The Business Method: Interviewing Billionaires, Billion Dollar Founders & the World’s Most Successful People 🎧🔥 (Chris Reynolds)

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Typically, there are around 10,000 agents working in the FBI at any given period, but there is only one lead international kidnapping negotiator, and that is our guest today! 

His name is Chris Voss and prior to 2008, Chris led kidnapping negotiations all around the world for the United States’ FBI. On top of that, Chris was the hostage negotiation representative for the National Security Council’s Hostage Working Group. During his government career, he also represented the U.S. at two international conferences sponsored by the G-8 as an expert in kidnapping. Prior to becoming the FBI’s lead kidnapping negotiator, Chris served as the lead Crisis Negotiator for the New York City Division of the FBI and, he has been a member of the city’s Joint Terrorist Task Force for 14 years.  

After his 24 year tenure in the FBI Chris founded The Black Swan Group with his son Brandon helping corporations and businesses get the most optimal results at the negotiating table.

04:08 Who is Chris Voss?

06:27 When Did Chris Find His Passion In Negotiation?

07:51 How Chris Started To Volunteer In A Suicide Hotline

11:13 Most Intense International Negotiation Chris Encountered

14:39 How To Manage Sanity After Work

16:49 The Negotiating Concept of “Mirroring”

21:23 The Different Systems Of Thinking

26:35 What Is Tactical Empathy?

32:39 The Importance Of Getting A “No” Before a “Yes”

39:22 What is The Black Swan in Negotiations?

44:00 Question From Audience: Negotiating Cultural Differences With Ease

50:46 Question From Audience: What Something Chris Wished He Had Known Decades Ago

56:26 How To Reach Out To Chris Voss

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Website: BlackSwanltd.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BlackSwanLTD

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-black-swan-group

Twitter: https://twitter.com/BlackSwanGrp

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Blackswanltd1

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blackswangroupltd/ 

Personal LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christophervoss?trk=org-employees 

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Listeners. I have a treat for you today. We have, joining us on the podcast, Tim Gannon and Chris Gannon. Tim is one of the original co-founders of Outback Steakhouse. He's also the creator of The Blooming Onion, which is Outback's most popular appetizer that has sold over a billion dollars in product, and Tim is on the show today with his son, Chris Gannon. 

Chris is the co-founder of Bolay Restaurants, one of the hottest new, fast-casual dining restaurants in Florida. They have 19 locations now, and are focused on rapid growth over the next 5 years. It's fascinating to listen to the father & son duo of these restapreneurs on the podcast and talk about this legacy that Tim has built for himself and his family, and how in many ways, Chris is following in the footsteps of Tim. We discuss the lessons that they have learned throughout their lives as entrepreneurs and the legacy that Chris is continuing to pursue.

It's a fascinating story of the father and son entrepreneurial duo!

05:26: Tim & Chris Gannon Intro

07:40: Starting Outback Steakhouse in 1988

10:20: Selling a Saddle to Start Outback

20:30: Playing Polo as a Business Network

22:55: Transferring Success From Father to Sun

32:30: Co-Founder of Outback on Going Public Three Times

45:20: Getting the Boundaries of Business Ethics Pushed

50:30: Chris Gannon’s High-Performance Tips

51:40: Tim Gannon’s High-Performance Tips

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Benton Crane ~ CEO of Harmon Bros.

~ Current Series ~ 100 Interviews with 100 Major Influencers

Our guest today is Benton Crane the CEO of Harmon Bros. and if you haven't heard of Harmon Bros. there is a good chance you have seen a commercial or advertisement that was created by them.  If you have seen a commercial for Poo Pourri, Clickfunnels, Woodwind Grills, Purple Mattress, Chatbooks, and my favorite the legendary Squatty Potty video ads that made them legends and who was also interviewed on our podcast about 3 years ago, those are the typical viral video ads they create.

Harmon Bros. has over $350 Million in sales as a direct result from their video ads, and nearly 1.5 billion cumulative client video views. They have a now top-rated podcast called From Poop to Gold and a book by the same name. 

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02:00: Who is Benton Crane/ Harmon Bros?

05:55: Starting Harmon Bros

14:28: Harmon Bros Creative Process

26:41: The Hero’s Journey

34:06: Pillars of a Viral Video

39:54: The Squatty Potty Video Breakdown

53:46: Where to Find Harmon Bros?

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In 2007, I learned a life-changing lesson: the difference between a victim mindset and an accountable mindset. This episode breaks down how shifting your perspective can transform your success, relationships, and daily life. Tune in to learn how to take control.

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Jeremy Parker ~ CEO of Swag.com

~ High-Performance Entrepreneurship ~

Jeremy Parker is the co-founder & CEO of Swag.com. Swag has been ranked #218 on Inc Magazine’s Top 5000 List. They are a top eCommerce platform for purchasing promotional materials offering a wide variety of customizable branded content.  Swag warehouses products until customers would like to have them delivered to remote clients and employees, en masse or individually. Jeremy and the Swag team have created some amazing results over the past few years. They did $365k in business year one, $1.1M year two, $7M in sales year three, and $15.5M this past year. They have grown 2000% over three years, creating partnerships with thousands of companies including TikTok, Facebook, Google, Amazon, Netflix, and Spotify.  

Jeremy himself is a serial entrepreneur having created multiple successful organizations over the course of his entrepreneurial career. Jeremy went on to start multiple companies with his brother David and notable partner Jesse Itzler, Co-Founder of Marquis Jet, and owner of Atlanta Hawks. His first company Tippt, an e-commerce platform that distributes unique promotion codes through social media went on to be acquired by a publicly traded company. Jeremy himself was named one of Crain's NY 40 Under 40, and one of my favorite traits about him is his passion for spreading positivity & kindness in business while infusing awareness into how we consume.

03:17 Who is Jeremy Parker?

08:58 Getting the Swag.com Domain

12:02 Jeremy’s Entrepreneurial Journey

16:23 How Filmmaking Inspired Jeremy

19:00 Creating Partnerships w/ Famous Youtubers

24:21 Swag.com Business Model

28:42 Warehousing Product

37:00 Creating Partnerships w/ Tik Tok, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix & Spotify

45:00 Swag.com 2021 Vision

47:26 How Jeremy Picks Business Winners

50:37 Spreading Positivity & Kindness

53:37 Where to Find Jeremy Parker

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How does the FBI, CIA and Special Ops teams negotiate with kidnappers, international terrorists and the most dangerous people on the planet? Are there secret strategies to negotiate that give you a superpower for getting anything that you want? What if you just learned a few key tips on negotiating to save a couple thousand dollars on the price of your next car? 

Well the truth is, there are tips and strategies we can use to learn how to be better negotiators, they are easy to learn, and it doesn’t take months of training to pick up. In fact, everything in life is a negotiation. You negotiate with people you live with, your family, and friends, strangers, and you even negotiate with yourself on a daily basis. Quite often, they are simple things like what you’re going to eat for dinner, other times they are more important things, like what school to send your kids to. Good negotiation is really about good communication, and learning to the back and forth of communication well. It is not about manipulation, but about empathic communication, and understanding others points of view. 

Today, we have one of the top authorities on negotiation on our podcast, and I am really excited to have him on the show! His name is Brandon Voss, and he is the President of The Black Swan Group. The Black Swan Group is a strategic business advisory firm that focuses on business negotiation. Their negotiation structure stems from Brandon’s father Chris Voss who was the FBI’s lead international kidnapping negotiator for 20 years. They use hostage negotiation skills to solve business negotiation problems, and it works like a charm.  It is a process that recalibrates communication efforts in order to close better deals and create long lasting relationships. 

Brandon is Black Swan’s thought leader with respect to the three main negotiator types: The Analyst, the Assertive and the Accommodator. Knowing these three types can change your results massively when closing deals. It gives you an edge over others when sitting at the negotiating table. Throughout the show, we are going to discuss Brandon’s strategies, how to use them to make more money, find out how to mitigate conflict with confidence, become a better communicator, and create better relationships in our own lives. Last, but certainly not least, we will talk about the little known ‘Black Swan’ effect that is essential to understand when negotiating any deal in your life. 

     04:57 Who is Brandon Voss?

     06:38 Brandon’s Most Intense Business Negotiation

     14:17 Understanding The Emotional Brain

     19:05 Neuroscience of Negotiation

     25:10 Is Chris’ Negotiation Strategy any Good?

     31:57 The Next First Move

     35:27 3 Negotiator Types

     38:49 The “Black Swan”

     44:12 How To Disconnect From a Desired Outcome

     47:54 The Short Game

     51:02 The Mirroring Tactic

     53:40 Active Listening

     59:10 Brandon’s Dream Negotiation

01:02:32 Where To Find Brandon Voss?

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Today,  we welcome a friend to the show,  Zion Kim. Zion is very passionate about helping other entrepreneurs grow. In 2020 alone, Zion grew 3 successful companies of his own and helped 6 private clients at least double their businesses while doing more of what they love and scaling with great teams. He was kicked out of business school his freshman year and has since started six, numerous and 7 figure companies, two of them while still an undergrad. His company 1MT is currently on a mission to support 1 million entrepreneurs to 7 figures and beyond to add a trillion dollars to the global economy. Zion is the CEO of 1MT, the co-creator of the R.O.I. Method and

the founder of Project Nuclear.

03:46 Zion & Chris Chat Personal Brands

11:36 Who is This Man of Mystery Zion Kim?

20:27 Do You Have 10 Years of Experience or 1 Year of Experience Repeated 10 Times?

32:22 Learning Growth Lessons Faster

35:57 What to Recognize Unconscious Behaviors That No Longer Serve You

39:42 Having Systems to Keep Us Disciplined

44:37 Choosing What Personal Thoughts to Believe

56:47 Coach vs. Consultant vs. Mentor 

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/zion.kim

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Clint Arthur ~ Author Break Through Your Upper Limits on TV

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Host of The Greatest Show of All Time on 77WABC Radio in New York City  Celebrity Entrepreneur, Personal Branding Expert, Wharton Business School graduate, Dan Kennedy's GKIC Info-Marketer of The Year, with 20 years experience running his own gourmet food company.

Clint's #1 Bestsellers include Break Through Your Upper Limits on TV, followed by What They Teach You At The Wharton Business School, then Speaking Game: 7-Figure Speaker Secrets Revealed, and his latest manifesto: Celebrity Entrepreneurship, then you also have The Greatest Book of All Time, The Presidents Code - Common Traits of Uncommon Leaders, The Last Year of Your Life, The Last Lecture for Entrepreneurs and Authors…. 21 Performance Secrets of Donald Trump

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Clint believes the Meaning of Your Life is Determined by You. That You Can Do More, Be More, and Have More — and Capacity is a State of Mind.

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03:10: Who is Clint Arthur?

14:58: The 5 Elements of Celebrity Entrepreneurship

23:10:The Hierarchy of Media

32:38: Clint on Goal Setting

39:43: Where to Find Clint Arthur?

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Matt Gallant is our guest on The Business Method Podcast today. Matt is a seasoned, serial entrepreneur, biohacker, life optimizer and practical spirituality student that has built 14 profitable companies. Over his 20 year career as an entrepreneur and marketer Matt has captured over 8 million leads, tested 18,000 marketing experiments, spent over $10 million on digital advertising and made over $100 million in online sales. 

Matt is maybe best known as the founder and CEO of Bioptimzers, a top-of-the-line supplement company helping tens of thousands of people optimize their performance levels. 

    03:49 Who is Matt Gallant?

    06:22 Controlling Your States of Mind

    13:13 The Neurochemistry of an Asshole

    15:52 How Testosterone Changes Affect One’s State Changes

    17:12 A Menu of States

    20:52 Getting the Correct Nutrients from Food to Reduce Supplement Intake

    27:22 Grinding & High-Performance States

    30:17 What is Neurofeedback & Alpha, Beta, Theta, Delta & Gamma Brain States

    39:32 Easy Ways to Train Your Brain States

    46:17 Does Neurofeedback Always Work?

    54:37 Changing the Primal Emotional Triggers of Our Brain

1:02:32 How to Get in the Correct Brainstate for Forgiveness

1:06:52 Matt’s Daily Routine

1:18:47 Matt’s Podcast Supplement Stack

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For twenty years, our guest today served in the most elite special operations force in the world, the US Navy SEALs.  He is a decorated veteran, who planned, led and executed hundreds of special operations missions in more than 40 countries on 5 continents. 

He was involved in some of the most significant and defining special operations missions of our time. He led the ground assault on an Iraqi paramilitary stronghold to conduct the first successful US prisoner of war rescue since WWII.  Years later, in the jungles of Colombia, he played a key role in the planning and execution of the successful rescue of US and Colombian personnel held for over 5 years in captivity by the FARC. He has briefed the Secretary of Defense, Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, Director of the CIA, Director of the NSA, Director of National Intelligence, members of the National Security Council, as well as ambassadors.

With twenty-plus years of tactical, operational, and strategic knowledge as a leader on the frontlines, he is now the co-founder at Xundis Global, which helps organizations and individuals increase performance, leadership, and innovation. His name is Commander David Sears and he is on the podcast today!

   04:19 Who is Commander David Sears?

   05:39 Being Surrounded By Elite Performers Constantly

   12:14 The Beginning of Becoming a Navy Seal - What Commander Sears Was Like in His Early Years

   22:09 Commander Sears’ 1st Missions Into Colombia & Iraq

   28:39 How to Control Emotions

   32:59 A Mission That Made Commander Sears’ Think Differently

   41:24 Never Ending Systems that Control Us

   44:14 NavySEAL Maxims

   52:14 Applying the NavySEAL Mindset to Entrepreneurship

1:01:04 Commander Sears’ Daily Routine & High-Performance Tips

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Commander Sears Book: “Smarter Not Harder: 17 Navy SEAL Maxims to Elevate Critical Thinking and Prosper in Business and Life”

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On the show today we are welcoming an individual who has been recognized as one of the most powerful people in Real Estate. He is the Vice President of publishing and executive editor at one of the highest rated, and largest real estate companies on the planet, Keller Williams Realty. Keller Williams has over 1000 offices around the world with more than 175,000 agents working for them. In 2018 alone Keller Williams Realty generated over $332 Billion, yes I said Billion, in sales. 

His name is Jay Papasan, and he is the VP for Keller Williams International, a co-founder of KellerINK, and Keller Capital.  He is the co-author of numerous best-selling books including The One Thing, which has sold more than 1.5 million copies, it’s been translated into over 40 languages, it has over 10k reviews on Amazon at 4.5 stars and the book has appeared on more than 500 national bestseller lists.

