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“Usually they come because they are, they know the stuff, they've done the courses, they've done the marketing course and the business course and that kind of stuff, but it's just not clicking for them, there's a piece missing. And usually that piece is building ADHD processes to actually help unlock all of the information that they've learned.”

ADHD and Entrepreneurship: Unlocking Your Potential · 2:56· listen →

“So it's not about working harder, it's not about white-knuckling it, that's not gonna get you where you need to go. It's about understanding how your brain works and building the processes that are actually fun and work better, which is a crazy combination, but it's It's the whole wearing glasses that don't match your prescription sucks. It's not helping you and you're not getting more done. It's like, it's the same concept.”

ADHD and Entrepreneurship: Unlocking Your Potential · 26:35· listen →

“It's like, it's not an attention disorder, it's performance disorder, right? We know what to do. We have trouble doing what we know. And part of that is our ADHD brains make it really hard to decide stuff and prioritize stuff because everything's equally important and equally urgent.”

ADHD Entrepreneur Focus Formula with Steve August · 14:48· listen →

“ADHD brains get in naturally get into motion with only 2 stimuli, right? And that is intense interest or urgent consequence. And in between that, I call that the dopamine desert, right?”

ADHD Entrepreneur Focus Formula with Steve August · 12:58· listen →

“I always know when it's a traditional productivity kind of tip or system when they go, okay, first dump everything out of your brain. Then prioritize everything and then make a list of your to-dos. And I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, back up the bus.”

ADHD Entrepreneur Focus Formula with Steve August · 33:19· listen →

“And so when you have a brain like we have, it's fun to be inside this brain. It's a good time. I enjoy it immensely. And then I'm face down. So I have 2 modes, 90 miles an hour and zero, and those are my options. And I've had to build in rest in brand new ways.”

Dr. Julie Causton on ADHD, Burnout & Remote Business · 15:48· listen →

“After it happened, it was probably the most difficult period of my life. I mean, even more difficult than growing and scaling the company because like, as I said, when you're like, when you're in it, John, you don't realize how much you're in it and how much of your every living drop of energy is going into it.”

David Kahl: From $100M CEO to Psilocybin Guide · 15:57· listen →

“I essentially, I got forced out of the company I founded and it was really hard for a few months. And I, you know, for me it was so much of my personal identity because I founded the company, you know, and without the CEO title, like, who am I?”

Bart Foster: Business Outside and the Power of Nature · 4:31· listen →

“I think the key is to separate your character that you play in your business on a daily basis from who you truly are. And not only who you truly are, but then who's the observer of that soul.”

Ashley Black: Necessity, Near-Death & High Vibration Living · 14:17· listen →

“There is a point, not every entrepreneur gets there, but there is a point where the entrepreneur goes, I've done everything that I think I'm good at, and now it's time for somebody else to take the business and run with it. And I'm at that point.”

Ashley Black: Necessity, Near-Death & High Vibration Living · 21:47· listen →

“And I go, no, if it's my legacy, then I want a bronze statue of me in the middle of the garden, looking like a great explorer that I've built all this, created, and everyone to know that this is what I've done.”

Dandapani: Training Focus and Awareness as an Entrepreneur · 16:54· listen →

“We need to be very agile how we navigate in those times. To be agile, we need to be in that growth mindset, in that abundant mindset. So the framework helping me to pause, observe, and decide, that framework, if I practice it, I enter quickly into the abundance mindset and get out of the fear of the survival mindset.”

Conscious Leadership: Deciding from Presence, Not Fear · 5:46· listen →

“Okay, we want to achieve something, but who says we will achieve it? We decided. Okay, it's a game. So the moment I understand and come a little bit more relaxed about that, it's a game. So let's play the game the best we can. Then I become agile, then I see the waves, and then I can adjust whatever needs to be adjusted in the moment.”

Conscious Leadership: Deciding from Presence, Not Fear · 20:26· listen →

“If I'm vulnerable at all, then I won't be respected. But it turns out, when I do it from a place of intelligence, then people felt more safe. Because when I'm vulnerable, then they can let down their guard.”

Emotional Intelligence & Manifestation with Randy Lyman · 8:05· listen →

“I think that's a big mistake with serial entrepreneurship is people see it as diversifying their risk. But because the root cause of startup failure is the internal mismanagement that derails decision-making, what will happen is that you're going to be fighting fires everywhere.”

Phil Neil: Emotional Mastery & Entrepreneurial Reinvention · 16:46· listen →

“Marcus Aurelius, one of the Socratic Roman emperors, right? So, yeah, one of the Stoic philosophers, paraphrasing one of his statements is something like, the majority of people think their life is determined by their circumstances. But in fact, it's not. It's determined by our response to those circumstances.”

