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The Ed Mylett Show showcases the greatest peak-performers across all industries in one place, sharing their journey, knowledge and thought leadership. With Ed Mylett and featured guests in almost every industry including business, health, collegiate and professional sports, politics, entrepreneurship, science, and entertainment, you'll find motivation, inspiration and practical steps to help you become the best version of you!
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John Maxwell’s #17 Law of Leadership: The Law of Priorities
📥 CLICK HERE to Download the free Leadership Workbook and submit your question for our Q&A with John and me. Being busy is one of the easiest ways to lie to yourself. You can work twelve hours a day, answer …
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Being busy is one of the easiest ways to lie to yourself. You can work twelve hours a day, answer every email, take every meeting, and still go home without moving your life or your business an inch. This week is about the difference between activity and accomplishment, and why great leaders refuse to confuse the two.
Law 17 in John Maxwell’s 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership is the Law of Priorities, and I believe it is the most practical law in the entire series. We live in an economy of distraction where everyone wants a piece of your attention, and if you are not intentional, you can give your entire life away ten minutes at a time. I open this episode by breaking down why leadership gets harder as opportunities multiply, and why the real skill is knowing what not to do.
John teaches this one from lived experience. More than thirty years ago, a single paragraph in a college business textbook changed the way he works, and he has been a student of priorities ever since. He explains why he only does four things, and he walks through the three questions he uses to find the top twenty percent that drives his results.
I'll share how I divide my day into three mini days, challenge you to build a standard around your time, and give you a priority audit to run before the week begins. I also ask what truly deserves your best energy in this season of your life.
Here is what you will gain from this episode:
- Activity vs. accomplishment: Why a full day can feel productive and still leave your life exactly where it was.
- Three priority questions: The simple filter that helps you find the few things worth your best energy.
- The Pareto principle: What it says about how you spend your time and the people you spend it with.
- Time compression: How three mini days help you evaluate and adjust faster than a single 24-hour day.
- Only you vs. happen to be doing: How to tell the difference between tasks that require your presence and tasks you have simply inherited.
- The 90-day calendar test: Why your calendar tells the truth about what you value.
- The priority audit: A one-week exercise to close the gap between what you say matters and what you schedule.
At the end of your life, nobody is going to give you an award for answering the most emails. Your dreams deserve your best hours, not whatever is left at the end of the day. Decide what gets your best energy before the week begins, and protect it.
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Darryl Strawberry: From Baseball Legend to Redemption
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You are not stuck with the person you have been.
Darryl Strawberry is back on the show! His last visit was one of the most shared episodes we have ever done. This time he went deeper, and I got emotional sitting across from him.Darryl was one of the greatest players I have ever watched: seventeen years in the big leagues, Rookie of the Year, four World Series.
He has also lived through addiction, cancer twice, the loss of a kidney, and a heart attack. When they wheeled him into surgery, he told God he was okay either way.
He has had to start over more than once, and he tells you exactly how he did it.
I ask him the question so many people are carrying right now: Who am I when the thing I built my identity on is gone? A marriage, a business, a career, a title?
I share how the imposter syndrome still shows up for me and how i handle it. Then I lay out my belief that God plants two or three real gifts in each of us, and that they get revealed through pain and through serving others. I push Darryl on how you stay confident and fierce while still surrendering your life to God, and Darryl answers with total honesty.
Here's what you'll gain from this episode:
- Identity after the loss: What to do when the thing you built yourself on is gone.
- The disqualification lie: Why the mistakes you think rule you out may be what qualifies you.
- Pain and service: The two doors that reveal gifts you did not know you had.
- Surrender and self-belief: How to stay fierce while still giving up the wheel.
- Other people's opinions: How Darryl handled millions of people forming a view of him.
- The operating room: What he said to God on the way in, and why it will stay with you.
- Game 6, 1986: What really went on in that dugout, and I make this Red Sox fan relive it.
Darryl said it better than I can: you did not get into this mess overnight, so you will not get out of it overnight. But if you refuse to believe it is over, you get another life. Get up.
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This Will Save You 30+ Years of Wasted Life | Ed Mylett
What if the moment you think you have nothing left is actually the moment you discover what you're truly capable of? In this mashup episode, I'm bringing you one of the most powerful examples of human endurance …
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What if the moment you think you have nothing left is actually the moment you discover what you're truly capable of?
In this mashup episode, I'm bringing you one of the most powerful examples of human endurance and mental toughness I've ever encountered with James Lawrence, better known as the Iron Cowboy. James has built his life around doing what most people would call impossible, and this conversation isn't really about endurance sports. It's about YOU. It's about what happens when life gets painful, when your mind starts begging you to stop, and when the distance between where you are and where you want to be feels overwhelming. James is living proof that your perceived limits are rarely your actual limits.
James and I break down what it takes to keep moving when everything inside of you wants to quit. The biggest battles aren't always physical. They're the negotiations happening inside your own mind. We talk about eliminating those negotiations, breaking enormous goals into the next manageable step, and understanding that you don't need to see the entire path to keep moving forward. Sometimes winning is simply making it to the next minute, the next mile, the next rep, or the next decision. That's how impossible things eventually become possible.
We also get into something I believe with everything in me: confidence is built through keeping promises to yourself. Every time you say you're going to do something and follow through, especially when it's difficult, you're building evidence about who you are. James didn't wake up one morning with superhuman mental toughness. He built it through adversity, repetition, discipline, and consistently expanding what he believed he could endure. That's available to you too. You don't have to become an Ironman to apply these principles. You can use them in your business, your relationships, your health, your faith, and every dream you're chasing.
I want you to hear this episode and reconsider every limit you've placed on yourself. Stop asking whether the entire mountain is possible and focus on taking the next step. You are capable of enduring more, growing more, and becoming more than your current circumstances are telling you. When things get difficult, don't automatically interpret the pain as a signal to stop. Sometimes it's evidence that you're standing at the exact place where the next version of you is being built.
Key Takeaways:
• Why your perceived limits are often nowhere near your actual capacity
• James Lawrence's approach to accomplishing goals that appear impossible
• How to stop negotiating with yourself when things get difficult
• Why breaking massive goals into smaller moments can keep you moving forward
• How adversity reveals parts of your character you cannot discover through comfort
• Why keeping promises to yourself builds real confidence
• How discipline becomes more powerful when motivation disappears
• Why the next step matters more than seeing the entire path
• How doing difficult things expands what you believe is possible for your lifeYou don't need to know how you're going to finish. You just need to refuse to quit on the next step. There is another level of strength, resilience, and greatness inside of you that you haven't met yet. Sometimes the only way to meet that person is to keep going long after the old version of you would have stopped.
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John Maxwell’s #16 Law of Leadership: The Law of Big Mo
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What if the one thing you’ve been missing isn’t talent, discipline, or a better plan, but momentum?
Have you ever noticed that when life is going well, everything seems to start going well all at once? One good decision leads to another. One win changes your confidence, then your energy, and suddenly the people around you start believing too. That force is invisible, it is powerful, and it is what takes you from good to great. John Maxwell calls it a leader’s best friend.
John has spent decades teaching leaders how to create, protect, and recover momentum, and in Law 16, The Law of Big Mo, he teaches it with the stories and illustrations that make it stick. He shows why the same team can look brilliant one season and broken the next, and what a leader controls in between.
