Selfish for Success: Entrepreneur | Business | Psychology | Self Esteem | Happiness | Health

Peter Kortenhoeven is co-founder and creative director of Pillow’s Willow VR Studios, a game developer that focuses on virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality. He’s been an animator, lead animator and art director for several gaming companies, and then founded Pillow’s Willow in 2016.

Episode Highlights:

How Peter manages being a creative artist while building a profitable business

Why Peter feels what he's doing as an artist and entrepreneur is important and significant

What Peter loves most about his work

How a tough biker guy transformed into a child when he played a VR computer game

How Peter takes care of his health as a busy entrepreneur

Why Peter thinks having a great product is the key to having a successful company

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Pillow’s Willow website

Pillow's Willow Twitter and Facebook pages

Peter's LinkedIn page

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Are you an Ambitious Dreamer? Do you have big goals and dreams, and doing what's necessary to go after and achieve them?

Today, I explain what an ambitious dreamer is and why YOU should become one (if you're not one already).

Episode highlights:

Why an extraordinary life requires being an ambitious dreamer

Some famous examples of ambitious dreamers (and why they were so successful)

4 powerful reasons why you should become an ambitious dreamer

How dreaming big gets beaten out of us at a young age

Quote from Steve Jobs: "We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? And we've all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it."

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Emotional fuel is critical for success as an entrepreneur. We talk about what emotional fuel is, why it's so important, and how you can generate it at will.

Episode highlights:

Positive vs negative emotional fuel

How emotional fuel is created

Emotional fuel is what motivates you to take action and pursue goals every day

Why building a business requires TONS of emotional fuel

3 simple ways to generate emotional fuel

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SFS 041: The Power of CLARITY in Your Business Purpose

Richard Branson Interview

Steve Jobs Interview

Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand

How I built This podcast

Tucker The Man and His Dream

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Casey Wahl is founder and CEO of Wahl & Case, a professional recruitment and executive search firm headquartered in Tokyo, Japan that creates digital solutions to solve the pain and frustration that exists in recruitment today.

Casey was born in upstate New York, but spent his childhood in the Saudi Arabian deserts. Soon after he graduated from college, he moved to Japan, later earning an Executive MBA from the Instituto de Empresa in Madrid. Casey has lived and worked in Tokyo for the past 15 years.

We talk about the biggest mental and emotional challenges he faces building an innovative company in Japan.

Episode Highlights:

Casey's biggest fears as an entrepreneur and how he manages them

The importance of a good support system for overcoming mental challenges

Why Casey feels like the kid in his family being an entrepreneur

Casey Wahl: "As long as you have more dreams than accomplishments, I think you'll always be young."

The signals when Casey is pushing himself too hard

How Casey feels he inspires people by having dreams and actually going after them

Why Casey thinks Japan is the best place in the world now to start a business

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Casey's LinkedIn & Twitter pages

Casey’s website

The Quiet Comeback, by Casey Wahl

Startup Girls (Casey’s movie)

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In our last episode, I talked about how pride has been attacked throughout the ages and is said to be the ultimate sin. But in fact pride is crucial to your success, self-esteem and happiness as an entrepreneur.

Today I give you 6 MORE reasons you should feel proud to be an entrepreneur:

1. You face big challenges

2. You increase wealth and prosperity for yourself and everyone else

3. You use your mind to the greatest extent

4. You change the world

5. You are productive

6. It takes a ton of courage

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27 Companies That Changed the World

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Michael Acton Smith is co-CEO and co-Founder of Calm, an App for Mindfulness and Meditation, which was Apple’s app of the year for the iPhone in 2017. He’s also the founder of Firebox.com and Mind Candy – the creators of the global children's phenomenon Moshi Monsters.

Today we talk about how Michael, with his company Calm, wants to revolutionize mental health by helping people take care of their minds with the "same respect and care" they do their physical bodies.

Episode Highlights:

Why Michael calls Calm "Nike for the mind."

