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Brandin Cohen is the Founder of Liquid I.V.

Topics :

• Reflecting on the past 8/9 years of Brandin’s life
• Spending 1 month in Kauai, Hawaii solo to disconnect & reground himself
• Sticking to daily routines to help him stay centered & sharp
• Commonality in leaders like Elon Musk, Albert Einstein, Kobe Bryant & Ben Franklin
• Remaining calm in stressful situations
• Building a team culture about Winning
• From selling 1 stick at a time to flavor collaborating with Justin Bieber
• Characteristics of building a $100+ Million Dollar Business
• 10+ month process of being acquired by Unilever
• Using his relationships for Chapter 2 of Change The World
• Focusing on Liquid I.V.’s growth vs worrying about an Exit Strategy
• Deciding to step down as CEO & start a new chapter
• Every situation is a winning decision or learning opportunity
• Liquid I.V. Guiding Principles
• Having two separate phones allows him to detach
• Post acquisition : Making sure LIV Team & everyone around him was set up for success
• Reprioritizing areas of his life & making lifestyle changes
• Focusing on health to be at his peak performance to operate at his highest level
• Morning routines : Journaling, yoga, peloton, weight / mobility training
• Afternoon routines : Red light laser bed, cyro & infrared sauna 
• Living the Mamba Mentality Mindset
• Story behind the note he wrote to his mom in 2006
• We can all Change The World by being the best version of ourselves
• Best advice from his father : Think for yourself + You can accomplish anything you set your mind to
• Book recommendation : Elon Musk : Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
• Area of his life he need to put more effort into : Following his curiosity with new experiences and being more open to love
• First step to reaching our inner potential : Just Start
• Challenge for the listeners : Start writing down the things that you’re feeling on a piece of paper or in a journal

Connect with Brandin!

Instagram : @Brandin_Cohen

Check out Liquid I.V.!

Instagram : @LiquidIV

Website : Liquidiv.com

Check out our previous podcasts!

Ep 99 of Purpose in the Youth (8/29/18)

Groupisode 3 of Purpose in the Youth (10/24/18)

Episode 5 of What They Don't See (10/2/19)

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Have you ever taken a second to think about “what helps make me happy daily?” Whether it’s a podcast you listen to, a group workout class you take a few times during the week or a book you read before falling asleep, what daily habits brings a smile to your face? Do you make sure to do these certain tasks daily for your well-being or do they just happen randomly & only sometimes?

It didn’t just appear overnight BUT there are 6 daily habits I do every-single-day that help my overall well-being. Are there days I don’t want to do them? Yes, but do I feel a difference when I create the motivation within and show up to do them? Absolutely!

Today I want to dive into how these habits have helped my well-being and how they all have become crucial for my health & happiness.

Topics :

• (1) Morning Motto  : Saying “Focus On The 24hrs Ahead” out loud grounds me in the present moment & helps me stay focused on the day ahead.
• (2) Physical Fitness : I’m addicted to Endorphins because I have seen the positive effects it has on my mind, body & soul
• (3) Meditation : Instead of reacting to situations I am able to respond appropriately because I am in control of my emotions.
• (4) Gratitude Journaling : It’s very easy to lose sight of all the good & this habit puts everything into perspective & sets good intentions for the day ahead.
• (5) Intellectual Stimulation : There’s always room to grow and I push to learn something new daily.
• (6)Dieting : Feeding myself the right foods gives my body the fuel to operate at it’s highest level.

Challenge for the listeners :

• Spend 10 minutes today and reflect on which daily habits make YOU feel your best and ask yourself : Am I prioritizing these habits or do they just show up whenever I feel like I can squeeze them in? Find ways to incorporate them into your daily schedule and DO NOT make excuses to not do them!

Questions from The BMC

• Jay : “Do you notice a huge difference working out in the morning with how you feel daily?”
• Heather : Is it bad to sleep in sometimes?

Pod Reviews Of The Week

• Tuck-Nasty

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Nick Dio is a Talent Manager at Vayner Talent.

