Strictly Business

Startups.. terrorists.. That's right, some guy conducted a study using these two groups as subjects where he observed the outcomes of their successes and their failures. News flash bucko - failure is important. But more interesting than that is what our guests had to say about their personal experiences with failure. Lucky for you, none of them talked about startups or terrorists.  There's a surprise offer at the end of this episode. Send us an email requesting it, and we will get you hooked up.  Send us an email: strictlybusinessthepod@gmail.com Join our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StrictlyBusinessPod Follow our Instagram: @strictlybusinesspod Intro and end music by The Rhetorician: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0AMZup7bCBE6kW6cEtmMNf?si=HgQafHNmRw2c_VOPKVC6FQ

Many of us are familiar with the idea that our willpower is a limited resource. Turns out, after a bit of research, we really don't know as much about it as we once thought. This is a discussion about how science is a liar sometimes, and how it has ruthlessly deceived us all.  Make sure to listen for our guests Chase, Ren, and Sam throughout the episode as they share their thoughts and experiences related to the topic.  Please consider taking a moment to rate, review, subscribe, download, or share this podcast if you find it enjoyable. Even picking just one of these is greatly beneficial to us! Send us an email: strictlybusinessthepod@gmail.com Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StrictlyBusinessPod Follow us on Instagram: @strictlybusinesspod Intro and end music by The Rhetorician: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0AMZup7bCBE6kW6cEtmMNf?si=wWqHiPrlSNqtrlThZAxoxQ

What's up, and welcome to our 5th weekly accountability meeting. We're just three friends who set and track goals together once a week. A simple formula for personal success and deepened friendship. Oh - and we each happen to have our own accountability partners outside of the podcast, who we feature and track each week. Our Guests: Sam: He had his first week of well-defined goal setting and seems to be warming up to the rhythm of it all. Frick ya Chase: He fucked around and ate McDonalds for breakfast. He failed his goals for the week but is optimistic for next week. Ren: She had a high-performance week given her circumstances, and is on the road to achieving her long-term goals for the year.  Please rate, review, subscribe, or share this show if you enjoy what we do. For real - thanks in advance - it will help us keep up and running for seasons to come.  Send us an email: strictlybusinessthepod@gmail.com Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StrictlyBusinessPod Follow our Instagram: @strictlybusinesspod Intro and end music by The Rhetorician: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0AMZup7bCBE6kW6cEtmMNf?si=YSY5T2vITNu2KtIc9pMAFQ

Adversity is an inevitable and recurring event in our lives. Often times - as soon as we feel we can conquer anything - an unexpected struggle sets us back. How can we move through these difficult times with grace, while becoming stronger as individuals? It turns out it mostly has to do with how you *think* about what you're going through. In this episode, we break down this thinking process into three categories: control, commitment, and challenge.  Keeping up with our guests: Sam, Chase, and Ren From being misunderstood or a self-titled black sheep, to breakups - listen in as our guests recount periods of extended adversity, and reflect on their experiences and thought processes as they navigated their way through it.  If you have enjoyed this show, please consider rating, reviewing, subscribing, or sharing the show with your friends. Bonus points if you do it all. Seriously - hit us up with proof and find out what we have in store for you. Thanks Grinder. Send us an email: strictlybusinessthepod@gmail.com Join our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StrictlyBusinessPod Follow our Instagram: @strictlybusinesspod Intro and end music by The Rhetorician: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0AMZup7bCBE6kW6cEtmMNf?si=5ojIEGUOSL22bHhIBD3p0w