Today, we are going to talk with Jay about the principles outlined in The One Thing, how he uses those principles in his life to achieve massive success, and a bit about this multi-billion dollar behemoth Keller Williams!

     3:58 Intro

     6:28 How Jay Papasan Started

     7:29 The Expansion Of Keller Williams

     8:11 History of Keller Williams

   12:58 Profit Sharing

   18:03 Qualifications To Hold A Franchise For Keller Williams

   22:41 Resources of Studies For The Keller Williams System

   23:10 Franchise Documents Research

   26:13 The Role Of Jay Papasan In Keller Williams

   35:13 The Philosophy Of “One Thing”

   38:21 How Many Hours Jay Spent On That “One Thing”

   41:56 Realistically Hitting Goals

   44:58 The Importance Of “Focusing Question”

   49:01 Self-Accountability To Achieve Goals

   53:25 The Downside Of Sharing Goals To Other People

   55:59   Four Thieves Of Productivity 

1:03:58 What sets Jay Apart

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A new year podcast with Chris Reynolds on how to use high-performance goal setting methods to make 2020 your best year ever!

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Bobby Edwards ~ Founder of Squatty Potty 

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On this episode, we are joined by the CEO and founder of the legendary and so incredibly viral poop stool Squatty Potty. His name is Bobby Edwards and back in 2012, Bobby’s mother was having some troubles pooping. So, Bobby did what any good-hearted son would do, he got creative and designed a stool that would help her poop, and it worked!  His Mom (Judy) deemed the magic stool to be called Squatty Potty and now they are running a corporation that had $30 million in sales in 2016.

Bobby is an incredibly warm-hearted guy and you will be able to tell from the show that he is humbled and flattered from the success. Squatty Potty has literally changed the way people poop. The family receives ‘thank you’ messages all the time, and Squatty Potty has been featured on Oprah, CNBC, Shark Tank, Forbes, Inc, Entrepreneur Magazine, Dr. Oz, Howard Stern, The View, and has a YouTube video that cleared over 150 million views complete with a unicorn pooping rainbow ice cream.

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Today we will get behind this ingenious entrepreneurial mind and chat with Bobby about the growth of Squatty Potty. He shares some ups and downs, some essential elements to the business's growth, and some tips for fellow entrepreneurs out there about the difference between the 7-figure and 8-figure mentalities in business.

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“People responded to toilet posture….and that’s when we started getting a response.” Bobby Edwards

03:55: How Squatty Potty Started

11:30: Getting Traffic in Year 1

14:33: Mistakes from Year 1

17:01: The Turning Point of Squatty Potty’s Messaging

20:14: Inspiring Stories About Squatty Potty

23:03: What’s Life Like for Bobby Edwards These Days?

23:30: A Team of 17 Running a Company that Produced $30 Million in Revenue Last Year

24:51: The Squatty Potty Video That Went Viral

27:12: Growth and Sales From a Viral Video

32:43: The Future of Squatty Potty

33:49: Bobby Edwards on The Difference Between the 7 & 8-Figure Mentalities

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Thanh Pham ~ Founder at Asian Efficiency

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Today, we have a friend Thanh Pham joining the podcast. Thanh is known as one of the top productivity experts in the world. In this interview, Thanh and I nerd out on all his top-productivity techniques. 

Thanh is the founder of Asian Efficiency, and the host of The Productivity Show that he runs with his partner Brooks. On The Productivity Show, they have over 300 episodes, 9 million downloads in total, and around 200,000 downloads per month. Now he's been named as one of the top thought leaders in the productivity industry. 

Thanh teaches workshops all over the world. In the past 10 years, he's helped approximately 15,000 people become more productive from workshops, online training, and courses. During the interview, we talk about Thanh’s daily routine, his weekly planning, his work-life balance, how he created his own system for productivity, some of the productivity tactics that actually make him less productive, which ironically, maybe not so ironically make me less productive as well. Thanh and I discuss his Rule-of-Three, why he does more short-term planning, instead of long term planning, and we talk about the number one thing that helps people become super productive.

Anybody can learn something from this interview!

     02:12  Who is Thanh Pham?

     03:30  Asian Efficiency

     07:00  Thanh’s Entrepreneurial Journey

     09:50  Productivity Hacks That Decreased Productivity

     14:42  Why Sleep & Recovery are Trending

      17:20  Sleeping Habits

      26:11  The Power of Staycations

     30:58  Digital Detoxing Tips

     35:00  Thanh’s Personal Productivity System

     44:02  Short-term Planning vs Long-term Planning

     48:20  How To Prioritize

     52:05  Achieving Work/Life Balance

01:04:13  Changes in Productivity Strategies

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Listeners welcome back to the pod - today we will dive deep into the life of one of the most influential figures in the cruise line and maritime world. Our guest is a titan of the cruise line industry, a visionary entrepreneur, and a lifelong champion of global tourism his name is Manfredi Lefebvre d’Ovidio. 

Manfredi has transformed his family business into a global leader in luxury cruising. Under his leadership, Silversea Cruises expanded its company offering travel experiences across all seven continents around the world. In a strategic partnership with Royal Caribbean Manfredi orchestrated the sale of a ⅔ stake in Silversea for a whopping $1 billion in 2018. This strategic partnership not only elevated Silversea's brand but also marked one of the most significant deals in the cruise industry's history. And lastly, Manfredi is the Chairman of The Heritage Group which is a private equity company that acquired 85% of one of the biggest luxury travel companies in the world Abercrombie & Kent - whose founder Geoffrey Kent was on the podcast just last month. 

Today we are going to dive into the life and mind of Manfredi Lefebvre d'Ovidio. 

00:12: Who is Manfredi Lefebvre d’Ovidio?

03:42: Manfredi’s Recommended Books     

05:56: Manfredi’s Starts a Cruise Line

13:01: How this Billion-Dollar Founder Spends his Time

15:05: The Biggest Challenge Manfredi Experienced was September 11, 2001. 

18:56: Manfredi Takes Over the Family Business

21:18: Manfredi Pioneers the Luxury Cruise Industry. 

24:39: Why Manfredi Loves Being an Entrepreneur

26:13: Manfredi’s Career Chapters

29:59: Manfredi Orchestrated the Most Significant Deal in the Cruise Industry. 

32:47: Manfredi & Geoffrey Kent Built the First Expedition Cruise Ship

34:59: Manfredi’s Daily Routine

37:13: Advice Manfredi Would Give His Younger Self

37:58: Things to Look for in Executives and Partners When You Bring Them On 

40:25: What is Manfredi Most Proud Of?

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[00:00:12] Chris: Listeners, welcome back to the podcast today, and we will dive deep into the life of one of the most influential figures in the cruise line and maritime world. Our guest today is a Titan in the cruise line industry, a visionary entrepreneur, a lifelong champion of global tourism, and his name is Manfredi LaFavre D'Ovidio.

Manfredi has transformed his family business into a global leader in luxury cruising. Under his leadership, Silver Sea Cruises expanded its company, offering travel experiences across all seven continents around the world. In a strategic partnership with Royal Caribbean, Manfredi orchestrated the sale of a two third stake in Silversea for a whopping 1 billion in 2018.

This strategic partnership not only elevated Silversea's brand, but also marked. One of the most significant deals in the cruise industry's history. And lastly, Manfredi is the chairman of the heritage group, which is a private equity company that acquired 85 percent of one of the biggest luxury travel companies in the world, Abercrombie and Kent, whose founder was actually on the podcast last month.

So if you haven't listened to that interview yet, make sure you check it out. And today we're going to dive into the life and mind of Manfredi. Listeners, welcome to the show. Manfredi, welcome to the show. How are you doing today?

[00:01:34] Manfredi: Not too bad. Not too bad. Can I add something to what you said?

[00:01:38] Chris: Please do. Add or take away.

Whatever you like.

[00:01:41] Manfredi: Well, what happened is that as soon as I did my deal with Royal Caribbean, I did buy, uh, Abercrombie Kent, which recently I brought up to 100 percent shareholding, and I sold to Royal Caribbean subsequently one further that I owned, uh, in, uh, Silver Sea in exchange of Royal Caribbean shares and acquired another cruise line, which is called Crystal Cruises.

[00:02:04] Chris: Ah, I did actually read about that. Forgive me for not putting that in there.

[00:02:08] Manfredi: No, so it's just, the story goes on. And before Silver Sea, we had another cruise line, which was called Sydmar. Okay.

[00:02:17] Chris: Was Sid, was Smar the one created by your father or was Silver Sea created by your father? Uh,

[00:02:23] Manfredi: Sid Smar was acquired by my father with me because I was working with him at the time.

And we bought, uh, the Cruise Line, which was one of the first cruise lines ever. And, uh, Sid Bar built the first free purposely built cruise ships, which were built in Italian shipyard fi can and LA in France.

[00:02:42] Chris: Great. So that

[00:02:42] Manfredi: was the beginning. Then we got an offer we couldn't refuse. We sold Smar. And we started Silversea together with my father, which I took over shortly after.

[00:02:52] Chris: And that was in the 90s, correct?

[00:02:54] Manfredi: That was, uh, we started in 92, we acquired in 86, Sidmar, sold it in 89, started in 92, uh, 91, Silversea, and, uh, we're ordering the ships, and then we started operating in 94.

[00:03:10] Chris: Incredible.

[00:03:12] Manfredi: So, and then in 2018, uh, we, I sold to Royal Caribbean and I bought in 2000, uh, actually was in 2019.

The negotiation started earlier 2019. I bought Abercrombie & Kent.

[00:03:27] Chris: That's right. Incredible. Um, so Manfredi, I was told by a mentor of mine a long time ago that the, uh, difference between a wealthy person and the average person is the information that we put in between the two ears that we have. and what we choose to do with it.

And I hear you're an avid reader, so if it's okay with you, I'd like to ask about what you're reading right now and some of the more impactful, uh, books of your life.

[00:03:59] Manfredi: Yeah, I tend to read two, three books in parallel. So now I'm reading the Silk Roads, number one, the old Silk Road and the new Silk Road.

Then there is a new book which was written about the oil industry and the energy markets, which is very interesting. I don't remember now the exact title. And then, you know, other things which went back in time. An interesting View of the history of the United States of America, which is unconventional view.

Ah,

[00:04:34] Chris: do

[00:04:34] Manfredi: you

[00:04:34] Chris: know who, do you know who the author of that book was?

[00:04:38] Manfredi: I can let you know.

[00:04:39] Chris: Okay.

[00:04:40] Manfredi: Um, it was recommended to me and I bought it and it's quite interesting.

[00:04:44] Chris: Do you have two or three books that were the most impactful in your life?

[00:04:50] Manfredi: Yeah, you know, but probably I'm, I, I had once, um, hepatitis, so I was stuck in bed for a long time and I managed to read all of War and Peace, the whole story. It's a massive book. In today's world, it's very difficult to read at all.

[00:05:10] Chris: Yeah. Okay. Anything else, any others?

[00:05:17] Manfredi: Oh, this is the one that comes to my mind immediately.

The other ones are, you know, I try to always read something which will leave me something, uh, in knowledge.

[00:05:27] Chris: Yeah.

[00:05:28] Manfredi: A book that I loved was, uh, A Hundred Years of Solitude.

[00:05:33] Chris: I've heard of that one.

[00:05:35] Manfredi: There's a life in this village in Colombia, which goes through the civil wars in the country. It's quite interesting.

[00:05:42] Chris: Nice. Um, so I kind of want to start this off about, uh, going back to your, your past and your childhood. And I'm curious about the first moment that you realized you had a passion for ships and cruise lines. Uh, do you remember that moment?

[00:06:03] Manfredi: I can, uh, reconnected because when I was 14, my father told us, uh, he was We're going on a cruise.

Now it's 14, it's uh, what is it, 56 years ago. It was really at the beginning. Nobody knew about cruises. And, uh, he, because his friend had his cruise line, which was called Sidmar, and so we went to all the way to Mexico, Los Angeles, took the cruise down the Mexico coast, and, uh, that was the first impact with, uh, uh, cruising.

But I've been involved in shipping all my life, because my father was a ship owner, a professor of university of maritime law, and a lawyer, and he was always involved with shipping. So it's been all our lives that we've been involved with ships, we had yachts, and so on. We had shipping companies, we had ferry companies, we had all sorts of things.

But that was a crucial moment because we sold this company, where I subsequently went to work. When I was 18. And then, uh, you know, we, we bought it. So it was a chapter here. You know, you go on a cruise and you work for them and then you buy them. Yeah. And then you see them.

I hear your father was quite a, an interesting figure and he was a lawyer and he actually helped create the maritime law in Italy.

[00:07:24] Chris: , and then You, you, did he start the cruise line, , the very first cruise line venture that you guys owned, or did he acquire it and then continue to run it and it became the family business?

[00:07:39] Manfredi: He, we acquired it.

[00:07:41] Chris: Okay.

[00:07:42] Manfredi: And then, and when we acquired it, we built the new ships. And then they were so beautiful and were so, so innovative that we got a very good offer and we sold it.

And then we started SilverSea. SilverSea is the first one that we started. In the past, you know, I had worked in other businesses. My father, with his, uh, partners had bought a big shipping company, which was listed on the UK Stock Exchange, which owned ships. It owned a very large, uh, Ship broker company and, uh, insurance broker company called Clarkson.

It owned Maritime Insurance company. So he was always, uh, involved in that. He even had a fleet of tankers in Saudi Arabia at the beginning of the seventies.

[00:08:26] Chris: Oh really? can you share about your father's influence on you? You know, as a young man, I could imagine, and a boy growing up, I could imagine, uh, a father who, I think about the influence my father had on me.

Right. And I can imagine you and your father had a cruise lines. He is part of the maritime industry, um, or he was at least getting involved in cruise lines at the time. , How did that have an effect on you as a young man?

[00:08:55] Manfredi: I mean, that's, uh, fundamental. He was an extraordinary person, an extraordinary father.

And, uh, he was lucky he had a wife who always, uh, put him on a, uh, how do you say it when you put somebody on a pedestal? Pedestal for us. So we always had, and because he was working all the time, he was traveling a lot, working, and he would, his Sundays were because he would take Saturday to work always.

