Mere Mortals

We are nothing but pure beings. Penetrating light will enter your chakras (damn that's hot). Time is nothing but an empty clock. Deep.In Episode #213 of 'Meanderings' Juan and I discuss: why I acclaim a successful convo as one where I barely do any talking, the anime on Netflix of gods vs humans, our typical forms of viewership that bring us nothing but entertainment, my rediscovery of how to train hard, doing burpees for days, some shoutouts to people I like and whether anyone can have a personal connection with a brand.As always, we hope you enjoy. Mere Mortals out!Timeline:(0:00) - The children will be our downfall(1:23) - Why I like long conversations(4:18) - Record of Ragnarok(6:59) - Straight up entertainment(13:53) - Reverting to savage workouts(20:24) - Fast & high burpees(21:15) - Shoutout Time!(22:43) - Does anyone actually connect with a brand?Connect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/Support the show

Do you set yourself monthly goals and if so, how many do you set? Juan and I on the first week of every month go over our progress from the previous month and where we are heading for the next. Emphasis as always is on the shortcomings; what we didn't achieve in the previous month's goals and how we will fix that for the month that comes. We hope you get some value from this series, showcasing our own methodology. What do you do differently and why? Let us know in the comments, Mere Mortals out!Timeline:(0:00​)​ - Introduction(0:32​)​ - Juan's April recap(1:52​)​ - Kyrin's April recap(4:28​) - Starting May with fluffy goals(8:21​) - Juan's exercise goal? Do More!!!(18:24)​ - Low iron = weak MM behaviour(20:37​) - Work behind the scenes(22:45​)​ - 2021 Fitness challenge & marathon running(26:30​) - Share with us some of your goalsConnect with Mere Mortals:Website: https://www.meremortalspodcast.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/Support the show

Ian is a signal fire for the next generations of entrepreneurs and modern business development. After kick-starting his career in assets management, Ian merged his financial prowess and cultivated his creative ambition, founding multiple successful ventures. He launched his first technology company in 2017, which handled corporate compliance and risk management around background screening for ASX listed companies.Disrupting the disruptors is Ian's approach - inspiring him to co-found FIN-PAY in 2019, a tech-based solution that strives to provide simple, frictionless, and effortless payment methods with an agile global payment infrastructure. In late 2019 leveraging of his experience in verification, Ian joined forces with Sam Smith to build NXT a real-time verification and application management system to assist property managers to automate their workflow.In the conversation with the Mere Mortal team, Ian was able to share both his business acumen alongside his personal traits that have led him to the success of today. From his origin story through to running multiple businesses, Ian takes us through a rich journey and we top it off with his daily practices, go to learning tools and a final pragmatic takeaway for everyone out there.As always, we hope you enjoy, Mere Mortals out!Timeline:(0:00) - Introduction(1:28) - Jordan Belfort Entrepreneur Course.(3:30) - Beginning a business, failing gracefully(7:40) - Diversified Assets(10:50) - The moment that forced a change(19:20) - The incoming payment changes(24:40) - Learning how to hire(30:50) - Think about 5 years from now(35:10) - A founding CEO and when to step away(39:30) - Lifestyle and fitting in learnings(45:55) - How to Contact IanConnect with Ian:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianparke/About Mere Mortals:Deep conversations with a light-hearted touch. Daily uploads @ 5pm AEST. 4M's, Book Reviews, Musings, Bonus, Themed Podcast, Conversations & Meanderings.Connect with Mere Mortals:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/Support the show

Do you set yourself monthly goals and if so, how many do you set? Juan and I on the first Thursday of every month go over our progress from the previous month and where we are heading for the next. Emphasis as always is on the shortcomings; what we didn't achieve in the previous month's goals and how we will fix that for the month that comes. We hope you get some value from this series, showcasing our own methodology. What do you do differently and why? Let us know in the comments, Mere Mortals out!Timeline:(0:00)​ - Introduction(0:38)​ - Juan's January recap(2:04)​ - Kyrin's January recap(5:55)​ - February goals(25:04)​ - 2021 Fitness challenge(28:17) - Search on YT, it's a better search engineAbout Mere Mortals:Deep conversations with a light-hearted touch. Daily uploads @ 5pm AEST. 4M's, Book Reviews, Musings, Bonus, Themed Podcast, Conversations & Meanderings.Connect with Mere Mortals:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/Support the show

What are the differences between terrible, bad, stupid and good questions? In this themed episode Juan and I discuss the topic of 'Questions'. We start of with a definition and a little bit of history from Thomas Babington Macaulay before getting onto the topic of terrible questions. We mostly agreed that intent and context play a large part of the equation, rather than the actual words themselves. This can take the form of trolling, insincere, loaded and rhetorical questions, in which there is no real way to win except to not answer.The second half of the convo focuses upon good questions and how we think about the internal questions that occur inside our own mind. There is also some fascinating knowledge to be gained from how different languages engage in the process of asking questions. In particular there is an obscure language in Mexico called Chalcatongo Mixtec that doesn't have the grammar structure or intonation to allow the classic format of questions.As always, we hope you enjoy, Mere Mortals out!Timeline:0:00 - Intro1:05 - Definition3:10 - Terrible questions4:54 - If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?7:22 - Bad questions vs stupid questions11:59 - Insincere, loaded and rhetorical questions15:13 - What makes a good question20:50 - Internal questions we ask ourselves27:26 - Brangelina and magazines32:48 - Languages without questions35:00 - Chalcatongo Mixtec37:45 - A good question: are you listening to enough Mere Mortals?About Mere Mortals:Striving for excellence through life's lessons. Daily uploads @ 5pm AEST. 4M's, Book Reviews, Musings, Bonus, Themed Podcast, Conversations & Meanderings.Connect with Mere Mortals:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/meremortalspodcast/Support the show