Redefining The Top 1%

If you could live or work anywhere, where would it be? Way back in 2007, Tim Ferriss popularized the digital nomad lifestyle through his book, the Four Hour Work Week. It helped to spawn a revolution of people freeing themselves from traditional work. One example is Johannes Voelkner.

Johannes Voelkner is the Founder of the Nomad Cruise, where location independent entrepreneurs and digital nomads come together for a business conference on a cruise boat twice a year. After becoming a Digital Nomad in 2010, it was two years into that journey when Johannes realized that he definitely missed having like-minded people around him. So he took action and started to build the community that ultimately led to one of the largest digital nomad Facebook groups and the accidental creation of Nomad Cruise, which now attracts nearly 500 participants on each voyage and is one of the largest 'workation' events in the world. He is also the founder of Homebase Global, a travel community for remote workers.

Listen and learn more about the emerging digital nomad lifestyle and the various nomadic hot spots all over the world. Tune in to find out if this lifestyle is fit for you! Enjoy!

Episode Highlights:

● Johannes Journey to Being a Digital Nomad (2:50)

● Facebook Post to Nomad Cruise: Behind-The-Scenes Story (7:25)

● Becoming A Digital Nomad And Travel The World (11:00)

● Nomadic Hot Spots All Over the World (16:00)

● Design Your Life at Sea – Learn more about Nomad Cruise (20:40)

● Book Recommendations (23:30)

AND MUCH MORE!

Resources Mentioned In This Episode:

● If you are a future or aspiring business leader who wants to achieve the next level of success in your profession, get started by getting my FREE video short course: The Secret to Unleashing Your Top 1 Percent.

● Are you an aspiring digital nomad? Know more about the digital nomad lifestyle and Johannes through his website: nomadcruise.com

● Connect with Johannes:

o Facebook

o Instagram

o LinkedIn

● Book recommendations:

o The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss

o Scaling Up by Verne Harnish

o The Lean Startup by Eric Ries

Quotes:

"Being a digital nomad, or someone who combines work with traveling around the world is a really good way to fulfill your dreams."

"When you are traveling, you need to stick to your schedule or keep the same routine."

"Either you are becoming a part of a community, or you join the nomad communities where you actively meet other people around the world who are doing this as well."

"You can meet on one (1) cruise more people and make more connections than I did in four (4) years of traveling."

"You really need a community. You either need to be traveling with your partner, or you need to meet other people who are doing this as well; otherwise, this lifestyle can get very lonely quickly."

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We're glad to have with us today Joe Calloway, an expert on business leadership whose client list reads like an international Who's Who in business, ranging from Coca Cola and Delta Air Lines to Cadillac and American Express. Joe also works with small to mid-sized companies, including franchisees, medical practices, and a range of professional services groups.

Joe is the author of Be the Best at What Matters Most and six other ground-breaking business books, including Becoming A Category of One: How Extraordinary Companies Transcend Commodity And Defy Comparison, which received rave reviews from The New York Times, Retailing Today, Publishers Weekly and many others. His newest book is The Leadership Mindset.

Today, Joe and I talk about his transition from being a keynote speaker to becoming a top business consultant. Tune in with us as Joe also shares his fascinating insights that can enlighten anyone in the business world!

Episode Highlights:

● How Joe Took a Turn on His Career Path [3:28]

● What You Can Do to Stand Out in the Marketplace You're In [10:53]

● Joe Shares His 3 Customer Rules [13:27]

● Useful Tips from Joe's 3 Core Concepts [21:13]

● Top Daily Goals Joe Strives For [29:25]

● Book Recommendations [33:22]

AND MUCH MORE!

Resources Mentioned In This Episode:

● If you are a future or aspiring business leader who wants to achieve the next level of success in your profession, get started by getting my FREE video short course: The Secret to Unleashing Your Top 1 Percent.

● Learn more about Joe and what he can do at your leadership meeting or strategic planning retreat through his website joecalloway.com. The site also features his life's literary works!

● Connect with Joe:

o Facebook

o Twitter

o YouTube

o LinkedIn

o Email

● Book Recommendations:

o This is Marketing: You Can't Be Seen Until You Learn To See by Seth Godin

o Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne

Quotes:

"I'm not a big fan of buzzers and bells to differentiate, anything that comes close to a gimmick, because those wear off."

"I don't know what I'm selling until I know what they're buying."

"If you can learn the difference between a distraction and an opportunity, that's a big deal."

