Podcast Notes Playlist: Latest Episodes

You need to raise money, develop judgment over time and gain access to the right deals.

As the hits get bigger, it makes more sense to invest and a little less sense to start companies.

t’s an ultra-competitive market out there. David Perell and his North Star team know how to use social media and technology to help their clients communicate and grow.

Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• Persuasion, discipline, and drive is a WICKED combination
• “I love founders. I love these people; I love entrepreneurs… Boy do they solve a lot of problems and make humanity better, and the state of humanity has NEVER been better.”
  • Even the most impoverished people today are better off than middle class/wealthy people were ~100 years ago
• Jason’s podcast player of choice: Overcast
  • “Spotify and Overcast are the two best”
• Jason’s favorite podcasts:
  • Against the Rules with Michael Lewis
  • “If you’re on the left, you should listen to Ben Shapiro; if you’re on the right, you should listen to Rachel Maddow’s podcast“
  • Jason was a huge fan of Missing Richard Simmons and is bummed at its cancellation
  • CAFE Insider
  • The Kevin Rose Show 
  • The Moment with Brain Koppelman 
  • The Naval Podcast 
  • Making Sense with Sam Harris 
  • Recode Media with Peter Kafka
  • Reliable Sources with Brian Stelter
  • The Tim Ferriss Show
  • Under the Skin with Russel Brand

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In this episode, Skye interviews entrepreneur and angel investor Jason Calacanis. Jason, who is Skye's boss, also hosts two podcasts, This Week in Startups and Angel. Before this interview was recorded, Jason told Skye she could ask him anything — and she took him up on that. The pair discuss: 

• Jason's rollercoaster childhood;
• What drove him to get out of Brooklyn;
• The wild ups and downs of his entrepreneurial career;
• How he got into podcasting;
• Why a network TV show featuring Jason was axed;
• Why Skye thinks Jason is just a teensy bit Trumpian;
• His favorite podasts.

Watch Jason practice Taekwondo as a wee young man here. 

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Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• Formula 5 | The 5 Step-Formula for Business Success:
  • Improve lead generation
  • Improve conversion
  • Improve margin 
  • Monetize the customer
  • Master systematization, prioritization, and use of time
• How to Improve Monetization:
  • Every business needs to constantly be asking – “Are we doing the most to create value for the customer”
  • A few more good questions to ponder:
    • “What value is a customer trying to satisfy when they purchase our product? Is there anything else I can provide that would help them obtain that value?”
    • “What else does a person who’s thinking about X need that I can also help them with?”
  • The main point – Most businesses sell 1 product to 1 group 1 time… and that’s it. They’re missing out on a lot of money!
• How to Improve Conversion:
  • Always be testing a different conversion path
    • Where do you start testing? – Attack the step in your sales process where you’re losing the most leads by volume
    • You DON’T have to test just one thing at a time
• How to Master Systemization & Prioritization
  • Ask the following:
    • “Am I using my time as best as I can?”
    • “Across the board, are things being done in a way that allows me to produce a consistent result with the least amount of time?”
  • The two requirements for scaling a business:
    • Make it so the business can run without you
    • As you grow your business, the costs associated with certain processes/systems should go down

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Roland Frasier got to sit down and dig into conversation with Paul Lemberg, a renowned business coach, and author who, simply put, helps entrepreneurs make more money.

Paul has consulted with Fortune-100 companies like Cisco, Adobe, IBM, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan/Chase, Mass Mutual, and Accenture, but his real and true passion is helping small business owners and CEOs to double and triple their profits, and will sometimes grow their companies more than 10-fold.

So whether you're a scrappy upstart with no systems in place, or a train in motion ready to scale, this episode has lots of value for the process, nuts, bolts and strategy of scaling up. For more from Paul Lemberg, visit his website here.

”Most people sell one product to one group one time. That’s it!... They’re missing the 10x they’d get if they bothered to monetize the customer.”-Paul Lemberg

Listen For

• Pauls Two requirements for recognizing scalability in any business
• What is worth Testing
• How to master pricing
• The steps entrepreneurs & salespeople miss time and time again
• How to improve lead generation
• How to improve conversion
• How to improve your margin
• How to better monetize the customer
• How to master Systemization & Prioritization (and the use of your time)
• …And a plan for the beginning when things are ‘scrappy' and too early to systematize
• How to make it so your business can run without you - even if you’re an artist!

Plus,

Four Questions every business needs to constantly be asking:

1) Are we doing the most to create value for the customer?

2) What value is a customer trying to satisfy when they purchase our product? - Is there anything else I can provide that would help them obtain that value?

3) What else does a person who's thinking about X need that I can also help them with?

4) What’s the capacity of this business to deliver more of what it's got without investing more in?”

