Becoming Great.com

Everyone has been talking about the coronavirus lately, but what is actually a virus? Other than staying away from infected people, what can you do to protect yourself? And how does your immune system play into this? How to build an immune system against corona?

These are some of the questions we are answering in today's episode of "Becoming Great.com". The purpose of this episode is to make you feel a bit safer and prepared for dealing with a virus and learn about different ways to improve their immune system.

The two friends Erik and Emil are both nerds and the topic of health and personal development, every now and then we do episodes with this theme and this is one of those episodes.

We dig into our own life hacks, tips, and tricks for how to improve our lives. We are not scientists or doctors, but we are passionate learners and we talk about the things that we apply ourselves. In the introduction, we touch on the questions of how to build an immune system against corona but all in all the episode is about how to defend ourselves vs any virus. We describe what a virus is, how it works, and how our immune system works to protect us.

We talk about the most important factors that play into the immune system. Age, genes, nutrition, gut flora, stress, and sleep. Age and genes aren't much we can influence so instead we dig into how you can decrease your stress levels by becoming better at saying no and by practicing gratitude and meditation. How to improve your nutrition by eating different high vitamin levels foods such as sauerkraut, cod oil, lemon, turmeric, and garlic.

We are also talking about the importance of sleep for the immune system and what we are doing to be able to sleep better in stressful times.

Welcome to Becoming Great.com and the episode "How to build an immune system against corona"

Book: Why we sleep - Matthew Walker

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Boring tasks are a killer of joy and creativity, still, every job has them. What can you do to make boring tasks more fun? How can you use your selfishness to become a better team player? These are the questions we explore in today's episode. This episode can change the way you are thinking about boring tasks, forever.

Today's episode is an update episode, where Erik and Emil explore the very real challenges and problems that come up when building the company Great.com.

This is an opportunity for you to get a behind the scenes look of what it's like to build a company and also get an update on our progress. What we learn here is not something you will read in a book. It's the real story of how Great.com gets built.

In this episode, we are exploring our new project in Great.com, a charity podcast. Emil has been swamped in admin work and boring tasks and feels both frustrated and overwhelmed.

When he brings this up with the team he feels like a bad team player and worries that he will let everyone else down. He feels that he is just supposed to suck it up and do the tasks, that's what everyone else does.

We are exploring the importance of creating an environment where concerns like this are being raised. What are the effects on the team? How can this be good for the team? What can we learn about how to make boring tasks more fun?

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We have just launched one of our biggest projects ever. A new podcast! We are interviewing charity organisations with the purpose of building more trust and understanding between the causes and people that want to donate.

Our ambition is to launch 7 episodes every week and now we are hiring to make this dream happen. The role we are looking for will be a podcast coordinator, a project manager role responsible for booking guests, building relationships with organisations, creating processes to easily get things moving and simply be the spider in the net of the podcast. Today's episode is an update episode where the good friends Erik Bergman and Emil Ekvardt, explore the very real challenges and problems that come up when building Great.com.

A company that gives away 100% of its profit to protect the environment.

This is an opportunity for you to get a behind the scenes look, of what it feels like to build a company - and also get an update on our progress.

What we learn here is not something you will read in a book. It's the real story of how Great.com gets built. This episode took off with a playful start (as usual) and we went over the two different parts of this episode.

First part is about the charity podcast, why we are doing it, who is it for, whats the value for the organisations and what's the business value for us.

The second part dives into the role we are currently hiring for. What is that we want help with and who would be a suitable candidate for the role? What is it like work with Great.com?

EP15 - Albert Schweitzer Foundation, animal welfare. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgPa63npzu8&t=186s

EP21 - Clean air task force, climate change research https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgPa63npzu8&t=186s

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We have realised that we are addicted to creating habits. We think outside of the box and we look for ways to live our lives with constant small improvements, different from most people.

Most of these habits are pretty shitty and don't stick, but some do! Then we keep building on them. This is a personal development episode for you who want to build success.

SPOILER If you want to be surprised of which our surprising habits are, don't keep reading :)

The habits that we have built are: - Self-reflection, and why that is so important. - Absurdly regular eating and sleeping patterns, and what impact that has on decision making and creativity. - Acting like a dog, and how humans life can be better if they are more doglike. - The secret memory app that creates an eternal memory just by using it 10 minutes per day. It takes a lot of work to get started, but once you do, it's a revolution. - The most simple food hacks, that can easily change your diet without taking up much of your time or thought processes. - Sobriety, why not drinking might be the best decision you have taken and how to be brave enough to do it.

