Outsourcing Your Workforce with Nathan Hirsch

The idea of hiring a remote workforce is highly appealing, especially if you’re a solo entrepreneur or a small business owner. What’s not to like? You get access to a flexible team without the pesky overheads of a traditional business, like office space and payroll tax. In reality, managing a remote team is trickier than it sounds. First off, it can be hard to find and retain top tier talents. Secondly, you might have other obstacles like work delays due to time zones or cultural differences that might affect internal communication. My guest for this episode number 191 is someone who understands these struggles.

Nathan Hirsch
“Stop trying to change people and instead have them focus on their strengths.”
Nathan Hirsch

Nathan Hirsch is the Cofounder of FreeeUp, a company that connects businesses with professionals in eCommerce, digital marketing, development and much more.

Stay tuned as we reveal the secrets to hiring and managing world-class talent, implementing systems to keep your remote business running smoothly and much more. If you’ve ever considered hiring freelancers, this episode is going to provide massive value in terms of maximizing the ROI on your outsourcing budget. This episode is the perfect companion to episode number 117 with Carolyn Ketchum, my former head virtual assistant, episode number 62 with Chris Rugh, episode number 114 with Nick Sonnenberg, episode number 116 with Nick Loper, episode number 118 with Ari Meisel and episode number 145 with Trivinia Barber.

Every Millionaire’s Essential Habits with Jaime Masters

The best way to become a millionaire is to think like a millionaire, but you won’t learn that thing at school. Where do you learn it? Interviewing millionaires is a great place to start and that’s exactly what my guest did. Jamie Masters is the host of the Eventual Millionaire Podcast where she’s interviewed over 400 self-made millionaires, myself included. She does this to find out what makes them different, the work habits they swear by and the real secrets to their success. Jamie has applied many of these lessons to her own work as a top-rated business coach who has been featured in Yahoo!, Inc., Entrepreneur and Business Insider. She’s also a self-professed tech geek and even has a sword collection in her home. Who wants to be a millionaire? If you do, then I advise you to stay tuned as Jamie and I reveal some truly powerful wealth-building strategies that will help you join the Seven Figure Club.

Jamie Masters
“Life happens for us, not to us. It’s for our benefit, our spiritual evolution, and elevation.”
Jamie Masters

Becoming A Hands Off CEO with Mandi Ellefson

Many of us start a business to escape the 9 to 5 grind and take control of our lives, but too often the business ends up controlling us. We find ourselves trapped in a role we didn’t envision for ourselves. We spent hours of each day on email and various mundane tasks with no time left over to work on longer-term goals. We work in the business when we should be working on the business. If your business seems like a never-ending slog, then you’ll definitely want to hear from my guest for this episode, Mandi Ellefson.

Mandi Ellefson
“Culture is not something that comes naturally. You have to create one.”
Mandi Ellefson

She is the Founder and CEO of Hands-Off CEO. She not only teaches business owners how to free 20% to 50% of their work week, she shows them how to boost profits at the same time. Many of her clients have added five figures to their net profit every month and even stepped away from day-to-day operations entirely to focus on growth. This is a powerful episode for business owners and aspiring business owners. Stay tuned as we discuss everything from finding the right talent to scaling strategies that work.

Becoming Your Own Bank with Dr. Tom McFie

Most of us spend our whole lives working. We don’t think too much about what will happen to us or our families when we stop. One in three Americans has nothing saved for retirement, while most of us don’t even think about investing in life insurance. My guest is Dr. Tom McFie. As a practicing doctor, he oversaw his patient’s physical health for many years. Now, he provides advice on their financial health. Tom is the author of Prescription for Wealth, Winning Your Financial Game and Retirement Curveball. He’s also the Founder of Life Benefits, a company that offers advice on life insurance, debt management and retirement planning. Stop worrying and start doing. Tune in as I talk with Tom about getting your financial life in order. He’ll even reveal the amazing trick to becoming your own bank, which you may recall we dove into in my interview of Ray Poteet, episode number 32.

