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Who listening to this podcast ep doesn’t love money? With it, we can buy ANYTHING our mind desires! Chipotle Burrito Bowl, Black Range Rover, house in the LA hills, private jet flight down to Cancun… you pickin’ up what I’m putting down? No matter if you have $5 in your savings or $5 Million… we ALWAYS need to make every dollar count. It’s the only way we’ll ever reach financial freedom. 

Topics : 

• Starting to work at the age of 12 for my uncle at a Garden Center
• • Greatest lesson I learned : the value of a dollar bill
• Past jobs
• • Dairy / Frozen Food Assistant, Clerk & Bagger at Big Y World Class Market
  • Sales Associate for Finish Line & was top 10% North East Sales Associates
  • Mgmt Intern for H.L Foster Company (Rebar biz)
  • Marketing Intern for SnapApp (Marketing Platform)
  • Professional Driver for Uber - TOP 2% in the world of 2018 with a sticker to prove it
• Money Management Lessons I’ve learned :
• • (1) Live Below Your Means
  • • You must NOT spend more money than you earn
    • Doing so allows me to use extra cash that I haven’t SPENT to pay off debt, invest in my future or simply put into savings
  • (2) Wants vs Needs
  • • Budget out monthly income & expenses
    • Before making a purchase I ask myself : Do I NEED this or is it simply something I WANT but could live without?
    • Rationalizing purchases that are investments in ME
  • (3) Build Credit
  • • Using credit cards like debit cards helps build that credit WAAAAY UP!
    • Having great credit allows us to buy things that we don’t have the financial cash up front to pay for
  • (4) Stack That PAPER & Invest In The Future
  • • Just because I have the money doesn’t mean I need or have to spend it!
    • Saving up cash for unexpected costs that may come in the future
    • Finding ways such as stock investments, retirement accounts, rental property etc that can make US money
• Challenge for the listeners
• • Take some time this week to sit down and write out
  • • Monthly income
    • Monthly expenses
    • Monthly “play money”
  • Now that you can see all of this in front of you, create a budget to work off of that can help you better manage your money!
• Questions from The BMC
• • Ben Bradford : Do you do any money mgmt around food, diet & meal prep?
  • Job : How do you decide what you’re worth?

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Felix Huettenbach is the Founder of Sameday Health. Since the launch of the company in September of 2020, the team has scaled to 800+ employees in 13 states.

Topics : 

• Inspiration for launching Same-Day Testing to help battle Covid-19
• In depth explanation of what PCR + Rapid testing is / how it works
• Breaking down headlines “1 and 3 LA residents have Covid” & “1 person dies every 6 minutes”
• Thoughts on the vaccine / why it was possible to create in less than a year / logistic issues with administering it 
• Herd Immunity & how it works
• When we should expect to feel a sense of “normalcy”
• The difference of Pandemic vs Endemic
• Same Day Testing launches in Sept 2020 with 1 location, 5 months later now has 800+ employees in 13 different states
• Every tube is a story
• Making the decision to leave his career at Quantgene to start Same Day Testing
• Process of getting the licensing to offer Covid testing
• Controlling every part of the testing process : testing, delivery to labs & processing lab results 
• Undergrad at Technische University (Technology Mgmt) & Graduate school at MIT (Entrepreneurship Mgmt) 
• Father was a PHD Physicist & Mother is a Software Engineer
• The word for 2021 for Felix : Sacrifice 
• Living at a Chinese Monastery for one year at age 10 to become a monk
• Adding more physical activity to his life is a priority
• Greatest strength : Effectiveness / Greatest weakness : Too focused
• Challenge for the listeners : How could you positively help the world given everything that is happening?

Connect with Felix!

Instagram : @FelixHutti

Want to work for Sameday Health?

Apply : Sameday-Testing.com

Want to open your own testing facility?

Email : [email protected]

Instagram : @SameDayTesting

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How many times have you said “yes” to something and regretted it? How many times have you put more time / effort / energy into other people rather than yourself? How many times have you felt anxious / overwhelmed trying to balance everything you’re involved with?

The key to avoiding all this madness is identifying what matters most to US, build routines so that we stay consistent & getting real good at saying NO!

Topics :

• Being a Top 2% Uber Driver taught me to build boundary walls around my time
• • Every ride meant more $$$ in my pocket, I was in control of when / how much I worked
• Without boundaries, it’s impossible to make progress in any bucket of our life
• • We’re going to be pulled in a million different directions
• Tips for Building Boundaries
• • (1) Identify What Matters Most to YOU
  • • When we start to break down where we want to spend our time, we can make better decisions about what to do & when
    • We’re cutting up our Cake of Time and making sure every piece is accounted for
  • (2) Schedule Important Routines
  • • Now that we’ve identified what matters most to US, we can begin to plot when / where we should do something
    • They help us stay disciplined on a day to day, week to week or month to month basis 
    • They help us create the motivation to do “x” because we don’t have ANY energy to debate when to do it
  • (3) Hand Out “NO” Cards Unapologetically
  • • Rule of thumb : If something doesn’t completely excite you & it’s NOT an immediate yes… say no
    • The secret to saying no is how you communicate it
    • Saying no creates more space for us to say yes to the things that do matter
  • (4) Reevaluate The Walls When Needed
  • • Our priorities / goals change with time just as we do
    • I’m constantly evaluating the walls that I’ve built around myself to see if
    • • They’re standing strong
      • If they need some patching up
      • Or if they need to be completely torn down
• Challenge for the listeners 
• • Take 10 minute today to identify what matters the most to YOU
  • Once you have that list, ask yourself if you have these tasks committed on your calendar & if not - start today
• Questions from the BMC
• • Eric D : Talk about Essentialism 

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Kasey Stewart is a creative / director. He's the fastest person to touch all 7 continents 92 hours, 4 minutes & 19 seconds.

