and you sort of open a door into a new world that you didn't know existed. And so, I was 18 years old, junior out of high school walked into the recording studios and started from there.Seth: So, you didn't wait to have some sort of a college thing to get internships?Steve: My mom was like Reeds parents which was like, “That’s a nice hobby but let's make sure you have a backup plan, a plan B.” And so, I still went to school, I still went to college did all of that. Don't ask me my grade point average because I was going home at 4 o'clock in the morning, waking up at 8 to crawl into my first class, it was terrible. But yeah, my first job in the recording studio, I was making $500 a month from 6 o'clock to 3 o'clock in the morning.Seth: Living in L.A?Steve: Living in L.A.Seth: And that probably paid for a tenth of the rent?Steve: Maybe.Chris: Or, just the gas to get around?Steve: But I loved every second of it. And then from there you sort of work your way up. So, I did that… Like I said earlier my daughter was born and I was like an engineer’s life is a hard life in LA especially. Those were the days when you'd pay $1,500 a day block booking a studio; you booked a studio and you're paying $1,500 if your there six hours or eight there 24 hours. And a lot of them stayed 24 hours, and you just have next, next, next, next.Chris: And you've got to be the first guy there.Steve: First guy there, last guy out, yeah. You're sitting there winding tables at 6 o'clock in the morning going, “I just want to go home.”Chris: When the bug caught you, from that point until the time that you walked into that first studio and got a job, what skills were you harnessing?Steve: None.Chris: Just reading liner notes?Steve: Yeah. Lying in the floor, reading and going, there's one in North Hall and I'd write it down on a piece of paper because I grew up in the San Fernando Valley and start looking for them. Hey man that where Bill [inaudible 8:50] studio is or whatever the studio was and start. There wasn't really a whole lot you can do to prepare for it. It's no like in high school you go, “I wonder what class…”  I was in all the choirs and all the music stuff and that didn't prepare you for it. Probably the greatest skills for a studio engineer especially a starting one is being attentive, being hungry, being prepared and that depends on who you're working with.When you working together with somebody so well, I'm sure you and your team, they know what you want in advance and plugin something in before you even have to ask, that’s just working together. I've told a lot of wannabe engineers who want to go to some of these very expensive schools, don’t do it. Take that money, live on it for two years and go give yourself away for free for two years. You learn more two years in a studio than you will however long you go to one of the expensive ones.Chris: Yeah.Steve: It's just doing it. Just aligning the tape machine which is once again, it's like starting fire with flint again, knowing the lines taped but you learn by doing that.Chris: Absolutely.Steve: You learn by making a lot of mistakes. I recorded a lot of bad drum sounds.[Laughter] It just happened and then you go, “Oh if I do this, its better.” And 10,000 hours man, it takes 10,000 hours.Chris: Again, I think that it's not that schooling is necessarily a bad thing but the way that you learn in life versus the way that you learn in a classroom is different because for the most part, a classroom will deduct points for the stakes and if you’re in the–Steve: That's true. Good point.Chris: Yeah. I heard that -actually going back to our love of podcasts here- I heard Tim Farris on his podcast talking about the fact that he was going to go to, was considering something like Princeton or Harvard or something to go get his MBA. And he thought instead of doing that -or maybe this was advice given to him and he took it- instead of taking that couple hundred thousand dollars worth of whatever I needed to go get my MBA. I'm going to invest that in myself, very similar to what you're saying. And I'm going to use that to live on so that way I can go and I can intern for that company that I would never be able to if the money mattered that much. Because once you get out of school its like, “Oo I've got to go do something with this.” But if you've got the money set aside to go get the MBA anyway, it goes a long way to really feeling free to not have to pay that rent or pay that car payment that you could really dive in.Steve: And most people never use their college education for what they use. I had a meteorologist specialist. She had a degree in meteorology for TV and she was my marketing assistant. And you go, “I want to see what you spent four years doing versus what's your grade point average or what's you major.” I don't care about that stuff.Seth: So to fast forward to today, you are general manager of a very successful record label. When you got to hire somebody to your team, do you even say, “Hey, send in your resume. Where did you go to college?” Or does that not even cross your mind?Steve: I do