I open this episode by breaking down where momentum actually begins, and it is a lot smaller than most people think. I challenge you to stop waiting for motivation, because movement comes first and feeling follows. I walk through what momentum looks like in your confidence, your marriage, your health, your finances, and your team.
You do not need perfection to build confidence. You need progress.
Here is what you will gain from this episode:
- Where it starts: The smallest move that sets the whole chain in motion.
- The wall and the block: What a speeding train and a stopped train teach you about your biggest problems.
- Managers vs. leaders: Why one group works on problems and the other works on something else entirely.
- The great exaggerator: How momentum changes the way you and your team are seen, for better or worse.
- Thermostat or thermometer: The question every leader has to answer.
- Six ways to get the wheel turning: Practical steps for your team, your department, and your own life.
- The Three Win Stack: This week’s rep, small enough to finish before the week is over.
You do not need a new life this week. You need one day that proves a different life is possible. Go get that day!
This is a brand new series releasing every Thursday. Click the link to download the free 21 page workbook so you can track the rep for every law and get your questions in front of John and me for the upcoming Q&A sessions.
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From Panic to Peace in 10 Minutes — The Tapping Solution with Nick Ortner
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You can’t think your way out of a thought loop. You have to show your body it’s safe to let go.
I get stuck in thought loops. For years, rumination served me as an entrepreneur because I never missed a detail, but it also exhausted me, and it exhausted the people around me. A mutual friend introduced me to tapping years ago, and it changed how fast I can shift my state. I’ve wanted Nick Ortner on this show for a couple of years, because he is the best in the world at teaching it.
Nick first saw tapping at a Tony Robbins leadership conference and spent the next few years tapping with friends and family for free. In 2007 he put $40,000 of camera equipment on credit cards to film a documentary about it. He has spent the last two decades, building, The Tapping Solution, whose app has now reached 18 million sessions, tackling the thing most of us fight daily: overthinking.
I came into this conversation asking the hard hitters. I asked Nick whether tapping is just a pattern interrupt or a real change in your biology. I pressed him on the sympathetic and parasympathetic states and the vagus nerve. I shared how my own rumination wore me down, and I told him how I turn to his work with the professional athletes I work with when visualization and breathing stop being enough.
Then I tapped along with Nick myself and felt my focus come back.
We also run a live session with Thomas, a friend of mine and a nine-figure entrepreneur working 16 and 17 hour days, and you will watch his number move in real time. Near the end, Nick walks you through your own five-minute session, so you'll get to try it firsthand.
Here’s what you’ll gain from this episode:
- The safety signal: What tapping actually does in your brain and body while you hold a stressful thought.
- A quarter of an inch matters: Why the location is everything, and why this is far more than a pattern interrupt.
- Why pushing harder backfires: What rumination does to your thinking, and why your best ideas show up in the shower.
- The 0 to 10 number: The simple scale that tells you whether it is working.
- The breaking point: What Nick did when he was broke, frozen, and ready to quit.
- Your own session: A guided round you can run today, wherever you are.
Press play, and the next time you feel like giving up, stop. Tap the side of your hand, say what is true, and give your body five minutes to catch up with your mind.
I know you are going to enjoy this one. Don't miss it!
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15 Success Habits to Mastering Anything in Life
Most people quit right before it works.Every skill I’ve ever mastered started out ugly. Then it got a little awkward. And then things finally started to mesh. I’ve learned that the awkward stage is where most …
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Most people quit right before it works.
Every skill I’ve ever mastered started out ugly. Then it got a little awkward. And then things finally started to mesh. I’ve learned that the awkward stage is where most dreams quietly die. This weekend special pulls together teachings and a conversation I believe can help you get through that stage faster.
I break down the stages every pursuit moves through and why so much progress stays invisible. I walk through the habits that turn a goal into a result, challenge you to look at your own scoreboard, and share what starting from scratch has taught me. I also admit the one thing I do out loud that probably looks a little crazy.
Then I sit down with Jon Gordon, a bestselling author and leadership expert who earned his optimism the hard way and now works with elite coaches, teams and leaders. He shares the stories and ideas behind his work, and I press him on how he lived them when everything got hard.
Here’s what you’ll gain from this episode:
- The Path of Mastery: The stages every skill goes through, and the spot where most people bail out.
- Hidden Progress: What is happening beneath the surface when it feels like nothing is working.
- Goals and Habits: Seven moves that connect what you want to what you do each day.
- A Better Response to Pressure: A simple picture of how to handle the heat when life turns it up.
- Five Forces That Pull You Off Course: Jon’s framework for what holds people back, plus the answer to each one.
You’re making more progress than you think you are. Press play and stay in the fight a little longer than feels comfortable.
You are much closer than you think!
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John Maxwell's #15 Law of Leadership: The Law of Victory
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Anybody can lead when the scoreboard looks good. True leadership is revealed when you're behind.
Season three of John Maxwell's 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership is here, and we open with Law 15: The Law of Victory. Every leader hits the moment when the plan stops working, the market shifts, or the numbers don't look the way they should.
In that moment, everybody looks at you with one question: do you still believe we can win?
John has spent a lifetime building leaders, and he teaches this law through the people he has watched live it, from presidents and prime ministers to a man who walked out the door on Thanksgiving Day and refused to come home until the job was done. His message is simple: leaders find a way for the team to win.
I know this lesson firsthand. I've felt lost. I've lost a little of my swagger. I've made moves that weren't right and didn't know the next one. In this episode, I break down why winners don't experience less adversity than anyone else, why your identity shows up in your losses instead of your wins, and why your team catches how you respond long before they hear a word you say.
Before you press play, ask yourself something. Have I actually lost, or have I just stopped looking for the way to win? Those are two totally different things.
In this episode you'll learn:
- Finding a way vs. knowing the way: Why great leaders do not always have the answer, and what to do when it happens to you
- The question that changes everything: The difference between "why is this happening to me" and what winners ask instead.
- Contagious leadership: What your team picks up from your language, your tonality, and your patience under pressure.
- A picture of the law: John makes the Law of Victory tangible with a set of traits you can measure yourself against.
- Victory is not an individual trophy: Why the leader's job is to bring everybody across the line.
- The one-page rep: The one winning move to make within 24 hours.
Somewhere in your life, you've started accepting something you were never supposed to accept. Don't let one loss become who you are. Find the next move and make it.
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The Sister of Nicole Brown Simpson Speaks Out
What would you do if the person you love most was hiding something that could cost them their life? This conversation has been 32 years in the making for me. Early in my career, I shared an office with someone …
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What would you do if the person you love most was hiding something that could cost them their life?
This conversation has been 32 years in the making for me. Early in my career, I shared an office with someone connected to the Brown family, and I was around them during the trial. I saw how kind and loving that family was, and I watched Denise carry the weight of her sister's murder in front of the entire world. I have three sisters and a daughter. This one is personal.
Denise Brown lost her best friend, her sister Nicole, in one of the most public tragedies in American history. Instead of disappearing, she testified before Congress, fought for the Violence Against Women Act, and has spent three decades working with shelters across this country so other families never feel what hers did.
