Podcasts about world class performers

Unlock the secrets to building a successful solo law practice with insights from the remarkable Eric Rosen, a double board-certified trial lawyer. Discover the essential habits and strategic planning methods Eric employed to transition from a large firm to a thriving solo practice. Learn how to maintain strong family relationships, avoid burnout, and master marketing strategies in a competitive legal environment. Eric shares his inspiring journey of moving from a skilled trial lawyer to an entrepreneurial rainmaker. He discusses the importance of having a clear vision, setting strategic goals, and the mental shift required to become a law firm entrepreneur. With lessons drawn from influential books like "Tools of Titans" by Tim Ferriss, Eric emphasizes the excitement of entrepreneurship and the power of self-marketing.  Learn about the significance of building a referral-based marketing strategy and forming genuine relationships within the legal community. Eric reveals his unique marketing events and the importance of proactive investments in hiring and growth. Hear how fostering a community of like-minded professionals and making strategic decisions can lead to long-term success and personal fulfillment.  In this episode, you will hear: Eric Rosen's journey from a large firm trial lawyer to a thriving solo practice. Essential habits and strategic planning for solo law success. Balancing family life and avoiding burnout as a solo practitioner. Effective marketing strategies, including social media and SEO. Proactive hiring and investment strategies for sustainable growth. Follow and Review: We'd love for you to follow us if you haven't yet. Click that purple '+' in the top right corner of your Apple Podcasts app. We'd love it even more if you could drop a review or 5-star rating over on Apple Podcasts. Simply select “Ratings and Reviews” and “Write a Review” then a quick line with your favorite part of the episode. It only takes a second and it helps spread the word about the podcast. If there's a topic you would like us to cover on an upcoming episode, please email us at steve.riley@atticusadvantage.com. Supporting Resources: Rosen Injury Law, P.A. https://roseninjury.com/ Eric Rosen Bio https://roseninjury.com/eric-rosen/ Eric Rosen on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-rosen-04449463/ Law with Eric Podcast – https://www.youtube.com/@RosenInjuryLaw Follow Rosen Injury Law on Social Media: TikTok: @attorneyeric Instagram: @roseninjurylaw Facebook: @roseninjury Twitter: @rosen_injury LinkedIn: roseninjurylaw YouTube: @roseninjurylaw Tools Of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers https://www.amazon.com/Tools-Titans-Billionaires-World-Class-Performers/dp/1328683788 The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It  https://www.amazon.com/dp/0887307280/ 10-80-10 rule, Buy Back Your Time by Dan Martell: https://www.amazon.com/Buy-Back-Your-Time-Unstuck/dp/059342297X One-on-One Coaching https://atticusadvantage.com/what-we-do/tailored-coaching/one-on-one-coaching/    Lori Pulvermacher, Practice Advisor https://atticusadvantage.com/our-team/lori-pulvermacher Great Practice. Great Life.® by Atticus® – 050: Why I Love Conflict with Lori Pulvermacher https://atticusadvantage.com/episode050 Want to add your insights to Episode 100? Send your video or message to gracer@atticusadvantage.com Episode Credits If you like this podcast and are thinking of creating your own, consider talking to my producer, Emerald City Productions. They helped me grow and produce the podcast you are listening to right now. Find out more at https://emeraldcitypro.com Let them know we sent you.

Chris Mamula, a former physical therapist who achieved early retirement at 41, shares his journey from financial mistakes to becoming a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) and a prominent voice in the FIRE movement. Discover practical tips on budgeting, saving during peak earning years, and utilizing retirement calculators. Chris, Bill, and Jackie chat about the advantages of starting late, advice-only financial planning, and strategies for aligning spending with personal values.   

Marc Champagne is a philosopher, podcaster and the bestselling author of Personal Socrates: Questions That Will Upgrade Your Life from Legends & World-Class Performers. An expert in what he calls “mental fitness,” Marc teaches daily practices designed to enhance creativity, clarity and focus. On today's episode of Everyday Better, Marc and Leah ask each other a challenging question: when it comes to the work of personal development, can you ever reach a stopping point? Through sharing their personal stories of growth, Marc and Leah discuss the challenges that brought them to this work – and then, years later, what sparked their curiosity around taking a sabbatical from personal development. They also share their favorite tools and non-negotiable self-care practices for whatever season of life they find themselves in. Follow Leah Smart on LinkedIn. Follow Marc Champagne on LinkedIn. To learn more about mental fitness, listen to Marc's podcast Behind the Human with Marc Champagne. And don't forget to sign up for Leah's weekly newsletter to get practical tips on how to level up with small steps every day.

Bill rambles about 'getting too old for this shit', Maynard's birthday show, and blue collar lingo. The Tim Ferris Show:   Tim Ferriss has been listed as one of Fast Company's “Most Innovative Business People,” and Newsweek has also called him “the world's best guinea pig.”  He's the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers, including The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers.  You can find The Tim Ferriss Show wherever you get your podcasts.  SimpliSafe:  SimpliSafe has given me and many of my listeners real peace of mind. I want you to have it too. Get 20% off any new SimpliSafe system when you sign up for Fast Protect Monitoring at www.SimpliSafe.com/BURR 

In today's episode of Leaders of Tomorrow, Chris chats with Saša Milosevic, an amazing operator of our program. Saša had previously joined us on Episode 276, sharing insights into his journey.   During the episode, Saša reflects on his impressive business growth, from running a successful Mexico-level operation in 2020 to expanding to two additional businesses, reaching a half-million and $535,000 in 2021. His ambitious goal for the current year is to achieve over a million dollars, positioning himself as a potential trailblazer in the program.   Saša dives into the pivotal moments that catalyzed his transition from significant progress to superstar success. He emphasizes the importance of continuous skill development, particularly in marketing, recruiting, and selling.    Listeners will gain insights into Saša's transformative journey, discovering the mindset shifts and habits that propelled him to success. He shares the challenges he faced during pivotal moments, such as the leap from a $225,000 summer to a half-million-dollar season, revealing the strategies and mindset adjustments that fueled his remarkable progress.   The conversation delves into Saša's commitment to self-improvement through courses, including those from Tony Robbins. He elaborates on the influence of Robbins' teachings, particularly in challenging limiting beliefs, changing state, and embracing a bigger life.   As Saša prepares for his million-dollar goal, he shares his refined approach to sales, training, and leadership within his business. He outlines plans to invest heavily in his sales team's skill set and underscores the importance of profitability over mere revenue.   The episode concludes with Saša sharing key habits that have contributed to his success, including morning priming routines, cold exposure, and a gratitude practice. He emphasizes the value of being present, critical self-reflection, and a strong understanding of societal patterns.   Listen now and enjoy! What You Will Learn In This Show: The crucial mindset shifts and habits that fueled Saša's journey to success. The impact of intentional time management and choices on business performance. Strategies for overcoming challenges and achieving significant business growth. The role of continuous skill development and personal growth in entrepreneurial success. Saša's future goals and the importance of being prepared for new endeavors. And so much more…   Resources: Student Works 276 | Saša Milosevic | Raising Your Performance Bar with Student Works   Books: Tools Of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers

On this episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan talks with author and early-stage technology investor/advisor Tim Ferriss on the essence of Stoicism, fear setting, and exaggerating the downside of things. How stoicism helped Tim manage the catastrophe of success and criticism and his podcast Tim Ferriss Show, which is the first business/interview podcast to exceed 100 million downloads. It has now exceeded 900 million downloads.Tim Ferriss has been listed as one of Fast Company's “Most Innovative Business People” and one of Fortune's “40 under 40." He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers, including The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers.IG and YT: @TimFerrissX: @TFerriss✉️ Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail

On this episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan talks with author and early-stage technology investor/advisor Tim Ferriss on the essence of Stoicism, fear setting, and exaggerating the downside of things. How stoicism helped Tim manage the catastrophe of success and criticism and his podcast Tim Ferriss Show, which is the first business/interview podcast to exceed 100 million downloads. It has now exceeded 900 million downloads.Tim Ferriss has been listed as one of Fast Company's “Most Innovative Business People” and one of Fortune's “40 under 40." He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers, including The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers.IG and YT: @TimFerrissX: @TFerriss✉️ Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail

Growing up, I never thought I would leave the workforce and spend my time doing things I love. I had no comprehension of ideas like financial independence, early retirements, or sabbaticals. The paths I saw were laid out in straight lines and cheat codes did not exist. Reflecting on our journey, Michelle and I realize we have made some unconventional decisions that have given us financial abundance and, most importantly, time freedom. Show notesTools Of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers by Tim Ferris Siddhartha by Herman HesseTim Ferris on Tools of Titans by Richard Feloni with Business Insider I Will Teach You to Be Rich by Ramit SethiWalden by Henry David ThoreauRiverside: Partner For This EpisodeCheck out our partner for this episode, RiversideWe are so excited to partner with Riverside.fm for this episode because they have made recording audio and video for our 150+ episodes a seamless, stress free process. If you're thinking about starting a podcast or video channel, Riverside.fm is a great resource for having conversations with interesting guests without having to worry about connection issues or choppy audio. Find more show notes and interact with the Build A Wealthy Spirit community at buildawealthyspirit.com!

Chapter 1 What's Tools of Titans"Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers" is a book written by Tim Ferriss. It was published in 2016 and is a compilation of interviews and advice from guests of Ferriss's podcast, "The Tim Ferriss Show." The book shares insights and strategies for success from a wide array of successful individuals, including entrepreneurs, athletes, artists, and scientists. It is divided into three sections: Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise, covering topics such as personal development, business strategies, and health optimization.Chapter 2 Why is Tools of Titans Worth Read1. Variety and breadth of content: Tools of Titans covers a wide range of topics, including health, productivity, success, and happiness. It features interviews with numerous experts and successful individuals from various industries, providing readers with a diverse set of tools and insights to apply to their own lives.2. Practical advice and actionable tips: The book is packed with actionable advice and strategies that can be implemented immediately. Ferriss distills key lessons and takeaways from his interviews into practical tools that help readers optimize their own lives and achieve their goals.3. Inspirational stories: Tools of Titans shares the stories of highly accomplished individuals, detailing their journeys, challenges, and successes. These stories serve as an inspiration and motivation for readers, showing them that success is possible, no matter the obstacles one may encounter.4. Unconventional perspectives: Ferriss brings unique and unconventional perspectives to various topics discussed in the book. He challenges conventional thinking and introduces ideas that can reshape one's approach to life, work, and personal growth.5. Well-researched and curated content: As a renowned author and podcast host, Ferriss has spent years researching and interviewing experts in different fields. Tools of Titans reflects this extensive research and curation, providing readers with valuable insights from a wide range of trusted sources.6. Applicable to different readers: Whether you are interested in health and fitness, entrepreneurship, self-improvement, or overall personal growth, Tools of Titans covers a wide range of topics that will resonate with different readers. The book offers something for everyone, regardless of their specific interests or goals.7. Thought-provoking questions and reflections: Throughout the book, Ferriss includes thought-provoking questions and exercises that encourage readers to reflect on their own lives and make meaningful changes. These reflective exercises can help readers gain clarity, set goals, and take action towards self-improvement.Overall, Tools of Titans is worth reading for its diverse and valuable content, practical advice, inspirational stories, unconventional perspectives, and thought-provoking reflections. It is a resource that can help readers optimize their lives, achieve success, and find fulfillment.Chapter 3 Tools of Titans Summary"Tools of Titans" is a self-help book by author and entrepreneur Tim Ferriss. The book is a compilation of interviews and experiences from various successful individuals in different fields, including business, sports, entertainment, and wellness.The key premise of the book is that there are certain habits, routines, and tools that successful people use to achieve their goals and maximize their performance. Ferriss seeks to uncover and share these strategies with readers, with the aim of helping them improve their own lives.The book is divided into three sections: Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise. In the Healthy section, Ferriss explores topics such as...

Jeremy Snape is one of the world's leading mental skills coaches and has worked the South African Cricket Team, Rajasthan Royals (Indian Premier League), England Rugby Union, Premier League Club Crystal Palace, Football League Managers Association (LMA) and F1 Racing.Jeremy played professional cricket for 16 years, including 10 caps for the English team. However, his biggest lesson was learnt when he under-performed in front of 120,000 people against India in a One Day International; where he became a firm believer though that failure is our most powerful teacher.He hosts a podcast named ‘Inside the Mind of Champions' and runs a successful consulting practice called Sporting Edge Digital.In this episode Andrew and Jeremy discuss:5:00 Jeremy growing up in a small town and the start of his cricket career13:00 Knowing when you're good enough to play for your country and Jeremy's defining moment as a player22:00 What Jeremy would say to his younger self, how to deal with pressure and unpredictability, and preparing for the end of your playing career35:00 Working with Shane Warne and the Rajasthan Royals41:35 Working with the Eddie Jones and the English Rugby team, Crystal Palace Football and how self-talk has a physical impact on our bodies50:00 Where Jeremy sees the future of performance psychology going55:00 The commonalities between Jeremy's podcast guests and his favourite interview1:05:20 Performance Uncovered1:14:05 Andrew and The Wizard's reflections You can find Jeremy at his LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremysnape/                                                         at the Sporting Edge Website: https://www.sportingedge.com/                              or at the Inside The Mind Of Champions Podcast: http://bitly.ws/RqgJ Find out more about Andrew's Keynotes : https://www.andrewmay.com/keynotes/Follow Andrew May: https://www.instagram.com/andrewmay/Follow StriveStronger: https://www.instagram.com/strive.stronger/If you enjoy the podcast, we would really appreciate you leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Google Play. It takes less than 60 seconds and really helps us build our audience and continue to provide high quality guests.

Are there questions you could ask yourself that could significantly impact your life? In part two of this episode, Bob Stewart and Chad Hyams wrap up the discussion with six more questions from entrepreneur, podcaster, and author of “The 4-Hour Workweek,” Tim Ferriss, which allows everyone to check and improve their life. In this episode, we cover the following: What if I couldn't pitch my product directly? [1:49]   What if I could only subtract (not add) to solve the problem? [7:22] What could I implement to allow me to go off the grid for 4 to 6 weeks? [12:17] Are you hunting antelope or field mice? [15:30] Could it be that everything is fine and complete as it is? [20:51] How can I throw money at this problem to improve my life? [23:52] Resources discussed in this episode: Enroll in Wealth Series 2.0: https://WinMakeGive.com/wealth/ Win Make Give Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/WinMakeGive Tim's 17 Question PDF: https://bit.ly/3DBO7JT Get your copy of “The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich” by Tim Ferriss here: https://amzn.to/458ro3Y Get your copy of “Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers” by Tim Ferriss here: https://amzn.to/458rAAe Connect with the hosts: Ben Kinney: https://www.BenKinney.com/ Bob Stewart: https://www.linkedin.com/in/activebob Chad Hyams: https://ChadHyams.com/ Book one of our co-hosts for your next event: https://WinMakeGive.com/speakers/ More ways to connect:  Sign up for our weekly newsletter: https://WinMakeGive.com/sign-up Explore the Win Make Give Podcast Network: https://WinMakeGive.com/ Listen to Win Make Give Season 3 on YouTube: bit.ly/3pPEdAx ------ Part of the Win Make Give Podcast Network

Feeling stuck or in a rut? All you need to do is ask yourself the right questions. In this two-part episode, Bob Stewart and Chad Hyams take a cue from Tim Ferriss, entrepreneur, podcaster, and author of “The 4-Hour Workweek,” as they break down 12 of his 17 boundary-pushing questions. In this episode, we cover the following: What if you did the opposite for 48 hours? [4:00]   What do you overspend money on? How can you scratch your own itch? [8:50] What would you do if you had 10 million dollars? What's your real target monthly income? [13:43] What are the worst things that could happen? Could you get back here if they did? [16:29] What would you do if you could only work two hours per week on your business? [21:01] What if you allowed people in your organization to make decisions up to $100? $500? $1,000? [23:55] Resources discussed in this episode: Enroll in Wealth Series 2.0: https://WinMakeGive.com/wealth/ Win Make Give Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/WinMakeGive Tim's 17 Question PDF: https://bit.ly/3DBO7JT Get your copy of “The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich” by Tim Ferriss here: https://amzn.to/458ro3Y Get your copy of “Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers” by Tim Ferriss here: https://amzn.to/458rAAe Connect with the hosts: Ben Kinney: https://www.BenKinney.com/ Bob Stewart: https://www.linkedin.com/in/activebob Chad Hyams: https://ChadHyams.com/ Book one of our co-hosts for your next event: https://WinMakeGive.com/speakers/ More ways to connect:  Sign up for our weekly newsletter: https://WinMakeGive.com/sign-up Explore the Win Make Give Podcast Network: https://WinMakeGive.com/ Listen to Win Make Give Season 3 on YouTube: bit.ly/3pPEdAx ------ Part of the Win Make Give Podcast Network