Topics :

• The mindset from spending 10+ years in the creative space : Never get pigeonholed 
• Selling everything he owned, leaving financial stability at his job & traveling the world for 1.5 years
• Learning to be independent being raised with 5 siblings in Tulsa, Oklahoma
• Becoming the fastest person to touch all 7 continents in 92 hours, 4 minutes & 19 seconds
• Challenging himself to 100 days of consistent vlogs to get better quick 
• 2 top bucket list items : Go to Rwanda to sit with Silverback Gorillas & swim with Humpback Whales in Tonga
• Following our curiosity leads us to experiencing new things 
• Roading tripping the western part of the US during the pandemic 
• Helping build Adventure Aide (now The Idea Factory) an outdoor / experience service app
• Work corporate careers, be a sponge & soak it all in
• Biggest challenge of being the founder of StewHouse Media : Having to do everything
• Documenting the Liquid I.V. CTW Investor Round in 2019 with Gary Vee, Kevin Hart, DJ Khaled, Scooter Braun etc
• Working with Zac & Dylan Efron on their YouTube Series “Off The Grid”
• Launching Sucerz, a lollipop company with functional ingredients this year
• Wanting to self-fund documentary projects in the future
• Friendship turned into a relationship and has helped make him a better person
• Be comfortable with being uncomfortable, it leads to growth
• Be Ready for The Flip
• The one defining trait all successful people have
• Experience working with Jay Shetty
• Area of Kasey’s life he needs to put more effort into : Building more routine into his life
• “The way you do anything is the way you do everything”
• Challenge for the listeners : Do something that makes you extremely uncomfortable

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Instagram : @Kasey

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Have you ever been too caught up with the thoughts in your head and allowed them to make you feel unhappy? Have you ever felt anxious waking up on a Monday morning thinking of everything ahead of you this week? Have you ever noticed that you have so many good things going for you in your life but yet you still seem to NOT be fulfilled?

Good news - there’s a solution to all of this & it’s called meditation!

Topics :

• Completing 100 days of consistent meditation & how it made me feel
• How I first got introduced to meditation
• 5 ways mediation has positively impacted my life
• • Dialed In On The Present Moment
  • • Not worried about anything other than what is in front of me right NOW
  • Not Stressed On What I Can’t Control
  • • I can only control how I react to situations
  • Unattached To My Thoughts
  • • Whether good or bad I don’t allow myself to dig DEEP into thoughts
    • We need to become a Master Observer 
  • Greater Appreciation For Stillness
  • • Some of my greatest growth has been from not doing anything & instead reflecting
  • More Gratitude For Life
  • • There is no such thing as a Happiness Destination, I need to be thankful for where I am TODAY
• Questions from The BMC
• • Leslie Hughes : How long did it take for you to see benefits? What were some of them?
  • Ray Vans : Do you focus on a mantra or anything specific other than your breathing?
  • Natalya Haddix : Does mediation help avoid burnout?
  • Darrian_Morgan : When do you meditate? 
• Challenge for the listeners 
• • Add 10 minutes of mediation into your day for the next week
• Pod Review of the Week
• • Dan Glamack

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Alyssa Hobert is a waitress at Brown Dog Deli in Charleston, South Carolina.

She’s also my little sister - uh ohhhhh.

Topics :

• Recording the podcast in the bedroom we grew up in
• Nostalgia of being home for Christmas
• Brother / Sister relationship growing up
• Becoming the only child home when I left for college
• Being grateful to grow up in Chicopee, MA & what it taught her
• Experience of being raised by our Mom & Dad aka Bird
• Struggles of being a woman
• Transferring high schools after her junior year
• Favorite childhood memories 
• Choosing to move to Charleston, SC after feeling stuck
• Putting herself into the wrong environments
• What moving away from your hometown teaches you
• Both of our dating experiences growing up
• Having her best friend turn into her boyfriend
• No one person should be your only form of happiness
• Biggest lessons I’ve taught her : hard work & power of mindset
• Stay focused on your own lane
• Top of her bucket list : Run across the field at Fenway Park
• Putting more effort into art / creating
• The first time she lied to me
• Most embarrassing Bobby story
• Challenge for the listeners : If you’re feeling stuck, stop questioning yourself & make the necessary change

Connect with Alyssa Hobert

Instagram : @LyssaHobes

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Not a runner? No problem, you’re in good hands. I think we’ve all been guilty of comparing ourselves to other people at some point in time. The verdict : no bueno. What’s helped me stop doing it is realizing I’m in a race against MYSELF! We’re all running our own separate marathons where it’s US vs US. So long as we keep going and we don’t stop, we WILL get the gold!

