Beyond a point, more money stops buying more happiness
“the achievements and the accolades don't actually give you any happiness”
“running a $100 million business is generally a lot more stressful than running a $1 million business”
The myth-busts, hot takes, explainers, and tools worth keeping.
“the achievements and the accolades don't actually give you any happiness”
“running a $100 million business is generally a lot more stressful than running a $1 million business”
“at a certain point in a business's growth like in digestion is more likely to kill you than starvation”
“the podcast was like number four on the on the priority list”
“a far bigger problem with a business is where you try something and it doesn't work”
“if what you want is freedom fund flexibility and decent cash flow there's no need to try and Grow Big”
“there's this whole like Silicon valy mentality that's often in a lot of these like entrepreneurship podcasts around growth at all costs”
“it turned into sort of this like conveyor belt of episodes which is fine if the thing that you want to do is grow”
“I'd be doing batch filming weeks or I'd be filming 15 episodes in a week and wouldn't really have time to read the books of…”
“let's mold the podcast to what the audience wants from us”
“it would look like every week for 15 weeks Ali's talking about the same thing but in my in reality it was just like a…”
“there is this trade-off between doing a thing for the money or doing a thing for the growth or doing a thing for whatever external…”
“I left medicine which was a is a very prestigious and stable stable and somewhat well-paying career path to do this YouTube entrepreneur author thing”
“there is a sense in which doing deep dive episodes has started to feel a little bit like a job for me”
“a hobby is a thing that you do for yourself I was asking the questions I wanted to ask”
“the enjoyment of it became a side effect rather than the main reason for doing it that's when it really started to inch into that…”
“if anyone wants to start a podcast really would recommend um not necessarily because it's easy to grow a podcast but because of the the…”
“now Dan priestle has become a friend and a mentor and he helps us out when we're struggling with business stuff”
“we can simply choose not to act on it if it doesn't if it doesn't Vibe with my heart”
“I want to kind of Open Source these conversations and publish those also as episodes of Deep dive”
“we might not have an episode happening every week there are still a bunch of interviews that we've recorded over the last year or so…”
“these conversations are the sorts of things that I think people get a lot of value from but they don't fit the bill of a…”
“you tend not to see the inside of what does a business coaching session look like”
“find a way to make it easy so that you can be consistent”
“most of these entrepreneur type people who are very busy they make time to work out in the morning because if you do it in…”
“the podcast is not stopping it is continuing it's just going to be a little bit more like loose in terms of the format at…”
“maybe six months from now I'll decide you know what actually I really miss doing the podcast with regularity let's just go back into it”