Welcome back to Making Bank. On today's episode, we have Antonio Garrido who is the author of My Daily Leadership, a powerful Roadmap for Leadership Success, and founder and president of My Daily Leadership. He has over 25 years in senior leadership positions with world-class businesses and is an expert in leadership transformation, shaping high performance leaders out of highly stressed and overworked leaders.  Don't miss this episode of Making Bank with Antonio Garrido.   (4:22) Background Antonio didn't come from a business background. In fact, his own father never had an education. However, his father would advise him to start his own company because it is better to be the owner of something small than just a random somebody of something big and this kick started his career. He started, sold and retained about six or seven businesses.   (7:54) Biggest Lessons Allow room for failure and learning. You will not succeed or learn much if you do not allow yourself to fail. However, you must learn from the failures and try harder and smarter the next time. Wisdom comes from evaluated experience and not just time served. So, if you don't evaluate the experience, you lose a valuable lesson.   (15:07) Emotional Intelligence A lot of leaders rely on MBAs, CV, resume and experience as the barometer for success when somebody's recruiting or hiring. But emotional intelligence is also very important and some say it is even more significant than your IQ. Because it also includes social skills and impulse control which are very important in business.   (19:36) Evaluated Experience Take time every day and if you don't journal, start doing it. Because unless you actively take time every day to try and improve and record these things in your journal to build self-awareness, to figure out how you could have responded better in the moment then you won't eliminate your blind spots.   (23:03) Leadership Insight Start having two affirmations, two really solid beliefs, two commitments for the day which you won't compromise. three things that you are going to develop,  one thing you're going to explore and one thing that you're going to fix for the day. So, you've got affirmations, beliefs, commitments, things you're gonna develop, explore and one thing that you're going to fix.   (27:24) Mindset Have a mindset of abundance versus scarcity and always remember to be grateful. You're in a tremendously fortunate position, so try and build your gratitude bank because you can't have a positive life if it's filled with negative thoughts.   (29:36) My Daily Leadership If you want to take a leadership health check or take a business health check, and if you are sufficiently concerned with what you read then take a leadership assessment and then fix what needs to be fixed. Head over to www.mydailyleadership.com for more information.   Links www.mydailyleadership.com

Welcome back to Making Bank. On today's episode, we have Antonio Garrido who is the author of My Daily Leadership, a powerful Roadmap for Leadership Success, and founder and president of My Daily Leadership. He has over 25 years in senior leadership positions with world-class businesses and is an expert in leadership transformation, shaping high performance leaders out of highly stressed and overworked leaders.  Don't miss this episode of Making Bank with Antonio Garrido.   (3:21) Background Antonio didn't come from a business background. In fact, his own father never had an education. However, his father would advise him to start his own company because it is better to be the owner of something small than just a random somebody of something big and this kick started his career. He started, sold and retained about six or seven businesses.   (6:53) Biggest Lessons Allow room for failure and learning. You will not succeed or learn much if you do not allow yourself to fail. However, you must learn from the failures and try harder and smarter the next time. Wisdom comes from evaluated experience and not just time served. So, if you don't evaluate the experience, you lose a valuable lesson.   (14:07) Emotional Intelligence A lot of leaders rely on MBAs, CV, resume and experience as the barometer for success when somebody's recruiting or hiring. But emotional intelligence is also very important and some say it is even more significant than your IQ. Because it also includes social skills and impulse control which are very important in business.   (18:33) Evaluated Experience Take time every day and if you don't journal, start doing it. Because unless you actively take time every day to try and improve and record these things in your journal to build self-awareness, to figure out how you could have responded better in the moment then you won't eliminate your blind spots.   (22:02) Leadership Insight Start having two affirmations, two really solid beliefs, two commitments for the day which you won't compromise. three things that you are going to develop,  one thing you're going to explore and one thing that you're going to fix for the day. So, you've got affirmations, beliefs, commitments, things you're gonna develop, explore and one thing that you're going to fix.   (26:23) Mindset Have a mindset of abundance versus scarcity and always remember to be grateful. You're in a tremendously fortunate position, so try and build your gratitude bank because you can't have a positive life if it's filled with negative thoughts.   (28:34) My Daily Leadership If you want to take a leadership health check or take a business health check, and if you are sufficiently concerned with what you read then take a leadership assessment and then fix what needs to be fixed. Head over to www.mydailyleadership.com for more information.   Links www.mydailyleadership.com

In this Mindful Agility podcast episode on procrastination, hosts Mirela Petalli and Dan Greening delve into the hidden costs of procrastination. Have you wondered how procrastination could impact not just your work, but also your mental and physical health? This episode uncovers shocking research findings from Sweden that link procrastination to poor health outcomes. Tune in to discover an innovative tool developed by productivity guru Tim Ferriss to help overcome his fear of failure. You'll also hear compelling personal stories of overcoming procrastination through mindfulness techniques. Are you ready to turn your procrastination habit around and boost your success and wellbeing? Don't delay; listen to this enlightening episode today.ResourcesEva Skillgate et al, “Procrastination is linked to poor health – new study,” The Conversation (Jan 16, 2023).Fred Johansson et al, “Associations Between Procrastination and Subsequent Health Outcomes Among University Students in Sweden,” JAMA Network Open 6(1) (Jan 3 2023), doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.49346.Tim Ferriss, “Why you should define your fears instead of your goals,” TED2017.Tim Ferriss et al, Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers, 2017.CreditsReviewers: Ron Lussier, Stephen Zimmerman, Colleen Zimmerman, and Eve RubellStinger sound Swing beat 120 xylophone side-chained by Casonika licensed CC BY 4.0Staff Daniel Greening, host, agile coach, and computer scientist Mirela Petalli, co-host, meditation guide, and neurocritical nursing instructor Dan Dickson, business coach, executive and management consultant Links Mindful Agility Substack ("The Mindful Sprint" weekly brief) Mindful Agility web site Mindful Agility Community Facebook group Mindful Agility Youtube channel

#406 Tim Ferriss Reloaded: Timeless Wisdom on Productivity, Morning Routines, and Success Through Failure ---- Action Plan: https://jimharshawjr.com/ACTION Free Clarity Call: https://jimharshawjr.com/APPLY Back by popular demand! Let's rewind to my timeless conversation with bestselling author, Tim Ferriss. Brace yourself for a masterclass in productivity, mindset, and achieving extraordinary results. Step into the time machine of knowledge as we rewind to an unforgettable episode featuring the trailblazer himself, Tim Ferriss.  Tim has been listed as one of Fast Company's “Most Innovative Business People” and one of Fortune's “40 under 40.” He is an early-stage technology investor/advisor (Uber, Facebook, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ others) and the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers, including “The 4-Hour Workweek” and “Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers.” The Observer and other media have called Tim “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, which is the first business/interview podcast to exceed 100 million downloads— and has since exceeded 900 million downloads. Get ready to take notes as we delve into Tim's peak performance frameworks and game-changing ideas— all condensed into one power-packed episode.  Join us in going through the corridors of productivity, morning rituals, investment secrets, and the art of turning setbacks into triumphs. Don't miss out on this opportunity! Hit play now. If you don't have time to listen to the entire episode or if you hear something that you like but don't have time to write it down, be sure to grab your free copy of the Action Plan from this episode— as well as get access to action plans from EVERY episode— at http://www.JimHarshawJr.com/Action.   (Photo Credit: Andrew (Drew) Kelly)

