Respect The Grind With Stefan Aarnio

Click Here for EPIC timestamps and episode resources When hard times come to us, we must defend what is ours truly and do not let anyone take it away from us. We are living through a time that is hard for men to stay strong. That is why today’s guest speaks and writes about a topic we are not used to seeing anywhere these days: masculine philosophy and spirituality. Jack Donovan helps other men create an environment for men only, to make their own lives better through spirituality, without feeling vulnerable. As we end this upside-down year, this guy will share with us why women are not supposed to define masculinity, and males are not supposed to define femininity.  Jack Donovan was raised in Pennsylvania and studied fine arts in New York. Over the past years, he has written amazing books like Becoming a Barbarian, and A More Complete Beast, his most recent work. His foundational book, The Way of Men has sold more than 100,000 copies and has been translated to French, German, Portuguese, Spanish and Polish.

Click Here for EPIC timestamps and episode resources Finding motivation within ourselves is sometimes a bit difficult, however, it is just a matter of time for us to realize motivation can’t be anywhere but inside ourselves. Our today’s guest grew up watching the University of Georgia football games with his family and very soon decided how he wanted to achieve all his dreams. Walk with us as we discover how Candler Cook came up with the greatest tool kit to overcome obstacles in life, and the perfect recipe to achieve goals: intrinsic motivation, making concrete steps, holding yourself accountable and finally, hitting your end goal.  Candler Cook grew up as a football player and he always dreamed of becoming part of his favorite football team. One of his biggest struggles as he began to get closer to that goal was not being strong enough, fast enough and heavy enough to achieve first division. The result of that: Eat up to 15K calories every day just to gain weight and achieve the goal of this life. Cook is

Click here for EPIC timestamps and episode resources. Nothing tastes sweeter after respecting the grind for so many years than having wealth and success. And what better way to learn how to crack the rich code from an internationally recognized leader and performance empowerment training expert. To achieve wealth and success, we all need some guidance. Our today’s guest, entrepreneur, advisor, and inspirational keynote speaker Jim Britt is here to share with us how to find the perfect coach for you and your needs, not just for business but for personal growth. Jim Britt is an author of 13 best-selling books including, Cracking the Rich Code, The Power of Letting Go, Freedom, Unleashing Your Authentic Power, Do This and Get Rich-For Entrepreneurs, to name only a few. He has presented himself in seminars all around the world sharing success principles for entrepreneurs and life-enhancing realizations with thousands of people. Furthermore, this OG has been named one of the world’s top 50 speakers, having the ab

Click here for EPIC timestamps and episode resources. Are we finally coming to an era where the apocalypse is near and we should be moving to another planet, just like movies have predicted it? Our today’s guest has seen the future multiple times. G Michael Hopf is the author of the acclaimed and international bestselling post-apocalyptic series The New World. He also has authored dozens of other post-apocalyptic and western novels and he is convinced good times create weak men and that it only occurs every 80 or 90 years. He is an expert in historical cycles and is pretty sure 2020 is the year of civil war.  Geoff lives with his family in San Diego, California and he is a veteran of the US Marine Corps, and he is here to teach us some major cycle lessons: The first 80-year cycle refers to how relevant warlike events take place, like the WWII and the US Civil War, and the second one refers to the change in political systems that happen every 250 years. This guy believes we are heading to the end of democracy

Click here for timestamps and episode resources. For those who think overnight success really exists, there is some news for you: you better get rid of that idea in your head. Behind every artist entering the spotlight and exploding all over media, there are years of effort and struggle, knocking on label doors, dozens of castings made, marketing plans, and constant look-out for signing contracts. Once we realize we can do it all independently, and still get the support of your audience, it’s only a matter of time to overcome these situations and transform them into challenges. Our today’s guest is an independent artist that owns her own corporation, her masters and all the copyright to her material. Get to know Joy Villa and how she took action and control of her life, marking her own steps to success. In 2017, Villa outsold Beyoncé, Lady Gaga and Adele, thanks to time managing and appealing music with strong messages. After long years of starting her career, she decided it was time to make a name for herse

Click here for timestamps and episode resources. Sometimes we end up in the wrong path of life and have to start from zero, depending on each individual’s situation. Whether we hit rock bottom financially, emotionally, mentally or spiritually, every crash can be painful and challenging, but it strongly depends on us to own this situation as a motivation motor to go back not for more, but for all. Our today’s guest is the living proof of the burn and rise of a phoenix: Trevor McGregor has worked with clients from all around the world, including high executives, real estate investors, entrepreneurs, world-class athletes, and multiple business professionals and all of them have one thing in common: They want a life-changing transformation, just like Trevor’s.  Trevor McGregor used to be in the restaurant industry until he lost it all back in 2011. After struggling with that big failure, he entered the real estate industry, and in an impressively fast way, Trevor paid both his and his parents’ loans with an impr

Click here for timestamps and episode resources. How do we know when it is time for our companies to grow? How do we know if our managers, employees and clients are doing great with our internal culture and our services? Some may say employees are the workforce, but they are more than that. Today we are changing our work mindset and taking a wider look into the future. Stan Slap, our today’s guest, is an expert in developing and improving the best environment and work culture around companies to grow. From small to large and big companies like Microsoft, this internationally-renowned thought leader is here to help you focus on your goals and share how he is making a difference in the world. Stan Slap is a New York Times, Wall St. Journal and USA Today best-selling author (just to name a few) for the books Bury My Heart at a Conference Room B and Under the Hood. By making a name for himself over the past years, Slap has achieved impressive metrics impact for companies like Google, Facebook, HSBC and Time Warn

