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Hey friends, welcome back to the vlog.
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The day starts at 8am when I wake up, negotiate myself out of bed, have a shower, do my skincare and play with the baby girl for a bit.
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I wave goodbye to the other baby girl and I head over to the office to start the work day.
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Fridays are unusual in that I start work at 9am, usually I start at 10, but on Fridays from 9 to 10am I do a live
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session called the Friday Fireside for students of our Lifestyle Business Academy, which is our online business school.
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I run a Monday masterclass every Monday, and then twice on a Friday I do the more casual
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Q &As where I help our students wherever I can with their businesses.
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Cool, great stuff gang, have a lovely rest of day, good luck with businesses and life, and I will see you all next week.
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Bye!
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We've just done the Friday Fireside, that was quite nice, there were only like four people on the call
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and so it felt like I could really dive in in detail
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so these are our very casual like Q &A calls
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that we run and they can just ask me anything
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and we just have a chit chat about their business giving feedback on their content
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or on their sales pages or on their proposals
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or on their offers
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and in this group we had Sherilyn who's already made a
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hundred thousand dollars in the last few months we've had Carlos who's just joined us
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and so he's trying to figure out his niche and
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so yeah it's good vibes we then have a little bit
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of chit chat with the team about this vlog format
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and we take a look at some of the old vlogs I used to do many many years ago
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while I was in med school I mean, I used to save lives in different countries and now I make YouTube videos.
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I really enjoyed doing that stuff back in the day.
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And so I'm experimenting with potentially trying to recreate that sort of format.
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We'll see how it goes.
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Sick, man.
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What have I?
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Six minute long vlog edited by me, filmed by me.
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And so this was how I stayed consistent with content while I had a real life as a student and a doctor.
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As the day progresses, I sort of am constructing the vlog in my head with the footage
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that I've got thinking like okay where do I think a
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little montage would be good where is a voiceover sensible
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and then I'll like write out the voiceover I want to experiment with this format for the business stuff
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because it's basically like the study with me thing instead of
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studying I'm like I don't know trying to build a landing page
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or like freaking I don't know whatever trying to figure out ads for super focus
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or whatever if we can nail this as a format this is a massive unlock because it means that, for example, a Wednesday can be dedicated to filming where we're like talking to the camera and shit,
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but then on a Friday, I can actually just be doing stuff
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and we can just film me doing stuff
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and I can explain how I'm doing the stuff
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and then I'll be fucking sick because then I can actually do the stuff rather than just being a professional content creator.
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So that is the dream.
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After the vlog discussion, one of our new team members, Anne, shows me some of the process mapping stuff
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that she's been working on to try and improve the operations of our Lifestyle Business Academy.
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One thing we've been talking about for a
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while is we need like we always need like a student roadmap yeah a nice cute looking figma page
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that we can be like this is the roadmap
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and this is where you are
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and this is what the next step is yeah that'll be sick
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so i think yes yes yeah student facing like credit roadmap doc yeah
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which then maps to student experience which maps to coach thingy
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and everyone is like singing from the same hymn sheet even
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though the students never see the coach in the system one we know
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that it maps to the roadmap yes and so
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if we change the roadmap everything else has to change
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and anyone across the entire business is able to look at like what am i doing today
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and what box am i touching how am i helping
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and how does that then fit into the bigger picture yes
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and if if i go to go spend the next half an hour
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or like half a day doing x
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and it doesn't touch any of those boxes yeah is
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that a valuable exercise even if it seems fun
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or seems important it seems i'm not going to help help prioritization nice at this point it's around 11am
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and it's time to crank on some work It's time to get started with Life Notes.
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Life Notes is the email newsletter that I've been sending since like April 2018.
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So how many years is that?
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Eight years.
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Almost every week for the last eight years sending an email.
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And there is a technique that I came across from a writing coach which is called the splurge.
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This is how the splurge works.
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You basically set a timer for 10 minutes.
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Conveniently, I only have 12 minutes until my next meeting.
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Pretty much with eyes closed and not being allowed to press the backspace or the delete button, you just like word vomit anything that comes to mind
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so this is the sort of thing that it might look like okay
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the idea is that you do this for like a whole 10 minutes with your eyes closed you see how
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janky this is but this is a good way of like silencing the inner critic
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and finding out where you want to go
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and what you want to say about a particular thing
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so by literally writing out ah no no I've actually landed on what I now think is a good topic
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which I'm now gonna continue to splurge about.
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That will be like the first draft of the newsletter.
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And then if I wanna, I can just chuck it into Claude and be like, hey, can you just clean it up to make sure there's no typos and shit.
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Or I could just like manually handcraft it if I really felt like it, but we'll see how it goes after continuing on with the splurge.
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Oh shit time i call the nation with nathan whoopsie
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all righty so just got off a call with nathan who's one of our coaches
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nathan is in australia and so it's a good time zone for hong kong
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because he's a few hours ahead
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so it's very easy to get on a call with nathan
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uh nathan is actually our outreach specialist in the lifestyle business academy
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because he ran his own like marketing agency for like 12 years before joining us
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and he basically got all of his clients through uh outreach like a combination of warm outreach
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and cold outreach and sending dms and doing cold emails
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and stuff like that
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which is really cool he's never made content as far as
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i know he doesn't have much of a personal brand
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so he didn't get clients through like being famous on the internet
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and he also didn't get clients through running ads he literally just got them through like messaging
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and emailing people being like hey do you want to work
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with me uh obviously doing it slightly more sophisticated than that
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and so um what we do is
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that this was initially started out as a um sort of
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coach training conversation where Nathan you know I have these two
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three times a week with all of our coaches where a couple of coaches get on a call with me
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and kind of like we model it after like a medical ward round where the coach goes through
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and we discuss any patients or any students that they are struggling with
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so in this context Nathan was struggling with one of his
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students let's call the student John John is having existential angst about his niche
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and his business model
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so he's like what do I want to go with this particular business model in this particular niche
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but that one doesn't really feel aligned
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or do I want to do this thing
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but I know that's going to make less money and so
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when people have
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that kind of like oh I'm pulled in these different directions it's a real struggle for them
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and so we identified
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that as being the problem we also then go through the doctor CPR method DRCPR
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which stands for DMs replies calls proposals and revenue
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which is sort of like the I think of them as
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the five vital signs of a business in the early stages
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that can help the coach and the student
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and me diagnose again the medical analogy diagnose exactly where the problem is
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so that we can then prescribe a solution or suggest an experiment for that specific problem.
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So we did that with one of Nathan's students.
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And then we happened to have half an hour left where I was like, you know what, let's actually just because I'm working on the DMs module of the new curriculum, let me get Nathan's thoughts on this because Nathan is a pro at DMs.
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And actually, that was a very generative conversation that resulted in quite a lot of
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new stuff that I realized we can incorporate into the curriculum, which is absolutely sick.
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So I love it when a Zoom call turns into curriculum content, which turns into just making a better experience for our students.
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All right, if you're enjoying the video so far, I would love to tell you about WeWork, who are very kindly sponsoring this video.
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So if you run a small business like I do, you will know how much of a nightmare office space is.
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A commercial lease is usually at least two years.
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It's super expensive.
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You've got to sort out the fit out
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and you end up having to do things like unblocking the toilets
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and dealing with plumbing and all that kind of stuff yourself.
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Total nightmare, which is why me and my team have been paying customers of WeWork since like 2020.
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Back then it was just me and our general manager, Angus, working out of the WeWork in Cambridge.
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We'd go there every day.
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It was super nice interior design there'd be whiteboards everywhere.
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And a lot of what the business does now got sketched out in those conference rooms in the WeWork.
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These days, the team is a lot bigger and mostly remote.
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And so we've got people working from all around the world, and we don't have a physical office anywhere except here in Hong Kong.
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So instead, everyone on the team has a WeWork all access membership.
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So wherever someone happens to be, they can walk into the local WeWork and get a proper day of work done.
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And then whenever I'm back in London, or a few of the team end up in the same city, we can just book a desk or a meeting room and actually work together in real life, which is awesome.
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The great thing about WeWork is that it's also super flexible.
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The contract goes month to a month, and you can add or drop membership super easily as the team changes.
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So especially for our remote team these days, WeWork basically takes care of all of the office side of things, which means our team
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and me can get to focus on actually running the business rather than trying to be a part -time office manager.
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Links and codes are in the video description as well, so big thank you WeWork for sponsoring this video, and let's get back to it.
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At this point, it's 12 .25pm.
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I've got 15 minutes until lunch with the team, and so I'm going to use that time to try and incorporate Nathan's insights into the DM's curriculum material,
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and also to polish off this week's issue of Life Notes.
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Alrighty, so that is this issue of Life Notes that has been written.
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I'm actually very proud of it.