“You want consistent and predictable results so that no matter who's running the process/system in your business it works out roughly the same way.” Paul Lemberg 

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References and Links Mentioned:

Always Be Testing by Bryan Eisenberg 

Be Like Amazon

Waiting for Your Cat to Bark

My Life and Work by Henry Ford

Be Unreasonable by Paul Lemberg

 

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Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• We’re ALL addicted to something
• Mindfulness = the ability to know what’s happening in your head at any given moment without getting carried away by it
  • The skill of mindfulness can be developed through meditation
• Advice for new meditators:
  • You WILL get distracted (and it’s okay), just notice your attention and come back to an object of focus
    • The goal of meditation is to notice your distractions
  • Meditate to get better at life, not to get better at meditation
    • “Meditation isn’t about what you’re feeling right now, it’s about knowing what you’re feeling so that your feelings don’t own you”
• The best meditation advice you’ll ever come across:
  • “If you try too hard, you will tangle yourself up in knots. One of the classic hindrances to meditation is desire. If you want it too hard, you’re going to shoot yourself in the foot. It’s like a weird video game where the only way to move forward is not to want to move forward.”

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In this episode, Dan Harris, correspondent for ABC News and co-founder of the Ten Percent Happier meditation app, speaks openly about his struggles with self-centeredness, addiction, depression, emotional volatility, and the deep-rooted insecurities that drove him to career success. He tells the story of how a panic attack on live TV lead him down a path of self-discovery culminating in a meditation practice which has since transformed his life—in terms of his own personal suffering, his relationships with those closest to him, and his ability to be kind and compassionate (which has its own selfish advantages). Dan also shares some very practical advice and tips for new meditators, dispels some of the myths around meditation, and gives people some things to look forward to as they progress with their practice. Last but not least, we talk about the importance of not passing shame and trauma to our kids and the role that mindfulness and meditation plays in that.

• Dan’s meditation book, and the panic attack on live TV that started it all [8:00];
  
• Addiction: the spectrum of addiction, the socially acceptable forms, and Dan’s own battle with addiction and depression [13:30];
  
• Dan’s drive for self-protection, a defining moment of childhood, and how his upbringing shaped him [20:30];
  
• A selfish reason to be kind and compassionate [28:30];
  
• Using mindfulness to avoid being controlled by your emotions such as anger and grandiosity [36:15];
  
• How Dan found meditation, and how he went from skeptic to someone willing to try it [40:45];
  
• Advice for new meditators, misconceptions about meditation, and the difference between changes in state vs. changes in trait [48:00];
  
• Difference between being “mindful” versus being “present” [55:00];
  
• The overlap between psychology and Buddhism, who is the real Buddha, and a Buddhism 101 lesson [57:45];
  
• What convinced Dan to finally try meditation, and how did his first session go? [1:05:30];
  
• Lessons from Dan’s 10-day silent retreat: “You’re trying too hard” [1:12:30];
  
• How Dan’s meditation has evolved over 10 years of practice [1:27:30];
  
• Dan’s 360 Review: A painful process illuminating his selfishness, and putting him on a path to more kindness and compassion [1:30:45];
  
• How to quiet mental suffering in tough times, and how meditation has helped (and not helped) Dan get through some of the hardest moments of his life [1:41:30];
  
• How Dan’s practice has made him a better husband [1:47:45];
  
• How to prevent the transference of trauma and shame to your kids [1:50:45];
  
• Does past trauma drive successful people? Can a person be successful professionally if they give up that negative insecurity that is driving them? [1:56:00];
  
• The pillars of emotional health, and how to help yourself when you feel insecure [2:08:30];
  
• Why it’s important to let your kids see that you are a flawed human [2:11:30];
  
• Learning from the incredible (but flawed) Peter Jennings [2:15:15];
  
• When is Dan’s next book coming out? [2:21:15]; and
• More.
  

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Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• Does Peter find protein catabolism (muscle breakdown) is effected during a prolonged fast?
  • It’s not something he specifically measures (besides taking a picture of himself in the mirror)
    • “I’d love to do a 7-day fast in an environment where I could have a muscle biopsy and a fat biopsy every single day”
• “I think that fasting is such a powerful tool; I think of it as one of the most powerful drugs we have in the entire toolbox of medicine.”
  • “But I’m frustrated I don’t know the dose of the drug to give” 
    • Why? – We can’t measure autophagy so we’re completely guessing at the best fasting protocol
    • Imagine you’re some doctor walking around, someone hands you a bottle of pills and says, “This is the single most valuable drug we have.”
      • You ask him, “How much do I give?” and he has no idea!
    • “Right in the middle of our face is this awesome thing we really don’t understand enough about”
• Peter identifies eating one-meal-a-day as time-restricted feeding, not intermittent fasting
• “I always feel like the inflammation dissipates from my body when I’m fasting”
• During his fasts, Peter will occasionally measure urinary cortisol levels (he hasn’t seen much of a change)
• “If there’s one thing about fasting that sucks, it’s that my body odor becomes unbearable… It’s perspiration; it’s not that I’m perspiring much, it just stinks.”

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Today's episode of The Qualys is a special sneak peek of our yet to be released episode with Paul Grewal.  

 

The Qualys is a subscriber-exclusive podcast, released Tuesday through Friday, and published exclusively on our private, subscriber-only podcast feed. Qualys is short-hand for “qualifying round,” which are typically the fastest laps driven in a race car—done before the race to determine starting position on the grid for race day. The Qualys are short (i.e., “fast”), typically less than ten minutes, and highlight the best questions, topics, and tactics discussed on The Drive.

Occasionally, we will also release an episode on the main podcast feed for non-subscribers, which is what you are listening to now.

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