want to see that. Four years in college gives me the impression that they follow through, they finish. You’ve said it before, finishing is such a hard art in today's world. To have somebody who finished is very valuable. Do I care about your grade point average? No. Do I even care about your major? No. Because if you have the right work ethic and the right heart, I can train you to do other things but I want to see how hard you're willing to work.Seth: So, a college degree still carries some weight but maybe it doesn't carry the weight that people think it does in terms of having the training because you kind of have to relearn it all when you get out into the real world.Steve: Exactly. Most college students that I see haven't learned anything that’s a really good use at a record label. My last five hires at Centricity have all come from internships. Now, I've had a lot of bad interns. I've wanted to fire a couple of interns, that's pretty bad when you want to fire somebody who works for free.Seth: What defines a good intern and what defines a bad intern?Steve: A bad intern sits on Facebook until you give them something to do and then they do exactly just to the letter of the law of what you asked them to do, hand it in to you and then get back on Facebook. A great intern does what you do and says, “Hey and I thought about this. And what about this more?” You give them to go to D and they go to G; then you give them to G and they go to S. I have a girl in my office, I asked her to do one thing and she says “Oh by the way while I was thinking about it I did these other three things that will help you out.” That type of proactivity and thinking ahead is so incredibly valuable. Like having somebody patching in your compressor before you ask for it. They know where you're going so fast that they're working ahead of you. And for all of those out there, that's old school once again patch bays.[Laughter]Seth: We have a small patch bay, we have two patch bays actually so we're probably on the old school end of things.Chris: It looks very cool though. It's looks kind of old science fiction movie.Steve: Spaghetti.[Laughter] Seth: It's like a telephone operator kind of thing. I heard a thing on…man, we keep talking about podcast, we're all just podcasts nerds, dude. I think that’s what we do for a living is listen to podcasts. And I heard one last night, they did a study of millennials; if you had a dream job, pick out of these choices what would be your dream job. Number one was the president; number two was a senator; number three was a successful athlete; number four foreign diplomat; five was a CEO of Apple; and then the last choice was the personal assistant to a famous actor or athlete. And 45% I think picked that one, hands down.Steve: They have no idea what that job looks like.Seth: They don't but it also speaks to they don't want to take the responsibility. Like, when you're that person, when you're the boss, they want to have a boss and maybe you can speak to a little bit to that but I feel like when you were talking about the internships, the ones who go above and beyond are the ones who are willing to take some responsibility and say, “Here's an idea” and just put it out there. How many interns would you have to get, to get that one good one?Steve: Probably 10 to 15.Seth: 10 to 15 to 1?Steve: Yeah, to 1. I think that’s what it is.Chris: Wow.Steve: Yeah, that's what it is. And I heard you, I think we had the conversation, there's such a different work ethic in today's young adults. And part of it is my fault, I'm a parent of a young adult they've been given everything in their whole life, they haven't had to work for anything. You want that iPhone! Here's that iPhone. You want that? Here's that. The art and the craft of working, the labor of getting something is a lost art, I think.Seth: So, would you go back and do those things differently?Steve: For my kids? My kids had to work.[Laughter]Seth: So, you weren't saying from my experience, you weren't–Steve: I’m saying that personally and much more of…[Laughter]What we made our kids do is like when they wanted that $100 American girl doll is you buy half, we’ll buy half. And all of a sudden they're digging out rocks in the backyard at $1 a bucket out of the garden. Because you want to give your kids what the value of work is and that's that doll at the end.In our world, I sat with an intern once and he was irritating everybody in the office. He's that guy who only asks questions because he wanted to tell you how much he knew. An intern needs to be quite and listen because there's a lot of information that flows around… And then they find the person that they can go to and go, what did that mean when he said this? So, what did that mean or… Come to me! I've told everyone in my internship, feel free to come to me and say, what does it mean when you said that? Versus this guy would come to you and tell you everything he knew. So, I was sitting him down one day and going,  “Man, you're irritating everybody. The whole office wants to prove you wrong.”Seth: You literally said