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“I essentially, I got forced out of the company I founded and it was really hard for a few months. And I, you know, for me it was so much of my personal identity because I founded the company, you know, and without the CEO title, like, who am I?”

The Power of Doing Business Outside with Bart Foster · 4:31 · listen →

“After it happened, it was probably the most difficult period of my life. I mean, even more difficult than growing and scaling the company because like, as I said, when you're like, when you're in it, John, you don't realize how much you're in it and how much of your every living drop of energy is going into it.”

From $100M CEO to Psilocybin Guide: David Kahl on Leaders... · 15:57 · listen →

“It hit me hard that I was requesting permission for access to my own time.”

Nutrition, Sleep & Pacing for Entrepreneurs | Jenn Trepeck · 41:01 · listen →

“There is a point, not every entrepreneur gets there, but there is a point where the entrepreneur goes, I've done everything that I think I'm good at, and now it's time for somebody else to take the business and run with it. And I'm at that point.”

When Necessity Breeds Invention with Ashley Black · 21:47 · listen →

“Close your eyes and think that you're starting a new business, you have 2 kids, you have a mortgage, you had a stable job, and you decide to quit your $150,000 to $200,000 job. You take a mortgage on your house. You have absolutely no idea if you're gonna make income. Then how do you feel about it? Does it excite you or does it scare you?”

Migration, Entrepreneurship and Finding Meaning in Life w... · 5:45 · listen →

“Here's what I say. So humans like to feel like they're in control. And so when you're in a startup business, you don't really feel like you have a whole lot of control here, right? So where our control comes from is through our choices.”

Embracing Realistic Optimism with Dr. Gary Sprouse, MD · 22:55 · listen →

“I believe entrepreneurship is a hero journey, which means that you step into the unknown. But the way we're approaching entrepreneurship right now is we're doing it in reverse. We're aiming for tactics, tools, skills that we can plug and play into a trail that's known in our forest.”

Emotional Mastery, Reinvention & the Inner Game of Entrep... · 21:44 · listen →

“Yeah, it's not easy, but I don't think that anything is easy and you need to take some risks. So I took a big risk that I assumed that other people won't take. So I think that that's a big difference between entrepreneur and non-entrepreneur. It's someone that takes risks and they're willing to take the consequences of that risk.”

Lifespan vs. Healthspan: Mastering Your Biomarkers and th... · 4:14 · listen →

“We're not, we're not just colleagues and coworkers. We're actually mothers and fathers and caregivers. We're real people. But often we get stuck in this, you know, we're these human resources. We're not, we're not human resources. We're actually humans.”

The Power of Doing Business Outside with Bart Foster · 13:44 · listen →

“If I'm vulnerable at all, then I won't be respected. But it turns out, when I do it from a place of intelligence, then people felt more safe. Because when I'm vulnerable, then they can let down their guard.”

Emotional Intelligence in Entrepreneurship with Randy Lyman · 8:05 · listen →

“Our power as leaders doesn't come from our title. It doesn't come from our intellect. It comes from, are we able to get the people we work with to get on board with the vision?”

Emotional Intelligence in Entrepreneurship with Randy Lyman · 23:40 · listen →

“Fear restricts. Fear holds back. Fear makes people timid in the process. Whereas when you empower your employees, where you empower your leadership team as a C-suite leader perhaps, when you empower those people and build them up and encourage the dialogue and encourage the conversation, encourage in a respectful way the challenges to maybe to what's being done, that just sets you up for greatest success.”

The SMART Entrepreneur with Anthony DeNino · 16:57 · listen →

“There's a cover-your-ass culture in the NFL because if you don't have security or you haven't won recently, you're on the line. That's coaches, that's general managers. No one wants to tell the owner bad news. So it always is someone else's fault. So the spotlight's off them and on somebody else.”

From the NFL to Entrepreneurship with Justin Pugh · 28:22 · listen →

“I've found time and time again that if you're somebody that experiences money stress, more money is not the solution to that problem because I've worked with clients with very little money coming in and they feel stressed... Because it's not about the amount of money, it's about your relationship with money.”

Overcoming Money Stress and Fear with Scarlett Stanhope · 13:08 · listen →

“I find that one of the number one causes of money stress is actually lack of awareness around your money. Because if you don't know what's happening with your money, if you can't see it clearly, it just puts your brain into the unknown.”

