Collective Ambition with Leon Hendrix

Imagine having the life that every strives to have - you’re doing well financially, you just moved into a beautiful house in a peaceful town France with your wife and son - and then one day a tree hits you, you’re paralyzed from the neck down and the doctors tell you you’re never going to walk again?

On TOP of that, multiple surgeries follow, your wife leaves you and takes away your son and you’re in horrific agony for years…

Today’s guest has experienced exactly that and didn’t just survive, but is now walking again and traveling the world despite the doctors telling him he’ll never walk again.

How did he do it? What kept him going? What’s his perspective on life now?

Find out in this episode!

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Mike Michalowicz, the author of Profit First, The Pumpkin Plan, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur & Fix This next, had founded and sold two multimillion-dollar companies.

Knowing that now, he could do anything, he became an angel investor (the type who buys a Range Rover, BMW & Dodge Viper on the same day!).

Only to realize that after 2 years he had lost all of his money and maybe… he didn’t know THAT much about business after all.

After another 2 years of depression, self-hatred and doubt he rebuilt himself as well as his business skills by taking complex & boring but crucial topics for the survival & thriving of businesses and made them not only simple and practical, but also entertaining.

I personally recommend his books without hesitation to friends and will encourage anyone to pick up a copy.

Here we discuss:

• The importance of knowing your numbers, profiting first and making business simple
  
• How he lost all his money after selling two multimillion-dollar businesses, how he rebuilt himself and what role journaling played in that
  
• Getting too confident with your first successes, only to be humbled later on
  
• How to prepare to sell your business for its maximum value
  
• How to figure out what to focus on next by knowing what the most important thing for your business is right now
  

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In this episode, we’re looking at how this entrepreneur has built a thriving brand selling socks and underwear. Yes, you read that right.

Today’s guest is Johannes Kliesch who is one of the co-founders of Snocks and here we discuss:

• Loneliness as an entrepreneur and how to overcome it
  
• The importance of a co-founder and value of employees
  
• Building a team that is like a family
  
• Prioritizing FUN over profit after meeting your basic cash flow need
  
• The importance of a co-founder
  
• Transitioning from pain & chasing security to passion, fun & enjoyment
  

Without further ado, let’s dive right into it!

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In this episode, me and my buddy Campbell Watson talk about

- How to journal effectively

- Our experience with break ups and getting through them

- How we hire and delegate effectively (Campbell built a funnel to get the best VAs out there!)

Campbell is one of the guys who joins our mastermind calls every week to talk about current challenges in business, life and beyond.

Hope you’re enjoying this one!

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What happens when two guys who have built a 7-figure business in their early twenties sit together and brainstorm how to overcome their current challenges?

Today’s guest is once again, Louis Kanteh, who is one of my favorite people to talk to when it comes to business, personal development and silly shenanigans. 

He’s one of the members in our weekly mastermind calls (which you can apply to join as well), built a 7-figure business and moved his business and himself to Cyprus when he was 19 years old. 

In this episode, I sat down with him while I visited him in Cyprus and we brainstormed on different topics such as:

- Realizing who you actually are, not who you wish you were (“do you really want it, or do you want to want it?”)-

- Our dream of building a team that is like a family and community

- What’s your personality and how does it fit into a team

- Finding a co-founder who’s strengths are your weaknesses

- How your self-image affects all your actions and the importance of self-reflection to become aware of it

- The lies of the personal development industry that you can “be whoever you want”

- The importance of enjoying what you do

- Starting a business that is not a proven model you can copy from a course, but going into uncharted territory

- Our prediction that mental health & loneliness will be the biggest issues coming up in society, as kids are growing up getting hooked on the fake world of social media

Do you enjoy more casual conversations like these? Let me know!

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We live in a more and more artificial world that is not designed to optimize our health & wellbeing. When I started digging into optimizing my sleep because I was constantly tired and not sleeping well, I heard about today’s guest, Matt Maruca, who absolutely blew my mind about so many different things I was doing wrong.

A few weeks later, he’s on the show with me here to discuss some very controversial topics, such as:

• Why the amount of sun you get is more important than the quality of your diet
  
• How to optimize your health & performance by nurturing your mitochondria which is the engine of your body
  
• The light diet broken down for optimal hormone function and energy
  
• How to protect yourself from technology that is absolutely wrecking your health
  

Without further ado, let’s dive right into it!

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Seriously...

Get over your petty little egoic motivations and spend more time being inspired by all the great things that will happen rather than meeting your pathetic needs for significance. I’ll only hurt you long-term.