that?Steve: I said that to him and later on, “I know I do that. I'm just trying to figure out where I fit and trying to find a job make $100, $120,000 a year and start in the music industry.” And I said, “You're in the wrong industry, man.”Seth: Go into finance!Steve: Go into finance, or go be an architect somewhere I guess or something. It was just about wanting to make as much money as his dad did, now! This generation wants to start where their parents have gotten to right now. I've seen it with artists, I've seen it with interns–Chris: They don't want a drop in their lifestyle that they've become accustomed to.Seth: A luxury once had, becomes a necessity.Steve and Chris: Ooohh.Steve: Very nice.Seth: And I'm very guilty of that. You fly first class once and you feel like a swine by sitting in coach.[Laughter] Steve: I've flown private jets twice in my whole life, in my whole career both times sort of accidentally. And man, once you do a private jet and you don't have to go through security and you’re just like, “Oh, I want that.” I say this all the time about artists. The worst thing you can do for an artist is start them touring in a bus because that's the expectation and then you know what happens? Is they got on the bus and they’re, “This isn't a very nice bus.” There are people in vans like when you were out in a van, to be on a bus, to be able to sleep horizontally would be the greatest thing ever and just because you started at this place and then you get into private jets. Everybody needs to start their first tour in a Silverado truck and then the next one to a bigger–Seth: Graduate to a suburban!Steve: A suburban would be great, then a 15 passenger old church van that you bought for $5,000 that the left side of the speakers don't work. And then, you work your way into a [inaudible 19:58] van and then into a bus. Then you're grateful for everything that's better along the way.Seth: It's more about the process than anything.Steve: Yeah.Seth: And getting there.Steve: A wise manager once said, his job is to make his artists life better every year, just a little bit better. I'm like, that's a good goal. That's a good goal to have.Seth: It is. So, your transition, we shipped about 20 years–Steve: We skipped through it very fast.[Laughter] Your transition from doing that 6pm to 3 in the morning thing in LA, you had your baby…Steve: Yep. My wife and I were praying at that point going, “God, please give us some sane clients or open another door.” And I just worked probably two months before with Peter York–Seth: And for those out there listening, was this at a record label you got your first…Steve: I was working with Peter in the studio and he called me up and said, “Hey, are you interested in A&R?” And I started in A&R in Sparrow…what's that 87, 88? Right around there and we were still in Chatsworth, California, spent time out there with him. So, I’ve been at Sparrow, moved from Sparrow to Star Songs and then back to Sparrow when they came up. Started in A&R worked my way into the marketing side, artist development side… So, yes back to Sparrow went to  Mer and worked my way up to Vice President at marketing at Mer, was general manager at [inaudible 21:34], general manager at SRI and now general manager at Centricity.Chris: Wow.Steve: It's been a long journey. If you’d ask me to 25 or 30 years ago, were you going to be general manager at Record Label? I would have laughed in your face.[Laughter]Chris: Because you didn't think it was attainable or because you didn't want have this job?Steve: That was not the path I was on. I thought, I was going to be producing records and engineering records.  Jack Pueg is still mixing great great records out there and I thought I was going to follow that path. God had something very different in mind which makes me laugh going I was talking to [inaudible 22:09] this morning and I can't believe I’ve been doing this, this long. When you're now an industry veteran it means that you've been around a long time.Seth: But I don't think looking back and I don’t want to put words in your mouth but you don't strike me as one of those people that's looking back and feeling like you’re working in the corporate side of the industry because you never made it on the creative side.Steve: No, no.Seth: You don't strike me as that at all.Steve: I made that decision for my family. What's funny is I've learned more about engineering and more about mixing and more about mastering being on the corporate side of what we're trying accomplish and why trying to do what we're doing. I learned so much about that. And for the first year or so, I was mad at God going, “Why did I just spend 9, 10 years in studios, in dark rooms working long hours if this is where you wanted me?” But realize, every day of my life in the last 27 years in the corporate side I've used information I learned in the studio. Sometimes we can't ask God why until you're 20 years down and you go, “oh I get it.”It's the path he puts us on, he brings people in and out of your life. I remember a girl over at Sparrow she was an accountant, that