Episode 165 of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Dark Stat” and the career of the Grateful Dead. This is a long one, even longer than the previous episode, but don't worry, that won't be the norm. There's a reason these two were much longer than average. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a twenty-minute bonus episode available, on "Codine" by the Charlatans. Errata I mispronounce Brent Mydland's name as Myland a couple of times, and in the introduction I say "Touch of Grey" came out in 1988 -- I later, correctly, say 1987. (I seem to have had a real problem with dates in the intro -- I also originally talked about "Blue Suede Shoes" being in 1954 before fixing it in the edit to be 1956) Resources No Mixcloud this week, as there are too many songs by the Grateful Dead, and Grayfolded runs to two hours. I referred to a lot of books for this episode, partly because almost everything about the Grateful Dead is written from a fannish perspective that already assumes background knowledge, rather than to provide that background knowledge. Of the various books I used, Dennis McNally's biography of the band and This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead by Blair Jackson and David Gans are probably most useful for the casually interested. Other books on the Dead I used included McNally's Jerry on Jerry, a collection of interviews with Garcia; Deal, Bill Kreutzmann's autobiography; The Grateful Dead FAQ by Tony Sclafani; So Many Roads by David Browne; Deadology by Howard F. Weiner; Fare Thee Well by Joel Selvin and Pamela Turley; and Skeleton Key: A Dictionary for Deadheads by David Shenk and Steve Silberman. Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is the classic account of the Pranksters, though not always reliable. I reference Slaughterhouse Five a lot. As well as the novel itself, which everyone should read, I also read this rather excellent graphic novel adaptation, and The Writer's Crusade, a book about the writing of the novel. I also reference Ted Sturgeon's More Than Human. For background on the scene around Astounding Science Fiction which included Sturgeon, John W. Campbell, L. Ron Hubbard, and many other science fiction writers, I recommend Alec Nevala-Lee's Astounding. 1,000 True Fans can be read online, as can the essay on the Californian ideology, and John Perry Barlow's "Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace". The best collection of Grateful Dead material is the box set The Golden Road, which contains all the albums released in Pigpen's lifetime along with a lot of bonus material, but which appears currently out of print. Live/Dead contains both the live version of "Dark Star" which made it well known and, as a CD bonus track, the original single version. And archive.org has more live recordings of the group than you can possibly ever listen to. Grayfolded can be bought from John Oswald's Bandcamp Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript [Excerpt: Tuning from "Grayfolded", under the warnings Before we begin -- as we're tuning up, as it were, I should mention that this episode contains discussions of alcoholism, drug addiction, racism, nonconsensual drugging of other people, and deaths from drug abuse, suicide, and car accidents. As always, I try to deal with these subjects as carefully as possible, but if you find any of those things upsetting you may wish to read the transcript rather than listen to this episode, or skip it altogether. Also, I should note that the members of the Grateful Dead were much freer with their use of swearing in interviews than any other band we've covered so far, and that makes using quotes from them rather more difficult than with other bands, given the limitations of the rules imposed to stop the podcast being marked as adult. If I quote anything with a word I can't use here, I'll give a brief pause in the audio, and in the transcript I'll have the word in square brackets. [tuning ends] All this happened, more or less. In 1910, T. S. Eliot started work on "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", which at the time was deemed barely poetry, with one reviewer imagining Eliot saying "I'll just put down the first thing that comes into my head, and call it 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.'" It is now considered one of the great classics of modernist literature. In 1969, Kurt Vonnegut wrote "Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death", a book in which the protagonist, Billy Pilgrim, comes unstuck in time, and starts living a nonlinear life, hopping around between times reliving his experiences in the Second World War, and future experiences up to 1976 after being kidnapped by beings from the planet Tralfamadore. Or perhaps he has flashbacks and hallucinations after having a breakdown from PTSD. It is now considered one of the great classics of modernist literature or of science fiction, depending on how you look at it. In 1953, Theodore Sturgeon wrote More Than Human. It is now considered one of the great classics of science fiction. In 1950, L. Ron Hubbard wrote Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. It is now considered either a bad piece of science fiction or one of the great revelatory works of religious history, depending on how you look at it. In 1994, 1995, and 1996 the composer John Oswald released, first as two individual CDs and then as a double-CD, an album called Grayfolded, which the composer says in the liner notes he thinks of as existing in Tralfamadorian time. The Tralfamadorians in Vonnegut's novels don't see time as a linear thing with a beginning and end, but as a continuum that they can move between at will. When someone dies, they just think that at this particular point in time they're not doing so good, but at other points in time they're fine, so why focus on the bad time? In the book, when told of someone dying, the Tralfamadorians just say "so it goes". In between the first CD's release and the release of the double-CD version, Jerry Garcia died. From August 1942 through August 1995, Jerry Garcia was alive. So it goes. Shall we go, you and I? [Excerpt: The Grateful Dead, "Dark Star (Omni 3/30/94)"] "One principle has become clear. Since motives are so frequently found in combination, it is essential that the complex types be analyzed and arranged, with an eye kept single nevertheless to the master-theme under discussion. Collectors, both primary and subsidiary, have done such valiant service that the treasures at our command are amply sufficient for such studies, so extensive, indeed, that the task of going through them thoroughly has become too great for the unassisted student. It cannot be too strongly urged that a single theme in its various types and compounds must be made predominant in any useful comparative study. This is true when the sources and analogues of any literary work are treated; it is even truer when the bare motive is discussed. The Grateful Dead furnishes an apt illustration of the necessity of such handling. It appears in a variety of different combinations, almost never alone. Indeed, it is so widespread a tale, and its combinations are so various, that there is the utmost difficulty in determining just what may properly be regarded the original kernel of it, the simple theme to which other motives were joined. Various opinions, as we shall see, have been held with reference to this matter, most of them justified perhaps by the materials in the hands of the scholars holding them, but none quite adequate in view of later evidence." That's a quote from The Grateful Dead: The History of a Folk Story, by Gordon Hall Gerould, published in 1908. Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five opens with a chapter about the process of writing the novel itself, and how difficult it was. He says "I would hate to tell you what this lousy little book cost me in money and anxiety and time. When I got home from the Second World War twenty-three years ago, I thought it would be easy for me to write about the destruction of Dresden, since all I would have to do would be to report what I had seen. And I thought, too, that it would be a masterpiece or at least make me a lot of money, since the subject was so big." This is an episode several of my listeners have been looking forward to, but it's one I've been dreading writing, because this is an episode -- I think the only one in the series -- where the format of the podcast simply *will not* work. Were the Grateful Dead not such an important band, I would skip this episode altogether, but they're a band that simply can't be ignored, and that's a real problem here. Because my intent, always, with this podcast, is to present the recordings of the artists in question, put them in context, and explain why they were important, what their music meant to its listeners. To put, as far as is possible, the positive case for why the music mattered *in the context of its time*. Not why it matters now, or why it matters to me, but why it matters *in its historical context*. Whether I like the music or not isn't the point. Whether it stands up now isn't the point. I play the music, explain what it was they were doing, why they were doing it, what people saw in it. If I do my job well, you come away listening to "Blue Suede Shoes" the way people heard it in 1956, or "Good Vibrations" the way people heard it in 1966, and understanding why people were so impressed by those records. That is simply *not possible* for the Grateful Dead. I can present a case for them as musicians, and hope to do so. I can explain the appeal as best I understand it, and talk about things I like in their music, and things I've noticed. But what I can't do is present their recordings the way they were received in the sixties and explain why they were popular. Because every other act I have covered or will cover in this podcast has been a *recording* act, and their success was based on records. They may also have been exceptional live performers, but James Brown or Ike and Tina Turner are remembered for great *records*, like "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" or "River Deep, Mountain High". Their great moments were captured on vinyl, to be listened back to, and susceptible of analysis. That is not the case for the Grateful Dead, and what is worse *they explicitly said, publicly, on multiple occasions* that it is not possible for me to understand their art, and thus that it is not possible for me to explain it. The Grateful Dead did make studio records, some of them very good. But they always said, consistently, over a thirty year period, that their records didn't capture what they did, and that the only way -- the *only* way, they were very clear about this -- that one could actually understand and appreciate their music, was to see them live, and furthermore to see them live while on psychedelic drugs. [Excerpt: Grateful Dead crowd noise] I never saw the Grateful Dead live -- their last UK performance was a couple of years before I went to my first ever gig -- and I have never taken a psychedelic substance. So by the Grateful Dead's own criteria, it is literally impossible for me to understand or explain their music the way that it should be understood or explained. In a way I'm in a similar position to the one I was in with La Monte Young in the last episode, whose music it's mostly impossible to experience without being in his presence. This is one reason of several why I placed these two episodes back to back. Of course, there is a difference between Young and the Grateful Dead. The Grateful Dead allowed -- even encouraged -- the recording of their live performances. There are literally thousands of concert recordings in circulation, many of them of professional quality. I have listened to many of those, and I can hear what they were doing. I can tell you what *I* think is interesting about their music, and about their musicianship. And I think I can build up a good case for why they were important, and why they're interesting, and why those recordings are worth listening to. And I can certainly explain the cultural phenomenon that was the Grateful Dead. But just know that while I may have found *a* point, *an* explanation for why the Grateful Dead were important, by the band's own lights and those of their fans, no matter how good a job I do in this episode, I *cannot* get it right. And that is, in itself, enough of a reason for this episode to exist, and for me to try, even harder than I normally do, to get it right *anyway*. Because no matter how well I do my job this episode will stand as an example of why this series is called "*A* History", not *the* history. Because parts of the past are ephemeral. There are things about which it's true to say "You had to be there". I cannot know what it was like to have been an American the day Kennedy was shot, I cannot know what it was like to be alive when a man walked on the Moon. Those are things nobody my age or younger can ever experience. And since August the ninth, 1995, the experience of hearing the Grateful Dead's music the way they wanted it heard has been in that category. And that is by design. Jerry Garcia once said "if you work really hard as an artist, you may be able to build something they can't tear down, you know, after you're gone... What I want to do is I want it here. I want it now, in this lifetime. I want what I enjoy to last as long as I do and not last any longer. You know, I don't want something that ends up being as much a nuisance as it is a work of art, you know?" And there's another difficulty. There are only two points in time where it makes sense to do a podcast episode on the Grateful Dead -- late 1967 and early 1968, when the San Francisco scene they were part of was at its most culturally relevant, and 1988 when they had their only top ten hit and gained their largest audience. I can't realistically leave them out of the story until 1988, so it has to be 1968. But the songs they are most remembered for are those they wrote between 1970 and 1972, and those songs are influenced by artists and events we haven't yet covered in the podcast, who will be getting their own episodes in the future. I can't explain those things in this episode, because they need whole episodes of their own. I can't not explain them without leaving out important context for the Grateful Dead. So the best I can do is treat the story I'm telling as if it were in Tralfamadorian time. All of it's happening all at once, and some of it is happening in different episodes that haven't been recorded yet. The podcast as a whole travels linearly from 1938 through to 1999, but this episode is happening in 1968 and 1972 and 1988 and 1995 and other times, all at once. Sometimes I'll talk about things as if you're already familiar with them, but they haven't happened yet in the story. Feel free to come unstuck in time and revisit this time after episode 167, and 172, and 176, and 192, and experience it again. So this has to be an experimental episode. It may well be an experiment that you think fails. If so, the next episode is likely to be far more to your taste, and much shorter than this or the last episode, two episodes that between them have to create a scaffolding on which will hang much of the rest of this podcast's narrative. I've finished my Grateful Dead script now. The next one I write is going to be fun: [Excerpt: Grateful Dead, "Dark Star"] Infrastructure means everything. How we get from place to place, how we transport goods, information, and ourselves, makes a big difference in how society is structured, and in the music we hear. For many centuries, the prime means of long-distance transport was by water -- sailing ships on the ocean, canal boats and steamboats for inland navigation -- and so folk songs talked about the ship as both means of escape, means of making a living, and in some senses as a trap. You'd go out to sea for adventure, or to escape your problems, but you'd find that the sea itself brought its own problems. Because of this we have a long, long tradition of sea shanties which are known throughout the world: [Excerpt: A. L. Lloyd, "Off to Sea Once More"] But in the nineteenth century, the railway was invented and, at least as far as travel within a landmass goes, it replaced the steamboat in the popular imaginary. Now the railway was how you got from place to place, and how you moved freight from one place to another. The railway brought freedom, and was an opportunity for outlaws, whether train robbers or a romanticised version of the hobo hopping onto a freight train and making his way to new lands and new opportunity. It was the train that brought soldiers home from wars, and the train that allowed the Great Migration of Black people from the South to the industrial North. There would still be songs about the riverboats, about how ol' man river keeps rolling along and about the big river Johnny Cash sang about, but increasingly they would be songs of the past, not the present. The train quickly replaced the steamboat in the iconography of what we now think of as roots music -- blues, country, folk, and early jazz music. Sometimes this was very literal. Furry Lewis' "Kassie Jones" -- about a legendary train driver who would break the rules to make sure his train made the station on time, but who ended up sacrificing his own life to save his passengers in a train crash -- is based on "Alabamy Bound", which as we heard in the episode on "Stagger Lee", was about steamboats: [Excerpt: Furry Lewis, "Kassie Jones"] In the early episodes of this podcast we heard many, many, songs about the railway. Louis Jordan saying "take me right back to the track, Jack", Rosetta Tharpe singing about how "this train don't carry no gamblers", the trickster freight train driver driving on the "Rock Island Line", the mystery train sixteen coaches long, the train that kept-a-rollin' all night long, the Midnight Special which the prisoners wished would shine its ever-loving light on them, and the train coming past Folsom Prison whose whistle makes Johnny Cash hang his head and cry. But by the 1960s, that kind of song had started to dry up. It would happen on occasion -- "People Get Ready" by the Impressions is the most obvious example of the train metaphor in an important sixties record -- but by the late sixties the train was no longer a symbol of freedom but of the past. In 1969 Harry Nilsson sang about how "Nobody Cares About the Railroads Any More", and in 1968 the Kinks sang about "The Last of the Steam-Powered Trains". When in 1968 Merle Haggard sang about a freight train, it was as a memory, of a child with hopes that ended up thwarted by reality and his own nature: [Excerpt: Merle Haggard, "Mama Tried"] And the reason for this was that there had been another shift, a shift that had started in the forties and accelerated in the late fifties but had taken a little time to ripple through the culture. Now the train had been replaced in the popular imaginary by motorised transport. Instead of hopping on a train without paying, if you had no money in your pocket you'd have to hitch-hike all the way. Freedom now meant individuality. The ultimate in freedom was the biker -- the Hell's Angels who could go anywhere, unburdened by anything -- and instead of goods being moved by freight train, increasingly they were being moved by truck drivers. By the mid-seventies, truck drivers took a central place in American life, and the most romantic way to live life was to live it on the road. On The Road was also the title of a 1957 novel by Jack Kerouac, which was one of the first major signs of this cultural shift in America. Kerouac was writing about events in the late forties and early fifties, but his book was also a precursor of the sixties counterculture. He wrote the book on one continuous sheet of paper, as a stream of consciousness. Kerouac died in 1969 of an internal haemmorage brought on by too much alcohol consumption. So it goes. But the big key to this cultural shift was caused by the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, a massive infrastructure spending bill that led to the construction of the modern American Interstate Highway system. This accelerated a program that had already started, of building much bigger, safer, faster roads. It also, as anyone who has read Robert Caro's The Power Broker knows, reinforced segregation and white flight. It did this both by making commuting into major cities from the suburbs easier -- thus allowing white people with more money to move further away from the cities and still work there -- and by bulldozing community spaces where Black people lived. More than a million people lost their homes and were forcibly moved, and orders of magnitude more lost their communities' parks and green spaces. And both as a result of deliberate actions and unconscious bigotry, the bulk of those affected were Black people -- who often found themselves, if they weren't forced to move, on one side of a ten-lane highway where the park used to be, with white people on the other side of the highway. The Federal-Aid Highway Act gave even more power to the unaccountable central planners like Robert Moses, the urban planner in New York who managed to become arguably the most powerful man in the city without ever getting elected, partly by slowly compromising away his early progressive ideals in the service of gaining more power. Of course, not every new highway was built through areas where poor Black people lived. Some were planned to go through richer areas for white people, just because you can't completely do away with geographical realities. For example one was planned to be built through part of San Francisco, a rich, white part. But the people who owned properties in that area had enough political power and clout to fight the development, and after nearly a decade of fighting it, the development was called off in late 1966. But over that time, many of the owners of the impressive buildings in the area had moved out, and they had no incentive to improve or maintain their properties while they were under threat of demolition, so many of them were rented out very cheaply. And when the beat community that Kerouac wrote about, many of whom had settled in San Francisco, grew too large and notorious for the area of the city they were in, North Beach, many of them moved to these cheap homes in a previously-exclusive area. The area known as Haight-Ashbury. [Excerpt: The Grateful Dead, "Grayfolded"] Stories all have their starts, even stories told in Tralfamadorian time, although sometimes those starts are shrouded in legend. For example, the story of Scientology's start has been told many times, with different people claiming to have heard L. Ron Hubbard talk about how writing was a mug's game, and if you wanted to make real money, you needed to get followers, start a religion. Either he said this over and over and over again, to many different science fiction writers, or most science fiction writers of his generation were liars. Of course, the definition of a writer is someone who tells lies for money, so who knows? One of the more plausible accounts of him saying that is given by Theodore Sturgeon. Sturgeon's account is more believable than most, because Sturgeon went on to be a supporter of Dianetics, the "new science" that Hubbard turned into his religion, for decades, even while telling the story. The story of the Grateful Dead probably starts as it ends, with Jerry Garcia. There are three things that everyone writing about the Dead says about Garcia's childhood, so we might as well say them here too. The first is that he was named by a music-loving father after Jerome Kern, the songwriter responsible for songs like "Ol' Man River" (though as Oscar Hammerstein's widow liked to point out, "Jerome Kern wrote dum-dum-dum-dum, *my husband* wrote 'Ol' Man River'" -- an important distinction we need to bear in mind when talking about songwriters who write music but not lyrics). The second is that when he was five years old that music-loving father drowned -- and Garcia would always say he had seen his father dying, though some sources claim this was a false memory. So it goes. And the third fact, which for some reason is always told after the second even though it comes before it chronologically, is that when he was four he lost two joints from his right middle finger. Garcia grew up a troubled teen, and in turn caused trouble for other people, but he also developed a few interests that would follow him through his life. He loved the fantastical, especially the fantastical macabre, and became an avid fan of horror and science fiction -- and through his love of old monster films he became enamoured with cinema more generally. Indeed, in 1983 he bought the film rights to Kurt Vonnegut's science fiction novel The Sirens of Titan, the first story in which the Tralfamadorians appear, and wrote a script based on it. He wanted to produce the film himself, with Francis Ford Coppola directing and Bill Murray starring, but most importantly for him he wanted to prevent anyone who didn't care about it from doing it badly. And in that he succeeded. As of 2023 there is no film of The Sirens of Titan. He loved to paint, and would continue that for the rest of his life, with one of his favourite subjects being Boris Karloff as the Frankenstein monster. And when he was eleven or twelve, he heard for the first time a record that was hugely influential to a whole generation of Californian musicians, even though it was a New York record -- "Gee" by the Crows: [Excerpt: The Crows, "Gee"] Garcia would say later "That was an important song. That was the first kind of, like where the voices had that kind of not-trained-singer voices, but tough-guy-on-the-street voice." That record introduced him to R&B, and soon he was listening to Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley, to Ray Charles, and to a record we've not talked about in the podcast but which was one of the great early doo-wop records, "WPLJ" by the Four Deuces: [Excerpt: The Four Deuces, "WPLJ"] Garcia said of that record "That was one of my anthem songs when I was in junior high school and high school and around there. That was one of those songs everybody knew. And that everybody sang. Everybody sang that street-corner favorite." Garcia moved around a lot as a child, and didn't have much time for school by his own account, but one of the few teachers he did respect was an art teacher when he was in North Beach, Walter Hedrick. Hedrick was also one of the earliest of the conceptual artists, and one of the most important figures in the San Francisco arts scene that would become known as the Beat Generation (or the Beatniks, which was originally a disparaging term). Hedrick was a painter and sculptor, but also organised happenings, and he had also been one of the prime movers in starting a series of poetry readings in San Francisco, the first one of which had involved Allen Ginsberg giving the first ever reading of "Howl" -- one of a small number of poems, along with Eliot's "Prufrock" and "The Waste Land" and possibly Pound's Cantos, which can be said to have changed twentieth-century literature. Garcia was fifteen when he got to know Hedrick, in 1957, and by then the Beat scene had already become almost a parody of itself, having become known to the public because of the publication of works like On the Road, and the major artists in the scene were already rejecting the label. By this point tourists were flocking to North Beach to see these beatniks they'd heard about on TV, and Hedrick was actually employed by one cafe to sit in the window wearing a beret, turtleneck, sandals, and beard, and draw and paint, to attract the tourists who flocked by the busload because they could see that there was a "genuine beatnik" in the cafe. Hedrick was, as well as a visual artist, a guitarist and banjo player who played in traditional jazz bands, and he would bring records in to class for his students to listen to, and Garcia particularly remembered him bringing in records by Big Bill Broonzy: [Excerpt: Big Bill Broonzy, "When Things Go Wrong (It Hurts Me Too)"] Garcia was already an avid fan of rock and roll music, but it was being inspired by Hedrick that led him to get his first guitar. Like his contemporary Paul McCartney around the same time, he was initially given the wrong instrument as a birthday present -- in Garcia's case his mother gave him an accordion -- but he soon persuaded her to swap it for an electric guitar he saw in a pawn shop. And like his other contemporary, John Lennon, Garcia initially tuned his instrument incorrectly. He said later "When I started playing the guitar, believe me, I didn't know anybody that played. I mean, I didn't know anybody that played the guitar. Nobody. They weren't around. There were no guitar teachers. You couldn't take lessons. There was nothing like that, you know? When I was a kid and I had my first electric guitar, I had it tuned wrong and learned how to play on it with it tuned wrong for about a year. And I was getting somewhere on it, you know… Finally, I met a guy that knew how to tune it right and showed me three chords, and it was like a revelation. You know what I mean? It was like somebody gave me the key to heaven." He joined a band, the Chords, which mostly played big band music, and his friend Gary Foster taught him some of the rudiments of playing the guitar -- things like how to use a capo to change keys. But he was always a rebellious kid, and soon found himself faced with a choice between joining the military or going to prison. He chose the former, and it was during his time in the Army that a friend, Ron Stevenson, introduced him to the music of Merle Travis, and to Travis-style guitar picking: [Excerpt: Merle Travis, "Nine-Pound Hammer"] Garcia had never encountered playing like that before, but he instantly recognised that Travis, and Chet Atkins who Stevenson also played for him, had been an influence on Scotty Moore. He started to realise that the music he'd listened to as a teenager was influenced by music that went further back. But Stevenson, as well as teaching Garcia some of the rudiments of Travis-picking, also indirectly led to Garcia getting discharged from the Army. Stevenson was not a well man, and became suicidal. Garcia decided it was more important to keep his friend company and make sure he didn't kill himself than it was to turn up for roll call, and as a result he got discharged himself on psychiatric grounds -- according to Garcia he told the Army psychiatrist "I was involved in stuff that was more important to me in the moment than the army was and that was the reason I was late" and the psychiatrist thought it was neurotic of Garcia to have his own set of values separate from that of the Army. After discharge, Garcia did various jobs, including working as a transcriptionist for Lenny Bruce, the comedian who was a huge influence on the counterculture. In one of the various attacks over the years by authoritarians on language, Bruce was repeatedly arrested for obscenity, and in 1961 he was arrested at a jazz club in North Beach. Sixty years ago, the parts of speech that were being criminalised weren't pronouns, but prepositions and verbs: [Excerpt: Lenny Bruce, "To is a Preposition, Come is a Verb"] That piece, indeed, was so controversial that when Frank Zappa quoted part of it in a song in 1968, the record label insisted on the relevant passage being played backwards so people couldn't hear such disgusting filth: [Excerpt: The Mothers of Invention, "Harry You're a Beast"] (Anyone familiar with that song will understand that the censored portion is possibly the least offensive part of the whole thing). Bruce was facing trial, and he needed transcripts of what he had said in his recordings to present in court. Incidentally, there seems to be some confusion over exactly which of Bruce's many obscenity trials Garcia became a transcriptionist for. Dennis McNally says in his biography of the band, published in 2002, that it was the most famous of them, in autumn 1964, but in a later book, Jerry on Jerry, a book of interviews of Garcia edited by McNally, McNally talks about it being when