Capability Amplifier

What DOES it take to win a major political election in today’s world of tweeting presidents and Russian-hacked social media? Blech! ? ?. That’s exactly what Dan Sullivan and I get into in episode 21. And lawdy, Lawdy, LAWDY this subject IS REALLY polarizing … but I think you’re going to find where Dan and I sit after this episode in the political quagmire the U.S. is in (not to mention England and every other country that has a bully leader). Dan loves politics and is an avid history buff. I am ENDLESSLY fascinated with the “cartoon character” that is Donald Trump. So if you’re even the slightest bit interested in what’s going to happen in November 2020 … you’re going to LOVE this episode!  First off, I’ll just come straight out and say I pay attention to politics purely because I love marketing and figuring out what the rules and strategies are for influencing and persuading hundreds of millions of people. I see politics as entertainment and comedy.  It’s been reduced to a race-to-the-bottom shouting match appealing to the lowest common denominator and low-frequency bottom dwellers. Welcome to the world of Instagram and the Kardashians.  What I’m about to share with you is my point of view and not intended to be an endorsement of any political party or individual.  Having said that, I know this episode of our show is going to raise hackles and fluff some feathers. So be it.  America is a country where people have extraordinarily strong political views clashing with one another, which has created new political policy, new political foundations, and new structures. Nationalism is driving apart the fabric of our society. And with a major presidential election a little over a year away ... there's so much at stake.  So ... what DOES it takes to get elected?  We live in an absolutely fascinating time. El Salvador has a new president who is 39 years old and got elected because he figured out how to USE social media to get elected. Trump knew and leveraged the power of social media—for better or worse—and figured out how to gain an unfair advantage. Future elections for the foreseeable future will be determined by who masters social media, nails a message, aligns a following, and remains noisy and visible.  Market – Message – Medium. Just like marketing ... except ...  Outrage sells. Truth and trust are on the extinction list ...  Trump figured out how to leverage Twitter, a platform with no editors or editing. He broke every rule of “press meetings” and a code of conduct. No rules. He just ignored them.  He had direct access to millions of people. He was already well-recognized. Polarizing. Entertaining. A master of “reframing” conversations. A bully. He's a caricature, a cartoon character, which all great politicians are. Whoever screams the loudest, has the most ears, and casts reasonable doubt … WINS.  So whether you’re a Democrat or Republican, conservative or liberal, OR you don’t care OR you’re not even an American ... you’re really going to appreciate this episode! Maybe you’ll hate us!

This is the future of technology. Do you GEEK OUT over stuff like quantum mechanics, artificial intelligence, predicting the future, robotics, automation, and self-driving cars? If this sounds like you, you’re in for a real treat!  Recently, I attended The Near Future Summit in San Diego, CA. It’s an AWESOME event and community of “entrepreneurs, activists, inventors, and investors who enjoy helping one another achieve lofty goals.”  At the event, I had the incredible opportunity to spend time with and interview Steve Jurvetson. Besides being endlessly fascinating and brilliant, he is one of Elon Musk’s best friends.  I was super psyched to speak to Steve and have the chance to pick his brain about the future of technology. Steve is a businessman and venture capitalist, an early investor in Hotmail, founder at Future Ventures, and a current board member of SpaceX and Tesla.  In short: He’s been really successful at predicting trends and opportunities and is way ahead of the curve. I trust his predictions and perspective. Steve has been on my “must interview” list for years, and now YOU get access to his brain in a condensed interview on the show today!  Check out a few of the things Steve is excited about:  “Well, I have never been more excited. I love learning. I love technology, I'm a geek at heart. There's more learning and more frontiers than ever before. Specifically, there's a lot going on, obviously, in autonomous vehicles and driving that will touch all of our lives when we switch to these robo taxi fleets and urban equivalents where you just imagine Uber or Lyft experience, but without the driver, without the smells, with a car that has no cockpit and you have all the room in the world, and it's just a better experience in every way, three times safer, three times cheaper ... we’ll have a million robo taxis on the road by 2020.”  “Quantum computing is as weird as the name implies. It uses quantum mechanics as the fundamental basis of computation in a way that is unlike any computer you've ever heard of before. The important thing to keep in mind is it's not just ‘another supercomputer.’ It engages the computational resources of parallel universes. Now, if you're only competing in this universe, how could you compete with parallel universes of trillions of refractive echoes across these computational resources that are replicated across parallel universes? I mean, like, your mind explodes.”  Enjoy!