On the Sundays, his vacation, his day was to pass the day working in our playroom. So he had a desk. His children were playing around and he was there working. And that was his, uh, his Sunday. So, uh, you know, it's an example of, uh, dedication to passion, to work dedication. And, uh, but he was still very present to us because he was a symbol.

for us. So, uh, we always looked up to him. And then he would sometimes take one of the children. For example, he, when he had some, uh, launch of a new ship, would take one children with him. And so he created some moments for us, which he was pretty much always linked his life with his business, but he involved us.

So he got us very much attached. And especially my two sisters, they were deeply in love with him and the same with me. I mean, I adored him. And, uh, when I was, um, uh, 18, he said, Okay, you go to university, you will have a desk in the office next to mine. You can listen to all my phone calls, join all my meetings, read all my papers.

Asked me every question, and any day in the week, Saturday, Sunday, during the week, and so that I did, and then he would send me to his businesses. He had many businesses in various countries, Mexico, England, etc, etc. So I would go three months in his businesses. And then come back and study and go on with the university and then work with him.

And, uh, so it was a very tight relationship.

[00:11:10] Chris: What do you think was the most impactful lesson that you learned from your father?

[00:11:16] Manfredi: You know, the most is to be very respectful of the others. He was, uh, the most, uh, Curtis person you can imagine with everybody, and it wasn't linked to the fact if you had anything to exchange with somebody, uh, somebody who was relevant for his business or for any other reason.

He would be the same with anybody from the lowest level and, uh, business community or the people working for him in service to the highest level. It was true that everybody with extreme kindness and courtesy. And, uh, and would always be, uh, responding to anybody. So, it was this kind of attitude. Very humble, simple, very successful man.

Uh, an incredible brain, but very humble and simple.

[00:12:06] Chris: So let's switch to the roles that you play in your life now. So you're the chairman of the heritage group, which, uh, a heritage groups, a private equity group in a travel and tourism sector. Um, you're the chairman and orbital solutions, Monaco co chairman.

And I guess you said, uh, are you no longer chairman at Amber Cromby Kent, or are you still co chair there?

[00:12:27] Manfredi: No, I'm, uh, I'm the chairman. Geoffrey. sold me the steak, and he is the co chairman. I don't know what his exact title is. He's the founder chairman, let's say. Okay. He's not actively involved in the running of the business.

He's very involved in everything, which is the product.

[00:12:49] Chris: . And then you're a member of the board of Bucksense Incorporated, vice chairman of Monaco Chamber of Shipping, um, member of the executive community of World Tourism and Travel Council, and member of the board of SKULD Skold. Is that what that's pronounced?

Skold? Skold. The maritime school in maritime insurance company based in Oslo. So I'm, I'm curious with all those, those titles and accolades, where do you spend the most of your time?

[00:13:18] Manfredi: Well, first of all, they evolved, you know, some are gone and there's some new ones.

[00:13:22] Chris: Okay.

[00:13:23] Manfredi: And I spend most of the time, reality, I divide myself between three things.

One is where I have the most relevant business opportunity where I focus a lot.

[00:13:35] Chris: Okay.

[00:13:35] Manfredi: Was like, I try to make sure that that things they are done well and they get my support. I, I cultivate very, uh, mature and capable management and then, and want them to, to, to drive, but I'm there to help them and to know everything which is going on.

In any case, that's the first thing, which is very important. The second thing is whenever there's something which is not going that well, it happens to follow my laps. Because this is what happens with owners, you know. So there I dedicate with the team and to solve whatever there are some problems and something which is not going as I would wish to solve it.

And the third thing is the things which give me satisfaction. So there are a number of things which give me satisfaction and I dedicate myself to. So now I've been recently appointed by the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. as ambassador to UNESCO and for charity and philanthropy, which is something which is not going to earn me a cent.

It's going to cost me, but it gives me satisfaction. I use my capabilities, my relationships, my, uh, dedication to, um, better cause. So it's a mixed, I have the freedom of choice.

[00:14:51] Chris: That's good. I was going to ask, , you mentioned about, you know, if there's ever a problem in the business, it comes to you, it comes to your desk.

[00:15:00] Manfredi: I didn't mention the new businesses. Of course, I mean, new investment. I follow also.

[00:15:04] Chris: Yeah. Did you share with us maybe one of the biggest challenges that you've had in your career when it came across your table, , and how you decided to handle it?

[00:15:17] Manfredi: Oh, there's a very clear example. September 11th.

I was in a bank negotiating the refinancing of the financing. It's a new ships. And in the bank, they tell me, they come, somebody rushing in, come, come and watch on the television. So there, we were on television, in the bank, because CTF financing for the company. And we saw what happened. So you can imagine from that moment on, what can happen to the travel business.

[00:15:51] Chris: Yeah.

[00:15:52] Manfredi: The world shrinks. Every place which has a Muslim religion or Arab language, Is disappears from the world. You cannot go there. It's a small world and uh, uh, people don't wanna travel. If they want on a plane, they will look if there's anybody who looks suspicious. And, uh, actually for some time, planes were suspended.

So that was a very tough time and you have to hold the company together. And, uh, going through, uh, you know, all sorts of difficulties. You dedicate your time there and, uh, and succeeded. And then, the cruise industry recovers very fast, so it bounced back. But for some time, it was tough.

[00:16:39] Chris: How long was that time period?

[00:16:42] Manfredi: There is, I think that you can, the turning point was when President No. 43 went on the aircraft carrier.

[00:16:51] Chris: Okay.

[00:16:52] Manfredi: It was like a liberating moment.

[00:16:54] Chris: Ah, okay.

[00:16:55] Manfredi: Confidence came back. It was like a fantastic case of how to rebuild confidence in the consumers.

[00:17:06] Chris: And, , what are, what are some of the ways that you held the company together, at least the, the morale of the company together during that time?

[00:17:20] Manfredi: You know, they, they, they have to see that you're on top of everything and you can find the solutions. And I think that my people were quite confident. I had additional resources of my own, which I could put in to support the company. But I was trying to have the company support itself as much as it could by itself.

But I had good relationships, and I got some incredible, uh, support by people. Um, really incredible support by people based on their trust and confidence.

[00:17:54] Chris: What do you think was harder on the cruise line industry, uh, 9 11 or COVID?

[00:18:00] Manfredi: 9 11.

[00:18:01] Chris: Yeah? How come?

[00:18:04] Manfredi: Well, 9 11 was, uh, wasn't only a travel space. And during COVID, most of the businesses were still going well, if you think about it. Some businesses actually had an incredible success. During the electrical container business. Well, during 9 11, it was simply the world was paralyzed. And the governments did not find a way to intervene to support the businesses.

It was very, very tough.

[00:18:34] Chris: , I guess that makes sense. , so okay, let's shift gears a little bit and, and we talked about your father and his impact on your life. , can you tell us a bit about when you took the company over, , what was that moment like for you and what were some of the decisions leading up to that that made you guys decide it was time?

[00:18:56] Manfredi: Well, the decision was because we made a family partition. So I got, uh, in the division of the family assets, I got that business, like several things. And how it felt, well, you know, I had already been working with it. So it wasn't something new. And we always been very close. So I was participating to everything.

It became my baby, only mine. And, uh, of course it, it was, uh, it, I must say that, uh, that choice or that moment, the fact of taking over, so it changed my life. Because from being the son of a wealthy man with many businesses, taking care of them together with him, suddenly I had something that was mine and I had to grow.

And so I identified myself a lot with that company, with that product, with that success. And it became, after all, today became my legacy.

[00:19:53] Chris: I am

[00:19:54] Manfredi: especially that I'm not the only the son of a wealthy man from a family which has because we are a family which with 200 years of industrial history.

[00:20:05] Chris: Oh, really?

[00:20:06] Manfredi: Yes.

[00:20:07] Chris: I didn't know that.

[00:20:08] Manfredi: It started in, uh, in Italy and, uh, at the beginning of the 19th century with paper industry, banking, a number of things. So I'm not only that, I'm, uh, and I'm not only the son of a very successful man. I had my thing and I did it successfully and I've become an expert in the field.

, so which allowed me. When there was another opportunity to buy to, which was during the, at the end of COVID, the beginning of the Ukraine war, to buy crystal cruises, to do it with great confidence, because I, I knew all the levers of the business, I knew the people to choose to bring on board, I knew where to go to get support for the generating the revenue, etc, etc, to restructure the ships.

So, I could do it very well because I had full confidence of my knowledge of that industry, and the people had confidence on my knowledge of the industry, so they give me a lot of credit.

[00:21:06] Chris: A friend of ours, Mr. Geoffrey Kent, , told me to, that you pioneered the industry, , the luxury area in both normal and expedition.

So I'd love to learn more about how you did that and your strategies behind it.

[00:21:18] Manfredi: How we did that was, we had, Sittmer was a typical cruise line. At the beginning of the cruise lines, they were transatlantic operators. And when the transatlantic routes, uh, became dry, no more passengers because people were flying, and from Europe there was no more migration to the U.S or to Australia or to South America, those ships needed to have a new employment, and they were converted into cruise ships. So that was the, uh, the beginning of that industry. So when we bought it, we bought it in an industry which was at its beginnings. And we built these two ships, three ships, which were the first ones to be built purposely.

So that was, uh, uh, the, the, really the moment in which, uh, we dedicated to that great, , vision, because it was my father's vision that that could have been a great industry and had a great future. And then so on. And then we bought into, uh, then we developed Silver Sea. And I remember when we asked my father, Daddy, what, what is it you?

really wish for. And he was 92, I think. And he said, Oh, I wish that Silver Sea will have 12 ships. And I think that we had six, maybe. It was impossible for him to see 12 ships.

[00:22:34] Chris: Yeah.

[00:22:34] Manfredi: But it was part of the, of really the, the passion that he had and that he gave me, this passion of, uh, and, uh, looking forward always.

Not making a calculation of what you're going to make out of it and how it's related to your life, but the project, the vision, what you're building was quite, uh, driving.

[00:22:59] Chris: And how many ships do you guys have now?

[00:23:02] Manfredi: No, now we just started again. So we have two ships. Now we have to grow it. We start a new chapter.

You see what you do when you turn 70. Some people retire.

[00:23:11] Chris: Yeah.

[00:23:12] Manfredi: Not in my family.

[00:23:13] Chris: You start another business.

[00:23:15] Manfredi: You start another business. In our case, we started more businesses because we started . We bought Abercrombie & Kent, which we're growing very fast and very much.

[00:23:25] Chris: Yeah.

[00:23:25] Manfredi: And then we bought again, the cruise line that we have other businesses also, which we run.

So it's, uh, it's simply the fact that, uh, what is it that you, that you gives you enjoyment? And, uh, is it to play golf or is it to have, uh, in the morning, wake up and think of the things that you're doing, the projects that you have, how you can accomplish things. And, uh, so in our case, that is because of my father, who started when he was a, who started when he was very young and at 92, he was, he lived until 98.

So he was still, uh, when he was at 98, he would do, still the first thing he would ask me is how are the ships going? And so it's part of that. My, the first Lefebvre, the guy in the, uh, at the beginning of the 19th century. He died when he was 84, which for those times, that's a very old age. Because he got pneumonia coming back from the board of his shipping company. So it's in the DNA of the family to work, uh, until you, you go. And it's not a question you already have the money to live well. It's a question of money as an instrument of freedom and to, realize yourself, to to achieve the satisfactions that you're looking for. In my case, I give myself a lot of other satisfactions.

But the number one.

is to be an entrepreneur!

[00:24:54] Chris: That's most important to you to, to be known for as an entrepreneur.

[00:24:59] Manfredi: Not to be known to know myself, that I am, I wake up in the morning and I'm busy. I have a lot of things which, uh, interest me.

[00:25:09] Chris: Yeah I have a lot of things which I do, which interests other people. If I wasn't an entrepreneur, I wouldn't be here with you.

It's very true. So

[00:25:16] Manfredi: it's a very strong connection with the living world instead of going into the. Sleeping world.

[00:25:24] Chris: I'm curious if you weren't in the shipping business or anything related maritime, , what business do you think you would be in

[00:25:33] Manfredi: investment banking?

[00:25:35] Chris: Yeah. How come

[00:25:37] Manfredi: I always liked it a lot, but investment banking, private equity.

investing in businesses, selling businesses, advising people, uh, working on. I, I worked when my father sent me around. Uh, he sent me also to some investment banks for some time to learn, to learn how that work, that will work. I don't know

[00:26:02] Chris: if you know, but, , on our podcast, we're interviewing founders, a hundred founders of a billion dollar companies.

And I always ask each guest the same question. , and it is, if you're going to break your career into chapters, what chapters would they be? And what would you name them?

[00:26:23] Manfredi: A chapter is number one is, uh, the chapter in which I was a golden boy. Which means I was, uh, living, uh, a very, uh, prosperous youth with a daddy who adored me and wouldn't deny me almost anything.

[00:26:40] Chris: Okay.

[00:26:40] Manfredi: So understanding this, I, uh, I kept and I developed a strong, uh, uh, desire of accomplishing by myself.

[00:26:48] Chris: Okay.

[00:26:49] Manfredi: That was the first part. Then the second part was, uh, being like, uh, uh, a stamp on my father's back. Okay. Following him everywhere and, uh, listening to him, et cetera, and working together with him.

What

[00:27:02] Chris: Were the ages for chapter two?

[00:27:05] Manfredi: Yeah, you can say, you know, from when I started working with him when I was 19. So let's say 20. Okay. And 20 a decade. Then I started to have diversified investments. Then, uh, that's another age. And then there was the age, which I took over the, the Silver Sea.

[00:27:29] Chris: How old were you then? Became

[00:27:30] Manfredi: my baby.

[00:27:31] Chris: How old were you then when you took over? Silver Sea?

[00:27:35] Manfredi: We're talking about a year, 2000. So I was, uh, 47. Nice.

[00:27:40] Chris: And any more chapters after Silver Sea?

[00:27:44] Manfredi: Yes. It's a new chapter, which is the continuation in a way of Silver Sea, which is, uh, which is happening now. But now my chapter is entrepreneur, but my enterprise is The family wealth.

I see myself as somebody who is, uh, administrating the family wealth, not only to increase it, or first of all, keep it as it is and possibly increase it, but also to make it such that it is well transmitted to new generations. So my following, and so this requires a number of choices, which are different in your, in your relationship with the business of themselves, because I was permanently on top of the business.

