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Becoming Great.com has one big goal - to be the podcast in the world with the most value-per-minute. The creators Erik Bergman and Emil Ekvardt spend over 100 hours preparing each episode to accomplish this goal. And, of course, it’s ad-free. Super entrepreneur Erik Bergman made 50 million euros before turning 30. Now he is building Great.com, a company that will give away all its profits to charity. Emil Ekvardt became a USD millionaire from professional poker at a young age. Now he runs a personal development coaching business. Becoming Great.com is a podcast that will profoundly transform your life by going into a range of essential topics that school misses to teach you - such as confidence, relationships, dealing with overthinking, and how to make money from your passion.
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07/03/20 • 23 min

This is an email we got from Anna, one of our listeners.

I don't like the job I currently have. My boss is very demanding and I'm stressed out. I wake up early and spend an hour every morning in rush hour traffic.

I would love to be able to focus on creating music. The problem is that I can't afford to quit my job, I only make $15 per hour and because I'm working so much - I don't have enough time to turn the music into a career.

What can I do? How to stop working and follow my dream?

If you have a similar situation as Anna, this episode will be perfect for you. We are diving in to the concept of that "The purpose of money is to buy time".

By understanding this concept, it will be a lot easier to free up your time and live a life without a boss.

-- Today's episode is an entrepreneurship episode, where Erik and Emil explore topics about how to become a better business person.

We are often sharing real life examples that have happened previously in our careers. What we have learned, who we have learned from and how we have applied that into our real lives. Everything in a mix with personal thoughts and reflections. --

Our goal with this episode is to change your mindset about money in a way that will help you to have more freedom in your life. Teach you the answer to "How to stop working and follow my dream?"

In part 1 we talk about that almost all money is used to buy things, and very little is used to buy time. Why is that? How come we think of money as buying things and is that really the most valuable use of money?

In part 2 we look into how you can use your money to buy time instead of buying things. That if you use your money to buy more time early on it will free up your life and even make it easier to buy things in the future.

In part 3 we talk about how to build a small money machine, by beginner friendly investing creating a way to get you extra hours every month.

In part 4 we come back to Anna's question, and we give her our recommendations of what we would do in her situation.

-- Follow Erik and Emil on their social channels! http://linktr.ee/smilingerik http://linktr.ee/emil.e

Links: Episode #18 - Finance, easier than you think. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/18-finance-2-investing-easier-than-you-think/id1452049777?i=1000440642313

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06/27/20 • 26 min

What is actually meditation? How could meditation help you in your personal growth or your entrepreneurial journey?

There are many ways to meditate, and there are many benefits to the practice. Today Erik and Emil break down their favorite ways to meditate so you can feel BETTER and be less distracted, Meditation - How to get started. -- Today's episode is a personal development episode, where Erik Bergman and Emil Ekvardt explore topics about how to grow as a person.

We are both personal development junkies and spend many hours every week sharing our ideas and reading about new things. This episode is great for you who want to learn about our latest perspective. We share lots of personal stories, talk about how it applies in our lives, and where we have learned it from. -- Meditation - How to get started:

We start by defining what meditation actually is. Since it's such a big word. We decide to divide it into active and passive meditation.

How much time do you have in your life where there are no distractions? We explore why silence and reflection are so important.

We explore when meditation is the most beneficial. What types of meditation works the best in emotional periods to feel better and be less distracted by negative thinking.

What do we mean by active meditation? How can it help reduce overthinking and lower anxiety?

We explore common mistakes when meditating. Like forcing fast results and thinking there are good or bad sessions.

Finally, we discuss which meditation apps have been the most meaningful for us. We recommended:

https://www.headspace.com/ https://wakingup.com/

--- Social media channels: http://linktr.ee/smilingerik http://linktr.ee/emil.e

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Great.com will give away 100% of its profit, but so far we have had zero revenues. Yet, we have decided to do our first big donation - $100 000.

The purpose is to unify the team, get a publicity push, and support what we believe is a great organization - the questions to answer, are we really unifying the team, or only causing stress and distraction? And will we get any publicity at all?

