Ryan Holiday is a strategist and a writer. He wrote the NYTimes Bestseller Trust Me, I’m Lying: confessions of a media manipulator, Growth Hacker Marketing, and most recently he wrote on Stoicism with his book The Obstacle Is The Way.

If Obstacle was about external obstacles, his next book is about internal obstacles: Ego Is The Enemy.

I’m giving away 10 of copies of the book on August 1, and if you go to http://bit.ly/29GO0lr you can enter to win a copy of the book.

You may not know her name (by her own design), but you likely have read her writing. 

Maeve Roughton is a writer and a strategist, working with clients like Google, Questlove, PlayStation, and Zappos; and she has led creative initiatives with agencies such as TBA Global and Agent of Change.  I got in contact with Maeve via the Dreamers // Doers community, and we talked about strategy, writing, what being a gemini does to your consciousness, Bridge to Act, and much more.

Avery Roth is the founder of The Startup Consulting Group, where she guides startups of all shapes and sizes towards success. In the past, She has worked in London, brazil, paris & Miami, with hedge funds & investment banks, she speaks 5 languages, and has written for Fortune magazine to get her message out about the new world of work. We talk about how companies can find Product-Market-Fit, how the startup consulting group guides companies, and about the importance of having a network.

Lillian Daniels is the creator of the LillianDaniels.com, through which helps people eat healthier & study yoga, and happyknee.com through which she provides guidance on repairing knee injuries without surgery. In this interview we discuss her transition from working in safe Accounting job to taking a risky trip to Thailand how she controls her energy to avoid procrastination, an early ACL injury and the subsequent recovery that brought her from wearing a 4-foot brace, to running for 30 minutes straight within a year.

Annabel Acton created NeverLikedItAnyways.com, the eBay for breakup stuff. Since launching in 2012, "Bella" has focused on ensuring the company makes breakups suck less. We talk about how she came up with the idea, her time spent working in innovation consulting, what a “stage gate” process is, and how she bullied her way into a job, the difference between urgent and important, octopus hearts, how she focuses to make progress.

Julia Wojnar is a public speaking coach and created UnlesashYourPresence.com to offer her expertise to others.

Sometimes, people don’t know where to start when they’ve got something to talk about. For these people, Julia has put together the Get Speaking blueprint, which you can see and hear - you can get it in both both audio and text! - really cool way to do it: text right from your phone, text the word SPEECH to 33444.

In our discussion, we talk about how she created Unleash Your Presence by pivoting when given the opportunity to start her own company, we talk about finding a business coach, and public tactics the power of the pause, ways to be yourself and speak effectively, and how she focuses to make it work.

Snippets of my upcoming interview with public speaking expert & creator of Unleashyourpresence.com creator Julia Wojnar. Full episode coming soon!

To get Julia's "Get Speaking Blueprint" text SPEECH to 33444

Belma Mccaffrey created Work Bigger to help young professionals find meaning in their work lives and their careers. In this interview, we talk about the iterations that Work Bigger has gone through, how she balances working full time at the Associated Press, being a new mother and building Work Bigger all at the same time, how she stays present, and how she focuses to get it all done.

Teaser for my interview with Belma McCaffrey founder of https://belmamccaffrey.com and creator of Work Bigger.

Full Episode coming soon!

Billy McFarland is the Founder & CEO of Magnises - a company that connects those who want to level-up their lives with access to the experiences that make that level-ing up happen. In our interview, we talk about how he began creating companies in 6th grade, why Billy loves Chaos, level-ing up life, how he wound up drag-racing Teslas on a airport runway, how he plans to grow Magnises to 1 Million members in 5 years, and of course, how he focuses.

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