This week’s show with Carl Paoli is about building a personal brand and driving your philosophies into what you put in the world.

What excites me most about this conversation is the unspoken prerequisite for achieving the above: personal accountability and responsibility, aka complete ownership of our actions and choices.

Carl is a world-class athlete – a gymnast who founded Gymnastics WOD and wrote the best-selling book Free+Style – and a world-class thinker and thought leader.

After years of having Carl on our “guest wish list” we caught up with him in San Francisco for this epic conversation about bringing a heightened intention and awareness to everything we do: from movement to business, from marketing to leading.

Enjoy.

Show Notes: Episode #60 w/ Carl Paoli

“If you have $1000 in the bank and don’t know how to manage $1000, you have no business having $2000.”

Finding clarity is key to understanding your stand and how to drive that through your life/business. Clarity takes time. Doing the reps is always going to be part of the process. Keep asking yourself the essential questions and act in your own best interests. “It’s a never-ending story”

Carl isn’t creating a business to solve people’s problems. He’s creating a business that allows them to get to their solutions.

Marketing strategies like a handstand picture have a bit of modern-day magic behind them. The magician reveals (some of) his secrets.

We’re all influencers. Influence yourself first and then put that self-work into action in your life and those around you.

Entertainment means holding focus.

Carl’s freestyle philosophy works on reaching a point where you can accept and respect all styles. All ways of feeling and acting.

The answers are in the book. The book is your body. Listen to what your body tells you.

Listen to what strength means to Carl.

What’s the one lesson you’d teach your daughter?

Carl’s response to what he’s changed his mind about this year

Carl’s #1 Tips to:

Be Better

Do Better