In this episode, Erik and Brandon bring light to burn-out. Burn-out is the sneaky feeling of exhaustion, frustration, and unhappiness that builds up after long periods of high-production. We talk about the all-important burn-out triggers and how to mitigate the symptoms before they dominate your life.

Show Notes

0:39 React & Riff

1:50 How burn-out can creep up on you and manifest

4:34 Types of burn-out

5:20 Definitions of burn-out

11:04 How lack of autonomy leads to burn-out

13:25 Importance of feedback loops

20:20 Burn-out triggers

24:10 Fairness, boundaries, and burn-out

26:30 Hustle culture

28:24 How we view recovery

33:25 Watching TV isn't recovery

47:55 The fallacy of work-life balance

49:30 Active recovery protocols (box breathing)

55:32 Uplifting socializing

59:45 Key takeaways

1:01:36 Weekly Challenge

1:09:18 Entrepreneurs on the Fly

References

Flow Research Collective

Maslach's 6 burn-out triggers

Alpha waves in zone-out vs. flow

Happiness report

Entrepreneurship decline

Holotropic breathing

Flow Genome Project

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In this episode, Brandon & Erik are sleep-talking. Sleep is absolutely non-negotiable for people who want to experience success and longevity, so why is it one of the first things sacrificed when folks get busy? Learn about naps, REM cycles, melatonin production, and more in this week's episode.

Show Notes

2:05 Why sleep is fundamental for performance, and why hustle hacks don't work

16:30 Sleep debt and why sleep can't be sacrificed

24:58 Napping is amazing

29:03 "I'll sleep when I'm dead" mentality

38:55 Don't make big decisions when you're exhausted

39:50 HALT framework (hungry, angry, lonely, tired)

54:17 The Weekly Challenge

Resources

Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker, PhD

Atomic Habits by James Clear

Sleep by Nick Littlehales

Marpac Dohm white noise machine

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In this episode, Brandon & Erik unpack the best mental model they've discovered for how to push your comfort zone. Coined in 1990 by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the C/S Balance describes the ratio between the difficulty of a project and a person's ability to perform the tasks required to successfully complete the project. Learn how to optimize your C/S Balance, how Brandon abused the ratio, and how to stop procrastinating.

Show Notes

6:34 Flow states and Zero to Dangerous

10:05 Brandon @ Draper University

10:30 Persistence opens doors for new opportunities

12:10 How to start and scale a team

14:03 The Challenge/Skill Balance explained

18:50 Learning in real-time and whether to ask for help

20:31 Learning by doing is the fastest way to an education

28:06 Self-judgement and permission

35:40 Brandon's dirt biking trip in Mexico

45:29 Risk vs. reward in decision-making

48:18 Erik's sensory deprivation @ Biocybernaut

56:41 Pushing your comfort zone for the sake of learning

56:53 The Weekly Challenge

Resources

Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Whimsical

DesignCrowd 

Abundance 360

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In the first episode of Beanie & Blazer Radio, Brandon and Erik go deep on boundaries. Setting and maintaining strong boundaries is critical on the path to high-performance. In this episode, we cover professional and personal boundaries, strong vs. weak boundaries, attachment theory, and much much more. 

Show Notes

1:05 What are boundaries?

5:16 Setting boundaries in the workplace: objective, incentive, feedback loop

8:35 How you know when you're breaking a boundary that you've set

11:08 Getting clarity as a leader and how to keep a team's mission in alignment

17:46 Getting negative people out of your tribe

19:48 How to share your boundaries and values with someone in a non-business setting

20:49 How to evaluate if someone is a good friend or romantic fit for you

22:21 What happens when personal morals are challenged by the company's decision-making (BLM as an example)

26:45 Attachment Theory (John Bowlby) - avoidant, anxious, secure attachment types

34:21 Being self-centered before you can help other people

41:58 Evaluating when individual values start to diverge in a relationship

42:52 7 why's to familiarize yourself fully with a problem (credit: Sakichi Toyoda)

55:26 Struggling with content creation

58:18 The Weekly Challenge

Resources

Boundaries by Dr. Henry Cloud

Principles by Ray Dalio

Attached by Amir Levine, M.D. & Sarah SF Heller, M.A.

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Welcome to Beanie & Blazer Radio.

The show is hosted by Brandon Walker and Erik Horbacz, two Lifestyle Engineers in pursuit of high-performance in all facets of our lives. Lifestyle Engineering means taking an exploratory, metric-driven approach to the thoughts and behaviors that make us human: mind, body, and spirit.

This is a podcast where we dive deep into the mindset, behaviors, and universal principles of high-performing entrepreneurs, artists, athletes, and everyone in between. 

Our goal is to expose you to strategic and tactical insights developed by ourselves and the best minds in performance. Our sweeping conversational format covers topics ranging from routines and recovery to values and goal-setting best practices. 

If we help you cultivate a deeper reflection of your values and how you spend your time, we've achieved our mission with this podcast.

We're excited to have you in the tribe.