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Just actually, it's weird because having very few minutes to actually write it, I think, made it way better than sometimes i agonize over it for like two
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or three hours and stuff
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and yeah not a single ounce of ai was used in
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the writing of lifelettes previously i used to use our app voice pal i used to walk around
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and sort of like dictate what i would uh what i
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wanted to write about then i would chuck it into claude
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and then go back and forth with the ai for absolutely ages to like figure out
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and then once i discovered this like splurge method um it just i just sort of realized
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that i prefer the craft of writing with my fingertips on a keyboard
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so i'll still use like ai dictation and stuff for things
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that are not like creative output but for things
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that involve like creative output
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that sort of i actually do prefer sort of raw dog
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writing it myself rather than um trying to get an ai to find my voice
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and you know all of that all that crap now me
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and sean are uh
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so the team has gone for lunch uh they are going
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to a local thai place they're going to order for us
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and then we are going to join them uh once we go to the dji store
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because we want to buy some new tech what are we buying new microphones
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because we want to be able to capture more stuff like in a more candid fashion, rather than it just being the sort of official desk setup.
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So yeah, time for a little trip to the DJI store and then team lunch.
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Multicolour magnetic front cover.
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Alrighty, so we are back after lunch, we have done a nice haul of equipment from the DJI store
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which we are now putting on charge for a four -way microphone setup with a single transmitter
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which means we can do four -way podcasts we can do four -way like round tables we can capture conversations
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that are happening over lunch so that's really cool and
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so now I have a call with Angus it's currently 20
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past two I've got a call with Angus at three and
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so the rest of the afternoon I'm going to be focusing on super focused marketing
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so super focus is our app
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and the way I think of it is like magnetic marketing
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and effortless sales we want marketing
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that is magnetic i .e it effortlessly attracts our ideal customers
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and also repels people that we don't want
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and we want effortless sales sales that feel effortless i don't like it
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when it feels like we're trying to sell something
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and it feels hard i want it to feel effortless
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because selling is a service and sales is merely about educating the person about your product
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and if it's right for them then they'll just naturally buy right um
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and if it's not then this is no hard feelings and
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so i'm trying to sort of figure out like okay how do we present how do we position
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and present Superfocus so that we attract the right people to become founding members
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because we have only another couple of weeks
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while we're still doing the founding member program for Superfocus
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which is basically you get massive discount
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which will be grandfathered in forever for as long as you're a subscriber you get like a money back guarantee
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and you get to join our little community where you give us feedback about the product oh by the way
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if you happen to be watching this before Saturday the 26th
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of September 2026 I'm hosting my quarterly workshop the autumn reset
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it's completely free I host it with thousands of attendees from all around the world
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and the whole idea in this totally free live workshop is
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that you and I work together to essentially reflect on how 2026 has gone so far.
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And then we set goals for the final 90 days of 2026 so that we can finish the year strong.
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I've been running these every three months for the last few years.
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It's around two hours together on a Zoom call.
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People get tons and tons of value from it.
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And so there'll be a link to register completely for free down in the description if you're interested.
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at three o 'clock i have a 45 minute one -on
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-one zoom meeting with angus our general manager where we discuss various issues
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and opportunities in the business all righty
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so um i was meant to be doing some super focused stuff
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but i ended up spending half an hour just yapping with anne
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because she had to leave and
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so we were just sketching out a bunch of the operations
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and processes for the lifestyle business academy in terms of like what like what the student journey looks like
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and what the coaches are up to
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and basically trying to figure out where are the holes in the system
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because what we're really trying to do is there's like basically
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a zillion different things we could do to improve the experience of students
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and coaches in the Lifestyle Business Academy
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but the discipline is in figuring out what are the high priority high impact ones
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and doing those first which requires us to really understand the map of all of this stuff so far.
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One of the things with Lifestyle Business Academy is I had
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an idea going in of what the student experience would look like
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and then students started going through it and then And almost from day one, we started to get data about where people are struggling.
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Basically, the struggles with building a business were a lot more numerous than I thought they would be,
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because in particular, various like mindset and emotional and like mental hurdles were coming up for students.
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So even though I thought it was pretty clear, like what they should do, and they sort of knew what they should do, they were not doing the thing.
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And so all of those like things are now bubbling to the surface
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and have been over the last few months where we're like, all right, there's all sorts of things we could do to solve this, to solve these problems.
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Let's figure out what the problems actually are and then let's put systems in place to actually solve them.
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And so there was a lot of like drawing boxes on a page and like process mapping and stuff.
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So it is now 4 .47 PM.
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I have my next Friday fireside with the LBA students.
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So that is the next order of business.
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We then have our second Friday fireside for the day.
