My friend, Chris Krimitsos, is back on the podcast for a round two. He is a thought leader, connector, and community builder in the podcasting space.

Chris has successfully grown Podfest™ Multimedia Expo to an international conference with upwards of three thousand registrants, set back-to-back world records for the largest virtual podcasting conference and organized the first blockchain event in Florida.

In this conversation, Chris and I discussed how to drop guilt and take care of yourself during a stressful phase in business, how to structure your days and weeks to live a happier life, how to evaluate your time and build relationships that provide limitless opportunities, plus the impact of the pandemic on events and businesses.

Some Topics We Discussed Include:

• How to Drop Guilt and Take Care of Yourself During a Stressful Phase in Business
• What Chris Has Learned About Running an Event as It Keeps Growing
• How Chris Structures His Days and Weeks to Live Happier
• His Lessons From Being in His 40s After He Shifted How He Approaches Business
• How Chris Evaluates His Time
• What Chris Has Learned Working with His Wife, Katie – His Dos and Don’ts
• How Chris Builds “Insurance” Into His Business for External Events
• How Chris Approaches Relationships That Fulfill His Life and Provide Limitless Opportunities
• How Face-to-Face Events Have Changed Chris’ Perspectives in Business
• How a Simple Breath Practice Helps Chill Joe Out in Any Situation
• Joe & Chris’ Relaxation Tools and Routines
• The Upside and Downside of Both Partners in a Couple Being Entrepreneurs
• The Importance of Building Relationships and Creating Good Times with People
• Strategies for Connecting and Building Value with People
• The Impact of the Pandemic on Events and Businesses

For more information go to Chris Krimitsos' site and the global podcasting event, PodFest.

Grab Chris' book called Start Ugly: A Timeless Tale About Innovation & Change

Check out these related podcast episodes with Chris:

• Chris Krimitsos: Get Over Your Fear of Failure In 7 Simple Steps
• Chris Krimitsos: Behind The Scenes Of One Of The Largest Events In Podcasting

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We’re so excited to have Malorie Nicole, an experienced performance specialist, on our show today! In this episode, Malorie shares her methodology for helping entrepreneurs and business leaders maximize success and drive sustainable growth. 

Malorie dives into her five key principles—identity, vision, structure, boundaries, and expression—that create a solid foundation for teams and businesses. She explains how her methodology can help professionals achieve greater results in their business and goals without sacrificing the things they love most.

Malorie also shares her personal story and how she got to where she is today. She talks about the importance of aligning your business and life goals and how to foster emotional agility to maximize success.

Some Topics We Discussed Include:

• The 5 key principles that keep you focused, fulfilled, and growing your capacity in a way that you never have before.
• Self Awareness is key to living a fulfilling life - identify your values and use that to create a vision for your life. 
• Create systems to help your vision come to life, and set boundaries to protect your energy and time.
• Develop the skill of self-expression in order to communicate your truth and lead.
• Leverage your inputs to maximize your outputs and know yourself and be honest in your communication to create a life of abundance.
• A key factor in helping entrepreneurs navigate change is to become aware of their emotional experiences.
• To determine if something is in alignment, ask yourself why you are no longer as fulfilled as you used to be.
• Use identity work to ask yourself questions such as "Who am I and what do I care about?"
• Recognize that transitions are not necessarily starting over and that you are taking your skills, growth and information with you.
• Find a trusted advisor or coach to help you stay accountable and move forward.
• Vision should be revisited during transition and when there are changes in the business.
• Structure is important to ensure that you are building something you want to build, not just something that someone else is building.
• It is important to be aware that your journey may not be linear and to be flexible with your approach.

We hope you enjoy this episode with Malorie Nicole!

For more information about Malorie, visit her website at www.malorie-nicole.com.

Listen to her #1 rated podcast, Abundantly Clear.

Thanks for tuning in and we’ll see you next time!

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Today on the show, Ryan Lee shares his insights from running a successful physical products brand, the exit of that brand, and the five Cs of income models that shape what he's focused on now.

Ryan dives into how to succeed in the physical brand market and how to shift your business as you age. He also talks about how to simplify a stressful business into a fun and profitable one, how to document your new ideas, and why you should focus on niche markets instead of appealing to a broad audience.

Ryan emphasizes the importance of not overcomplicating your product and using constraints to make it achievable. He encourages entrepreneurs to reinvent themselves and create their own game and play by their own rules, and to stay true to customers and give them value.

Tune in now to learn more from Ryan Lee on how to simplify your business and mind to achieve success.

Some Topics We Discussed Include:

• Learn how to get to the core of your business and simplify to maximize your success.
• Discover the five Cs of income models: courses, coaching, continuity, commerce and commission that can help you create a profitable micro-business.
• Understand how to start with a one-time purchase product to build a list of buyers.
• Find out how to use constraints to create achievable products without overcomplicating them.
• Explore how to focus on niche markets instead of appealing to a broad audience.
• Unlock the power of building relationships and promoting others to get commissions.
• Discover the value of documenting and sharing ideas to refine and build a business.
• Learn how simplifying can reduce stress and make it more profitable.
• Gain insight into how to choose your own adventure, explore all possibilities and create products that roll off the tongue.
• Grow your understanding of how to reinvent yourself and get rid of excuses.
• Develop your knowledge of how to create your own game and play by your own rules.
• Understand that there will be ups and downs in business, and how to get back up and keep moving forward.
• See how to find your corner and go micro to succeed.