Garcia was nineteen, which would mean it was Bruce's first trial, in 1961. We can put this down to the fact that many of the people involved, not least Garcia, lived in Tralfamadorian time, and were rather hazy on dates, but I'm placing the story here rather than in 1964 because it seems to make more sense that Garcia would be involved in a trial based on an incident in San Francisco than one in New York. Garcia got the job, even though he couldn't type, because by this point he'd spent so long listening to recordings of old folk and country music that he was used to transcribing indecipherable accents, and often, as Garcia would tell it, Bruce would mumble very fast and condense multiple syllables into one. Garcia was particularly impressed by Bruce's ability to improvise but talk in entire paragraphs, and he compared his use of language to bebop. Another thing that was starting to impress Garcia, and which he also compared to bebop, was bluegrass: [Excerpt: Bill Monroe, "Fire on the Mountain"] Bluegrass is a music that is often considered very traditional, because it's based on traditional songs and uses acoustic instruments, but in fact it was a terribly *modern* music, and largely a postwar creation of a single band -- Bill Monroe and his Blue Grass Boys. And Garcia was right when he said it was "white bebop" -- though he did say "The only thing it doesn't have is the harmonic richness of bebop. You know what I mean? That's what it's missing, but it has everything else." Both bebop and bluegrass evolved after the second world war, though they were informed by music from before it, and both prized the ability to improvise, and technical excellence. Both are musics that involved playing *fast*, in an ensemble, and being able to respond quickly to the other musicians. Both musics were also intensely rhythmic, a response to a faster paced, more stressful world. They were both part of the general change in the arts towards immediacy that we looked at in the last episode with the creation first of expressionism and then of pop art. Bluegrass didn't go into the harmonic explorations that modern jazz did, but it was absolutely as modern as anything Charlie Parker was doing, and came from the same impulses. It was tradition and innovation, the past and the future simultaneously. Bill Monroe, Jackson Pollock, Charlie Parker, Jack Kerouac, and Lenny Bruce were all in their own ways responding to the same cultural moment, and it was that which Garcia was responding to. But he didn't become able to play bluegrass until after a tragedy which shaped his life even more than his father's death had. Garcia had been to a party and was in a car with his friends Lee Adams, Paul Speegle, and Alan Trist. Adams was driving at ninety miles an hour when they hit a tight curve and crashed. Garcia, Adams, and Trist were all severely injured but survived. Speegle died. So it goes. This tragedy changed Garcia's attitudes totally. Of all his friends, Speegle was the one who was most serious about his art, and who treated it as something to work on. Garcia had always been someone who fundamentally didn't want to work or take any responsibility for anything. And he remained that way -- except for his music. Speegle's death changed Garcia's attitude to that, totally. If his friend wasn't going to be able to practice his own art any more, Garcia would practice his, in tribute to him. He resolved to become a virtuoso on guitar and banjo. His girlfriend of the time later said “I don't know if you've spent time with someone rehearsing ‘Foggy Mountain Breakdown' on a banjo for eight hours, but Jerry practiced endlessly. He really wanted to excel and be the best. He had tremendous personal ambition in the musical arena, and he wanted to master whatever he set out to explore. Then he would set another sight for himself. And practice another eight hours a day of new licks.” But of course, you can't make ensemble music on your own: [Excerpt: Jerry Garcia and Bob Hunter, "Oh Mary Don't You Weep" (including end)] "Evelyn said, “What is it called when a person needs a … person … when you want to be touched and the … two are like one thing and there isn't anything else at all anywhere?” Alicia, who had read books, thought about it. “Love,” she said at length." That's from More Than Human, by Theodore Sturgeon, a book I'll be quoting a few more times as the story goes on. Robert Hunter, like Garcia, was just out of the military -- in his case, the National Guard -- and he came into Garcia's life just after Paul Speegle had left it. Garcia and Alan Trist met Hunter ten days after the accident, and the three men started hanging out together, Trist and Hunter writing while Garcia played music. Garcia and Hunter both bonded over their shared love for the beats, and for traditional music, and the two formed a duo, Bob and Jerry, which performed together a handful of times. They started playing together, in fact, after Hunter picked up a guitar and started playing a song and halfway through Garcia took it off him and finished the song himself. The two of them learned songs from the Harry Smith Anthology -- Garcia was completely apolitical, and only once voted in his life, for Lyndon Johnson in 1964 to keep Goldwater out, and regretted even doing that, and so he didn't learn any of the more political material people like Pete Seeger, Phil Ochs, and Bob Dylan were doing at the time -- but their duo only lasted a short time because Hunter wasn't an especially good guitarist. Hunter would, though, continue to jam with Garcia and other friends, sometimes playing mandolin, while Garcia played solo gigs and with other musicians as well, playing and moving round the Bay Area and performing with whoever he could: [Excerpt: Jerry Garcia, "Railroad Bill"] "Bleshing, that was Janie's word. She said Baby told it to her. She said it meant everyone all together being something, even if they all did different things. Two arms, two legs, one body, one head, all working together, although a head can't walk and arms can't think. Lone said maybe it was a mixture of “blending” and “meshing,” but I don't think he believed that himself. It was a lot more than that." That's from More Than Human In 1961, Garcia and Hunter met another young musician, but one who was interested in a very different type of music. Phil Lesh was a serious student of modern classical music, a classically-trained violinist and trumpeter whose interest was solidly in the experimental and whose attitude can be summed up by a story that's always told about him meeting his close friend Tom Constanten for the first time. Lesh had been talking with someone about serialism, and Constanten had interrupted, saying "Music stopped being created in 1750 but it started again in 1950". Lesh just stuck out his hand, recognising a kindred spirit. Lesh and Constanten were both students of Luciano Berio, the experimental composer who created compositions for magnetic tape: [Excerpt: Luciano Berio, "Momenti"] Berio had been one of the founders of the Studio di fonologia musicale di Radio Milano, a studio for producing contemporary electronic music where John Cage had worked for a time, and he had also worked with the electronic music pioneer Karlheinz Stockhausen. Lesh would later remember being very impressed when Berio brought a tape into the classroom -- the actual multitrack tape for Stockhausen's revolutionary piece Gesang Der Juenglinge: [Excerpt: Karlheinz Stockhausen, "Gesang Der Juenglinge"] Lesh at first had been distrustful of Garcia -- Garcia was charismatic and had followers, and Lesh never liked people like that. But he was impressed by Garcia's playing, and soon realised that the two men, despite their very different musical interests, had a lot in common. Lesh was interested in the technology of music as well as in performing and composing it, and so when he wasn't studying he helped out by engineering at the university's radio station. Lesh was impressed by Garcia's playing, and suggested to the presenter of the station's folk show, the Midnight Special, that Garcia be a guest. Garcia was so good that he ended up getting an entire solo show to himself, where normally the show would feature multiple acts. Lesh and Constanten soon moved away from the Bay Area to Las Vegas, but both would be back -- in Constanten's case he would form an experimental group in San Francisco with their fellow student Steve Reich, and that group (though not with Constanten performing) would later premiere Terry Riley's In C, a piece influenced by La Monte Young and often considered one of the great masterpieces of minimalist music. By early 1962 Garcia and Hunter had formed a bluegrass band, with Garcia on guitar and banjo and Hunter on mandolin, and a rotating cast of other musicians including Ken Frankel, who played banjo and fiddle. They performed under different names, including the Tub Thumpers, the Hart Valley Drifters, and the Sleepy Valley Hog Stompers, and played a mixture of bluegrass and old-time music -- and were very careful about the distinction: [Excerpt: The Hart Valley Drifters, "Cripple Creek"] In 1993, the Republican political activist John Perry Barlow was invited to talk to the CIA about the possibilities open to them with what was then called the Information Superhighway. He later wrote, in part "They told me they'd brought Steve Jobs in a few weeks before to indoctrinate them in modern information management. And they were delighted when I returned later, bringing with me a platoon of Internet gurus, including Esther Dyson, Mitch Kapor, Tony Rutkowski, and Vint Cerf. They sealed us into an electronically impenetrable room to discuss the radical possibility that a good first step in lifting their blackout would be for the CIA to put up a Web site... We told them that information exchange was a barter system, and that to receive, one must also be willing to share. This was an alien notion to them. They weren't even willing to share information among themselves, much less the world." 1962 brought a new experience for Robert Hunter. Hunter had been recruited into taking part in psychological tests at Stanford University, which in the sixties and seventies was one of the preeminent universities for psychological experiments. As part of this, Hunter was given $140 to attend the VA hospital (where a janitor named Ken Kesey, who had himself taken part in a similar set of experiments a couple of years earlier, worked a day job while he was working on his first novel) for four weeks on the run, and take different psychedelic drugs each time, starting with LSD, so his reactions could be observed. (It was later revealed that these experiments were part of a CIA project called MKUltra, designed to investigate the possibility of using psychedelic drugs for mind control, blackmail, and torture. Hunter was quite lucky in that he was told what was going to happen to him and paid for his time. Other subjects included the unlucky customers of brothels the CIA set up as fronts -- they dosed the customers' drinks and observed them through two-way mirrors. Some of their experimental subjects died by suicide as a result of their experiences. So it goes. ) Hunter was interested in taking LSD after reading Aldous Huxley's writings about psychedelic substances, and he brought his typewriter along to the experiment. During the first test, he wrote a six-page text, a short excerpt from which is now widely quoted, reading in part "Sit back picture yourself swooping up a shell of purple with foam crests of crystal drops soft nigh they fall unto the sea of morning creep-very-softly mist ... and then sort of cascade tinkley-bell-like (must I take you by the hand, ever so slowly type) and then conglomerate suddenly into a peal of silver vibrant uncomprehendingly, blood singingly, joyously resounding bells" Hunter's experience led to everyone in their social circle wanting to try LSD, and soon they'd all come to the same conclusion -- this was something special. But Garcia needed money -- he'd got his girlfriend pregnant, and they'd married (this would be the first of several marriages in Garcia's life, and I won't be covering them all -- at Garcia's funeral, his second wife, Carolyn, said Garcia always called her the love of his life, and his first wife and his early-sixties girlfriend who he proposed to again in the nineties both simultaneously said "He said that to me!"). So he started teaching guitar at a music shop in Palo Alto. Hunter had no time for Garcia's incipient domesticity and thought that his wife was trying to make him live a conventional life, and the two drifted apart somewhat, though they'd still play together occasionally. Through working at the music store, Garcia got to know the manager, Troy Weidenheimer, who had a rock and roll band called the Zodiacs. Garcia joined the band on bass, despite that not being his instrument. He later said "Troy was a lot of fun, but I wasn't good enough a musician then to have been able to deal with it. I was out of my idiom, really, 'cause when I played with Troy I was playing electric bass, you know. I never was a good bass player. Sometimes I was playing in the wrong key and didn't even [fuckin'] know it. I couldn't hear that low, after playing banjo, you know, and going to electric...But Troy taught me the principle of, hey, you know, just stomp your foot and get on it. He was great. A great one for the instant arrangement, you know. And he was also fearless for that thing of get your friends to do it." Garcia's tenure in the Zodiacs didn't last long, nor did this experiment with rock and roll, but two other members of the Zodiacs will be notable later in the story -- the harmonica player, an old friend of Garcia's named Ron McKernan, who would soon gain the nickname Pig Pen after the Peanuts character, and the drummer, Bill Kreutzmann: [Excerpt: The Grateful Dead, "Drums/Space (Skull & Bones version)"] Kreutzmann said of the Zodiacs "Jerry was the hired bass player and I was the hired drummer. I only remember playing that one gig with them, but I was in way over my head. I always did that. I always played things that were really hard and it didn't matter. I just went for it." Garcia and Kreutzmann didn't really get to know each other then, but Garcia did get to know someone else who would soon be very important in his life. Bob Weir was from a very different background than Garcia, though both had the shared experience of long bouts of chronic illness as children. He had grown up in a very wealthy family, and had always been well-liked, but he was what we would now call neurodivergent -- reading books about the band he talks about being dyslexic but clearly has other undiagnosed neurodivergences, which often go along with dyslexia -- and as a result he was deemed to have behavioural problems which led to him getting expelled from pre-school and kicked out of the cub scouts. He was never academically gifted, thanks to his dyslexia, but he was always enthusiastic about music -- to a fault. He learned to play boogie piano but played so loudly and so often his parents sold the piano. He had a trumpet, but the neighbours complained about him playing it outside. Finally he switched to the guitar, an instrument with which it is of course impossible to make too loud a noise. The first song he learned was the Kingston Trio's version of an old sea shanty, "The Wreck of the John B": [Excerpt: The Kingston Trio, "The Wreck of the John B"] He was sent off to a private school in Colorado for teenagers with behavioural issues, and there he met the boy who would become his lifelong friend, John Perry Barlow. Unfortunately the two troublemakers got on with each other *so* well that after their first year they were told that it was too disruptive having both of them at the school, and only one could stay there the next year. Barlow stayed and Weir moved back to the Bay Area. By this point, Weir was getting more interested in folk music that went beyond the commercial folk of the Kingston Trio. As he said later "There was something in there that was ringing my bells. What I had grown up thinking of as hillbilly music, it started to have some depth for me, and I could start to hear the music in it. Suddenly, it wasn't just a bunch of ignorant hillbillies playing what they could. There was some depth and expertise and stuff like that to aspire to.” He moved from school to school but one thing that stayed with him was his love of playing guitar, and he started taking lessons from Troy Weidenheimer, but he got most of his education going to folk clubs and hootenannies. He regularly went to the Tangent, a club where Garcia played, but Garcia's bluegrass banjo playing was far too rigorous for a free spirit like Weir to emulate, and instead he started trying to copy one of the guitarists who was a regular there, Jorma Kaukonnen. On New Year's Eve 1963 Weir was out walking with his friends Bob Matthews and Rich Macauley, and they passed the music shop where Garcia was a teacher, and heard him playing his banjo. They knocked and asked if they could come in -- they all knew Garcia a little, and Bob Matthews was one of his students, having become interested in playing banjo after hearing the theme tune to the Beverly Hillbillies, played by the bluegrass greats Flatt and Scruggs: [Excerpt: Flatt and Scruggs, "The Beverly Hillbillies"] Garcia at first told these kids, several years younger than him, that they couldn't come in -- he was waiting for his students to show up. But Weir said “Jerry, listen, it's seven-thirty on New Year's Eve, and I don't think you're going to be seeing your students tonight.” Garcia realised the wisdom of this, and invited the teenagers in to jam with him. At the time, there was a bit of a renaissance in jug bands, as we talked about back in the episode on the Lovin' Spoonful. This was a form of music that had grown up in the 1920s, and was similar and related to skiffle and coffee-pot bands -- jug bands would tend to have a mixture of portable string instruments like guitars and banjos, harmonicas, and people using improvised instruments, particularly blowing into a jug. The most popular of these bands had been Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers, led by banjo player Gus Cannon and with harmonica player Noah Lewis: [Excerpt: Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers, "Viola Lee Blues"] With the folk revival, Cannon's work had become well-known again. The Rooftop Singers, a Kingston Trio style folk group, had had a hit with his song "Walk Right In" in 1963, and as a result of that success Cannon had even signed a record contract with Stax -- Stax's first album ever, a month before Booker T and the MGs' first album, was in fact the eighty-year-old Cannon playing his banjo and singing his old songs. The rediscovery of Cannon had started a craze for jug bands, and the most popular of the new jug bands was Jim Kweskin's Jug Band, which did a mixture of old songs like "You're a Viper" and more recent material redone in the old style. Weir, Matthews, and Macauley had been to see the Kweskin band the night before, and had been very impressed, especially by their singer Maria D'Amato -- who would later marry her bandmate Geoff Muldaur and take his name -- and her performance of Leiber and Stoller's "I'm a Woman": [Excerpt: Jim Kweskin's Jug Band, "I'm a Woman"] Matthews suggested that they form their own jug band, and Garcia eagerly agreed -- though Matthews found himself rapidly moving from banjo to washboard to kazoo to second kazoo before realising he was surplus to requirements. Robert Hunter was similarly an early member but claimed he "didn't have the embouchure" to play the jug, and was soon also out. He moved to LA and started studying Scientology -- later claiming that he wanted science-fictional magic powers, which L. Ron Hubbard's new religion certainly offered. The group took the name Mother McRee's Uptown Jug Champions -- apparently they varied the spelling every time they played -- and had a rotating membership that at one time or another included about twenty different people, but tended always to have Garcia on banjo, Weir on jug and later guitar, and Garcia's friend Pig Pen on harmonica: [Excerpt: Mother McRee's Uptown Jug Champions, "On the Road Again"] The group played quite regularly in early 1964, but Garcia's first love was still bluegrass, and he was trying to build an audience with his bluegrass band, The Black Mountain Boys. But bluegrass was very unpopular in the Bay Area, where it was simultaneously thought of as unsophisticated -- as "hillbilly music" -- and as elitist, because it required actual instrumental ability, which wasn't in any great supply in the amateur folk scene. But instrumental ability was something Garcia definitely had, as at this point he was still practising eight hours a day, every day, and it shows on the recordings of the Black Mountain Boys: [Excerpt: The Black Mountain Boys, "Rosa Lee McFall"] By the summer, Bob Weir was also working at the music shop, and so Garcia let Weir take over his students while he and the Black Mountain Boys' guitarist Sandy Rothman went on a road trip to see as many bluegrass musicians as they could and to audition for Bill Monroe himself. As it happened, Garcia found himself too shy to audition for Monroe, but Rothman later ended up playing with Monroe's Blue Grass Boys. On his return to the Bay Area, Garcia resumed playing with the Uptown Jug Champions, but Pig Pen started pestering him to do something different. While both men had overlapping tastes in music and a love for the blues, Garcia's tastes had always been towards the country end of the spectrum while Pig Pen's were towards R&B. And while the Uptown Jug Champions were all a bit disdainful of the Beatles at first -- apart from Bob Weir, the youngest of the group, who thought they were interesting -- Pig Pen had become enamoured of another British band who were just starting to make it big: [Excerpt: The Rolling Stones, "Not Fade Away"] 29) Garcia liked the first Rolling Stones album too, and he eventually took Pig Pen's point -- the stuff that the Rolling Stones were doing, covers of Slim Harpo and Buddy Holly, was not a million miles away from the material they were doing as Mother McRee's Uptown Jug Champions. Pig Pen could play a little electric organ, Bob had been fooling around with the electric guitars in the music shop. Why not give it a go? The stuff bands like the Rolling Stones were doing wasn't that different from the electric blues that Pig Pen liked, and they'd all seen A Hard Day's Night -- they could carry on playing with banjos, jugs, and kazoos and have the respect of a handful of folkies, or they could get electric instruments and potentially have screaming girls and millions of dollars, while playing the same songs. This was a convincing argument, especially when Dana Morgan Jr, the son of the owner of the music shop, told them they could have free electric instruments if they let him join on bass. Morgan wasn't that great on bass, but what the hell, free instruments. Pig Pen had the best voice and stage presence, so he became the frontman of the new group, singing most of the leads, though Jerry and Bob would both sing a few songs, and playing harmonica and organ. Weir was on rhythm guitar, and Garcia was the lead guitarist and obvious leader of the group. They just needed a drummer, and handily Bill Kreutzmann, who had played with Garcia and Pig Pen in the Zodiacs, was also now teaching music at the music shop. Not only that, but about three weeks before they decided to go electric, Kreutzmann had seen the Uptown Jug Champions performing and been astonished by Garcia's musicianship and charisma, and said to himself "Man, I'm gonna follow that guy forever!" The new group named themselves the Warlocks, and started rehearsing in earnest. Around this time, Garcia also finally managed to get some of the LSD that his friend Robert Hunter had been so enthusiastic about three years earlier, and it was a life-changing experience for him. In particular, he credited LSD with making him comfortable being a less disciplined player -- as a bluegrass player he'd had to be frighteningly precise, but now he was playing rock and needed to loosen up. A few days after taking LSD for the first time, Garcia also heard some of Bob Dylan's new material, and realised that the folk singer he'd had little time for with his preachy politics was now making electric music that owed a lot more to the Beat culture Garcia considered himself part of: [Excerpt: Bob Dylan, "Subterranean Homesick Blues"] Another person who was hugely affected by hearing that was Phil Lesh, who later said "I couldn't believe that was Bob Dylan on AM radio, with an electric band. It changed my whole consciousness: if something like that could happen, the sky was the limit." Up to that point, Lesh had been focused entirely on his avant-garde music, working with friends like Steve Reich to push music forward, inspired by people like John Cage and La Monte Young, but now he realised there was music of value in the rock world. He'd quickly started going to rock gigs, seeing the Rolling Stones and the Byrds, and then he took acid and went to see his friend Garcia's new electric band play their third ever gig. He was blown away, and very quickly it was decided that Lesh would be the group's new bass player -- though everyone involved tells a different story as to who made the decision and how it came about, and accounts also vary as to whether Dana Morgan took his sacking gracefully and let his erstwhile bandmates keep their instruments, or whether they had to scrounge up some new ones. Lesh had never played bass before, but he was a talented multi-instrumentalist with a deep understanding of music and an ability to compose and improvise, and the repertoire the Warlocks were playing in the early days was mostly three-chord material that doesn't take much rehearsal -- though it was apparently beyond the abilities of poor Dana Morgan, who apparently had to be told note-by-note what to play by Garcia, and learn it by rote. Garcia told Lesh what notes the strings of a bass were tuned to, told him to borrow a guitar and practice, and within two weeks he was on stage with the Warlocks: [Excerpt: The Grateful Dead, “Grayfolded"] In September 1995, just weeks after Jerry Garcia's death, an article was published in Mute magazine identifying a cultural trend that had shaped the nineties, and would as it turned out shape at least the next thirty years. It's titled "The Californian Ideology", though it may be better titled "The Bay Area Ideology", and it identifies a worldview that had grown up in Silicon Valley, based around the ideas of the hippie movement, of right-wing libertarianism, of science fiction authors, and of Marshall McLuhan. It starts "There is an emerging global orthodoxy concerning the relation between society, technology and politics. We have called this orthodoxy `the Californian Ideology' in honour of the state where it originated. By naturalising and giving a technological proof to a libertarian political philosophy, and therefore foreclosing on alternative futures, the Californian Ideologues are able to assert that social and political debates about the future have now become meaningless. The California Ideology is a mix of cybernetics, free market economics, and counter-culture libertarianism and is promulgated by magazines such as WIRED and MONDO 2000 and preached in the books of Stewart Brand, Kevin Kelly and others. The new faith has been embraced by computer nerds, slacker students, 30-something capitalists, hip academics, futurist bureaucrats and even the President of the USA himself. As usual, Europeans have not been slow to copy the latest fashion from America. While a recent EU report recommended adopting the Californian free enterprise model to build the 'infobahn', cutting-edge artists and academics have been championing the 'post-human' philosophy developed by the West Coast's Extropian cult. With no obvious opponents, the global dominance of the Californian ideology appears to be complete." [Excerpt: Grayfolded] The Warlocks' first gig with Phil Lesh on bass was on June the 18th 1965, at a club called Frenchy's with a teenage clientele. Lesh thought his playing had been wooden and it wasn't a good gig, and apparently the management of Frenchy's agreed -- they were meant to play a second night there, but turned up to be told they'd been replaced by a band with an accordion and clarinet. But by September the group had managed to get themselves a residency at a small bar named the In Room, and playing there every night made them cohere. They were at this point playing the kind of sets that bar bands everywhere play to this day, though at the time the songs they were playing, like "Gloria" by Them and "In the Midnight Hour", were the most contemporary of hits. Another song that they introduced into their repertoire was "Do You Believe in Magic" by the Lovin' Spoonful, another band which had grown up out of former jug band musicians. As well as playing their own sets, they were also the house band at The In Room and as such had to back various touring artists who were the headline acts. The first act they had to back up was Cornell Gunter's version of the Coasters. Gunter had brought his own guitarist along as musical director, and for the first show Weir sat in the audience watching the show and learning the parts, staring intently at this musical director's playing. After seeing that, Weir's playing was changed, because he also picked up how the guitarist was guiding the band while playing, the small cues that a musical director will use to steer the musicians in the right direction. Weir started doing these things himself when he was singing lead -- Pig Pen was the frontman but everyone except Bill sang sometimes -- and the group soon found that rather than Garcia being the sole leader, now whoever was the lead singer for the song was the de facto conductor as well. By this point, the Bay Area was getting almost overrun with people forming electric guitar bands, as every major urban area in America was. Some of the bands were even having hits already -- We Five had had a number three hit with "You Were On My Mind", a song which had originally been performed by the folk duo Ian and Sylvia: [Excerpt: We Five, "You Were On My Mind"] Although the band that was most highly regarded on the scene, the Charlatans, was having problems with the various record companies they tried to get signed to, and didn't end up making a record until 1969. If tracks like "Number One" had been released in 1965 when they were recorded, the history of the San Francisco music scene may have taken a very different turn: [Excerpt: The Charlatans, "Number One"] Bands like Jefferson Airplane, the Great Society, and Big Brother and the Holding Company were also forming, and Autumn Records was having a run of success with records by the Beau Brummels, whose records were produced by Autumn's in-house A&R man, Sly Stone: [Excerpt: The Beau Brummels, "Laugh Laugh"] The Warlocks were somewhat cut off from this, playing in a dive bar whose clientele was mostly depressed alcoholics. But the fact that they were playing every night for an audience that didn't care much gave them freedom, and they used that freedom to improvise. Both Lesh and Garcia were big fans of John Coltrane, and they started to take lessons from his style of playing. When the group played "Gloria" or "Midnight Hour" or whatever, they started to extend the songs and give themselves long instrumental passages for soloing. Garcia's playing wasn't influenced *harmonically* by Coltrane -- in fact Garcia was always a rather harmonically simple player. He'd tend to play lead lines either in Mixolydian mode, which is one of the most standard modes in rock, pop, blues, and jazz, or he'd play the notes of the chord that was being played, so if the band were playing a G chord his lead would emphasise the notes G, B, and D. But what he was influenced by was Coltrane's tendency to improvise in long, complex, phrases that made up a single thought -- Coltrane was thinking musically in paragraphs, rather than sentences, and Garcia started to try the same kind of th