? Ideas Are Cheap … Execution Is Expensive! What’s the secret to getting and keeping attention in the zero-attention-span world we all live in today?  I have a great NEW podcast for you, ESPECIALLY if you LOVE comedy, entertainment, and movies!  Have you imagined yourself either BEING a comedian or actor on stage or in theaters?  Maybe you’ve wanted to write, direct, produce, or invest in movies, music, or entertainment?  What does it take to think like a talent agent, director, or producer in Hollywood and MAKE IT?  Or maybe you just want to know what the big secret is to elevating your value as a business owner, entrepreneur, speaker, podcast host, interviewee, or writer?  I had the privilege of interviewing Emmy Award-winning talent manager and producer Joel Zadak. If you haven’t heard of Joel before, you’ve definitely heard of and seen his clients including A-list comedian Tiffany Haddish, Randall Park from ABC’s Fresh Off The Boat, Ant-Man and Aquaman, Ronnie Chieng from The Daily Show and Crazy Rich Asians, Jimmy O. Yang from Crazy Rich Asians, Adam Conover from Adam Ruins Everything, and many more.  Joel is going to take you behind the scenes with some fun Hollywood stories, and you’ll love this episode because you’ll learn how Joel THINKS and what he thinks about. His wisdom will rub off on you and you’ll realize, like I did, that we’re all in the entertainment and talent business—no matter what industry you’re in.  Let’s meet Joel Zadak!  Joel grew up in Chicago and always enjoyed comedy, appreciating movies like Animal House and Cheech and Chong. His dad introduced him and his twin brother to R-rated comedies on cable far earlier than the average parent would allow, and that made him feel special. After college, he frequented The Second City Comedy Theatre where some of the greats, including Gilda Radner, John Belushi, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Steve Carell, performed. That inspired Joel to take creative writing and screenwriting classes at Second City. He wanted to write the next BIG comedy hit.  His next move was to Los Angeles where he got into a grad program for screenwriting at UCLA but dropped out once he landed a job assisting a manager in the entertainment industry and realized Hollywood was a full-time job in and of itself. Shortly after, his boss left to start his own company and Joel was promoted to manager in just four months. That’s when his next-level comedy adventures began!  Fast forward to today. Here’s Joel’s philosophy on the ONLY people he’ll represent and work with: “It's pretty much a prerequisite for me that they have interests and talents in multiple fields. That means they are writer/performers, writer/directors, director/performers, stand-up comedian/actor. I really think it's IMPERATIVE that they are content generators. They're not just what I call vendors, vending their acting services or writing services. I want them to direct or perform because I really love multiple points of entry. I love those artists who can be not only the visionary, but also the implementer. The person who comes up with the idea and then also executes the idea. Ideas are cheap ... execution is expensive. And if you can do both, then you will have a long future in this or any business.”  It doesn’t get much more succinct than that. And it really is true, no matter what industry you’re in.  Two of Joel’s “superpowers” are networking and LISTENING. So, if you’d like to have the same kind of success in your own career, you’re going to want to hear this show!

What would it feel like to receive a check or wire transfer for $5, $10, or $100 MILLION when you successfully sell your business? HOLY SHIZZLE! I’ve done it FOUR times, and I can tell you from experience, it can either be a horrible experience or an exhilarating one depending on whether you know what you’re doing.  This week on the show, my co-host, Dan Sullivan, and I talk about something that can really feel like a near-death experience in the entrepreneurial world … SELLING your company! We’re talking about your BABY! Something you nurtured, grew, and put all of your focus and energy into. Then sometimes you get to a point where you're actually thinking about selling your baby … NOW WHAT?  In Dan’s and my experience, nine out of 10 times, the entrepreneur doing the selling has a VERY negative experience. There are a ton of reasons for this that we get into in this episode. Plus, I share my most valuable secrets for having a super successful and profitable exit.  Okay, let’s talk about the fact that MOST of us, myself included, have NO clue how to exit our first business. As a matter of fact, my first business cost me my first marriage, my sanity, and near bankruptcy. And my third business was a MAJOR contributing factor in my getting cancer because of the stress it put on my body.  