Is luck still evident today, or is it just a thing of the past? We see many people thriving in their careers, and we can’t help but wonder what their recipe for success is. Is it grit, optimism, resilience, or just sheer luck? <a href="https://www.maxborges.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Max Borges</a> is the founder of <a href="https://www.maxborgesagency.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Max Borges Agency</a>, a 50 person PR firm that focuses exclusively on consumer tech clients. Collecting wisdom and motivational insights from his growth journey, he compiled his learnings and wrote his book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Fan-f-cking-tastic-Practical/dp/B085RRZ7SL" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">How to be Fan-f*cking-tastic</a>. He shares with Adam Markel how he grew his namesake agency from a laptop on his kitchen table to a company generating $10 million in annual revenue. Tune in to learn more about how his optimism propelled him to rise through countless opportunities and achieve more success than he ever dreamed of. Show Notes: (Raw Audio)00:00:00 – Introduction00:05:27 – Making a list of great quotes00:08:00 – It ain’t rocket science00:11:00 - Resourced and resourceful00:15:11 - You need dead time to come alive00:17:46 - Imagination as a way to guide us today00:22:09 - Stripping away whatever the walls are00:27:55 - Definition of resilience00:32:37 – What resilient habits look like00:35:47 - Working from home00:38:41 - Opportunity to mentor people00:41:03 - Conclusion: How do you love your life?

Is luck still evident today, or is it just a thing of the past? We see many people thriving in their careers, and we can’t help but wonder what their recipe for success is. Is it grit, optimism, resilience, or just sheer luck? Max Borges is the founder of Max Borges Agency, a 50 person PR firm that focuses exclusively on consumer tech clients. Collecting wisdom and motivational insights from his growth journey, he compiled his learnings and wrote his book, How to be Fan-f*cking-tastic. He shares with Adam Markel how he grew his namesake agency from a laptop on his kitchen table to a company generating $10 million in annual revenue. Tune in to learn more about how his optimism propelled him to rise through countless opportunities and achieve more success than he ever dreamed of. Show Notes: (Raw Audio) 00:00:00 – Introduction 00:05:27 – Making a list of great quotes 00:08:00 – It ain’t rocket science 00:11:00 - Resourced and resourceful 00:15:11 - You need dead time to come alive 00:17:46 - Imagination as a way to guide us today 00:22:09 - Stripping away whatever the walls are 00:27:55 - Definition of resilience 00:32:37 – What resilient habits look like 00:35:47 - Working from home 00:38:41 - Opportunity to mentor people 00:41:03 - Conclusion: How do you love your life?

Is luck still evident today, or is it just a thing of the past? We see many people thriving in their careers, and we can’t help but wonder what their recipe for success is. Is it grit, optimism, resilience, or just sheer luck? <a href="https://www.maxborges.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Max Borges</a>&nbsp;is the founder of <a href="https://www.maxborgesagency.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Max Borges Agency</a>, a 50 person PR firm that focuses exclusively on consumer tech clients. Collecting wisdom and motivational insights from his growth journey, he compiled his learnings and wrote his book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Fan-f-cking-tastic-Practical/dp/B085RRZ7SL" rel="noopener noreferrer">How to be Fan-f*cking-tastic</a>. He shares with Adam Markel how he grew his namesake agency from a laptop on his kitchen table to a company generating $10 million in annual revenue. Tune in to learn more about how his optimism propelled him to rise through countless opportunities and achieve more success than he ever dreamed of.&nbsp;Show Notes: (Raw Audio)00:00:00 – Introduction00:05:27 – Making a list of great quotes00:08:00 – It ain’t rocket science00:11:00 - Resourced and resourceful00:15:11 - You need dead time to come alive00:17:46 - Imagination as a way to guide us today00:22:09 - Stripping away whatever the walls are00:27:55 - Definition of resilience00:32:37 – What resilient habits look like00:35:47 - Working from home00:38:41 - Opportunity to mentor people00:41:03 - Conclusion: How do you love your life?

Luck And Optimism: Turning Your Life Around With Max Borges

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Change happens. Resilience expert Adam Markel and his inspiring guests teach you how to embrace and leverage change in order to thrive. No matter what life throws your way. Change Proof explores breakthrough strategies to fully embrace an uncertain world and build the resilience required to turn stress, upset and even crisis to your advantage. Imagine being able to truly bounce forward through disruption and change instead of getting knocked down by it, riding it out, or simply reacting to it. Resilience is the secret key―the “it” factor―and the thing Change Proof host Adam Markel knows best. In his bestseller, PIVOT, Adam taught how building resilience can supercharge your life and career. Now, he shows how becoming Change Proof helps you move beyond managing change to actively embracing it — actually using times of uncertainty, crisis, and chaos to create opportunities and stimulate individual and team growth. Through insightful discussions with business leaders, social innovators and inspiring authorities, Resilience Expert Adam Markel uncovers and shares ways to utilize change, fully embrace new opportunities, master the art and science of innovation in today’s disruptive marketplace, and use your “disadvantages'' as stepping stones.  Whether you lead a team, pursue entrepreneurial passions or are looking to achieve a higher capacity in your performance and life, Change Proof is the place for life-changing stories, and real tools you can actually use―AND WILL WANT TO!  Change Proof is about thriving instead of just surviving. And this is a skill you can cultivate, both personally and professionally. Using case studies, current research, and real-life anecdotes from his work as an executive mentor, Markel and his guests explore concrete actions you can take in order to become “change proof” and change your relationship with change. Bestselling Author, Renowned Keynote Speaker, Business Mentor, and CEO, Adam Markel has accomplished plenty and checked life’s “success boxes” and all of that work showed him something very profound about life in general―it’s not always about that. You can have success and still be unhappy. You can be in charge and still have stress. You can build your dream and not feel fulfilled. Change Proof goes beyond the topical, beyond the check boxes, beyond the list of things we think we’re supposed to be doing, to uncover the layer where our performance, peace and happiness exist. When we think of resilience, we think of being able to “roll with the punches” and “bounce back” after uncertainty or change. But Resilience Expert and Researcher Adam Markel encourages you to aim higher. Change Proof is a show that will teach you how to truly, actually embrace change―to find the creative opportunity in uncertainty, as opposed to simply riding it out or reacting to it.  Let’s get real. You could be aiming higher. You could be thriving instead of surviving. You could be hitting back when life throws punches―instead of dodging and ducking. And there is no better time than right now to take back your life and to love it, no matter what.  Change Proof isn’t just a podcast, it’s a life philosophy that shows you how to truly, actually embrace change―to find the silver lining, use uncertainty to your advantage, and pivot when life is stressful, into something that serves you instead of something that stops you.  Drop into weekly episodes so full of the good stuff you won’t hear on any other show, you’ll be binging and growing instead of watching those reruns of Friends you’ve already seen anyway. When you tune in, you will learn how to thrive on uncertainty instead of merely managing it. This is where it begins, this is where you stop running from pivots and learn to love leaning into them, even when you aren’t sure of the outcome.  Through Change Proof, Adam Markel offers a much needed dose of energy, HEART and real talk to your day, making this a show experts call “bingeable” and “a must listen".

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