Today my guest on the I Want To Know podcast is Josh Taylor. Josh is a podcast host who shares true stories from the Old West era through his history podcast, The Wild West Extravaganza. He also has a companion newsletter that focuses on the same topics. And despite being a forklift operator in real life, Josh is actively seeking a way to transition into a new career path, hopefully through his passion for history and storytelling. You can check out all his stuff at wildwestextra.com—you'll also find links there to his newsletter and his YouTube channel.Here are some of the most valuable moments in their conversation:00:00 - Introduction04:35 - How To Monetize Your Podcast By Repackaging Your Episodes07:12 - How To Create Merchandise Your Audience Will Want To Buy19:35 - How To Succeed On YouTube (Without Becoming a "YouTuber")Show Notes

“We're emotional beings that think, not thinking beings that feel,” says Scott Walker, leadership coach, former Scotland Yard detective and one of the world's most experienced kidnap for ransom negotiators. Scott joins the podcast today to share what engaging in covert counterterrorism and kidnapping operations has taught him about communicating in life and in the corporate world. The process, Scott explains, is a matter of taking your emotions—as well as your ego—out of the equation. At the same time, you must be very aware of the other person's emotions, what they want and need including what Scott calls “the bunch of fives.” Force, subjugation and domineering approaches rarely work if at all. Negotiation is very much about collaboration. It is far less about a set script of things to say and more about showing up and being curious about another person. For most people, talking about money is the most uncomfortable thing they do at work. When asking for a raise, focus on what you can do to provide value to your employer, on your long-term commitment. Negotiations should have a single clear message. Don't lose sight of the outcome. Hear Scott talk about the “three Ms” that are invaluable to his daily practice.  Scott and Brendan discuss the success of Chris Voss—also a former hostage negotiator, and his ability to, in the TikTok era where most people can only stay present for a thirty second video, hold people's attention for three hours. Scott credits JP Sears for infusing discourse with humor and nuance in a world where people hardly listen to or empathize with each other. They also discuss Diego Perez and Andrew Huberman.  Quotes: “I'd say that emotional self mastery, which is ultimately what having a right mindset is about, is probably one of the number one skills of an effective negotiating communicator…So you don't become swayed from pillar to post by people's challenges, really.” (20:04-20:45 | Scott)  “People make decisions based on emotion…if I can uncover what your real needs are, then I'm a step closer to helping you meet them.” (28:02-28:35 | Scott)  “Sometimes people ask me, ‘Are you just trying to manipulate people?...I just want you to walk away happy thinking, ‘Hey, I've got a good deal here.'” (33:41-34:19 | Scott) Connect with Brendan Dell: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendandell/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BrendanDell Instagram: @thebrendandell TikTok: @brendandell39 Buy a copy of Brendan's Book, The 12 Immutable Laws of High-Impact Messaging: https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780578210926    Connect with Scott Walker: scottwalkerbooks.co.uk Buy a copy of Scott Walker's book, Order Out of Chaos: https://www.scottwalkerbooks.co.uk/ Check out Scott Walker recommended books:   Tools of TItans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers     by Tim Ferris https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781328683786   Unlimited Power: The New Science of Personal Achievement by Tony Robbins https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780684845777 Please don't forget to rate, comment, and subscribe to Billion Dollar Tech on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts! Use code Brendan30 for 30% off your annual membership with RiverSide.fm  Podcast production and show notes provided by HiveCast.fm

This week I was excited to welcome Marc Champagne to the show to discuss his new book, Personal Socrates: Questions That Will Upgrade Your Life from Legends & World-Class Performers. I connected with Marc through Joey Cofone from Baron Fig who you might recall was a guest on the show back in October of 2022. Baron Fig is the design house behind a host of beautifully and ergonomically designed notebooks, journals, pens, and other analog productivity tools that I use daily. In this conversation it immediately became clear how Marc's background in mental fitness and strategy was a logical outgrowth of the work that Joey and his team at Baron Fig encapsulate, making him a perfect fit to release his book under the wing of Baron Fig Publishing. In this chat we explore Marc's inspiration for modernizing and exploring the Socratic Method and how this ancient system of questioning is perhaps more relevant today than ever.  In this episode we also explore questions about stimulating your mental fitness and how to direct your internal narrative to work for you. Listeners will hear Marc begin to unpack some of the over 100 plus life changing questions across more than 40 profiles of legends such as Kobe Bryant, Maya Angelou, Robin Williams alongside Top Performers like Ryan Holiday, Shantell Martin, James Clear.  In addition to writing and consulting Marc also hosts the podcast Behind The Human where he continues to explore mental fitness practices and the power of questions with guests from a wide variety of backgrounds and disciplines. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the Sunday Book Review, I consider books that interest the compliance professional, the business executive, or anyone curious. It could be books about business, compliance, history, leadership, current events, or anything else that might interest me. In today's edition of the Sunday Book Review, we consider some of the top business books which every compliance professional should read in 2023: ·       How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie ·        Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini ·       The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success by Darren Hardy ·        Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers by Tim Ferriss Resource The Best Business Books to Read in 2023 By Hal Kitzmiller Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happy Holidays! It's the end of the year and we sat down to rewind and take a look back at some of the best Realtors' Conspiracy podcast moments of this past year. Tune in as we were joined by many successful Realtors & experts from multiple different brokerages; including, Royal LePage, The Agency, Keller Williams, EXP Realty, Right At Home Realty & many more! We looked back at some of the best advice offered when it comes to taking on social media, building strong relationships, nurturing your database & growing your business. We also explored lots of personalized advice for how to stay motivated and refreshed in your work. Look back with us as we wrap up a years worth of great podcast guests & gain some wonderful tips tricks and insights before getting ready for 2023! Grab a copy of our goal-setting and achieving workbook today to make a difference in your life - GET MORE.

