Future Squared with Steve Glaveski

Andrew Ross is the founder of URBNSURF, Australia’s first surf park, which opened its doors to the public in January of 2020 to much fanfare. Prior to opening URBNSURF, Andrew spent twenty five years in various legal, corporate finance and investment banking roles before merging his profession and his passion to ultimately find his purpose, as you’ll learn in this conversation. As you might imagine, building a two-hectare large surf park, that generates 1,000 ocean-like waves per hour is a Herculean feat, and one that delivers lots of both business and life lessons, lessons we unpack, so strap yourself in for my hour-plus long conversation with the founder of URBNSURF, the one and only, Andrew Ross. Topics Discussed: What is URBNSURF? Andrew’s origin story How investment banking prepared Andrew for entrepreneurship Where the inspiration for URBNSURF came from Challenges faced in turning the dream into reality Build it and they will come? The value of resilience Raising $30 million from investors How to overcome objections Risk management and redundancy How URBNSURF compares to ocean surfing Sacrifice and managing family expectations Company culture, trust, speed and innovation The value of short feedback loops Night surfing Board selection for URBNSURF Celebrity customers How Andrew stays on top of his mental and physical game Show Notes: Web: URBNSURF.COM Instagram: @URBNSURF The book Andrew mentioned: Barbarian Days - https://amzn.to/2TSr087 The peptide I mentioned: https://www.bigboyz.store/products/regenotropin-bpc157 ---------- Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts  goo.gl/sMnEa0 Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski Steve's book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/ Watch on YouTube: https://bit.ly/2N77FLx GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching GET LUCAS TO DESIGN YOUR SUPPLEMENT PROTOCOL: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/custom-stack   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Scott H Young is a writer, programmer, traveler and avid reader of interesting things. For the last ten years he has been experimenting to find out how to learn and think better. He’s the author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller, Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate… Whether it’s learning a new talent, staying relevant, reinventing yourself, or adapting to whatever the workplace throws your way, Scott’s book offers nine principles to master hard skills quickly.   We explored why self-education is so important today, common learning pitfalls, and techniques you can apply to accelerate your own learning efforts, including a simple method that can help you to increase your retention by a factor of four. With that, I bring you the one and only, Scott H Young. Topics Discussed: What is ultralearning? How Scott got into learning about learning Why ongoing self-education is so important today What’s wrong with our old ways of learning? How Scott completed a 4 year MIT program in just 12 months The power of retrieval Common learning pitfalls to avoid How to increase retention through spaced repetition Why we should attack our weaknesses The power of a learning project The forgetting curve The importance of feedback and learning into difficulty How our intuition can fool us into thinking we know things The 80/20 principle Peer learning Personalised learning Habit building How to read more books in 2020 How to beat procrastination Show Notes: W: scotthyoung.com T: @scotthyoung Ge the book on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2R1UezT Get the audiobook on Audible: https://www.audible.com/pd/Ultralearning-Audiobook/0062945149 Steve’s HBR article on L&D: https://hbr.org/2019/10/where-companies-go-wrong-with-learning-and-development --------------- Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts  goo.gl/sMnEa0 Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski Steve's book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/ Watch on YouTube: https://bit.ly/2N77FLx GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching GET LUCAS TO DESIGN YOUR SUPPLEMENT PROTOCOL: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/custom-stack   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

James Clear is an author and speaker focused on habits, decision-making, and continuous improvement. A freak baseball accident put James in a desperate place, fighting to recover from brain damage. The debilitating brain injury forced him to discover a new way of living. Recovery took James to a new understanding of habits and the power of stacking simple, easy habits, one on top of the other, to create momentum and change. His book, Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results, shares his learnings with the world. It has sold well over one million copies and has been translated into numerous languages. He is a regular speaker at Fortune 500 companies and his work is used by teams in the NFL, NBA, and MLB. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Entrepreneur, Time, and on CBS This Morning. We covered numerous topics in this conversation, including, as you might expect: How to build good habits and break bad ones Why systems are much more important than goals alone; and What kind of ‘meta habits’ deliver a massive return in life We explore this and a whole lot more so strap yourself in for an hour with Mr Atomic Habits himself, James Clear. Topics Discussed: Why are good habits so difficult to form Our brain’s desire to optimize for energy conservation The three layers of behaviour change The four laws of behaviour change The power of rewards Habit stacking Environment design The power of small changes The path of least effort meets the laws of motion Picking the right metrics The Goldilocks Zone Short feedback loops What leaders can do to build better habits in their teams and companies Meta habits What role identity plays Values alignment Show Notes: com @jamesclear on Twitter Get the book: https://amzn.to/2DHgN5l ---------- Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts  gl/sMnEa0 Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski Instagram: instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski Future Squared: futuresquared.xyz Steve Glaveski: steveglaveski.com Medium: medium.com/@steveglaveski Steve's book: employeetoentrepreneur.io NEW Facebook group: facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/ Watch on YouTube: https://bit.ly/2N77FLx GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching GET LUCAS TO DESIGN YOUR SUPPLEMENT PROTOCOL: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/custom-stack Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Branko Milanovic is a Presidential Professor at the Graduate Center and a senior fellow at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality. He obtained his Ph. D. in economics from the University of Belgrade with a dissertation on income inequality in Yugoslavia. He served as lead economist in World Bank Research Department for almost 20 years and as a senior associate at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington from 2003 to 2005. He has held teaching appointments at the University of Maryland (2007-2013) and at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University (1997-2007). He is the author of Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World. In it,  he argues that capitalism has triumphed because it works. It delivers prosperity and gratifies human desires for autonomy. But it comes with a moral price, pushing us to treat material success as the ultimate goal. In what is becoming an increasingly polarised world, I really enjoyed getting somewhat out of my comfort zone to talk economics with Branko. We went an inch deep a mile wide in this conversation and covered numerous topics, including: The merits of capitalism, its criticisms and what could be improved Equality of outcome versus equality of opportunity Whether inequality is an avoidable feature of nature Job automation and UBI; and Inequality in sports, namely professional soccer With that, I bring you my conversation with Branko Milanovic. Topics Discussed: Why capitalism prevailed What capitalism gets wrong How capitalism could be improved What really influences inequality Is inequality necessary? Equality of outcome v equality of opportunity Trickle down effects Egalitarian capitalism Why taxes are not the answer The link between taxes and innovation Political capitalism (China) and its pitfalls Automation and UBI The decrease in inequality between countries, but the growing inequality within them Political polarisation Plutocracy and populism The perils of materialism Inequality in soccer Show Notes: Twitter: @brankomilan Capitalism, Alone: https://amzn.to/34v2GvJ Global Inequality: https://amzn.to/2OQET2M ---------- Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts  goo.gl/sMnEa0 Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski Steve's book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/ Watch on YouTube: https://bit.ly/2N77FLx GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching GET LUCAS TO DESIGN YOUR SUPPLEMENT PROTOCOL: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/custom-stack   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nir Eyal is the bestselling author of "Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products" and "Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life."  He has taught at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. His writing on technology, psychology, and business appears in the Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, TechCrunch, and Psychology Today. In a world of distraction, the ability to become indistractable offers us a serious competitive advantage.  Nir and I unpacked numerous topics on this show, including: Why our being so easily distracted goes deeper than our devices How toxic workplace cultures sacrifice our potential to do great work; and Nir’s four-step, research-backed model to become indistractable With that, I bring you Nir Eyal. Topics Discussed: Why most distractions come from within Why the ability to disconnect is the true scarce resource of the day Internal triggers  External triggers  Variable rewards (a slot machine in our pockets) Why time management is pain management Evolutionary programming How identify can influence behaviour How do we re-imagine the internal trigger? How to build new habits The 10-minute rule Traction v Distraction Hacking back external triggers Dysfunctional company cultures and productivity What people can do to take back their time in the workplace Making pacts Show Notes: Hooked: https://amzn.to/33rYLP3  Indistractable: https://amzn.to/37HBrzO  Twitter: @nireyal Web: NirandFar.com Book info: NirAndFar.com/Indistractable Schedule Maker: https://nirandfar.com/schedule-maker/ Summary article: https://www.nirandfar.com/skill-of-the-future/ Distraction Guide: https://www.nirandfar.com/distractions/ Habits vs routines article: https://www.nirandfar.com/habits/ ---------- Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts  goo.gl/sMnEa0 Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski Steve's book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/ Watch on YouTube: https://bit.ly/2N77FLx GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching GET LUCAS TO DESIGN YOUR SUPPLEMENT PROTOCOL: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/custom-stack   