We get into this thinking that we're going to get to a “certain point” in our business where everything will be just “hunky-dory,” so in the beginning we trade time for money and compress all our energy for the big payout ... the “BIG CHECK!” The thought of, “Wow, what would it feel like to have my ‘f*#k you number’?!” The number where you’d actually have financial freedom and everything it represents, and so often … THAT becomes the driver INSTEAD of having what I regard as the “pure thought process.” That’s experiencing pure GRATITUDE for being able to provide great service and great value to an audience who loves you as their hero and being rewarded for THAT instead.  That’s really what the game of business is all about.  Some of the key points that we cover in this episode:  * How I successfully and NOT so successfully sold four different companies (what to do and what NOT to do). * How I woke up one day and knew I was done (with my last company) so I made the decision to get rid of all the things that didn't serve my body, family, marriage, son, and purpose because it just didn't feel right anymore. * How Dan has only ever had ONE company and plans on keeping it that way because it serves him and his mission well. * EXACTLY what buyers are looking for in a company when they buy it. * The ONE BILLION dollar sale of one of Dan’s clients’ businesses and the correct motivation behind it. * How to approach the sale of your company like you’re the BUYER. * How important it is to TRAIN your audience how to buy from you. * How passion and experience play a BIG role in the success of most entrepreneurs’ first businesses and those sales. * The BEST exit mindset to adopt for success. * The importance of taking time off after you sell a company to HEAL, but why getting back in the saddle within a year is important too.  Two of the most VALUABLE pieces of advice I can give you as someone who’s owned and sold four businesses is:  * When selling a business, make SURE you have complete and total detachment. The moment you hand over the keys, if you're attached in any way to the “baby,” you just allowed someone to adopt knowing that you may never see them again ... you're in trouble. * The investment is never actually in the product. The investment is in the entrepreneur. Our smartest investments are ALWAYS in people.  As usual, there’s always MORE. Dan and I LOVE elevating and amplifying your life!

When you're the most interesting person in the room, you're in the wrong room! I recently had the pleasure of sitting down to interview Rich Litvin, “The Accidental Entrepreneur,” for my podcast. In case you’re not familiar, Rich is a hugely successful author of three bestselling books, he runs a high level mastermind group, and is a highly sought after business coach who only works with five clients per year and gets $100,000 per client!  Why is Rich “The Accidental Entrepreneur”? Well ... because his dad was an entrepreneur and did his best to persuade his three sons to do anything BUT become entrepreneurs. But it turns out, many years later, guess what all three sons are! Yup, you guessed it. They’re entrepreneurs!  He was a high school teacher for 15 years and eventually a vice principal because that is his passion. But he lost his job in 2005 and began a new career as a coach. He didn't know you were supposed to have a business plan or how to write a business plan, so for the last 14 years his one-line business plan has been, “Meet fun and interesting people.”  During our time together, Rich and I delve into some pretty interesting subjects that I know you’ll get a lot out of. Have a look:  * The 4% Rule: • The way to get better when you're an extraordinary top performer, and in an arena where you could die, is to only push yourself 4% beyond your current capabilities. * The Three Traps (that leaders get themselves into in their evolution as business owners, people, and SuperBeings): • One – The Isolation Trap: "I'm not lonely, but I feel very alone." • Two – The Imposter Trap: "People admire me, but I feel like a fraud." • Three – The Emptiness Trap: "I have everything I ever wanted, but I feel empty. * Serving people SO powerfully that they never forget your conversation for the rest of their life. * The power of LISTENING and the willingness to sit in the uncomfortable silence. * Serving people vs. pleasing people. * “The dream behind the dream”: The difference between what people SAY they want vs. what they ACTUALLY want. * "When you're the most interesting person in the room, you're in the wrong room." * What are you tolerating? * Who are you being right now in your life that if your child grew up to be that way, you’d feel like, "How did I miss that?" * What's the legacy you would leave today if it were your last day on earth vs. the legacy you’d like to leave?"  These are just a few of the incredible highlights from our conversation. Rich has some AMAZING stories to share. You DO NOT want to miss this episode!

