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Dr. Rick Eigenbrod has spent years exploring what happens when we get what we want and why success, along with gain, acquisition, and achievement, can also bring loss and disruption to our lives.
In addition to a greater understanding of the profound emotional, psychological, and social impact that "success" has on our lives, Rick provides an alternative to the Grand Narrative of success as life's supreme organizing principle. He offers a framework for choice-making, giving a reliable and enduring source of structure, meaning, and identity as we navigate the uncharted waters of 'What next?' and 'Is this all there is?.'
DescriptionHave you ever achieved a long-awaited goal, only to find yourself feeling unfulfilled or directionless? If so, this episode is for you.
In this thought-provoking conversation, Anthony sits down with Rick Eigenbrod, author of the book "What Happens When You Get What You Want?" to discuss common challenges people face after achieving success.
From discussing the importance of finding enjoyment in everyday life to reframing your mindset from destination-focused to direction-focused, Rick provides actionable advice and insights to help listeners navigate the complex world of success and personal fulfillment.
Here are a few of the topics we'll discuss on this episode of The Anthony Sarandrea Show:
3:01 Navigating success and purpose: Insights from the speaker's personal experience.
11:14 Finding purpose beyond money and fame: A personal journey of self-discovery and reflection.
19:54 Why the journey matters more than the destination.
24:38 The importance of introspection and discernment in life choices.
30:30 Success addiction and the cost associated with it.
39:15 The uncomfortable space of spaciousness.
42:47 The importance of rest, finding fulfillment, and declaring "enough" rather than striving for abundance.
50:10 Insights on direction, fulfillment, and self-discovery.
Key TakeawaysInstead of setting a new destination, set a direction in life that focuses on enjoyment and fun.
Ask yourself, "Who am I now?" and "What matters to me now?" to get a contemporary sense of self and what's important.
When running a business, focus on moving in a direction rather than achieving a specific outcome or destination.
Success can sometimes screw up a business, so it's important to stay focused on the direction rather than the outcome.
Have an accountability partner to help you stay focused and motivated.
20:10 "It's about the journey, not the destination"
14:45 "Fulfilment is an art and I think a lot of people when they transition to different things in life, not just selling a business, that they have to navigate."
31:49 "That blank sheet of paper is a part of the gift. It's part of the invitation to be reflective, to be aware, to lead a more considered intentional life, to redesign where necessary."
43:06 "People think that restlessness is a sign that they are ready. And the truth is, according to me, restlessness comes on the other side of readiness not before."
47:15 "The opposite of scarcity is enough."
ResourcesWhat Happens When You Get What You Want?: Success and the Challenge of Choice (book)
"Rainbow Connection" from Kermit the Frog | The Muppets
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Finances can be overwhelming when there are so many options and numbers to consider. Should you invest in stocks or bonds? Should you prioritize saving for a down payment on a house or focus on paying off student loans? The list goes on.
However, what often gets overlooked in these discussions is the importance of paying attention to the details. In a recent conversation, we learned just how crucial it is to do your due diligence before making any financial decisions. From the costs of maintenance and insurance when buying a car or a house, to automating savings and preparing for economic downturns, there are countless factors to consider.
In this episode, we'll break down the key issues in financial management and explore how you can maximize your financial potential while avoiding potential pitfalls. So, buckle up and get ready to take charge of your financial future!
Here are a few of the topics we’ll discuss on this episode of The Anthony Sarandrea Show:
2:59 Poor psychological habits are often found in young people between 18 and 35: Ignoring alternatives when paying for college.
5:58 The psychology behind financial decision making and the long-term effects of small decisions
8:51 The importance of paying attention to details in financial decisions
15:13 Why you should start investing early
22:06 The importance of financial responsibility and planning for the future
25:25 Working with a financial advisor to determine how much to invest and how much to withdraw based on one's expenses.
34:39 Tips and apps for budgeting.
37:59 Maximizing contributions and automating savings for financial security and opportunity
41:04 Creating passive income through investment.