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Find out more about my new kids book, Lemonade STand: From Idea to Entrepreneur: https://bit.ly/lemonadestandbook --- Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts  goo.gl/sMnEa0 Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud YouTube:  Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski Steve's book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/ GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching GET LUCAS TO DESIGN YOUR SUPPLEMENT PROTOCOL: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/custom-stack Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Marc Randolph is a veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur, advisor and investor. Marc was co-founder of Netflix, serving as their founding CEO, as the executive producer of their web site, and as a member of their board of directors. Marc recently released his book, That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea.  Although best known for starting Netflix, Marc's career as an entrepreneur spans more than four decades. He's founded or co-founded more than half a dozen other successful start-ups, mentored rising entrepreneurs including the co-founders of Looker Data which was recently sold to Google for $2.6B, and invested in numerous successful tech ventures. He is a frequent speaker at industry events, works extensively with young entrepreneur programs, sits on the board of the environmental advocacy group 1% for the Planet, and chairs the National Outdoor Leadership School's Board of Trustees. This was a wide-reaching conversation about the lessons learned from the early days of Netflix, back when they were still wrestling with making VHS and then DVD by mail, a compelling business model. Expect to take many gems of wisdom and memorable anecdotes out of this one, including: Why Netflix turned down an 8-figure acquisition offer from Amazon after just a year of operating and before they had anything resembling a sustainable business model What happpened when Blockbuster turned down the opportunity to buy Netflix for just $50M; What truly differentiates success from failure at a tech startup - hint, it’s not genius; and How Netflix went about scaling its freedom-oriented, high performing culture from 7 people to 7,000 WIth that, strap yourself in for my conversation with the co-founder of Netflix, Marc Randolph. Topics Discussed: Surfing What the initial inspiration for Netflix was Why ceativity is having many at bats Calamities that characterised Netflix’s early days Why business plans don’t survives a collision with a real customer. Why Netflix cannibalised its video sales revenues (most of its revenue) to pursue video rental by mail (none of its revenue) Turning down an acquisition offer from Amazon, even when Netflix had little going for it Being turned down by Blockbuster On stepping down from CEO and letting Reed Hastings take over How to fight the complacency that comes with success How to attract the best talent to your company, even if you can’t afford them Why culture is what you do, not what you say Why leadership is about helping people find their own way to the destination How to empower peopple to make decisions, instead of suffocate them with process How to scale culture Firing your team, even after they had made large sacrifices to join you What was the breakthrough that catapultued Netflix from startup to an actual business? Why Marc left Netflix shortly after its IPO in 2002 What two very important things everybody should learn about themselves Marc’s date night and dedication to balance at Netflix Why more money doesn’t equal more happiness Show Notes: Book: https://amzn.to/2W5NuSl  Twitter: @mbrandolph Instagram: @thatwillneverwork ---------- Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts  goo.gl/sMnEa0 Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski Steve's book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/ GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching GET LUCAS TO DESIGN YOUR SUPPLEMENT PROTOCOL: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/custom-stack Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Don Wettrick is the President and Founder of StartedUP, an organization dedicated to help transform the school culture toward innovation and enable student-led entrepreneurship. He’s also Innovation Coordinator at Noblesville High School, and author of "Pure Genius: Building a Culture of Innovation and Taking 20% Time to the Next Level." Wettrick has worked as a middle school and high school teacher; educational and innovation consultant; CEO, and podcast host. Don has lectured across the US, Europe, South America and Africa about collaboration, social media use, and work environments that enable innovation. Through his travel, he has worked with hundreds of entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley to Ghana, and seeks to bring that entrepreneurial mindset into our classrooms. His podcast, StartEdUp, has featured some of the most successful entrepreneurs, authors, and thought leaders in the world- focusing on educational change. Given my work with the Lemonade Stand program, I really enjoyed my conversation with Don, as we riffed on all things student entrepreneurship. We covered myriad topics, including: The difference between teaching entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial thinking Why the current tendency to play the victim card instead of take ownership is limiting the potential of today’s students and their contributions to the world; and Where today’s K12 school system falls short, and how to plug these gaps This only scratches the surface of what was discussed, so sit back, and enjoy my