"If I'm doing the exact same thing today that I was doing a year ago, then I am, to a certain extent, irrelevant because everything changes all the time. I have to try and stay one step ahead of that."

"For me, a startup business, as much as anything else, is an information-gathering process."

"This is such a cliché, but it's true now more than ever, you gotta be flexible, you gotta be willing to change."

"Information and ideas are everywhere, and if you're not proactively going after them, then shame on you. It's gonna hurt your business; it's gonna hurt your career."

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Our guest for today is Dane Maxwell. He wants you to ask yourself the question, "What have you always wanted to be?". Dane loves to sing, and he pursued business after hurting his voice at the age of 21. He started 16 businesses, failed at 11, succeeded with 5, and helped create over 15 multi-millionaires from his training. Now, he continues to guide individuals in their own entrepreneurial journeys.

In this episode, Dane talks about how he carved his path into the world of business. He even shares his 5 Question Process and tries it on me! Tune in with us as Dane shares more of his entrepreneurial insights that can help you improve your strategies.

Episode Highlights:

● Dane Finds His Place in this World (2:09)

● The Right Mindset to Bring with You as an Entrepreneur (4:50)

● Starting Your Business with Happiness and Love (9:26)

● Some of Dane's Most Successful Students (16:30)

● The 5 Question Process (25:05) 5 questions

● Dane and I Try the 5 Question Process (28:16)

● A Sneak Peak of Dane's Upcoming Book - Start From Zero: Build Your Own Business & Experience True Freedom (47:34)

● What You Need to Get to That Million (51:25)

AND MUCH MORE!

Resources Mentioned In This Episode:

● If you are a future or aspiring business leader who wants to achieve the next level of success in your profession, get started by getting my FREE video short course: The Secret to Unleashing Your Top 1 Percent.

● Visit www.startfromzero.com/one for the exclusive excerpt access to Dane's upcoming book! You can also preorder it here.

● Check out Dane's SFZ Podcast and also learn about the DJP Framework at www.startfromzero.com.

● Connect with Dane:

o Facebook

o Instagram

o Personal Website

● Napkin Finance: Build Your Wealth in 30 Seconds or Less by Tina Hay

● The Back of the Napkin and Blah Blah Blah: What To Do When Words Don't Work by Dan Roam

● As highly approved by Dane, head over to www.strategyzer.com to know more about their Business Model Canvas

● Dane's categorized book recommendations according to your needs are all in here.

Quotes:

"I really struggled to belong in the world. I still do some days. When I found entrepreneurship, I really found a home."

"When you love people more than you ever thought you could, possible, it's easily counterintuitive but very profitable thing to do."

"Becoming successful in business does not fix the sense of worthiness and significance."

"Love of money is a good thing; it's the attachment that's not."

"Technicians trade time for money, entrepreneurs trade time for ownership, equity, and freedom."

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In this episode, we are joined by author, executive coach and keynote speaker, Jason Treu. Jason helps companies, executives, managers, and HR departments develop the highest performing and most engaged leaders, talent and teamwork. He helps people to gain self-awareness, to discover blind spots and identify past traumas that are hindering that leap from being a successful company.

His bestselling book Social Wealth, has 50,000+ copies sold, 130+ five star reviews on Amazon, and #1 in four business and self-help categories. He also developed a game called Cards Against Mundanity that will help you build a strong foundation for your people and help them perform at their highest level.

Listen and learn more about leadership, teamwork, and self-improvement! Find out the three questions to ask your team that will help you build trust which then leads to productivity. Enjoy!

Episode Highlights:

● Story Behind Cards Against Mundanity - Teamwork & Culture Building Game (1:28)

● Key Concepts on How to Improve Trust Within a Group (11:30)

● 3 Questions to Ask Your Team (18:20)

● Jason's View on Leadership (19:40)

● Finding Your Own Blind Spots and Negative Patterns (25:40)

● Book Recommendations (34:00)

AND MUCH MORE!

Resources Mentioned In This Episode:

● If you are a future or aspiring business leader who wants to achieve the next level of success in your profession, get started by getting my FREE video short course: The Secret to Unleashing Your Top 1 Percent.

● Know more about Jason through his website: jasontreu.com

● Grab a copy of Jason's book, Social Wealth: How to Build Extraordinary Relationships By Transforming the Way We Live, Love, Lead and Network, #1 business bestseller to master your business relationships

● Download the game, Cards Against Mundanity, and get additional suggestions on how to continue building a high performing culture here.