Topics :

• Serendipity of life & business
• Finding gratitude in the small things daily
• Being excited for the life he lives today & where it’s going
• Getting through the rut by changing our perspective
• Being relentless to get his job working with Gary Vee
• Architecting the life we want to live
• Freezing up when first meeting Casey Neistat
• Getting ghosted during an interview process & what it taught him
• Different job roles leading up to Day 2,699 as a Talent Manager for Vayner Talent
• Applying kindness, compassion, patience & empathy when working with people
• We put ourselves in our own sandboxes
• Check boxes to be filled when looking for talent to partner with
• Building an audience / community online
• Importance of supporting creators
• Living a fitness lifestyle has impacted his mood, energy & outlook
• Business networking through fitness
• Lesson he learned in his 20’s & is taking with him into his 30’s :
• Experience of being with his girlfriend since 2017 & advice for those looking for a relationship
• Book recommendation : Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi / Podcast recommendation : Morning Brew
• Area of his life he needs to put more effort into : faith
• First step to reaching our inner potential : lean into your superpower
• Challenge for the listeners : If you listened to the podcast, Nick would love to chat! Email him : [email protected]

Connect with Nick!

Instagram : @NickDio

Twitter : @NickDiodato

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Have you ever wondered how or why some people surrounded themselves with all successful people? They worked for it. Are there people you can think of that you’ve tried in the past to “network” with and the relationship fell flat? No worries, it’s happened to all of us. Have you tried getting your foot in the door only for it to be slammed on? Ohhh yeah baby, it HURTS!

There is an art to networking & I believe if you have enough patience and can grab people’s attention, you can build a relationship with anyone.

Today’s podcast I hope to help you all not only get your foot in the door but also build genuine friendships along the way.

Topics :

• Whether you’re looking for a job, need help or just want to be in the right room with the right people… there is always a way.
• Lessons from networking when building genuine relationships with people :
• • (1) Plant The Seed : When it comes to getting the attention of someone, be creative. Send the cold e-mail, slide thru the DM and find a way to provide value to them. No matter what, be respectful and mindful of their time… they will appreciate that.
  • (2) Gently Water It : Once our foot is in the door, we need to be extremely gentle. We don’t ask for favors or ask them to connect us to their friend. We congratulate them along their journey, we step in when the opportunity arises and we find ways to help when appropriate.
  • (3) Watch It Grow : Genuine relationships take a long time to grow into something real. So long as we have patience and never overstep our boundary, it’ll grow into something beautiful with time.
• Challenge for the listeners
• • Text someone you connected with in the past 12 months & tell them how they inspire you within 3-4 sentences
• Questions from The BMC
• • Erick : How to maintain a relationship if you don’t live in the same city?”
  • Shlomo : “How to find the right contact info for the right people and how to cold start a conversation with them?”
  • Jonathan Williams : You’re moving to a new city, what’s the first thing you do?
• Pod Review of the week
• • PortugalFan08

Book recommendations

• The Third Door by Alex Banyan

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Cliff Weitzman is the CEO + Founder of Speechify, a text to speech mobile & desktop app.

Topics :

• Lifestyle changes due to the Pandemic
• Self coaching himself to believe he could do anything he put his mind towards
• Visualizing his future self
• Valuing people that can help complete thoughts
• Listening to 100+ audio books per year
• The benefits of listening & learning : Get through material faster & retain it better
• Best way to increase memory : stories
• Listening to books at 3.5x the speed
• Developing Speechify in college to solve his only problem
• It takes just as much effort to build a huge business as it does to build a small one
• Importance of building a business that creates value & impact
• Impact AirPods have on the audio industry / where the industry is headed
• Using Speechify customer data to recommend pieces relevant to them
• Struggling to sleep because of the excitement he has for his work
• Surrounded by a 5 person executive team & 36 full-time employees
• Setting long-term goals & having his team tell him what he needs to unblock to get there
• Speechify offering 30 different languages / voices with celebrity voices to come next
• Tricks to stay focused while listening intensely
• Daily routines : Count macros, live with people that are more motivated than you,
• Value in sending cold emails / DM’s
• Best ways to regain motivation : Calling his family or listening to Awaken The Giant Within by Tony Robbins
• Area of his life he needs to put more effort into : Music
• First step to reaching your inner potential : Listen to two audio books per month
• Challenge for the listener : Write down 30 goals you have for your life & collapse them into 3 folders
• Attributing a large portion of his success to being sober his entire life

Connect with Cliff!

