EDGY Conversations

The Big Takeaway: It doesn't take money to make money.

To achieve wealth, it takes crazy amounts of value.

We struggle to talk about value because when we do, we open ourselves up to exploring our own value.

Today we talk about the ways you can be valuable to others.

After listening, join me in The EDGY Facebook group and let's talk about how we give value.

The Big Takeaway: What worked for you in the past won't work for you now.

Being uncomfortable is part of the magic of success.

Nobody wants to be uncomfortable.

We all have this aversion to being uncomfortable, but in order to make money grow, you sometimes have to do things that make you uncomfortable.

Building wealth of any type won't come until you are willing to be uncomfortable.

What takes you out of your comfort zone?

Come over to The EDGY Facebook group and let's talk about it.

Walking down Shotwell St in San Francisco, you’d be forgiven for not noticing the thin, nondescript brown building with its two businesses splitting the narrow front. Pedestrians walking past on October 3, 2015 might’ve smelled the scent of freshly cooked pasta and sauce wafting from the building. Inside, an artist was cooking up an experience: with handmade unstained porcelain bowls and carved wooden spoons, artist Emilie Gossiaux served 85 guests a meal they weren’t likely to forget.

Not because of the delicious food or the bowls left unglazed for the sauce to leave their imprint.

It was because Emilie Gossiaux was blind.

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****Language Advisory****

The Big Takeaway: There is a spiritual nature to money.

You have this "thing" inside you that is like a spiritual experience for somebody else. You have the key to someone's breakthrough.

You have the ability to fundamentally change someone's life for the better with some skill that somebody else is willing to pay you for.

Money can buy knowledge, support, ideas, time. For you and others.

Listen to this podcast and then come over to The EDGY Facebook group and let me know how you feel about the spiritual side of money.

For Robert Peary, it was his life motto. The words inscribed on his tombstone.

In 1881, he joined the US Navy Civil Engineers Corps, a job that sent him to Key West, Florida on one of his first assignments to do the impossible: build a new Navy Pier that other smarter, more experienced engineers said couldn’t be done.

Most would’ve balked at the request, citing other engineers’ experience or environmental conditions.

The Big Takeaway: Today I talk about the spiritual side of money.

Do you have affirmations that help you to create the wealth you want? Do you have a mantra?

Using money to help others and to help yourself can be deeply personal things that change the world- which makes them spiritual.

Money doesn't have to be the root of all evil. It can be a vessel for good.

Do you agree or disagree?

Come over to The EDGY Facebook group and let's talk about it.

NSFW advisory: Dan says "Fuck it"

The Big Takeaway: How does mindset impact your money?

Actions do have an impact. When you do things you should be doing to make things work out, don't expect to see results right away.

Today I argue that time and effort right all wrongs.

Is it a belief or a mindset? Do you agree or disagree that your mindset can cripple you or enable you?

After listening to the podcast, come over to our EDGY Facebook group and tell me what you think and if you want to ramp up your awesomeness and need help with your mindset, come to awesomepalooza.com and grab a ticket.

Warning: Dan drops the F bomb...just once.

The Big Takeaway: You know intellectually what you need to do, but emotionally you are stuck.

So what do you do when you know you should do something (like saving or investing) but you aren't able to do it?

Listen to how you can stack the scale in your favor when it comes to money.

And then come over to The EDGY Facebook group and let's talk about it.

Parental advisory: Dan uses strong language. You've been warned ;-)

The Big Takeaway: How do you answer the question of "am I doing deep work"?

Are we too busy doing the things everyone tells us we should be doing instead of doing the work we know we should be doing?

Let's talk about how to stop distracting ourselves and get down to what we need to be doing.

Come over to The EDGY Facebook group and share your distractions and how to slow down. And if you haven't checked out awesomepalooza.com, do that now too.

To this day, a small white box sits tucked away in the archives of a nondescript building in downtown Copenhagen stuffed next to other artifacts from a time when “frozen” meant death. The back of that seemingly insignificant box reads, “Grandfather’s beard, from the days of exile.” Inside that box lies the bushy, reddish-orange beard of a man whose life seems more fitting for Norse mythology than Danish fairy tales.

In 1926, Peter Freuchen found himself weathering a -65°F blizzard imprisoned between a boulder and his dog sledge. It was a tomb of his own making--a space so small that his beard had frozen to the ice on his sledge.

He had nowhere to turn. Literally.

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