● Watch Jason's TedX Talk, How to Get CoWorkers to Like Each Other

● Connect with Jason:

o Facebook

o Twitter

o Instagram

o LinkedIn

● Book recommendations:

o Insight by Tasha Eurich

o Daring Greatly by Brené Brown

o The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown

o The Power of Vulnerability by Brené Brown

o Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't by James C. Collins

Quotes:

"Trust is the foundation for every relationship and every great team."

"Our world today is about the experiences that we share with other people and the words we use to describe them."

"Someone has to have your back for you to take a major leap of faith."

"Success and failure are on opposite sides of the coin when it comes to risk."

"The biggest fear we have with a group of people or an individual is disappointing them and letting them down."

"You want to have people who are honest and authentic and ask hard conversations with each other."

"To help you, they have to give you hard feedback."

"Understanding vulnerability, connection and belonging is the essence of leadership and being a great manager. If you can't do those things, the rest won't really matter because it would be very difficult to get people to perform on their top one percent."

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This episode of the podcast features the Two-time Olympic Medalist, American Ninja Warrior, and now author, Jonathan Horton!

For 28 years, Jonathan dedicated his life to the sport of gymnastics. Although he wasn't the most talented child to ever walk through the doors of a training facility, he battled his way to becoming a champion on the collegiate, national, world, and Olympic stages, winning two Olympic medals at the 2008 and 2012 Olympic games. Recently, Jonathan wrote his first published book titled "If I had known," which is geared toward young people with ambitious athletic and entrepreneurial goals.

Trevor and Jonathan touch on Jonathan's journey to becoming an Olympian. Some major takeaways from his story are not to give up and that success isn't about how we start, but how strong we finish.

Listen and learn why Jonathan says that he is "the most successful failure in the history of men's gymnastics in the United States." Tune in!

Episode Highlights:

● Journey to Becoming an Olympian (3:48)

● Jonathan's Claim to Fame (11:17)

● A Peek on Jonathan's Second Book, Falling Forward (13:40)

● Jonathan's Journey to the Olympics (14:55)

● On Being an Athlete and Entrepreneur (20:02)

● Behind the Scenes of American Ninja Warrior (21:45)

● How to Stay Fit? (25:20)

● Tips on Building Faith and Confidence in Yourself (29:35)

● Book Recommendations (34:00)

AND MUCH MORE!

Resources Mentioned In This Episode:

● If you are a future or aspiring business leader who wants to achieve the next level of success in your profession, get started by getting my FREE video short course: The Secret to Unleashing Your Top 1 Percent.

● Learn more about Jonathan through his website: jonathanhorton.net

● Get a copy of Jonathan's book, If I Had Known: Life Lessons from an Olympic Pro Athlete. This is the perfect read for anyone wanting to see what it takes to be one of the best in the world.

● Jonathan's second book, Falling Forward, is about his entire journey to the Olympics. Grab a copy now!

● Connect with Jonathan:

o Facebook

o Twitter

o Instagram

● Book recommendations:

o Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell and Patrick Robinson

o How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Quotes:

"Unfortunately, there's a lot of people that think their talent will carry them to the finish line, and they don't have a work ethic. So, they kinda phase-out."

"Often, you'd find people making it to the top, whether it is athletics or business, because of the time that they put in."

"Competitive athletics has a way of teaching you valuable lessons."

"Switch things up, or you'll get burnt out, and you won't work out anymore."

"It's really hard to get into a routine and build confidence and faith in yourself if you can't set a routine and commit to it every single day."

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Did You Know? Gary Keller and Jay Papasan's book, The ONE Thing, was supposed to be called The Success Habit. Know more about this best-selling book by listening to this episode!

We are joined by Jay Papasan, a bestselling author and serves as vice president and executive editor at Keller Williams Realty Inc, the world's largest real estate company. He is also co-owner and co-founder of several successful businesses, including KellerINK, Keller Capital, and, alongside his wife Wendy, Papasan Properties Group in Austin, Texas.

Before Jay Papasan co-authored the bestselling Millionaire Real Estate series with Gary Keller, he worked as an editor at Harper Collins Publishers. There he worked on such best-selling books as Body-for-Life by Bill Phillips and Go for the Goal by Mia Hamm. The books he co-authored have collectively sold over 3.5 million copies. His most recent work with Gary Keller on The ONE Thing has sold over a million copies worldwide and garnered more than 500 appearances on national bestseller lists, including #1 on The Wall Street Journal's hardcover business list.

Listen and learn more about Jay's best-selling books. PLUS, Jay shares some tips and strategies on becoming a real estate investor and evaluating real estate properties. Tune in!