Instagram : @CliffWeitzman

Book recommendations

Check out Speechify!

Website : Speechify.com

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Have you gone long periods of time without hooking up with someone and thought to yourself “What am I doing wrong?” Have you ever compared yourself to your friends who always seem to pop from one relationship to the next and you think "why aren’t I?" Have you ever wondered if you were EVER going to find “the perfect match” or maybe it seems like it’s never going to happen? Listen here folks, if there’s anyone that gets it… it’s ya boy BOBBBAAAAY!

I’m here to reassure you beautiful people that you’re smart, you’re unique and it’s NOT YOU… it’s the world buying you more time for yoooself!

Today I want to talk about what I learned from going 1000+ days without hooking up with any woman.

Topics :

• 1000+ days of celibacy created the space for me to double, triple & quadruple down on myself
• Every ounce of time, energy & emotion was reinvested into my ideas and what I thought I wanted to do with my life
• Some of the biggest lessons I learned : 
• • (1) Sex Is Cool, Chasing Dreams Is Better : I sacrificed short-term pleasure for long-term purpose driven fulfillment and I wouldn’t have it any other way because it gave me the space, time & energy to double down on myself.
  • (2) Our Happiness Is Not Found In Someone Else : Having that significant other should only enhance our happiness… it shouldn’t be our lifeline or the only way to put a smile on our face. Taking the time to find what makes US happy will allow us to then share it with a special someone when the time is right.
  • (3) We’re The Creator Of Our Story : We control whether we see a moment or situation in our life as something negative or positive. Instead of thinking I was unattractive or not intelligent because I wasn’t attracting women to me, I flipped the script and realized I was just busy doubling down on myself.

Challenge for the listeners

• Did any lesson resonate or sting the most? Pick one, grab a piece of paper / open your notes app and get reeeeeal
• • What changes can or should you make to better yourself & where you’re headed?

Questions from The BMC

• Sofia Kunz - Can “personal growth” be a subconscious defense mechanism to a romantic relationship?
• Src4.03 :  Topic = balance. How much is one willing to sacrifice? External influence helps shape one’s growth

Review of the Week

• Dhajaka

Book Recommendation

- Relentless by Tim Grover

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Steven Borrelli is the CEO + Founder of CUTS.

Topics:

• Whats kept the fire / passion alive : Creating a brand / movement for his future self
• Scaling from a 1 man dream team to a team of 26 people and implementing “Best Ideas Win” with the company
• Biggest challenge as a CEO / Founder : Maintaining culture while scaling the business
• Limiting Inbox time & using a whiteboard in his office help him stay focused on the day ahead of him
• Best advice for aspiring brands: Focus on community building
• “Always On” CUTS YouTube Series
• Playing catch with Mariano Rivera
• First CUTS pop up event in Seattle, WA
• How Kobe Bryant & Mamba Mentality impacted Steven
• Lessons he’s learned from Brandin Cohen, Founder of Liquid I.V.
• Important Routines / Habits : Bed by 8:30pm, drink lemon water, leaving phone outside of his bedroom, Sunrise alarm light
• Book recommendation : Measure What Matters by John Doerr
• Understanding our WHY drives results
• Needing to put more effort / time into his family
• Happiness his girlfriend Leslie has brought into his life
• First step to take to reach our inner potential : Be Yourself
• Challenge for the listeners : Write out what you want your life to look like when you’re 40 & work backwards how to get there

Connect with Steven!

Instagram : @StevenBorrelli

Check out CUTS!