Are you good at managing people? Hiring? Dealing with day-to-day stuff? Do you find it interesting or fun? I don’t. I suck at it.  It’s REALLY important as an entrepreneur that you have the right team to support you. You CAN’T do everything on your own … even though I know you may want to (I’m talking to you, perfectionists … I see you!). That’s the quickest way to BURN OUT and experience failure.  Dan posed an interesting question during our talk: “Regardless of what business, service, or marketplace you were in, what kinds of people would you want around you? Who would you hire?”  Here are my 4 non-negotiable, must-have employees:  * A GREAT Executive Assistant: one who’s super resourceful, understands the value of your time, protects it at all costs, and knows how to solve problems. Ideally, someone who has a value system to make themselves available when critical things break, meaning they understand that emergencies happen. * An Integrator: someone who can take over your operations competently. They’re watching the “back end” of your business—the details—and know how to deal with a visionary. * A Project Manager: someone who can manage hiring and finding talent and resources to get important tasks done, whether it's in-house, contract, or vendors. * A Communications Director/Brand Manager: someone who understands the branding, the messaging, and what the company and YOU stand for. Someone who can take ideas, flesh them out, and turn them into content so that you’re ready for prime time, whether it's on social media, emails, messaging, articles, or proposals.  Dan agrees and feels that your Executive Assistant is probably the MOST crucial hire you can make as an entrepreneur. We live in a world where everyone wants to get to you, and you NEED a gatekeeper—someone who can sort out requests for your time and make judgment calls. They know what your vision of the future is and are confidently judgmental.  In Dan’s world, it was also very important for him to hire an artist. The reason for that is because communication through graphics is 100 times faster than communication through words. We are in a conceptual world, a world of ideas, and ideas spoken lend themselves to 100 different interpretations. But if you can take an idea and put it into a graphic, it's almost binary. People either get it or they don't get it, so he takes a graphic approach to everything he does.  We break down our hiring process into a few simple steps:  * Place an ad that’s HONEST, personal, and detailed about what your expectations are. Make it funny if that’s you! Differentiate yourself. Be CREATIVE! Here’s a little blurb from the ad I placed when I was looking for my EA 13 years ago (and, by the way, people have asked me to copy it many, MANY times!): “Agent M seeks Mr. or Mrs. Moneypenny, aka an executive assistant who is a workaholic and obsessive compulsive codependent, extremely detail oriented with impeccable organization and communication skills to help manage serial entrepreneur’s business.” * Hire people for a single focus job. In other words, hire people who are uniquely good at one thing and give them one really extraordinary thing to do. * When you're hiring people, put in your messaging, “I am an entrepreneur whose business is to be a hero to ________ kinds of people in the marketplace. We uniquely help them do _________ and I want to devote all my energies to being a hero in this way.” Whoever this resonates with is a GREAT candidate.  I like to say, “You attract exactly who you deserve, depending on your own self worth, and who you're aspiring to be.” The more open you allow yourself to be without experiencing fear, the faster you ELEVATE and ESCALATE your business and LIFE!  As usual, there’s always MORE.

This episode was an absolute BLAST! I got to sit down with Adam Conover from the hit TV show “Adam Ruins Everything.” Adam is the host and investigative comedian on a comically inventive yet unrelentingly serious quest to reveal the hidden truths behind everything you know and love. He takes on topics ranging from the workplace and voting to forensic science and security, giving you not just fun facts to share with your friends, but information that will make you see the world in a WHOLE new way. Adam says “Adam Ruins Everything” is VERY much based on a younger version of himself. He knew he annoyed a lot of people. He was very outgoing, but in ways that would disrupt the flow of a class or people just hanging out, and he often felt unable to interact with people socially. On his show, he shares big ideas, and the audience’s reaction is always, “Oh, my God, why do you tell me this?” Adam turns big reveals and his disruptive know-how into positive comedy. As a Capability Amplifier himself, Adam is bringing truth and knowledge and showing the audience how to have a better mind for checking and investigating facts. He’s fascinating and fascinated. Always curious.  Meet Adam Conover ...  Adam developed his creative skills doing comedy in New York for little to no pay. In college, he was in a sketch comedy group with a bunch of his college friends, in the very early days of the internet. We're talking pre-YouTube time! But they were putting up videos on CollegeHumor.com and they were going viral. They did everything involved in making the videos, including writing, acting, directing, and post production. Adam designed websites, did the visual effects, and learned how to compress video. That really gave him a grounding in both creative and technical skills.  Eventually, Adam started doing stand-up and teaching sketch comedy writing at UCB in New York, and that’s when he REALLY came into his own as a performer. And once he started combining comedy and information … he created his own lane where NO ONE was competing with him in live stand-up.  