How he manages the intense mental demands of being an entrepreneur

The "electrifying" feeling of seeing others get value from what you create

Why having a strong conviction and vision is vital to entrepreneurial success

The powerful "sign" that tells Michael when  he's heading down the wrong business path

Why Michael feels the best entrepreneurs sacrifice short-term gains for long-term success

How being "a little bit selfish" made Michael happier, healthier and a better company leader

How entrepreneurs wear as a "badge of honor" how little they sleep (and why Michael thinks this is "crazy")

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Michael's LinkedIn & Twitter pages

Calm website

Why We Sleep, by Matthew Walker

Rest, by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

Stealing Fire, by Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal

Lost Connections, by Johann Hari

Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, by David Burns

Michael’s 3 favorite current products:

Ping Pong Table

Pilot VBall pen

MUJI Notebooks

Citymapper App

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Pride has been attacked throughout the ages and is said to be the ultimate sin. Instead, you're urged to be humble.

But pride is crucial to your success, self-esteem and happiness as an entrepreneur. Today we discuss what pride actually is and why you deserve to feel it as an entrepreneur.

Episode highlights: 

6 reasons you should feel proud as an entrepreneur (and why)

What pride is and isn't

Why you need pride to have confidence in yourself and your business vision

How pride fuels you to continue to improve and reach for higher and higher achievements

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Butter's restaurant in Scottsdale, Arizona

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Amarpreet Kalkat is the co-founder and chief technologist of Frrole, a social data startup defining the next-generation of consumer intelligence.

We dive into his cutting-edge product, and explore his greatest mental and emotional challenges as an entrepreneur in building his company.

Episode Highlights:

The importance of pacing when building a business

His biggest fear as an entrepreneur (and how he handles it)

What he finds most exciting about being an entrepreneur

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Amarpreet's's website, LinkedIn & Twitter pages

INC article about Frrole

Amarpreet’s 3 favorite current products:

Ifttt

Zoom

G Suite

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It's rare to hear selfishness portrayed in the media positively, especially from well-known entrepreneurs.

In an interview on CNBC, Shark Tank entrepreneur and founder of FUBU Daymond John says that the way high-profile people "maximize" their days is that, "They're selfish."

John says: "We've given up our power to everybody. We wake up in the morning, answer a million emails with everybody's problems, look on social media; everybody's doing better than us. Get and talk to the kids for a second, 'I'll talk to you later,' and you never see your kids because you didn't schedule them on a list to be with your family, you scheduled to be in meetings."

I admire John for saying this, as it goes against the grain to urge people to be selfish. We break down what he says and I add my take on it.

Episode highlights:

Why you can't succeed (for the long-term) without being selfish

I share how it's still hard sometimes for me to say "no" and take care of myself

Being selfish (in the rational way) is HARD (but the rewards are HUGE)

Make sure you are setting "appointments" with people you love

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Shark Tank's' Daymond John: Being selfish is a key to success

SFS 018: How to Become Free From Guilt

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John Lee Dumas is an entrepreneur and host of the wildly-popular podcast Entrepreneurs ON FIRE, awarded 'Best of iTunes', where he interviews the worlds most successful Entrepreneurs 7-days a week. With over 1900 interviews, 1.3 million monthly listens, and an annual revenue well over 7-figures, JLD, as he’s known to his fans, is just getting started on his Entrepreneurial journey.

Entrepreneur on Fire was one of the first podcasts I ever listened to, and John Lee Dumas more than any other podcaster inspired me to start my own podcast. I read his book, Podcast Launch, which taught me all the basic information I needed to get started.

Podcasts are becoming popular with entrepreneurs, as it’s a great way to reach a target audience, spread your message and promote your products and services.

We take a quick dive into how to build a successful podcast with an engaged, enthusiastic audience.

Episode Highlights:

The keys to JLD's success in business and podcasting

Why it's vital to communicate directly with your audience

Why you don't need a large audience to build a thriving podcast

The significance of ice fishing to your podcasting success

Why you should "boot" the negative people in your life

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JLD's website, Twitter, Facebook , & Instagram pages

Podcast Launch: How to Create, Grow & Monetize YOUR Podcast, by John Lee Dumas

Entrepreneurs on Fire podcast

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