Little rant.

Let me know what you think?

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While everybody talks about how to start & grow a business, there’s a whole different industry out there - the business of buying businesses and completely skipping the grind part.

Building a business is the best way to get rich, but to get really really rich, buying businesses is a much more predictable game.

But don’t you need a lot of money for that? Not necessarily…

Today’s guest is my buddy Adam Tucker who is an Australian investor, adviser and strategist for the companies he buys & supports, as well as a passionate surfer, traveler and overall good dude.

He only buys and invests in companies he believes, with people he wants to be surrounded with and builds is ecosystem around that

Here we discuss:

• Why buying companies is one of the sexiest things to create wealth and an amazing lifestyle
  
• How to make the best deals by caring about the people you’re making the deal with and giving them what they want
  
• How to double your business overnight by buying your competitor
  
• Balancing work with things you truly enjoy
  

Without further ado, let’s dive right into it!

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Most people think once they make $X amount of money they won’t have to worry anymore… yet they end up worrying more than before. Whether that is stress around maintaining the lifestyle they’ve built or losing it all.

I’ve wasted a ton of my money from my first business exit and I’ve had to sit down and get honest with myself - how much money do I actually need to live the lifestyle that allows me to be fully happy?

This one exercise will help you stop stressing about money so much because it’ll put things in perspective.

Let me know if this was helpful!

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Would you like to connect with the most influential people you can think of - celebrities, CEOs, mentors or influencers in your industry that would skyrocket your business?

Steve Sims makes the impossible happen:

He used to be a bricklayer from London, moved to Hong Kong to be a bouncer and networked his way into exclusive circles he shouldn’t be in (CEOs, bankers & wealthy people).

Now he runs a luxury concierge service called Bluefish and they make the impossible happen for their clients, including:

- Getting married in the Vatican by the Pope

- Performing on stage with your favorite band

- Going into a submarine to visit the titanic

- Connecting with business moguls like Elon Musk

One of the most underrated assets is relationships. Looking back, it’s always a relationship that skyrockets someone’s growth & makes things possible. That’s why top CEOs ask WHO, not HOW.

Examples of people who’s career blew up through the right relationship?

- Tony Robbins met Guthy Renker, the infomercial expert who marketed Tony’s infomercials to millions of people

- Richard Branson got mentored by Sir Freddie Laker when he started his airline

- Brian Lee partners up with celebrities like Jessica alba to build billion dollar companies like the Honest Company

Today we’re going to discover how to build genuine relationships with mentors, high-level CEOs, influencers or other people who are currently considered higher status than you. 

We also dive into being transparent & how to figure out who you truly are so you actually connect with people on a deep level.

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“Yes, you! You should also be an entrepreneur! Escape the sheep herd and join the wolf pack!” - said the wolf to the sheep to build his own little sheep farm.

So many entrepreneurs (read: wantrepreneurs) think they’re people who are making their own opinion, going their own way and are smarter than those that have a 9-5.

But in reality, they’ve just subscribed to another dogma, have been brainwashed by a different system and even worse, now think they’re better than those who aren’t doing what they’re doing.

I also touch on the brilliant book by Ayn Rand called The Fountainhead, looking at how the different characters (Howard Roark, Peter Keating etc.) perfectly illustrate a similar dynamic.

I can smell insecurity and people pleasing a mile away, including when someone tries to show how “they don’t care what others think” but they’re only saying that because it’s cool to say that and they desperately need your approval.

Highly recommend the book.

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Do you rely on pain to motivate you? You’re struggling to enjoy life the way it is now and always try to get someplace else?

Today’s guest is my buddy Patrick Wagner. We first met when we both started our eCommerce business in 2016 and joined a mastermind where we had weekly mastermind calls. 

Both of us ended selling our businesses in 2018 and made a complete shift in what we were doing - and how we decided to live our life. While both of us were initially driven by scarcity, wanting to just make money and become successful, we realized that it wasn’t fulfilling so we’ve taken a completely different path of self-discovery, learning about ourselves and what we really need to build a life that is true to us.

Here we discuss:

• How to stop being driven by pain & truly love what you do so you can achieve more
• Going on a content diet and do less to achieve more
• Getting in touch with your intuition
• Why understanding yourself is so important to optimize your routines and the way you work

Without further ado, let’s dive right into it!

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In one of our weekly calls my buddy wondered what happened to his motivation. He used to be super motivated to get his business off the ground and get freedom. But now that he has it (currently he’s preparing to sell this baby for multiple millions), he’s struggling to get excited about anything in his life.

