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Today’s Topic: Leadership

Resources:

• Learn more at stevedvalentine.com
• Instagram: @stevedvalentine
• Purpose Driven Real Estate: anchor.fm/pdre
• The Limitless Project: tlp.stevedvalentine.com/start
• Mastermind: workhardplayhardpodcast.com/mastermind
• Connect with us on Instagram: @kimmurgatroyd | @robmurgatroyd

 

Steve Valentine isn’t just one of the most successful real estate investors I know – he’s also a collaborator who helps others in the real estate community learn, invest, and grow. So the Valentine family are knocking it out of the park right now, and they’re teaching others what to do when they’re at bat, but Steve definitely struck out a few times before he found his niche.

 

In This Conversation We Cover: 

• [4:45] How theft pushed Steve to, reluctantly at first, join the real estate game
• [5:45] The most important lesson that Steve learned from his dad
• [7:15] What Steve learned from the real estate bubble bursting
• [11:30] Tactical advice for getting into real estate if you have bad credit or don’t have a lot of cash
• [20:00] Should you buy real estate for your own home?
• [25:20] Steve’s no-BS social media presence
• [29:30] The lack of (good) real estate education out there
• [36:00] Working with your spouse
• [37:30] The practices and habits that lead to success and fulfillment
• [40:45] Playing hard

 

To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: workhardplayhardpodcast.com

Work Hard Play Hard is a production of Crate Media

Resources:

Learn more at https://stevedvalentine.com/ (stevedvalentine.com)

Instagram: @stevedvalentine

Purpose Driven Real Estate: anchor.fm/pdre

The Limitless Project: tlp.stevedvalentine.com/start

Mastermind: workhardplayhardpodcast.com/mastermind

Connect with us on Instagram: @kimmurgatroyd | @robmurgatroyd

Steve Valentine isn’t just one of the most successful real estate investors I know – he’s also a collaborator who helps others in the real estate community learn, invest, and grow. So the Valentine family are knocking it out of the park right now, and they’re teaching others what to do when they’re at bat, but Steve definitely struck out a few times before he found his niche.

In This Conversation We Cover:

[4:45] How theft pushed Steve to, reluctantly at first, join the real estate game

[5:45] The most important lesson that Steve learned from his dad

[7:15] What Steve learned from the real estate bubble bursting

[11:30] Tactical advice for getting into real estate if you have bad credit or don’t have a lot of cash

[20:00] Should you buy real estate for your own home?

[25:20] Steve’s no-BS social media presence

[29:30] The lack of (good) real estate education out there

[36:00] Working with your spouse

[37:30] The practices and habits that lead to success and fulfillment

[40:45] Playing hard

To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: workhardplayhardpodcast.com

Work Hard Play Hard is a production of Crate Media

Today’s Topic: Is your dream bigger than your excuse?

 

Today Kim and I talk dreams and achieving goals. No matter how big your dream, the question is still valid. The reality is we could have quit so many times in our 15 years of “overnight” success. We could have found so many excuses, but our dream was always so much bigger! 

 

Sometimes people confuse freedom with options but having that dream is so important to success. It was always a big challenge building the business. The question I have is: Why was it that we didn’t quit where others do so?

 

Kim’s theory is that everything happens for a reason and it’s important to keep following the path you’ve chosen. Other people would watch our travel videos and dream. We were selling that dream of freedom and travel. All of the groundwork in our early work, niche areas has led us to where we are today. It’s all about learning lessons and building understanding.

 

It’s also vital to 

 

• Know what you want.

• Know whether it’s working or not.

• If not, change your approach until it works.

 

 

Sometimes though the distance in your brain between your goal and belief is too far apart. Ask yourself if your dream is going to happen. Check your gut feeling — is this dream a realistic one? Check your goals. Are they too far out of your belief?

 

The next step is setting up an action plan to accomplish your dream and getting honest feedback from a group of trusted people.

 

We discuss my “message from Mars” which is the following: What’s the one thing that you can do, such that by doing it makes everything else on your to-do list easier or unnecessary?

 

Resources:

• Mastermind: workhardplayhardpodcast.com/mastermind
• Connect with us on Instagram: @kimmurgatroyd | @robmurgatroyd
• How to create the perfect life — Frank Canace

Today’s Topic: Is your dream bigger than your excuse?

