Build With Rob
Rob Dyrdek
Build With Rob is a show about building amazing companies while building an amazing life. Whether you’re a seasoned or aspiring entrepreneur, climbing the corporate ladder, or seeking to live an optimized, balanced life, Rob Dyrdek’s advice will help propel you toward your goals.
Rob Dyrdek builds & invests in startups, takes them to multi-million dollar exits, and shares lessons along the way. His one-of-a-kind venture creation studio, Dyrdek Machine, is a company that builds companies by systematically fusing art, science and magic to manufacture amazing through a process called The Machine Method.
In each episode, Rob provides mentorship to entrepreneurs looking to grow their companies and achieve the best version of themselves. With each guest laying out their visions for life and business and following up with questions for each, Rob gives actionable advice in his two greatest areas of mastery: building businesses and deep life optimization.
On occasion, Rob sits down with his portfolio partners to discuss how the company was created, how the partnership took shape, and share valuable lessons they have learned along the way.
It’s all about being the best version of yourself, doing the things that give you energy every day, minimizing those that take energy from you, and creating harmony to live an extraordinary life. Rob is here to help you achieve that dream.
Listen to Build With Rob on Apple, Spotify, and most podcast platforms.
To be a guest on the show and talk to Rob about your life and business visions, go to dyrdekmachine.com/guest and submit a video.
Rob Dyrdek builds & invests in startups, takes them to multi-million dollar exits, and shares lessons along the way. His one-of-a-kind venture creation studio, Dyrdek Machine, is a company that builds companies by systematically fusing art, science and magic to manufacture amazing through a process called The Machine Method.
In each episode, Rob provides mentorship to entrepreneurs looking to grow their companies and achieve the best version of themselves. With each guest laying out their visions for life and business and following up with questions for each, Rob gives actionable advice in his two greatest areas of mastery: building businesses and deep life optimization.
On occasion, Rob sits down with his portfolio partners to discuss how the company was created, how the partnership took shape, and share valuable lessons they have learned along the way.
It’s all about being the best version of yourself, doing the things that give you energy every day, minimizing those that take energy from you, and creating harmony to live an extraordinary life. Rob is here to help you achieve that dream.
Listen to Build With Rob on Apple, Spotify, and most podcast platforms.
To be a guest on the show and talk to Rob about your life and business visions, go to dyrdekmachine.com/guest and submit a video.
Episodes
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Nov 7, 2022 • 23min
74: Guiding Your Evolution in a Positive Direction
We all know that we change over time, usually at an imperceptible pace, only noticing when we look back at who we were many years prior and see a stark contrast. We react to changes in external factors and that naturally shapes who we are over time. And it may seem that we don’t have any control over this process, but Rob is here to tell you that you absolutely do. Not only that, taking control over your own evolution is the key to becoming who you ultimately want to be. It is about getting yourself into a constant cycle of experiencing, reflecting, and then implementing changes. Evolution is a process whether you allow it to happen naturally or you take the steps to guide it by applying the knowledge gained from experience. It doesn’t matter if your learnings come from success or failure. When it comes to evolution, both are equally valuable as long as you have the right perspective. Ultimately, proactively guiding your own evolution will grow and expand you into a higher level of existence. Learn more about this episode. Subscribe to Dyrdek Machine Join our Machinist Community Want to be on the show? Sign up here!
Oct 31, 2022 • 22min
73: You Can Predict the Future
You can call him “Robstradamus.” Not because he is a seer or a prophet, but because he plans his life in a way that allows him to increase the probability of his desired outcomes. Predicting the future with relative certainty is all about designing elements of your life that are in your control in a way that mitigates the effects of the things you cannot control. Building in that future flexibility so that when things inevitably occur that are truly unpredictable, your plan can remain on course in spite of them. And the longer you plan for the future, the longer you continue executing that plan, the farther ahead you can see. The more certainly you can have that your plans will come to fruition. While it’s impossible to predict everything, with the right plan and a great design, you can get more and more accurate every year. Eventually, you can become as sophisticated as Rob, who maintains plans for 1 year, 5 years and 15 years into the future. Learn more about this episode. Subscribe to Dyrdek Machine Join our Machinist Community Want to be on the show? Sign up here!
Oct 24, 2022 • 24min
72: The Time Design Matrix Theory
Designing your time is not a one and done process. You continue to evolve, the world around you continues to evolve, and thus your time design must also evolve with it. One might think you get to a certain level and it’s all clear. However, the higher you go, the more opportunity you see and the more you are motivated to optimize your systems in order to maximize your energy. In this episode, Rob goes deep on his process for designing and redesigning his time to decrease friction, create optimal output, and ramp up to make the most of the time he sets aside for execution. Learn more about this episode. Subscribe to Dyrdek Machine Join our Machinist Community Want to be on the show? Sign up here!
Oct 17, 2022 • 23min
71: Preparing to Build the Life You Want
In order to build the life that you ultimately want to live, you must create a plan, write it down, and then set out on that journey. You achieve and evolve along the way as you make progress. But before you can write down a plan, there are many things you need to understand first, that can only be achieved by deep, honest introspection. You need to understand what motivates you and what brings you joy. You need to understand what you are truly capable of and be as objective as possible about what may be outside your skill set. You need to understand what it is that you don’t want and what pulls energy from you. Going through this sort of self-analysis will give you the information you need to begin designing the ultimate version of your life. Continuing this process as you find success will serve to hone your plan as you evolve as a person to ensure your plan is always in line with your current self. Learn more about this episode. Subscribe to Dyrdek Machine Join our Machinist Community Want to be on the show? Sign up here!