I asked Denise the hard questions. Why Nicole never told her family. What she would say to her sister today. How she handled the mocking and criticism. And how one sentence from a pastor changed her relationship with God. What came out of it is a masterclass in honoring your family: keep showing up, keep learning, and keep fighting long after everyone else has moved on. Her new book, For My Sister Nicole: Love Shouldn't Hurt, belongs in the hands of anyone with a sister, a daughter, or a friend they would do anything to protect.
Here's what you'll gain from this episode:
- The silence that protects abusers: Why so many victims never tell the people closest to them, and what Nicole may have been protecting her family from.
- The wrong things to say: Why your first instinct to help a loved one can push them further away.
- The TRUST approach: A simple framework for supporting someone who isn't ready to leave.
- Warning signs that start small: Why you don't need a black eye to be in danger.
- Faith after tragedy: The words that lifted Denise's anger toward God.
- Courage under criticism: How Denise stood for her sister while the whole world judged her.
Nicole never told her family because she was trying to protect them. Be the brother, sister, or friend someone feels safe telling. Learn the signs, ask better questions, and never stop showing up for the people you love.
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How to Force Self-Discipline onto Autopilot | Ed Mylett
Self-discipline isn't something you're born with. It's something you can build until it runs on autopilot. This weekend I pulled together some of my favorite conversations on the one trait that changes …
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Self-discipline isn't something you're born with. It's something you can build until it runs on autopilot.
This weekend I pulled together some of my favorite conversations on the one trait that changes everything. I open with five rules I've carried with me for over twenty years. They're the mindsets behind Tiger Woods and some of the most dominant athletes who ever lived. I've read them thousands of times, and they've shaped how I think about work, pressure, and what it really means to win.
Then I sit down with Mike O'Hearn, who started training at eight years old and is still getting better nearly four decades later. Mike tells me where his chip on the shoulder came from and what gets him out of bed at 3 a.m.
Tim Grover, the man who trained Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant, settles a debate I've always wondered about and explains why the greatest are never satisfied.
Dean Graziosi went from a small blue-collar town to building one business after another. He pushes back hard on one of the most popular pieces of advice in entrepreneurship.
Alan Stein Jr., who has spent years around elite NBA performers, shares research on visualization that blew my mind. I share what visualization did for my own baseball career.
I close with something I feel deeply about: what conformity really costs you and why the lonely road is worth it.
Here's what you'll gain from this episode:
- The Dominator Mindset: The five rules that separate the greats from everyone else, and why they're mindsets, not just behaviors.
- Decades of Dominance: What it takes to stay at your peak long after most people have quit.
- The Never Satisfied Standard: Why the true greats work harder after they win, not before.
- Go Deep Before You Go Wide: A take on building wealth every new entrepreneur needs to hear.
- Train Your Mind First: How visualization and the right kind of stress can raise your game.
- Color Outside the Lines: Why the life you want is waiting outside the picture you were handed.
Sometimes all you can see in front of you is smoke. Don't look at the wall. Keep your eyes on where you're going and drive right through it.
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21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Q&A Season 2, w/Ed Mylett
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Some of the best leadership lessons don't come from a script. They come from your questions.
Thousands of you sent questions in during Season 2 of John Maxwell's 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, so before we kick off Season 3, I sat down to answer them. No prep. Just my raw unfiltered answers.
I go deep on how to sell a dream so big that everyone on your team can see their own dreams inside it. How to carry real confidence without losing your humility, and one of the toughest questions I've been asked in a long time: what do you do when you're leading from underneath someone who feels threatened by you?
I open up about servant leadership, about letting go of the need for credit, and about why I stopped micromanaging a long time ago.
Then Max, my son, asked me how to get ready for the leader's legacy, and that's where it got personal. Having my son sitting across from me while I talked about what really lasts made this one hit different. I think you'll feel it too.
At the end of your life, you won't be sitting around with your trophies. You'll be sitting around with your people. That's the legacy, and that's why I want you to hear this one.
Season 3 of John Maxwell's 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership is dropping next Thursday! Click the link to download the free workbook, and send in your own question for the next Q&A.
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John Paul DeJoria- From Homeless to Billionaire
You can't change yesterday's newspaper, so why are you still carrying it around? I have wanted to sit down with this man for so long. Imagine going from living in your car to building two multibillion dollar …
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You can't change yesterday's newspaper, so why are you still carrying it around?
I have wanted to sit down with this man for so long. Imagine going from living in your car to building two multibillion dollar brands. It doesn't even sound real when you say it out loud. But that's not what I admire most about him. It's how he carries the success: with humility, generosity and kindness. So today I got out of the way and let him teach.
I've interviewed some of the top entrepreneurs on the planet, and I don't know that I've ever met a better communicator. This conversation is a masterclass, and I'm fired up for you to hear it.
John Paul DeJoria is the co-founder of John Paul Mitchell Systems and Patrón Spirits Company. He started Paul Mitchell with $700 and lived in his car to make it happen. Then he built Patrón into a brand selling millions of cases a year.
Here's what you'll gain from this episode:
- The Two Rules of Success: two rules to live by if you want to see more success in every area of your life.
- You Can't Change Yesterday's Newspaper: Why he wouldn't change a single thing about the hard times, and how to move forward after hardship
- Watch Your Words: Why saying "I'll try" keeps you trying forever, and how to break the pattern.
- The Richest Man's Regret: What John Paul DeJoria said he would give up just to have been happy, and what that says about money.
- Kindness Works, Even for Jerks: How humor and kindness disarms, and why you should never knock your competitor.
Whatever you're still carrying from yesterday, consider this your permission to put it down. I don't want you to just listen to this one. I want you to feel it, then go live it.
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7 Reasons Why High Achievers Never Feel Satisfied | Ed Mylett
What if the success you’re chasing is actually keeping you from enjoying the life you’ve worked so hard to build? In this mashup, we’re going straight at something I think every ambitious person needs to hear …
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What if the success you’re chasing is actually keeping you from enjoying the life you’ve worked so hard to build?
In this mashup, we’re going straight at something I think every ambitious person needs to hear: the danger of becoming addicted to achievement. I want you to win. I want you to build the business, make the money, transform your body, impact people, and chase every dream God put in your heart. But if your happiness is always waiting on the other side of the next goal, you can spend your entire life achieving and never actually feel fulfilled. The answer isn’t to stop chasing greatness. It’s learning how to fall in love with the PROCESS while you’re becoming great.
Fallon Taylor opens up about what happened after she finally became a world champion and discovered that catching the dream didn’t magically fix everything. Her answer became growth and contribution, continuing to evolve while using what she learned to serve other people. Inky Johnson takes that idea even deeper with one of the most powerful definitions of courage I’ve heard: committing to the process when nobody can guarantee you the outcome. After his injury, he learned to stop needing the reward to justify the work and instead let his character, integrity, and commitment determine how he showed up.
Matthew McConaughey breaks down the difference between happiness and JOY, and why constantly moving the finish line can rob you of both. He shares how some of the greatest results of his career came when he stopped obsessing over the result and became completely immersed in the work. Dean Graziosi reminds us that money and achievement without fulfillment aren’t enough, and that we need to work on ourselves just as hard as we work on our businesses and our bank accounts. Inky comes back with another lesson I love: be where your feet are. Take the pictures. Have the fun. Build the memories. Don’t become so good at accomplishing things that you forget to actually EXPERIENCE your own life.