Have you felt the pressure of entrepreneurship in your life? Ladies, how are you coping with stress and anxiety? How are you pushing yourself in life's battles? That is why in today's episode of the Real Estate InvestHER Show, our co-hosts Liz and Andresa welcome guest Lesley Michaels, a feminist and experienced executive who helps other women believe in themselves and achieve their goals. The conversation covers various topics related to business and self-care, including the importance of being aware of your mindset and how it can impact your business. Lesley shares specific tools and examples to help listeners move beyond their comfort zones, which can be a key barrier to personal and professional growth. The episode also addresses the issue of stress management, discussing the idea that some people may be addicted to high levels of stress and how this can be harmful in the long term. Through this discussion ladies, the episode aims to empower YOU to build your business on your own terms and live a balanced, financially free life. Quotes · “Setting success is being knocked all the way down and stomped into a thousand pieces and getting back up and going forward again”. (05:55 - 06:09)· “If you are not accomplishing something, acknowledge it. Just be truthful with yourself. And then you can go forward and add to that tomorrow or next week. (09:56 - 10:13)· “The most important thing with learning to the language your life in a powerful, self-uplifting, expansive way is to give yourself space.”(12:51 - 13:06)· “The less amount of time you have, the more important it is to use it.”. (23:46 - 23:52)· “Women need to start expressing as much comradery as men because that is going to get us to gender equity. (34:16 - 34:24)· “Women have a tendency to move into too much competition with each other, and that is actually harming all women. (35:27 - 25:37)· “By commending and applauding another woman's success, we're giving ourselves permission to have greater comfort in our own skin”. (37:02 - 37:11) Connect with Lesley:Website: https://lesleymichaels.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesleyamichaelsFacebook:https://www.facebook.com/people/Lesley-Michaels/100074337995634/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lesleyamichaels/?hl=en Resources Mentioned:Tools Of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers by Timothy Ferriss __________________________________________________________ How To Join the InvestHER Movement 1) InvestHER CON 2023HOLIDAY EDITION!*Get a ticket to IC2023 and receive access to the 2022 recordings immediately!· How to spot a good deal from a bad deal? - Kim Kiyosaki + HANDOUT· Why 10x Is Easier Than 2x - Shannon Waller + HANDOUT· And much MORE! Here is what you can expect at InvestHER CON 2023:· Pre-event network· 2 Full days of transformational experiences· Access to over 20 Sessions with Keynotes and Speakers· Recordings from all sessions· Access to investors, mentors, and influencers· Mindful networking· Opportunities to connect with our sponsors + vendors· Coffee and Lunch included· Final Reception: Red Party· Live 30-day Group Accountability Virtual Session with the Founders Liz and Andresa· Exclusive Breakfast for STRIVE members only."InvestHer CON was truly a transformative experience. I have felt so alone for so long and now I feel like a have a community of support. I don't have to be the master of everything and take it all on my shoulders, I just have to do what I am excellent at." Heather Giammichele We reserved the entire resort for us! Join us in Scottsdale, Arizona, May 18-19. Get your ticket today!https://www.therealestateinvesther.com/investhercon*Promotion ends on Dec 31st at midnight EST2) The Real Estate InvestHER Podcast - The weekly show details the journey of some of the most amazing women real estate investors around the world, who open up their lives and share practical and strategic tools for growing a rental portfolio, flipping houses, and the mindset that allows them to run a successful investing business while taking care of their families and most importantly taking care of themselves. Subscribe via:· Apple Itunes· Spotify· Amazon Music· Android· Stitcher3) The Real Estate InvestHER MembershipSTRIVE A membership for highly ambitious and decisive Real Estate investors looking to build generational wealth on their own terms. Are you ready to...· Grow your Real Estate portfolio on your own terms.· Make deeper relationships with successful women playing at the same level· Build a reliable team and leave solopreneurship behind· Implement processes and systems that will allow you to scale your businessSTRIVE is for you!APPLY today at https://www.therealestateinvesther.com/membership*We only open the doors twice yearly (Dec and May).4) InvestHER Community on FacebookWe have thousands of members in our Facebook InvestHER Community (and growing!) This is a safe place for women to ask real estate investing questions and gain the support they need to achieve their goals! 5) InvestHER Meetups Around the GlobeWe have Investher Meetup members attending in-person meetings across the country and Canada. Meetups are being held monthly by experienced InvestHER Leaders! Learn more about our InvestHER leaders, meetup locations, and how to become an InvestHER Leader HERE! 6)InvestHER™ ORG with eXpYou helped your clients build their real estate portfolio, now it's time to invest in yourself! Join our all-woman investment group for agents and build your personal portfolio while creating generational wealth!Get the benefits of being part of a team without extra fees!Click here and schedule a discovery call with Jonna Weber today!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Have you felt the pressure of entrepreneurship in your life? Ladies, how are you coping with stress and anxiety? How are you pushing yourself in life's battles? That is why in today's episode of the Real Estate InvestHER Show, our co-hosts Liz and Andresa welcome guest Lesley Michaels, a feminist and experienced executive who helps other women believe in themselves and achieve their goals. The conversation covers various topics related to business and self-care, including the importance of being aware of your mindset and how it can impact your business. Lesley shares specific tools and examples to help listeners move beyond their comfort zones, which can be a key barrier to personal and professional growth. The episode also addresses the issue of stress management, discussing the idea that some people may be addicted to high levels of stress and how this can be harmful in the long term.   Through this discussion ladies, the episode aims to empower YOU to build your business on your own terms and live a balanced, financially free life.      Quotes  ·        “Setting success is being knocked all the way down and stomped into a thousand pieces and getting back up and going forward again”. (05:55 - 06:09) ·        “If you are not accomplishing something, acknowledge it. Just be truthful with yourself. And then you can go forward and add to that tomorrow or next week. (09:56 - 10:13) ·        “The most important thing with learning to the language your life in a powerful, self-uplifting, expansive way is to give yourself space.”(12:51 - 13:06) ·        “The less amount of time you have, the more important it is to use it.”. (23:46 - 23:52) ·        “Women need to start expressing as much comradery as men because that is going to get us to gender equity. (34:16 - 34:24) ·        “Women have a tendency to move into too much competition with each other, and that is actually harming all women. (35:27 - 25:37) ·        “By commending and applauding another woman's success, we're giving ourselves permission to have greater comfort in our own skin”. (37:02 - 37:11)   Connect with Lesley: Website: https://lesleymichaels.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesleyamichaels Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/people/Lesley-Michaels/100074337995634/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lesleyamichaels/?hl=en     Resources Mentioned: Tools Of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers by Timothy Ferriss   __________________________________________________________   How To Join the InvestHER Movement  1) InvestHER CON 2023 HOLIDAY EDITION!* Get a ticket to IC2023 and receive access to the 2022 recordings immediately! ·        How to spot a good deal from a bad deal? - Kim Kiyosaki + HANDOUT ·        Why 10x Is Easier Than 2x - Shannon Waller + HANDOUT ·        And much MORE!  Here is what you can expect at InvestHER CON 2023: ·        Pre-event network ·        2 Full days of transformational experiences ·        Access to over 20 Sessions with Keynotes and Speakers ·        Recordings from all sessions ·        Access to investors, mentors, and influencers ·        Mindful networking ·        Opportunities to connect with our sponsors + vendors ·        Coffee and Lunch included ·        Final Reception: Red Party ·        Live 30-day Group Accountability Virtual Session with the Founders Liz and Andresa ·        Exclusive Breakfast for STRIVE members only. "InvestHer CON was truly a transformative experience. I have felt so alone for so long and now I feel like a have a community of support. I don't have to be the master of everything and take it all on my shoulders, I just have to do what I am excellent at."  Heather Giammichele  We reserved the entire resort for us!  Join us in Scottsdale, Arizona, May 18-19. Get your ticket today! https://www.therealestateinvesther.com/investhercon *Promotion ends on Dec 31st at midnight EST 2) The Real Estate InvestHER Podcast - The weekly show details the journey of some of the most amazing women real estate investors around the world, who open up their lives and share practical and strategic tools for growing a rental portfolio, flipping houses, and the mindset that allows them to run a successful investing business while taking care of their families and most importantly taking care of themselves. Subscribe via: ·        Apple Itunes ·        Spotify ·        Amazon Music ·        Android ·        Stitcher 3) The Real Estate InvestHER Membership STRIVE A membership for highly ambitious and decisive Real Estate investors looking to build generational wealth on their own terms.    Are you ready to... ·        Grow your Real Estate portfolio on your own terms. ·        Make deeper relationships with successful women playing at the same level ·        Build a reliable team and leave solopreneurship behind ·        Implement processes and systems that will allow you to scale your business STRIVE is for you! APPLY today at https://www.therealestateinvesther.com/membership *We only open the doors twice yearly (Dec and May). 4) InvestHER Community on Facebook We have thousands of members in our Facebook InvestHER Community (and growing!) This is a safe place for women to ask real estate investing questions and gain the support they need to achieve their goals!  5) InvestHER Meetups Around the Globe We have Investher Meetup members attending in-person meetings across the country and Canada. Meetups are being held monthly by experienced InvestHER Leaders! Learn more about our InvestHER leaders, meetup locations, and how to become an InvestHER Leader HERE!   6)InvestHER™ ORG with eXp You helped your clients build their real estate portfolio, now it's time to invest in yourself! Join our all-woman investment group for agents and build your personal portfolio while creating generational wealth! Get the benefits of being part of a team without extra fees! Click here and schedule a discovery call with Jonna Weber today! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We deconstruct Marc Champagne's peak performance playbook—from his favorite book to the tiny habit that's had the biggest impact on his life. Marc is the author of Personal Socrates: Questions That Will Upgrade Your Life from Legends & World-Class Performers. We cover breathwork, the dialogue about mental health, and building a life wiki with Notion. “The thing that lights me up the most is leaving people with more energy after conversation than when they came in.” – Marc Champagne EPISODE GUIDE (LINKS, QUOTES, NOTES, AND BOOKS MENTIONED) https://www.danielscrivner.com/notes/marc-champagne2-outlier-academy-show-notes  FULL TEXT TRANSCRIPT https://www.danielscrivner.com/notes/marc-champagne-outlier-academy-transcript  CHAPTERS In this episode, we deconstruct Marc Champagne's peak performance playbook—from his favorite book to the tiny habit that's had the biggest impact on his life. In it we cover: 00:00:00 – Introduction 00:00:45 – The current dialogue around mental health 00:01:27 – Being a source of energy for others 00:03:26 – Trusting the journey 00:05:05 – Breathwork and questioning medications 00:14:22 – The Notion Life Wiki 00:16:22 – Success is waking up happy and motivated ABOUT MARC CHAMPAGNE Marc Champagne is author of Personal Socrates: Questions That Will Upgrade Your Life from Legends & World-Class Performers. A self-proclaimed Mental Fitness Strategist, Marc is a speaker and corporate trainer and hosts the top 50 podcast, Behind the Human. Marc previously co-founded the journaling app (KYO) which reached 86.9 million people.

This week's Sunday's Story Time selection: Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World Class Performers. By Tim Ferriss. Get your copy: https://amzn.to/3BwE3k1 Join the author conversation: https://www.facebook.com/groups/inkauthors/ Learn more about YDWH and catch up on old episodes: www.yourdailywritinghabit.com

Themes: Mental Health, Purpose, Career, Self-Awareness, Reflection Summary: Today I'm joined by best-selling author, podcast host and mental fitness strategist Marc Champagne. In Mark's book, Personal Socrates, he explored the pointed questions that stimulate our mental fitness and teach us how to direct our internal narrative to work for us instead of against us. Marc studied the prompts and practices of legends such as Kobe Bryant, Maya Angelou, Robin Williams, James Clear, Coco Chanel, Stephen Hawking, and many others to bring clarity, intentionality, and possibility to every aspect of reader's lives. In this episode, Marc unpacks what he's learnt about the mental fitness practices and reflective questions shaping the lives of some of the most successful and brilliant thinkers in the world.  Discover: The simple daily practice almost all successful/impactful people have in common Staying motivated, even at your lowest moments How journaling can help you understand yourself better Questions for increased self-awareness 00:00 Intro 00:50 Leaving a secure job 06:11 Failing and starting again 11:40 Micro-moments of motivation 14:34 Top 3 mental fitness habits 16:42 One question away from a different mindset 18:41 Importance of self-reflection 20:15 Journaling 25:42 What we're pretending not to know 27:22 Why we're afraid of slowing down 32:08 The hard to answer questions 35:51 Personal Socrates 40:53 Definition of mental fitness 45:39 Be in a state of possibility Links: Marc Champagne's Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/mchampagne/?hl=en Behind The Human Podcast | https://apple.co/3zXFqsV Behind The Human Website | https://www.behindthehuman.com/ Personal Socrates: Questions That Will Upgrade Your Life from Legends & World-Class Performers | https://amzn.to/3bg2mJg Sponsors: Cured Nutrition | Use code CREATETHELOVE for 20% all products at https://www.curednutrition.com/createthelove Organifi | Use code CREATETHELOVE for 20% off all products at http://organifi.com/createthelove Create the Love Cards | Use code CTLCARDS15 for 15% off at http://createthelove.com/cards See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Versatility is key. Sam Levy's professional career has fell nothing short of unexpected. After finishing his undergrad in marketing, Sam fell into the world of real estate – with a helpful nudge from his seasoned grandmother. Utilizing the skills and strategies he perfected throughout his college years, Sam has learned to connect with his clients successfully and genuinely, on a daily basis. There's a world ahead of Sam, and we are patiently waiting to see what's in store! his first real estate deal at age 22 (5:21) his Jewish grandmother (6:43) video marketing (10:29) authenticity on social media (12:35) being a North Central authority (13:52) The Brokery (19:04) Business and life coaching (23:09) the shift in the local market (30:24) how LinkedIn has impacted his business (32:43) Reads (41:00) the sales and marketing dichotomy (43:09) SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram @aboveandbeyondagent @thebrokery LinkedIn YouTube Channel BOOKS Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers by Tim Ferriss American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road by Nick Boltin ADDITIONAL RESOURCES CORE Real Estate Coaching @thepropercut @properboxingclub @ryanserhant The Scout Guide | Phoenix & Scottsdale --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/intothestorm/message

This week's featured Sunday Story Time book: Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers - by Tim Ferriss https://amzn.to/3GRV9uG Join the author conversation: https://www.facebook.com/groups/inkauthors/ Learn more about YDWH and catch up on old episodes: www.yourdailywritinghabit.com

Welcome to this week's Weekly 3.The Weekly 3 is a series where I bring you three thoughts, tools, or concepts to help you on your journey, but in a condensed format so you can get what you need and move on with your day with renewed hope, determination, and commitment to your own personal growth.This week's topics:                                                                                                                                                             1.  Why This Time Is Different (because this time you've been putting in the work)2.   What Envy Is Telling You (viewing envy as an invitation to grow rather than a source of shame or insecurity)3.  Jumping In (if you spend more time consuming content  on growth rather than taking actual steps toward the growth you seek, welcome to the Being Human club. What would it take for you to stop consuming and jump in?)Plus, the quote of the day -- from the book, Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss (quoting Tara Brach), with a story about Chris Rock to hit the concept home. The goal of the Weekly 3 episodes is to offer a perspective shift or a new insight into an area you may be struggling with so you can work through what's holding you back.I strive to make each Weekly 3  under 15 minutes, perfect for listening to on a walk, exercising, while running errands, or tackling tasks around the house you've been putting off.At the end of the day, we have one life.How do you want to live yours?Thanks so much for tuning in.------ Cited in the episode:Book  |  Tools of Titans; The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers by Tim FerrissPodcast  |  Tara BrachPodcast  |   Fly On The Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade and Guest Chris Rock------Original intro/outro music by JMW.------To learn more about what I do, my coaching philosophy, and how to work with me, email me at kari@kariwatterson.com or visit my website at https://kariwatterson.com.Have an area of struggle you'd love to work through? Book a free 90-minute coaching call and learn some tools that will help you change your life. Visit my website or follow me on Instagram (@_thisonelife) to learn more.------For more mindset tips, resources and insights, you can find me here:Instagram (@_thisonelife)LinkedInMedium

Join our network at www.Bulletproof.Dental to stay in the know on all things Bulletproof! Bulletproof Dental Practice Podcast Episode 236 Hosts: Dr. Peter Boulden Key Takeaways: IntroductionBiggest Game-Changer In LifeREM Vs. Restorative SleepTools For Better Sleep References: Bulletproof Summit 2022 Mighty Networks: Bulletproof Dental Practice Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success  Tools Of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers  Chili pad HORUS X - Blue Light Blocking Glasses  Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams  Oura Ring ERICKHILL EMF Meter (HVACC) Tweetables: It makes sense to take care of yourself. Dr. Peter Boulden Sleep is when you regenerate. Dr. Peter Boulden

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Do you want some tips to motivate yourself in medical school? In this video, I'm going to share some quotes from the book "Tools Of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers" by Tim Ferris that I was able to relate to in my medical journey.Hope yall enjoy!If so - would love it if you could leave a 5-star review on iTunes here to help us help more students succeed on their journey.P.S. Want more help? Check out so of my favorite resources below!MY FREE ONLINE COURSES AND RESOURCES:Get Better Grades In 3 Steps [You Need To Know About This]: https://themdjourney.com/study-rehab/How I Cut Your Studying Time By 50% In 8-Steps: http://bit.ly/medschoolstudyguideEntire Free Library Of Med School Resources & Guides: https://themdjourney.com/free-guides/How To Crush It On Step 1 [Full Breakdown]: https://bit.ly/36Yt3uMBecome A Superstar Students With These Key Strategies - https://skl.sh/2Uf3CTGMED SCHOOL DOMINATION BUNDLE:My best step-by-step strategies to become a top med student: http://bit.ly/themdsalesbundleMED ELITE COACHING PROGRAM:Get better grades in less time with our personalized coaching programs: https://themdjourney.com/study-transf...MED ELITE ACADEMY:An Entire Library Of Video Courses & Books For Med School: http://bit.ly/medeliteacademyOTHER POPULAR EBOOKS & COURSES:Get Better Grades In 3-Weeks: http://bit.ly/levelupyourstudyingcourseMed School Domination eBook Bundle: http://bit.ly/themdsalesbundleCrush Your Step 1 Exam [Step-By-Step Strategies To Pass With Ease]: http://bit.ly/Step1AcademyCrush Your Clinical Rotations - https://www.themdjourney.com/crushing...Become A Superstar Doctor: https://themdjourney.com/intern-survi...Get Into Your Dream Med School For 99 Cents: https://amzn.to/2r79D47Transform Your Grades And Efficiency In 2 Days: https://themdjourney.com/rapid-study-...MY FAVORITE VIDEOS:How TO Use Anki Like A Pro [Step-By-Step]: https://youtu.be/WmPx333n5UQHow To Study Like A Pro [Step-By-Step]: https://youtu.be/0c-3E6O-dcYMotivation Video – How To Stay Motivated In Med School: https://youtu.be/f0yI6V5Ews8BE MY FRIEND:Website/Blog: TheMDJourney.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/themdjourneyRECOMMENDED RESOURCES & DISCOUNTSOnlineMedEd: https://tinyurl.com/y7xy3zgmPhyseo: http://bit.ly/physeodiscount15% OFF with code: TheMDJourneyPicmonic: http://bit.ly/picmonic_TheMDJourney (20% Discount)WHO AM I:I'm Lakshya (pronounced Luck-sh) and I'm an internal medicine physician. I love making videos about medical school and study tips.

Year 2 of the show is officially in the books and what a year it's been! Going into 2021, I'm sure everyone hoped that the pandemic would not be the big story, but that turned out not to be the case. That said, what turned out to be more interesting to me are the societal and cultural shifts in approaches to work and what people value. Time will tell if this will continue to hold true but I'm fascinated by the monumental change and it's hard to see how things can go back to how they once were. The show has also grown tremendously this year and thanks to your support, we're closing in on 100 episodes. This should happen sometime mid-2022 and it's a milestone I never thought we'd hit. I'm working on something special for this - you'll know all about it once plans come together. A few fun 2021 facts about the show - we've released over 40 episodes this year with nearly 35 hours of content. The top listenership in order is the US, Canada, India, UK and the Netherlands… with several other countries very close behind the top 5.  As for this past year, there were far too many great moments on the show to count but I've tried to pull together some clips that resonated with me and that received great feedback from listeners. From Marketing to Diversity and Inclusion, we had some incredible thought leaders whose insights and persp Highlights from the "best of" show include: Marketing Anthony Lazzara - Ep 60 (spending against OTAs) Staffing and Recruiting Heather Myers - Ep 49 (Attracting new entrants to hospitality / COVID changes to the workforce) Leadership Ken Merkel - Ep 59 (What was learned during the pandemic that no longer works) Stephanie Coradin - Ep 42 (How to engage an intergenerational workforce) Service Andreas King-Geovanis - Ep 69 (Values and defining a service philosophy) Diversity and Inclusivity in Hospitality Daniel Poulin - Ep 43 (Unconscious bias and how to measure diversity efforts) Kirs Jay - Ep 51 (The power of language) Dave Bahr - Ep 70 (Getting over fear and asking questions about peoples needs) Thank you for your support over the past year. Thank you for continuing to listen each week, and thank you for sticking with me as we bring the show into the new year. On that note - Happy new year to you and all the best in 2022.