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Some books can change lives, and some books have truly changed ours. Today Emil and Erik talk about which books have influenced them the most.

We talk about books on topics that range between social skills, spirituality, sleep, sex, saying no, creativity and communication. It turned out that both Erik and Emil have the same favorite book ever that they rank higher than all the other books combined. Find out which one it is!

Some of these books introduce new ideas that are highly useful in our lives. What we discovered though, is that a lot of these books are very good at pinpointing the negative behaviors we are doing, that we might not be aware of. So we can change.

Books: How to win friends and influence people - Dale Carnegie The power of Now - Eckart Tolle Come as You Are - Emily Nagoski Women's anatomy of arousal - Sheri Winston Mating in Captivity - Esther Perel Why we sleep - Matthew Walker Essentialism - Greg Mckeown War of Art - Steven Pressfield Non-Violent Communication - Marshall Rosenberg

We are currently missing all of our goals with Great.com. It's a source of frustration and powerlessness. We believe this is a common challenge in when building an organisation and in this episode, we explore how to deal with it and how to move forward. Today's episode is an update episode, where Erik and Emil explore the very real challenges and problems that come up when building the company Great.com.

This is an opportunity for you to get a behind the scenes look of what it's like to build a company and also get an update on our progress. What we learn here is not something you will read in a book. It's the real story of how Great.com gets built. We started by exploring why we are missing the goals and it felt like opening Pandora's box.

When planning the episode we were thinking about the missed goals from a logical perspective and found lots of valid reasons for it. When the microphones were turned on and things got real, the conversation, however, took unexpected turns. There were a lot of unexpected answers that came up and we ended up questioning the goals altogether and if we have even understood the goals in the first place.

Erik found that he didn't feel committed to the goals himself and Emil realised that he had no understanding about why the goals were there in the first place. We both felt that we were lacking an emotional connection to the goals.

This became a very valuable episode for ourselves and probably the most important one we have recorded seen from the perspective of Great.com and the importance for our team.

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Erik has just reached the milestone of 100k followers on Instagram. This results in a lot of joy but also in a feeling of being overwhelmed and not enough with messages coming in 24/7. In this episode, we explore what to do as an entrepreneur when there are more tasks than time, how important it is to prioritise and what you can do if you want to talk personally to Erik.

-- Today's episode is a special edition episode. It doesn't fit into our normal categories. It's a mix of how it is being an influencer, some struggles of being an entrepreneur and some guidance of what you can think about if you want to reach someone you look up to. -- We start the episode by explaining that this is spontaneous and not planned. The reason is that during Erik's morning meditation he found himself longing for a time with fewer notifications and messages coming his way.

We explore how many messages he gets per day. How it feels for him to answer them all and what keeps him going.

We move on to do the math in how many messages there will be when there are a million followers and can easily realise that the direction we are heading in is not sustainable.

We end by giving you a treasure map of the steps you can take if you want to reach Erik personally and make sure that he reads your message. -- Follow Erik and Emil on their social channels! linktr.ee/smilingerik linktr.ee/emil.ekvardt

How would higher and more stable energy affect your career and business? In the first Food HACKS episode, we explored different ways to get more focus and live a healthier life. In this episode, we enter the world of sugar.

Three years ago Erik's energy levels were like a roller coaster. When the food reserves crashed, so did his temper and some times he could barely speak unless he got a banana.

What effects does sugar have on your body? What can you replace it with? And what are the main sugar traps around us? How would you feel if you are less sugar? What would the benefits be for you?

Entrepreneurs live a busy life and high energy is a key element to get more stuff done. What can you do to get energy? What are some effective ways to keep your focus high and your output higher?

This is a personal development episode focused on health. How to eat to get the most out of your life.

We will dive deep into different health hacks.

What are the benefits of fasting? How can you make it easier and how do you get started?

What do healthy fats do for you? Which fats do you want in your body and which ones do you want to stay away from?

Is coffee good for you or is it an addictive drug?

This is an entrepreneurship episode. Erik Bergman has grown from nothing to 75 000 followers on Instagram in three months.

Today we will learn from Erik Bergman, who has tried hard since 2010 on social media, failed multiple times, and learn his 4 step path to success.

Do you want to use social media to scale your personal brand or your business? Have you maybe already tried, and failed? Or do you feel that you don't know in what social media to start? Do you struggle to keep the motivation up?

Today we will define what different social media is good for different purposes. We are going over how he started out in 2010 and what social media meant for the success of his previous company Catena Media. How he then put social media on hold for several years just to come back and failed.

We will learn from Erik's mistakes and see what he changed to reach success in 2019.