Resources:

• Stride
• 4-hour workweek — Timothy Ferriss
• The 15 Commitments of conscious leadership
• Mastermind: workhardplayhardpodcast.com/mastermind
• Connect with us on Instagram: @kimmurgatroyd | @robmurgatroyd

 

In today’s episode, I chat with the fascinating Russell Benaroya, on everything from how his Jewish heritage plays an important role in his life, to college education and entrepreneurship, the value of time and his attempts to create a sacred space for his relationships with his family.

 

In This Conversation We Cover: 

• The importance of Jewish traditions and beliefs to Russell.
• Russell’s education and the importance of this in entrepreneurship.
• The free space that higher educational institutions provide.
• Why Russell moved to Seattle.
• His move from investment banking to entrepreneurship.
• The setting up and the drawn-out process of selling his sleep medicine company.
• What Russell means by “finishing the game” before moving to the next one.
• Stride and the “zone of genius”.
• The value of time. How outsourcing is so important.
• Russell’s ultramarathons.
• Living in Costa Rica.
• The importance of relationships and building space.
• Geographic independence and Russell’s livelihood.
• Working through Russell’s daughter's transgender needs.

 

To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: workhardplayhardpodcast.com

Work Hard Play Hard is a production of Crate Media

Resources:

Stride

4-hour workweek — Timothy Ferriss

The 15 Commitments of conscious leadership

Mastermind: workhardplayhardpodcast.com/mastermind

Connect with us on Instagram: @kimmurgatroyd | @robmurgatroyd

In today’s episode, I chat with the fascinating Russell Benaroya, on everything from how his Jewish heritage plays an important role in his life, to college education and entrepreneurship, the value of time and his attempts to create a sacred space for his relationships with his family.

In This Conversation We Cover:

The importance of Jewish traditions and beliefs to Russell.

Russell’s education and the importance of this in entrepreneurship.

The free space that higher educational institutions provide.

Why Russell moved to Seattle.

His move from investment banking to entrepreneurship.

The setting up and the drawn-out process of selling his sleep medicine company.

What Russell means by “finishing the game” before moving to the next one.

Stride and the “zone of genius”.

The value of time. How outsourcing is so important.

Russell’s ultramarathons.

Living in Costa Rica.

The importance of relationships and building space.

Geographic independence and Russell’s livelihood.

Working through Russell’s daughter's transgender needs.

To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: workhardplayhardpodcast.com

Work Hard Play Hard is a production of Crate Media

Today’s Topic: Building success, often over a long time, is the key to achievement.

 

If you climb a mountain you begin at the bottom, right? Then when you reach the peak, you know you’ve earned it. You can reap the rewards. However, that can take time. Today Kim and I talk about the effort you need to make to start any entrepreneurial journey and to understand that you need to gradually build your platform for success.

 

As Kim says, you need to pick the lane, the niche, that you want to be known for to start. Then branch out as necessary, move into associated areas. Kim says this isn’t always the case with people she sees, they tend to be scattered rather than focused.

 

I talk about listening to your intuition. The story about the fire chief understanding when an evacuation is needed immediately is a case in point. It’s when something doesn’t feel right. We all have this and need to listen to it. It’s a survival mechanism.

 

People often look at successful entrepreneurs and think if they copy them, they too will have success. What they don’t see is the often years of intuition built up through experience that someone needs to have to make those right decisions.

 

It’s about the hard work that goes into building the success, climbing the mountain. Over time we developed deep relationships with people. I talk about the importance of not judging every moment, of letting it be. As Kim says, look at the wider view, the foundations that have been laid in a project for a successful future.

 

So, don’t judge the moment, she adds. Trust your thought, trust your intuition. Keep going, don’t let fear stop you. 

 

Sometimes the bigger the success, the longer the journey. Good luck!

Resources:

• Mastermind: workhardplayhardpodcast.com/mastermind
• Connect with us on Instagram: @kimmurgatroyd | @robmurgatroyd
• Thinking Fast and Slow
• Malcolm Gladwell

Today’s Topic: Building success, often over a long time, is the key to achievement.

As an only child, food was love to Daniel’s Italian parents, however he also resorted to food as an emotional crutch. I talk to him about how important this emotional attachment people place on food is and how this insight helped him form his own wellness company to coach people.

 

To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: workhardplayhardpodcast.com/Podcast

 

Resources:

• Evolution Eat
• The Paleo Solution — Robb Wolf
• William Morris Endeavour
• The Art of Learning
• Leaving the Atocha Station — Ben Lerner
• Daniel Thomas Hind

Work Hard Play Hard is a production of Crate Media