52:26 Debt management strategies
55:26 Unlocking the secret to building wealth: Why earning more is just as important as cutting expenses
58:12 How to get your credit card debt to zero
Key TakeawaysPrioritize paying off high-interest debt, such as credit card debt, before considering investments.
Consider getting a second job or delivering pizzas to pay off debt faster.
Aim to have at least six months of savings before investing.
Regularly check your credit score and aim to keep it high to improve your chances of getting approved for loans or rentals.
Focus on improving your financial psychology to avoid getting trapped in a perpetual debt cycle.
Learn from history and prepare for possible downturns or financial emergencies.
Seek advice and consultation when necessary.
Quotes
3:26 “The first misstep we take is just kind of blindly going and taking out debt for college tuition.”
21:38 “I think when you really do look at things, honestly, it's gonna naturally impact your spending.”
24:06 “For that delayed gratification to happen, I think what you just said is to find your why.”
39:26 “Start early, start with what you can, and automate it.”
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Rocket Money
Mint
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Anthony Sarandrea, the founder of SiteFlood, is a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker known as a renowned customer and lead generator across the globe.
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David specializes in personal development, leadership education, executive and organizational development, and is an expert at translating his frameworks into simple language for practical application in work and life.
When faced with adversity, we evidently see the roles of Victim, Persecutor, and Rescuer, not only in personal relationships but also in leadership, which results in drama. Drama is defined as any thought or interaction that takes our attention away from the desired outcomes.
The Dreaded Drama Triangle (DDT) illustrates the toxic nature of these roles which roots in a problem-oriented approach. Understand that all three roles can be reasonable and appropriate at times, so they aren't necessarily bad; they just limit your potential.
The truth is that we will never be able to completely eliminate organizational drama. Victimization and drama are natural parts of the human experience, but recognizing it earlier and making conscious choices can make a big difference.
In this episode, David takes us on a deeper understanding of the negative impact of DDT in our lives and how we can find our way out using The Empowerment Dynamic (TED) approach and ultimately bring forward the best version of ourselves. Here are a few of the topics we'll discuss on this episode of The Anthony Sarandrea Show:
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Anthony Sarandrea, the founder of SiteFlood, is a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker known as a renowned customer and lead generator across the globe.
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Dr. Lembke also sits on the board of several state and national addiction-focused organizations, she has testified before various committees in the United States House of Representatives and Senate and maintains a thriving clinical practice.
The Social Dilemma rocked many of our beliefs around social media and addiction and you may recognize Dr. Lembke for her appearances in the Netflix documentary, discussing how social media was affecting our lives and the vast dangers of social media addictions.
She is also the author of Drug Dealer, MD – How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It's So Hard to Stop and New York Times Bestseller Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence which explores how to moderate compulsive overconsumption in a dopamine-overloaded world. Here are a few of the topics we'll discuss on this episode of The Anthony Sarandrea Show:
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Anthony Sarandrea, the founder of SiteFlood, is a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker known as a renowned customer and lead generator across the globe.
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His father, formerly a worker in the aerospace industry, had gotten addicted to drugs, and multiple of Ryan's siblings followed suit. By the time he was 14, he'd been pushed into a gang to retaliate the murder of his sister's best friend, and things were moving in a dark direction, fast. That's when he met his first entrepreneur — the man who would become his mentor and, later, his stepfather.
Having an entrepreneur as a mentor changed Ryan's mindset and helped (literally) reverse his fortunes. But later on, following the death of his mother, he'd come to determine he'd attributed too much power to new Ferraris and mansions. Ryan was still, essentially, a walking wound of childhood trauma. That's when the real shift started.
"Through the process of learning forgiveness and learning meditation and breathwork, along with various other modalities, I started to change," he recalls. "I started to have a different heart and a different energy about me. And people noticed that."
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On this episode of The Anthony Sarandrea Show, Anthony and Ryan talk about how those changes became the foundation for his new company, AlterCall, how he helps others to gain self-mastery, and what it means to be the architect of your own business and life.