This is week four of Strictly Business the Podcast's weekly accountability meetings. We hope that these episodes provide you inspiration to create an accountability group of your own. Whether you set weekly goals or not, there is immense benefit in meeting consistently with a group and talking things through with them.  Keeping up with our guests for Season 4: 1. Sam is starting to hit a rhythm and tune into what he actually wants to accomplish. He is highly motivated to find success in his weekly goals, and is just figuring out how. 2. Chase crushed his week of goals and is dead-set on going 5/5 again next week. Anyone want to challenge him to a game of Super Smash Bros? 3. Ren transitioned from her parents home in Spokane back to school in Hawaii and she's pretty dang stressed. Fingers crossed that she'll lock down her new apartment and escape her EVIL roommates. Listen, enjoy, and let us know if you have an accountability group of your own! We'd love to feature you on the show. Send us an email: strictlybusinessthepod@gmail.com Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StrictlyBusinessPod Follow us on Instagram: @strictlybusinesspod Intro and end music by The Rhetorician: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0AMZup7bCBE6kW6cEtmMNf?si=5CPgQHBCSSuzu6B8DAnEow

Humans are fascinated with discovering the next big gimmick in goal setting or habit development. It’s all too easy to get wrapped up in an image of one’s future-self while obsessively theorizing on how to get to that desired state of being. While it's a good practice to envision your desired future-self, this kind of introspection can only take you so far. In practice, turning your vision into a reality is going to be really difficult. As soon as these difficulties begin to feel insurmountable, many of us give up. But, what if there was an insanely simple tool at our disposal? In this episode, we seek to determine the role that one’s attitude plays in setting and achieving goals. In a messy life full of things beyond our control, we believe it’s worth spending more time focusing on something that we actually have a grip on: Attitude. Keeping up with our guests: Sam appears to be struggling with finding a positive outlook these days, but in his reflections he is able to identify many reasons why. Covid-19 has hindered many of our efforts in life, and he seems to be feeling it. Chase embraces his inner-voice that cheers him on in the darkest of days, and sets out to prove that there’s some truth in what it’s saying to him. Ren explores how easy it is for her to get “stuck” in the future, and how important it is to be present. So what’s a healthy balance? Let’s just call it “living for your future-self”. If you have enjoyed our show, please share it with someone. It’s hugely beneficial to us, and it’s a zero-cost way for you to show us love in return for the time and effort we put into curating this content outside of our regular jobs. Thank you, and grind on. Send us an email: strictlybusinessthepod@gmail.com Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StrictlyBusinessPod Follow us on Instagram: @strictlybusinesspod Intro and end music by The Rhetorician: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0AMZup7bCBE6kW6cEtmMNf?si=oCIcPiqCSW61jGBN3JqMlA

Welcome back to our private weekly accountability meeting. Please don't listen it's private! But in the case that you do - make sure to take some notes on how to succeed with your future or current accountability group. But don't listen please this is private.  Keeping track of Season 4's guests: Ren is off to a great start, having hit her goal benchmarks every week so far. Stay tuned as she transitions back to law school next week. Chase has also found good success with his weekly goals, but porn might be his kryptonite.  Sam is warming up to identifying and setting his goals more measurably. He has also been doing some soul-searching in the Alaskan frontier. We are feeling generous. If you're still reading this, you have permission to listen to this episode. Send us an email: strictlybusinessthepod@gmail.com Join our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StrictlyBusinessPod Follow our Instagram: @strictlybusinesspod Intro and end music by The Rhetorician: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0AMZup7bCBE6kW6cEtmMNf?si=UU8IHIWYQoGc2EgXhKKfXQ 