Instagram : @Cuts

Website : CutsClothing.com

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Have you ever found yourself waking up being fully confident with the work you do & other days feel like you’re “not good enough”? Has there ever been days you question if you are on the right path or if this is all just a waste of time? Has a negative comment from someone ever made you contemplate if you should just give up?

I think a large majority of us have dealt with Imposter Syndrome without even realizing it. In my personal experience there’s only 1 way to beat it… by continuously doing the work.

Today we’re diving into how we can avoid Imposter Syndrome at all costs.

Topics :

• What is Imposter Syndrome?
• • It’s a psychological pattern in which an individual doubts their skills, talents or accomplishments and has a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a "fraud"
• Tips for beating Imposter Syndrome
• • (1) Do The Work : Remind yourself of WHY you started in the first place & continue to do it so long as you heart is in it
  • (2) Study The Game : Get inspired by others who’re doing it at a higher level & study their every move
  • (3) Stay Humble : No matter if we’re at the top of our careers or just getting started, stay humble every step of the way and more opportunities will come knocking on your door
• Challenge for the listeners : Anytime you question if you have the skills / talents remind yourself of these 3 words… DO THE WORK
• Pod reviews of the week :
• • Matt G
  • Aaron V

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Dr. Nicole LePera is trained in clinical psychology at Cornell University & the New School for Social Research. She also studied at Philadelphia School of Psychoanalysis. Her SelfHealers community has grown to 3M+ followers on Instagram (@the.holistic.psychologist). She’s the author of her brand new book How To Do The Work : Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self.

Topics :

• Defining Holistic Psychology : The interconnectedness between the mind, body & soul
• Learning to balance helping clients as well as her own personal needs
• Recognizing Patterns
• • First step in unlearning bad habits is being conscious & aware
  • Staying present allows us to leave the imagined worry of the future
  • Separating ourselves from the thoughts in our head start with small steps
• Heal From Your Past
• • Getting through our “dark souls of the night” is by listening to our messengers
  • Carrying our Inner Child with us throughout our life
  • Having gratitude for all the hurdles she’s had to overcome
• Create Your Self
• • Living our authentic lives by cultivating confidence through small daily promises
  • Taking care of ourselves first
  • Creating boundaries to operate at her highest level
  • Important daily self-care activities for a positive mindset : Future self journaling
• Common trait in her community of SelfHealers : Curiosity
• Best advice for finding love : Do the work of healing & become aware of our needs
• Area of her life to put more effort into : Understanding & sharing her emotions
• Challenge for the listeners : Pick two times in your day, set an alarm and ask yourself where your attention is

Connect with Dr. Nicole LePera!

Instagram : @the.holistic.psychologist

Website : YourHolisticPsychologist.com

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How many of you have woken up on a Monday morning to be met by an instant rush of anxiety thinking about what needs to get done in the week ahead? Have you ever felt stuck because you aren’t sure what to do next on the to-do list? Believe me when I say this…. Been in both situations and it’s NOT GOOD!

In the past month or so Ive gotten really dialed in on getting things done in a timely manner but also going to sleep knowing I gave the day my best… I gave it my all.

Today I want to help all of you prioritize so that you can make better use of your time and ultimately GET SHIT DONE!

Topics :

• Rocks vs Sand concept : Identify your top priorities (rocks) and your secondary priorities (sand)
• • When we understand what our rocks and sand are, we spend less energy trying to pick / choose what we should do next
• Tips for being productive daily
• • (1) Constantly Reevaluate The Rocks : Life happens & things change so reprioritize your to-do list as needed
  • (2) Shoot for 1-3 Small Wins Per Day : 1-3 small tasks done per day will stack up to one BIG leap in time
  • (3) Focus On The Task At Hand : Forget about what needs to get done tomorrow, worry about what’s in front of you right now
  • (4) Let The Weight Off Your Shoulders : Dismiss any pressure you put on yourself thinking that major changes need to happen NOW… have some patience
• Questions from The BMC
• • Connor Pletkin : What’s the first step in the process of getting something done timely?
• Challenge for the listener
• • Create your rocks & sand list today. Visualizing your to-do list makes a difference!

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