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Do you want to learn how to produce music?

Contact Vlad here: [email protected]

In this episode Owen Sheasby sits down with Vlad Freimann. Vlad is a full stack music producer. We discussed how he grew his YouTube channel to 8.5k+ subscribers, music, where creativity comes from, how you can become more creative, parenting (lessons from becoming a father), the school system, being selected to perform at Eurovision, the situation in Eastern Europe and more

All Links: www.linktree.com/thesheasbypodcast

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(01:11) Growing A YouTube Channel To 8.5k Subs

(08:37) Collabing With A YouTuber With 600k Subs

(16:07) Where Does Creativity Come From?

(18:08) Using Drugs For Creativity

(23:08) His Parenting Style

(29:14) Children's Minds Are Malleable. Be careful

(30:20) How His World View Changed After Becoming A Father

(33:49) You Have To Let Children Suffer

(36:59) Why Most People Can't Break Their Addictions/ Bad Habits

(38:25) Moving From Belarus To Israel

(42:19) Representing Belarus At Eurovision 47:30 Vlad's Longest Time In The Studio

(01:02:35) A Musicians Brain Vs Non-Musician Brain

(01:11:17) Finding The METAgame

(01:15:43) Theory vs (In) Practice

(01:20:43) Homeschooling

(01:22:28) The Situation In Eastern Europe

(01:25:59) Balancing Creativity and Technical Skills

(01:31:47) Having High Standards

Find Connor here:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ConnorWidmaier/featured

Twitter: https://twitter.com/CopyWriteConnor 

All Links: www.linktree.com/thesheasbypodcast

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(01:31) Podcast Begins

(02:16) Moving From The USA To Germany

(04:30) Why He Learnt Chinese

(06:32) Ghostwriting/ Copywriting

(14:13) Digital Nomading

(18:03) Having Multiple Home Bases

(27:53) What Connor Would Do If He Started Again

(30:30) The Importance Of Leverage

(33:38) Connor's Community/ Mastermind

(44:14) How Stoicism Impacted Connor

(49:12) Reading Old Books

(56:46) How Connor Got Ghostwriting Clients

(58:20) Investing In Skills vs Index Funds

(01:00:54) Improved Relationship With His Parents

(01:03:36) Start Now (Advice For Younger Self)

Find Wiktor here: 

https://www.youtube.com/@wiktorromanowicz

https://wiktorromanowicz.com/

https://www.skool.com/@wiktor-romanowicz-8629

All Links: www.linktree.com/thesheasbypodcast

Wiktor Romanowicz is a growth consultant. After dropping out of school at 15, he began his entrepenuerial path. Along the way he has made websites, ran a high level esports team, been a fitness coach, a salesman/ appointment setter (who has sold over $1 million online) and is now a growth consultant working with Andrew Kirby to scale the business to $1 million per month. In this episode Wiktor shared a lot of frameworks he uses to approach the world and make good decisions.

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(00:31) - Who is Wiktor Romanowicz? 

(00:55) - Dropping Out Of School At 15 (Wiktor's Journey) 

(06:45) - Why Wiktor Wanted Money From A Young Age 

(09:02) - What It Takes To Be Successful 

(12:58) - How Wiktor Got Into Sales & Consulting 

(23:41) - #1 Benefit Of Learning Sales 

(28:40) - Scaling 6 & 7 Figure Companies 

(30:34)- The Difference Between 6 & 7 Businesses 

(36:02) - The Skills Wiktor Is Working On Now 

(37:34) - How Wiktor Started Working For Andrew Kirby 

(41:03) - Most People Hate Their Work 

(43:39) - Wiktor's YouTube Channel 

(46:03) - Value Time Over Money 

(48:09) - 4 Projects In Life & 5 People Every 3 Years 

(51:20) - Easiest IQ Test 

(53:20) - Esports Business 

(57:49) - Making $10k From A Crypto Rug Pull 

(01:02:23) - Biggest Mindset Shifts/ Realizations 

(01:05:01) - Digital Nomading 

(01:08:10) - Less But Better

Find Callum here: https://www.youtube.com/@callumrylance

All Links: https://www.linktree.com/thesheasbypodcast

Callum has a YouTube channel based around spirituality, meditation and mental health. He used to smoke weed every day and party hard on the weekends. He has made a lot of progress on improving his life using tools such as breathwork, diet, meditation and psychedelics. He has also found success with the carnivore diet.

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(01:14) Callum's Ayahuasca trip

(01:45) Why do people take psychedelics?