Now I want to, uh, support the manager to grow so that they can deal independently for me, benefit from my presence, but eventually one day they can, the company can go by itself. Yeah. So I joined the company that way, and that's all I'm trying to do it. So I'm trying to diversify risk, enhance liquidity very much so that the liquidity is always there for the family.

So it's a different vision. When you're an entrepreneur, you're 47 and you take risks, you want to expand, you have to grow, you have to make, you have to make a jump in the size of your business. You have to go from four ships to actually work two ships to 12, 14, 16 ships. Yeah. So the company is a hundred percent yours.

You don't have a public markets, you have to compete with credit, you have to do this and that. So it's a, you know, I had to finance my ships, I had to fly to China because that was the best market. So you'll find always the solutions to get the things to function. But that's when you're the full entrepreneur, then now it's a, it's a much more stable approach.

Yeah.

[00:29:45] Chris: Makes sense. , your partnership with Royal Caribbean, it was marked as one of the more significant deals in the cruises history, uh, the cruise industry's history. can you tell us a little bit about the unfolding of that partnership?

[00:30:01] Manfredi: Well, it was easy. I mean, it was, uh, it wasn't easy. I mean, it was a simple process.

I was, I wanted to build more ships, so I decided to open the equity of my company to investors. I informed my competitors that I was doing it, so not to have gossips all the time around. And then, uh, someone from Royal Caribbean, uh, came and said, could we be your investor? They said, I thought about it and I said, why not?

And then at a certain point in the process, it evolved from then buying the majority. And so that's, I did. And I had a, a, so a, a stake in the role in the company. But then Covid came and Covid made clear everything first, all that the company had to be absorbed into Royal Caribbean. Mm-Hmm. because of the financial situation.

'cause it was, uh, was not easy for cruise lines and uh, um, and because, uh. And when you are the full disponent of a business, then you can't learn and being somebody who just participates. Yeah. And so it was a good way. We find a great deal, great deal for them, great deal for me. And uh, I got a big chunk of Royal Caribbean shares, which I'm happy to have.

And so that's how it evolved. And I could start, I could buy a Abercrombie & Kent and start my own business.

[00:31:28] Chris: , was that a pivotable moment in your life?

[00:31:30] Manfredi: Sure. I mean, you know, you, you decide that you don't want to be, uh, what was I saying? Sixty six year old retired person with all the banks calling you to invest your money and private equity funds and all of these people asking you to underwrite their funds.

But having a very easy life. Uh, very comfortable and deciding now to challenge yourself and to do something new, which excites you every moment, which is exactly the opposite direction, no? You have a capital event. Capital events don't happen many times in the life of an individual.

[00:32:10] Chris: Yep.

[00:32:11] Manfredi: So it happens. At that point, you have to make a decision.

Are you going to go into a new world, which is the world of the person who is either entirely or half retired? Yep. Or you'll find a way to go back into the world of being active in the colony. That's what I decided. I

[00:32:33] Chris: think it was a good choice. , Geoffrey also told me, , to ask you about how you became his partner on the MS Explorer, um, which was the first expedition ship that was ever built.

[00:32:47] Manfredi: Well, yeah, I mean, it was fantastic. Um, so Geoffrey had this company that he had developed, you know, Geoffrey, as you and your followers know, is a fantastic and unique person. And he wanted to go and send a ship to the Antarctic to propose, to offer to his guests, his clients, the opportunity to go and see the Antarctic.

But he wasn't a ship owner. So, we were launch, starting to launch SilverSea at the time. And, uh, we were approached by his consultants, who were going to do the management of this ship, which is a company called V Ships, which is one of the major service companies in the shipping world. And they introduced us, so we made a partnership there, which lasted for two, three years.

And then he kept it on his own, but by then we were good friends. And we became even more friends because, uh, then, uh, I, I was next to him and, uh, he was the chairman of WTDC, and I was like his right hand there. And then we developed all the segments for Abercrombie Kent doing services to the cruise industry.

He started with us. So Abercrombie & Kent does a lot of the best quality, um, uh, pre post or excursions for cruise industries, part of its business. So that we did together and we became great friends and we always try to do something together. But he did some deals with other people in the meantime on the equity.

And then one day, he told me, why don't you buy Abercrombie & Kent? And so that's what we did. And we still work together and, uh, we're, we're going tomorrow. We're flying on, uh, to one of the crystal ships.

[00:34:39] Chris: Yeah.

[00:34:41] Manfredi: We say two days on it and then we fly back. , so we were always, uh, we do a lot of things together.

I mean,

[00:34:48] Chris: nice. I'm curious on, you know, and I'm sure this is a hard question to answer, but, , I would imagine for most entrepreneurs, their day to day is very different. , I would imagine yours is similar. , do you have any regular structure you like to keep in your days, even though. You have a thousand things that are thrown at you every single day and you have to change up as much as possible.

Some people, for example, you know, have the same waking time every day or the same sleep time or, , the same diet or, , All different types of things. Are there, are there any consistencies or daily rituals that you have in your life?

[00:35:25] Manfredi: The daily ritual is a weekly ritual, which is doing the Luggage, so I'm always traveling.

Yeah. What is a recurrent? I come back from a trip. I start packing That's the most Methodic thing I do all the time.

[00:35:45] Chris: Pack. Pack and unpack.

[00:35:47] Manfredi: Pack and unpack, pack and unpack. And then schedule from assistant, assistant, I have to do this, this, this, this, this. Work on the planning, work on how I'm gonna do this.

I can fit, fit the meetings. That's the most thing. Um, I try to, if I can, to swim during the day, but uh, as I travel all the time, it's very difficult.

[00:36:10] Chris: , what about, I'm curious about, you know, entrepreneurs, a lot of it depends on the entrepreneur. Some people sleep very little, , some people sleep, , a lot and then work hard throughout the day.

How about yourself? Are you a heavy sleeper? Are you a light sleeper? Are you getting six, seven hours a night every night on the same time or is it fluctuate?

[00:36:30] Manfredi: No, I'm basically going, trying to take six, seven hours every night, trying not to go to sleep too late. This morning I woke up at 6. 30. Yesterday I went to bed at 11.

30. It was seven hours. It was a very tiring day, so I was tired. Uh, but it can be six, it can be seven. Rarely goes above seven, unfortunately. I would like to have more sleep if I could. And, um, but it's normally very regular hours.

[00:37:01] Chris: , any advice that you would give yourself, , your younger self that you didn't know when you were younger, say at the age of 20 or 30, that you know now that you wish you knew.

[00:37:13] Manfredi: You know, and anything which is not real estate. Already built in the state business number one thing to look at is the people you're going to be working with as partners as executives, because that makes or breaks or fixes anything. So whenever you choose to deal with the wrong partners or whenever you, uh, appoint or go into a business without having the right person.

You're going to have some problems.

[00:37:45] Chris: Yeah. What are some things that you look for in a partnership or an executive when you, when you bring them on?

[00:37:52] Manfredi: They have to be, first of all, they have to be trustworthy. They have to be honest, trustworthy. They have to be hardworking people. And if they're hardworking people competent, they can make a lot of money.

[00:38:05] Chris: I'm not stingy. So you pay them well,

[00:38:07] Manfredi: yes, they may. They, they have good incentives.

[00:38:11] Chris: Have you ever noticed any, any, any ways that you identify individuals like that? You, you mentioned trustworthy, hardworking, is it through reputation that you hear from other people?

Oh, this individual's trustworthy. Uh, he or she has built, you know, this business, or is it personal experience? Do you want to meet with them, get to know them really well, sit down with them, how they interact with you?

[00:38:35] Manfredi: Well, you know, now the last, uh, oh, it's, what is it? 25 years more, 30 years. As I've been in the same business, it's much easier because I, I know the people that I'm going to retain, or I'm gonna promote, I'm going to delegate to.

So it's, it's quite easy because 30 years since, uh, we started, uh, SilverSea Cruises now it's, uh, the same market. So the CEO of Abercrombie and Kent Travel Group, which includes Abercrombie and Kent. And Crystal Cruz is a person who has been working with me for 14 years.

[00:39:13] Chris: Yeah.

[00:39:14] Manfredi: She joined Silversea, and then when she was extremely young, now she's still very young, but she's in her beginning of her 40s, and she's the CEO of the group.

I know her inside out, she knows me inside out. So just full trust, a hardworking person, work ethics are extremely strong. That's fundamental because mine are extremely strong. So I can't deal when people tell me balance of life. Balance of life is, is not compatible to be running a competitive business.

[00:39:50] Chris: How many hours a day do you say you work from from the time you wake up to the time you go to sleep?

[00:39:55] Manfredi: Yes, basically I work that seven, what is it called, seven days a week, , although I work always that it is divided between days in which I work more and days in which I work less. So there are some days in which I work less because it's a Sunday or it's a vacation.

So I will be working less, but I will always be working. It doesn't, I think it never happens a day in which I don't take care of something.

[00:40:25] Chris: what would you say you're most proud of?

[00:40:27] Manfredi: Most

[00:40:27] Chris: proud of my

[00:40:30] Manfredi: friends, my friends. I am very proud of the fact that I have great friends with a strong friendship. And I tell myself there's something right that you can do if you have friends of such good quality that are so attached to you and you're so attached to them.

[00:40:52] Chris: I think that's a fantastic answer.

And a lot of people would probably want to know a little bit more about that. , When I would imagine trustworthy, , is something that's important when you look for friends. But what are some other things that when you look for friends or friendships that are important for you?

[00:41:13] Manfredi: Well, you know, the first of all, there's a generosity in the relationship.

[00:41:16] Chris: Yeah.

[00:41:18] Manfredi: If the, if the relationships are transactional, there's something which compromises the friendship. So it's just, there can be transaction with friends, but that must not be the basis of a friendship. So trustworthy, uh, based on the sentiment of friendship, the, the interest of seeing each other because of what puts you together, that both have, uh, memories or of a present or of things that interest you, that you're interested in talking to them, uh, sharing with them.

So this is, uh, the basic thing.

[00:41:59] Chris: I think that's a great way to wrap up the interview Manfredi. , one more question. What else do you want to do? Say in the next 10 years of your life, what are your goals?

[00:42:09] Manfredi: Is that there are three things in parallel. One thing I want to have this, Abercrombie & Kent travel group grow and, uh, become very interesting and I do fantastic things.

It's such a beautiful business that we enjoy every moment of it. The second thing is. Organize the rest of the world and, and also Abercrombie & Kent ownership in such a way that it can survive me well. And the third thing is, besides doing these things, is enjoying many things that I like. I like to travel, I like to read.

Uh, I like to be with my friends. And, uh, so. And I like to do things which are not only tied to a monetary benefit. You know, having been successful from a financial point of view has to buy you, first of all, freedom of choice. Freedom of choice is how you spend your time. So how I spend my time is important.

And And spending it, developing the business that we have created, is a satisfaction. Spending it, organizing the wealth, in a way that it can then be at the benefit of the persons I love is a satisfaction. Doing other things, cultivating myself, traveling the world, visiting the world, etc., is a satisfaction.

Having the freedom to dedicate part of the time to this without Having to be obliged by other things and having the substantial means to do it is part of the freedom of choice that success gives you.

[00:43:45] Chris: Well said. Manfredi, I want to thank you so much for the interview and thank you for sharing your time and your wisdom with our listeners.

I love how you wrap that up, talking about the freedom of choice and relationships in your life. So Thank you so much. We're, , honored to have you on the podcast and, we'll see you next time on the show.

[00:44:05] Manfredi: Thank you so much. Bye bye. Ciao.

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Greg McKeown ~ Author of Essentialism

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Hey listeners, I want to welcome you all to a very special podcast that we are recording today!  Why is it special?  Because today we have one of my favorite thought leaders and author of a book that is without a doubt one of my top-10 reads of all time. You know when you find a book or a philosophy, or a quote that sings to your soul, and changes everything for you, this author’s book did that for me. 

His name is Greg McKeown and he is the author of Essentialism. Essentialism is a NYTimes Bestseller. It has sold more than 1 million copies around the world, it has been translated in 25 different languages, and voted a Top 20 Book on Leadership by both Amazon and Goodreads. The philosophy of Essentialism has been taught by Facebook, Apple, Pixar, Google, Twitter, and I am sure thousands of other businesses around the world. The ideas and strategies in the book have been featured in Time Magazine, The New York Times, Fast Company, Politico, Inc Magazine, Harvard Business Review, NPR, NBC, Fox, & The Steve Harvey Show. 

This book is one book that I couldn’t put down when I read it, I’ve easily recommended it to dozens of people... and also recommend it to all of you. I’ve read it twice now, applied the principles of Essentialism for years, and it will forever be on my bookshelf as a re-readable. 

So, who can get value out of this podcast? I am going to answer that question by quoting a passage from Greg’s book. “Now let me ask you this: have you ever found yourself stretched too thin? Have you ever felt both overworked and underutilised? Have you ever found yourself majoring in minor activities? Do you ever feel busy but not productive? Like you're always in motion, but never getting anywhere?” 

I think guys, that relates to pretty much everyone. We have all been there multiple times in our lives. So, if that relates to you, grab something to take notes and get ready because without further adieu the author of Essentialism, Greg McKeown. 

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Natalie Sisson ~ Creator The Suitcase Entrepreneur

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“I worked so hard to get all this freedom, and….it was paralyzing.” Natalie Sisson

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     Today listeners, we have the founder and CEO of The Suitcase Entrepreneur, Natalie Sisson on the show. The Suitcase Entrepreneur is one of the largest blogs in the digital nomad world. Natalie has been traveling the world almost non-stop for years while building The Suitcase Entrepreneur and helping thousands of people become location independent and redefine their lives.

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On this episode, we talk about a few of the strategies that Natalie uses to build her business and travel the world. We will talk about how she became a featured author for Forbes, and Business Insider. Also, how she landed a TedTalk. Lastly, Natalie and I talk about an interesting idea about how chasing freedom can actually entrap you.

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“Freedom to me was the ability to drop anything at any moment to be with the ones I love.” Natalie Sisson

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“Chasing freedom, or always putting freedom first, had in many ways become debilitating.” Natalie Sisson speaking about her podcast with Conni Biesalski

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I love incredibly successful people that still have the down-to-earth human touch. It is really enjoyable to talk with them and understand why they are who they are.  Today’s guest is one of those people and yet so much more. Janice Bryant Howroyd is the founder The ActOne Group and she is the very first African-American female to found a billion dollar company, and yes you heard me right, a billion dollar company.  