Dr. Tom McFie
“Debt is not necessarily a dirty four-letter word unless we allow it to be.”
Dr. Tom McFie

Cracking The Code On Aging with Dr. Aubrey de Grey

Getting old is one of those certainties like death and taxes that most people just accept. A few tried to fight it with plastic surgery or biohacking but for everyone else, it’s an inevitability. What if aging is not a certainty and instead a disease with a cure? My guest for this episode is one of the top scientists in the world on extreme life extension. He’s not willing to accept small advances in this area. He has absolutely driven to getting humanity to longevity escape velocity where for every year we live, we get an extra year added on to our lifespan due to advances in medical technologies.

Dr. Aubrey de Grey
“A significant part of aging consists of the body’s failure to elliminate damaged cells”
Dr. Aubrey de Grey

His name is Dr. Aubrey de Grey. I first met him over a decade ago at the Foresight Institute, one of their events. He’s been working on this problem for much longer than that. While the Fountain of Youth is still ways off, Aubrey’s team has made some promising breakthroughs and incredible discoveries about why and how our bodies age. He’ll reveal the seven hallmarks of aging and the latest research on the interventions that could stop them. Aubrey is a truly inspiring person in so many ways. I highly recommend reading this episode in full, in fact reading it again more than once, whether you’re planning or not to live forever.

The Power Trifecta for Getting Organized with Charles Byrd

When you run a business or household for that matter, it’s easy for things to descend into chaos. That’s always been true but with all the distractions available to us now, it’s far easier for us to get bogged down with information overload and shiny objects syndrome. This isn’t a minor issue. If you don’t get a handle on chaos in your business or in your life, it can quickly escalate into serious problems. My guest for this episode is productivity expert, Charles Byrd. He is an Evernote-certified influencer and a coach who teaches top CEOs how to tune out the noise and become more focused and productive.

Charles Byrd
“You can have the best tool in the world, but if you don’t know how to apply it to your life and your business, you end up with #Nevernote.”
Charles Byrd

If your inbox is overflowing, your Google Drive is filled with incoherent notes and your desk is littered with scribbled Post-its, Charles might just change your life. In this conversation, we’ll reveal an amazing Power Trifecta for getting organize and the secret to finding your five-second superpower, as well as how to get off slack and start getting stuff done.

I got to experience Charles’ brilliance firsthand through his online course about Evernote and then through some private coaching and all I have to say is, “Wow.” In fact, I’ll be hosting a webinar with Charles as a speaker where we will go deeper into his amazing framework. If you like this episode and I know you will, then you’ll want to register for the webinar at www.KillTheChaos.pro/Optimized. If you’ve been reading this blog, you’ll know that productivity is a topic that’s near and dear to my heart and it’s a recurring theme here at the show. If you too are passionate about productivity and focus, do yourself a favor and check out my excellent interviews of David Allen, Cal Newport, Chris Bailey, Ari Meisel, Nick Sonnenberg, Tiago Forte, Mike Vardy, Will Henshall and Tim Ferriss. I can promise you some life-changing life hacks. There’s even a productivity category on the GetYourselfOptimized.com website to make it even easier for you to find them.

Negotiate Like a Boss with Chris Voss

Chris Voss
“Never guarantee perfection; just guarantee the best chance of success.”
Chris Voss

Imagine you’re on the phone with a kidnapper. Your goal is to get them to release their hostage as soon as possible. It’s a life or death situation. If you say one wrong thing, it could quickly escalate and you’ll have a disaster on your hands. My guest for this episode is Chris Voss. As an FBI Hostage Negotiator for over 24 years, he’s been in that exact situation dozens of times. You don’t operate in that kind of high-pressure environment without coming away with powerful insights on human nature and human psychology.