Oct 10, 2022 • 24min
70: Live in the present while creating the future
Every decision, every action compounds and builds into a moment we call the present. In fact, the only part of time we can actively experience. While we cannot change the past, we can set ourselves up to experience increasingly better future present moments. But what good is the present if you’re not experiencing it to its fullest because you’re too focused on what’s next? In this episode Rob explores the ways in which you can live fully in the present while building the future toward more optimal present experiences. He also takes us through the five potential states of being, and focuses on the most useful ones (hint: 3 of the 5 are useful). The bottom line is, you cannot create a better future by dwelling in the past or wishing and hoping for tomorrow. Remaining in a constant state of taking action, experiencing, and creating is the only way to solidify a better present moment for the future you. Learn more about this episode. Subscribe to Dyrdek Machine Join our Machinist Community Want to be on the show? Sign up here!
Oct 3, 2022 • 20min
69: Your goals only reveal themselves once you start building toward them
Just like a relationship, you understand more about where it’s going the farther you get into it. Everything is shiny and fun and optimistic until reality eventually sets in and unforeseen challenges reveal themselves. The true nature of the relationship then begins to reveal itself to you, and you better understand the long term implications of remaining in it, as well as the sacrifices and pivots you must make along the way. Only then do you know if it will actually fit into the life you want to lead. Whether you’re pursuing a goal or building a company, it works the same way. The blue sky optimism is necessary to motivate us to put effort into anything. But you will never understand its true potential until you begin building toward it. Create the plan, take the steps, achieve the milestones, and eventually the nature of the goal will reveal itself, along with the challenges you will face, the sacrifices and pivots you must make along the way. But if you commit yourself to evolving your plan as necessary, that’s when you really start to build belief and make progress. Or this reveal may tell you the end goal is not as viable or worthwhile as you may once have thought, and thus save you an enormous amount of time and energy. At that point, take your learnings, and apply them to the next goal. Learn more about this episode. Subscribe to Dyrdek Machine Join our Machinist Community Want to be on the show? Sign up here!
Sep 26, 2022 • 25min
68: How Manifestation Really Works
You may or may not believe in the power of manifestation. You may or may not meditate. But Rob is here to show you living proof of the success he’s had and goals he’s achieved in the past four years since he began meditating and actively honing his manifestation skills. He believes you can have anything you want in life, but it begins with developing the skills that provide the power to manifest your reality. It’s not about saying you want a thing all the time, or wishing or hoping for something to come true. It is a deep process that requires feeling the emotions of achieving that thing, smelling the smells of where you are when it finally happens, going so deep and so detailed in your head that you can actually trick your mind and body that that thing is true, real, and inevitable. Only then can you bring it into your life through the power of manifestation. Learn more about this episode. Subscribe to Dyrdek Machine Join our Machinist Community Want to be on the show? Sign up here!
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Sep 19, 2022 • 23min
67: Simplify Your Goals
Your goals should not be too complex. The process of clarifying the path to achieve your vision and breaking it down into realistic major milestones is key to understanding how to get there, building belief as you check them off, and ultimately achieving the goal. This applies to anything you want to pursue in life or in business. Understanding that if you don’t hit the next milestone, there is no next one, and thus no finish line, allows you to focus on the immediate with clear intention. You can then approach the milestone in front of you with more detail, more strategy, more effort. Like anything, you will get better and better at breaking down your goals over time, identifying the right milestones, and optimizing your time to achieve each milestone and prepare to tackle the next. These milestones may evolve over time, but the more clarity you have about the pathway, the easier it will be to precisely augment them to stay on track. Learn more about this episode. Subscribe to Dyrdek Machine Join our Machinist Community Want to be on the show? Sign up here!
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Sep 12, 2022 • 25min
66: Measurement Builds Motivation
Measurement is a crucial tool on your way to success in any aspect of your life or business. But it’s equally important to measure what is important, not simply what is easiest to measure. Choosing the right aspects of something to measure and track provides a pathway to improving those aspects. Without proper measurement, it’s far more difficult to understand what needs improvement in order to help you reach your goal. Measurement is also a way to see clear progress over time, and progress is the basis for sustained and even increased motivation. You will be far more motivated to keep pushing toward a goal as you watch yourself move ever closer to achieving it than you will if you lack the clarity of how your actions directly impact your pursuit of said goal. Learn more about this episode. Subscribe to Dyrdek Machine Join our Machinist Community Want to be on the show? Sign up here!
Aug 29, 2022 • 21min
65: How You Can Actually Slow Down Time
How many times have you either said or heard “I can’t believe it’s already August!” or “Where did the year go?” Time has a way of passing so rapidly we don’t even notice until we look back and wonder where it all could have gone. What did we actually DO this whole time? Well, Rob knows EXACTLY what he did this year and EXACTLY where the time went. When it was used to be productive and push his goals forward when it was spent with his family, and even when it was wasted. And he’s never surprised when it’s August. And for him, the year has gone as slow as he wants. This is because he designs and tracks every hour of his day every day. This may sound daunting at first, but once you are in complete control of your time, only then can you begin to bend it to your will. To accomplish your goals, to get the most out of every hour, every day, month, and year. And to slow it down to your desired tempo. Learn more about this episode. Subscribe to Dyrdek Machine Join our Machinist Community Want to be on the show? Sign up here!
