The Patreon Fall Retreat Episode!!!

Austin, Amer, and John spend the weekend with the Weekly Ballers at a Whistler Lodge discussing last week’s topic of “is love a cloak?”, and compare that to a circumstance Amer is experiencing in TradeArc where his commitments to his clients get confusing.

Although Amer’s primary commitments are to his employees and shareholders, what’s the line of what you’ll do for your clients? Who else is going to challenge them? Who else is going to help them improve their retirement situation for themselves and their spouse, or give them time back with their kids? And who’s going to hit the monthly company goals? Who’s going to generate the input needed for TradeArc? How are you going to have the biggest impact?

We know that Amer has a client that would 100% be a fantastic candidate for his program if he was a bachelor but it becomes complicated when there’s the factor of him being a married man.

At some point the Patreons get a little stressed that our dads Austin and John have started fighting but it was pretty great to see it live regardless. No doubt after the recording it’s always all love so don’t be too worried 😂

And fyi contrary to John’s immediate attack on Merlyn, he doesn’t blink when he looks at her. Like a freak

• your wives will agree to being stay at home wives (if they do) likely because they have an agreement with you because that’s what’s best for your relationship and what you both want
• Let’s say the actual cost of paying a stay at home mom is like somewhere between $50k-$75k idk, but you’d pay Tricia for example a lot more money because the compatibility she has with you is so much more valuable than that
• Amer you’re asking if Tricia’s recommitted to John’s asks but if he’s saying her family’s given her a completely different lifestyle that isn’t much of a fair commitment to ask her to make she doesn’t know what this future looks like and I’m sure she’d hope the answer is yes she can do it and become someone that can thrive
• It’s the most optimal for Amer to focus his time on hiring a coach to take on these types of obstacles with clients
• Do you have a method to teach them?
• If not this one very rigorous example to move through might be in your benefit so you can train someone to manage it

Resources Mentioned:

• The Male Brain
• The Female Brain

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If you are in a romantic relationship, do you hold your significant other to a higher or lower standard than how you would hold... say an employee?

In this week's episode, Austin, Amer, and John have a pretty tough conversation that lots of us can relate to on the expectations and acceptance of your romantic partner. If your partner is continuously not fulfilling on their commitments to you, do you think it's possible that expectations should be renegotiated? Is it possible that your partner committed to certain things because they're afraid of disappointing you? Do you think there are hierarchies in romantic relationship? Should there be?... 

Opportunities that Amer mentioned: 

• There's an opportunity to be more flexible in defining a "man's role" and "woman's role"
• There's an oppportunity around excuse making and load management. Maybe you're creating a space where it's difficult for your significant other to have a conversation on their load managment. 
• For someone who is highly logical and analytical, there may be a lot of natural resistance against having an emotional understanding of a woman's needs. There is an opportunity to practice that emotional understanding to satisfy your significant other's emotional needs so that she's also satisfied in the relationship enough to reciprocate your logical needs. 
• When speaking about shooting averages we may not have resonable metrics to measuring our partner's success rate. There's an opportunity to see this relationship as less transactional. 

Extra Timestamps

• 31:45: When someone comes to work for John's company, it's the same life long commitment he feels to help them achieve their best life. 
• 1:05:15: What are you optimising for in life? Do you believe your relationship with your significant other is sourced from the need to optimize your business?
• 1:30:00: Opportunities Amer has mentioned

Resources from Gabe

• The Art of Loving

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While discussing the testimonials of TradeArc (0:50) Amer mentions the few strategies he's implemented to audit the learning of his clients. John then breaks down why recurring income is not necessarily better than one off sales through his personal experiences of buying Bubly cans. In the current model, there's no switching cost and it's not purchased as a subscription... so there's clearly something sticky about this Pepsi product. 

Not all recurring income is actually recurring and some one-time sales may actually become recurring income. 

Similar to Amer's business, James and himself have had multiple conversations on how in their industry of consulting, can they lower the "cost per acquisition" and increase the "value over lifetime". 

More Timestamps:

• 0:18: Managing Chaos
• 0:26-0:36: banking "money is a raw material" 
• 1:19: John's "Click" story
• 1:21: Amer Business Revelation
• 1:25: John's savage parenting take
• 1:29: Austin on MLB
• 1:37: Berkshire Hathaway on buying sports teams 
• 1:55: Amer's dream of being a night talk show host

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The guys revisit last week's conversation on a much more... *peaceful* note than the somewhat spicy end to the last episode. We agree that what Amer wants is to make sure Austin's challenged without a glass ceiling on the upsides... after all THIS IS THE GET PAID PODCAST for goodness sake!!!

