Keeping yourself productive is one of the biggest challenges for the entrepreneur, especially if you’ve been used to working in a different environment previously. Being your own boss can easily end up being just like having an extremely lenient boss who lets you spend all day browsing cat videos on YouTube without getting dressed, until […]

I often say that being an entrepreneur requires a certain amount of bravery – you have to be willing to step out of your comfort zone and take action if you want to see success. But on today’s podcast we have a guy who’s braver than most. Kevin Maurer is a military reporter and the […]

A lot of us entrepreneurs are perfectionists – we all want to be the absolute best possible version of ourselves. And this often manifests itself in the various diets and exercise fads we end up following – paleo, raw food, long-distance running, and so on. But can we go too far when it comes to […]

Mitch Axelrod and I were recently thrown together in some slightly odd circumstances regarding a cruise I had to miss out on – you’ll hear more about that at the start of the podcast. The situation may have been a little random, but sometimes these strange happenings bring us great benefits, and that’s certainly what […]

One of the greatest things about becoming an entrepreneur and living the freedom lifestyle is the ability to go anywhere, anytime. Most of us dream about travelling and seeing the world, but it can seem like a faraway fantasy when you’re stuck in a day job. Sabrina Iovino is one person who wasn’t prepared to […]

We’ve all seen those movies and TV shows where the hypnotist swings his pocketwatch from side to side, puts another character in a trance, and gets them to do whatever he wants – until, with a click of the fingers, they’re awake again and have no recollection that they were pretending to be a chicken […]

Jakob Lovstad is a great friend of mine and a big influence on my thinking over the past few years. It’s for that reason that I’m very excited about this week’s Hardcore MBA, because Jakob has agreed to take the time to talk to us all about his interesting past (how many of us can […]

Mike Michalowicz is a funny guy, and funny guys can usually get away with being a little less serious about their work because their natural charisma pulls them through. Mike, however, is not like that. It’s rare to meet a guy who can be as light-hearted as he is while also providing an in-depth analysis […]

It can be hard to find great guests for Hardcore MBA sometimes – people who have walked the walk rather than just talking the talk. So I’ve been looking forward to having Dan Pena on the show since the day we arranged it, because he is the definition of walking the walk – after all, […]

Evan Carmichael is one of the biggest names in entrepreneurship today. He’s been featured in global publications like the New York Times, Forbes, and The Wall Street Journal. And he is the dictionary definition of a guy who walks the walk as well as he talks the talk. He’s worked in software entrepreneurship, venture capital, […]