What do you think happens when a country’s biggest icons for the Royal Family? 

Something like the Kim Kardashian effect. 

There is a bit of jealousy that you aren’t them and want to be them, and there’s also something interesting about them that makes you give them your attention. 

During Amer’s visit to Jordan, he reflects with Austin and John on the culture he experienced in Amman. Everyone is playing the social game - everyone asks you where are you ate, who you spoke to, is checking if your license plate starts with a 10, talking about you and talking to you about other people. Almost never in a good light either. 

Amer also points out that for people our age, it’s incredibly rare to become successful and wealthy. It makes sense then that the entire country indulges in the social game instead of the financial game - the odds have really been stacked against them to win the financial one.

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In this weeks episode, the guys review their years, reflect on their progress and share a summary of what’s up and coming for them.Austin shares that he is working towards being in the best shape of his life – which is actually when he was a production manager for Student Works Painting. He says that he has somewhere between 4 to 6 months to go to achieve this goal through rigourous optimization habits and simultaneously working towards spending more time with his mom and sister.The guys also delve into a conversation about how their parents are ageing – something a lot of us in our mid to late 20s may be thinking about too. Listeners, what are you working towards this year? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theweeklycall/message

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In this week’s podcast we are joined by Patrick Lalonde who says that the main reason he loves running multiple businesses is because he gets super fired up about wanting to work on new fun projects. This will shock you but he also soon realizes that running so many projects at once is a hell of a lot of work! LOL and so Patrick does have a commitment - no new ideas (for now). It’s time to execute. Working 12 hour days, 5–6 days a week just isn’t always as fun as you think it might be. At some point Patrick decided that he was making a lot of money and had absolutely no time to spend it. Patrick also reflects on how he really needed more of a balance for himself and he’s achieved that now by instead of running multiple side projects, he invest majority of his time in his business and in his spare time he finds interesting ways to spend his money – currently it’s his house! Or should we say mega mansion? 😈--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theweeklycall/message

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In this week’s podcast, Austin, Amer, and John start off the episode by exploring the Abu Shakra last name and Amer‘s plans to spend the holidays in Jordan. This is a pretty unique experience - going back to the country you grew up in and seeing family that you haven’t seen since you were a child. Imagine the babies growing up in your family developing personalities, social circles, and interests while you were growing up yourself in another country. Later in the episode, the guys discuss their past lives where they used to all play video games 😂 and John reveals that he used to be a ranked player! (before he became a man or something like that)And for all of our UFC fans, this discussion also included a reflection on the mindset that influences certain matches much more than most other sports (especially team). --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theweeklycall/message

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In this weeks podcast, the guys take a deep dive into what financing looks like for homeowner - it's pretty fascinating how many interactions Austin and Gabe have faced where a family can't get approved for roofing financing options but really want to work with their team… And it's even more fascinating who these people end up being. When the owners of a beautiful Porsche and a beautiful house don't get approved for personal finances, it's sometimes true that they may just not pay themselves very much out of the business they owe and could possibly get a business line of credit instead. 

If you're looking into your own personal banking, business related banking, obtaining lots of credit, this episode has a lot of value in it for you!

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In this weeks episode, John and Amer uniquely covered about 90% of the episode without Austin! Crazy we know.

The reason being was that Austin was driving back from Toronto, got stuck in traffic (typical Toronto) and so the guys weren’t able to jump on his usual zoom link… This meant that Amer had to use his zoom link and funny enough when Austin got back home, John and Amer respectfully had all their devices turned off to be able to focus on their conversation, and so Austin spent some time crying in the Patreon group chat instead of jumping on the call 😂

Contact wise, this is an incredibly valuable conversation for our Student Works listeners and anyone else growing their own business.

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Do you guys remember when drop shipping was popular? Some of the people who thought they found success would come back and say “oh I made $3 million on this cup!” But what were the profits like?

Amer points out that one of the reasons he wanted to work with Patrick is that he is actively managing a successful business and franchise. Of course that protects objections during sales, but more importantly it’s evidence that his line of business is actually what generates the most revenue for his career. This is different from random drop shippers in New Zealand (for example) telling you they’ve gotten rich off of drop shipping while they’re making most of their money off of selling courses.

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In this weeks podcast, Austin Amer and John take a deep dive into the lens Amer currently holds on his love life.

The sense of purpose that you can drive out of the love you can have of another human being can benefit you tremendously.

These are the main benefits that John has described seeing for Amer:

1. It would be outstandingly humbling
2. He thinks Amer could “unfuck himself” in that, his level of compassion and empathy for others would skyrocket being in love.
3. In order to attract a mate that you actually want, you have to step up your own game. For example, when you go into the dating pool and date a bunch of women. For most of those cases you’ll find out “holy shit this is not at all what I want”. And then you might come to the realization that what you want is not something that you necessarily deserve, therefore, I need to step up my game to acquire a more high-quality mate.

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The greatest sales people aren’t necessarily the people who can bring a “no” to a “yes”. The greatest sales people are the ones who can recognize when their ideal client is in front of them, and help them make decisions that will improve their current condition.

In this week’s podcast, Amer talks about the new challenges that come with leading a sales team and how the experience has brought a new light to his own talents.

He uses this phenomenal analogy – if you’re baking and your cookies turned out amazing because you added a little bit more vanilla extract than usual, and someone who tries your cookies asks you what you did differently to make them so amazing this time, unless you’re an incredible baker it might be hard for you to pinpoint. You might end up telling people that you added more sugar this time… and when they try it they won’t get the same result that you did.

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Empathy (noun): the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

A baby isn’t in a position to understand wrong from right… which is why everyone just likes babies right? What’s there to not like about a baby? They’re very simple creatures - they live to eat, sleep, and take mysterious dumps :)

In this podcast, Austin, Amer and John take a deep dive into what empathy looks like in their lives.

John gives an example of how he’s had a recent experience getting in touch with his sister, who he doesn’t share much of a relationship with in her adulthood, where he provided her with his honest truth on his opinion on her pending divorce.

It seems that empathy has a logic focus in the masculine brain and empathy has an emotion/relationship focus in the feminine brain.

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