He has to push himself to get to work.

Same with his workout routine. He used to be super pumped about it, but his priorities have changed and he’s struggling to stay consistent.

Is it time to update the things you’re going for?

Maybe instead of going for materialistic things, it’s something simple that would excite you way more?

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Double your business overnight! Impossible? Not if you buy your competitor.

Even better - buying your competitor for $1 or using no money at all! Impossible? Not if you know how to make smart deals.

Today’s guest is Jeremy Harbor, an investor, adviser, serial entrepreneur and owner of The Harbour Club in which you learn how to buy & sell businesses, as well as merge with companies & competitors with little or NO money upfront funding.

Here we discuss:

• What business owners like you can do to double their business technically overnight by buying a competitor, merging with a company or partnering up strategically
  
• How to make your first acquisition without putting any of your money into it
  
• Private Wealth Banking - the secret that the top 0.0001% know to create massive wealth
  
• How to hire the people that will run the business for you, so all you have to do is advise them and collect the money
  

Without further ado, let’s dive right into it!

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“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.” - a quote by Lao Tzu that sums up what we talk about in this episode. 

Today I’m joined by my buddies Mike Vestil, a 7-figure internet entrepreneur and Pascal Heck, a former German national American-football champion and we dive into some really interesting discoveries we made about happiness, fulfillment and how to change your emotional default state and identity. 

Some of the things we talk about are:

• How we transitioned from pursuing a business just for money to a business that is an extension of who we truly are
• Mike opens up about how he stopped being driven by pain and quick results to taking the long-term approach that he’s truly aligned with
• I share what helped me overcome a lifelong struggle with constantly worrying about everything
• Pascal shares a really powerful technique in his visualization to change your identity

Basically, we talk about everything that’ll help you from being controlled by bad emotions and going down the negative spiral, to what helped us turn the momentum in the other direction and create an upward spiral of positive emotions that not only allows us to be happy but is also necessary to achieve a higher level of success. 

Let’s jump right into it!

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Does work feel like a grind to you? You find yourself stressed, sometimes anxious & doubting whether you’re doing enough? You’re having to push yourself to get everything done and at the end of the day you feel like you should’ve done more…

That is exactly how I felt almost every day in my first business right until I met Louis. He’s built a successful eCommerce company at 18 years old and is now selling his company just like I did. And we connected immediately because we had the same realization: Grinding, hustling and forcing it is not the way to go. 

In this episode, we talk about:

- How Louis went from stressed, overwhelmed & unhappy to loving his life & work

- Why knowing & understanding yourself is one of the most important things to make that shift

- Why working harder is only possible when you take a step back and cultivate happiness first

- The three little things that will help you go from grinding to developing an effortless drive that pulls you forward

This is a crucial topic if you’re not just looking to create an incredibly successful business, but also want to enjoy the entire process and live a life of joy & fulfillment. And arguably, it’s a transition that is necessary in order to actually build that incredibly successful business in the first place.

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Honestly, how good is your product? How good is your service?

This is one of the most foundational and important questions to ask.

Business and success can seem like a complex mess where everything has to be perfect - your systems, your team, your funnel & branding, your packaging, pricing strategy etc….

But the foundation it’s all built on is the real, raw value that your customer gets from your service, product or skills.

Everything else becomes easier and often even effortless when you have incredible skills and you provide an incredible product. Success becomes almost inevitable. 

So, be honest - how good is your product on a scale from 1-10? 

What would change if you made it an absolute 10?  

What would you have to do, learn, develop or focus on to make that happen?

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This episode is absolute gold and in my opinion one of the best episodes I’ve recorded this far… 

Today’s guest is my buddy Kyle Lasota who’s a filmmaker that helps 7-figure entrepreneurs get their message out and he works with some big names. 

His story is incredible and he’s got a ton of wisdom to share. 

He was always passionate about filmmaking but ended up going a completely different path into marketing because he didn’t want to be another starving artist that couldn’t pay his rent. He ended up as a copywriter, writing 100 headlines a day, writing headlines for Russell Brunson which you can see in his book expert secrets, but ultimately started realizing that he hated what he did. 

Eventually, he started having panic attacks & massive stress which completely destroyed his health. He was bedridden for months and couldn’t recover for over a year.  

Here we discuss:

• How he healed himself by doing what he loved again
• The key to eliminate stress for good
• Ethical marketing & truly adding value to people’s lives
• How his values guide everything in his life and are more than just a nice-to-have personal development exercise, but something everybody needs to be crystal clear on and live by

Without further ado, let’s dive right into it!