What is even more impressive about Janice is that speaking with her was like talking to an old friend. She is incredibly relatable and really a caring and authentic human being.

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Chris: Do you ever wonder how a billionaire thinks? How do they process all those crazy thoughts that go through their head on a regular basis? Well, I was curious, so I asked one.

And the person I ask is Janice Bryant. Howroyd the first black woman to build a billion dollar company. 

Want to hear what she has to say. Let's hop into it. Going back to what you mentioned earlier in the interview, when you talked about your mind bouncing around all the time, Ray asks, how does Janice keep her mind in check and stay focused when it's all over the place and you see the world as a kaleidoscope?

Janice: Ain't trying to do that Ray for chance. That's a failure from your perspective. I have no interest in organizing this beautiful mess. I love it. I thrive in it. What I do have though is Discipline. Discipline around initiatives and discipline around behaviors. So I love for my, you know, I, if you go up in there, it probably looks like Einstein's hair.

But I, I, I deeply, deeply enjoy letting all the light come in, let all of it come in. And then once I filter it toward an initiative. Or, or a team effort, then I believe, as a matter of fact, my team will tell you, , one of my quotes they most often use is discipline ain't a dirty word. It's not a dirty word, you know, so I think that helps balance if that's what you're going at.

I'm a highly disciplined person. . Chris:

What is your filtration process there? , you know, we all get crazy ideas and they bounce around our head and we want to start this like new side hustle or new business or new project. , what are the ones that, what's your process for finding out which ideas are legitimate and the ones you want to continue to work towards? Janice:

Oh, great. So there are four questions I asked myself. One, and this is kind of formulaic for me, Chris, so I can rattle it off. One is what do I want from it? If I do it. What's the outcome? What's the goal of it? What do I want from it? The next question is, what do I want from it? In the next 12 months, depending on where your energies are already obligated, you've only got so much time in a day that you can give.

Even though all of us have the same amount of time to work with. So what do I want from it? The ultimate? What's it going to do? What's it going to be? Then what do I want from it in the next, , 12 months? What will it take to get to the next 12 months? And that's a biggie because entrepreneurs tend to tend to be, , exuberant in our thought about our own capacity.

And then the fourth question is, what value will it have? You know, I'm very interested in being certain that the space I occupy, I leave better than when I got there better is in quotes because we all can define it differently, you know, and so that's how I filter to get to does this idea stand right now.

The other thing I do is that, okay, so I live with an iPad. I'm on an iPad right now talking with you. I love, love, love, love, love iPad. Yes, I own stock in Apple, and yes, I bought it when it was a really good deal, but I love iPad anyway, and it allows me to do so much. And my notes section is busy. I am a fierce note taker.

So I will write things down in my iPad and then I have a regular check in system where I go back. Is it still as clear to me as it was when I wrote it? If it's not, check, you know, and I move it. And so I systemize. ideas that come into my mind or initiatives. I also do that with asks when people are asking things of me, I do it that way as well.

Mom used to do it much less, uh, complicated. She would say, oh, I'll come back to it later. If I can't remember what it was, it's gone. Or if it's burning at me and turning at me that I got to get back to it, then it's up there. You know, I think some people call it putting a pin in it. Chris:

Yeah, I always tell myself if the idea keeps coming back to me, it means something that I should work towards or something I should implement.

Janice:

It can, it always doesn't mean that though. Sometimes, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, seriously. Sometimes it's the gateway to something else. Chris:

Good point. Yeah. Good point. 

And boom. There, you have it. You guys, Janice Bryant. Howroyd I love this because I, and I don't know if you can relate often feel guilty because of this beautiful mess up here. My mind, my thoughts, not harnessing them better, not using them better, not being more productive. And sometimes, , our minds can just go down rabbit holes. 

And the next thing, you know, two hours went by and we don't even know, , what happened and we forgot the task that we're working on. And I love that Janice says that she loves this beautiful mess in her brain. She absolutely loves it. She says that probably it looks like Einstein's hair and she has no agenda or no care in the world to organize it. 

She just lets it in. And filters it as best as possible. Absolutely. Absolutely incredible answer. 

And if you guys take away anything, what are the four questions that you need to ask yourself? If you want to filter through all these thoughts in your head, right? 

So what would Janice say? One. What do I want from it? Great question. Two what do I want from it in the next 12 months? Also a great question. This helps implement the short term thinking and also the long-term thinking. Is it worth my time and activity in the next 12 months. Maybe I should postpone it, or maybe I should implement it immediately, depending on what it is. 

And three, the third question. What will it take for me to achieve in the next 12 months? Again? Revisiting that question of how much time and effort and energy it will take you to achieve this idea that you have in the next 12 months and the last question.

And probably the most important. What value will it have? Will it raise the bar of my business. Will it raise the bar of my life will raise the bar of my relationships. Is it a priority or is it something that we can postpone until later? And I also love what Janice said about thoughts that are reoccurring, that you really think you should do. And I have this, I actually wanted to start a second podcast at one point. This was probably about four years ago. And I was just chewing on this idea for a new podcast and I thought it was so good and so juicy and it would be so successful. And I was convinced, , by another,, another podcaster, that's a good friend of mine and somebody I look to for advice like this, and he kept telling me, no, do not start a new podcast. 

Do not start a new podcast. What he said is expand on your current podcast. And that's why now we have almost 200 high-performance episodes. So the high-performance are the short episodes. They're generally like this one, two to 10 minutes, , from the longer interviews that we do. And I took his advice and I'm very glad that I did. Cause I didn't have the time or bandwidth to run a second podcast and I'd be exhausted and that podcast would be stagnant now. So sometimes we have these great ideas. And like Janice says they're actually a gateway to something else. 

It doesn't mean that idea is the actual thing. So. We're going to wrap it up there. You guys remember those four questions? One. What do I want from it to what I wa what do I want from it in the next 12 months? Three. What's it going to take for me to achieve in the next 12 months and for what value does it give? 

Whenever you have a thought or an idea to do a new thing? We're going to leave it at that. You guys, if you haven't checked out Janice's episode yet. Please do you won't regret it? It's episode number 544. And interview with the 32nd richest woman in the world. Make sure you check it out. 

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We'll see on the next episode. 

Welcome to The Business Method Podcast listeners and today do we have a treat for you. One of the most iconic investors & entrepreneurs in modern history is joining us on the podcast. Jim Rogers is his name & we actually had him on the show a few years ago & are fortunate enough to get him back for another episode. If you don’t know who Jim is I suggest you Google him right now & you will start to see why I am so excited to chat with him again. Jim is one of the most seasoned international investors on the planet & I’ll give you a brief outline to give you an idea about his expertise. 

Jim was born in Alabama in 1942 & attended Yale in the mid-60’s, then headed to Oxford to get another degree in Politics & Economics. Next Jim began his Wall Street career. In 1970 Jim apprenticed with Arnhold & S.Bleichroeder, which is where he met George Soros. In 1973, Jim started together with George Soros the Quantum Fund with only $600 in his pocket, one of the first truly international hedge funds. Over the next 10 years their fund went up 4,200% when the S&P500 only rose less than 50%. In 1980, Jim retired & traveled by motorcycle through China. Continuing to manage his own portfolio. Jim served as a guest professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. In 1990, Jim set out to fulfill a lifelong dream: motorcycling 100,000 miles across six continents – an achievement that landed him in the Guinness Book of World Records. In 1995, he wrote his first book Investment Biker: Around the World with Jim Rogers. As a private investor, he constantly analyzed the countries through which he traveled in search of investment ideas. He recorded his unique journey in that book.  In 1998, Jim founded the Rogers International Commodities Index, predicting that the next commodity bull run had just begun. The index measures 35 different commodities from 11 different international exchanges & was up 170% over the first decade. In 1999, Jim embarked on a Millennium Adventure, traveling around the world for 3 years, passing through 116 countries & covering more than 152,000 miles – setting yet another Guinness World Record & giving him the title by Time Magazine as, The Indiana Jones of Investing. He recounted this journey in his book “Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip”. In 2005, Jim wrote Hot Commodities & the book A Bull in China. Also in 2007 Jim moved his family to Singapore to be closer to the hottest market in the history of the world saying, “In my view, China is going to be the most important country in the 21st century,”He is regularly featured in leading international media outlets, including Time, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Barron’s, Forbes, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Business Times

   03:53 Who is Jim Rogers? 

   07:03 Crisis & Opportunity Are the Same Thing

   12:33 Jim Meets George Soros & Investment History Shift Begins

   14:43 Jim Rogers’ Money Philosophy

   15:53 Why Jim Traveled Around the World via Motorcycle

   18:53 What Jim Thinks of Location Independent Entrepreneurs

   23:00 Jim Invested in All the Stocks in One Entire Country

   25:23 Communist China Are the Best Capitalists in the World

   28:03 Looking for New Investment Opportunities Since COVID-19

   30:13 The Central Bankers Controlling a Correction

   33:38 Positioning Yourself to End Up on the Winning Side of Modern Monetary Theory

   35:28 CryptoCurrency Taking the Market from Gold & Silver

   39:48 Jim on Focus & What He Would Tell His Past Self

   42:08 Do Central Banks Know What They’re Doing Today?

   45:18 Jim on Getting Kids to Listen About Business & Money

   48:08 Getting Commodities from Space

   51:03 Short-Term Gold Prices

   54:43 What Kind of Macro Economics Indicators is Jim Using When He is Vetting a Country Before He Even Starts Looking at the Broader Market? 1:00:23 Jim’s Worst Investment Ever

1:02:48 Would Jim Go Back Into Investment Management?

1:04:33 Who Should We Keep Our Eyes On

1:06:08 Is it a Good Time to Invest in Travel & Tourism?

1:08:28 Where We Should Be Thinking About Living in the Next Decade?

1:13:00 What Jim Wants for His Legacy

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CryptoCurrency, BitCoin, DogeCoin, Ethereum these are all newer terms for a new form of currency that to be honest is now a major player in global finance and now a part of human culture. It is the first global non-governmental regulated currency in the history of the world, and it was made by the common people for the common people to keep the governments of the world out of our bank accounts. As an American myself and most of us have never experienced governments taking our money….well except for our taxes, and some of those taxes that you are paying, if you do some indepth research, you might not approve of, even if you are a good red blooded tax paying American. But, there are many governments in the world, even today that go right in and take peoples money from their bank accounts. It happened in Argentina in the 90’s. And whether you know it or know, even the good ole USA plays with the value of the American dollar and how much you can spend with it on a regular basis. So you might not see that they’re playing with our money, but they are, and they have for decades. 

This leads us to this newer phenomenon called CryptoCurrency. It is, we think and we hope, turning out to be a form of currency, with the idea that money exchanges can happen and the governments of the world have no idea they happened. You can hold wealth that you earned and those governments won’t know about it unless you decide to tell them.

Today on the podcast we have a friend of the show and Crypto expert who goes by Grebz. Gerbz has been holding Crypto pretty much since it formed about a decade ago. He even started a business that accepted only CryptoCurrency so he could get more of it. Gerbz is the founder of BitLift, a crypto eComm business with a crypto educational aspect, and he is the host of The BitLift Podcast.  

04:10 What is CryptoCurrency & Who is Gerbz?

10:05 The Bitcoin White Paper

18:07 40 Year Return on Gold & Silver vs. 8 year Return on BitCoin

21:27 Why No One Knows Who Created Bitcoin

25:02 Other Coins Besides Bitcoin & Forks of Bitcoin

28:37 What is a CryptoCurrency Wallet?

29:47 How to Buy CryptoCurrency?

35:57 How Secure is CryptoCurrency?

44:32 Centralized vs Decentralized Crypto

46:37 What is Decentralized Finance?

49:02 What is a Stable Coin?

51:57 Gerbz Portfolio

55:07 NFT’s

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Today’s guest began his journey into the science of controlling the brain at age 12 when his father taught him a relaxation method to control his physical state. His confirmation of learning to control the brain was soon proven when he had his first visualization on a cassette recorder and used it to transform himself from a “struggling student and troublemaker” into a three-sport athletic captain as well as an honor roll student.

That was a few decades ago and today our guest and his team of scientists are leading the way in neuroscience entertainment technology. 

Our guest is the creator and founder of the top of the line neuroscience technology called BrainTap. BrainTap enables the average person to tackle the challenges of today's stressful world and enhance quality of life through improved brain health. BrainTap empowers users to reduce stress, sleep better, and maximize performance. His technology helps you learn to adapt and control your brainwaves and processing better by literally strengthening the brain to make it more effective….which we all need! His name is Dr. Patrick Porter and he is on the podcast today!

   03:58 Who is Dr. Patrick Porter

   07:47 How Much Time the Average Person Spends in a Stressful State of Mind

   20:12 How BrainTap Can Maximize Brain Function

   24:49 Why Public Speaking is the #1 Fear - It’s Brainwave Related

   26:47 The Brain is a Sorting Mechanism

   28:12 Getting More Productive Energy Into the Brain

   30:52 Why Morning Coffee is Harmful for Your Brain & Body

   34:37 Athletes Using Brain Technology to Reclaim 80% of Their Energy After a Workout

   35:42 Stats on How Significant Brain Technology Can Change & Grow our Brains

   40:07 When & How to Regulate Your Brain Throughout the Day

   53:12 A Good Diet for the Brain

   56:42 The One Thing You Can Do to Optimize Brain Health Quickly

1:04:07 The Importance of Recovery

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Shaahin Cheyene invented one of the biggest designer drugs of the 90’s called Herbal Ecstasy when he was 15 & by the time he was 18 he sold over $350 million per year. Fast Forward a couple of years and by his 20’s he sold over $1 Billion worth of product. Herbal Ecstasy was the nootropic pill that sparked the Smart Drug Movement & Shaahin Became King Of The Thrill Pill Cult and a very famous entrepreneur at a very young age. Later, down the line Shaahin invented digital vaporization & was the innovator behind the Vape and Vaporization Wave. Shaahin founded Vapir, the first publicly traded vaporizer company. He has sold over $350 million on Amazon & now he is now a leading eComm and Amazon expert helping people create recurring revenue using the Amazon platform.

Shaahin is the author of the new book, ‘BILLION: How I Became King Of THe Thrill Pill Cult’. Chris Voss the former head of International Negotiations for the FBI said this about Shaahin’s new book, "Shaahin embodies empathy and he demonstrates it in his approach to life, allowing both sides to experience a true, win-win If you can draw out others' aspirations, hopes and dreams for the future, you can demonstrate how you can affect change in others. In Shaahin’s book ‘Billion’ he shows you how he did it!"