Somatic Mindfulness for Entrepreneurs with Fleet Maull · 40:53· listen →

“I read this book, Psycho-Cybernetics. That was the book I read before my fourth year. I just had this like kind of— I revived my career. It was because of that book. And the whole essence of the book was like talking about reworking the self-image you have for yourself and how like you can only do as much as your self-image allows you to do.”

NFL's Maema Njongmeta on Visualization & Mindset · 29:53· listen →

“I've always stuck by the phrase of you'll flush it. That play's over. I'm going to flush it. I got to move on to the next thing... how do you have the mindset to just accept that, take the positive from it, learn from it and move forward and not make that same mistake again?”

Chris Streveler: NFL Mindset for Entrepreneurs · 62:48· listen →

“Even a successful entrepreneur has failed 1 billion times and been rejected 1 trillion times. Like, I have been rejected way more times than I have been accepted. I have failed way more times than I've been successful. At this point, I'm like almost immune to it, at least for the smaller ones.”

Building Mental Muscles with Olivia Bowser · 27:28· listen →

“So it's like focusing on the end goal, you know, it's focusing on what matters and why you're doing it is really important for resilience. And then just being flexible, you know, things may not come to fruition in the exact way that you had imagined, but it doesn't mean that whatever you accomplish isn't a success.”

Building Mental Muscles with Olivia Bowser · 28:35· listen →

“So think about your debt lenders like partners, but also partners that can really turn the screws on your business. If they become an outsized part of your monthly cash flow, that's way too much debt. You want them to be something that is manageable and something that is not the first thing you think of, mainly because your business might maintain over time, but you, if you have debt burden, are so much less likely to take on risk.”

Debt Strategy for Entrepreneurs: Leverage Without Crushing · 0:00· listen →

“if you're running this company and you're still the person that answers the phone when somebody calls your 800 number, You have not delegated things properly, or you're still the guy that's setting up all these Calendly meetings or whatever.”

Debt Strategy for Entrepreneurs: Leverage Without Crushing · 28:10· listen →

“Don't be greedy at the beginning, especially for startup. I see a lot of companies that they do— somehow they learn to do this evaluation based on a future value times 20 times their revenue, whatever. And say, guys, don't be greedy at the beginning because the first investors, especially let's say if you're like in the seed money or like angels, those are the most important ones. They're taking such a huge risk.”

Georges Karam: From War to Wealth to Purpose · 33:14· listen →

“I was spending money almost like it wasn't my own and treating the money like it wasn't mine... I am the business. Caitlin and I are the business. It is ours.”

Holly Conti: Scaling to 7 Figures with Mindset Work · 17:16· listen →

“I've found time and time again that if you're somebody that experiences money stress, more money is not the solution to that problem because I've worked with clients with very little money coming in and they feel stressed... Because it's not about the amount of money, it's about your relationship with money.”

Money Stress, Scarcity & Abundance with Scarlett Stanhope · 13:08· listen →

“You know, John, like we say always, money doesn't buy happiness. And I know that this is a very— we always say it after we make money. And I think the problem is it's because we don't have the right definition of happiness.”

Georges Karam: From War to Wealth to Purpose · 16:33· listen →

“True success is not measured by money. Money isn't success. Money is an outcome. Now, if you treat money like an outcome, you've just taken the lid off of possibility.”

Teresa Wornstaff: Using Intuition to Grow Your Business · 0:00· listen →

“Burnout isn't about doing too much. It's doing what's not true for you for too long. And so alignment feels different, right? There's still effort, but there's clarity of direction and growth.”

Become the CEO of Your Soul: Daune M. Thompson on Burnout · 0:00· listen →

“They'll usually almost always will come out, why am I not happy? Or why do I not feel fulfilled when I've done all these things? But they really feel guilty even bringing it up because they know they're fortunate and they know that they have everything that most people want and desire.”

Hypnotherapy for Imposter Syndrome With Christina L. Woods · 34:05· listen →

“some people express like the exhaustion they have for carrying all the damn masks way too fucking long, if I can say it that way, because that's how they feel. They're like, and here I am, I've got my own company, right? It is being successful, and I'm still not free.”

Dr. Jax Black: Redefining Success Through Joy · 28:58· listen →

“Are you making what you need to be making to support the life and the people and everything that you wanna support? If not, where is the bottleneck? Look at your business. You know, where is— if you think about the theory of constraints, it's like, where is the piece that if you, you know, doubled everything, your business would break? And often, they're the bottleneck.”

ADHD and Entrepreneurship: Unlocking Your Potential · 12:22

“Initially, when I started working with people, there was this idea of things like rejection sensitivity dysphoria and the idea that people with ADHD struggled with it, but there was no research on it that you could find, no academic research. But now it is coming to a head.”

ADHD and Entrepreneurship: Unlocking Your Potential · 17:19

“The thing I love to tell people is you'll probably already working almost as hard as you can work. A lot of times people will come to me and they'll say, I just need to white-knuckle it. I read this book about dopamine detoxing and I've decided I just need to go harder.”