Then Rob Dyrdek gives you a masterclass on intentionally DESIGNING your life instead of simply cramming more into it. He breaks down how tracking his time, eliminating friction, creating systems, and constantly optimizing his schedule allowed him to accomplish more while protecting the parts of his life that bring him joy. Jesse Itzler brings it home with the courage to START before you’re ready. He built businesses in industries he knew almost nothing about because he trusted himself to get through the door and figure it out. His reminder is simple: you will never have enough experience, perfect timing, or every answer before you begin. And real success isn’t dominating one area of your life while everything else falls apart. It’s building winning habits across ALL the buckets that matter.Key Takeaways:
- Why achievement can become an addiction and quietly steal your happiness
- Fallon Taylor on finding fulfillment through growth and contribution after reaching the top
- Inky Johnson on choosing process over product and committing without a guarantee of success
- Matthew McConaughey on why joy is found in the doing, not at the finish line
- Dean Graziosi on building yourself while you build your success
- Why being present, having fun, and creating memories are part of a successful life
- Rob Dyrdek’s approach to designing, tracking, and optimizing your time around the life you actually want
- Jesse Itzler on starting before you’re ready and making yourself irreplaceable
- Why true success means winning across multiple areas of your life, not just money or career
I want you to chase your dreams with everything you’ve got, but don’t miss your LIFE while you’re chasing them. Stop telling yourself, “When I get there, then I’ll be happy.” There will always be another mountain, another goal, another number, another finish line. The joy is in the ride. The fulfillment is in who you become and the people you impact along the way. Chase greatness, but make sure you’re actually alive enough to enjoy becoming great.
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21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Q&A Season 2, w/John Maxwell
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The best leaders want more FOR people than they want FROM them.
Season 2 of John Maxwell's 21 Laws of Leadership is in the books, and this one belongs to you. When you downloaded the workbook, you sent in your leadership questions, and over 10 thousand of them came in! John Maxwell and I went through them, and we answered the themes that kept coming up again and again.
My son Max brought your questions to the table, and what came out of the conversation is real, unscripted, and personal. Here are some of the questions you sent in:
- What is the biggest problem with how people lead today?
- What is the biggest thing you had to unlearn to level up your leadership?
- How do you lead when nobody is listening?
- How does a wife support her husband in becoming a better leader?
John has spent more than fifty years living what he teaches, and he has stood on a stage more than 14,000 times. He isn't polished about it. He tells you plainly about the seasons he led badly, and where he learned to look first when people stop listening.
I open up about the way I led in my twenties and the day I decided to talk less and ask more. I share the story of a ride home that changed how I see belief inside a marriage. I ask John a question I've never asked him, and his answer surprised even me.
The chemistry in this one is something you have to witness. We go back and forth like family around a kitchen table. Tune in to this powerful episode and then take the answer that hits you hardest and put it to work this week.
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How to Turn Customers Into Raving Fans with Savannah Bananas Owner Jesse Cole
Customers come and go. Fans will drive 40 hours just to be in the room with you. I've wanted Jesse Cole on this show for a long time, and this conversation went further than I hoped. More than 4 million people …
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Customers come and go. Fans will drive 40 hours just to be in the room with you.
I've wanted Jesse Cole on this show for a long time, and this conversation went further than I hoped. More than 4 million people are on a waitlist for a ticket to one of his games. He's drawn crowds bigger than the Super Bowl. And he's done it by obsessing over the thing I believe matters most as AI moves into every business: how people feel when they deal with you.
This was not an overnight success. Jesse's pro baseball dream ended with a torn shoulder. He spent ten years running a team almost nobody came to see. Then he and his wife, Emily, bet everything on a college summer team in Savannah, and in the first three months, they sold two tickets. What happened next became the Banana Ball Championship League and one of the great American business stories.
I asked him the question every entrepreneur in a hard season needs answered: why didn't you quit? I share what it felt like when my own baseball dream ended. I push back on founders who build companies just to sell them, and I explain why most big exits aren't what they look like. And I challenge Jesse on what separates great entrepreneurs: they keep improving even when everything is already working.
We finish with what Jesse and Emily are building off the field, and it may be the most powerful part of the whole conversation.
Here's what you'll gain from this episode:
- Fans vs. Customers: Why one is transactional and the other will defend you when you make a mistake.
- The Friction Question: The one question that sparked Banana Ball, and how it applies to a realtor, a dry cleaner, or any business.
- Attention Beats Marketing: Why Jesse hasn't spent a dollar on marketing since opening night, and what he does instead.
- The Energy List: How Jesse found what fuels him, and why it changed the way he shows up as a leader and a dad.
- Lessons from Walt Disney: Two principles Jesse built his company on, including the one that explains why he won't sell.
- Learn, Change, Plus: The nightly habit that keeps a sold-out business from ever getting comfortable.
Two tickets in three months. That's where this started. Whatever season you're in right now, get to the next day, then the next one. You are much closer to your dreams than you realize.
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How to Master the Art of Persuasion & Scale Your Vision | Ed Mylett
If I could only keep one skill out of everything I've built, this is the one. I get asked all the time what skill matters most for an entrepreneur, and my answer never changes: the ability to persuade. Without …
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If I could only keep one skill out of everything I've built, this is the one.
I get asked all the time what skill matters most for an entrepreneur, and my answer never changes: the ability to persuade. Without it, most of what I have doesn't exist. And here's the hard truth I open this episode with. Most people are nowhere near as persuasive as they believe they are, and that belief is the very thing keeping them stuck.
So I brought together three of the most influential people I've ever sat across from. John Maxwell has trained leaders in every country on earth and sold more than 30 million books. Zoe Chance teaches one of the most popular courses at the Yale School of Management. Mauricio Umansky built The Agency into one of the biggest real estate brands on the planet, starting at the worst possible moment to start anything.I push each of them on the things most people never talk about.
I get honest with John about a part of leadership where I've always felt limited. I admit to Zoe the surprisingly small thing I'm still afraid to ask for. And I press Mo on what really happened before The Agency existed, a story I was surprised he was willing to tell.
I also lay out my own playbook: why energy moves people more than words, why you have to sell a dream big enough for everyone around you to fit inside, and a lesson my dad taught me as a kid that every closer needs to hear.
Here's what you'll gain from this episode:
- The Question That Changes Everything: The one question Zoe teaches that opens doors you didn't know existed, and what happened when I asked it of myself.
- Your Sweet Spot: How John realized he was in the wrong role for years, and how to find where you win.
- The Emotional Moment: How Mo reads a room before a deal, and the one mistake that destroys the connection.
- Rejection as Training: Why you should be hearing no a lot more often, and how to make it hurt less.
- Scaling Your Influence: How to transfer the skill of persuasion to your team so it grows beyond you.
Everything you want is on the other side of someone saying yes: your business, your family, your team, even the person in the mirror. Stop checking the box like you've already mastered this and go get better at it.
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John Maxwell's #14 Law of Leadership: The Law of Buy-In
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People don't buy into your vision until they buy into you first.
Every leader eventually asks the same question: why isn't my team buying into this? I've asked it myself. And the answer almost never has anything to do with the vision. It has everything to do with whether people have already bought into you as the person carrying it.
