The Three Month Vacation Podcast
Sean D'Souza
Sean D'Souza made two vows when he started up Psychotactics back in 2002. The first was that he'd always get paid in advance and the second was that work wouldn't control his life. He decided to take three months off every year. But how do you take three months off, without affecting your business and profits? Do you buy into the myth of "outsourcing everything and working just a few hours a week?" Not really. Instead, you structure your business in a way that enables you to work hard and then take three months off every single year. And Sean walks his talk. Since 2004, he's taken three months off every year (except in 2005, when there was a medical emergency). This podcast isn't about the easy life. It's not some magic trick about working less. Instead with this podcast you learn how to really enjoy your work, enjoy your vacation time and yes, get paid in advance.
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Sep 10, 2022 • 23min
The 5000bc story (Part 2): When the diversion turned out to be better than the destination
You know how you're told to set a goal and then benchmark your success based on that goal? Well, that's what we set out to do with our membership site at 5000bc. However, we kept running into these headaches that seemed to derail us. In time, however, we found that these constant diversions were to our benefit. That if we just stopped fighting them so much and figured out a way out, we'd end up better than we expected. And we did. Here's the story. Next Step: Find out (Audio and text) Why Clients Leave — And Why Lack Of Community Is One Of The Big Problems
Sep 3, 2022 • 27min
The 5000bc story (Part 1): The ups and downs
What does it take to get a membership site to keep going? We go on a wild journey where the entire site was wiped out and how it bounced back again. And how nearly 20 years later, it’s still going. Next Step: Listen to: Planning On Starting A Membership Site? The Limited Membership Website Model
Aug 27, 2022 • 20min
Why kids seem to learn faster than adults (Part 2)
Kids have a superpower. When they're very young, they don't know Monday from Sunday. And it's this lack of knowledge that also gives them an upper hand when they're learning. Unlike adults who are clear about how the result needs to look like. just about anything will do with a child. How do we take that child-like attitude and use it to speed up adult learning? Let's find out in this episode. Next Step: Interesting in more learning methods? Read or listen to:How To Accelerate Learning (And The Surprising Power Of Fun)
Aug 20, 2022 • 21min
Why kids seem to learn faster than adults
You’ve heard the line many times before, haven’t you? And at times, it seems like kids learn at a blinding pace. But why does this phenomenon occur? Is it because kids are smart or just that we are more accommodating as trainers? Let's find out in this episode. Next Step: More about kids and what you can learn from them.What I Learned From Children (And How It Lowered My Stress Levels)
Aug 14, 2022 • 25min
Why Sales Pages Are Annoyingly Difficult To Write..
One of the toughest tasks a business owner can have is when it's time to write a sales page. You know that it's unlikely your product or service will sell unless you have that sales page. Yet, once you sit down to write something, it's almost impossible to write anything down. And when you do, the words are so um, boring that you believe it's something to do with you. In reality, it's because you haven't done a target profile interview. Why does that interview become crucial, even to seasoned copywriters? Let's find out in this sales page episode. Next Step: Find out How To Create Extremely Focused Sales Pages—The Pebble System
Aug 5, 2022 • 28min
Why some people are always overwhelmed (and others aren’t)
Can You Stop Feeling Overwhelmed? Almost all of us have varying levels of stress. Yet some of us are always in a fog, always struggling. Is there a fix? And is it a non-overwhelming one? Next Step: Listen or readThe Overwhelm Virus: How To Get It Out of Your Daily Routine
Jul 30, 2022 • 26min
Audience Building: Three compelling concepts from David duChemin
When it comes to audience building, we tend to fall for the hype. It's all about "getting a thousand clients" or "making thousands of dollars". If you've already been down that path you know that all of those methods fail spectacularly. You have to ask yourself: what works? Or rather, what are the principles that you need to be paying attention to, if you really want to get, grow and keep your audience? Let's find out with these cool concepts from photographer, David duChemin. Next Step: Have a look at the series on—How To Keep Customers Coming Back Again? (available in audio and text)
Jul 23, 2022 • 13min
The counterintuitive—yet simple strategy—to completing courses and books
When we start on a course, we all expect we'll get to the end. Yet time after time, we seem to abandon the course quite early. Part of the reason may be that the content is boring or too difficult, but often the bigger problem is our desire to implement it. What if that method was one of the primary reasons why we don't seem to finish courses and books? What if there were a counterintuitive method to complete and implement your learning? There is, and it's simpler than you think. Next Step: Listen to or read—The Untold Backstory of Psychotactics Online Courses and Products
Jul 8, 2022 • 24min
Re-Run 6 Why Writing Is So Exhausting (And How You Can Make It Less Of A Chore)
Jul 1, 2022 • 19min