04:00: Who is Shaahin Cheyene?

08:40: Getting the Idea to Sell Pills at Parties to Drug Dealers

18:00: What Was in These Magical Pills?

25:50: Producing the Magical Pills in the Early Days

28:15: Getting Offers From the Japanese Mafia

34:20: Creating Vaporization to Fix the Human Smoking Problem

37:52: The Early Days of Amazon 

47:50: Dedicating 10 Years to Selling on Amazon

51:00: The Value of Becoming an Apprentice

54:10: Shaahin’s High-Performance Tips

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Bryan Clayton is CEO and cofounder of GreenPal an online marketplace that connects homeowners with local lawn care professionals. Just a few episodes ago we had the man that made the 80/20 Principle famous Richard Koch on the show Episode 496. Richard talked in depth about true ‘Network Businesses’ like Uber that is nothing but an app that connects people that provide a service, and people that need a service. Richard mentioned that in today’s world one would be crazy for not building, starting, investing and working in or with a ‘Network Business.’ And I agree! Network Businesses are making life more convenient one additional app at a time. 

Bryan, our guest today has created GreenPal a true ‘Network Business’ for the lawn care industry connecting those people that need lawn care work to those lawn care professionals that want to come and take care of someone's lawn. GreenPal has been called the “Uber for lawn care” by Entrepreneur magazine and has over 200,000 active users completing thousands of transactions per day.

Before starting GreenPal, Bryan founded Peachtree Inc. one of the largest landscaping companies in the state of Tennessee growing it to over $10 million a year in annual revenue before it was acquired by Lusa holdings in 2013.

03:52 Who is Bryan Clayton?

06:04 Bryan’s First Business- Peachtree Inc.

08:19 The Origins of GreenPal

11:48 Building a Network Business

18:14 Growing GreenPal Sustainably

21:11 The Challenges of Launching in Different Cities

31:49 Going 4 Years Without a Salary

36:16 Managing Finances & Profitability

45:09 Getting Homeowners on GreenPal

47:30 The Challenges of Leveraging Social Media

49:07 Bryan’s Daily Routines

55:17 Where To Find Bryan Clayton?

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Exotic Cars, Off-Road Racing, Laser-Tag in the Air, & Blowing Things Up

Yes...it sounds unreal but it is not!

We are taking a group of entrepreneurs to Vegas for a week of driving the most exotic cars in the world, jumping off-road Rally Race trucks, shooting military grade weapons out of a helicopter, playing laser-tag in stunt planes....

....and we might do a bit of networking and ideation while there as well!

Have you ever played Grand Theft Auto?

Remember that game where you navigate through the city and steal Lamborghinis, blow things up, shoot top grade military weapons at drug dealers, drive off-road and fly planes that you stole from the Cartel?

Grand Theft Auto became one of the most popular video games of all time and even if you aren’t into gaming there is a chance you played GTA and enjoyed it at least once in your life.

We wanted to recreate that experience for the thrill seeking entrepreneurs out there, minus of course the actual stealing, shooting people, and looting. :P

So we’re going to Las Vegas February 2022 to drive exotic high-performance cars around a race track, race Rally trucks off-road, shoot military grade weapons out of a helicopter, and play laser-tag in actual stunt planes flown by actual stunt pilots….

Yes you heard me right...we will be playing laser-tag - dog fighting style - in actual stunt planes!

And everyone attending will be established entrepreneurs already running successful businesses. 

Kyle Samani is one of the founders of Multicoin Capital, a thesis-driven investment firm that invests in cryptocurrencies, tokens, and blockchain companies. Multicoin manages a hedge fund and a venture fund, investing across both public and private markets.

 Kyle previously founded Pristine, a health IT startup that raised more than $5M in venture capital which was acquired by Upskill. He raised a $75million fund from mainstream investors, including Andreessen Horowitz & founding PayPal COO David Sacks to invest in cryptocurrency projects being backed by some of the most prominent startups in the industry. 

As a former engineer, Kyle leads technical thesis formation and diligence at Multicoin Capital. He is the more outwards facing partner, owning relationships with entrepreneurs and other investors. He is widely recognized in the crypto ecosystem for his writing and system-level analysis.

03:48 Who is Kyle Samani & What is MultiCoin Capital?

07:53 Making the Decision to Launch a Hedge Fund/VC Fund That Invests in CryptoCurrency

14:28 The Process of Launching a Hedge Fund

18:33 Understanding What a Hedge Fund is in Today’s World

20:53 Raising Over $75 Million for a Fund

29:23 Why Kyle Invested 100% of His Network Into Crypto

34:18 Investing in Teams vs Products vs Markets & Why MultiCoin Invests in Markets

44:21 Kyle’s High-Performance Tip: Using a Mouse is a Massive Waste of Time

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Could you imagine inheriting a 150 year old, $2 Billion media company at the age of 26? I couldn’t! Then along with managing this media behemoth losing the company completely over the next few years! Our guest today lived through that. That’s right, not too long out of Graduate school Warwick Fairfax inherited Fairfax Media one of the top media companies in Australia worth $2.25Billion, and then began the painful process of watching his family’s company slip away one day at a time until it was all gone!

Hello listeners, welcome to The Business Method Podcast. Today, we have a very unique story to tell you. In the intro, you learned a bit about Warwick Fairfax, and we will get to hear the exact story of what it was like for him as a young man losing his family’s company. But there is more, we also will hear how he turned his entire life around after that experience and where he has ended up today as a businessman, WSJ best-selling author, consultant, and entrepreneur. 

It’s going to be an exciting show, so let’s jump into it….

04:41 The History of Fairfax

10:44 The Influence of Fairfax Media

13:16 How Warwick Ran the Business

17:06 Why Bad Decisions Where Made

18:23 How Warwick Planed to Takeover the Business

21:06 The Complexity of A Family Business

25:31 How to be Successful and Satisfied

27:28 How it Felt Losing Fairfax Media

31:31 Finding a New Normal

34:06 Restarting in America

36:59 The Decision to Start His Own Business

40:24 Learning From our Darkest Moments

43:26 Warwick’s Podcast

44:16 Redemption and the Path Back

47:54 The Process of Getting Back on Track in Life

53:11 Finding Something Bigger than Yourself

57:28 What is Crucible Leadership

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Eric Edmeades ~ Founder of WildFit

~ Current Series ~

Entrepreneurs Surviving & Navigating the Corona Crisis

Today we are joined by Eric Edmeades, whose passion for food & behavioral psychology led him to create Wildfit. Wildfit is a program about nutritional balance that helps you change your relationship with food and attain optimal health.

On this episode, Eric shares insights on how eating well can protect us from Covid-19 and why creating new eating habits during the lockdown is so important. 

     17:28: Eating Well Can Help Protect You From Covid-19

     19:31: Eric’s Story on How He Healed Himself From Chronic Illness

     29:06: Most People Are Overfed & Starving To Death

     33:40: The Origins of Your DNA Determine Your Optimal Diet

     46:07: Bootcamp vs Summer Camp- Using the Lockdown to Create New Eating Habits

     51:43: How Eric Strategically Shifted His Business To Prepare for Post-Covid World

     56:36: Eric on Managing His Brand Influence During These Uncertain Times

01:00:32: Where to Find Eric Edmeades

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Holger Seim ~ CEO of Blinkist

~ Current Series ~

100 Interviews with 100 Major Influencers

Today we are joined by the Cofounder and CEO of Blinkist, Holger Seim. Blinkist connects 17 million readers worldwide to the biggest ideas of the most popular non-fiction books via audio and text. It is a book-summarizing subscription service mobile app based out of Berlin, Germany. And was founded in 2012, and the service provides summaries of over 3,000 bestselling non-fiction books, 15-minute reads, for your short-term content consumption. 

Holger co-founded Blinkist with a vision to inspire people to never stop learning, and grew it into a global brand with customers in more than 150 countries, and having over 140 employees from 40 different nationalities. They made their first million by year 4, and now they have 17,000,000 readers.

 03:15 Who is Holger Seim?

 04:18 The Concept Behind Blinkist

 09:53 The Challenges of Naming a Business

 12:12 Funding Blinkist

 22:57 Building a Diverse International Company

 34:14 Holger's Favorite Blinkist Summaries

 40:05 Where to find Holger

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Ka Sundance ~ Creator Freedom as Family Challenge

~ Current Series ~ 100 Interviews with 100 Major Influencers

What are the pictures in your mind that come up when you think of traveling the world with children?  Most people think of the challenges, the fears, the lack of support and the money.  Of course, you would need to be very rich to make this happen, right?

Our guest today has been traveling the world almost non-stop with his wife for nearly 20 years and everywhere they go, their kids come along. And guess what? They don’t just have one or two kids. Not three or four...they have six!  Yes, six and they are one of the few truly nomadic/location independent entrepreneurs of the world that travel long term as a family and without a home base. On top of that, they are very successful in business, but they didn’t start out that way.  

They started out as poor backpackers in their early years trying to get by while traveling the world, and they forged a life of their own when the world told them they were wrong. Now, people can’t wait to ask them how they did it! They are The Sundance Family and today the father, Ka Sundance, joins us from Slovakia to share about how he and his wife Katie made this dream a reality.

“I felt like a lot of people, and I still feel a lot of people are living lies. Lies toward themselves, trying to live a life that is supposedly normal, but is making them unhappy.” Ka Sundance

01:38: The Sundance Family

05:26: The Sundance Family as Entrepreneurs

06:32: The Sundance Family’s Decision to Go Raw Food and Vegan to Save Their Son’s Life

14:22: Finding Out a Baby is On the Way in South America, and Deciding to Keep Traveling

20:21: Ka’s Family Reaction to World Travel with Small Children

22:52: Ka On Making the Leap to Travel with Kids

26:57: How Ka and Katie Define Security for Their Family

31:40: Maintaining Healthy Long-Term Intimate Relationships while Traveling

38:37: Ka’s Dream for His Children

45:55: Tips on Growing a 7-Figure Location Independent Business

“True security comes from within!” Ka Sundance

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Jason Fried, the maverick co-founder of Basecamp, revolutionized the tech industry with his radical approach to work culture and project management. Rising from humble beginnings, Jason's journey to the summit of Silicon Valley was anything but conventional. Defying the status quo, he challenged the relentless hustle culture pervasive in the tech world, advocating for a more balanced and humane approach to work. With Basecamp, he not only built a billion-dollar empire but also ignited a fervent debate on the very nature of work itself, shaking the foundations of corporate America with his provocative ideas on remote work, minimalism, and the sanctity of uninterrupted focus.

Yet, beneath the glittering facade of success lies a darker truth: Jason's relentless pursuit of innovation often bordered on obsession, leading to tales of extreme work hours and clashes with traditional corporate structures. His unapologetic stance against venture capital and his fierce commitment to maintaining autonomy over Basecamp raised eyebrows in an industry fueled by billion-dollar investments and aggressive growth. Despite the controversies, Fried remains a polarizing figure, celebrated by some as a visionary disruptor while criticized by others as a provocateur whose methods challenge the very fabric of modern corporate culture. Love him or loathe him, Jason Fried's impact on the tech landscape is undeniable, forever altering the way we perceive work and productivity in the digital age.

Greg Brenneman ~ Chairman CCMP Capital

~ Current Series ~

Entrepreneurs Surviving & Navigating the Corona Crisis

Greg Brenneman Former CEO of Burger King and PriceWaterhouseCoopers, former president of Continental Airlines, COO of Quiznos Subs. He now chairs the private equity firm CCMP capital. He is known as one of the greatest business turnaround experts in the world today. He has revived multiple businesses while creating thousands of new jobs. He is the author of the popular book Right Away and All at Once.

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We wanted to get some professionals on the podcast to talk about handling business during times of Crisis, we feature a lot of digital entrepreneurs and few of them were even in business during the 08 recession. So I wanted to get someone on the show that has a wealth of knowledge and experience over the years to help these younger and less experienced entrepreneurs out, and by younger I mean people in business less than 10 years. 08, early 90’s crash, crash of 87,  So I am really happy to have you on the show Greg.

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     02:42: Who is Greg Brenneman?

     06:45: His Perspective on the Current Crisis

     18:28: Predictions For Covid19 Therapies

     20:56: Economic Predictions

     27:50: Lessons Learned From 3 Recessions

     41:19: Continental Air - Greg's Most Challenging Role 

     46:39: Future Trends in the Digital Industry

     51:54: Advice to Entrepreneurs that are Cash Poor

     58:13: Greg's Daily Routine

01:01:04: Where to find Greg

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Eliot Marshall is a former professional UFC fighter, a prolific competitor who entered the world of mixed martial arts in 2006, competing in TUF competition and then signing on with the UFC. Over his fighting career Eliot has been awarded.....

2001 Pan-American Silver medalist 2002 Pan-American Gold medalist Twice 2005 Pan American Champion Super Heavyweight Brown Belt 2002 USA Team Trials 1st place 2002 USA Team Trials 2nd (Absolute) 2002 Grapplers Quest Bronze medalist 2003 IBJJF Open Purple belt 1st place 2003 IBJJF Open Purple belt Absolute Champion 2004 IBJJF Brown Belt Super Heavy Champion 2004 IBJJF Brown Belt Open Weight Champion 2006 IBJJF Pan Ams Brown Belt Champion 2006 IBJJF 3rd place World Championships 2004 GQ North American Championships - Open Weight Champion 2005 GQ USA Trials 200-210 lb Champion 2004 #1 Rated Absolute Weight Grappler of the Year. Ring of Fire Light Heavyweight Champion He was on Season 8 of the Ultimate Fighter reality show... ....and he stands with a 17-5 MMA record

In 2011, Eliot decided to hang up his gloves and become an entrepreneur. He opened a fight training center in Denver, Colorado and also became the head coach of Elevation Fight Team, one of the country's most highly regarded MMA teams.

