Into the Action

If youre hunched over your computer with a constant tension tingling down your back... this episode is for you.

Jonathan Mead is an entrepreneur, writer and coach whos helped people do the work they love with his program, Paid to Exist, since 2010. He’s been featured in publications like Forbes, Business Insider, Copyblogger, Zen Habits and Fast Company.

Lately hes been following his own advice and transitioning to a new business as a body and movement coach, helping people say good-bye to their aches and pains to instead feel comfortable and confident in their body.

Heres what youll learn in this episode:

The approach Jonathan is taking to his new business

How he is growing his new business while sustaining his old one

What powers Jonathan through his difficult days

Simple techniques you can immediately apply to get more healthy movement in your day

The 2 primal movements your body needs but is probably not getting

How Jonathan plans his months, weeks and days (even though hes not a planner)

Links

Jonathans video on squatting and hanging: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_OIHUUb1tQ

Coach Me: coach.me

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Srini Rao is the unmistakable host of the Unmistakable Creative Podcast.

Hes interviewed over 500 creatives of all kinds including Tim Ferris, Seth Godin, Glenn Beck and way more guests you havent heard of but have just as much to share.

His show has over 400 5-star ratings on iTunes and gets tens of thousands of listens per episode.

Srini has also wrote The Art of Being Unmistakable, an Amazon best seller and even created a 2-day live event called the Instigator Experience.

Heres what youll learn in this episode:

Why Srini avoids his computer at all costs in the morning

The mental approach he uses to write 1000 words every day

The technique he uses to create big results from small actions

What Srini did differently the year his success really took off

The strategy he uses to set and achieve his goals

How Srini naturally built his all-star team

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Ive admired Pam Slim since the very first time I heard her speak at the World Domination Summit in 2011.

Shes an award-winning author (of Escape from Cubicle Nation and Body of Work), speaker and business consultant whos worked with companies like Charles Schwab, Office Depot and Infusionsoft.

She has so much to teach and thats why Im so excited to have her on Into the Action.

In this episode youll learn:

How Pam uses her assistant to get and stay in flow with her work

How Pam organizes her day and week to stay on top of a variety of tasks

What the resistance looks like for her and how she overcomes it

The detailed process of how she put together her latest book

The weirdest thing about how she works

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Last year Shenee Howard took the stage at Pioneer Nation and blew me away with her liveliness, out-of-the-box ideas and most of all her determination to take action. Thats why Im so excited to have her on Into the Action.

Shenee is, as she calls it, a brand chemist who helps entrepreneurs speak the language of their customers. She consults with clients one on one in addition to selling her own brand-building products on her site, heyshenee.com.

In this episode youll learn:

The simple daily structure Shenee uses to optimize for freedom

The details of how Shenee built a lead-generating brand chemistry quiz (that can genuinely help you)

Why she talked to 100 different people on Skype and why you should too

The few tools that actually help her consistently stay productive

How Shenee confidently knows what advice to take and what to ignore

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There are a few parts of business that simply feel like magic to me. Can you guess what they are?

Marketing and developing effective teams.

It just so happens that Laura Roeder is an expert at both of those. Thats why Im so excited to have her on the show.

Laura has been building her own businesses since she was 22. She was passionate about truly crafting the Along the way she became an expert and developing teams, leveraging systems and most of all, effective marketing.

She packaged that knowledge into training courses for small businesses at LKR Social Media and is currently focused on her new software startup, Edgar.

In This Episode Youll Learn:

How Laura is growing Edgars following from scratch

How she plans her days and weeks for maximum effectiveness

Why Laura doesnt have to manage the productivity of her team

Her strategies for finding the best employees for her business

Lauras simple and straight-forward method for getting unstuck and frustrating tasks

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In this episode we talk with author, world-traveler, event-creator, entrepreneur and more, Chris Guillebeau.

Chris is the best-selling author of 3 books (heres his latest) and is working on his fourth.

He writes every single day at his blog, chrisguillebeau.com which he started 7 years ago in 2008.

In 2011, he founded the World Domination Summit, an annual conference held every summer in Portland, Oregon that brings 3000 attendees together in the name of Community, Adventure and Service.