was her thing she loved accounting and God put me with her to learn that whole budgeting, it was only like for four months and then we were separated again but once again she changed my perspective and my life for the next 20 years. So, you don't know if these people that are coming in and out of your life are for a short period of how they're going to impact you.But yeah, I've sort of worked my way, I was one of the strange guys everybody wants to be in A&R. I started in A&R and left to got to marketing and then got back into it as I moved back up into the but everybody wants to be an A&R guy, hang out in the studios and have dinner with the artists which is not what an A&R guy does.Chris: Well it's the perception out there–Steve: Yeah, exactly, that's what they think.Chris: Just like you saying the artist is going to be in private jets.Seth: And for honestly if somebody's out there, can you break down what exactly what it is A&R. What is that? What is that job?Steve: A&R, we [inaudible 24:27] airports and restaurants which is [inaudible 24:28].[Laughter]It’s artist and repertoire. It’s basically looking for artist, finding people that have a seedling of something. Sometimes you don’t know what it is. We’ve all got our standards of what we feel like will lead to success. But finding that, nurturing it, grooming it, it’s sort of the mustard seed put into the ground, pat around and hopefully something really great grows out of it. Sometimes the plants don’t live, sometimes they give up. But it basically the music made by the A&R guy, we have one of the best in the industry in Centricity. When he’s done, when the music is done, he hands the baton over to me, and I go everywhere from there. But it’s his job to make sure we have hits, we have songs that work for live or work on the radio, an artist that’s got uniqueness to him that fits differently than everything else in the market place and sometimes it’s just plain old dumb luck. We’ve got all those where we’re like, “We though this person had everything they needed, was need for success and it didn’t work, and this one over here it’s that seedling and it’s just growing like crazy.Seth: Yeah, sometimes you don’t know or probably more often than not, I would think.Steve: How many songs have you worked on and said, “Man, that’s the hit.” I have a memory of I will eat my shoe if this is not [inaudible 26:04][Laughter] I believe you owe me a shoe eaten.Seth: I’m wearing Nikes right now. I have a feeling that this material is not organic.Chris: I was going to say, whatever you choose make sure its biodegradable.Steve: I was going to send you a shoe after one particular sock.[Laughter]We’ve all got them dude.Seth: Oh yeah, totally. I think more often than not and it’s honestly becoming a theme on this show is, we’re all just kind of winging it we’re all just guessing. So, my question to that is, I mean, it sounds like there’s a lot of responsibility placed on the shoulders of an A&R person. They’re the one that’s finding and nurturing talent and ultimately seeing what songs make it on records.I think a lot of people listening in our podcast audience, we have a lot of producers and writers and people outside of the music industry but then there are also probably some people who are just wanting to get in on the music business side and people who maybe want to be in music marketing or be in music management or maybe do what you’re doing someday, run a record label. You said what you look for interns, what qualifies a person to be an A&R person?Steve: Wow. Interesting. There are a few A&R guys you should interview. A great A&R person is able to inspire an artist beyond what they’ve every thought they could do. A great A&R person knows how to get a good song to a great song. We’re no longer in a society that good is not good enough, it has to be great. A great A&R guy can go, “You know what? There are seedlings, there are moments in here that are really great.” But you’re missing the mark I these two or three places. And then, coming in and sitting side by side with a producer like you and making sure that… I think that I’m a big movie buff and A&R guy is sort of like an executive producer on a movie where you put the team together and then sort of let the team go make the music. So, it’s the right producer for the right, for the right song and for the right artists and then let them shine where they go. It’s very much putting the pieces together. They’re not usually playing the music, they’re not [inaudible 28:34] musicians, they have to have a really good song sense and I think one of the skills an A&R guy has to know is, it’s not about them. They’ve got to know their audience, know what they’re making for because all of us have a tendency to gravitate towards music that’s on the fringe because we listen to so much stuff that all of the stuff in the middle starts mucking up. There’s a big muck in the middle. So, “you know what I like? I like this thing way over here or way over there.” Where a normal consumer listens to 10 records a year, the middle is the sweet spot for