Just Go Grind

Tim Ferriss is a marketing genius, author of 5 best-selling books, podcaster, entrepreneur, and angel investor. He built a successful blog with over 1 million monthly visitors, a podcast with more than 400 million downloads, and has helped thousands of people through his content.  I first heard about Tim Ferriss in 2011 when I read his first book, The 4-Hour Workweek, and preceded to have my life and thinking altered for good. I’ve since met Tim in person, bought all of his books, and generally believe he’s one of the smartest marketers on the planet.  Tim also has built a community so strong that there is even a phrase called “The Tim Ferriss Effect” for his ability to sell the products he recommends.  After years of consuming Tim’s content, I wanted to curate a few of his best business lessons and share them with you to apply them in your own work. Selfishly, I also want them all in one place so I can easily be reminded of them too. What can I say, this desire helped me write this post. You’re welcome.  13 TIMELESS BUSINESS LESSONS LEARNED FROM TIM FERRISS (BLOG POST): https://www.justgogrind.com/tim-ferriss-timeless-business-lessons/ JUST GO GRIND SHOW NOTES: http://www.justgogrind.com/podcast/ MY FREE COURSE ON HOW TO START A PODCAST: https://just-go-grind.teachable.com/p/podcast-launch JUST GO GRIND INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/justgogrind/ JUST GO GRIND FB COMMUNITY: https://www.facebook.com/groups/justgogrind/

Todd Marks, a 40 under 40 and 2x EY Entrepreneur of the Year Nominee, is the teacher-turned-technologist founder of Mindgrub Technologies. Mindgrub, voted CRTC's Tech Company of the Year and placing #520 on the Inc 500/5000, is a mobile, social and web app consultancy, working with companies and organizations in a variety of industries to bring their brand to digital.  MY FREE COURSE ON HOW TO START A PODCAST: https://just-go-grind.teachable.com/p/podcast-launch JUST GO GRIND SHOW NOTES: http://www.justgogrind.com/podcast/ JUST GO GRIND INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/justgogrind/ JUST GO GRIND FB COMMUNITY: https://www.facebook.com/groups/justgogrind/

There are a million things you could do in your business, but ruthlessly prioritizing, choosing the right things to do, at the right time, will help you make more progress.  In this episode I share a few thoughts on ruthless prioritization and how I manage my own schedule and all the things I'm trying to get done each day.  MY FREE COURSE ON HOW TO START A PODCAST: https://just-go-grind.teachable.com/p/podcast-launch JUST GO GRIND SHOW NOTES: http://www.justgogrind.com/podcast/ JUST GO GRIND INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/justgogrind/ JUST GO GRIND FB COMMUNITY: https://www.facebook.com/groups/justgogrind/

Lisa Atia is a social entrepreneur, creative strategist, and storyteller at heart. She’s had over 10 years’ experience scaling rapid-growth start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. She’s served as the Creative Brand Strategist for Blavity and Chief Revenue Officer for Backstage Capital. At the intersection of culture, media, and tech, her work builds ecosystems and creates access to opportunities for women and people of color entrepreneurs. You can find Lisa on Twitter. JUST GO GRIND SHOW NOTES: http://www.justgogrind.com/podcast/ JUST GO GRIND INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/justgogrind/ JUST GO GRIND FB COMMUNITY: https://www.facebook.com/groups/justgogrind/

As the son of a military doctor, Sasha Strauss spent much of his youth with US Navy SEALS. The mix of international affairs and world travel stirred in him a sense of duty and adventure that carries him daily through his ceaseless travel as a global brand consultant. In 2006, Sasha founded Innovation Protocol to consult using a specialized, rigorous, protocol-driven brand development practice for innovators. Innovation Protocol has grown into an international brand consulting powerhouse, serving marquee organizations across categories, from biotech to fintech, academia to athletics. Sasha’s passion for brand strategy has also driven his practice as a celebrated speaker, authoring and presenting original thought leadership and keynote speeches for audiences worldwide. Presentations such as “Branding in the New Normal” and “Rise of the Herogen” have been delivered in a dozen countries and viewed on YouTube over 1M total times. When not leading Innovation Protocol or speaking, Sasha teaches brand strategy to graduate students at the MBA programs at UCLA, USC, and UCI, where he remains one of the highest-rated faculty members. A SCUBA diver, passenger-aviator, voracious music consumer, fruit/nut/veggie scavenger, and perpetual futurologist, Sasha is Innovation Protocol's founder, culture captain, and a senior client adviser. JUST GO GRIND SHOW NOTES: http://www.justgogrind.com/podcast/ JUST GO GRIND INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/justgogrind/ JUST GO GRIND FB COMMUNITY: https://www.facebook.com/groups/justgogrind/