And, oh yeah, Chris also has traveled to every country in the world. Literally all 193 of them.

Heres what youll learn in this episode:

Why Chris doesnt use a fixed routine for his day and what he does instead

The simple (ok, really simple) system Chris uses to capture ideas

How he deals with anxiety before a speaking gig

How Chris consistently creates products, experiences and writing that resonates with his audience

Plus, the weirdest thing about how Chris works

Thanks to Ronald Jenkees for his permission to use his track Alphanumeric as the theme for Into the Action

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At then end of the day, productivity all comes down to psychology. So how does a psychotherapist work? What about a psychotherapist entrepreneur?

Thats a question we were finally able to answer after talking with Peter Shallard a psychotherapist who now focuses on helping entrepreneurs do their best work and runs his own company, Commit Action that pairs customers with trained accountability coaches.

In this episode youll learn:

Peters strategy for planning his weeks and days for maximum impact on his business

Why Peter frequently heads to the Turkish bathhouse nears his apartment... and calls it work

How Peters experience as a therapist can help you in your own meetings and conversations

Why its important to manipulate your brain if you want to do your best work

What you should focus on instead of trying to become more productive

Thanks to Ronald Jenkees for his permission to use his track Alphanumeric as the theme for Into the Action

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Nathan is a designer and developer who grew a following when he started teaching everything he knows. He’s released 2 successful courses on design, a book called Authority and is currently building a tool to help authors with their e-mail marketing called ConvertKit.

In this episode we’ll go into the strategies Nathan uses to get so much done, learn a wide variety of skills as well as the behind-the-scenes of how hes been approaching his latest projects.

In this episode youll learn:

The 2 most important strategies Nathan uses to consistently stay productive

The areas of business he spends time on every day to ensure success

How Nathan organizes his tasks and chooses what to focus on

Nathans mindset on marketing that makes it easier to approach and much more effective (his results prove it!)

The challenge and benefits of focusing his latest product on a specific, targeted audience

A powerful insight that helps Nathan get feedback from people most qualified to give it

Plus: the weirdest thing about how he works

Thanks to Ronald Jenkees for his permission to use his track Alphanumeric as the theme for Into the Action

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James Clear is an entrepreneur, writer, weight-lifter and travel photographer whose captured photos in over 20 countries. 

His writing has appeared in Fast Company, the Huffington Post, Entrepreneur.com, Lifehacker and much more. Over 100,000 people are signed-up at http://jamesclear.com to receive his twice weekly articles on behavior-change and habit-development.

In this episode we’ll go into the core principles that drive James as well as the nitty-gritty details of how he does so much at such a high-level.

In this episode youll learn:

Why James avoids time management and what he manages instead

How he sets up his environment to make doing his best work easy

How to achieve (or at least approach) mastery in several disciplines

The specific system he uses to handle his emails and stay on-top of his inbox

The system he now uses (after many iterations) to manage his employees

An insane number of great analogies to keep you focused on what matters

The weirdest thing about how he works

Thanks to Ronald Jenkees for his permission to use his track Alphanumeric as the theme for Into the Action

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For our first episode of Into the Action we had on the incredible Jenny Blake!

Jenny graduated college with a double-major in just 3 years before going to work at a startup in Silicon Valley. She then moved on to Google where she worked for 5 years.

She set off on her own when the success of her blog, Life After College, continued to grow and she published a book by the same name.

Right now she’s working on a new book, the Pivot Method, as well as a meditation app she cofounded called Lucent. She’s also the Director of Operations for an urban-farming startup in Brooklyn called Spring Ups.

Shes amazing and I loved digging into how she produces such great work.

In this episode youll learn:

How planning gave Jenny the freedom to live her unconventional life

The way she approaches new skills shes learning

What Jenny does to keep her momentum going on days when shes in a funk

What the resistance looks like for her and how she deals with it

A strategy she used to become more productive than ever during her busiest months

The details of the writing system shes using for her latest book

The weirdest thing about how she works

Thanks to Ronald Jenkees for his permission to use his track Alphanumeric as the theme for Into the Action

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