In this episode I explore the concept of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, and take a particularly close look at the potential political risk involved in investing in these types of assets. I also discuss the Federal Reserve’s announcement yesterday of the possibility of establishing a central bank digital currency (CBDC).

In this episode I discuss Sam Ovens’ teachings about the eliminate, automate, delegate protocol that one should use for eliminating wasteful activities and optimizing the most precious resource we have, time.

In this episode I discuss the dilemma of sleep and how much one should get, especially when pursuing outsized goals like starting a business or changing careers. I examine the health vs. hustle aspects of the debate, and go into some detail about my own habits.

In this episode I recap the Shopify e-commerce drop-shipping experiments I ran from last Fall until just recently. I discuss the obstacles that eventually led me to conclude this model is flawed enough to discourage further pursuit.

In this episode I discussed the importance of identifying and following and learning from digital or virtual mentors. For me this includes individuals like Robert Kiyosaki, Gary Vaynerchuk, Grant Cardone, and Sam Ovens.

In this episode I discuss the Texas snowstorm and ongoing power and water crisis, as well as weighing in on Ted Cruz fleeing the state to Cancun with his family.

In this episode I give my hot take on the rapidly unfolding situation in the stock market between the Wall Street Bets subreddit and institutional investors, on opposite sides of stocks like GameStop, AMC and others.

In this episode I talk about a book I recently finished called “Relentless” by Tim Grover, which happens to include examples of the author’s work doing fitness training with Kobe Bryant. I thought this would be apropos given that today is the one-year anniversary of Kobe‘s death. I also go into some detail in this episode about my reading habits and the types of books that I’m focused on reading these days.

In this episode I talk about the mindset and affirmations concepts espoused in the Consulting Accelerator training from Sam Ovens at Consulting.com.

In this episode I contrast Gary Vaynerchuk and Sam Ovens with respect to their philosophies on work ethic, loving what you do, social media usage, and dividing your attention across multiple projects.