Devin Person is a humble 21st-century incarnation of the wizard archetype, playfully blurring the line between fantasy and reality. Wizards are helpful guides who bring magic, mystery, wisdom, and hope to the societies in which they serve. As a modern wizard, Devin's life’s work is to help you—yes, specifically you!—create a slightly better reality. Using thought to change reality is nothing new. From mindfulness meditation to the placebo effect, we know mental actions can produce real-world benefits. What makes wizardry different from positive thinking, self-help, and other forms of spirituality is its focus on small actions. In an era of endless content and constant overwhelm, the wizard asks, “What’s the least you can do?” Find Devin online at Person is Awake, listen to his podcast, This Podcast is a Ritual, or read his features in The New York Times and the New York Post. JUST GO GRIND FB COMMUNITY: https://www.facebook.com/groups/justgogrind/ JUST GO GRIND SHOW NOTES: http://www.justgogrind.com/podcast/ JUST GO GRIND INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/justgogrind/

In the words of Christine Hunsicker who sold her first company to Yahoo for $850 million, "Alex will eat through a wall." Born in shopping paradise, Los Angeles, to a long line of sustainability entrepreneurs, Alex has always been passionate about conscious fashion. While in college at Boston University, Alex created a hobby-website called UNItiques to be a fun way for girls on campus to share closets. She was shocked when it spread to 600 campuses, and the demand from members outside of college continued to grow. Meanwhile, Alex was recognized as the "Face of Sustainability," as well as awarded the "Best New Venture" of 16,000 students, which got the attention of Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, College Fashionista, and even TV show Project Runway Startup on Lifetime. After graduating, Alex made it her mission to spread "relovving" fashion beyond the campus. She began developing Relovv, taking all the best pieces from UNItiques and combining them with new, unique features. Relovv launched in October 2018, and has been quickly backed by the prestigious Techstars Venture Accelerator. After launching Relovv, Alex was personally certified by Former Vice President Al Gore as a Climate Reality Leader, and is hailed as a speaker at world-class universities nationwide, including Harvard. JUST GO GRIND FB COMMUNITY: https://www.facebook.com/groups/justgogrind/ JUST GO GRIND SHOW NOTES: http://www.justgogrind.com/podcast/ JUST GO GRIND INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/justgogrind/

Robert Luo graduated from USC Marshall School of Business with a degree in Bachelor of Business Administration. Robert started his first company when he was 20. It was during the time when he decided to take a gap year after my sophomore year in college. Robert’s company developed a mobile application called Ubi, which allowed users to send messages and videos with Bluetooth. It was a unique and stressful experience at the time. The company failed to deliver the app 5 times before the official launch, which resulted in $30,000 extra expenses. Luckily, after the official launch, the app gained 5000 users within the next 6 months. By the time I sold the company for $300,000, the app had over 10,000 users. After returning to USC, Robert immediately began to draft ideas on how to start next. He eventually came up with two ideas. The first idea was starting a green fashion brand that creates sustainable and recyclable products to reduce fashion waste. After 14 months of research, customer discovery, design, and experimentation, they launched the product, Mi Terro CDS, to Kickstarter in February 2018. Mi Terro CDS is the world’s only bag made of recycled ocean plastics and cork. The campaign was a big success. We were fully funded within 22 hours and later concluded the campaign with 450% funded. Because of our great product and business model, they won $5000 for the USC New Venture Seed Competition. Robert is also running a green software company called Reo2. The Reo2 app rewards users for reducing carbon emission by planting trees on their behalf. Robert Luo was a Forbes Under 30 Scholar and a candidate of the LA Business Journal’s “20 Entrepreneurs in Their 20s.” Show notes at: https://www.justgogrind.com/podcast/

I released the first episode of the Just Go Grind Podcast on June 9th, 2018 and after a year I've learned a ton, made a bunch of mistakes, and today I'm sharing with you all the details. This is my first solo podcast episode and in it I share with you the results from my first year of podcasting, why I podcast and how I got started in the first place, the logistics behind running a podcast, getting guests and conducting interviews, some lessons I've learned from podcasting, the challenges I deal with as a podcaster, and why I'm motivated to continue. Enjoy!

Matt is Managing Director of The Fort. He is a Los Angeles based serial entrepreneur and consultant who has launched over 5 companies. He has been actively involved with The Fort since its inception to ensure that Mammoth’s initiative is executed properly and well resourced enough to deliver long term results. Matt works directly with the mountain leadership, Mammoth COO Mark Brownlie, and Alterra CEO Rusty Gregory, to ensure the vitality of the program. His inside the ropes perspective provides tremendous value to the project as he understands first hand how initiatives like these require space, community, resourcing, entrepreneurship and hustle in order to take shape. Prior to The Fort, Matt started Wellen, a beach lifestyle and clothing brand that was sold to Huckberry. Matt was also involved in an international licensing deal with Uniqlo for Wellen.