The Startup Circle

Twitter bans Trump, we have a brand new side hustle and I just finished one of my all time favorite personal growth books (The One Thing by Gary Keller). 

I was unsure about Andy Frisella the first time I saw his content. But he's grown on me so much. Seeing his #75HARD program spread like wildfire, I decided to give it a try. And it's been life changing so far as I'm on day 37.

We've both caught Covid. We talk about how we think we caught it, the symptoms and how it measures up to our expectations. 

Buying a bar is also one of our dreams. Is the juice worth the squeeze? 

In this episode, I talk about the benefits of opening the country, how I was conned into a bad contract and how I make side money. 

I came across Jemma Jorel Lester on Medium.com, where she explained in a blog all the long term benefits of giving up alcohol for good. 

Everyone is looking for the shortcut: artificial intelligence that has conversations for you, job boards that spray your post to 100 different sources, tools that blast emails. Finding candidates and creating relationships relies on your ability to initiate conversation. 

Lauren Lawrence is the founder of Stenovate, a web based platform in the legal vertical. Lauren got her business going by recognizing a problem in the industry she was working in and took action. We talked about the tough parts about getting a business going, what our expectations were and what has happened since. 

There's a lot of pros and cons with starting your own business. The key is: do you love your potential business enough to drown out the cons? 

John Hill, a host from The Sales Throwdown, joins the show to talk sales and starting your own business.

Jordan Belfort (Wolf of Wall Street) had Grant Cardone on his podcast. This was the first time I've seen the YouTube comments completely on one side: Cardone got burned. 

Why do we follow influencers in sales and why do we think they hold the "secret sauce?"