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As you all know by now, this show is all about value. It's in the name, it's what the content is all about, it's mentioned in every single episode, and it's one of the most consistent theme words in my own life. At the end of every year, I contemplate on the prior year's successes and failures,...
Here we are again my friends, the end of another rotation around the sun. That time of year when we get to spend some quality time with family and friends, reflect on the prior year, and imagine what the year ahead might have in store.Â
From a business perspective, it’s the time of year for me...
If you’ve been listening to this show for any period of time, you know that I love questions. I love questions because, without them and without good ones, you don’t get answers to things. Everything we do, everything we create, everything we get paid for starts with a question or a series of q...
If a stranger had walked up to me on the street when I was 19 or 20 years old and said, “Blaine, these are the only 5 questions you’ll ever need to ask and answer for yourself if you want to lead a fulfilling and meaningful life”, I’m not exactly sure what I would’ve done back then, but the 52 ...
I always considered myself an entrepreneur. My father introduced me to the concept of being an entrepreneur and I gained my understanding of what that meant simply from watching, doing, and reading about other entrepreneurs. I thought I knew what it meant to be an entrepreneur, that is until I ...
You know what they say about opinions; they’re like (insert body part), everybody’s got one. And it’s true, unless the middle part of your brain has been damaged or removed, we all have opinions about certain things. Opinions are good, they’re healthy, until, of course, they aren’t. When your m...
Since around the age of 16, I have been something of a collector. No, not comic books, not trinkets, not baubles, not those silly plates from boardwalk tourist shops. No, what I started collecting almost 36 years ago was advice. Advice that I thought was the best advice for a young kid who want...
“You’re going to have to eventually fight real people…you know that, right?” That’s what the voice standing behind me said. I was 19 at the time and I was really going at it on the heavy bag at the karate school I had been training at. I was fairly new at the time and thought I was pretty good ...
When I was 19 years old, I decided I wanted some adventure in my life, so I applied to and was accepted into a very unique live-in student program in Chicago studying Zen meditation and the martial art of Aikido. One of the first things the founder and chief instructor of the program said to me...
What I’m about to give you in this episode might be worth upwards of $50,000,000 dollars or more. Sounds ridiculous, right? Well, it’s not and here’s why. What I’m going to share with you on today’s podcast are the specific steps to building your network of buyers, collaborators, gatekeepers,...
If you’re struggling in business, it doesn’t really matter what the business is, it can always be boiled down to something you’re not doing, or not doing correctly. It’s really that simple. One of my real estate sales coaches, a brilliant man named Floyd Wickman, was fond of saying that if yo...
Starting a business is not easy, remaining in business is even harder. If you want to have the greatest chance of success at anything in life, it helps to have some standards, some systems, some guardrails, and some commandments, if you will. After all, success leaves clues and many have both s...