I bring up something John said to me earlier this year that has stuck with me, about how rare it actually is for anyone in a position of influence to stand up and own a mistake out loud. That conversation is one we don't have enough, and John and I go deep on why owning your failures builds more trust than pretending you don't have any.
John breaks down the 8-step process to get your team to buy-in, step by step, from the first crack people notice in a problem all the way to the moment buy-in becomes automatic and you don't have to ask for it anymore. He walks it back to his own story: stepping into a role after a legendary 27-year predecessor and spending nearly two years proving himself before anyone came looking for his counsel instead of comparing him to the guy before him.
Here's what you'll gain from this episode:
- Sell Yourself First: Why the vision is always the second sale, never the first.
- The 8-Step Buy-In Process: John's exact sequence for turning a skeptical team into one that believes your belief before you've finished the sentence.
- The Line I Can't Forget: What John said to me that reframed why owning your mistakes builds more trust than covering them.
- Two Years to Earn the Room: John's own story of following a beloved leader and what it actually took.
- This Week's Rep: One decision that builds credibility before you ask anyone to follow you anywhere.
Buy-in isn't built in the big speech. It's built in the Tuesday nobody's watching, the mistake you own out loud, and the promise you keep when it would've been easier not to. Do that long enough and you stop needing to ask people to follow you.
This wraps Season 2 of my series with John Maxwell on his 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership. If you haven't already, click the link above to download the free 21-page workbook and track your reps for every law we cover.
And here's the big one: for the next two weeks, John and I are answering your questions directly in our upcoming Q&A sessions. It's not too late to get your leadership questions in front of us, so click the link and submit yours before that window closes!
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Alex Hormozi on Fatherhood, Leadership & The Cost of Success
Alex Hormozi is back on the show, and I’m telling you right now, this may be my favorite conversation we’ve ever had together. I believe Alex is one of the best business minds in the world today, but what makes …
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Alex Hormozi is back on the show, and I’m telling you right now, this may be my favorite conversation we’ve ever had together. I believe Alex is one of the best business minds in the world today, but what makes him different is his ability to take incredibly complex ideas and make them immediately actionable. We get into everything from productivity and AI to leadership, leverage, risk, and why some entrepreneurs explode through barriers while others stay trapped at the same level for years.
One of the biggest ideas we unpack is something I believe every entrepreneur needs to hear: the risk that got you where you are may not be enough to get you where you want to go. Alex explains why so many entrepreneurs get trapped between $1 million and $3 million in revenue. You’ve finally made enough money to become comfortable, and now the very thing that helped you survive starts working against you. You become protective. You stop making the bets that got you there. But if you want another level, your capacity for risk has to expand alongside your capacity for opportunity.
We also go deep on effort, focus, and leverage. Alex challenges the obsession with complicated morning routines and explains why your best cognitive hours should be protected for your most important work. He breaks down his philosophy that "work is the goal," why winning against other people eventually becomes too low of a standard, and why some of the most successful people measure themselves against what they were truly capable of giving. And his take on AI absolutely stopped me. Too many entrepreneurs are using AI to do the wrong things faster instead of asking whether those things should be done at all. Sometimes the greatest leverage isn’t doing something more efficiently. It’s eliminating it completely.
But underneath all the business strategy is something even bigger. Alex talks about becoming a father, thinking differently about legacy, redefining what a great day actually looks like, and asking a deceptively simple question before taking a risk: What will this actually change about my day? We talk about why fear lives in the vague, why failure builds the pattern recognition that eventually makes success repeatable, and why great entrepreneurs eventually stop "building" businesses and start assembling them. If you’re an entrepreneur, leader, or someone who knows there’s another level in you, this episode will challenge the way you think about work, risk, success, and what you’re actually building your life for.
Key Takeaways:
• Why your risk tolerance has to increase as your success increases
• The $1M to $3M "swamp" that keeps entrepreneurs stuck
• Why "work is the goal" can completely change how you measure success
• How to protect your highest cognitive hours and eliminate unnecessary routines
• Why focus is subtraction and doing less can create more leverage
• The biggest mistake entrepreneurs are making with AI right now
• How failure creates pattern recognition and makes future success faster
• Why great entrepreneurs eventually stop building businesses and start assembling them
• How Alex evaluates risk by asking what it will actually change about his daily lifeThis one is packed with ideas I’ll personally be thinking about for a long time. If you know an entrepreneur who feels stuck at the same level, send them this episode. It might show them exactly what’s been holding them back.
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Why Your Environment Dictates Your Future Success | Ed Mylett
The people closest to you are quietly writing the next ten years of your life. When the water got shut off in my apartment, I did not just take inventory of myself. I took inventory of who was around me. What I …
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The people closest to you are quietly writing the next ten years of your life.
When the water got shut off in my apartment, I did not just take inventory of myself. I took inventory of who was around me. What I found there redirected everything that came after it, and it is still the part of my story I talk about least.
So this weekend I pulled together the conversations that hit this from every angle, and I put my own version of it up front.Jeff Foxworthy, Master P, Jamie Kern Lima, Trent Shelton, Fallon Taylor, and Tom McCarthy each arrive at this from a completely different life: comedy, hip hop, beauty, the NFL, rodeo, and peak performance. Not one of them got where they are alone, and not one of them got there by accident.
Here is a piece of what we get into:
- The question I ask about every person in my life, and why "they love me" is not the answer I am looking for
- Why Jeff Foxworthy says the mistakes that blow up a life never begin as big mistakes
- What Master P told his grandmother at seven years old, and the ten thousand dollars that showed up years later
- The story about my first grade teacher that Jamie Kern Lima pulled out of me, and why it still gets me
- Trent Shelton's soil test for your entire environment, and the palm tree that makes it impossible to unsee
- What Fallon Taylor says the turning point in a life actually looks like when it happens
- Tom McCarthy's poker table experiment in carrying an identity he had not earned yet
- The three words I use with people I love who are not good for where I am going
Here is a piece of what we get into:I am not asking you to go clear people out of your life today. I am asking you to look around. Look at who you text when something good happens.
Look at who gets the last hour of your night. Then be honest about what that is producing in you, because you will get your standards and not your goals, and those people are the ones setting them.
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John Maxwell's #13 Law of Leadership: The Law of the Picture
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Forget what you told them this week. What did they watch you do?
Law thirteen is the Law of the Picture, and out of everything John and I have covered so far in this series, this might be the one that convicted me the most. Because it doesn't ask what you're saying in the Monday meeting or what you posted online. It asks a much harder question: what is your team actually watching you do when you think no one's paying attention.
John's spent over forty years studying this and has put these principles in front of leaders in nearly every country on earth, and this is the law he says confronts people the most. Simply put, people do what people see. Not what they're told. Not what they're taught in a seminar. What they see, day after day, from the person leading them.
I've made this mistake plenty of times, both as a father and as a leader in my business. I used to think I could fix everything I wasn't doing with a great speech on a Monday. I was wrong. Once I understood my team wasn't catching my words, they were catching my life, everything about how I lead changed.