ADHD and Entrepreneurship: Unlocking Your Potential · 25:51

“I dump some things down on the paper. There's no theme to it. It's really just whatever's top of mind. And I found that to be super helpful. Never been a great meditator, but the past couple years I've been trying. It's gotten better. I found breathwork a little bit more accessible to me, especially in terms of getting into what they call heart-brain coherence, which is a really great way to self-regulate.”

ADHD and Entrepreneurship: Unlocking Your Potential · 20:03

“It's not that I couldn't finish an email. I couldn't finish the first sentence of an email. And you know, I realized later it's because, yeah, I was in crisis the whole time during that stretch and ADHD brains do really well in crisis. Like, we can rise to that occasion.”

ADHD Entrepreneur Focus Formula with Steve August · 7:35

“I don't think of it as a disorder. I just think it's a different brain type. And like nobody thinks twice about supporting, like if your vision isn't quite where you want it to be, you wear glasses or you get LASIK or you wear contacts. And why should ADHD be any different?”

ADHD Entrepreneur Focus Formula with Steve August · 11:57

“There's a physiological sigh where it's just like you breathe in and then you breathe in another 20% and then sigh it out. And it just chills out the nervous system surprisingly quickly. And it doesn't require counting or executive function like box breathing.”

ADHD Entrepreneur Focus Formula with Steve August · 29:55

“This thing just took 3 months and 20 minutes— 3 months to procrastinate, 20 minutes to actually do it— like, but I did it, right? Then they keep doing that each day, all of a sudden that trust starts to come back to themselves.”

ADHD Entrepreneur Focus Formula with Steve August · 25:44

“Versus if I have this narrative that I am unblockable, I am comfortable in space, I am a seatbelt in coverage, I'm hard to deal with, I'm— I cause problems for the offense, I'm one step ahead of everyone. Like, you just tell these things to yourself.”

NFL's Maema Njongmeta on Visualization & Mindset · 0:06

“Now, like, wanting it more doesn't actually make you better. It's all the other stuff. Like, are you staying consistently focused on the right goals? Are you working on the right goals? Are you efficiently using your time and your energy?”

NFL's Maema Njongmeta on Visualization & Mindset · 23:17

“As long as it's not the knockout punch and there's still time on the clock and there's still breath in my lungs and there's still this and there's— it's like, it's truly like— It's never too late. Like, it's really just never too late.”

NFL's Maema Njongmeta on Visualization & Mindset · 31:24

“You might have this occupation that tells you this is where I'm at, this is where I need to be. But don't let that ever, ever, ever get in the way of your vocation, of your purpose. And I felt like, you know, I started playing football. It was a scheme to make friends, win influence, get girls, all the things.”

NFL's Maema Njongmeta on Visualization & Mindset · 36:22

“Something about the construction, it, it just speaks to me. Like right now my goal is I want, when I'm done playing, I want to, one, I don't want to take a pay cut, which like that's a very high bar. And then 2, like, I, um, I want to be passionate about what I do, um, but I want to— I want to also make mailbox money.”

NFL's Maema Njongmeta on Visualization & Mindset · 40:23

“Your soul should be the chief of the energy that your soul's leading from, because most people, have you noticed, lead from the outside and then address strategy, as opposed to the inside and out.”

Become the CEO of Your Soul: Daune M. Thompson on Burnout · 5:43

“What's fascinating is we all avoid those discomforting topics because they're not comfortable for us, or they're what we actually came to learn, but we avoid them.”

Become the CEO of Your Soul: Daune M. Thompson on Burnout · 9:19

“Deserving isn't earned, it's remembered, right? And so nobody in that room cares about you. Nobody in that room thinks about you. They're thinking the same thing whoever this person is thinking. They're thinking the same thing. What if they find out?”

Become the CEO of Your Soul: Daune M. Thompson on Burnout · 26:32

“Anxiety tells me when they show up is that they're either living in the past or the future. They're not present right now.”

Become the CEO of Your Soul: Daune M. Thompson on Burnout · 31:20

“I can have a crappy day and go get a massage and feel good for 24 hours, and the next day, if I did not address that crappy whatever's going on inside of me, it's back. So I can do things to feel good, but they're not solving the internal.”

Become the CEO of Your Soul: Daune M. Thompson on Burnout · 45:15

“I believe every single human being has the beautiful power within them to transform, to come home to themselves, as I like to say. And so my role is really to provide the safety, the love, the education, and the tools that people need in order to kind of cross that bridge into self-transformation.”

Cognitive & Embodied Awareness with Carissa Karban · 2:25

“Everything is a choice. Truly, everything is a choice to wake up, to say yes, to say no.”

Cognitive & Embodied Awareness with Carissa Karban · 6:12