Visit Ryan at www.ryanlee.com and join his email list to get insightful and actionable strategies to grow your micro-business.

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On this episode, I'm joined by Dan Nicholson, the author of Rigging the Game: How to Achieve Financial Certainty, Navigate Risk, and Make More Money on Your Terms.

Dan is passionate about helping entrepreneurs end their suffering, and he shares his insights on how to do that through his book and this podcast episode. He talks about the challenge of constantly chasing more and how it can lead to taking ourselves out of the game.

We also discuss the importance of setting expectations based on average performance, rather than personal best in order to achieve financial success. Dan's fourth commandment is also explored, which is about not seeking the best of ourselves every single day, but pursuing a rolling average.

Finally, Dan shares how he had to unlearn much of what he had learned in business school in order to become an entrepreneur. He realized that he needed to optimize for the right things, not just more and more.

By the end of the episode, you will have gained insight into how to find enough in one's life while also achieving financial success.

Here are some other takeaways you'll get from listening:

• Discover how to achieve financial success and find your enough  
• Understand why humans are wired to crave more and how to reorient towards goals
• Learn how to set expectations based on average performance, rather than personal best
• Unlearn what you've been taught in business and optimize for the right things
• Gain insight into how to hit expectations most days with a built-in upside
• Discover the fourth commandment about not seeking the best of ourselves every single day
• Understand how pursuing a rolling average in life can bring success
• Realize how chasing more can lead to taking yourself out of the game
• Gain insight into how to change your thinking in a healthier way
• Alternative to trying to be your best every day - how to take pressure off yourself
• Why, what, and how to unlearn what’s dragging you down in your business
• How to reframe from always pushing for “more” to what’s most efficient for you and “maximize”
• How to know how to play YOUR game to an infinite level
• How understanding “restraint” allows you to curb your impulses and allow greater good things to happen
• How “burning the boats” hurts you and your business more than you realize
• Steps to create personal freedom in your business and life so you call the shot
  

Get Dan's book, Rigging The Game, so you can deep dive into all of his actionable strategies.

Is there another entrpreneur in your life that would find this episode helpful? Please share it with them!

And check out www.hustleandflowchart.com to get more resources and tools on how to create a business and life that works for you.

We're back with Part 2 of our "copreneur" series, featuring my lovely copreneur partner, Heather Fier.

We're continuing from our Part 1 epside where we chatted about the journey we've had as partners and tips you can swipe from our experience.

This time around, we're diving into the 6 ways you can approach business and life with your partner.

Copreneurs are when a partner work and manage the same company together...

But this is not the case for everyone... so we made these 6 steps to work even if your partner isn't involved in your business.

We have 13+ years of being copreneurs together and have learned a ton.

You'll learn these 6 steps plus a bunch more:

• Prioritize communication: Set aside time to talk and plan regularly 
• Clarify expectations and roles: Discuss who is responsible for what, and when 
• Listen & be open-minded: Listen to each other’s ideas, and consider them objectively 
• Share ideas openly & honestly: Be open to discussing any ideas, and don’t be afraid to disagree 
• Resolve conflicts quickly: Work together to come up with a solution that works for both of you 
• Celebrate successes: Acknowledge each other’s accomplishments, and take time to enjoy the wins

Do you know another copreneur couple who would benefit from this two-parter series?

Please share it with them!

Go to www.hustleandflowchart.com to get more resources and tools on how to create a business and life that works for you.

Today is an especially special episode.

I'm bringing back my wife Heather Fier for another episode (more are coming, due to popular demand).

I have waited nearly 500 years to fully feature the brains and beauty of how Heather thinks and shows up in the world of entrepreneurship and life.

She's been my mentor in many ways, and today I hope one of her stories of success and pain help you on your journey.

Here's a bit of what you'll hear from our chat:

• The raw, juicy, behind-the-scenes of a 16-year old copreneur couple
• The difficulties of running a business and a relationship together, and the strategies we used to keep our sanity and remain happily married
• Why Joe didn't sign Heather's yearbook in middle school
• How Heather helped scale a business with her mom from local to nationwide while in her 20s
• How Heather turned a wedding planning side hustle and led to writing her book
• How Heather dealt with ending a 15 year old business with her mom while having our foster daughter reunify (lots of stress & emotions)
• How Heather launched a new business, while pregnant, and grew an email list of 25,000 people
• How this business helped her partner with the top wedding influencer
• Heather's transformation from being a workaholic to being efficient and intentional with her work
• How monthly recurring revenue changed our thinking
• Lots of tiny, quirky details each of you will notice and land differently for you!

This episode is the first of two episodes about copreneuring. Keep an eye out for the next episode this week.

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Thank you!