The next step on Adam’s journey was to create, write, and pitch “Adam Ruins Everything” and get it picked up on TV.  Adam admits that he got very lucky when he was pitching to the many, MANY different networks because someone needs to be buying what you're selling. Everyone LOVED the show, but no one had a need for it until he went to truTV where they had a specific mandate from their higher ups for an informational comedy show.  Right message, right audience, right timing. Also known as luck. But he made luck for himself. Another great Capability Amplifier.  What he pitched was what they were looking for, so Adam took that experience and now applies it whenever he’s pitching anything. He will make it good and will make sure everyone in the room loves it … but he’s not going to let his ego get in the way. It allows him to go in and pitch with a lot more confidence because he’s not thinking, “I hope they like it. It's gonna change my life.” Instead, his attitude is, “Hey, here's what I'm selling. Do you want to buy it?”  Enjoy!  Mike

Zig Ziglar said, “You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want”—and that’s what being a hero is all about. You’re going to get the secrets to being a hero in Episode 14. My good friend and co-host, Dan Sullivan, and I pick up where we left off our last conversation about how as humans, we're moving from the state of being Doers/doings and Knowers to actually being Beings … but we’re taking it a step further this time. We’re talking breakthroughs, becoming BETTER beings, and deciding who you want to be a HERO to.  This week, we talk about encountering barriers and challenges, how we push through them, being a “hero” for others, and where we can seek improvement. I’d go so far as to say our complex world is pushing us toward another level as #SuperBeings. We’re entering into a more complex economy and complex times, so how we engage and interact with one another, society, and technology is forcing a NECESSARY evolution.  The INSTITUTIONS we once trusted are flat-out obsolete:  * Healthcare and the medical system (know anyone who loves their health insurance company?) * Money (crypto is changing the game) * Banking (show me someone who loves their bank or even know their banker anymore) * Government (and the leaders who run them) * Transportation systems * Education (what does a college education get you these days?) * The military (soon wars won’t be fought on a battlefield—cyber warfare is scary!) * The media (let’s face it, CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC aren’t driven by facts or truth; they’re slaves to hype and agendas) * Social media (soon AI and bots will create fake content designed to sway your opinion with fake people and voices indistinguishable from real life)  Here are a few of the big ideas Dan Sullivan and I explore in this episode:  * How the “breakthroughs are in the obstacles.” * How virtual reality has become anti-social and people prefer ACTUAL reality. * How when I was going through my own reinvention and new “reality” over 18 months ago, I was SCARED AS HELL to talk about it! * Confronting my own addiction to being busy and how dependent I was on constant feedback. * How A LOT of entrepreneurs I talk to go through the same exact thing because they’re not “busy being busy.” * How as an entrepreneur with an admittedly big ego, my assumption and fear was, “I don't want to talk about something until I fix it first, because who's going to want to work with me if I'm not the guy with all the answers?” * How I finally figured out that the more raw and authentic you are, as you're going through the process as an imperfect being, the more attractive and real you are to your audience. * How as soon as I broke through my fear and started talking about it publicly, SO many people came to me saying, “Hey, I'm going through that too. Can you help me?” * Dan’s evolution, never-ending growth, and learnings over his 40+-year career as a top level coach!  So what are some other important takeaways from this episode?  * As we evolve as humans and entrepreneurs, we take for granted our accumulated wisdom and forsake our past. Therefore, we often SEVERELY undercharge for our services even though our accumulated wisdom has a tremendous amount of value. * We all get exactly who we deserve as customers based on our own perception of ourselves and our filters. Don’t let your own ego or unwillingness to ask for your true value and worth get in your way. * A huge part of being an effective advisor or coach is listening, asking a lot of questions, and crafting incredible stories. * Becoming a great storyteller is an exercise in COMPASSION and EMPATHY. * It doesn’t matter your age or where you’re starting,

Sheri Salata grew up outside of Chicago and worked with the daytime television titan for more than 20 years with one of the most heralded jobs on the planet as the executive producer of “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” In this episode, Sheri gives us some AMAZING takeaways from her tenure working with Oprah. But as AMAZING as it sounds, Sheri says, “It was not a straight shot by any means! I think that when people hear about a 20-year career with Oprah Winfrey, it sounds like I just left college and sailed right into Harpo studios and started climbing up the ladder. But the truth is, I did not start at The Oprah Winfrey Show until I was 35 years old, in an entry-level position.”  