Here's what you'll take from this episode:
- The Gandhi story that redefines what it means to lead by example, and why it applies to every parent and every leader listening
- Why "most things are caught, not taught," and what that actually means for the standard you're setting without realizing it
- The real reason culture can't be announced from a stage, and what it takes to embody it instead
- How this law connects back to law nine, the Law of Magnetism, and why the leaders you attract eventually become the leaders you reproduce
- The identity shift that separates someone who acts like a leader from someone who actually is one, even when the cameras are off
This law shaped how I show up with my own kids just as much as it shaped how I lead in business, and I don't think there's a law in this series that will confront you quite like this one does.
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The Man Who DID NOT Want to be Elected Feat. Dr. Ben Carson
What does America look like from inside the Oval Office, and what do you learn about leadership when you've actually run for President of the United States? I don't normally talk politics on this show, but when …
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What does America look like from inside the Oval Office, and what do you learn about leadership when you've actually run for President of the United States?
I don't normally talk politics on this show, but when I got the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Ben Carson, I couldn't pass it up. This isn't a political conversation. It's a rare opportunity to hear from someone who's run for President and had a front-row seat inside the most powerful office in the world.
Dr. Ben Carson has occupied seats very few human beings ever will. He went from growing up in poverty in Detroit to becoming one of the most accomplished neurosurgeons in the world, then stepped into an entirely different arena and ran for President of the United States. What surprised me in this conversation is that he told me he never really wanted to be President. He entered the race because he was deeply concerned about where he believed the country was heading and felt called to do whatever he could to make a difference. Along the way, he competed against Donald Trump, developed a friendship with him, and ultimately went on to serve as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Today, Dr. Carson gives us a rare look at what he saw from inside presidential politics and the highest levels of our government.
I wanted to know what happens when the cameras turn off. What is it actually like inside an administration? What surprised him about being that close to the Oval Office? Dr. Carson talks about the competing personalities and opinions inside government, the intense energy required at that level of leadership, and why disagreement behind closed doors can actually be healthy. We also have a fascinating conversation about President Trump, including what Dr. Carson told him while they were still competing for the Republican nomination, why he believed Trump was going to become President, and what he observed working alongside him once he was in office. Whatever your politics are, this is a perspective very few people can give you firsthand.
But what struck me most is the temperament Dr. Carson brought into an arena that rewards conflict. We talk about how divided the country has become and why he believes we've lost the ability to disagree with someone without treating them like an enemy. He shares why leadership requires listening to different viewpoints, why a "my way or the highway" mentality doesn't work in a country as diverse as ours, and why our ability to see each other as neighbors again may matter more than any political label. We also get into home ownership, the expectations of the next generation, AI, parenting in a rapidly changing technological world, and what he believes families can do instead of waiting for Washington to solve their problems.
And then you hear the story behind the man. This calm, measured former presidential candidate was once an angry teenager who tried to stab another young man. The knife struck a metal belt buckle and broke. Dr. Carson went home, locked himself in a room, turned to God, and experienced a transformation that changed his entire future. As he told me, God took the knife out of the hand of an angry teenager and replaced it with a scalpel that would save lives. When you hear about his mother, his childhood, his faith, his journey into medicine, his run for President, and eventually his time inside a presidential administration, you begin to understand why his perspective on leadership is so different.
Key Takeaways:
- Why Dr. Carson says he entered the presidential race even though he didn't really want to become President
- What happened between Dr. Carson and Donald Trump while they were competing for the Republican nomination
- What surprised him after getting an inside view of a presidential administration
- What he learned about leadership, disagreement, and decision making at the highest levels of government
- Why he believes Americans must relearn how to disagree without treating each other as enemies
- His concerns about AI, parenting, home ownership, and the future facing the next generation
- How faith transformed him from an angry teenager who nearly took a life into a surgeon who spent his career saving them
There are very few people who can tell you what it's like to operate on the human brain, run for President, serve in a presidential cabinet, and sit inside the rooms where decisions affecting millions of people are made. Dr. Carson can. Regardless of your politics, this conversation is about something bigger: leadership, faith, character, family, and what each of us can do to build a better future. This is one I genuinely didn't want to end. God bless you. Max Out your life.
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How to Stop Wasting Years of Your Life With One Simple Word
You don't need more talent. You need one more rep than you think you have.I get asked all the time what actually separates the people who win from everyone else, and this week I gave you my real answer: it's …
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You don't need more talent. You need one more rep than you think you have.
I get asked all the time what actually separates the people who win from everyone else, and this week I gave you my real answer: it's not talent, it's not connections, it's one more. One more call, one more set, one more minute. So instead of just teaching it, I pulled from the archives to show it in action, my conversations with David Meltzer and Jay Shetty, alongside some of my favorite solo teaching on this over the years.
Here's what you'll gain from this episode:
- The one word mantra: The single word I've repeated to myself for three decades, and why I believe it's the real separator between winners and everyone else.
- The 24 hour myth: Why I stopped believing a day is 24 hours a long time ago, and the shift that gets me multiple days out of every single one.
- David Meltzer on accessibility: What makes some of the most successful people I know also some of the most reachable, and what that has to do with how you value your own time.
- Jay Shetty on evaluating progress: How often Jay actually checks in on himself, and why it's nowhere close to how often most people do.
- The story I still think about with Kobe Bryant: What I saw the last time I was around him, and why it changed how I look at every day since.
Whatever rock is sitting between you and your dream right now, it's breaking down more than you realize. You just haven't seen the evidence yet. Stick around long enough and the candy comes out.
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John Maxwell's #12 Law of Leadership: The Law of Empowerment
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You either go up with the people you lead, or you go down with them. There is no version where you stay still.
Welcome back to our series on John Maxwell's 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership. Law #12 is the Law of Empowerment, and John opens it with a line that stopped me: only secure leaders give power to others. This one hits close to home for me. If you know me at all, you know I like control. Letting go of it has been one of the hardest lessons of my leadership life.
In this episode, John shows you what happens when a leader pushes people down instead of lifting them up: you don't stay above them, you go down right along with them. Then he gets specific about why so many leaders never empower anyone in the first place. He breaks down five reasons, from insecurity to ego to the kind of bad experience that makes you swear you'll never pour into anyone again, and he doesn't let anyone off the hook, including himself.
I connect this straight to what I teach in the power of one more. I talk about how leaders convince themselves they're more valuable when everything depends on them, when the truth is the opposite: if everything depends on you, you don't have a business, you have a bottleneck with your name on it. I challenge you to stop asking how you can get something done fastest and start asking who can grow by doing it instead. That one shift in the question changes everything about how you lead.
Here's what you'll gain from this episode:
- The Demonstration: John's live, physical illustration of exactly what happens to a leader who pushes their people down instead of lifting them up.
- The Five Reasons You Don't Empower: The breakdown of what's really stopping you from letting go, and at least one of them is going to sting.
- The Power of One More: How a single moment of belief from a leader can turn someone into who they were always capable of becoming.
- The Bottleneck Trap: Why holding onto every decision doesn't make you more valuable, it makes you the reason your organization can't grow.
- Kingmaker, Not King: What John says the real goal of leadership actually is, and why the leaders who understand it end up more secure, not less.
I think about every person who ever believed I could be more than I thought I could be, and I know I would not be sitting here right now without them. That is the debt I am trying to pay forward every single day. Somebody in your life is waiting for you to see something in them before they see it in themselves. Stop protecting your position long enough to go find that person this week.