Austin also acknowledges that she has a way better ability today to hear opinions like what Amer and John shared last week and stand beside it. In years prior, it could've been expected that he would completely vacate that entire conversation from his head because of how it made him feel I'm sure a lot of us can relate to vacating conversations that make us uncomfortable… It's important to remind ourselves that growth is usually uncomfortable. 

Later on in the podcast Austin shares his memories on his recently passed grandfather, Terry <3. I think we'd all be lucky to be surrounded by our loved ones in our passing moments. That being said... have you guys ever asked yourselves whether you'd prefer to die in your own home or in the hospital? The guys take an interesting perspective on this at around 1h in LOL

Here are some extra rough time stamped notes from our incredible BTS Gabe:

• 1:37: Correlation between competence of a man and the quality of the food at his wedding (lol)
• 1:42-2:00: Discussion on Edibles
• 2:18: John not happy running his business

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This might be one of the most value packed episodes you’ve heard in the entire podcast series. Lane Martin, the CEO and founder of Modern PURAIR, and father of Tristan Martin sit down with the guys this week to have a jampacked conversation all young entrepreneurs have a ton to learn from.We first dive into Lane’s business history and also get a little bit of insight into Tristan’s childhood. Then we discuss the mentors that have shaped Lane’s knowledge and mindset so far - including his one hour coffee chat with the owner of 1-800-GOT-JUNK! (Pretty ridiculously awesome gift from his wife) then we get to some highly transferrable advice and we can all start implementing in our business strategies. We’d love to hear your thoughts on this one!--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theweeklycall/message

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In this weeks episode, the guys discuss work life balance. Specifically the purpose that rewards and celebrations have in their lives. Later in the conversation Austin makes some realizations on “needing more”. This relates to some previous conversations the guys have had on “what you’re working towards” and “what you’re running from”. Near the end of the episode, Austin and John compare their distinct desires to sound smart and being optimally financially compensated being motivators for certain decision they find themselves making. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theweeklycall/message

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How often do you guys make time in your schedule just to think?

This week, John gets himself lost in the wilderness so Austin and Amer take on the weekend episode discussing the importance of checking in with yourself if your actions are truly in line with where you're trying to go.

Amer draws the comparison between what it means to provide a structured plan to execute what you want to accomplish versus the internal audit of just thinking about why it is you want to accomplish something. Is the accomplishment in fact aligned with the person you want to be? Are you satisfied with the sacrifices you're required to make? Is the means to the end also in integrity with your identity?

Coming up with the right questions to ask yourself may be the challenge in this case. 

Let us know your thoughts!

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I had always struggled with patience because I always saw patience as a lack of ambition.

And I could never have patience and drive coexist. I just remember having this lightbulb moment where I wrote down everything I was thinking and concluded that - “Life is much more akin to a walk in a park… it’s not a marathon.”

We compare this idea to “Life is a marathon, not a sprint” but that’s not really it either… there’s nothing to accomplish. One day, inevitably, we’ll all die.

And that’s not sad either.

So smell the f*cking roses because we’ve been given here a walk in the park. It’s literally about the journey.

James gives one fantastic example of what this looks like in his life - if any task to grow his business required him to compromise his fitness, eat healthy food, spend time with his loved ones, he just wouldn’t do it. He’d find a way to just scale his business much slower because that’s simply just not what life is about for him.

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As always, you can find the links to our Patreon, YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcast profiles in our Instagram bio!

Our Hosts: Austin Trudeau (@trudeautrain), Amer Abu Shakra (@amer.abushakra), & John Morgan III (who iconically doesn’t use any social media)

Guest: James Svetec (@jamessvetec)

BTS: Merlyn (@merlynjohn) & Gabe (@ggbobson)

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Resistance is a mythical concept created by American novelist Steven Pressfield that illustrates the universal force that he claims acts against human creativity.

And not just creativity, all action towards a goal.

It was first described in his non-fiction book The War of Art and elaborated in the follow-up books Do The Work and Turning Pro, and in other essays.

Tune in this week to hear Austin, Amer, and John discuss what resistance feels like in their businesses as they move from lower spheres to higher spheres.

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Austin and Amer had a conversation in Toronto when Austin visited for his birthday, and Amer just hasn't been able to stop contemplating it. 

"I was thinking about you! and your level of skill sets and your background. If I was you and I had the information that I have now, after Student Works I would've gone shopping for offers. Context: Austin is negotiating is compensation package with Rydell. I'm just surprised that you didn't kind of like sit down with TradeArc, sit down with Rydell, sit down with Shine, sit down with Pure Air, sit down with ProWorks - maybe you have and you just haven't told us. 

But if I was in your position, I would have a bit of a cockiness around me – like hey man, I know how to do these things, here's the people that are interested in me, and I would've start a quasi-bidding war where you could've signed a 3 year contract or something. 

Like you are a number one pick coming out of Student Works - this is something that every single operator should think about."

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