Too many people major in minor things. Anyone who responds with “busy” every time you ask them how they’re doing is likely not a productive asset to their company. Why are people busy? It’s typically an inability to prioritize, a refusal to delegate, and an unwillingness to tackle the hardest tasks. So they fill their day moving paper around and responding to emails while the wealthy focus on a few big things and ruthlessly cut everything out of their schedule.

In this episode, we dive into the psychological barriers involved with “busy” people and talk about how you can switch your focus.

Bud Light became the subject of future business school case studies when it alienated a significant portion of its core customer base. By some estimates, the mistake could cost the king of beers up to $5,000,000,000. With one decision, Bud Light handed millions of cases of beer over to Miller Lite and Coors Lite.

In this episode, we offer free advice on what Bud Light should do in response to this all-time bomb of a campaign, and we also look at the moves its competitors should focus on.

Most new managers try to "fix" every poor performer. This is part ego and part naivety that everyone can be "fixed." But these employees suck up your time as a manager and keep you from spending time with your best performers. And when these managers are finally forced to fire their first employee, they rarely look back and think it was too fast.

So how do you know when it is time to cut someone loose? We dive into this topic using our personal experiences as managers and executives.

The Ostrich Effect explains the peculiar phenomenon where people stick their heads in the sand during lousy times, ignoring troubling information easily accessible to them. Put differently, FOFO (fear of finding out) can be more dangerous than FOMO (fear of missing out).

Whether you are new to an office, leading a new team, or working in sales, connecting with people is critical. And most people are doing it all wrong.

In this episode, we bust out a cheat code to help you build a relationship with anyone in five minutes or less.

The dominos are falling, and it's starting to feel a lot like 2008 again. With SVB, Signature, and Credit Suisse making news for the wrong reasons, Frank and Ian look to lessons from the past and talk about how the latest banking crisis is informing their investment decisions.

*Disclosure: Frank and Ian are knuckleheads, not financial advisors. These are opinions and should not be mistaken for advice. You also shouldn't take fantasy football or dieting advice from our hosts either.

We built a bracket of 64 all-time party anthems and decided on a winner.

The Criteria:

• It could be any genre (rock, country, hip-hop, R&B, pop)
• It could be any kind of party (rager, backyard bbq, wedding, tailgate)

**Please note that our list is light on pop music from the past 15 years and highly biased.

***This episode has nothing to do with business, investing, careers, sales/marketing, markets, real estate, or anything remotely intelligent. But it does answer our show's guiding star question, "Is it fun?"

We brought in Indiana's #1 realtor, Jeff Paxson, to help us with the best responses to the most common sales objections. In a March Madness-style bracket, we pit objections against each other, moving on to those that we consider the most difficult to handle. We debate the best responses to "Your fees are too high," "Can you call me back next month," "I had a bad experience with your company before," "Your online reviews are terrible," and more!

Behind every inspirational story at the Super Bowl was a long list of personal failures, setbacks, and losses. The top names in the biggest game rose to prominence by building off each failure. In this episode, we look at how failure can be used as a fuel rather than a black mark on your career.

"I either win, or I learn. But I never lose."

~Jalen Hurts, quarterback of the Philadelphia Eagles (losers of Super Bowl LVII)

The future looked bright for one highly recruited high school football contract. And then he made history with the largest licensing deal offered to a recruit before signing with the University of Florida. As soon as he took the money, things fell apart. In this episode, we look at the pressure and expectations of landing life-changing money.