(04:14) Did Ayahuasca Help?

(07:30) Spirituality/ The Ayahuasca Spirit

(12:36) What happens to Souls/ Spirits After You Die?

(17:20) Regenerative Farming/ Agriculture

(18:38) The Carnivore/ Keto diet

(23:13) The Carnivore Diet For Mental Health

(25:12) Vegetable Seed Oils

(26:39) Switching From Carnivore To Keto

(29:13) Is The Carnivore Diet Worth It?

(31:34) Animal Based Vs Keto (Is Fruit and Honey ok?)

(35:43) Problems with Western Healthcare

(39:03) All Things In Moderation Is Stupid

(41:06) Buying A House at 22

(43:24) Going viral (120k+ views on Callum's video)

(48:53) 'Live In Line With Your Truth'

(51:08) Does Manifestation Work? (Law Of Attraction)

(53:14) Identity

(56:48) Thoughts After Taking Ayahuasca (Was it worth it?)

(59:13) Breathwork

(01:04:30) Going To Bali, Indonesia

(01:06:04) 'Doing The Work'

(01:08:55) Materialism (Spiritual vs Physical Realm)

(01:11:45) Brain wave frequencies (Alpha, Theta, Gamma, Delta etc.)

(01:15:47) Dangerous Breathwork Technique

(01:17:55) Depression and Mental Health

Find Obai here:

www.youtube.com/@ObaiDotMe

www.instagram.com/obai.me

www.twitter.com/ObaiDotMe

[email protected]

Obai transformed himself 'from weak, depressed, overweight, and terribly stuck in life (...) into a skillful, joyful, healthy, and genuinely happy and excited person.' In this episode we break down how he managed to make this transformation and how other people can do the same.

If you are struggling, reach out to someone who has achieved what you want to achieve. Obai and Owen are willing to help if you think we could help you.

All Links: www.linktree.com/thesheasbypodcast

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(01:01) Owen's Different Content Channels

(03:53) Obai's Big Realisation (He realised his life wasn't going how he wanted and decided to try and change it)

(05:16) The Importance of Self Accountability

(14:12) Obai's Goals That He Aimed to Hit By 30 Years Old

(21:22) How did he end up in a bad position?

(25:02) How To Stop Caring What People Think

(27:46) 'How To Get Out Of Depression'

(35:17) Obai's Future Plans

(42:29) Do Young People Experience Less Judgement?

(48:11) Make Social Media Algorithms Work For You (Not Against You)

(50:30) The Information Is Out There (Get Mentored By People Who Have Solved Your Problem)

(53:21) Top 1% Podcast

(57:50) Start Improving Your Life ASAP

(01:01:54) 'You Always Have A Choice'

(01:05:14) How We Have Changed

(01:10:21) Obai's Key Habits That Changed His Life

Check them out!

Raphael Mayr

Jamie Barclay 

Mia-Aiyana Cardenas

Cotton Sam

Owen Sheasby Fitness (me!) 

We all participated in a challenge called Discomfort December where each day each one of us chose an uncomfortable challenge that we then completed and made a video about. Here are our best moments, favourite challenges and more.

All Links: www.linktree.com/thesheasbypodcast

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(00:00) What is Discomfort December?

(00:43) What was your favourite challenge?

(10:40) How many subscribers did you gain?

(16:51) Who has the best challenges?

(28:33) Physical vs Mental Discomfort (Which is harder?)

(32:20) Do you feel tougher after having done it?

(37:26) Is there anything you would do differently?

(45:06) Would you do it again?

(51:47) Plans for next year

In this episode the Sheasby brothers sit down with each other and answer some questions that they would like their future selves to answer. They give their current answers to see how their opinions have changed over time. At the point of recording they are 11 and 17 years old respectively. We will revisit these questions in 5, 10, 15+ years.

Thanks to Ragul MD, Benedek Santa, Mia-Aiyana Cardenas, Jonathan Santillan, Christian Vandaos for contributing questions.

Thumbnail credit/ help from Jamie Barclay

All Links: https://linktr.ee/thesheasbypodcast

Timestamps

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(00:00) Intro

(00:48) Who do you look up to?

(03:08) What does it take to be successful?

(09:15) Favourite book or quote

(10:21) Biggest fear

(12:24) Advice for younger/ older self

(16:03) first thing you will do when you reach financial freedom

(19:30) Do you like Andrew Tate? 22:08 Where do you see your self in 5, 10, 15 years?

(26:04) Where do you see yourself in other aspects of life apart from YouTube?