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As this is a podcast & community for high-performers, many of us are always trying to get an edge, whether that is through knowing more about new cutting-edge strategies, surrounding ourselves with the right people or optimizing our health. 

While a lot of our members have quit drinking completely or at the very least drink very little, drinking alcohol has been the norm for the common folks out there. 

Today’s guest is James Swanwick who argues that even just a little drink here or there can make the difference between being average to taking absolute control of your life. The reason why he makes that point is that he used to be overweight, drinking regularly, even if it’s just a drink here and there and on the weekend and his energy was simply drained. 

He ended up quitting alcohol completely and went on to become an ESPN anchor on SportsCenter, building a million dollar business and being voted one of the top 25 networking experts in 2015 by Forbes. 

Here we discuss:

• Why drinking alcohol will slowly make you average
• How to easily deal with peer pressure when you’re out with friends or at a party
• How to optimize your sleep to perform better
• How to deal with hair loss (something he struggled with for 20 years and finally dealt with!)

So without further ado, let’s dive right into it!

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Are you currently struggling to stay productive and be excited about what you do? It’s something I’ve struggled with for quite a while but gotten a handle on by doing a lot of self-discovery and figuring out who I am as a person. 

Here I discuss:

• The DISC personality test
• How to get excited and energized every day by what you’re doing in your business
• Why you need to STOP listening to gurus and know-it-alls
• Why you need to reflect on every advice you get

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Do you find yourself in doubt, feeling like you’re failing or not doing enough or you’re simply in that bad state that you just can’t seem to get out of?

Feeling like you’re on top of the world is always just a handful of thoughts away and you can change it instantly, starting today, right here, right now. 

In this episode, I’m sharing a one week experiment I did where I decided to reframe EVERYTHING and totally blow things out of proportion, being absolutely delusional. 

The incredible results that I had instantly and insights that came from it will make you want to try it, too. 

Let me know what you think!

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It’s been well over a year and a half ago now that the deal was agreed upon, the purchase agreement was signed and I had made the amount of cash I would’ve never even dreamed of making a couple of years before that. 

The biggest payday for every entrepreneur is usually going to be the day they sell their business which is something I did with the help of today’s guest, Coran Woodmass. 

Coran is also known as the FBA Broker, meaning he helps eCommerce business owners sell their business, while also helping investors & buyers buy a business, working as the third party that makes it a win ideally for everyone. 

We’ve had a fair share of ups and downs in my process of selling my business due to unexpected complications along the way of transferring the business which ended up taking over 300 days. An experience that has really stretched my ability to deal with uncertainty, but was definitely worth going through considering how it changed my life… and my bank account.

In this episode, we also talk about:

• How you can prepare your business for exit and sell for the maximum value
• Common pitfalls sellers fall into that you should avoid at all costs
• Also, how to end up on the buying side & make your first acquisition if you’re currently sitting on a nice pile of cash - and also what to avoid

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Are you currently trying to find your path for the long-term? Maybe the business you’re in is not what you’re fully passionate about anymore and you realize there’s a different mountain you want to climb.

While a lot of us initially get into business based on an opportunity that presents itself or simply because we’re broke and we want to make money, what often happens is that our priorities in life change - that has been the case for me, which is why I sold my eCommerce business, and it’s also the case for many of my friends that are going through the same transition. 

Today’s guest is Wade Alters and we dive deep into what led him from being a world-class dating coach, teaching tens of thousands of guys all over the world, traveling the world and living the dream lifestyle to taking a leap of faith to quit, start his own ventures & find his path.

Now he’s an executive coach, copywriting genius & marketing consultant for high-profile influencers and today we’re going to discuss:

- His journey from dating coach do what he’s doing now

- Why you usually have to get worse first in order to get better long-term

- How to cast your vision & find your path

- How to overcome impatience & stay committed

- Why your 20s are the time to take your biggest risks

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How many hours of actual work do you get in per day?

Or even better yet, how many of the hours you put in are spent on work that actually moves things forward, that is high leverage?

It's a question that came up recently in our mastermind group and the answers were the same for everyone, from guys making 7-figures in eCommerce to the ones profiting $1m a year in their business: It's about 3-4 hours. 

3-4 hours doesn't sound like a lot, and it isn't really, but considering that it is high-leverage tasks that require a lot of focus, it's often times all we can take for that day. The rest is often spend trying to get back into that flow, but simply lacking the ability to focus. 

What if you forced yourself to limit your work to 4 hours per day, and the rest is spent reading, relaxing, journaling and planning your next steps?

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