Humans are busy creatures, and our brains are wired to anticipate future events. When it comes to identifying where we want to be or what we want to accomplish in the future, our efforts often fall short. Humans have this amazing ability to self-sabotage their endeavors, or to procrastinate eternally. The fix? Starting with accountability. You are likely familiar with the term, but let’s explore together how accountability as it relates to us and our peers is one of the most important tools you can equip yourself with in order to be who you want to be. We take a close look at a high school called the Life Academy of Health and Bioscience, in an effort to learn how they achieve such extraordinary results for their students. This school is unique for many reasons - but in this case - student, counselor, and teacher accountability stood out to be the secret sauce that pulls everything together. Our guest Grinders for Season 4 have some diverse opinions regarding peer accountability so far - and we are curious to see how they develop throughout the course of the season. We have Sam - an introspective guy who’s life has been put on pause due to Covid-19, we have Chase - an exuberant young hip hop artist who is reaching a transition point in his life, and we have Ren - a law student accomplishing her graduate studies in Hawaii. Deep Dive - Explore this case study developed by Stanford's SCOPE, which we referenced throughout the episode: https://edpolicy.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/SCOPE-Student-Centered-Learning-Life.pdf Send us an email: strictlybusinessthepod@gmail.com Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StrictlyBusinessPod Follow us on Instagram: @strictlybusinesspod Intro and end music performed by The Rhetorician: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0AMZup7bCBE6kW6cEtmMNf?si=UtuEPpLBQVm9M8T9-xUtlQ

What's up Grinder? Welcome to the second installment of our weekly accountability meetings. Our goal here is to encourage you to create an accountability group of your own friends as we provide an example along the way. This is an intimate perspective of what our meetings looked like before we ever started the podcast. These are the meetings that got us to today! Be sure to keep up with our three guests each week as they set and track weekly goals. Seriously - we have a guy who lives in the middle of nowhere, Alaska (Sam), we have a budding lawyer from Hawaii (Ren), and a computer science hip hop artist from Seattle (Chase) - and we are keeping track of them for an entire season! Ah yes, the Grinder team is strong. Send us an email: strictlybusinessthepod@gmail.com Like our page on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StrictlyBusinessPod Follow us on Instagram: @strictlybusinesspod Intro and end music by The Rhetorician: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0AMZup7bCBE6kW6cEtmMNf?si=D98ekgL4S6mrPgqVqXGjGg

Welcome to Strictly Business the Podcasts episode 0. This episode is a product of failed New Year's resolutions and an ongoing experiment in peer accountability. Us Grinders have failed almost all of our resolutions in the past, so we decided to fix them.  After a year of showing up to our accountability meetings every single week and reflecting on who we are, we decided to each invite our own "guest Grinder" to partake in our weekly meetings and discuss episode topics with us as they go. We are insanely stoked to have our guests Sam, Chase, and Ren on the show with us.  This episode offers some surprisingly practical and useful solutions to you; the Grinder Community. Listen up, it's time to fix your New Year's resolutions.  Email us: strictlybusinessthepod@gmail.com Like our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/StrictlyBusinessPod Follow us on Instagram: @strictlybusinesspod Intro and end music by The Rhetorician: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0AMZup7bCBE6kW6cEtmMNf?si=GBnGcTpIRD2sLQXG77e9kQ The song that played while Jacob tells the Grinder's story: Tom Fox - "Our new home": https://soundcloud.com/user-416166523/celestial-being-borders-hong-kong-ep5

What's up Grinder? Welcome to our first weekly accountability meeting episode, where we make public what our meetings actually look like "off-the-air" each week. In this episode, we pretend that it's our first accountability meeting in efforts to provide you with ideas and inspiration for hosting your own accountability group with your friends. Feel free to use our structure as a template, or create your own structure that works for you and your social dynamic.  UPDATES: This episode introduces a new podcast format as we head into Season 4 of Strictly Business the Podcast. Each Sunday, you'll find a new "Weekly Grinders Accountability" episode, and each Wednesday, you'll find a longer format episode where we take a deep dive into topics, ideas, or strategies that will aid us and you in our journey of accountability and the pursuit of personal success.  We also have the pleasure of introducing our guest Grinders that we will be following and growing with throughout the entirety of Season 4. Keep your ears open in this episode to hear for the first time from our subjects Sam, Chase, and Ren. They are setting their own goals each week, and providing their perspective regarding each weekly topic that we cover. We are so excited to get to know them more as we progress throughout the season.  CONTEST: If you were inspired to create your own accountability group, send us an email and share your story. The first person to do this will receive a copy of James Clear's book "Atomic Habits" signed by yours truly - the Strictly Business hosts.  Send us an email: strictlybusinessthepod@gmail.com Join our Facebook Grinders Community: https://www.facebook.com/StrictlyBusinessPod Follow us on Instagram: @strictlybusinesspod The music in our show's intro, and at the end of each episode is created by The Rhetorician. Check him out on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0AMZup7bCBE6kW6cEtmMNf?si=ytYHmYLxT0uoM8zc3PtzcA