Run at your own pace.

• Topics :
• • We all fall for the comparison trap and we compare ourselves to other people
  • We’re running a marathon that only WE can participate in / only WE can win
  • Tips for staying focused on running our own race at our own pace:
  • • The Warm Up 
    • • Make sure before you start off the day with work / all the other madness, get your mind + body RIGHT
      • Workout, read a book, meditate, journal - spend the first 60 mins on YOU!
    • Study The Route
    • • Regardless of your interests / goals / industry, study the people who’ve ran a similar route before you
      • The answers are out there for FREE!! Learn from the experts & pull from their experience when you need it
    • One Foot In Front Of The Other
    • • Similar to 1% growth per day, focus on the small daily tasks you have in front of you TODAY
      • May not seem like a lot but it WILL stack up with time
      • Look up and see where you’re headed once in a while but keep your head down and GO!
    • Rest When Needed
    • • Listen to your mind + body and reset when you need it the most
      • You’ll come back sharp, rested, inspired & excited
  • Challenge for the listeners : Which section do you need to put more effort into?
  • Question from The BMC
  • • Jordan Tarver : How do you go at your own pace while making sure that pace is still pushing the needle?

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Dalton Misner is a visual content creator / storyteller. 

Topics

• Reflecting on the first podcast we did in June of 2019
• Making the leap & moving to LA / problems within the first year of living in the city
• Covid leading him to a dark / negative headspace
• Recognizing his thoughts weren't actually true
• No longer seeking career opportunities as approval for self worth 
• You never know what is going on in someone’s mind
• Writing out a “to do” list the night before helps set intention for the next day
• The benefits of making the least amount of decisions per day
• Setting boundaries around his goals helps him say yes or no to an opportunity
• Using all of your senses to be present in the moment
• Experience working with Logan Paul
• Whim Hoff trip with Lewis Howes, Mike Posner, Aubrey Marcus, Mathew Hussey, Jesse Itzler
• Finding happiness within vs getting it from someone
• Story behind his tattoos
• Putting more effort in taking care of himself
• Lesson he learned in 2020 : Only letting people into his life for who he is & not what he does
• We’re Not Really Strangers Question : What question are you trying to answer most in your life right now?
• Challenge for the listeners : Reach out & show appreciation to people you haven’t spoken to in awhile

Connect with Dalton!

Instagram : @DaltonMisner

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2021… WE HERE!!! Had an incredible 2 weeks off during the holidays / new year but I’m fired UP to be back dropping some of the most slept on podcast content! Today I’m diving into the mindset / motto that I’m living by for the next 12 months : Open to Everything, Attached to Nothing.

I dare ya to join me.

Topics :

• Choosing this as the motto / mindset for 2021
• Part 1 : Open to Everything
• • Ignoring the voice in my head of yes or not and instead just do
• Part 2 : Attached to Nothing
• • I want to let go & just go with the flooooow
• What has helped me live an open-minded lifestyle
• • Surrounding myself with an open-minded community 
  • • People that encourage you to DO the things you want
  • Follow your Curiosity
  • • You can’t be great to start, you HAVE to start in order to become great
  • Fail Forward
  • • Mistakes help better prepare us for the future
  • Your Mind is Your Worth
  • • We’re unattached to all material items and the uncontrollables 
• Challenge for the listeners : Ask yourself, how can you become a more open-minded individual? Change up the community? Follow your curiosity? Fail forward instead of not trying?
• Questions / Topics from The BMC
• • Kevin Loganshim : Importance of challenging beliefs?
  • Kris Gibbs : Open-mindedness creates room for empathy  
  • Cas : Is travel, especially international, helpful at developing an open-mind?

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Alexis Xol is a tattoo artist based out of Rich Ink Tattoo shop in North Hollywood, CA.

Pod topics :

• First podcast we did in March of 2018
• Having a positive mindset & spreading it through her platform
• Importance of Black Lives Matter
• The upside of being a person of service to others
• Creating a space for her clients to feel comfortable
• Process of finding her creative style
• Handling situations where people copy, replicate & steal her work
• Tattooing celebrity / established clients
• Inspiration for free tattoo giveaway contest 
• How Covid has impacted her services
• Prioritizing balance over money / goals
• Lessons / takeaways from tattooing 
• Deciding to follow her artistic passion vs going to college
• Our mind can be our biggest enemy
• Working through creative blocks
• Manifesting a private studio space that’s hers in the future
• Trying to put more effort into physical health
• Deciding to quit smoking weed this year / the benefits of cutting it out
• Mindset she’s carrying with her into 2021 : being appreciative of her career
• Green flag / red flag of intimate relationships
• We’re Not Really Strangers Question : What would your younger self not believe about your life today?
• Challenge for the listeners : Have gratitude for the day you have ahead of you

Connect with Alexis!

Instagram : @Alexis_Xol

Website : AlexisXol.bigcartel.com

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