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How To Be A World Class Communicator Feat. Rory Vaden
What if the biggest thing holding you back isn't your talent, your intelligence, or your work ethic, but your inability to express what you already know? Rory Vaden is back for his third appearance on the show …
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What if the biggest thing holding you back isn't your talent, your intelligence, or your work ethic, but your inability to express what you already know?
Rory Vaden is back for his third appearance on the show, and this conversation might be the most important one we've ever had together. Rory is a two-time New York Times bestselling author, a two-time World Championship of Public Speaking finalist, and the co-founder of Brand Builders Group. He's also someone who has personally helped me grow my own brand and career. We go deep on what I believe is one of the most underrated skills in life: your ability to communicate, present, tell stories, and move people emotionally. Because whether you're leading a company, closing a sale, raising your kids, building a relationship, or speaking to thousands of people, you're presenting every single day.
Rory breaks down why charisma isn't something you're simply born with. It's a skill you can develop. We get tactical about how changing your pace, volume, eye contact, pauses, and storytelling can literally change how another person feels when they're listening to you. And in a world increasingly dominated by AI, Rory makes a powerful point: your story and your experiences are becoming more valuable, not less. AI can help create information, but it cannot live your story for you. If you can learn to tell that story in a way that creates emotion and meaning for someone else, you become unforgettable.
We also get into personal branding, and Rory gives one of the best definitions I've ever heard: your personal brand is the digitization of your reputation. You already have a reputation, whether you're intentional about it or not. The question is whether that reputation is helping you create more income, impact, and opportunity. Rory explains why you don't need millions of followers to build an incredibly profitable brand. Instead of obsessing over reaching more people, serve a narrower audience in a deeper way. Be useful. Create value. Become so good at helping the right people that they can't ignore you.
But this conversation goes deeper than business. Rory shares the buffalo story that helped build his career and explains why successful people learn to run directly toward difficult things instead of spending their lives avoiding them. We talk about separating your emotions from what needs to be done, doing the difficult things today that create freedom tomorrow, and why success ultimately becomes empty if it's driven only by ambition or competition. Rory's journey has taken him from ambition, to competition, and ultimately to mission. And that's where the real fulfillment is. It's not just about what you accomplish. It's about who becomes better because you were here.
Key Takeaways:
- Why communication may be the fastest skill you can develop to dramatically change your life
- How to move people emotionally whether your audience is 20,000 people or one person
- Why storytelling becomes even more valuable in the age of AI
- Rory's four-part storytelling framework: scene, struggle, summit, and lesson
- Why the struggle is actually the most important part of every great story
- How your personal brand is really the digitization of your reputation
- Why you don't need millions of followers to build a powerful and profitable brand
- How serving a narrower audience more deeply can create extraordinary results
- Why successful people run toward difficult things instead of avoiding them
- The difference between building your life around ambition, competition, and mission
Some of you are far more talented, capable, interesting, and valuable than the world currently knows. The problem isn't what's inside you. The problem may be that you've never learned how to express it. Get better at communicating. Get better at telling your story. Get better at expressing who you really are. Because when you learn how to move people emotionally, you don't just change your business. You change the depth and quality of your entire life.
God bless you. Max out your life.
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Learn the One Filter That Exposes a Fake Friend Instantly
Every person in your life is telling you the truth about themselves right now, just not with their mouth. That is the filter I open this weekend mashup with, and it is why I brought together some of the …
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Every person in your life is telling you the truth about themselves right now, just not with their mouth.
That is the filter I open this weekend mashup with, and it is why I brought together some of the sharpest minds I know on reading people, building real confidence and telling the difference between someone who loves you and someone who is just good at saying it.
Dr. Marisa Franco is breaking down the actual research on why some friendships take root and others fade. Brendon Burchard and I get into the two small promises I started keeping to myself and how the habit of keeping tiny commitments directly relates to whether you can trust a person or not. Then you hear the raw truth from a man who finished Navy SEAL training, Army Ranger School and Air Force tech school in one lifetime, David Goggins, describing the 19 hours that broke him down and rebuilt him at the same time. What he says about the people from his old life who still want to pull him back will stick with you.
Here's what you'll walk away with:
- Filter test: the exact shift in how you watch people that tells you instantly who is real.
- Friendship science: why the group you show up to again and again matters more than how the first meeting felt.
- Confidence rebuild: the two tiny promises that pulled me out of my lowest point.
- The cookie jar: how to reach for proof of your own toughness when your body wants to quit.
- The lens flip: one question that will change how every person in your life experiences you.
I have spent the past few years listening less and watching more, and every relationship in my life is better for it.
Watch the people around you this week instead of just listening to them, and you will already understand more about your life than you did yesterday.
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John Maxwell's #11 Law of Leadership: The Law of the Inner Circle
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Your inner circle is either your greatest asset or your biggest liability. There's no neutral option.
Welcome back to our series on John Maxwell's 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership. Law #11 is the Law of the Inner Circle, and John says it as plainly as I've ever heard it: a leader's potential is determined by those closest to him. This one is personal for me. Every real breakthrough in my life traces back to the people I let in close.
In this episode, John breaks down why the "self-made man" is a myth: if you made everything yourself, you haven't made much. He walks through what he calls the water bucket and the gasoline bucket, how the people around you either put out small fires or turn them into disasters, and why he's convinced there are only two kinds of people in this world: lifters and leaners. Then he hands you the exact grid he uses to evaluate everyone in his inner circle.
I share a story of my assistant Linda, and the night she took an assignment I gave her and made it better than I ever could have on my own. That's what this law is really about. It's not about doing more. It's about who you let close enough to make you more.
Here's what you'll gain from this episode:
- The Self-Made Myth: Why claiming you built it all alone isn't something to be proud of, and what it actually reveals about your team.
- Water Bucket or Gasoline Bucket: John's test for figuring out who calms the fire in your organization and who throws fuel on it.
- Lifters and Leaners: The two types of people in every inner circle, and how to tell which one you're becoming for the people around you.
- The Five-Value Grid: John's exact evaluation system for deciding who earns a seat closer to you: potential, positive, personal, production, and proven value.
- "You Just Make Me Better Than I Am": My story about Linda, and what it looks like when someone in your inner circle takes what you give them to a level you couldn't reach alone.
I used to think being the hardest worker in the room was enough. It never is. The moment I stopped trying to carry everything myself and started building the right circle around me is the moment my life actually changed.
Take a real look at the five or six people closest to you this week. Are they lifting you or leaning on you?
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Jon Gordon: Forgive Fast — The Habit That Changes Everything
You forgive fast, or you burn slow. Jon Gordon might be setting the record for most appearances on this show at this point, and there's a reason for that. He's one of my closest friends, someone I call when I …
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You forgive fast, or you burn slow.
Jon Gordon might be setting the record for most appearances on this show at this point, and there's a reason for that. He's one of my closest friends, someone I call when I need real advice, and honestly one of only two people left where I still ask myself "what would John do" before I make a big decision, especially now that my dad is gone. When someone like that comes back on the show, you pay attention.
His new book, The Power of Positive Habits, might be the most tactical thing he's ever written. Ninety-three habits, pulled from nearly two decades of working with the best coaches and leaders in sports and business. Out of everything we covered, one story stopped me cold. Jon shared the moment he finally forgave his biological father, a man who wasn't there for his wedding, who abandoned him when he was a year old.
