Blue Collar Built

This week Jake and John talk about the beginning to the incoming year. The discuss continuing to pursue goals like new years resolutions, the soon to start work season, and a fun discussion and reminder of what this podcast is all about. Thank you to all the listeners new and old. it was a great first year. Lets make the second one even better!

This week Jake and John talk about avoiding pain. They discuss why we as people naturally want to avoid pain, how working through pain or hard times can actually be more rewarding than avoiding those things, and how even avoiding pain can cause more pain in a different way. 

This week John and Jake dive into a though provoking question. They discuss the idea of good and bad, can there be a middle ground of not being good or bad, and how maybe the answer is less about being good or being bad and more about the energy we put out there.  

This week Jake and John are joined by a very special guest. Along with their other brother Joe they discuss new years, growing up together, and how their current lives are different but share the same core values they where taught growing up. 

This week Jake and John talk about their week up to Christmas. They discuss working through the cold weather and snow, last minute Christmas shopping, and just being ready to enjoy some Christmas time with the family. Merry Christmas to all!

This week Jake and John talk about getting started improving your life now. They discuss why new years resolutions are a waste, they talk about lifestyle changes and how they struggled to understand what that meant and what that takes to do, and they discuss the processes they went through the last couple of years to make their own changes.  

This week John and Jake talk about having gratitude. They talk about what gratitude looks like, how no matter what , big or small, we should find gratitude in what we do, and how better life seems when we stop tearing ourselves down for the bad things that happen.

This week Jake and John talk about business. They dive into some of the things a new entrepreneur might think about when getting started, why some people want to get started but decide not to, and how you don't have to have it all figured out right away you just have to be willing to put in the time. 

This week John and Jake dive into a couple headlines. They dive into headlines about Chinas zero Covid policy still in affect, Europe's take on the U.S. role in the Russia-Ukraine war, and how Elon Musk might have to make a smart phone. 

This week Jake and John talk about what they are doing in the work off season and how society is getting lazy. They discuss how they are going to keep busy during the cold months, how eye opening John's first couple days delivering food was, and how we need to get out of our comfort zones more instead of always taking the easy way out.