Brendan Barca is a coach, speaker, and consultant specializing in helping financial advisors enter the digital age. Through his live workshops, webinars, and online courses, Brendan teaches financial advisors how to grow their businesses by modernizing their websites and embracing digital technology. In addition to his work as a consultant for financial advisors, Brendan is also Co-Founder of Brema Solutions, a firm dedicated to creating a more intentional, aware, and mindful world. Brendan joins me today to share his advice on how financial advisors can leverage LinkedIn and other online tools to expand their businesses. He shares why and how he shifted from working in the financial services industry to starting a consultancy business. He discusses how content marketing can help prospects find financial advisors and explains why networking on LinkedIn is a gradual process. He also shares his advice for optimizing your business's website on Google and underscores why financial advisors need to embrace the digital world.   “LinkedIn is a gradual and strategic process.  It's a slow burn: you connect, build rapport, and then ask for a meeting.” - Brendan Barca   This week on The Model FA Podcast: Why some financial advisors feel like LinkedIn doesn't work for building business How optimizing your LinkedIn profile separates you from other financial advisors Using content for marketing and keeping prospects interested in you The power of niching in business-building and how to position yourself as a valuable resource on LinkedIn and other networking platforms How long it takes to reap the benefits of networking on LinkedIn Why financial advisors need to embrace digitalization Brendan's advice for financial advisors who are hesitant about taking their businesses online Online meeting best practices Optimizing your Google ranking to get more prospects to your business website   Resources Mentioned: Book: The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Tim Ferris Book: Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers by Tim Ferris   Our Favorite Quotes: “People get to know you by the amount of experiences they have with you.” - David DeCelle “You want to create content on LinkedIn. Even if your content doesn't get a huge engagement, you can still repurpose it.” - Brendan Barca “Advisors should create valuable content on a consistent basis on LinkedIn.” - David DeCelle   Connect with Brendan Barca: Brendan Barca Solutions Email: brendan@brendanbarca.com Brendan Barca on LinkedIn     About the Model FA Podcast The Model FA podcast is a show for fiduciary financial advisors. In each episode, our host David DeCelle sits down with industry experts, strategic thinkers, and advisors to explore what it takes  to build a successful practice — and have an abundant life in the process. We believe in continuous learning, tactical advice, and strategies that work — no “gotchas” or BS. Join us to hear stories from successful financial advisors, get actionable ideas from experts, and re-discover your drive to build the practice of your dreams.    Did you like this conversation? Then leave us a rating and a review in whatever podcast player you use. We would love your feedback, and your ratings help us reach more advisors with ideas for growing their practices, attracting great clients, and achieving a better quality of life. While you are there, feel free to share your ideas about future podcast guests or topics you'd love to see covered.    Our Team: President of Model FA, David DeCelle   If you like this podcast, you will love our community! Join the Model FA Community on Facebook to connect with like-minded advisors and share the day-to-day challenges and wins of running a growing financial services firm.

Best-selling author Tim Ferriss chats with Chris about how he built and grew his podcast (The Tim Ferriss Show) to 700+ Million Downloads. They give a deep inside look at how their podcasts got started and how everything comes together each week (equipment, production, interviews and more). They also discuss a number of topics relevant outside of podcasting, like interviewing skills, marketing, branding and storytelling.Tim Ferriss (@tferriss) has been listed as one of Fast Company's “Most Innovative Business People.” He is an early-stage technology investor/advisor (Uber, Facebook, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ others) and the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers, including The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers. The Observer and other media have called Tim “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, which is the first business/interview podcast to exceed 100 million downloads. It has now exceeded 700 million downloads.Full show notes available at: https://www.allthehacks.com/podcasting-tim-ferriss Selected Links From The EpisodeConnect with Tim Ferriss: Twitter | Instagram | Blog | Podcast | 5-Bullet Friday NewsletterTim's Resources on Podcasting: 2016 Blog Post | Interview with Rolf PottsPodcast Recording Platforms: Zencastr | SquadCast | Riverside.fm | QuickTime | AppleOther Podcasting Tools: Descript | ChartablePodcasting EquipmentLogitech BRIO Ultra HD Webcam | AmazonAudio-Technica ATR2100x-USB Cardioid Dynamic Microphone | AmazonAudio-Technica ATR2500x-USB Cardioid Condenser Microphone | AmazonApple AirPods with Charging Case | AmazonZoom H6 6-Track Portable Recorder | AmazonXLR Cables | AmazonShure SM58 Handheld Dynamic Vocal Microphone | AmazonTim's BooksThe 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New RichThe 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming SuperhumanThe 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good LifeTools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class PerformersTribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the WorldTim Ferriss Show Episodes:#1 with Kevin Rose#22 Ed Catmull, President of Pixar#418 Esther Perel#444 Hugh Jackman#60 Arnold Schwarzenegger#349 LeBron James#506 Balaji Srinivasan#283 Tim Urban#25, 26 & 27: Kevin Kelly#40 Andrew Zimmern#399 Adam Grant#281 Stewart BrandOther Books and Blog Posts: The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness by Morgan HouselFinding the One Decision That Removes 100 Decisions (or, Why I'm Reading No New Books in 2020) | Tim Ferriss4 Tools to Use Now That Facebook Analytics is Gone | Ad EspressoThe Tail End | Wait But WhyThe 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing by Al Ries and Jack Trout | Amazon1,000 True Fans | The TechniumThis Satirical TikToker is Generating Millions of Dollars in EMV for World-Renowned Brands by Andrew Chen | Captiv880/20 Rule (Pareto Principle) | InvestopediaOther Podcasts:This American LifeThe Joe Rogan Experience | Spotify‎ID10T (Formerly Nerdist) with Chris Hardwick | Apple PodcastsWTF with Marc Maron PodcastWNYCPushkin PodcastsThe Stacking Benjamins PodcastArmchair ExpertIt's Official: ‘Call Her Daddy' is Exclusive | Quill Full Show NotesWho is Chris Hutchins, and how many episodes of his new podcast, All the Hacks, does he have under his belt thus far? [2:26]A few choice pieces of advice anyone should consider when aspiring to start a podcast: you don't have to commit forever, only do this if you'd do it for free, and don't worry about how big (or small) your audience is. [4:30]Don't commit to forever, but start with a reasonable number of episodes to aim for (Tim chose six). If you don't love the direction it's going, change direction until you do. Choose a game you can win. [6:50]Expect technical SNAFUs. Always have a backup plan. Better: have several. “Two is one, and one is none.” [11:40]Is it still early in the days of podcasting and ripe with opportunity, or is it too crowded and people should consider new mediums for content? [12:55]Why did Chris want to start a podcast, and what has made it worthwhile to continue? [17:04]Gear Tim uses and why most of his podcast conversations are done remotely. [20:27]How many technical difficulties would Tim endure before just rescheduling an interview? What precautions does Tim take to make this less likely? [23:04]An easy way to test if your remote guest's external mic is selected. [27:44]Tim once advised podcasters against recording on video, but he's changed my tune. What are the pros and cons? [27:26]How different did his operation look when Tim was just getting started, and how has it evolved over time with the addition of metrics for monetization and staff to assist with production? [32:24]What Chris has considered when weighing the rewards of monetization versus its costs, and Tim's two cents' worth on sponsorship best practices and options available. (Bonus: why Tim's books aren't available in paperback.) [37:03]Can't get big-name guests? Prioritize getting good guests even if they're not household names. People like good content more than they like bad content with a fancy name (and you'll probably like not having to get through a phalanx of publicists and lawyers and managers for a year to get that “famous” but potentially less interesting guest). [48:29]How Tim has found guests from the very beginning. [52:18]Tim's thoughts on Chris' interview with Leigh Rowan (note: not a household name, but an incredible guest who brought his A game). [53:53]You may not be able to “fix” a bad guest no matter how well-practiced you are as an interviewer. But you can always record long and edit liberally. [55:26]Questions Tim asks and conversations he'll have with guests to put them at ease and get them to a place where they can trust the process. [57:09]Why Tim finds Twitter to be an excellent, low-risk way to source guests. But there are right ways and wrong ways to go about it. [1:01:20]Illustrating the importance of technical redundancy, Chris confesses that he had to re-record the interview with Leigh Rowan from scratch. At least it was a lesson learned on day one. [1:07:52]The value of reading transcripts (and, perhaps more painfully, audience feedback on social media) of your interviews early on in order to improve, as well as other methods of soliciting torture from select friends for personal development. [1:10:00]Why becoming a better interviewer is really becoming your best self as an interviewer. Remember: what's worked for Joe Rogan or James Lipton or Larry King may not work for you. [1:17:04]How long does Tim spend on prep prior to an interview? What are some helpful shortcuts and processes to squeeze the most juice out of this time? [1:21:22]Has Tim ever done too much research before an interview — to the point that the ensuing conversation was devoid of any meaningful surprises? [1:27:15]What might cause Tim to push pause on publishing an interview, and how would he break the news diplomatically to the guest? What efforts can be made to salvage something useful from the experience for both parties? [1:30:13]Does Tim always read a guest's new book before he interviews them? [1:32:06]Has Tim ever had to pause during an interview to regroup and replan its direction? What steps do I take to make sure the guest and I sound as good as possible? [1:34:31]How did Tim build an understanding of his guests, and what did he learn about relating to an audience from Wait But Why‘s Tim Urban? [1:38:37]Tip: How to avoid getting your AirPods case mixed up with a significant other/family member/roommate who lives with you. [1:43:58]Does Tim pay attention to number of podcast downloads and other listener-quantifying metrics? What would motivate extra scrutiny of those numbers? [1:45:19]Why you probably want to funnel your listeners to your own website instead of something like a Facebook page that uses algorithims you can't control. [1:50:00]Is growth as important as creating good content? What are the most effective ways to grow an audience that will find that good content? [1:55:14]Is there a point to putting audio-only content on a video platform like YouTube? While growth has no magic bullet and the tools are forever changing, here are some evergreen references that might help you find the anchor that will work for your needs. [2:01:00]Want to be of the best service to yourself and your audience? Stop trying to please all of the people all of the time. Find the cadence, content, and frequency that fulfills you first. [2:04:35]Someone might tune in to your podcast for a certain guest, but if they come back, it's because of you. This being said, is it necessary to go out of your way to remind listeners that you exist in every episode? [2:08:15]How can you make your good question a great question while making your guest sound even smarter and get your listeners personally invested in the conversation? [2:10:18]What is one of Chris' best investments? [2:13:05]How (and why) did Tim make the transition from being “The 4-Hour Guy” to the host of The Tim Ferriss Show (rather than starting something like The 4-Hour Podcast)? [2:14:11]You have a personal brand (even if you've never tried to build one). But how do you know what it entails? [2:25:08]To eliminate the bother of selling ads and securing sponsors, is it worth it to join a podcast network that promises to take care of monetization for you (for a hefty cut)? [2:27:50]How does Tim handle a follow-up question if he's thought of it well past the point it would make sense to fit it into the conversation? [2:36:52]Does Tim have any tactics for getting introductions to potential guests from other people in my existing network? [2:38:33]A question you can ask to improve your interviewing prowess (courtesy of Adam Grant). [2:40:18]What kind of processes does Tim go through when he reassess the direction of the podcast after reaching a preestablished milestone? [2:42:27]The time-saving power of batching recording sessions. [2:44:54]Parting thoughts. [2:50:57] Connect with All the HacksAll the Hacks: Newsletter | Website | Facebook | EmailChris Hutchins: Twitter | Instagram | Website | LinkedIn

Questions. A mentor, Dr. John Demartini once told me —the quality of the questions you ask will determine the quality of our lives. But there's a problem: when we run our lives on auto-pilot, we aren't aware of the questions we're asking. Which means we ask questions like: How could I ever afford to do that? Why does this always happen to me? Why can't I seem to be further along? Instead, what if you flipped the above and asked: How can I create more value? What's the competitive advantage this gives me? Where can I truly celebrate the blessings I have today? Enter my latest guest, Marc Champagne. Marc believes we're all one question away from a completely different life. He's studied the minds of people like Kobe Bryant, Maya Angelou, Naveen Jain, James Clear, Picasso, Stephen Hawking and created a book called Personal Socrates: Questions That Will Upgrade Your Life from Legends and World-Class Performers. In today's conversation, Marc Champagne and I dive into the power of "mental fitness", what wisdom really means, and how to ask better questions, to gain deeper insights, clarity —and well, results on a daily basis. Ep. 210 | Key Questions For a Thriving Life With Marc Champagne Marc Champagne Online Personal Socrates Book Behind The Human Podcast

“You need to understand if you're climbing the right mountain to begin with and understand who you're optimizing to become.” – Marc Champagne Marc Champagne (@marcchampagne) is author of Personal Socrates: Questions That Will Upgrade Your Life from Legends & World-Class Performers. A self-proclaimed Mental Fitness Strategist, Marc is a speaker and corporate trainer and hosts the top 50 podcast, Behind the Human. Marc previously co-founded the journaling app (KYO) which reached 86.9 million people. Show notes with links, quotes, and a transcript of the episode: https://www.danielscrivner.com/notes/marc-champagne1-outlier-academy-show-notes  Chapters in this interview: Marc's background and path to Personal Socrates Mental fitness Marc's morning reflection routine Marc's podcast, Behind the Human The Socratic Method On books and reading Profiles and questions in Personal Socrates  The writing process Sign up here for Outlier Debrief, our weekly newsletter that highlights the latest episode, expands on important business and investing concepts, and contains the best of what we read each week. Follow Outlier Academy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/outlieracademy. If you loved this episode, please share a quick review on Apple Podcasts.

“The thing that lights me up the most is leaving people with more energy after conversation than when they came in.” – Marc Champagne Marc Champagne (@marcchampagne) is author of Personal Socrates: Questions That Will Upgrade Your Life from Legends & World-Class Performers. A self-proclaimed Mental Fitness Strategist, Marc is a speaker and corporate trainer and hosts the top 50 podcast, Behind the Human. Marc previously co-founded the journaling app (KYO) which reached 86.9 million people. Show notes with links, quotes, and a transcript of the episode: https://www.danielscrivner.com/notes/marc-champagne2-outlier-academy-show-notes  Chapters in this interview: Mental health, strengths and struggles Breathwork and physical health Recommended podcasts and books, and tools On success and failure Sign up here for Outlier Debrief, our weekly newsletter that highlights the latest episode, expands on important business and investing concepts, and contains the best of what we read each week. Follow Outlier Academy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/outlieracademy. If you loved this episode, please share a quick review on Apple Podcasts.

How much time do you spend exercising your mind each day? In this new episode, you will learn about the importance of making time for both restful and active mental fitness exercises. For a second time, Kelly connects with mental fitness strategist, speaker, and author, Marc Champagne, to discuss what it means to be mentally fit, the components of mental fitness, and how exercising your mind is just as important as exercising your body. Marc also shares insights from his new book, Personal Socrates: Questions That Will Upgrade Your Life from Legends and World-Class Performers, where he unpacks time-tested mental fitness practices shaping the lives of some of the world's most brilliant thinkers. Be inspired to prioritize daily mental fitness to help bring clarity and intentionality to your every day. Behind The Human Personal Socrates (Paperback) x Kindle Edition

Marc Champagne is a mental fitness strategist and host of Behind The Human Podcast. Marc previously worked in medical sales. He loves to connect with another person, especially in sales when it doesn't feel like sales. It's just two people having a conversation and there's no hidden agenda. With all the rejection and the struggle that come with sales, that's when the idea of mental fitness came up for him. From medical sales, Marc leaped into the mental wellness space, creating an app, which is a combination of daily reflections and a gratitude journal. Out of that experience came his book, Personal Socrates: Questions That Will Upgrade Your Life from Legends & World-Class Performers – the vehicle has changed but the path and the work remain the same. Here are some power takeaways from today's conversation: When his mental fitness journey started The power of journaling The pivotal moment for Marc entering the mental wellness space Staying out of your autopilot Connecting the unknown to the opportunity The experience of deleting his app business and writing his book Episode Highlights: The Road to Mental Fitness When you're able to shift your mindset into gratitude or something positive in your life, you become more aware and awake regardless of whatever situation in life you're in. Instead of complaining about your life, default your day with a morning routine such as journaling. The Pivotal Moment If you're working towards a certain goal, you need to have a solid plan and strategy. Be excited for the unknown versus fearing the unknown. Marc's leap into the mental wellness space wasn't because he couldn't stand driving to work anymore, but more like he would regret not trying it. Connecting the Unknown to the Opportunity Do everything now as humanly possible to stay out of the autopilot. If your life has been structured and so planned out and you jump into a new world full of uncertainty, replace fear with excitement. Be excited for the unknown and connect the unknown to opportunity. The Idea Behind Personal Socrates The idea was to write a book of profiles that opens up the dialogue around mental fitness from all these different perspectives in different industries and different people. And then have the question be the lead-in to basically meet people wherever they're at in life. The first step is asking questions about getting clear. Step two includes questions to help us be more intentional with our activities, and habits, thoughts, or how we react. If you do the first two, the third one just happens naturally, which is the expansion of possibility. Ultimately, for you to hold space for others, you have to first hold space for yourself. Resources Mentioned: Behind The Human Podcast www.behindthehuman.com https://www.baronfig.com/personal-socrates

Interviews of successful people by a successful person are an effective way for the public to learn to follow in their steps. Under the host's purpose driven questioning, interviewees are directed to tell their personal stories, outlining the path they took to personal happiness and achievement. Tools of Titans combines over one-hundred of these stories to give us a well-rounded picture and summary of what it means to achieve success and the struggles we will have to face.