them. So, an A&R guy that understands who he’s trying to record for is very important.Seth: That’s very good. And, you said that they have to have a great song sense, that is even a sticky situation because why is one person’s song sense better than the other? Is that determined by track record? And, if you’ve never done A&R before, how do you prove that, hey I know a hit when I hear one?Steve: You know what? Our history of…John Mays is a 25 years somebody took a chance on him 27 years ago and said “You’re a great musician on the road, let me bring you in here.” Part is the relationship, you know, can they sit and hang with an artist? You know, you’ve been in these mediums. Where it’s like can you move an artist from A to Z while making the artist think it’s their move? As a producer it’s the same skill set of can you get an artist to bend without knowing that they’re bending? Or being able to move–Seth: All the artists out there, they just had a–Steve: I know they had a convulsion.[Laughter]And all the producer are like, yeah![Laughter]But that’s part of it, of like how do you get a song… because you don’t want to tell an artist, “You know what? This song sucks.” You just want to say, “Let’s work on the chorus. The chorus isn’t paying off hard enough, let’s make it lift better. Let’s make it shine.” Whatever it may be, moving them away from, “I love this, this is my baby. It’s beautiful.” To let’s keep working on this song.Seth: So, it sounds like it maybe starts with who they are as a person. Are they a good hang? Are they a servant? And then, the music kind of just follows and that taste follows.Steve: Our young A&R guy over there, he went through our radio department so he was listening to radio hits, radio hits, radio hits. And part of it is… There’s marketing guy named Roy Williams, I went to a seminar with him and he said he has a friend that works at General Market Record Label to pick all the singles and I’m like, “How did you learn this?” And the guy basically said, “Since I was five years old, every week I’d get my allowance and I would go buy the number one song in America.” And so for his whole life, he poured into himself hits. This is what a hit sounds like, this is what a hit sounds like, this is what a hit sounds like.Seth: That’s pretty good wisdom, right there.Steve: And so, at a certain point you go, you got to know our music, you got to listen to our music, you got to know what a hit sounds like. I’ve heard a lot of kids come though “I hate listening to Christian radio.” Then why do you listen to Christian music? How many people in country music go, “[inaudible 32:11] but I hate country music.” Get out! You’re not going to succeed.[Laughter]But they almost wear it as a banner that I hate Christian music in our market place. We have an open concept office and I’ll try to listen to two hours of Christian radio every day in my office. And if I’m listening to it, everybody in my office is listening to it too; more for this is what a hit sounds like, this is what radio sounds lie. If you’re trying to meet a need at radio and you don’t know what they’re playing, how can you meet the need? So…I digress, sorry.Seth: No, that’s gold. That’s all gold.Steve: I think you nailed it in your earlier podcast when you said, this is a servant industry. It really is. And in my life, it took me a lot of time to figure out what my calling was. I knew I wasn’t an artist but God, what does that mean? And I was walking through Exodus with my kids when they were very young and hit Exodus 17 where God say to Moses, they’re out of Egypt heading towards the Promised Land and they hit the Analcites, God calls Moses up to the hill top; arms up in the air he wins, arms down they lose. But what never caught to me until I was reading it, Moses took two people along with him Aaron and Hur and I love to say I am the Hur in the Moses’ life. It’s my job, what Hur was up there to do is to hold Moses’ arms up, that’s all he did. When Moses was weak, when Moses needed help, Hur held his hands up. That’s my calling be a servant, be there to hold your hands up. Some people know Aaron “Aaron, you know, Moses’ little brother.” No one knows who Hur is. If you’re okay standing, holding someone’s arms up and no one recognizes, you are created to be in the music industry. Because you’re not in to be the rock stars; we’re in the back of the room with our arms folded, looking at the person on stage going, “Yeah. I was there to hold their arms up.”Chris: That’s wise. One of my favorite movies is That Thing You Do, I don’t know if any of you have seen that.Steve: Yeah. I’m the guy that goes, “You look great in black.”