HANDS AND DAYLIGHT

How do you jump start your morning and life? By learning how to make your daily challenges, and struggles, part of your mission...seize the day, everyday. We also discuss recognizing depression, how a sedentary lifestyle has led to a testosterone deficiency epidemic, and finding that endorphin release we all need through activity to keep our body and mind firing on all cylinders.

Today we discuss working in business with family, spouses and partnerships. The dichotomy created when dealing with family in the workplace. Expectations, emotions, and how to make family a superpower instead of your kryptonite.

Jocko Willink joins us to discuss many topics, including nicknames, controlling your emotions in life, letting emotions take the lead and letting logic take the lead. The dichotomy of emotions, and the balancing act. JIU-JITSU as a metaphor for life and business. WAR, AMERICA, PERSPECTIVE, and much more from JOCKO!

Everyone, at some point in their life is humiliated. The best form of humiliation is an entitlement beat down. Most of the time this is not literal, but for me it was. Learning through a personal, humiliating experience that you are not everything you thought. It’s an opportunity you can either embrace and become stronger from, or let it ruin your future. It’s a self-check that’s exposed by external forces. I personally had two experiences that were humbling and put me in my place.

There has been a rumbling below our feet, and that low hum... that uncomfortable vibration you feel in your body is the foundation this country was built on being stripped away brick by brick.

WHY would someone run away from all the opportunity in the world, make a decision to leave it all behind, and run and towards the American dream. Today's guest is Andre "Dedeco" Almeida, business man, father, jiu-jitsu champion, and co-owner of Origin. He discusses immigrating to America, leaving it all behind bootstrapped with $100. We also delve into how to handle employees that are stealing from the company, trust, changing an employees perspective, learning english, and what it means to BE AMERICAN.

We all need a little down time... or do we? Sometimes a little friendly banter can go a long way. Today we discuss the impact of vacations on business. Concepts for a new distilled spirit, politics, snowstorms, gumball racing and flying airplanes. Join us in a casual conversation about extremely random stuff.

Customer service and levels of communication. DISARMING customers and having good communication skills. Inspiration for design, balancing form and function, and the design of everyday things. Finding substance in your why. Pete delves into personal struggles with importing and makes a decision to make it in America. Going all in on your why. BEING READY FOR ABSOLUTE FAILURE, BUT FAILURE NOT BEING AN OPTION. EARNING GRIT, AND EMOTIONAL CALLUSES.

Perception premeditates judgement. But without total 360 degree education, the way we perceive something is solely based off life experiences, what we've been taught, and this formulates what we believe and what we perceive. What if I told you that our entire nation has been brainwashed for generations.

I was driving slow with my window cracked trying to get the perfect balance of heat in the vehicle mixing with the air outside. While driving I could feel the snow loosen up and turn to slush, mixing with thawing mud... and my tires were lifting the slush from the road and throwing it against my truck’s undercarriage. My coffee was still a little too hot to drink, but I was entranced by this mix.

Death comes to everything with a heartbeat. Economies are strong in war, farmers and butchers deal death to provide our food supply for 300 million people. Few of us continue the traditions of hunting and gathering, planning and preserving, gardening and growing. We turn a blind eye to how food is grown, killed and processed. Will they teach our great grandchildren, will they say we partook of a barbarous communion of genetically modified flesh and fast food that is no better than injesting soylent green?

Words are our greatest tool. Words are free for anyone. As kids we said, “sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me”. The truth is words can be a blessing or a curse. They can build empires or cause wars. Bridges can be burned by words said in haste. And the right words chained together can literally change the world. Shaking someone’s hand, looking in their eyes and letting them know “HERE I AM”. That’s how real deals are crafted.

His family has been in Maine's wood industry for three generations. Out to prove himself, and with his hands and daylight, Brody Cousineau overcame many obstacles, including rewiring his brain as a young child due to his extreme Dyslexia, now his superpower. From running a mill at 22 years old to pushing through the economic recession, this podcast is filled with laughter, sadness and wisdom.

As an entrepreneur, it’s our duty to pull the best out of our people each and every day. Respect cannot be forced upon someone. You can not demand respect. Respect is earned many ways. Employees ARE your piers, they are are the lifeblood of your business. They come to work each day from unique living situations, different lifestyles, and diverse backgrounds. And every single person on this planet has something to offer this place before they leave.

People are an interesting creation. Each one of us has free will. We are all born with this innate ability to know right from wrong. But the smarter we get, the easier it is to mix the two. The smarter we think we are, the easier it is to convince ourselves of just about anything. Man is the only creature that has freedom to dream, and look at the earth as a playground. We have the intelligence to pull raw materials out of the earth, mixing them and forming them into whatever we want.