Over her 20+ career, Sheri was privy to EVERYTHING that was pitched to Oprah, and she’s used that knowledge to expand her depth with regard to her own business and passions—from diet trends to celebrity drama, fitness crazes and spiritual movements. Sheri had access to many of the secrets that passed through Oprah’s studios, and today we uncover what those professional lessons did for Sheri and her business, and what it can do for YOU TOO!  Sheri shares with me what happened to her personally through her journey. During her professional career, she LOST herself; gained and lost 40, 60, and 100 pounds; smoked cigarettes; didn’t marry or have children; and when she made the decision to leave the show, she began her REAL journey to find herself again.  THIS is a story of reinvention over 50 — RELEASING A LIFETIME OF SHAME AND SADNESS.  Some of the best takeaways from this episode:  * How to use life’s “Magical Glasses” and how that can lead you to fast life transformations and reinventions. * How to see a story in someone and how to use that story to teach and connect deeply to an audience. * What TRULY made the Oprah Show work. * What running a BILLION dollar media company was like, and the secret to producing 100+ shows a year FOR DECADES. * How we are “curators of our own reality” — and how to use that to increase your consciousness. * How to intentionally create the most magical moments in your life and how to utilize those to shape your mission. * The power in taking simple actions to make the biggest moves that produce the most significant results.  “There is no question that the fastest way to transformation in your own life, to how you feel about yourself, to how you feel about your partner, to how you feel about your friends and family, to how you feel about your life, your home, your everything, is to slip on a pair of MAGICAL GLASSES and lead with what is working, what's positive, what’s sparkly, and what's shiny.” -Sheri Salata  What’s the best way to support Sheri’s mission?  Grab of copy of Sheri’s new book (I BURNED THROUGH IT!), The Beautiful No: And Other Tales of Trial, Transcendence, and Transformation, check out her podcast, The Sheri + Nancy Show, and visit her website at the www.ThePillarLife.com.

This week, we dive into our evolution as “fully realized” human beings and how that reflects on the changes that are happening right now in the world around us. Dan and I make a point of talking about the stuff that's REALLY happening right NOW, both in our world and what we observe in our clients and customers. Our goal is constant, never-ending EVOLUTION. The SuperBeing Economy is the movement and shift toward “The Singularity” — massive world, economic, and energetic shifts that are happening around us and accelerating at a faster pace every year.  What does this mean for you? By applying these concepts, ideas, and wisdom, you can predict opportunities and challenges this new future will bring to you, both personally and professionally.  Think about the progression for a moment ...  We've seen a shift from a doing economy, which is rapidly being replaced by automation, robotics, and rapid moves away from people doing menial stuff. That’s scary as hell — especially to people in the blue-collar, manufacturing, transportation, task, and “gig” economy marketplaces.  Next is the “white collar” knowing economy. Information is FREE and WORTHLESS now that we all have Google and our augmented-Smartphone brains attached to us 24/7/365. You don’t need to remember or know anything right now because it’s accessible all the time (until you drop your &%#&*ing phone in the toilet!).  My prediction is that in the next 5-10 years, artificial intelligence and neural networks will be replacing and devaluing a tremendous number of knowing jobs. These are white-collar jobs including customer service, telesales, financial services, accounting, therapy, medicine, and more that rely on applied information.  For example, soon there will be a SaaS (Software As Service) you can rent that plugs right into your phone, web browser, or business “dashboard” that provides these services at 1/10 to 1/100 the price you’re paying for now.  YES, for some, that will be scary. Dan and I happen to believe this shift will create an infinite number of new and better jobs. Humans shouldn’t be mining for coal or working in sewers. Let the robots do that.  This constant evolution is forcing us to shift our capabilities and our skill sets. Humans will augment AI and neural networks, which will allow us to do more creative and innovative things.  We’ll create experiential industries and businesses.  The FIVE BIG skills and capabilities that will always be valued in the new “SuperBeing Economy” are:  * Innovation * Creation * Collaborative Creation * Leadership * Experiences and Community  Machines and automation aren’t replacing those skills and things anytime soon.  Here are a few of the big ideas Dan Sullivan and I explore in this episode:  * How humans haven't actually been trained to be Human. * How we've entered into a world of “augmented” human beings. * The notion of “outevolving” who you are (outgrowing the “self” you were supposed to be) to increase your value. * The distinction between a “Doer,” Knower,” and “Be-er.” * Can we predict when we’ll outgrow who we’ll become? * How important is it to get back in touch with who you were when you were six years old? * How to create the courage and confidence to get out of your own way when you realize you’ve outgrown who you used to be. * My tips on how I’ve shed my skin and reinvented myself six times over the past 30 years. * My belief that on a spiritual energetic level, we are on the brink of singularity, a shift in human consciousness. * My work with a Sri Lankan energetic healer. * How everybody has to go through a knowing and doing stage of their life to accumulate experienc...