[Laughter]Chris: Has anyone told you that?Steve: Yeah.Chris: But, one of my favorite characters in the movie, and they’re filled with them. Anybody out there that hasn’t seen it, it’s a great movie.Steve: Please, go see it.Chris: But there’s Horus who’s basically the A&R guy that sees them in–Steve: In the camper-[Laughter]Chris: Yeah, he lives in a camper and he’s essentially the A&R guy. But he sees them in a performance at an Italian restaurant or something and comes and buys their album and get’s them to sign a little deal. And then at the end, when they get signed to a major label and they’re going out to play these state fairs, Horus leaves and the main character drummer of the band says, “We don’t want you to leave.” And he goes, “My [inaudible 35:27] is done. I’ve done what I’m supposed to do.” And then move on to the next thing and so he wasn’t meant to ride that out the whole movie; he’s there for a specific piece to move it from A to C. He’s the B part of it, the Hur of that story so to speak.Steve: Nowadays, you’d call them just production deals. You start working with an unknown artist who has a little bit of talent, you start developing them and then you start shopping them to record labels. And then you go, my job here is done. They then take the baton and now try to make to a national artist. If you make 2 out of 20, 3 out of 20, you’re in great shape. You’re a hall of fame baseball player if you hit 3 out of 10. And you’re a hall of fame A&R guy if 3 out of your 10 are hit artists.It’s a cycle, you have the young artist going up; you have the artist at their peak; and then you have some that are on their way down. And you’ve got to keep that circle going because any artist that’s been at the top is going to be past its peak and slowly work its way down, and you got to have the new artist coming up behind to grow into. So it’s a continual cycle of in the music industry. The circle of life in music would be that.Chris: I had a mentor –Scott [inaudible 36:48] if you’re listening I’m about to talk about you- but he always talked about how life in the ministry or in a career is kind of like looking at life or the people that you interact is like a watching a parade go by. There are things that are right in front of you, there are things that you just saw, and there are things that are coming down. And to really appreciate what is happening in the parade you have to absorb it all. And so there’s a little bit of grabbing from each of those in order to get the full experience of it all.Steve: And the bigger what’s right in front of you, the bigger those artists are in front of you, sometimes you don’t have time to look behind and develop what’s behind and what happens is with a lot of these record labels and I’ve been at these where, man they’ve got the big, and they slowly slipping. The [inaudible 37:32] slowly start getting past their prime and they haven’t developed anything behind them and then you’re in trouble because you’ve got this machine you’ve got to feed and you haven’t created for the future, it’s only for the present.And so, every A&R guy wants to sing but some of the big labels, the big artists, the A’s are so big that’s all they’re paying attention to. We’ve all seen it, we’ve all seen artists where we say, “Man, they’re amazing” but they got lost in the shuffle and that’s the sadness. We forget that we’re playing with people’s lives, especially on the record label side their dreams.I signed this band at a label and they were 18 years old when I signed them and 21 years old when I had to drop them. So, their dreams had come true and shattered by the time they were 21. And it’s just hard when you start thinking about that stuff.Chris: That’s true. And if you think about it there are some people that are fortunate enough to have a full career in the music industry and there are some people that have a three year window kind of like a profession sports guy or those things. There’s a window and the once you pass it, yeah but the guy is only 24 and the band is only 21. What’s coming up for them?Steve: You know what, I think it’s a catalyst of those people leaving or burning out, is balance. You guys have said it; I can walk through a record label at 8 o’clock at night and I can tell you which employees will be gone in a year because they have nothing to put back into themselves. The music industry is a take industry, it just continues squeezing and it just wants more and more and more. If you have one they want five; if you have five we want ten; if we have ten we want twenty, and it’s never enough. My poor radio team goes, “Hey we got number one.” And I’m like, “Great. How do we keep it on number one for another week?” It’s never enough and so you continue squeezing out what this industry does, if you don’t have a ministry, if you don’t have a relationship, if you don’t have friends that give back to you that don’t care what you do  for a living and basically go, “Yeah, yeah. You do music, how are you?” You know, if there aren’t nursing students at the college that you got to that are your friends, you’re going to burn out.  Because there’s nothing giving back, there’s no one pouring into you. Sooner or later the candle ends, there’s no more fuel and it juts burns out.So, I try to keep my staff saying, I want you to go to concerts and date people and go home at 6 o’clock and have a life. Because if you don’t have a life you have nothing to come back when you come back tomo

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