00:45 Intro 01:54 Micro High-Performance Episodes 02:35 Events And Trips For Entrepreneurs 04:02 Guest Introduction 06:52 The Beginning of Eliot's Martial Art Journey 11:17 Born To Fight? 16:54 Reaction To Losing 18:06 The Mindset To Win 20:34 Societal Perception Of Public Figures 23:06 Motivation To Become A Fighter 26:05 Dealing With Anxiety 30:51 Inner Healing 34:57 Opening Up Personal Experiences 37:55 Maintaining Peak Performance 40:20 Why Jiu Jitsu Is Great 43:31 Working Out When Dealing With Insomnia 46:32 Current Daily Routine 48:45 Diet 49:32 Starting A School Business 54:06 Planning Retreats 57:52 Learn More About Eliot’s Retreat 59:22 The Difference Between Being A Fighter And An Entrepreneur 1:02:39 Meditation Practice 1:05:21 Message From Eliot Marshall 1:09:05 Connect With Eliot 1:10:53 Outro

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Jordan Harbinger is a Wall Street lawyer turned talk show host, often referred to as “The Larry King of podcasting,”  he is also a communications and social dynamics expert. Jordan has hosted a top 50 iTunes podcast for over 12 years and receives over six million downloads per month, on The Jordan Harbinger Show one of the most popular podcasts in the world. The show was awarded Apple’s “Best of 2018”. On his podcast, Jordan deconstructs the playbooks of the most successful people on earth --from intelligence operatives to legendary musicians, iconoclastic writers to visionary change-makers, on top of that, Jordan is a networking and social engineering pro!

He has spent several years abroad in Europe and the developing world, including South America, Eastern Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, and he speaks five languages. He has also worked for various governments and NGOs overseas, and traveled through war zones. He’ll tell you the only reason he’s still alive and kicking is because of his ability to talk his way into (and out of) just about any type of situation.

02:32: Who is Jordan Harbinger?

06:08: The Social Engineering Experiment That Caught the eye of the NSA

13:53: Networking Tips

18:04: How To Maintain Long Term Connections

23:02: Dig The Well Before You’re Thirsty

25:21: If You Hoard Your Network, It Atrophies

31:31: Jordan’s Podcasting Predictions

36:16: Becoming Top iTunes Podcast In Under a Year

46:16: How Jordan Prepares for a Podcast 

49:24: Where to Find Jordan Harbinger

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Roland Frasier ~ CEO of All Channels Media  

~ Current Series ~ 100 Interviews with 100 Major Influencers

Roland Frasier is a serial entrepreneur who built and/or sold 24 businesses with adjusted sales ranging from $3,000,000 to almost $4 Billion. He is a featured Forbes, Inc and Entrepreneur Magazine serial businessman. He is the cofounder or principal of five different Inc. Magazine fastest growing companies. He is currently the CEO of All Channels Media, and the principal in Scalable.Co, Digital Markerter.com, Traffic & Conversions Summit, Praxio.com, TruConversions.com, War Room Mastermind, Fully Accountable, Everbowl Restaurants, Big Block Realty, Scribe Publishing, & Real Estate Worldwide.

Roland’s work also includes infomercials with Guthy-Renker, publishing deals with Simon & Schuster & Random House, over 100 private and public offerings, running an international hedge fund, advising Pepsi, McDonalds, and also strategic partnerships with Microsoft, Southwest Airlines, Etihad Airlines, Harper-Collins Publishing, FedEx, & Uber. 

His specialties or superpowers as we like to say today are acquiring or partnering with entrepreneurs to scale businesses through acquisitions, strategic relationships and marketing, negotiation, copywriting, marketing strategy, structuring and funding of mergers and acquisitions, and public exit strategies for businesses and entrepreneurs. 

02:24: Who Is Roland Frasier?

04:53: Developing Core Values

13:12: Leading During A Pandemic

17:36: Building A Positive Mindset

48:10: Overcoming Mistakes

50:55: Focus On Your Superpower

59:54: Where To Find Roland

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Welcome to The Business Method’s series of interviewing 100 people that have built companies worth $1 Billion or more and our guest today falls perfectly into that category. He actually turned down Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon multiple times to spearhead the Research & Design arm of Amazon’s data-mining and personalization team. He finally folded to Bezos, later saying it was the best decision he ever made. After working with Bezos he went on to launch the $5 Billion real estate brokerage, Redfin. He then launched RichRelevance, a company that offers personalized shopping experiences for large retail brands, and recently started Deep Sentinel, an AI-based home security service. His name is Dave Selinger and he is joining us on the podcast today!

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02:51     Events and Trips For Entrepreneurs

04:15     Guest Introduction

05:15     Bulletproof Coffee

09:01     Jeff Bezos Seeking Dave for The R&D team of Amazon

11:29     What Drove Amazon to hire Dave?

15:35     The Co-Invention of Amazon Advertising

19:21     The Launch of Redfin

19:19     Openness to Data 

28:27     The Most Dangerous Thing in a Business

31:49     Big Founder Disagreement

37:31     Tips in Managing Data

43:15     Example of Why Entrepreneurs Should Focus on Problem Selection

00:48:22  The Mindset and Type of Personalities in the Tech World

00:57:07  Important Leadership Lesson

01:03:07  A Regular Day with Dave

01:10:36  Deep Sentinel an AI Security Company

01:01:05  Learn More about Deep Sentinel on YouTube

01:13:23  Outro

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Chris Ducker ~ Founder of Youpreneur

~ Current Series ~

Entrepreneurs Surviving & Navigating the Corona Crisis

Chris Ducker is a serial entrepreneur, keynote speaker and author of the bestseller, “Virtual Freedom” and also The Rise of the Youpreneur.

Originally from the UK, Chris has lived in the Philippines for 15-years, where he hosts the annual YouPreneur Summit event and has founded several businesses, which combine an amount of over 400 full-time employees.

He is also a popular business blogger and podcaster at ChrisDucker.com, YoupreneurAcademy.com, and the founder of Youpreneur.com, an exclusive Personal Brand Business Building Community. 

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02:00: Who is Chris Ducker?

07:30: Youpreneur- The Value of a Personal Brand

14:19: How To Become Someone's Favorite

18:07: Chris' Personal Brand Business Model

39:00: Chris on Staying on Top of Things during a Crisis

46:43: Where to Find Chris Ducker

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Welcome to one of our high-performance episodes, where we share intriguing insights and vital business advice. In this episode, we welcome a special guest, Jason Fried, the founder of Basecamp - one of the world's largest and most successful software platforms. Jason's unique approach to business, including questioning conventional wisdom and striving for simplicity, has made him a prevalent figure in the business world.

Jason shares a life lesson on the importance of not dwelling on past mistakes, but taking them in stride and moving forward. Much like when you stumble while walking, you wouldn't waste time retracing your steps, but simply adjust your path and continue your journey. Jason applies this philosophy to the business world too, emphasizing the importance of not dwelling on past business decisions but learning from them and moving on.

Jason also highlights the importance of putting yourself in a position where most mistakes don't drastically affect your progress. An example he gives is ensuring you haven't committed to a project that, if it fails, costs you years of your life, as compared to one that you can test and fully explore within a period of weeks.

He also shared an experience from a visit he made to a Navajo rug gallery, which profoundly changed his perspective on mistakes. The rugs, while filled with apparent errors, were seen not as mistakes but as moments in time - a philosophical approach to mishaps that Jason has adopted at Basecamp.

In this enlightening episode, Jason encourages us all to question where we may be lingering in our lives and not moving forward. This question does not only pertain to business, but also to every aspect of life – emotional, spiritual, and more. The objective is not to dwell on past mistakes, but to learn from them and keep pressing forward, in effect ensuring unstoppable progress.

Do check out the full episode titled, 'No Goals, No Outside Money, and Small Teams of Two Built This Billion Dollar Company with Jason Fried' for some more insightful advice. If you enjoy what you're hearing, be sure to subscribe, leave a review, and share with your friends. We look forward to having you join us on the next episode.

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Lew Kimble is on the podcast today and Lew has one of the most impressive corporate executive careers that I have ever come across. Lew is the former Executive Vice President & CEO of the famous sports shoe company FootLocker. Not only has he served as EVP & CEO of FootLocker International, he has also served as EVP and CEO of FootLocker Asia & Pacific, Foot Locker Europe, Vice President of the Real Estate Division of Foot Locker Europe, Vice President of Operations Foot Locker/Kids FL USA, Director of European Sporting Goods Association, &  Director of Australian Sporting Goods Association. 

Lew started his career with FootLocker just 2 years after the company was founded in 1974 and has been with the company for over 40 years! FootLocker now operates in 28 countries around the world and is actually a successor company to the FW Woolworth Company that was established in 1879. FootLocker now has over 3300 mall based stores globally. 

One of the reasons I wanted to have Lew on the show is because he thinks like an entrepreneur. Lew put FootLocker on an entrepreneurial strategy for growth acting as a startup in a mature buying environment with high expectations. Lew has a strong record of proven results on four continents. His leadership ability has allowed him to create a track record of turning around underperforming businesses and delivering long term growth. 

03:33 Who is Lew Kimble?

12:48 Applying Leadership Skills with Different Cultures

18:48 Lew on Building Teams

20:33 Adjusting Marketing for Different Countries

33:18 FootLocker & Their Real Estate Holdings

44:48 Lew’s High-Performance Habits

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Punit Dhillon is on The Business Method today here to chat about his strategies that he used to raise $500 million. Punit is a master of using adversity as fuel to exceed all expectations. Starting at nine, he almost drowned in a swimming pool. Twenty years later, he became a competitive swimmer and completed his first of several Ironman Triathlons. Now he is the chairman and CEO of Skye Bioscience Inc., a public pharmaceutical company.

Formerly the VP of finance and operations at Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Punit Dhillon raised over $125 million through multiple financings and several licensing deals. He was also instrumental to the successful in-licensing of key intellectual property and a number of corporate transactions, including the acquisition and consolidation ofInovio AS, a Norwegian DNA delivery company, and the merger with VGX Pharmaceuticals.

03:18 Who is Punit Dhillon?

15:40 Raising Over $500 Million

20:42 The First Steps to Raising Money

25:20 Getting Past Rejection While Raising Money

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Dr. John Demartini is a world-renowned specialist in human behavior, a researcher, author, and global educator. He has authored 40 books that have been translated into 39 different languages and has shared the stage with some of the world’s most influential people, including Sir Richard Branson and Deepak Chopra. As the founder of the Demartini Institute, Dr. Demartini has worked with entrepreneurs, board members, and CEO’s at companies including IBM, Shell Oil, Merrill-Lynch, and more. Dr. Demartini has helped thousands of people around the world transform their life according to their highest values, and create their “life masterpiece.” 

   04:00 Who is Dr. John Demartini?

   09:55 Unlocking the Human Potential of the Mind

   15:00 Finding Your Highest Priority & Will it Ever Change?

   18:10 How to Tap Into Your True Authentic Self While Letting Go of Cultural Values

   22:26 Why We Should Never Live Anywhere That Doesn’t Have a View

   25:07 What Happens to Our Brains & Psyches When We Look at Horizons

   37:41 What’s Happening to Our Brains When We Are On Purpose

   40:46 How to Make Money Using the Law of Fair Exchange

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   57:26 Are You a Slave to Your Passion or a Master of Your Mission?

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Listeners, welcome to the show! Today, have a pioneer from the early days of social networking and one of the co-founders of LinkedIn on the podcast! We are going to get behind the mind and the story of how the world’s largest online business network got its start!

He co-founded LinkedIn with Reid Hoffman, Allen Blue, Jean-Luc Vaillant and Eric Ly, and his name is Konstantin Guericke.  LinkedIn went public in 2011 for $4 billion and was purchased by Microsoft in 2016 for $26 billion. 

Recognizing the potential of the Internet with its vast networking possibilities, Konstantin and his future co-founder Reid Hoffman developed the idea for LinkedIn.

Konstantin led the company’s marketing to profitability. For the first few years, he focused on positioning/branding, viral marketing, user engagement emails and media relations. Later, he also managed LinkedIn Groups, international expansion and the corporate sales team.

In May of 2003, LinkedIn was officially released. They had 81,000 users by the end of that year, over ½ a million by their 12-month mark and 4.5 million users at the end of their second year. 

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3:16 Intro 5:08 Where Konstantin Guericke Started 8:41 How LinkedIn Began 12:14 What Conceived The Idea Of LinkedIn 14:08 What Made LinkedIn Successful 16:19 The Concept Of LinkedIn 20:26 LinkedIn Worked 21:42 The Growth Of LinkedIn 24:26 What Was The Hardest Lesson In The Early Days Of LinkedIn 29:00 How Konstantin Projects The Future Of LinkedIn 32:26 The Orignal Founders 32:51 What’s The Most Exciting Thing About LinkedIn 37:26 What’s Still Missing In Social Networking Apps 40:31 Niche In Social Platforms 42:11 What Konstantin Did After LinkedIn 44:38 Current Projects 47:31 Effectiveness Vs Efficiency 49:29 Breaking Down Changes 52:21 The Importance Of Creating A System 54:45 Outro

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Noah Kagan~ Founder of AppSumo & SendFox

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Noah Kagan was #30 at Facebook, #4 at Mint.com is the founder of AppSumo, OkDork, KingSumo, and SendFox. AppSumo is an 8-figure business and is #1 site online for software deals. He is the founder and host of one of the top podcasts on entrepreneurship, Noah Kagan Presents.

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Noah

How do I sell people I'm like, you find that people who have the money and you do something valuable for them, and then they will give you that money. I think what's even more powerful as you say, you can be a millionaire in 10 years. And so pick some fucking idea. Most importantly, pick an idea that you'll work on for 10 years, and just commit 10 years and finding the thing to commit to is almost the more hard part about it. Especially right now I think the one thing to think about in business is what are you certain of not what are you uncertain of, and make a list of all the certainties and then execute against that?

Chris

Hey guys, we get the fortunate opportunity to hop on the mic and do a Q and A session with Noah Kagan. Noah is the founder of AppSumo, a $30 million a year business. also the founder and owner of Noah Kagan Presents, a very popular podcast on entrepreneurship as well as the founder of Ok Dork, KingSumo and Send Fox. Noah was the 30th employee at Facebook and number four at Mint.com. He has quite an amazing resume. And just a genius when it comes to spouting out business ideas. You guys will notice this on the podcast. Noah is very creative, but he's also very thoughtful on not only how he can be a better entrepreneur, but how he can engage with other people and be a better person himself. So what we do on this show you guys we have two other friends Freddy Lansky, who organized this podcast and Itamar Marini, my partner and friend as well. And we go through some chat back and forth about asking Noah different types of questions around entrepreneurship, what's going on in the world today with the crisis that we're going through, and then we bring in one guest entrepreneur to ask some questions and then we have a q&a going. And Noah answered some q&a from the Facebook Live that we did with this podcast as well. So it's a fun session, more informal, a lot of back and forth banter, a lot of rabbit holes and tangents we go often but really enjoyable and I think it's an episode you guys will get a lot out of. First before we hop into the episode we want to tell you about our sponsors NomadX. NomadX is shaping the way remote workers live, work and learn online at nomadic calm remote workers can find apartments, bedrooms or co living spaces to rent on a monthly basis. 50% more affordable than Airbnb. True story you guys. Plus that's not all. No is a comprehensive educational platform providing easy to learn courses to start or to skill, your successful location independent online business. They have built An incredible community with more than 7000 remote workers and online entrepreneurs and they have over 21,000 followers on Instagram to show you how to position yourself as an authority and how to combine different social media channels to gain maximum visibility during these remote working times, NomadX is the trusted community for location independent entrepreneurs to live work and learn online. Check them out at NomadX.com, that's nomadx.com and now let's hop in to today's podcast.