Part 1: The first part is for you who don't know much about Great.com. How come we will donate all our profits? How far has the business come so far?

Part 2: In part two we explore how come we are donating this early. We haven't made any profits yet, still, we take this decision. Why?

Part 3: Thirdly we look into where we are donating the money. The organization is called Founders Pledge, but why do we choose them and what do they do?

-- This is an "Update episode", it means that In today's episode of Becoming Great.com podcast, Emil Ekvardt and Erik Bergman, explore the very real challenges and problems that come up when building Great.com. A company that gives away 100% of its profit to protect the environment.

This is an opportunity for you to get a behind the scenes look, of what it feels like to build a company - and also get an update on our progress.

What you learn here is not something you will read in a book. It’s the real story of how Great.com gets built. --

Great charity podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/great-com-talks-with/id1498831309

Founders Pledge http://founderspledge.com/

Top-ranked charity organization https://www.catf.us/

Follow Erik and Emil on their social channels! linktr.ee/smilingerik linktr.ee/emil.e

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How come some people seem to have unlimited willpower with the ability to push through anything? Today we explore what willpower is, and how anyone can build it stronger.

"The more voluntary suffering you build into your life, the less involuntary suffering will affect your life." - Tim Ferriss

This quote by Tim Ferriss inspired the episode of today. We look into how to build will power and stop procrastination by making it easy to choose your challenges today.

-- Today's episode is a personal development episode, where Erik Bergman and Emil Ekvardt explore topics about how to grow as a person.

We are both personal development junkies and spend many hours every week sharing our ideas and reading about new things. This episode is great for you who want to learn about our latest perspective. We share lots of personal stories, talk about how it applies in our lives, and where we have learned it from. --

There are lots of different things that play into how to build will power and stop procrastination. We touch upon various areas where it is important, from food and exercise to porn and alcohol. The general idea is that either you make an effort to deal with discomfort today, or the future will bring you discomfort in the shape of bad health, bad economy, and bad relationships.

-- Social media channels: http://linktr.ee/smilingerik http://linktr.ee/emil.e

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What is Great.com? To answer that question, the best way is to look at our long term vision. What will Great.com become?

In this episode, we are diving into our founder Erik Bergman's vision of where Great.com is heading. The episode is split up on four sections:

Part 1: The first part of the episode is about the charity vision of Great.com. How do we want to help? What kind of organizations are we supporting? And what have we done so far?

Part 2: The second part is about the organizational vision. How do you build a team that is spread over the world, works without work hours, and have an unlimited option for vacations?

Part 3: Thirdly we are diving into how Great.com wants to inspire and influence the world. Why we want to make charity cool and why we are running this podcast.

Part 4: And lastly in part 4, the business model, we will look at how we make money today - and our plan for becoming the biggest company yet, in a very specific part of the internet.

-- This is an "Update episode", it means that In today's episode of Becoming Great.com podcast, Emil Ekvardt and Erik Bergman, explore the very real challenges and problems that come up when building Great.com. A company that gives away 100% of its profit to protect the environment.

This is an opportunity for you to get a behind the scenes look, of what it feels like to build a company - and also get an update on our progress.

What you learn here is not something you will read in a book. It’s the real story of how Great.com gets built. --

Follow Erik and Emil on their social channels! linktr.ee/smilingerik linktr.ee/emil.

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05/29/20 • 24 min

What is the most powerful way of learning something? How can you engage your brain fully into a topic, tie it into your own experiences, and look at it from lots of different angles?

This is the topic of today's episode. We have now done one year of podcasting and we will talk about the most important thing we have learned - how to learn, a very powerful method for learning. -- Today's episode is a personal development episode, where Erik and Emil explore topics about how to grow as a person.

We are both personal development junkies and spend many hours every week sharing our ideas and reading about new things. This episode is great for you who want to learn about our latest perspective. We share lots of personal stories, talk about how it applies in our lives, and where we have learned it from. -- We are starting this episode with Erik talking about how he has spent the last 3-4 years dedicated to learning about social media, personal development, leadership, and social skills.