What You'll Learn:
Favorite Quote:
"If you master your emotions and you master yourself, your business is going to be a reflection of that because your business is a reflection of you."
— Ryan Blair
(38:25)
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AlterCall
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Anthony Sarandrea, the founder of SiteFlood, is a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker known as a renowned customer and lead generator across the globe.
Be sure to follow him on LinkedIn, Instagram, and gain access to his consulting and speaking engagements via his website.
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Recognized by Variety Magazine as Sports Humanitarian of the Year, formerly the CEO of real-life "Jerry Maguire" Leigh Steinberg's sports and entertainment agency, and the producer of the world's first late-night entrepreneur show, David is used to having a wide reach. And he's also, throughout his life, been a believer in owning his mindset, heartset and happiness, and teaching others how to do the same. Growing up as one of six kids with a single mom who worked two jobs, learning to cultivate his happiness was something he learned early on.
"If you find the light, the love, and the lessons of being poor, you have a superpower that other people don't have," he says.
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That's part of the reason why, in 2008, having lost the hundreds of millions of dollars earned in his earlier Silicon Valley career and with his back against the wall, David knew he'd find a way out. Finding ways out of seemingly insurmountable situations is something he coaches others on today, in his No. 1 rated show "The Playbook Podcast," in the books he's written, and in one-on-one coaching sessions.
In this episode of The Anthony Sarandrea Show, Anthony and David talk about how, exactly, he plans to help a billion people find happiness, the biggest lessons of his multi-chaptered career, and how he learned to control his mindset.
What You'll Learn:
Favorite Quote:
"There is nothing like having nothing to lose. There's no greater freedom in the world."
— David Meltzer
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Anthony Sarandrea, the founder of SiteFlood, is a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker known as a renowned customer and lead generator across the globe.
Be sure to follow him on LinkedIn, Instagram, and gain access to his consulting and speaking engagements via his website.
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Jason Feifer, Editor in Chief of Entrepreneur Magazine, remembers when actor-turned-entrepreneur Ryan Reynolds told him during a cover story interview. Of course, Jason's heard many a memorable adage from many an entrepreneur in his line of work, some of them famous and others not known at all. But that line from Reynolds hit on something that he, as someone who's spent much of his career studying them, finds integral to becoming a successful entrepreneur.
"Especially for the kinds of people who are programmed to be entrepreneurs, they have a vision, they're willing to push themselves into uncomfortable places, they're students of the things that they've experienced — and they know what good looks like," Jason says. "It's hard to know what good looks like and know that you are not producing that good. And I also think it's really, really valuable for that reason."
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On this episode of The Anthony Sarandrea Show, Anthony and Jason talk about harnessing and applying that value. They also talk about where Jason sees the business and ethics of journalism headed, the importance of utilizing local press sources as a new entrepreneur, and how business owners can grow their brands.
What You'll Learn:
Favorite Quote:
"Failure is data. And as long as you're willing to see failure as data, then every experience has some value."
— Jason Feifer
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Anthony Sarandrea, the founder of SiteFlood, is a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker known as a renowned customer and lead generator across the globe.
Be sure to follow him on LinkedIn, Instagram, and gain access to his consulting and speaking engagements via his website.
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Learning to control and harness brain waves is something yogis and Zen masters have been doing for centuries, with transformative results.
Not only does it make things like healing and stress reduction more accessible — undergoing brainwave "training" can help with personality dysfunctions, reverse critical aspects of the brain's aging process, increase creativity by 50%, and boost your IQ by nearly 12 points.
That's all according to one of the preeminent experts in the field, Dr. Jim Hardt. With a degree in physics and a PhD in psychology, Dr. Hardt was one of the first people to, back in the 1960s, start studying the electro-psychological basis of advanced spiritual states. Today, as president and founder of the Biocybernaut Institute, he's developed a neurofeedback technology that helps individuals cultivate these states while powering their creativity and advancing IQ and EQ. And he does it all by using your brain's natural alpha waves.
