FOMO Sapiens with Patrick J. McGinnis

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Stacy’s Pita Chip and BeBOLD Bars founder Stacy Madison, who evolved from food cart owner to a household name, shares insights on the key to building a successful food brand, how to scale growth, and, how sometimes, you have no other choice but to learn the hard way.From packing to transportation, from vendor procurement to order fulfillment, Stacy and her partner learned quickly as their business grew that selling and shipping a food product has its own set of complexities that not every entrepreneur would anticipate. Stacy shares the lessons she learned along the way that helped her to become a multi million-dollar pita chip mogul. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have you ever been faced with a problem and there wasn’t a ready-made solution? Have you ever been frustrated trying to complete a project and couldn’t find a video or article online for guidance or support? These are challenges that require innovative thinking and novel invention, but they also create some of the best entrepreneurs. Serial entrepreneur, inventor, author, and billionaire philanthropist Jim McKelvey discusses his new book The Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time and how the practice of true entrepreneurial thinking inevitably leads to innovation and invention.In his new book, McKelvey explains how to create an unbeatable business that solves previously unsolvable problems through radical, entrepreneurial thinking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Not many people can say they became a professional poker player while researching a book, but in Dr. Maria Konnikova’s case, she can. In her latest book My Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win, journalist and award-winning author Konnikova explains how her research into the science between luck, skill, randomness, and the myth that hard work always leads to success led her to become an international champion poker player.Konnikova explores the significant overlap between the game of poke and the game of life and finds that it is often what determines success: skill and chance. When playing a game with incomplete information, while you cannot control the randomness of the shuffle, if you can identify where skill ends and chance begins, you can master the skills necessary to succeed. Dr. Konnikova explains how by learning to identify the difference between what is skill and what is chance, we hone our strategic thinking, learning to master what we can control and release what we can’t. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail.Thanks to this episode's sponsor Podcorn. Explore sponsorship opportunities and start monetizing your podcast by signing up here: https://podcorn.com/podcasters/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you have an expansive network yet it rarely yields any benefits? Are you frustrated, feeling like you are providing as little value to your network as it does to you? That’s probably because while you have succeeded at building a vast network, you have failed at making meaningful connections. Author, serial networker, and master connector Susan McPherson shares insights from her book The Lost Art of Connection: The Gater, Ask, Do Method for Building Meaningful Business Relationships and how by pivoting your approach to meeting new people you can become a reliable resource with whom people want to.  From learning how to do self-assessments to navigating cultural and generational nuances, in her book, Susan explains how easy it can be to cultivate a long-lasting community of connections. Every connection is a conduit and by changing your thinking from “what can I get” to “what can I give” you can master the lost art of connection Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join Patrick each Monday to go deeper on all things FOMO Sapiens, including thoughts on last week’s episode, practical advice, current events, and listener mail. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Do you struggle to find the balance between hard work and burnout? Does it sometimes seem impossible to get it all done? Once you’ve hit a wall and you strip away all the non-essentials, does it still seem too much? Then it’s time for a new approach.That’s exactly what author Greg McKeown discusses in his new book Effortless: Making it Easy to Do What Matters. Hard work is indeed a virtue, he agrees, but Greg argues that any virtue can become a vice when taken too far. Greg shares strategies and practices to avoid physical and mental burnout while cultivating an effortless state of focus, smarter productivity, and, most importantly, long-term sustainability. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices