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by Codie Sanchez
This podcast uncovers the unfiltered lessons from the smartest minds straight to you, in conversations so honest you feel guilty listening in. We believe the current way of thinking is not working. The average person has become unhappy, unhealthy and financially struggling. You are not that person. This podcast will kick you in the shin with truth and tactics they should have taught us but gatekept. Hosted by Codie Sanchez, entrepreneur, investor and reformed journalist. You are a BigDeal to us.
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- Today1h 13m
The Secret to Turning Failure Into Success | Dhar Mann
Thanks to SoFi for sponsoring this episode! Looking for funding to help grow your business? Get started at SoFi.com/Codie. #SoFiPartner #ad My new book, Own Or Be Owned, is all about building a business so good it doesn't need you. More profit, less pain. It's out September 18, grab your ticket to the launch event here: https://contrarianthinking.biz/oobo_bigdeal - cs You've been telling yourself the same story. That you need more resources to start. That you need the perfect plan before you move. That one viral hit will solve everything. Here's the truth: the reason you're not where you want to be isn't because you haven't found the right thing. It's because you keep quitting before it compounds. Dhar Mann is one of the most watched creators on the internet, generating over 80 billion lifetime views and earning $65 million last year. But in 2013, he was broke, depressed, and two weeks from eviction. In this episode, he breaks down the exact frameworks that took him from rock bottom to building a 200 person content empire, why failure isn't the opposite of success but actually part of it, and the four P system that turns ideas into millions of views. In this episode, you'll learn: Why your struggle becomes your greatest superpower and how the depth of your suffering defines the height of your joy, and why broken clay pots put together with gold are more beautiful than perfect ones The four P framework: pre-testing, packaging, pitch, and post-production, and why spending $10 on Facebook tests before you ever hit record is the difference between viral content and wasted effort Why it's harder to make your first $1,000 than your first million and how success begets success once you identify the patterns that actually work The HEART acronym: Honor your audience, Earn their trust, Architect a system, Reach hearts, and Turn views into impact, and how this philosophy builds companies not just content The green lighting ratio: how Dhar Mann tests 10 ideas to get 1 that goes live and why failing fast and cheap gives you the runway to succeed where expensive bets kill you on the first try ___________ Introduction: From Rock Bottom to 65 Million Dollars a Year Failure Is a Chapter, Not Your Entire Story The Stockdale Paradox: Accept Where You Are and Keep Fighting Your Greatest Struggle Becomes Your Greatest Superpower Kintsugi: The Japanese Art of Being Beautifully Broken It's Harder to Make Your First Thousand Than Your First Million The HEART Framework: Honor, Earn, Architect, Reach, Turn The Four Ps: Pre-Test, Package, Pitch, Post-Production Pre-Testing Everything: The Ten Dollar Facebook Test That Saves Millions Packaging and Pitch: Deliver on the Promise in 30 Seconds or Die Post-Production Is Where the Magic Happens: Three Times the Effort Quantity vs Quality: The Birkin Bag vs McDonald's Debate People and Processes: How to Scale Without Losing Your Soul The Six Minute Mile Analogy: You Can't See the Breakthrough Coming From One Employee to 200: The Year by Year Scaling Blueprint Outsource or Build In-House: The Caruso and Hermes Test Your Product Is Your Team: The Boeing Lawn Furniture Story Failure Is Collecting Gems: The Ray Dalio Video Game Principle Your Excuse Is Somebody Else's Reason Why The Muscular Dad Story: Breaking Down a Viral Concept in Real Time The Green Lighting Ratio: From 10 Ideas to One Final Video It Took Me 100 Videos to Go Viral: What If I Quit on Number 99? Start Scrappy or Die: The 600 Dollar Bank Account That Built an Empire The Three Steps to Becoming the First Millionaire in Your Family Stop Trying to Look Rich Before You Actually Are Rich The Biggest Sacrifice: When Your Daughter Says She Doesn't Want a Big House Anymore People's Opinions Don't Matter: The Ones Judging Are Too Afraid to Try Do You Quit Too Early or Stay Too Long? The Purpose Alignment Test Always Listen to Your Gut: God Put a Compass Inside You ___________ MORE FROM BIGDEAL 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@podcastbigdeal 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bigdeal.podcast 📽️ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@big.deal.pod MORE FROM CODIE SANCHEZ 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@codiesanchezct 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/codiesanchez 📽️ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@realcodiesanchez OTHER THINGS WE DO 🌐 Our community: https://contrarianthinking.typeform.com/to/WBztXXID 📰 Free newsletter: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3XWLlZp 📚 Biz buying course: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3NhjGgN 🏠 Resibrands: https://resibrands.com/ 💰 CT Capital: https://contrarianthinking.biz/4eRyGOk 🏦 Main St Hold Co: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3YfGa8u Learn more about your ad c
- Yesterday17 min
Stop Being Nice: The C.L.E.A.R. Method for Earning Respect
My new book, Own Or Be Owned, is all about building a business so good it doesn't need you. More profit, less pain. It's out September 18, grab your ticket to the launch event here: https://contrarianthinking.biz/oobo_bigdeal - cs You've been avoiding the conversation. The one where you tell someone the truth they need to hear but don't want to face. You soften it, delay it, wrap it in compliments, and call it kindness. Here's the truth: every time you avoid hard feedback, you're not protecting them. You're stealing from their future. And the longer you wait, the more expensive it gets for both of you. Great leaders don't avoid difficult conversations. They run toward them. They understand that soft feedback isn't kindness, it's vanity disguised as care. This episode breaks down the exact framework for giving feedback that makes people better, not bitter, why most workplace drama exists because people refuse to talk directly, and the one leadership mistake that turns you into an emotional middleman instead of a standard bearer. In this episode, you'll learn: Why vanity is the silent killer of leadership and how refusing to tell people the truth costs them weeks or months of improvement while buying you seconds of comfort The CLEAR framework: Care, Lead with the work, be Exact, Ask, and Reset, and how this five step process turns hard conversations into growth opportunities Why Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Jensen Huang built empires by being brutally direct and how treating competent adults like they can handle the truth is the most respectful thing you can do The no gossip rule: why great teams go direct to the source and how stopping yourself from becoming an emotional middleman forces your team to handle its own friction Why feedback in private versus public matters and how Jensen Huang's 60 direct reports and public feedback model keeps NVIDIA's turnover at 2% while everyone else bleeds talent Stop choosing comfort over growth. Start having the conversation. The person you're avoiding is the one who needs to hear it most. ___________ Introduction: The Vanity Test and Why Soft Feedback Is Cowardice Steve Jobs and Johnny Ive: Great Leaders Build People by Saying the Hard Thing Bill Gates and the Parking Lot: The Crazy Ones Push Until It Hurts Ruinous Empathy: How Avoiding Feedback Steals From Their Future The CLEAR Framework: Care, Lead, Exact, Ask, Reset Great Employees Want Clarity, Weak Ones Want Comfort Ben Horowitz and the Sandwich Method: Don't Wrap Criticism in Compliments Jensen Huang's No One-on-Ones Rule: Torture Them Into Greatness Sheryl Sandberg and the Ummm Story: Caring Personally Means Challenging Directly The Room You're Afraid to Call: Stop Being a Human Complaint Box Push Them to Have Crucial Conversations: Leadership Is About Making People Better Choose Growth Over Comfort: Have the Conversation This Week ___________ MORE FROM BIGDEAL 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@podcastbigdeal 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bigdeal.podcast 📽️ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@big.deal.pod MORE FROM CODIE SANCHEZ 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@codiesanchezct 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/codiesanchez 📽️ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@realcodiesanchez OTHER THINGS WE DO 🌐 Our community: https://contrarianthinking.typeform.com/to/WBztXXID 📰 Free newsletter: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3XWLlZp 📚 Biz buying course: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3NhjGgN 🏠 Resibrands: https://resibrands.com/ 💰 CT Capital: https://contrarianthinking.biz/4eRyGOk 🏦 Main St Hold Co: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3YfGa8u Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 1 weeks ago1h 12m
The Mindset Shift That Made Me Millions | Robert Herjavec
You've been telling yourself the same story. That you need more money to start. That you need the perfect plan before you move. That fear is the reason you're stuck. Here's the truth: the only thing holding you back is the belief that something outside of you has to change before you can begin. Robert Herjavec went from arriving in America with nothing to building and selling companies worth hundreds of millions of dollars. He's one of the most recognizable faces on Shark Tank, and in this episode, he breaks down the exact mindset shifts that turned urgency into wealth, why most people quit before they compound, and the leadership mistake that quietly destroys great companies. From structuring earnouts with no money down to scaling a $400 million business without raising a dime, Robert reveals the frameworks that separate people who stay broke from people who build empires. In this episode, you'll learn: Why fear is what holds most people back and how the fear of hard work without guaranteed results is the real killer, not the work itself The poverty versus wealth mindset: why working to make a living keeps you stuck and how shifting to building wealth changes everything How Robert bought 13 businesses with no outside funding using earnouts, seller financing, and cash flow leverage, and why you don't need money in the bank to do deals The biggest mistake founders make when pitching: asking people to listen instead of making them want to hear, and why humility and subconscious alignment close deals before you even open your mouth How to value a company the right way: understanding industry multiples, EBITDA, and why people fail because they price based on what they need instead of what the business is worth Stop waiting for permission. Stop waiting for certainty. The life you want is on the other side of the decision you're avoiding. My new book, Own Or Be Owned, is all about building a business so good it doesn't need you. More profit, less pain. It's out September 18, grab your ticket to the launch event here: https://contrarianthinking.biz/oobo_bigdeal - cs ___________ Introduction: Fear Is What Holds You Back, Not Lack of Money The 10-Year Grind: Running Until Your Legs Fall Off A Players vs B Players: How Long Do You Wallow in Misery? The Fast No Is a Gift: Stop Being a Maybe-er Your Bad Day Is Somebody's Dream: Perspective and Purity of Joy Become an Expert in Something: The 20s Are Your Foundation The Kylie Jenner Business Lesson: Don't Confuse Stuff with Vision How Rare Is a Billion Dollars? The SpaceX Millionaire Story You Can Get Rich Even If You Hate Rich People Democracy Is a Car Wash: Small Business Is the Right Message for America Urgency Gets You Out of Poverty, Patience Gets You to Wealth Fail Quickly: Test at 20% with Paying Customers, Not at 100% with Beta Users 10 Billion Dollars in Sales: Great Salespeople Sell Value, Not Product The Leverage Switch: When Sharks Start Selling the Pitcher The Three Numbers You Better Know: EBITDA, Multiples, and Industry Comps Scale Is a Two-Edged Sword: When Your Skill Becomes Your Weakness The Million, Ten Million, Hundred Million Business: What Changes at Each Level The World-Class CFO Hire: When Robert Stopped Being the Bottleneck Buying 13 Businesses with No Outside Funding: The Earnout Strategy Money Is Not Holding You Back, Your Lack of Knowledge Is The Baby Boomer Exit Crisis: Millions of Businesses with No Succession Plan Third-Party Verification: People Believe What Others Say About You I'm Really Proud I Built 400 Million with My Own Money The Equity Operator vs the Business Operator: Why Projections Are Bullshit When It's Self-Evident in Tech, It's Probably Too Late The Accelerator Stuck: How Precarious Is Life? We Are Not a Family, We Are a Team: The Benevolent Dictator Poverty Mindset vs Wealth Mindset: It's Great to Dream, Better to Pay Your Bills ___________ MORE FROM BIGDEAL 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@podcastbigdeal 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bigdeal.podcast 📽️ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@big.deal.pod MORE FROM CODIE SANCHEZ 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@codiesanchezct 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/codiesanchez 📽️ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@realcodiesanchez OTHER THINGS WE DO 🌐 Our community: https://contrarianthinking.typeform.com/to/WBztXXID 📰 Free newsletter: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3XWLlZp 📚 Biz buying course: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3NhjGgN 🏠 Resibrands: https://resibrands.com/ 💰 CT Capital: https://contrarianthinking.biz/4eRyGOk 🏦 Main St Hold Co: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3YfGa8u Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoice
- 1 weeks ago9 min
It’s Boring, But This One Habit Will Make You a Millionaire
You've been chasing the next thing. The next idea, the next strategy, the next opportunity that finally feels exciting enough to stick with. Here's the truth: the reason you're not rich yet isn't because you haven't found the right thing. It's because you keep quitting the last thing before it compounds. Most people don't fail because they pick wrong. They fail because they reset the clock every time Tuesday starts looking like Monday. They mistake boredom for a signal to move when boredom is actually the price of admission. The people who build real wealth aren't the ones who never get bored. They're the ones who don't let boredom make their decisions. In this episode, you'll learn: Why almost nobody gets rich doing something exciting and how sticking with something boring is the actual difficulty that separates winners from everyone else The Replit story: how Amjad spent eight years looking stupid, laid off half his company, and kept going until AI showed up and turned his business into a $9 billion company Why Steve Jobs spent years grinding on NeXT, a company that flopped by every measure, and how that failure became the foundation for Apple's comeback The BORED framework: Better information, Opportunity changed, Results changed, Exhausted, or Destination, and how to tell if you're making a smart pivot or just resetting your compounding clock Why you're not bored, you're finally becoming competent, and how confusing competence for boredom is the single biggest reason people quit right before they win ___________ Introduction: The Boring Truth About Getting Rich Nobody Wants to Hear The Compounding Clock: Why Tuesday Looking Like Monday Is Actually Winning The Replit Story: Eight Years of Looking Stupid Before Becoming a Billionaire Steve Jobs and Next: When Your Biggest Failure Becomes Your Foundation Early Stage Is Guessing: Why Forecasts Don't Matter and Grit Does The SpaceX Principle: Less Than 10 Percent Odds and Launching Anyway You're Not Bored, You're Finally Becoming Competent Cliff Asness and AQR: Surviving When Everyone Said Your Strategy Was Dead The BORED Test: How to Know If You Should Pivot or Stay Don't Let Boredom Make Your Decisions: Where All the Money Actually Is ___________ MORE FROM BIGDEAL 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@podcastbigdeal 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bigdeal.podcast 📽️ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@big.deal.pod MORE FROM CODIE SANCHEZ 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@codiesanchezct 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/codiesanchez 📽️ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@realcodiesanchez OTHER THINGS WE DO 🌐 Our community: https://contrarianthinking.typeform.com/to/WBztXXID 📰 Free newsletter: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3XWLlZp 📚 Biz buying course: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3NhjGgN 🏠 Resibrands: https://resibrands.com/ 💰 CT Capital: https://contrarianthinking.biz/4eRyGOk 🏦 Main St Hold Co: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3YfGa8u Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 2 weeks ago1h 6m
How to Use AI to Make Money, Grow Your Business, and Be More Productive | Geoff Woods
You've been staring at AI like it's a magic trick you'll never understand. You've watched everyone else claim they're 10x more productive while you're still Googling how to write a better prompt. Here's the truth: AI isn't going to replace you because it's smarter. It's going to replace you because someone else learned how to use it and you didn't. Geoff Woods is the author of The AI Driven Leader and has spent years teaching normal people how to use AI to solve real problems, not just write better emails. He's worked with venture backed companies, public corporations, and CEOs racing toward exits, and in this episode, he's breaking down the exact framework that turns AI from a glorified search engine into a strategic thought partner that makes you think better, work faster, and solve problems you didn't even know you had. In this episode, you'll learn: The CRIT framework: Context, Role, Interview, Task, and why this four step process is the difference between AI slop and superhuman output Why asking AI questions is the worst way to use it and how making AI interview you instead unlocks insights you'd never think to share The 80/20 rule of AI: why most people waste time automating tasks that don't matter and how to identify the 20% that drives 80% of your results Why cognitive decline is the greatest risk with AI that nobody's talking about and how to use it in a way that makes your brain stronger, not weaker The AI board: how to build custom personas of Steve Jobs, Warren Buffett, and your future self to advise you every single day Stop treating AI like a shortcut. Start treating it like a thought partner. The people who master this won't just work faster. They'll think differently. Thanks to SoFi for sponsoring this episode! Looking for funding to help grow your business? Get started at SoFi.com/Codie. #SoFiPartner #ad ___________ Introduction: AI as a Thought Partner, Not Just an Assistant The 300 Million Dollar Board Meeting: How AI Transformed a Hostile Relationship The CRIT Framework: Context, Role, Interview, Task The Saving Face Consortium: How AI Saved a Manufacturing Company from Bankruptcy The Three Skills You Must Master to Harness AI Without Being Replaced Speech to Text and Advanced AI Hacks: Playing AI Against Itself The Sticky Note Trigger: How to Actually Change Your Behavior with AI Agentic AI: The 18th Domino You Should Not Start With The 80-20 Framework: Identifying What Actually Matters in Your Business The Death of Entry-Level Work and What Skills Will Survive AI Daycare Employees Versus Department Chairs: Own Your Job or Lose It The AI Leadership Culture: Training People to Prioritize Without You The Steve Jobs Manifesto: Using AI for World-Class Creative Output Creating Your AI Writing Persona: The 20 to 50 Email Upload Method Building Your AI Board: Steve Jobs, Warren Buffett, and Your Future Self The Greatest Risk Nobody Talks About: Cognitive Decline and Mental Atrophy Voice of Customer Agents and Real-Time Sales Coaching That Actually Works The 30-Day CRIT Challenge: One Thing to Do Right Now to Transform Your Life ___________ MORE FROM BIGDEAL 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@podcastbigdeal 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bigdeal.podcast 📽️ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@big.deal.pod MORE FROM CODIE SANCHEZ 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@codiesanchezct 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/codiesanchez 📽️ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@realcodiesanchez OTHER THINGS WE DO 🌐 Our community: https://contrarianthinking.typeform.com/to/WBztXXID 📰 Free newsletter: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3XWLlZp 📚 Biz buying course: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3NhjGgN 🏠 Resibrands: https://resibrands.com/ 💰 CT Capital: https://contrarianthinking.biz/4eRyGOk 🏦 Main St Hold Co: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3YfGa8u Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 2 weeks ago1h 9m
The #1 Money Habit That Separates Winners from Losers | Caleb Hammer
The Amazon Kindle Scribe feels just like writing on paper and helps keep pages of notes organized and easy to read. Get yours here https://amzn.to/4peFOKQ What’s the #1 money habit that separates winners from losers? What stops the thousand small cuts you're making every single day that you refuse to see? Caleb Hammer has reviewed thousands of financial disasters on his show Financial Audit, and he's breaking down the tactics that separates people who build wealth from people who stay stuck forever. From collections to car loans to OnlyFans subscriptions, he's seen it all. And in this episode, he's pulling back the curtain on what actually works, what's killing your future, and why most people would rather look rich than be rich. In this episode, you'll learn: Why 40% of Americans can't afford a $400 emergency and how not having an emergency fund starts the debt snowball that destroys everything The 50/30/20 rule: 50% needs, 30% fun, 20% investing, and why people think Caleb is stingy when he's actually telling you to spend a crazy amount on fun once you cut the BS The real difference between people who change and people who don't: action words versus future words, and why I'm gonna means nothing if the documents show you aren't doing it now ___________ Introduction: Budgeting Is the Snowball That Starts Every Financial Disaster The Red Flags: Collections, Repos, and the Death by a Thousand Cuts The OnlyFans Economy: Loneliness, Parasocial Relationships, and Paying Indian Telemarketers The Average American Is Broke: 40% Can't Handle a 400 Dollar Emergency Budget or Die: The One Non-Negotiable Rule That Changes Everything The 28 Dollar Lunch Debate: Avocado Toast, Death by a Thousand Cuts, and Owning Your Choices Housing, College, and Health Care: The Three Things Actually Screwing Gen Z The Car Trap: Why Americans Justify 1000 Dollar Payments for Grocery Runs Dave Ramsey Is Wrong: The 1000 Dollar Emergency Fund and the 6% Withdrawal Myth Bill Gates Doesn't Know the Price of Rice-A-Roni: The Disconnect of Wealth The 100K Investment Blueprint: Target Date Funds, Index Funds, and Killing High-Interest Debt First Pokemon Cards, Tulip Mania, and NFTs: Why Speculation Always Ends the Same Way The Dumbest Investments: Gold Mines in Uganda, CDs, and Risk-Averse Spending Addicts The SpaceX IPO: Trillion Dollar Valuation, NASDAQ Rule Changes, and Betting on Elon Caleb's Origin Story: From Negative 90K in Debt to 250K Net Worth in Six Years The Five-Step Blueprint: Budget, Find Your Market Fit, Kill Debt, Emergency Fund, Invest 20% The 50-30-20 Rule: 30% on Fun Is Not Stingy, It's Generous as Hell War Stories: The Streamer Who Made Two Cents a Month and Still Wouldn't Quit The Car Defense: Why People Fight to the Bone Over a 40K Net Gain Breaking Someone's Frame: The Kids Argument and the N-Word Incident The Action Test: I'm Gonna Versus I Am—How to Tell If Someone Will Actually Change 28,000 Dollars in Debt Paid Off in 12 Months: The Financial Audit Success Rate The Anchor Problem: When One Partner Drags the Other Down Financially Couples Therapy, Prenups, and When to Walk Away from Financial Disaster Underrated Purchases and Mint Chocolate Chip: The Flavor That Tastes Like Mouthwash The Money Rule Caleb Struggles to Follow: Spend More and Take a Vacation Hammer Elite: 110,000 Subscribers and Building a Premium Content Empire Political Audits: Governors, Senators, and Why Newsom Said No The Federal Debt Crisis: Pentagon Audits, Social Security Cuts, and the 25% Haircut in Five Years Centrist Economics, Right-Wing Coded Jokes, and Why Both Parties Suck at Spending The Final Word: Every Day You Wake Up, You Choose to Be a Retard or Not—Choose Wisely ___________ MORE FROM BIGDEAL 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@podcastbigdeal 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bigdeal.podcast 📽️ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@big.deal.pod MORE FROM CODIE SANCHEZ 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@codiesanchezct 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/codiesanchez 📽️ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@realcodiesanchez OTHER THINGS WE DO 🌐 Our community: https://contrarianthinking.typeform.com/to/WBztXXID 📰 Free newsletter: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3XWLlZp 📚 Biz buying course: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3NhjGgN 🏠 Resibrands: https://resibrands.com/ 💰 CT Capital: https://contrarianthinking.biz/4eRyGOk 🏦 Main St Hold Co: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3YfGa8u Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 3 weeks ago20 min
How to Speak with the Richest 1%
You've been waiting for access. Waiting for someone to notice. Waiting for permission to enter the rooms where real wealth gets built. Here's the truth: the 1% didn't get there by being the smartest. They got there by knowing how to speak the language, earn trust before they needed it, and stay grounded when everyone else started lying to them. This episode breaks down the exact framework for breaking into circles you don't belong in yet, staying there once you're invited, and becoming the person everyone wants to keep around. Because networking advice for broke people doesn't work when you're trying to reach people who already have everything. The game changes. And if you don't know the new rules, you'll get one shot and never get called back. In this episode, you'll learn: Why most people go negative on the first call and never get a second one, and how the relationship balance equation decides who gets re-invited and who gets ghosted How trust is built on someone's worst day, not their best, and why showing up during the fire without asking for anything after is how you earn loyalty that lasts decades Why success makes people worse at reading the truth and how to engineer channels where disagreement is rewarded instead of punished The mum effect: how every layer of your organization softens bad news until reality becomes unrecognizable, and why asking what's missing is more important than asking how'd we do The REAL framework: Respect their time, Earn trust, Ask for truth, Live in reality, and how mastering these four moves makes you impossible to ignore and irreplaceable once you're in Stop waiting for the door to open. Start becoming the person they can't afford to leave outside. ___________ Introduction: Nobody in the 1% Got There by Being the Smartest First Respect Their Time: Why Broke Person Networking Advice Stops Working The Relationship Balance Formula: Deposits Minus Withdrawals Never Make an Introduction Without Permission: Double Opt-In or Die Earn Trust on Their Worst Day, Not Their Best Give to Get: The Growth Kit and Why Customers Need Value First Ask for Truth: Success Quietly Makes Honesty Impossible The Emperor Maximilian Story: How Paranoia and Flattery Destroy Empires Spot the Leader Surrounded by Sycophants and Become the Counterpoint Live in Reality: Uncovering the Stack of Compounding Lies The Pulse System: Track Your Numbers Against Projection in Real Time Sun Tzu's Spies: Real Knowledge Only Comes From Eyes on the Ground Eyes to Eyes: Go See For Yourself, Nobody Read Your Slack The REAL Framework: Respect, Earn, Ask, Live ___________ MORE FROM BIGDEAL 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@podcastbigdeal 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bigdeal.podcast 📽️ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@big.deal.pod MORE FROM CODIE SANCHEZ 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@codiesanchezct 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/codiesanchez 📽️ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@realcodiesanchez OTHER THINGS WE DO 🌐 Our community: https://contrarianthinking.typeform.com/to/WBztXXID 📰 Free newsletter: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3XWLlZp 📚 Biz buying course: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3NhjGgN 🏠 Resibrands: https://resibrands.com/ 💰 CT Capital: https://contrarianthinking.biz/4eRyGOk 🏦 Main St Hold Co: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3YfGa8u Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 3 weeks ago1h 5m
The Secret to Speaking Without Fear and Anxiety | Zuby
You've been standing on the sidelines. Watching your voice shrink every time the room gets uncomfortable. Letting fear dictate what you say, who you become, and how small you're willing to stay just to avoid the backlash. Here's the truth: the cost of silence is always higher than the cost of speaking up. And the moment you stop apologizing for what you believe is the moment you stop living someone else's script. Zuby is an Oxford educated rapper, bestselling author, and one of the most uncompromising independent thinkers alive. He's built a career using his voice to challenge narratives, spark real conversations, and inspire millions to stop waiting for permission to live boldly. In this episode, he breaks down the exact frameworks for building a life that means something, why usefulness beats happiness as a North Star, and the one practice that turns avoidance into courage. In this episode, you'll learn: Why the biggest killer of men under 50 is themselves and what that says about purpose, meaning, and the fundamental pillars that have been knocked out of modern life The moral duty to be strong: why it's not wrong to be weak, but it's wrong to voluntarily remain weak, and how competence builds confidence that serves others How to overcome fear when the people you love want you to stay the same and why listening to everyone doesn't mean taking everyone's advice The zoom out framework: fear God not man, remember most people have it harder than you do, and recognize you asked for the life you're living Why meaning comes from knowing what you actually value, not what society told you to prioritize, and how trade offs are the secret to building a life you designed instead of inherited Stop shrinking. Start speaking. The world doesn't need another person playing it safe. It needs you at full volume. ___________ Introduction: Stop Self-Obsessing and Start Building Something That Matters The Hidden Crisis: Why Young Men Are Quietly Disappearing Boys Are Always Building or Destroying: The Testosterone Truth The Gender Role Confusion: Who Pays for the First Date and Why It Matters Quiet Quitting Masculinity: The Generation Opting Out Entirely Real Wages, Real Problems: The Economic Truth Nobody Wants to Admit It's Wrong to Voluntarily Remain Weak: Your Moral Duty to Be Strong The Parable of the Talents: Don't Stand Before God at Half Capacity Look-Maxing, Vanity, and the 80-20 Rule for Men's Appearance Stop Fighting Biology: Why Blank Slate Thinking Is Making Everyone Miserable Build Competence First: The Foundation of Self-Respect The Self-Obsession Trap: Focus Outward to Escape Your Own Head Therapy, Shamans, and Substituting Religion: The Long Way Back to God I Fear God, Not Man: The Source of Courage in a Cancel Culture Zoom Out: You Asked for This Worry Listen to Everyone, Obey No One: Handling Criticism from People You Love The Nigerian Parents Who Let Zuby Become a Rapper Never Let a Stranger on the Internet Ruin Your Day What Is a Meaningful Life? Trade-Offs, Priorities, and Conscious Decisions One Goal Since 19: Use My Voice to Impact Millions Final Words: Keep Moving Forward, Focus on the Light, and Persevere ___________ MORE FROM BIGDEAL 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@podcastbigdeal 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bigdeal.podcast 📽️ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@big.deal.pod MORE FROM CODIE SANCHEZ 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@codiesanchezct 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/codiesanchez 📽️ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@realcodiesanchez OTHER THINGS WE DO 🌐 Our community: https://contrarianthinking.typeform.com/to/WBztXXID 📰 Free newsletter: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3XWLlZp 📚 Biz buying course: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3NhjGgN 🏠 Resibrands: https://resibrands.com/ 💰 CT Capital: https://contrarianthinking.biz/4eRyGOk 🏦 Main St Hold Co: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3YfGa8u Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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