At first, he was very focused on consuming as much knowledge as possible but it was first when he started teaching what he had learned on Instagram that things shifted. He got to embody the concepts and found that some of them he believed in and some of them made him feel like a fraud.

We keep exploring why teaching is a very powerful method for learning, how it engages our body and our emotions, and why everything you have been teaching will be easier for you to remember.

We sum up this episode with various ways of teaching, what you can do if you don't want to put yourself out there as a teacher in public or on social media but still benefit from this technique and what are the important things to get started.

--- Social media channels: http://linktr.ee/smilingerik http://linktr.ee/emil.e

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05/21/20 • 29 min

We want to teach you how to make $1000 a month online because we believe that if you had that extra money, you would have a lot less worry in your life. $1000 extra a month is enough to solve most money problems.

Today there are more opportunities to make money online than ever, you just have to know where to look. In this episode, Emil Ekvardt interviews Erik Bergman, who made over $50 million online, before he turned 30 and he will give you the exact steps you need to take to start making $1000 a month online.

Part 1 We will share a story about a friend of ours who went from 0 to $1000 per month and what made him succeed.

Part 2 We will talk about the most important ingredient to succeed when learning a new skill.

Part 3 Is about how you find the best skill for you and how you learn it.

Part 4 Is about how you start making money from the skill and how you can sell it.

-- Today's episode is an entrepreneurship episode, where Erik and Emil explore topics about how to become a better business person.

We are often sharing real-life examples that have happened previously in our careers. What we have learned, whom we have learned from, and how we have applied that into our real lives. Everything in a mix with personal thoughts and reflections. --

We start the episode with the story about Felix. A friend of ours who went from 0 to $1000 per month when studying. We get to follow the steps that he took and what made him stand out from other people who tried. What were the elements of his success?

Then we move on to talk about the importance of having fun when learning a new skill. It's easy to forget fun when trying to make money, but the truth is that if you can find something you enjoy and make money from it, not only will you like it more - you will get a lot better at it.

Thirdly we go in what skills to learn to make $1000 a month online. We talk about different topics to learn. Based on what you enjoyed in school, this is a list for inspiration:

Math classes Programming, start with "Python" Web development, "Wordpress for beginners" Accounting, start with "IFRS" Spreadsheets, start with "learn excel" Web analytics, "google analytics for beginners" Facebook ads, "beginner Facebook ads"

The music or art classes Create thumbnails, "thumbnails photoshop" Content for social media, start with "canva beginner" Audio editing, start with "podcast editing" Video editing, "video editing"

Language classes Copywriting (all kinds of writing online), "write product descriptions" Copywriting, "SEO copywriter" Subtitles for videos, "kapwing subtitles" Translations, "start a translation business"

The social parts / Recess Recruitment, "LinkedIn recruitment" Sales, "cold email sales" Coaching, "start a coaching business"

Finally we talk about how to turn the skills that you have learned into money. How you can sell it and start making $1000 a month online.

Link to recommended episode:

"Find inspiring people in social media" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaSVVSnZ9kg

-- Follow Erik and Emil on their social channels! http://linktr.ee/smilingerik http://linktr.ee/emil.ekvardt

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In school, we don't get to learn social skills. No one teaches us what mistakes not to make. When Erik was young, he was a lonely child with very few friends. He always thought it was just bad luck and never understood why.

A few years ago he started reading about social skills and how to interact with others and it opened a world of new knowledge. More than anything, he could see all the mistakes he had done when he was younger. For the first time, he realized that it wasn't bad luck that made him lonely, it was mistakes that he did.

If you want to know how to make more friends at school? or how to make more friends at work? this is a great episode for you. -- Today's episode is a personal development episode, where Erik and Emil explore topics about how to grow as a person.

We are both personal development junkies and spend many hours every week sharing our ideas and reading about new things. This episode is great for you who want to learn about our latest perspective. We share lots of personal stories, talk about how it applies in our lives, and where we have learned it from. -- This is another spontaneous and very vulnerable episode. We are diving into Erik's childhood and emotions. We are starting by getting an understanding of what Erik's life looked like as a 10-12-year-old, how it changed when he moved to another school as a teenager, and what he learned when he started learning about social skills.