Shownotes can be found at https://www.profitwithlaw.com/232.   We don't talk about profitability of law firms enough. Lawyers usually avoid this topic because they are afraid to hear it. They do not want to even think about numbers on top of their regular work. And yet, gaining profit from business is what's going to help you grow your firm to where you want it to be. Therefore, attorneys should not shy away from a numbers conversation. You need to learn how to talk about it, and it is all the more important to understand it. In this week's episode, Brooke Lively joins Moshe Amsel to tell us all about the important numbers you should be monitoring. She shares how you can keep track of them and discusses the things that lawyers are usually afraid of. Lastly, she talks about the importance of being transparent and communicating with your clients. If you want to learn more about how you can profit from business, then tune in to this episode! Resources mentioned:   This episode is sponsored by Smith.ai. Curious how you can use a receptionist service at your law firm? Download the Smith.ai free eBook: Are you Lawyering or Laboring? 7 Steps for Running a Highly Productive Law Firm with Virtual Receptionists. This episode is sponsored by Get Staffed Up. Learn more at www.getstaffedup.com/VIP   Get yourself a Free Coaching Session and learn more about the 90 Day Law Firm Turnaround Coaching Program.   Connect with Brooke: Email | LinkedIn Cathedral Capital From Panic to Profit: How Six Key Numbers Can Make A 6 Figure Difference in Your Law Firm by Brooke Lively For Profit with Law listeners: Click here to access Cathedral Cap's free Cash Flow Forecast spreadsheet, Billing Grid, and video course on the topics covered today. Fireproof: A Five-Step Model to Take Your Law Firm from Unpredictable to Wildly Profitable by Mike Morse and John Nachazel Free to Focus: A Total Productivity System to Achieve More by Doing Less by Michael Hyatt The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9–5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Tim Ferriss Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers by Tim Ferriss The Tim Ferriss Show podcast You're Doing It Wrong with Mike Henderson Leary podcast: How to Fireproof and Scale Up Your Business Through the Lens of a Law Firm 2020 Legal Trends Report from Clio. If you're looking for highlights instead, access the summary here. Get Staffed Up NerdWallet Quickbooks For a payment plan solution, visit LawFundAR now! Join our Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/lawfirmgrowthsummit/   To request a show topic, recommend a guest or ask a question for the show, please send an email to info@dreambuilderfinancial.com.   Connect with Moshe on: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/moshe.amsel LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mosheamsel/

In this very special (and very long!) episode of Long Overdue Sam is joined by Barbara and Melody from the North Shore Library in Glendale, WI where Melody hosts "Book Chat at North Shore Library," which Barbara and Sam started in 2018. In this episode we talk about books we've changed our minds about and get unexpectedly deep when discussing books we thought we loved and later realized we don't like all that much. Also just a warning, when we talk about the Twilight book series we discuss toxic relationships, emotional abuse, and manipulation, so if you don't want to listen to those topics please skip ahead to the next book. Also, be sure to check out Book Chat at North Shore Library by visiting: https://soundcloud.com/northshorelibrary In this episode we talked about: Cult X by Fuminori Nakamura Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Nell Scovell and Sheryl Sandberg Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart Twilight Series by Stephanie Meyer Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties by Dan Piepenbring and Tom O'Neill Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens We also mentioned: Dragon Teeth by Michael Crichton The Lord of the Rings Series by J. R. R. Tolkein Make Your Bed by William H. McRaven Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers by Tim Ferriss Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World by Tim Ferriss Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight Over Women's Work by Jenny Brown Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James

As entrepreneurs and business leaders being visible is one of our top priorities. 10X entrepreneur Grant Cardone says, "if they don't know you, they won't cash flow you." Well, Dr Morissa Schwartz joins us to solve that problem with some tips on SEO, social media, PR, ads, and business communications (just to name a few of our conversation topics). The great takeaway for me, was her mindset of "What's the worst that could happen?" Dr. Morissa Schwartz is the Founder and CEO of Dr. Rissy's Writing & Marketing and GenZ Publishing, LLC.  DrRissysWriting.com is a marketing and writing company ranked #1 in PR and top ten in Social Media and SEO for New York and New Jersey on Thumbtack. GenZ Publishing is a publishing company that has produced 15 Amazon bestsellers.Dr Rissy's top pick for the Leaders Are Readers series:Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World Class Performers by Timothy FerrissFor more information go to:www.drrissyswritings.com Thinking about starting your own podcast:Join Buzzsprout! We are with buzzsprout and our experience has been phenomenal. There online community on their Facebook page has helped with all the questions we had. They have a YouTube channel that will walk you through all you need to get started. But really, start with what you have in a quiet room, and share your message. Make you contribution to the social conversations of our day.  And... you'll get a $20 Amazon Gift Card (sent after 2nd paid invoice) when you use this link :https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=1093280 Reinventing Perspectives has a

Hello, in dieser Folge geht es um Persönlichkeiten, die wir nicht persönlich kennengelernt haben und uns trotzdem geprägt haben. Es geht um Elon Musk, Joe Rogan und Tim Ferriss. Die Reihe setzen wir auf jeden Fall in einer zukünftigen Folge fort. Alles unsere eigenen Erfahrungen und Meinungen :) Links zu den Themen: Elon Musk https://bit.ly/3cMKjHJ Tesla https://bit.ly/3eVVGjo SpaceX https://bit.ly/2OJqRnr Boring Company https://bit.ly/2P0FBhw Hyperloop https://bit.ly/38R15UY OpenAI https://bit.ly/30YnXxq Neuralink https://neuralink.com/ Dogecoin Tweet https://bit.ly/38TzBOA Elon Musk made his first millions in the ‘PayPal Mafia' https://bit.ly/3eSN9hd Tesla Model S https://www.tesla.com/de_de/models Tesla Roadster 2008 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Roadster_(first_generation) First Principles: Elon Musk on the Power of Thinking for Yourself https://jamesclear.com/first-principles How Elon Saved SpaceX & Tesla … At The Same Time https://bit.ly/2OK4LBe Elon Musk calls diver who helped save Thailand boys a 'pedo' for slamming his rescue idea https://fxn.ws/3lsTRM1 Elon Musk: Wie Elon Musk die Welt verändert – Die Biografie https://amzn.to/3c2VJIB Quora Post von Elons Ex-Frau https://bit.ly/30ShWCr The Joe Rogan Experience Podcast https://spoti.fi/3cOHHZY #1609 Joe Rogan Folge mit Elon Musk https://spoti.fi/3s00qIy The Tim Ferriss Sho‪w‬ Podcast https://apple.co/3bYdzMz Fear-Setting: The Most Valuable Exercise I Do Every Month https://tim.blog/2017/05/15/fear-setting/ Tim Ferriss Reviews The Five Minute Journal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_dUSGfsQZg The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich https://amzn.to/2OCRASN Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers https://amzn.to/3bZFvjc Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World https://amzn.to/3eVXQzw Viel Spaß beim Zuhören

What a year this has been! COVID has obviously been the big story, but personally, I took the leap and started my own company at the start of the pandemic, launched the podcast and have connected with more people in the industry than in many previous years combined. A big part of that has been because of this podcast. What started as a hobby has turned into a passion project that I look forward to doing every week. There have been too many great moments on the show this year to count but I've tried to pull a few of them and do a “best of episode” to at least highlight some of the conversations that resonated with me. Thank you all for your support throughout the year and for coming on this journey with me. I hope some of the things we've talked about over the year have resonated with you or inspired you to take action. Highlights from the "best of" show include: Marketing Ep. 15 w/ Josh Hogan on spending money against OTAs Revenue Management Ep. 16 w/ Parul Suri on revenue management practices that worked in the past that help with visibility in the future Ep. 27 w/ Fabian Bartnick on RevPar index and vanity metrics F&B Ep. 24 w/ Josh Kopel on pivoting, change in the industry, evolving your Career, closing Preux & Proper and why he did it Service Ep. 13 w/ Clarence McLeod on proactive communication, non-negotiable basics are more important than ever and cocktail currency The Future Hospitality Ep. 31 w/ Ron Swidler on being nimble, using experts, and that we may not be qualified to answer the questions being asked right now Ep. 33 w/ Jeremiah Tower on what needs to change in the hospitality industry, training and the effort needed to be the best Thank you for your support over the past year. Thank you for continuing to listen each week, and thank you for sticking with me as we bring the show into the new year. On that note - Happy new year to you and all the best in 2021. --- We want to hear from you! Send in a voice message or review to the podcast: https://anchor.fm/provenprinciples/message (https://anchor.fm/provenprinciples/message) --- Do you need to revamp your hospitality business strategy? Do you need help with a project or someone to work with on a tough problem in your hotel or restaurant? If I can help you in any way, please don't hesitate to reach out. You can book a free call with me by going to https://knowinghospitality.com/contact (knowinghospitality.com/contact)

In this episode with Daniel Souder, we discuss: Having the courage to lead. Getting out of your comfort zone.  How you know when you're ready to lead.  Exposing yourself to food and beverage in order to really learning.  Being a person of value by becoming a specialist.   Treating people like individuals. The significance of creating a niche in a market.  How being physically fit is just as important as being mentally fit.  To grow from as an organization you need to grow from your core.  Establishing yourself in growing communities. If something is not possible. Make it possible. Blaze a path. Not only buy food locally but doing all business locally.  Student of Miami University, and Level 2, Certified Sommelier, Daniel Souder came up in Cincinnati, OH. Today, Souder is a sommelier-turned-restauranteur, serving as Co-Owner of  Cincinnati's Pleasantry. Show notes… Favorite Success Quote or Mantra. "Leadership is scares because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead." Today's Sponsor   Gusto-  "The best payroll, benefits, and HR for the small business owner." It is time to let Gusto do the heavy lifting. Sign up today, and once you run your first payroll you'll get 3 months FREE on Gusto. Click Here to get started.   bentobox- Bring your restaurant's hospitality online with BentoBox. Get in touch to learn more and save up to $1500 on initial setup when you mention Restaurant Unstoppable. Click Here to get started   Knowledge bombs Which "it factor" habit, trait, or characteristic you believe most contributes to your success? Sense of control. Structure. Routine. What is your biggest weakness? Admitting that he has weaknesses. What's one question you ask or thing you look for during an interview? Hire personality and people who are willing to learn. What's a current challenge? How are you dealing with it? Saturation of the market. Grow a little everyday. Share one code of conduct or behavior you teach your team. Do it right the first time. What is one uncommon standard of service you teach your staff? Create a regular by starting a conversation. What's one book we must read to become a better person or restaurant owner? GET THIS BOOK FOR FREE AT AUDIBLE.COM  Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice From the Best in the World. Tools of titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers.  The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Success. Share an online resource or tool. The Tim Ferris Show What's one piece of technology you've adopted in your restaurant and how has it influence operations? Reserve. Breadcrumb. Upserve. If you got the news that you'd be leaving this world tomorrow and all memories of you, your work, and your restaurants would be lost with your departure with the exception of 3 pieces of wisdom you could leave behind for the good of humanity, what would they be? chill out due dillegence. Be proactive not reactive. Be present. Always be learning Contact Info pleasantryotr.com Thanks for Listening! Thanks so much for joining today! Have some feedback you'd like to share? Leave a note in the comment section below! If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the top of the post. Also, please leave an honest review for the Restaurant Unstoppable Podcast on iTunes! Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated! They do matter in the rankings of the show, and I read each and every one of them. And finally, don't forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic updates. Huge thanks to Daniel Souder for joining me for another awesome episode. Until next time!   Restaurant Unstoppable is a free podcast. One of the ways I'm able to make it free is by earning a commission when sharing certain products with you. I've made it a core value to only share tools, resources, and services my guest mentors have recommend, first. If you're finding value in my podcast, please use my links!

In this podcast, @EdwardBoudrot from @Optum talks about how leaders could induce design thinking into product design and process engineering. Ed shares some of the ways organizations (small or big) could create lean processes that induce not only efficient people-centric products but also help future proof companies by bringing them closer to their customer. This podcast is great for future leaders who are thinking of shaping their organization around design thinking concepts. Timeline: 0:29 Edward's journey. 4:55 Innovation in a culturally thick company. 10:46 Life cycle of design thinking. 15:45 Designing thinking's role in business strategy. 19:28 Attributes of design thinking in business strategy. 23:07 Edward's expansion strategy. 25:30 Favorite design thinking concepts. 29:40 How to move a product mindset to a design thinking mindset. 32:22 Lab atmosphere to execute design thinking ideas. 34:15 Tips for startups to get started with design thinking. 35:40 Steps for companies to adopt design thinking. 38:15 Collaboration in design thinking. 41:00 Getting started with a human-centered design. 43:42 Tenets of a successful design thinking executive. 46:30 KPIs to measure the success of your design. 48:58 Design thinking and disruption. 53:22 Businesses that are doing well at design thinking. 55:33 How can design thinking protect itself from market changes. 59:17 Edward's favorite reads. 1:00:33 Closing remarks. Ed's Recommended Read: Ten Types of Innovation: The Discipline of Building Breakthroughs http://amzn.to/2ywxKLx 101 Design Methods: A Structured Approach for Driving Innovation in Your Organization http://amzn.to/2AFiWvE Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers http://amzn.to/2zAkwAJ Podcast Link: https://futureofdata.org/edwardboudrot-optum-designthinking-data-driven-products/ Ed's BIO: Ed Boudrot is the Vice President of Fusion, an enterprise accelerator for Optum. Optum's mission is to help people live healthier lives and to help make the health system work better for everyone. Boudrot has founded and has been a part of serval startups in the Boston area and Intuit innovation labs. He specializes in the convergence of Human-centered design, business strategy, and rapid development to optimize experiences and business outcomes. About #Podcast: #FutureOfData podcast is a conversation starter to bring leaders, influencers, and lead practitioners to discuss their journey to create the data-driven future. Wanna Join? If you or any you know wants to join in, Register your interest @ http://play.analyticsweek.com/guest/ Want to sponsor? Email us @ info@analyticsweek.com Keywords: FutureOfData Data Analytics Leadership Podcast Big Data Strategy

En este primer episodio del año hemos decidido empezar con el turno de acciones. Luego hemos hablado de hábitos largo y tendido. Finalmente hemos comentado el gran libro "Conversaciones cruciales" de Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan y Al Switzler. Carles Caño invita a cualquier zetatester interesado en la comunicación y el mundo de hablar en público a que entréis al grupo de Telegram "Presentásticos". [Web] Zencastr - High Fidelity Podcasting. [Web] Bubok - Distribución nacional e internacional de libros de autores noveles. [Web] Lulu.com - Online Self Publishing Book & eBook Company [Web] Draft2Digital - Self-publish with support. Gracias al zetatester Miquel Soldevila tenemos un grupo en goodreads llamado zetatesters. Os invitamos a que os deis de alta en esta red social de libros y participéis en nuestro grupo. [Libro] "The Second World War" de Antony Beevor. [Libro] "La Segunda Guerra Mundial" de Antony Beevor. Estos son los libros que Marc Alier ha leído en lo que llevamos de año: [Libro] "Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped" de Garry Kasparov. [Libro] "Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future" de Ashlee Vance - [Libro] "Elon Musk: El empresario que anticipa el futuro" de Ashlee Vance. [Libro] "The Personal MBA: A World-Class Business Education in a Single Volume" de Josh Kaufman. Estos son los libros que Carles Caño ha leído en lo que llevamos de año: [Libro] "A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy" de William B. Irvine. [Libro] "REBOUNDING ON A MINI TRAMPOLINE - THE FUN EXERCISE FOR WOMEN & MEN - 2016 EDITION - HOW TO DO VIDEO LINKS INSIDE" de Christopher David Allen. [Libro] "Steal the Show: From Speeches to Job Interviews to Deal-Closing Pitches, How to Guarantee a Standing Ovation for All the Performances in Your Life" de Michael Port. [Libro] "5,000 Words Per Hour: Write Faster, Write Smarter: Write Faster, Write Smarter" de Chris Fox. [Libro] "Poder sin límites: La nueva ciencia del desarrollo personal" de Tony Robbins. [Libro] "Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers" de Tim Ferriss. [App] C25K – 5K Running Trainer (iOS y Android). [Episodio]