Overcoming Money Stress and Fear with Scarlett Stanhope · 26:13 · listen →

“Your business revenue will never outperform your relationship with money.”

Redefining Prosperity: Money Mindset, Spirituality, and S... · 20:37 · listen →

“Those that tend to not be as successful tend to want to be what I call— they suffer from the lone wolf syndrome. They have an idea and they want to actually just go out and brute force everything themselves without really having a proven process.”

Making Your Corporate Job Optional - Leveraging Skillsets... · 11:59 · listen →

“I've always stuck by the phrase of you'll flush it. That play's over. I'm gonna flush it. I gotta move on to the next thing. And I think that's such an important aspect of life and business and being resilient is like, how do you keep pressing forward?”

Mindset, Resilience, and Elite Performance from the NFL t... · 16:18 · listen →

“Even a successful entrepreneur has failed 1 billion times and been rejected 1 trillion times. Like, I have been rejected way more times than I have been accepted. I have failed way more times than I've been successful. At this point, I'm like almost immune to it, at least for the smaller ones.”

Building Mental Muscles™ with Olivia Bowser · 27:28 · listen →

“Marcus Aurelius's quote around that is interesting. He said, you know, the impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way. So what stands in the way becomes the way because it's actually the impediment is what's going to move you forward when you're able to overcome it.”

Stoicism: Timeless Lessons for Modern Entrepreneurs with ... · 28:20 · listen →

“You just got to remember it probably doesn't matter in the big grand scheme of things. Any decision you make right now, you're probably going to be wrong in, and that's totally fine. It's called the no tax. It means you got to do 500 things wrong and get 500 nos before you get a yes.”

Scaling Businesses, AI, and Work-Life Balance with Grayso... · 29:37 · listen →

“if you're running this company and you're still the person that answers the phone when somebody calls your 800 number, You have not delegated things properly, or you're still the guy that's setting up all these Calendly meetings or whatever.”

Supportive vs. Stressful Debt: How Entrepreneurs Can Leve... · 28:10 · listen →

“Are you making what you need to be making to support the life and the people and everything that you wanna support? If not, where is the bottleneck? Look at your business. You know, where is— if you think about the theory of constraints, it's like, where is the piece that if you, you know, doubled everything, your business would break? And often, they're the bottleneck.”

ADHD and Entrepreneurship: Unlocking Your Potential with ... · 12:22 · listen →

“There is a point, not every entrepreneur gets there, but there is a point where the entrepreneur goes, I've done everything that I think I'm good at, and now it's time for somebody else to take the business and run with it. And I'm at that point.”

When Necessity Breeds Invention with Ashley Black · 21:47 · listen →

“some people express like the exhaustion they have for carrying all the damn masks way too fucking long, if I can say it that way, because that's how they feel. They're like, and here I am, I've got my own company, right? It is being successful, and I'm still not free.”

Leading with Joy and Redefining Success with Dr. Jax Black · 28:58 · listen →

“Usually they come because they are, they know the stuff, they've done the courses, they've done the marketing course and the business course and that kind of stuff, but it's just not clicking for them, there's a piece missing. And usually that piece is building ADHD processes to actually help unlock all of the information that they've learned.”

ADHD and Entrepreneurship: Unlocking Your Potential with ... · 2:56

“Initially, when I started working with people, there was this idea of things like rejection sensitivity dysphoria and the idea that people with ADHD struggled with it, but there was no research on it that you could find, no academic research. But now it is coming to a head.”

ADHD and Entrepreneurship: Unlocking Your Potential with ... · 17:19

“The thing I love to tell people is you'll probably already working almost as hard as you can work. A lot of times people will come to me and they'll say, I just need to white-knuckle it. I read this book about dopamine detoxing and I've decided I just need to go harder.”

ADHD and Entrepreneurship: Unlocking Your Potential with ... · 25:51

“So it's not about working harder, it's not about white-knuckling it, that's not gonna get you where you need to go. It's about understanding how your brain works and building the processes that are actually fun and work better, which is a crazy combination, but it's It's the whole wearing glasses that don't match your prescription sucks. It's not helping you and you're not getting more done. It's like, it's the same concept.”

ADHD and Entrepreneurship: Unlocking Your Potential with ... · 26:35

“I dump some things down on the paper. There's no theme to it. It's really just whatever's top of mind. And I found that to be super helpful. Never been a great meditator, but the past couple years I've been trying. It's gotten better. I found breathwork a little bit more accessible to me, especially in terms of getting into what they call heart-brain coherence, which is a really great way to self-regulate.”