In this episode of The Anthony Sarandrea Show, Anthony and Dr. Hardt talk about the scientific basis for reaching transcendent states of awareness and how harnessing the power of your alpha waves will make you more successful.
What You'll Learn:
Favorite Quote:
"Alpha is there in your brain all the time… there are pacemaker cells in the thalamus that run 24/7, urging your brain to be an alpha. And to the extent that you can stop worrying, stressing, doing, and trying, you can respond to that subtle voice from within your brain urging you to be an alpha. You have to quiet the noise."
— Dr. Jim Hardt
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Biocybernaut Institute
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Anthony Sarandrea, the founder of SiteFlood, is a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker known as a renowned customer and lead generator across the globe.
Be sure to follow him on LinkedIn, Instagram, and gain access to his consulting and speaking engagements via his website.
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That's why, for this special episode of The Anthony Sarandrea Show, Anthony wanted to feature "the most important guest" (0:29) he's ever brought onto the show — his mother. From finding the "teachable moments" in raising four sons to help instill in them a sense of resilience, Mrs. Sarandrea played a crucial role in shaping Anthony and his brothers.
In this episode, Anthony and Colleen Sarandrea talk about the lessons they remember the most from each of their childhoods, why she was a "just strict enough" mother (8:46), and how she taught Anthony to overcome adversity.
What You'll Learn:
Favorite Quote:
"You can't control what's going to happen to you, and you can't control the responsibilities you have in the world. But you can control your attitude and how you handle it and how you're going to choose to rise above it."
— Colleen Sarandrea
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Anthony Sarandrea, the founder of SiteFlood, is a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker known as a renowned customer and lead generator across the globe.
Be sure to follow him on LinkedIn, Instagram, and gain access to his consulting and speaking engagements via his website.
Let us know you enjoyed this episode by visiting us on Apple Podcasts and giving us a review! We love hearing from you and appreciate your support of the show!
Some years back, serial entrepreneur and author Mike Michalowicz was on his third business. And it, like the two businesses before it, wasn't going well.
"I had two exits early on, both in the tech services space… they were never profitable, and so that meant the valuations got pushed down," he says. "The third business I started as an angel investor. I sucked. I call myself now, in retrospect, the Angel of Death. I was so bad. Every business I destroyed. But it woke me up to the fact that I was waiting for profit to happen."
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Mike was making a mistake that he believes most entrepreneurs make.
"I thought one day the switch would flip. If I got that next big client, that was the moment I'd be fine and be profitable. But as I looked at those businesses, I realized that profit isn't an event as I destroyed my third business. It's a habit, and it needs to be baked into every transaction every day."
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That was when Mike started transforming his approach to profit through small, everyday actions. Those actions ultimately laddered into the behavioral management system that's the basis of his book, "Profit First." In this episode of The Anthony Sarandrea Show, Anthony and Mike talk about the fundamental flaws that most entrepreneurs make in their understanding of profit and the health of their businesses — and how these fundamental flaws can be replaced with Mike's Foundational Five approach.
What You'll Learn:
Favorite Quote:
"Top-line thinking is basically 'how big is it?' It's dick-waving content, to be honest… The new question we've got to ask ourselves is 'how healthy is the business? That's the big question. And the next time someone asks you, 'Oh, tell me your revenue' or 'how many employees do you have,' actually say, 'You know what the better conversation is? Let's talk about how healthy our business is.' You'll see some people pop their eyes open."
— Mike Michalowicz
(10:50)
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Anthony Sarandrea, the founder of SiteFlood, is a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker known as a renowned customer and lead generator across the globe.
Be sure to follow him on LinkedIn, Instagram, and gain access to his consulting and speaking engagements via his website.
Let us know you enjoyed this episode by visiting us on Apple Podcasts and giving us a review! We love hearing from you and appreciate your support of the show!
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