Noah

Give them what they want, Chris give what they want.

Chris

going live Is this thing on?

Noah

Oh, there it is. All right. We're about to get it on. Yeah, man. I'm stoked. All right. I'm grabbing my brisket. Once I get my brisket, it's Game on.

Chris

Are you eating pork again? No shame on you

Noah

No. Well there's two things. I was just gonna say one you got to eat otherwise you can be hungry but two, we don't in our lives include enough recharge time. Yeah. And so I've been really working on not this moment, but I was gonna have more things after this and I'm like, Fuck that. Yeah, I think we think our phones need to recharge, but we don't need to recharge.

Chris

I hear you man. I always like to make it equivalent to a bow and an arrow. You know, like you've got to have that recharge that pullback time in order to shoot the arrow so it can go fast. And we don't do that. We don't pull our bows back enough.

Noah

Dude, I've literally one thing that happened to me recently with this whole Coronavirus thing which I love. It's my favorite holiday.

Noah

I really do. Yeah, well  regarding the recharging. I fucking forgot where the fuck I was going with it. But it was a really good point. You know, come back to me about this reach. Oh, I the number one thing I've noticed. This is one thing, the number one thing I notice about everyone who fucking hates Corona There's two things. Number one, though, they're not getting enough sleep. Seriously, every day that I wake up and I'm like, fuck today, like that happened to me on Friday and Saturday, I was just just lonely and angry. And then I was like, Did you sleep a lot? I was like, No. Okay, that's probably why

Freddy

Do you have an aura ring? Or like a sleep tracker?

Noah

So there's two other things I was going to say though. Number one is, it's interesting to think about our morning routines. And I think everyone's got weird as shit, but I was just really zoning in and like honing in on a fucking badass morning where like, today, I did it perfectly. And I was like, okay, when I do it this way, my day starts great. And when I do it other ways, My days are a little more fucked. Yeah. And then the last thing that is interesting is that when you're rich, it's really hard to know what it's like to be poor. And I know that that's a fucking that's a dick thing to say. But I really had this universe of rich bullshit. I hired a guy to come over and massage me last night. And so he came over to my house, and it was really sad. Okay, it was just sad. Because he was like Yeah, I've lost my job and no one wants to have me come over the house. And you know, it was good to understand and try to see where I can help that kind of person right like and so I talked to him I was like well you're a sous Have you thought about teaching people how to give themself massages or couples massages and maybe putting that online or helping people locally? And you know, it's just interesting to kind of learn from that versus just I think as you get as you rise levels you just forget so I think it's good to go back to the frontline.

Chris

Do you ever do anything to like, keep you humble? You know, they talk about like, I like to do things that make me survive on very little like this past weekend, we just went out in the woods, and we took a knife and took a pot to boil on a fishing hook. And then you really kind of get in touch with you know, you don't need a lot like it doesn't matter how much money you have. You know, you can understand, like humility or living on bear means or interacting with people that don't have a lot on a regular basis.

Noah

Yeah, like, yesterday I had to call my assistant to go do something and I was pretty low for me. Like, you know, I was like, this thing to call her. No, I like that. I like that approach. I think we've done that is I like doing that in the small things like the dishes is the stupidest one, right what is just something small that you know, doing the bitch work and eating it. There's something great Oh, shoot me.

Chris

No, no, sorry. Sorry. I was just gonna say like Mike Tyson used to go big on streets further for money, even after he was rich and famous. And he would go and he put a hoodie on and he would go out just just to kind of, I mean, it may not be the best example because Mike, you know, had his own word for No.

Noah

Well, I think what I've been doing recently, especially with the YouTube channel, and some of these other things is starting businesses again from scratch. Yeah. And really doing it live like we did with Freddie a few days ago and I did it myself. The past I've done like I started a gym business two weeks ago. started selling Oculus a few weeks ago and so really experimenting with like, Alright, can I actually do this stuff? And I don't know I guess it does keep me humble. It also reminds me sometimes how hard or and also how easy some of this stuff is.

Chris

Yeah, that's a good point.

Chris

So before we get started we wanted to reconnect you with Itamar here. I know you both, I don't know you know very well, but I know Itamar pretty well. And we thought you guys would kind of hash it out and have good chats and good fun together. He's really special forces for 10 years and counterterrorism, good friend of mine and partner of mine now. And and so if you ever want to learn Hebrew, this is the guy to learn from.

Itamar

You need to try Jiu Jitsu, man. There's no better equalizer in the world. Nobody cares how much money you have. What's your background on the mats? Kelly?

Noah

yeah, I love watching two dudes grow like groping each other on the ground. That's like I'm really into that. I did watch it. Yeah. Boxing I think one thing I've been thinking about in life is like ratios. And so I do boxing and I found that like the calorie to time ratio for me was more effective. And also enjoyment plus skill, but I felt that I got more out of that with boxing than I did with jujitsu and I've done it, it's not just me. Yeah, it's interesting to stay humble, man. I like that. I think you know a lot of it about Chris checking your ego. 

Yeah, no matter what size you get, and you know, happened to me two weeks ago, like I put out this YouTube video youtube.com slash Okay, dork, by the way, but I put out this video and I didn't get a lot of views. And then I was like, Am I not worthy? I was like, Am I not smart? Are my ideas sucky? And it was interesting. I was like, Well, what am I doing this for? And what, what's, what's the treadmill that I'm on? Right? And is there ever enough? So we were talking even when we could in that moment, I talked to a friend. He's like, Well, why did you do it? And I was like, I really have so much confidence in the world and people these days that I want to go help. I want to help these underdogs. I want to help the people willing to work. And he's like, Well, did you do it? I was like, yeah. And I was like, Alright, well then don't fucking care if you get one person's help or 1000. 

And it's a kind of shifted how I'm even goal setting lately. Because it's like, people have these goals. And once you get to a million dollars I want you just get a million bucks and then set whatever fucking cool goal you want. And then you know, you can do but I think frankly, you'll get a million dollars if you do the thing that you're not trying to make the million dollars on. Yeah. You know, and that's bullshit advice if you're not rich, because you're like, Well, I'm not rich yet. So that advice doesn't work for me. But I've generally made the most money, not trying to make the money just doing the thing that I'm most interested in. But with the goal thing, we were talking about our YouTube goal, and we're actually looking at the goal that's interesting for the dork brand, my stuff that I share basically the voice of our company. For app Sumo and Sumo group. We said we want to get our active audience number up. And I don't think this is a metric that anyone talks about if you're in content. So your active audience is not just your email list, but it's the active audience on your email list and the active audience on your YouTube. That active audience on the platforms that matter to you, and what is that actual reach? And so my reach is like penis size, micro, okay? But it was like 173,000. And then we're like, Alright, this month in May, we're gonna get to 200,000. And I was like, I don't give a fuck if I get to 200,000 people, I really don't. I really care more than like, I get to hang out with you guys and do a talk like this to 10,15, 500 I don't care. And so I'm more interested in sharing the things I'm learning and also getting learned and meeting people that I'm learning a lot from. And so it's maybe setting my goals a little bit more differently that are aligned to things that really fulfill me. I love that man.

Chris

I love that. Okay, so let's do a quick introduction. I think most people know who knows Noah Kagan is but I'm going to introduce him anyway. Noah Kagan was number 30 on Facebook. Number four is the founder of AppSumo. Ok Dork, KingSumo and Send Fox and probably a bunch of others. AppSumo is an eight figure business and the number one site online For software deals, Noah is the founder and a host of one of the top podcasts on entrepreneurship. Noah Kagan Presents.

Noah

Dude, that guy sounds awesome.

He sounds cool.

Yeah, I was like, Is that me? I think sometimes I'm just surprised.

I'm like, wow.

But you know, I think some of it is. I was talking with my therapist. He calls himself a coach, but I say you're a therapist. I guess it just depends how much they charge.

And who's cheaper? Well, tell us first. I know well. I think a coach can charge more. A therapist charges 120, a coach can have a program. That's what he wants to talk to me about next week, which I'm interested in. But I think what's really interesting about successes, how we label it to each other, but not ourselves. Because I never think of the word success. I don't, it's not that I don't believe in it. I guess I don't believe it. I just don't give a fuck about success. I've really explored and I think where I've explored my interests and my explore things I really want. I thrive and when I explore money making opportunities, I fucking flame out and That's been interesting in my own journey, and I hope for everyone's journey is just really, you know, Facebook. I didn't know anyone there. I didn't have any advantages I just built, I looked it up recently. I built probably like four to five different online college businesses. So when I applied I said, hey, I've just been doing this stuff because it sucked for me, and I wanted to build it. And then I got the job there. And I think a lot of the most of the stuff I started or worked at, I was just really like, I was excited to work at MIT. So I did whatever it took to work there. And appsumo I was like, I want deals on these products. These products are fucking dope. There's this whole Groupon makeit thing. That's a cool way to do it. And let me just go get deals on the software I don't want to pay full price for and I'm like, now I get fucking paid for that. Like, how cool is that? Like, everyone should do that.

Chris

You're right, you're right. What do you think gets in the way of people from doing that?

Noah

Well tell you there's two separate things that I've observed for myself. So I think there's two separate places, there's the starting place and then there's the success place. People are afraid of getting success as much as they're afraid of starting. Yeah, that's been really fascinating for me, and So on both sides of that, I would say for myself, what I can only speak for myself in my recipes. So in myself, I noticed that my superpower is starting and experimenting, and I'm not as strong. It's consistency. Just don't get really bored. I'm like, Alright, next. Next, I was telling the coach this morning I said, My motto is kill comma, next. Kill next, what's next, kill it. Next thing. And so I'm actually thinking my and I've been learning this one of my books that I've really enjoyed is the powerful engagement by Tony Schwartz. And I got to chat with him recently. And he said that life doesn't have to be zero and one, there's a spectrum and you go back and forth on it. And so I think the spectrum I'm working on is how I slow down a bit more and enjoy the kill, and slow down more and recharge more. And so in terms of the the, the thing I hope you will back into success for me what I've observed is embracing your strength. So I'm a starter so I should be fucking starting and amens a closer so he's running appsumo The other side of that the other part of that that I'm really working through right now is of what's working for you or what's fulfilling you really fulfilling like fucking calling like, Hello, it's Jesus. It's your turn. How do you remove the distractions from that? So I'll give you an example of what that means. I love this. This with you, not just hearing my fucking voice, like I can listen to you guys talk if I have questions for you. I do this all fucking day. But when I'm spending the day doing meetings, I've been setting the date like I spent like two hours trying to figure out some tech shit earlier. And when spending my day like a planet doing other stuff, it honestly discourages me from it. And so it's like, Alright, well how do I hire the people or figure out you know how to reduce it. So I'm not spending my day in that and I color code my calendar, and I call it my purple productivity priority. And my purple productivity party is that how much fucking purple is on my calendar and you can color code your calendar is really cool. And so I'm like, Well, if my color isn't fucking purple, something's wrong. And so I've just noticed for myself in terms of once you've gotten some level of Your own measurement of success? How do you remove the things that are hindering you from sustaining? So that's it once you've gotten inside and honestly, the purple productivity priority, I'm still working on the branding is what's working for me? Because then I look at my calendar right now. And I can say like, do I have something everyday that fulfills me? Do I have something that's towards my main priority every day? On the starter site for the beginners out there? The number one thing for starters is fear. They're all fucking afraid. They're so fucking afraid, and I'm afraid of relationships. And I'm afraid of sustaining. But I'm not afraid of fucking starting. And so that's why I've done so well, business wise around the start. These people, it's been amazing. We had that monthly one k.com we reopened this course. About 10,000 people have gone through it, maybe 1000 have gotten businesses like really good businesses, and maybe like 100 have made like six figure businesses. And that's probably true for how like the statistics work publicly, but it's been amazing to observe how they avoid that part's been so fucking wild. Like the psychology You have people who put this out, and they're afraid of it so I do a lot of things to get them out of their fucking fear. Like we know, we do a push up challenge, try to do 100 push ups. That's it. You can do it at home. You don't need anyone. Okay? You fucking failed. Alright, good your life next coffee challenge, which you guys probably have heard of, or maybe if not coffee challenges go for 10% off your next purchase, preferably in person and get rejected. And then you're like, well, that's fucking fine. And then the last one I like is like the stranger challenge. Now it's even scarier because no one wants to talk to fucking anyone. But next time you go out, talk to a stranger. It's fucking scary. I'm scared of that. It's just a little scary. But I pushed myself. I still do that to this day one because I love deals. So I'd like to do a 10% Coffee challenge, but I like the idea of practicing and making strength in my fear muscle. I think the fear muscle is something that you can actually work on. And with starting a business ideas are fucking a joke. I talked to the masseuse last night. He's like, Man, I'm struggling. I got no money. I was like, Well, I didn't want to be a business coach. But I said, I was like, Did you try to teach people how to do couples' massages?'' Have you you post it anywhere Have you applied for an Amazon delivery job, like I applied for an Amazon delivery job took me like five fucking minutes. It's actually shockingly easy. And not everyone should be an employee. But I think in terms of starting a side hustle. Number one, if you have no fucking money, go get a day job and get just get your foundation set up. But in terms of the fear, it's just practicing the fear, noticing the traps, like there's traps. So I actually made a list of the traps yesterday, things that were entrepreneurs say 10 ways to know your entrepreneur, or 10 things that they say they say, Ah, it's the economy, the economy's bad. I'm like, the economy is always gonna be fucking weird. So it's just that you're not valuable, and you're doing things that are not valuable. It's a good point.

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