ADHD and Entrepreneurship: Unlocking Your Potential with ... · 20:03

“It's like, it's not an attention disorder, it's performance disorder, right? We know what to do. We have trouble doing what we know. And part of that is our ADHD brains make it really hard to decide stuff and prioritize stuff because everything's equally important and equally urgent.”

ADHD Entrepreneur Focus Formula with Steve August · 14:48

“ADHD brains get in naturally get into motion with only 2 stimuli, right? And that is intense interest or urgent consequence. And in between that, I call that the dopamine desert, right?”

ADHD Entrepreneur Focus Formula with Steve August · 12:58

“It's not that I couldn't finish an email. I couldn't finish the first sentence of an email. And you know, I realized later it's because, yeah, I was in crisis the whole time during that stretch and ADHD brains do really well in crisis. Like, we can rise to that occasion.”

ADHD Entrepreneur Focus Formula with Steve August · 7:35

“I don't think of it as a disorder. I just think it's a different brain type. And like nobody thinks twice about supporting, like if your vision isn't quite where you want it to be, you wear glasses or you get LASIK or you wear contacts. And why should ADHD be any different?”

ADHD Entrepreneur Focus Formula with Steve August · 11:57

“I always know when it's a traditional productivity kind of tip or system when they go, okay, first dump everything out of your brain. Then prioritize everything and then make a list of your to-dos. And I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, back up the bus.”

ADHD Entrepreneur Focus Formula with Steve August · 33:19

“There's a physiological sigh where it's just like you breathe in and then you breathe in another 20% and then sigh it out. And it just chills out the nervous system surprisingly quickly. And it doesn't require counting or executive function like box breathing.”

ADHD Entrepreneur Focus Formula with Steve August · 29:55

“This thing just took 3 months and 20 minutes— 3 months to procrastinate, 20 minutes to actually do it— like, but I did it, right? Then they keep doing that each day, all of a sudden that trust starts to come back to themselves.”

ADHD Entrepreneur Focus Formula with Steve August · 25:44

“Versus if I have this narrative that I am unblockable, I am comfortable in space, I am a seatbelt in coverage, I'm hard to deal with, I'm— I cause problems for the offense, I'm one step ahead of everyone. Like, you just tell these things to yourself.”

NFL's Maema Njongmeta on Visualization & Mindset · 0:06

“Now, like, wanting it more doesn't actually make you better. It's all the other stuff. Like, are you staying consistently focused on the right goals? Are you working on the right goals? Are you efficiently using your time and your energy?”

NFL's Maema Njongmeta on Visualization & Mindset · 23:17

“As long as it's not the knockout punch and there's still time on the clock and there's still breath in my lungs and there's still this and there's— it's like, it's truly like— It's never too late. Like, it's really just never too late.”

NFL's Maema Njongmeta on Visualization & Mindset · 31:24

“I read this book, Psycho-Cybernetics. That was the book I read before my fourth year. I just had this like kind of— I revived my career. It was because of that book. And the whole essence of the book was like talking about reworking the self-image you have for yourself and how like you can only do as much as your self-image allows you to do.”

NFL's Maema Njongmeta on Visualization & Mindset · 29:53

“You might have this occupation that tells you this is where I'm at, this is where I need to be. But don't let that ever, ever, ever get in the way of your vocation, of your purpose. And I felt like, you know, I started playing football. It was a scheme to make friends, win influence, get girls, all the things.”

NFL's Maema Njongmeta on Visualization & Mindset · 36:22

“Something about the construction, it, it just speaks to me. Like right now my goal is I want, when I'm done playing, I want to, one, I don't want to take a pay cut, which like that's a very high bar. And then 2, like, I, um, I want to be passionate about what I do, um, but I want to— I want to also make mailbox money.”

NFL's Maema Njongmeta on Visualization & Mindset · 40:23

“Burnout isn't about doing too much. It's doing what's not true for you for too long. And so alignment feels different, right? There's still effort, but there's clarity of direction and growth.”

Become The CEO of Your Soul With Daune M. Thompson · 0:00

“Your soul should be the chief of the energy that your soul's leading from, because most people, have you noticed, lead from the outside and then address strategy, as opposed to the inside and out.”

Become The CEO of Your Soul With Daune M. Thompson · 5:43