"Holding onto resentment", he told me, "is like gripping a hot coal meant for someone else. You're the one who ends up burned." He wishes he had forgiven faster. So do I, on my own stuff. That's why we're calling this one Forgive Fast.
Here's what you'll gain from this episode:
- Forgive Fast: Why holding onto resentment, bitterness, or an old grudge is quietly costing you more than the person who wronged you.
- The Thank You Walk: The daily gratitude practice that shifted Jon's mindset, saved his marriage, and became the source of nearly every book idea he's ever had.
- Write Your Purpose Statement: Why putting your "why" on paper, not just carrying it in your head, is what keeps you from burning out when things get hard.
- The Four Questions: What elite coaches like Sean McVay and Dave Roberts ask themselves every single day to keep improving instead of coasting on past success.
- Tune Out Distractions: The sea turtle story Jon shares that will completely change how you think about chasing the wrong lights in your own life.
Jon said the sooner you forgive, the sooner you start growing again. Whatever you're still carrying, this episode is your permission to finally put it down.
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The Simple 3-Step System to Solve Almost Any Problem | Ed Mylett
Problems need energy to live. Stop feeding yours. You guys, I've gotten so many messages asking me to cover this, and I get it, because I still work on this myself. Today I'm handing you the exact system I use …
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Problems need energy to live. Stop feeding yours.
You guys, I've gotten so many messages asking me to cover this, and I get it, because I still work on this myself. Today I'm handing you the exact system I use, the one I teach my athletes, my entertainers, and my politician clients, to eliminate most of the problems in your life before they ever get the chance to grow.
And I didn't want to just teach it. I wanted to show you it in action, so I pulled some of the most powerful moments from my archives: Tony Robbins on why fear is physical, a world champion barrel racer's comeback from a 2% chance to live, Dean Graziosi's hardest six months, and Amy Purdy's fight to walk again.
Here's what you'll gain from this episode:
- The 3 step formula: Make a decision, flood yourself with certainty, and take insane action. This alone will crush most of your problems.
- The 90/10 rule: Why pouring your energy into the problem instead of the solution is the single biggest mistake most people make.
- Fear is physical: Tony Robbins breaks down why your breathing, your posture, and your body are running your emotional state, and how to take it back.
- The comeback formula: A world champion barrel racer's story of being told she'd never walk again, and what she did with that news.
- The lock came off the box: Dean Graziosi's most vulnerable story yet, and the one decision that changed everything on the other side of it.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: you're always going to have problems. That's not a flaw in your life, it's proof you're growing. So take this system, put it to work today, and watch how much lighter you feel. Max out.
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John Maxwell's #10 Law of Leadership: The Law of Connection
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People don't follow you because of what you know. They follow you because they feel like you actually see them.
Welcome back to our series on John Maxwell's 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership. Law #10 is the Law of Connection, and it might be the most important one yet: leaders touch a heart before they ever ask for a hand.
In this episode, John breaks down why so many leaders want loyalty without ever building the relationship that earns it, and I bring it home with what connection actually looks like when you're leading your team, your family, or yourself.
Here's what you'll gain from this episode:
- Understand the Real Root of Resistance: Learn why most pushback from your people isn't really about direction, but disconnection, and what to do about it.
- The Locomotive Principle: John's unforgettable story about trains, and why hitting people with your vision is not the same as connecting with them.
- Know Yourself Before You Try to Know Anyone Else: Discover why leaders who haven't connected with themselves internally will never connect with anyone externally.
- The Nine Ways to Connect: John's practical, step by step list for building real relational trust with the people you lead.
- The Herb Kelleher Story: A classic example of the Law of Connection in action, and what 16,000 employees said about the leader who made every one of them feel known.
I've led enough people to know that the ones who stay with you aren't staying for your strategy. They're staying because you saw them first. This one will change how you walk into every room you lead.
This is part of a brand new series releasing every Thursday where John Maxwell and I are walking through all 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership together, one law at a time. Click the link below to download the free 21 page workbook so you can follow along, track your growth, and submit your questions for our upcoming Q&A sessions with John.
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From Childhood Best Friends to Top of their Fields with Greg Genske
Before you have a business or a following, you have a friend. Mine grew up to negotiate six billion dollars in sports contracts. This episode is different for me. My guest was my best friend when we were ten …
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Before you have a business or a following, you have a friend. Mine grew up to negotiate six billion dollars in sports contracts. This episode is different for me. My guest was my best friend when we were ten years old, inseparable, running track together at six in the morning, trading baseball cards, growing up right alongside each other. Then life happened, and thirty five years went by without us being in the same room. After all that time, we finally sat down together, and today I brought him on the show. Greg Genske went from that kid in my backyard to one of the top sports agents alive, building an agency with Gary Vaynerchuk, teaching negotiation at Berkeley Law, and representing thousands of professional athletes through the biggest deals of their careers.
Here's what you'll gain from this episode:- The Negotiation Secret Nobody Teaches: Greg breaks down the psychology of negotiation and why immaculate preparation on the other person's position beats any tactic.
- The Tom Brady Story You've Never Heard: How a single deposition Greg took as a trial lawyer helped open the door for the greatest quarterback in history.
- Position Yourself as the Expert: Why the people who separate themselves in any industry teach instead of sell.
- Elimination, Not Addition: Greg's decision to give up alcohol after nine years of winning in spite of it, and what he found on the other side.
- What 3,000 Athletes Taught Him About Loyalty: The difference between being an agent and being a real partner.
If you've got a friend from your childhood you've lost touch with, this one is your sign to reach out today. Some relationships are worth thirty five years of silence and still worth fighting for.
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How to STOP People Pleasing Yourself Right Out of Your Own Life
Your cup is empty, and you've been calling it love. I get a version of this question all the time: who's supposed to be the number one priority in your life? And this week I gave you an answer most of you don't …
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Your cup is empty, and you've been calling it love.
I get a version of this question all the time: who's supposed to be the number one priority in your life? And this week I gave you an answer most of you don't want to hear. Because the version of people-pleasing nobody warns you about isn't the one where you're afraid to say no to a stranger.
It's the one where you've spent years putting everyone you love ahead of yourself, until there's nothing left in the cup to pour.
This one's built around some of the conversations that shaped how I think about this, with Tony Robbins, Jay Shetty, and Rob Dyrdek. Not soundbites. Real, lived-in wisdom from three guys who've actually done the work on themselves.Here's what you'll gain from this episode:
- The stake in the ground: Why you keep telling yourself you can't move, even when you could walk away in a second.
- Tony's rock bottom story: What he did the night he had nothing left, and how it rewired the rest of his life.
- The three date rule: A simple set of questions Jay Shetty says can reconnect you with someone you think you already know completely.
- The million hour mindset: How Rob Dyrdek thinks about time that makes every single day feel different.
- Your own worst enemy: Why the way you talk to yourself is training the universe how to treat you, and the one phrase that flips it.
Time is not unlimited, and neither is your patience with yourself. You have been the last person on your own list for too long. Fill your cup first. Not because it's selfish. Because it's the only way you have anything left to give the people you love.
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