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This time where I'm speaking to our European and Australian students primarily.
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And then the day ends with a casual chit chat amongst the team in the office.
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Yeah, I feel like I've been sort of carrying the weight
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of some kind of business since the age of 18 for the last like 14 years
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because even with the first business the first successful business the courses business six med there was always stuff
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that was going wrong with it like books weren't delivered on time
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or like a student was unhappy or like a student was really happy
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and i had to get a testimonial or just the the website was broken
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and then there was a period of time once i sold
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that business and
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when the youtube channel was still a side hustle where it
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didn't feel heavy i don't think it felt like i was
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playing with house money just like oh this is the you
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know we're in the bonus round i've already got my day
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job i have no intention of quitting my day job
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so this youtube thing is just like a cool cool cool thing on the site
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but then it got so big and i enjoyed it
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so much that i decided to quit the day job
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and made it my main thing
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but then it added a level of heaviness to it that's like it's my main thing now
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and so this business is like what i do for work in like the work domain
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and ultimately every decision makes its way back to me
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and having a team is amazing because it takes it definitely takes a lot of
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that load off and without the team
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and without angus like being the general manager it would be a lot worse than it currently is
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but it's sort of like whole thing is sort of reliant on me too continue to do the content, sort out the curriculum with LBA and all this sort of stuff.
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And we don't yet have senior leadership team that can truly take ownership of their particular department yet,
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because we've historically only really hired people who are like young and inexperienced.
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And so in that context, because I can't hand over the ownership to a senior leader in that department, it's just sort of me and Angus who are like shouldering the load of the entire business.
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At least that's what it feels like um
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but i hear from more experienced entrepreneurs that once you get
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that those like senior hires who can truly own something then it it's like
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that load feels like it's being taken off your shoulders
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and it's being sort of shared shouldn't shed around a bit
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more by the same time it feels weird to be talking about this right
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because it's it's sort of like i don't want it to look as
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if and also i don't want it to feel internally as
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if i'm complaining about this at all
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because this is the life i've chosen for myself
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and it's absolutely sick
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and it's like way better than the life i would have had working as a doctor
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and so it's sort of like choose your heart it's like
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if you be a business owner then you're signing up to feeling the weight of the business on your shoulders
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if you have co -founders then it feels like more like
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the the load is shared i've had a friend who had
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four co -founders face business he was like four is probably a bit much
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but like it felt like the load was shared whereas
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when you're a solo founder
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or even a duo then yeah one of the challenges is
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constant context switching where it's like we've got this lba workshop in the morning
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and then immediately it's like doing operations with ann
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and then this we're talking about something about the youtube channel
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and then we're like all right we need to work on the curriculum stuff oh
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and then there's meeting with nathan which turns into a curriculum chat
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and then it's like okay lunch with the team we need to sort out our audio process
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while we're doing lunch we're trying to figure out like the
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content for the vlog for the day it's like i'm in
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the back of my mind i need to focus on super focus
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and then i start working on super focus
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and then i've got this meeting with angus in some ways i like the variety of it
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but in other ways i'm like ah there's a lot going on
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and also it's like all in one day and
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so i i almost prefer when the calendar is completely empty
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and i can just like dig into just like one thing
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and so this is sort of where I'm always trying to sort of get to
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that nirvana where I can actually just single task on something for four hours rather than being constantly derailed by other things.
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So that's been a bit of a struggle with today.
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I find it useful to set the rules for myself.
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Like the rule is I'm not allowed to work after 7pm
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and it's not my definition of work it's like someone else's definition of work.
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Like what looks like if it looks like work to someone else I'm not allowed to do after 7pm.
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And I find that to be a very useful thing
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because okay well it's all like going home at the end
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of the day in medicine where you're like yeah the patient's bleeding
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but i can't do anything about it it's not quite as detached as
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that because you really can't do anything about it
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when you're not there and i could always just like open up court code
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or do something and sometimes i do i do those things especially
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when inspiration strikes i think for the most part the balance
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feels good for the most part i feel happy fulfilled joyful in the business
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and at the same time it also feels like heavy um to an extent
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but at the same time it also doesn't
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because we've got we've got we've got a great team and it does feel like a lot of the time
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And if it was heavier, I wouldn't be like, oh my god, I can't do lunch with the team because it's like, that's fine as well.
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And so I definitely have it a lot better than most business owners
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because of the team structure around it and because the product is so high margin and because we've got the audience.
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So we have a lot of unfair advantages in our favor.
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Who knows how long that will continue to last, but fingers crossed.

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