Episode Highlights:

● Jay's Working Relationship with Gary Keller (2:40)

● Lessons from the Book, The ONE Thing (8:40)

● Book Recommendations for Business Leaders (11:35)

● Tips on Becoming a Real Estate Investor (15:30)

● How to Evaluate Real Estate Properties? (21:10)

AND MUCH MORE!

Resources Mentioned In This Episode:

● If you are a future or aspiring business leader who wants to achieve the next level of success in your profession, get started by getting my FREE video short course: The Secret to Unleashing Your Top 1 Percent.

● Know more about Jay and his speaking events through his website: jaypapasan.com

● Connect with Jay:

o Facebook

o Twitter

o LinkedIn

o YouTube

o Instagram

● Jay's Best-Selling Books:

o The Millionaire Real Estate Agent by Dave Jenks, Gary W. Keller, and Jay Papasan

o The Millionaire Real Estate Investor by Jay Papasan

o The ONE Thing by Gary W. Keller and Jay Papasan

● Book recommendations:

o The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

o Managing Oneself by Peter Drucker

o Positioning by Al Ries and Jack Trout

o The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker

Quotes:

"If you are going to write a book as a businessperson, what problem are you going to solve for the reader, and what problem is it going to solve for your business? You need to be very clear on those two things."

"Identify the thing that matters most, and when appropriate, turn that thing into a habit."

"We could all spend more time on our priorities."

"If you are going to run a business, eventually, you have to be very effective at casting your mission."

"If you surround yourself with amazing people that are attached to the same vision, everything is easier."

"The way to get rich for sure almost always involves some sort of compounding where time is your friend."

"Research shows that about $75,000 to $80,000 of household income mostly go away."

"If you want a shortcut, you won't learn."

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It is never a mistake to start developing your leadership qualities as early as now. If you want to grow, by any measure, you'll need to step up as a leader at some point.

Today's episode is all about leadership and who better to discuss it with than a retired military veteran with 24 years of distinguished service, Douglas Ward. During his time, he held numerous leadership roles to include instructor and manager of over 500 personnel. Additionally, Douglas was the Troop Chief for a hand-selected group of special communicators who supported and deployed into austere environments with Special Operations Forces.

Upon retirement, he supported government agencies as a subject matter expert in non-standard communications and as a business development executive. These experiences have enabled him to pass on the knowledge and lessons of leadership under extreme conditions for companies needing management team building.

"Your job is to stand up for your people. Back them up. Empower them to do their job." This is just one of the many powerful messages Douglas has shared with us through this episode. Are you an aspiring leader? If so, then you don't want to miss this episode!

Episode Highlights:

● A Peek Into Anchor Strategies (2:45)

● Hands-on Leadership Strategies (4:55)

● Finding Your Employee's Strengths and Weaknesses (10:08)

● Relaying Your Company's Mission and Vision (16:45)

● Overcoming the Fear of Delegation (19:40)

● The Best Leaders are Relatable (23:19)

● Common Challenges in the Workplace and Tips to Overcome It (25:18)

● Book Recommendations (40:45)

AND MUCH MORE!

Resources Mentioned In This Episode:

● If you are a future or aspiring business leader who wants to achieve the next level of success in your profession,, get started by getting my FREE video short course: The Secret to Unleashing Your Top 1 Percent.

● Know more about Douglas and his leadership strategies and trainings through his website anchorstrategiesllc.com

● Connect with Douglas:

o Email

o Twitter

o LinkedIn "If you are in business, you should be on LinkedIn."

o Instagram

● StrengthsFinder 2.0

● Book recommendations:

o The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker

o How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Quotes:

"Body language and eye contact, those types of things are going to tell a different story than what you are being told."

"Look at your workplace as if it is a bookshelf. Every book on there is one of the team members. Every one of those books, you should have a better understanding, at least a little bit of a summary."

"If you don't train them (employees) and invest in them, they're gonna leave anyway."

"Your (company) vision should be not more than two sentences."

"Simplification is always more effective over the long term than complication."

"Be open. Be transparent. They are going to value that more than if you try to hide something on why you did something a certain way."

"People will hold their ideas if they feel that you are not gonna take their communications and take them seriously."

"There's a lot of people out there who would take a job for $10,000-$15,000 less if they know they are at a place that's making a difference and they are making a difference than going to a place and having to live in a toxic environment."

"If you want to be a good leader, you also have to be effective."