Hi! Do you have any cool new habits? You’re gonna get bored of them.. yeah you’re going to start to hate them we bet. In this episode we discuss why tolerating that boredom is the secret sauce that allows experts to succeed while others are doomed by boredom. Perhaps begin tracking your goals and behaviors, and designing a system to accurately evaluate your performance over time. The Lakers did it — so can you.  The Season Finale of Strictly Business Season 3 has arrived. The Grinders finish their book club and Season 3’s goal-achieving champion is revealed. Who will it be? Tune in yo.

Aw yeah, so you’ve got a fresh new habit and you’re executing like a champ, feeling refreshed and anew. What’s your plan for when your habit starts to falter after your habit-honeymoon period? Tune in, we’ve got some insight on how to make those habits stick, leaving you feeling rewarded along the way. What’s next? Get an accountability partner. This is the Pièce de Résistance. This week - we are feeling AHEAD of the game. Why? Because we learned that one of the most effective ways to develop habits and obtain goals is to.. you guessed it.. having an accountability partner (or two). We are feeling like Michael Burry in The Big Short. Haven’t seen it? Well, start with listening to this episode. It’s basically the same thing. Send us an email: strictlybusinessthepod@gmail.com Follow our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/StrictlyBusinessPod Follow our IG: @strictlybusinesspod Intro and outdo music by the Rhetorician: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0AMZup7bCBE6kW6cEtmMNf?si=SwJHI-HYS9mPsw5Vj914WQ

Remember how Ulysses had his crew tie him to the mast so he could hear the Siren’s song without steering the ship and his crew toward imminent death? This episode is about that - developing a commitment device - a choice you make in the present that locks in better behavior in the future. We thought about this a lot, and decided some of our own solutions were less drastic than tying ourselves to the mast of a large boat. While commitments can be hard to keep, rest assured that you can find ways to enjoy your new commitments and behaviors with the use of strategic and immediate gratification. Sounds too good to be real? Well yeah - we are using Greek mythology as a metaphor. The content of our book club segment is derived from chapters 14 & 15 of “Atomic Habits” written by James Clear. Send us an email: strictlybusinessthepod@gmail.com Join our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StrictlyBusinessPod Follow our Instagram: @strictlybusinesspod Intro & closing music by the Rhetorician: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0AMZup7bCBE6kW6cEtmMNf?si=AAiy-E9HQpe1gFGv1cEKgQ

You SUCK at starting habits! So do we. Turns out it's a super common thing to struggle with. This week we talk about a little "hack" that we can use to more mindfully create the habits we're after. It goes like this: Define your "entry point" to a habit. This is the first step you would take in completing a goal. Now stop, don't go any further. Focus on doing this entry point task daily until it in itself becomes a habit. Then, you'll work your way up over time. KISS (Keep it simple, stupid). Don't push yourself too hard.. relax and listen to this episode to learn more.  This episodes content was derived from James Clear's "Atomic Habits) - Chapters 12 & 13 Email us: strictlybusinessthepod@gmail.com Join our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/StrictlyBusinessPod Follow us on Instagram: @strictlybusinesspod Intro and outro music by the Rhetorician: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0AMZup7bCBE6kW6cEtmMNf?si=-ICc2GqURGmSA6vJCrVXsA Check out our Anchor Profile: https://anchor.fm/strictlybusinesspod