(33:55) Where do you see the podcast?

(38:04) Do you think Communism is a good idea?

(40:33) Part 2

(41:30) Are you happy with your life?

(44:00) Did you reach your potential?

(46:09) Why did we struggle so much?

(47:43) Why did we not want to try new things?

(49:05) Why do we have what we have?

(50:02) Who is dead and who is alive?

(51:40) What are your relationships like?

(52:48) Do you have a girlfriend?

(55:13) Thought on having children and legacy

(59:43) Thoughts On Diet and Health / Current Workouts

(01:08:12) How many countries have we visited?

(01:10:19) Thoughts on Religion and Death

Akira The Don is a music producer, DJ, wavelord and creator of Meaningwave. He has worked with many big names in the music industry including Justin Bieber, Harry Styles, The Weeknd and more. He has 200,000+ monthly listeners on Spotify and his YouTube channel has amassed over 20 million views.  His Meaningwave music has 'the aim of helping listeners achieve their potential in this lifetime' and features the likes of Jordan Peterson (who he did a podcast with), Joe Rogan, Naval Ravikant, David Goggins, Jocko Willink and more.   

Find Akira Here:  

https://www.akirathedon.com/

https://www.youtube.com/@akirathedon

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00:00 Intro/ Podcast Starts 

01:29 Who Is Akira The Don? 

06:20 The Problem With Modern Pop Music

07:05 What is Gonzo Journalism?

09:49 The Power Of The Subconcious Mind

18:30 The MOST Listened to Person on Meaningwave (Jocko Willink vs Jordan Peterson)

28:27 This Label REFUSED to Publish Akira's Music

31:47 The USA is becoming a 3rd world country

33:59 Akira got LOCKED OUT of the USA 

39:01 How many of the Featured People know about Meaningwave?

47:30 How Meaningwave has Changed Akira

49:10 Akira's Childhood (leaving home at 15 years old) 

52:46 Is Akira the Don Financially Free? 

59:08 Akira's Thoughts On Religion

01:07:45 Where does the name Akira The Don come from?

01:10:52 Where did Akira's producer tag come from? (At what point did Akira the Don 'have clout'?)

All Links: https://linktr.ee/thesheasbypodcast

Cheaithanya's Twitter: https://twitter.com/CheaithanyaP

In this episode Owen sits down with Cheaithanya Pappu and they discuss mental models, frameworks, twitter, books, self improvement, daily routines, dealing with judgement, the school system and more. 

All Links: https://linktr.ee/thesheasbypodcast

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(00:10) Why Cheaithanya wanted to come on the podcast 

(03:18) How Cheaithanya got into self improvement 

(04:04) Twitter Growth 

(11:53) Our Daily Routines 

(18:30) Books 

(24:21) How productive is Owen when he is working? 

(28:27) Cheaithanya's Future Plans

(30:30) Dealing with Judgement in School/ Work (First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win)

(34:03) Frameworks and Mental Models

(34:10) W.I.R.E. Framework

(37:19) The '2 Minute' Rule

(37:33) Scheduling

(45:32) The Importance of Context when using Frameworks ('Say Yes to everything' vs 'Hell Yeah or No')

(49:12) The Inversion Principle

(49:50) Leverage is really overlooked

(51:55) Thoughts on the School System

(57:39) Other Frameworks Owen Uses (Memento Mori, Amor Fati, The Cookie Jar )

(59:11) Cause and Effect

(01:05:29) Four Inputs That Influence An Output

(01:08:33) The Alex Hormozi Value Equation

Ronen's Twitter: https://twitter.com/RonenHayempour

In this episode Owen sits down with Ronen Hayempour and they discuss twitter, being a teenage entrepreneur while still in school, how Ronen made $17k in one month at age 14, favourite books, Twitter vs LinkedIn, why you shouldn't diversify, the school system and more.

(00:40) How Ronen Got Into Business At Such A Young Age

(05:16) Ronen's Other Side Hustles 

(08:21) Ronen's Biggest Mistake: Not Doubling Down (Don't Diversify Too Much) 

(11:05) Why Ronen Chose Twitter 

(15:13) Does Ronen Want To Stay In California? 

17:24) How Often Does Ronen Tweet? 

(26:14) Ronen's Favourite Books

(34:18) Ronen's Thoughts On The School System 

(45:03) Twitter Vs LinkedIn 

(49:11) How long does Ronen Spend On Twitter? 

(54:50) Thoughts On Iman Gadzhi

All Links: https://linktr.ee/thesheasbypodcast