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Today, we are joined by Jedidiah Collins. Before becoming a certified financial planner, Jed spent seven years in the National Football League (NFL) as a fullback His most prominent stretch is with the New Orleans Saint, playing three seasons. Now, he is geared towards empowering people as a behavioral coach.

In this episode, Jed and I talk about his journey into the world of money and how he what drove him to create Rookie to Veteran. He also shares eye-opening insights, one of which is "I don't believe in the words budget or retirement because those are limiting. If you wanna have an abundance mindset, you use cash management and you use freedom because those are truly objectives and choices and not destinations."

Episode Highlights:

● The Mission and Passion Fueling Rookie to Veteran (3:38)

● Jed's Emotional and Life-Changing Journey throughout His NFL Career (8:18)

● The Game of Inches (13:12)

● Meaning Behind the Statement "Enjoy the Hunt" (20:07)

● The Inspiring Story of Erik Weihenmayer (24:45)

● The Lesson: Most Over Now (28:18)

● Book Recommendations (37:59)

AND MUCH MORE!

Resources Mentioned In This Episode:

● If you are a future or aspiring business leader who wants to achieve the next level of success in your profession, get started by getting my FREE video short course: The Secret to Unleashing Your Top 1 Percent.

● Know more about Jed and his training framework Rookie to Veteran through his website jedidiahcollins.com.

● Watch out for Jed's upcoming book, Your Money Vehicle, which will be available by the end of February this year.

● Connect with Jed:

o Facebook

o Twitter

o LinkedIn

o YouTube (launching soon!)

o Instagram

● Your Money Vehicle book by Jed, end of Feb

● Book recommendations:

o The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

o Mind Gym by Gary Mack

● The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy

● The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson

● Start with Why by Simon Sinek

Quotes:

"You have to be a little crazy to chase a passion and take the leap of faith."

"Failure is temporary, failure comes and goes. It's only really defeat if you let it. If you learn from it, failure is one of the greatest things, it gifts."

"At the end of the day, we're not buying excuses. We're not even buying promises. We're buying outcomes. "Be A Pro" is the beginning of that."

"We all focus and fixate so much on the destination, we forget the journey. If you don't enjoy the hunt, the kill rarely satisfies. "

"I don't believe in the words budget or retirement because those are limiting. If you wanna have an abundance mindset, you use cash management and you use freedom because those are truly objectives and choices and not destinations."

"So often we got caught in the losses. A practice I implement with my daughters now is at the very end of the day, we're laying in bed, and it's "What was your favorite part of the day? Let's talk about the win of the day, win of the moment". Because if you're not enjoying those, you're gonna pass by and you're gonna continually feel the grind and not the growth."

"Opportunity cost is not what you chose, it's not the combination of things you're choosing or the options out there, it's what you gave up."

"As a very new business owner I need to continually look at what is my most and anything that takes away from that in the now is something I have to have confidence in doing."

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John Mitchell's 12-minute-a-day Think It, Be It technique is recognized today as the top practical application in the world of the legendary book, "Think and Grow Rich." When he applied his technique and made it his new morning routine, it impacted his daily mindset and his life. John saw his income go up by 25 times, over what it was the prior 20 years. Also, he met his wife by doing this. The science behind John's technique was profiled in a Time Magazine cover story. He also teaches this technique as a class at the University of Texas in Austin.

In today's episode, John and I dig deeper into his famous mental technique, the 12-Minute-A-Day Methodology. John tells us the story on how his life started to change as he turned 50. Listen in as he shares powerful insights on the factors affecting success and discover how you can effectively apply the change in your daily life.

Episode Highlights:

● John's Entrepreneurial Journey and Getting His Defining Moment at 50 (3:00)

● Putting Together the Practical Application of the Book "Think and Grow Rich"(10:02)

● Understanding the 12-Minute-A-Day Methodology (12:15)

● HOW the Methodology Works (18:06)

● WHY the Methodology Works (23:58)

● The 2 Scientific Discoveries That Affects A Person's Achievement in Life the Most (31:28)

● Finding the Right Audience (42:48)

AND MUCH MORE!

Resources Mentioned In This Episode:

● If you are a future or aspiring business leader who wants to achieve the next level of success in your profession, get started by getting my FREE video short course: The Secret to Unleashing Your Top 1 Percent.

● Sign up for the FREE webinar, hosted by John, on www.theunfairedge.com and learn about the entrepreneur "success formula."

● Check out John's online course and coaching services at www.thinkitbeit.net, a human performance company for high achievers.

