130: Becoming an Uncaged Man — Jonathan Mead
07/25/16 • 34 min
Jonathan Mead is a day-job elimination coach that helps people create businesses they can conduct from anywhere. He’s passionate about helping people say sayonara to dead-end work and start creating lives of freedom while serving the world with their true talents.
Jonathan worked for years at what he termed “survival jobs” while building his own business that would eventually support his freedom. Because of his first-hand experience in the corporate grind, he’s intimately familiar with the frustration and despair that many face in similar circumstances.
He’s been featured as an expert in many publications, including Forbes, Business Insider, Copyblogger, Zen Habits and Fast Company.
He’s a martial artist, trailrunner and lives with his wife Ev’Yan in Portland, Oregon. The current project that his is focusing on is called “The Uncaged Man,” where is focusing on bringing men back to their aggressive roots — he feels that society has pulled men away from what actually makes them manly.
In This Episode:- How do you wake up to your passion?
- Dealing with your path being chosen for you.
- Living life by interest.
- Getting clarity with what your gifts are.
- What has society done to manliness?
- How can re-wilding your life make a positive effect?
Jonathan’s Favorite Quote:
“The master in the art of living drawers no line between his labor and his leisure, his mind and body, his work and his play, his eduction and his recreation, he draws no distinction, he hardly knows which. He pursues his excellence in whatever he is doing, and leaves others to decide if he is working or playing; to himself he is always dong both.” — James Mitchner
Jonathan’s Favorite Books:
Iron John: A Book about Men
Links From Today’s Show:
www.paidtoexist.com
www.jeremyryanslate.com/garyv
www.uncaggedman.com
Jonathan Mead is a day-job elimination coach that helps people create businesses they can conduct from anywhere. He’s passionate about helping people say sayonara to dead-end work and start creating lives of freedom while serving the world with their true talents.
Jonathan worked for years at what he termed “survival jobs” while building his own business that would eventually support his freedom. Because of his first-hand experience in the corporate grind, he’s intimately familiar with the frustration and despair that many face in similar circumstances.
He’s been featured as an expert in many publications, including Forbes, Business Insider, Copyblogger, Zen Habits and Fast Company.
He’s a martial artist, trailrunner and lives with his wife Ev’Yan in Portland, Oregon. The current project that his is focusing on is called “The Uncaged Man,” where is focusing on bringing men back to their aggressive roots — he feels that society has pulled men away from what actually makes them manly.
In This Episode:- How do you wake up to your passion?
- Dealing with your path being chosen for you.
- Living life by interest.
- Getting clarity with what your gifts are.
- What has society done to manliness?
- How can re-wilding your life make a positive effect?
Jonathan’s Favorite Quote:
“The master in the art of living drawers no line between his labor and his leisure, his mind and body, his work and his play, his eduction and his recreation, he draws no distinction, he hardly knows which. He pursues his excellence in whatever he is doing, and leaves others to decide if he is working or playing; to himself he is always dong both.” — James Mitchner
Jonathan’s Favorite Books:
Iron John: A Book about Men
Links From Today’s Show:
www.paidtoexist.com
www.jeremyryanslate.com/garyv
www.uncaggedman.com
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129: The State of Entrepreneurship | Gary Vaynerchuk
Gary Vaynerchuk builds businesses: Fresh out of college, he took his family wine business and grew it from a $3M to a $60M business in just five years. Now, he runs VaynerMedia–one of the world’s hottest social media-first digital agencies. Along the way, Gary became a prolific angel investor and venture capitalist, investing in companies including Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Uber, and Birchbox before co-founding VaynerRSE, a $25M investment fund.
Gary was named to both Fortune and Crain’s 40 under 40 lists in the past year, has been profiled in the New York Times, Fortune and Inc. magazines, and is frequently sought to share his expertise on CNN, BloombergTV, CNBC, and many more.
Links From Today’s Show:
www.theampedlife.com
www.keithyackey.com
www.garyvaynerchuck.com
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131: Getting a View From the Top — Aaron Walker
Aaron Walker is a veteran entrepreneur as well as a Life and Business Coach in Nashville, TN. He started his first business at 18 and sold it to a Fortune 500 company nine short years later. Unwilling to rest on past success alone, Aaron started, bought, and sold eight successful companies over the past 36 years. Having a strong desire for personal development has kept Aaron in a weekly mastermind group with other notable Nashvillians for more than a decade.
Today, Aaron spends the majority of his time helping men grow in success and significance as President and Founder of View from the Top, a premier life and business coaching resource.
In This Episode:- Getting started young.
- What to do to really expand.
- Dealing with personal struggle.
- The Value in a mastermind.
Aaron’s Favorite Quote:
“Fear missing an opportunity more than you fear failure.”
Aaron’s Favorite Books:
How to Win Friends & Influence People
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Links From Today’s Show:
viewfromthetop.com/createyourownlife
@vmtcoach
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