"How to make more friends in school?" was one of the questions he tried to understand early and "How to make more friends at work?" is something he is now teaching. After years of diving deep into social skills and personal relationships, this is now one of his core interests and something he loves talking about and learning more about.

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05/07/20 • 38 min

Did you get to learn about social skills when you went to school? Did someone teach you how to interact with others and feel confident?

One of the problems with the school system is that it doesn't focus on the skill that might be the most important of all, social skills. How to feel more confident talking to new people? How to feel less nervous in social situations?

Today we are diving into the challenges that we have had in our social life. This episode is focused on exploring Emil's struggles with feeling nervous and awkward around new people and social situations. What he did to come over it, how long it took and what are his best tips to learn social skills. -- Today's episode is a personal development episode, where Erik and Emil explore topics about how to grow as a person.

We are both personal development junkies and spend many hours every week sharing our ideas and reading about new things. This episode is great for you who want to learn about our latest perspective. We share lots of personal stories, talk about how it applies in our lives, and where we have learned it from. -- This episode was spontaneous and unplanned. We wanted to keep the conversation as real and genuine as possible and instead of planning, we dove into it. The focus became on exploring how Emil locked himself into a bubble of online poker for 10 years and during this time just stayed in his comfort zone.

When his girlfriend broke up with him he had to start socializing with others and found that he couldn't even talk to women. He asked himself "How to feel less nervous in social situations?" and "How to feel more confident talking to new people?"

He started challenging himself, growing his comfort zone, had friends to learn together with, and went from being socially challenged to someone who now loves social situations, meeting new people, and values his social skills as one of his main talents.

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08/12/20 • 36 min

A great leader makes people excited to move in a certain direction. A great leader makes everyone around them better and more confident.

One of the most powerful ways to do that, is by becoming good at showing appreciation. It costs nothing and it can be remembered forever.

Today's episode is about Powerful leadership skills with focus on appreciation leadership skill.

The episode is split up in four parts:

Part 1: Appreciation is a skill that you can study to learn

Part 2: What is most powerful, appreciation or bonuses?

Part 3: Tips on how to show appreciation, that you most likely haven't heard before.

Part 4: How are we applying appreciation as a part of Great.com

-- Today's episode is an entrepreneurship episode, where Erik and Emil explore topics about how to become a better business person.

We are often sharing real life examples that have happened previously in our careers. What we have learned, who we have learned from and how we have applied that into our real lives. Everything in a mix with personal thoughts and reflections. -- Powerful leadership skills and specifically appreciation leadership skill.

In the first part of the episode we are exploring what appreciation is. If it is a skill that you can learn and who you would have learned it from if you are good at it already. If you are not good at appreciation, who's fault it that?

In the second part we dive into how appreciation and compliments work as a motivator for work. How do positive feedback and showing gratitude compare to giving financial bonuses? What is it that makes appreciation so powerful and what is it about money that makes it work or not?

The third part is about what happens if you don't show appreciation and how that impacts your team. We also look into what are some very efficient ways to show appreciation and how can you learn to do it very well?

Finally we round the episode off by talking about how we apply this knowledge in building Great.com. What are we doing to increase motivation and morale in the team by using appreciation.

-- Follow Erik and Emil on their social channels! http://linktr.ee/smilingerik http://linktr.ee/emil.e

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    How many episodes does Becoming Great.com have?

    Becoming Great.com currently has 90 episodes available.

    What topics does Becoming Great.com cover?

    The podcast is about Entrepreneurship, Startup, Podcasts, Self-Improvement, Education and Business.

    What is the most popular episode on Becoming Great.com?

    The episode title '#72 - How to stop working and follow my dream?' is the most popular.

    What is the average episode length on Becoming Great.com?

    The average episode length on Becoming Great.com is 44 minutes.

    How often are episodes of Becoming Great.com released?

    Episodes of Becoming Great.com are typically released every 7 days.

    When was the first episode of Becoming Great.com?

    The first episode of Becoming Great.com was released on Feb 8, 2019.

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