conversation with the one and only, Don Wettrick. Topics Discussed: Don’s mission Today’s jobs that didn’t exist 20 years ago The hedgehog theory Skills v attitude Conflicts of interest in the school system, often between parents and their children’s interests Open-source learning in the K12 classroom Creative ways to work within the constraints your current budget and system Collaborating with experts and mentors to augment the K12 learning experience Is STEM overrated? Can teachers only teach children to become teachers? Developing emotional fortitude and moving kids away from entitlement The school system often prepares kids to be compliant and execute set procedure, but not to challenge the status quo and adapt to changes Trojan Horse thinking Always be testing Create value for others first if you want to create value for yourself Strong opinions, weakly held The folly of standardized testing Why giving our youth comfortable upbringings can be their undoing in adult life  Show notes: StartEdUp: www.startedupinnovation.com StartEdUp Foundation: https://startedupfoundation.org/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donwettrick Don’s book, Pure Genius: https://amzn.to/2BjSMQB  ------- Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts  goo.gl/sMnEa0 Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski Steve's book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/ GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching GET LUCAS TO DESIGN YOUR SUPPLEMENT PROTOCOL: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/custom-stack Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kale Brock is an award nominated writer, filmmaker and speaker. He’s the author of several books, including The Gut Healing Protocol, The Art Of Probiotic Nutrition, and Mandy Microbe’s Big Gut Adventure. In his second documentary, The Longevity Film, Kale travels to the world’s ‘blue zones’, longevity cultures, to investigate the dietary & lifestyle factors which cause such unprecedented health statistics in these areas. We unpacked Kale’s journey into the heart of these blue zones to unpack how their inhabitants attitude, community, nutrition and movement sees them living lives, on average, 5 to 10 years longer than those of us in the west.  We challenge many long-held beliefs about health and wellness, and also attempt to answer that big question - what is happiness? With that, sit back and enjoy, my conversation with Kale Brock. Topics Discussed: Surfing The meaning of happiness Why happiness, the chemical state, is a pointless goal Longevity communities: Ikaria, Okinawa The value of stress The diminishing of our tribes Depression in the west The Meditteranean diet Human connection and deep conversation Reconciling contentment with ambition Devices and social media as a surrogate for self worth Veganism and fanaticism Why loneliness is worse than smoking Finding meaning in suffering Western wellness band-aids Nutrition in the blue zones Identity politics and tribalism  Show Notes: Web: kalebrock.com/longevityfilm Instagram: @kalesbroccoli  ---------- Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts  goo.gl/sMnEa0 Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski Steve's book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/ GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching GET LUCAS TO DESIGN YOUR SUPPLEMENT PROTOCOL: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/custom-stack Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Blake J. Harris is the bestselling author of Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo and the Battle that Defined a Generation, which is currently being adapted into a mini-series by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. He’s also the author of History of the Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality. But we spent the better part of this conversation being nostalgic and unpacking the war that served as a backdrop to our childhood, that of Nintendo v Sega. Expect to take out numerous business lessons from this one: The value of open v closed ecosystems How to differentiate yourself and dominate the market, even with a much smaller budget Why parent companies meddling in the affairs of their subsidiaries often ends in disaster We unpack this and a whole lot more, so sit back and reminisce, as I bring you the one and only, Blake J Harris. Topics Discussed: The gaming landscape in the 1990s Nintendo’s dominant business model Nintendo’s closed ecosystem Sega’s open ecosystem Why it’s challenging to maintain market share when you’re ahead of the pack How Nintendo faltered What SEGA did to diffeerentiate itself, despite small budgets, and knock Nintendo off its perch Mortal Kombat How SEGA blundered SEGA’s meddling parent company The Console Wars documentary and mini-series Identity politis at Oculus On becoming a writer, and following one’s passions Writing tips Dell v Compaq  Show Notes: https://amzn.to/33jgw3f https://amzn.to/2MqPZdt Twitter: @blakejharris Web: blakejharris.com ---------- Listen to Future Squared on Apple Podcasts  goo.gl/sMnEa0 Also available on: Spotify, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Stitcher and Soundcloud Twitter: www.twitter.com/steveglaveski Instagram: www.instagram.com/@thesteveglaveski Future Squared: www.futuresquared.xyz Steve Glaveski: www.steveglaveski.com Medium: www.medium.com/@steveglaveski Steve's book: www.employeetoentrepreneur.io NEW Facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/futuresquared/ GET COACHED BY LUCAS: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/coaching GET LUCAS TO DESIGN YOUR SUPPLEMENT PROTOCOL: https://www.ergogenic.health/product/custom-stack Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.