● See the legendary book for yourself: Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

● Connect with John:

o Facebook

o LinkedIn

o Email

Quotes:

"I realized if I didn't start making over a million dollars a year, I'd never have that exceptional life that I've always dreamed of. It wasn't so much [about] the money as much as it was creating freedom and that sense of accomplishment. "

"By applying science to my life for the first time ever, I was influencing my daily thoughts and actions. And clearly I was operating at a higher level than I ever had before."

''In the book, it says there's a secret for creating success. But the author is only gonna give you half of the secret. It's on you to figure out the other half."

"The central concept that I uncovered was what you envisioned in detail on a daily basis is what shows up in your life."

"We live in this world of clutter, and we have so much coming at us that we don't even recognize a profound when it hits us up the head. "

"What the book basically says is that you have to program yourself every day to override that innate programming."

"You've got to override that operating system that gears you to survival, and you have to do it every day."

"People are not used to influencing themself with repetition, only with logic. That's why they're great at influencing the intentions but not great at impacting what determines their success, which is their every day thoughts and ongoing actions."

"My take on the secret is you don't just imagine what you want, and it magically appears. The missing part of the secret was yes, you gotta envision in detail what you want but more important than that, exactly how are you going to get it."

"We got strategies coming at our ears. What we need is to make those strategies show up in our thoughts and actions. That's what makes this different than everything else in the success and human achievement field."

"Control itself is your everyday actions. Focus is your ongoing thoughts, and your ongoing thoughts determine your everyday actions."

"Success in life is way simpler than you think it is. When you feed yourself this immense amount of intention and clarity and feed that clarity to yourself every day, the magic happens."

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Curt Mercadante is an international speaker, trainer, and disruptive entrepreneur whose mission is to save the world by helping people fight for freedom and fulfillment. Curt's speeches and training empower individuals to live their Freedom Lifestyle, and he also hosts the popular Freedom Club Podcast. Raised in the Chicago area, he and his wife, Julie, now live in Charleston, South Carolina, with their four children, when they aren't traveling the world. Curt is a diehard fan of the White Sox, a superhero nerd, and can frequently be found at his local boxing gym.

In today's episode, Curt and I discuss his book, Five Pillars of the Freedom Lifestyle. Curt shares some tips on how to make that big leap, from the corporate world to entrepreneurship, based on his own experience. Plus, he also gives some tips on how to live the freedom lifestyle. You can also learn how to get a FREE copy of Chapter 1 of Curt's book by tuning in to this episode. Enjoy!

Episode Highlights:

● Curt's Journey to Where He Is today (5:00)

● Lessons Grief Can Teach Us (13:55)

● Making That BIG Leap (16:45)

● How to Escape the Comfort Zone (21:45)

● From the Scarcity Mindset to the Abundance Mindset (27:40)

● Harnessing Your Superpowers (30:40)

● What If I Have No Superpowers? (38:10)

● How to Live the Freedom Lifestyle? (42:09)

● Five Pillars of the Freedom Lifestyle (45:40)

AND MUCH MORE!

Resources Mentioned In This Episode:

● If you are a future or aspiring business leader who wants to achieve the next level of success in your profession,, get started by getting my FREE video short course: The Secret to Unleashing Your Top 1 Percent.

● Know more about Curt through his website: www.curtmercadante.com

● Join Curt on his Freedom Mindset Radio, a podcast about empowering you to build the life you desire and deserve, instead of being trapped in a lifestyle by default.

● Grab a copy of Curt's book, Five Pillars of the Freedom Lifestyle: How to Escape Your Comfort Zone of Misery and learn how to design your lifestyle and make better decisions. Sign up here to get a copy of Chapter 1 for FREE!

● Know more about your strengths and superpowers by signing up to Gallup's StrengthsFinder 2.0

● Connect with Curt:

o Facebook

o Twitter

o LinkedIn

Quotes:

"In many cases, the pain has to be much greater than the par promise of pleasure for you to make that change."

"Your money is the receipt for the value you provide."

"Focus on the right thing. Focus on helping people."

"Purpose and impact equal vision."

"Your vision is gonna be different from my vision."

"Don't tell your dreams to small-minded people."

"When you combine your talent and skill, you turn it into strength."

"Every single person has these talent things. Whether you invest in them or not, it is up to you."

"You can't escape to freedom if you don't know you are in prison."

"Realizing that you are in prison is the first step."

"It's not about the grind. It's about getting in the state of flow."

"Why do you have to be in pain on ten things when you only have to be in pain on three things?" "You can work hard while you are working smart."

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