When Chris decided to share his wisdom in a book, Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It, it was bound to be a hit. He is also the CEO of The Black Swan Group, a company that provides negotiation training for businesses, individuals and even law enforcement. The negotiation strategies that Chris has developed don’t just work in hostage situations, they’re applicable to business deals, sales and even internal communications. His methodology focuses on uncovering black swans or small pieces of information that can be used to achieve the desired outcome. In addition to this episode, I encourage you to listen to my wife, Orion’s episode with Chris Voss on the Stellar Life podcast, episode number 137.

The Secret Weapon of the Highly Productive with Tiago Forte

Our brains can hold only so much information. If you’re an ambitious person like me, you probably have many projects and ideas on the go that some things get forgotten. It’s almost like you need a second brain to keep track of everything. You might be surprised to know that you can build a second brain. I’m not talking about some AI Robot. I’m talking about an innovative system that acts an extension of your mind. Tiago Forte is the Founder of Forte Labs and a writer, speaker and teacher who is obsessed with the future of work. He’s used his background in design and technology to create a system for entrepreneurs and creatives to keep track of their ideas using Evernote. It’s so effective. He’s dubbed it the second brain.

Tiago Forte
“The trajectories of our lives are influenced by the little moments where we make decisions to either create value or to just pass the time.”
Tiago Forte

If you ever wished you could learn faster, work quicker or better manage all your ideas and projects, then you’ll definitely want to build a second brain. On this episode, Tiago and I will be discussing everything from productivity apps to note-taking skills and how you can leverage them to be far more productive than you are.

If you’re interested in working smarter, there are also many other great episodes that you must listen to including Tim Ferriss, Chris Bailey, Todd Herman, Nick Sonnenberg, Mike Vardy, Ari Meisel. The easiest way to find them all is to go to GetYourselfOptimized.com and click on the Productivity category, which is under Podcast. I also encourage you to start reading my other show, Marketing Speak, even if you’re not into marketing. I have guests on that show who could help you up-level on a personal level. For example, on one episode of Marketing Speak, I interviewed Re Perez all about branding and everybody should be working on building their personal brand. After all, your names are being googled and you should be in control of that narrative. Go and subscribe to Marketing Speak and then come back and read the rest of this episode and learn all about how to develop a second brain.

Playing The Tax Game with Diane Kennedy

Unfortunately, tax time is upon us again. Before you take a visit to your accountant though, you’re going to want to listen to this episode number 183. It might save you some money. As you probably know, the tax system has had quite a bit of shakeup 2018. A lot of people still don’t know how the new tax rules will affect them. My guest isn’t just a tax expert, she literally wrote the book on the new tax plan. Diane Kennedy is a New York Times bestselling author and she’s going to talk about her new book, Taxmageddon 2018: How to Brace for the Trump Tax Plan. If you don’t want to get slugged with a hefty tax bill, Diane is going to be revealing some amazing tax secrets about LLCs, cryptocurrency, tax credits and more.

Diane Kennedy
“Hang on to your receipts. If it’s a good receipt, then you just need to show that there’s a business purpose to it.”
Diane Kennedy

Creating A Lasting Legacy with Dr. Sean Stephenson

It takes work to be your best self and reach your full potential in life. It’s tempting to make excuses when things get tough. Sometimes you might even think about giving up. Then you meet someone who has achieved greatness despite incredible odds and all your little excuses pale into insignificance. Dr. Sean Stephenson is one of those people. Sean was born with a rare bone disorder that stunted his growth. The doctors did not expect him to survive at birth. By the time he was eighteen, he had fractured his bones over 200 times. Despite this, Sean overcame the challenges to become an incredible speaker, inspiring millions, appearing on Oprah and sharing the stage with US Presidents and the Dalai Lama. Sean is not just a motivational speaker. He is one of those rare people who has become a guiding light for what’s possible. Join us as we talk about everything from the benefits of having entrepreneurial parents to self-care and attracting wealth. Sean will also reveal how a three-foot tall man can teach you a thing or two about walking tall.

Dr. Sean Stephenson
“In so many areas, we teach what we most want to learn.”
Dr. Sean Stephenson

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