Click here for timestamps and episode resources. Steven Pollack is a legend in the fix-and-flip industry. He founded his company Anchor Loans back in 1998 providing private capital to fix-and-flip in Southern California and right now he keeps killing it as CEO of his own company. He brings over 30 years of experience and a powerful understanding of the cyclical nature of real estate investing. There are no mistakes when it comes to Steve Pollack’s history: he helps his clients fund projects, by lending them money from private resources, instead of coming from banks like a classic way. Dr. Pollack went from having nothing back in ’97 to own 170 million USD in 8 years, and the US Government helped him achieve that with a social program. Originally from New York, this guy has a Doctorate in Optometry from the University of California, Berkley and a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychobiology. Although he had his career all figured out (he even ran a successful optometry practice) he always had a  passion for re

Click here for timestamps and episode resources. Michael Blank is a Virginia based Sales King: He has all the secrets to raising money when buying your first apartment building. Husband and father of 4 children, our today’s guest is a full-time entrepreneur, investor and personal coach with a huge passion for helping others achieve financial freedom. Michael is convinced real estate investing is the greatest even for investors without experience. Listen to this episode as he shares with us all about Investment returns, cash flow, and money recycling as the most attractive features of the market. With Michaels’s training programs you can achieve financial freedom in less than 5 years, by investing in apartment building deals with a very special focus: raising money. Michael Blank owns a company called Nightawk Equity, where he controls over 65 million dollars in performing multifamily assets across the US. Author of the best-selling book Financial Freedom With Real Estate Investing and host of the Apartment

Click here for timestamps and episode resources. Matt Porcaro has been in the real estate business for 5 years now, and like most people, he entered this world looking for the golden ticket: Financial Freedom. 29-year-old Porcaro, soon realized that by entering the workforce, he was never going to achieve the idea of quitting his 9 to 5 regular job. With the help of one of the greatest money motivators on Earth, Robert Kiyosaki, Matt got his first taste into understanding how people actually get rich.  Matt Porcaro is the vivid image of dream achievement: He graduated from Manhattan College with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineer, and right now he is the Electrical Project Manager for Broadway National, a company that helps facilities like Walmart, Starbucks, UPS, Morgan Chase, and many more to drive down costs and achieve transparency on their electrical services in New York City. Imagine that! Plus, he has been a real estate agent for more than 12 years now and he is the creator of the bestseller

Click here for timestamps and EPIC episode resources. Greg Reid has published more than 80 books and 34 of them have been best sellers. Our guest for today is a motivational keynote speaker, author, and adventurer, ready to take you through a journey where everything is possible and let you know that the true meaning of wealth is not entirely about money, but about time and land mixed up. If you’re looking for the key to success, stay with us as we have a chat with this Ted Talk Award-Winning Keynote Speaker and you discover that whatever you seek, is also seeking you. Have your eyes on the prize and take action just as Dr. Greg did.  Besides having written endless bestsellers, such as Wealth Made Easy, Stickability, and Three Feet from Gold, Dr. Greg Reid received his honorary Ph.D. in literature and he is convinced that you don’t have to be a millionaire to be a hero. This master storyteller knows there’s a big difference between being a best-selling and a back-selling author. Greg has secured his books ha

Click here for timestamps and EPIC episode resources. Success can come in many forms, but there isn’t a more marvelous way for success to be presented to us than this name: Grant Cardone. For those who don’t know who Grant is, he is an internationally renowned speaker on leadership, real estate investing, entrepreneurship, social media, and finances. He is the author of the famous 10X Rule and creator of 21 best-selling business programs. Cardone is here to make success our duty, our responsibility, our obligation, and to help us rise above all the out-dated, unworkable, middle-class myths and limitations, to achieve freedom in the best form we can as for ourselves and our families.  Beginning as a bestselling book, Cardone’s 10X movement started in 2011, and a few years after great success, he decided it was time to bring more sugar and spice into his life, and he has just nailed it since then. Cardone has been named one of the Top 10 Snapchat Business Gurus worldwide and Forbes #1 Marketing Influencer, to

Click here for timestamps and episode resources. Brandon Dawson founded his first company at 28 years-old and learned everything about raising money from high net worth individuals, private equity firms and strategic partnerships. He knows investors are bored of listening to the same tales from start-ups presentations. What investors really want is to invest in people that see a passion for them and their ideas. Our today’s guest is on a constant look-out to reinvent himself and the businesses he owns in this accelerating world. After losing his first company, Brandon Dawson has focused on empowering business owners to take control of their lives, create value for themselves in the best personal, professional and financial way possible. Brandon is a serial entrepreneur that created systems once he saw companies lacked, and he ended up making great businesses with amazing returns. He has created a unique, variable-expense shared-services delivery model with one purpose and passion: supporting independent busi

Click here for timestamps and episode resources. Everyone has a friend that is an expert in something, besides our most passionate pet lover friend. Our guest for today’s show is both. He is a true master turning companies around and he can even offer a money-back guarantee if things don’t work out for you. Chris ‘Bulldog’ Collins is the world’s #1 bulldog lover and he is absolutely sure that if you are consistent on playing by your own rules and turning your trials into strengths, you can definitely learn to turn your biggest passion into a lifestyle and your ideas into pure gold.  Chris Collins grew up with a pastor-missionary stepfather that led him to become a missionary kid, and after years of being his father figure, he disappeared one day in the middle of the night, leaving Chris and his mom with literally nothing. From being a general manager at BMW to running his own personal brand, Chris Collins Inc, 'Bulldog' is now a business outlaw and entrepreneur coach plugging solid systems into his clients’

After World War II, a new world order was established with America as the center of the universe. American culture invaded other countries for economic gain, and this made America a world exporter of not just goods, services, money and debt, but also culture. One of America’s biggest exports during this era of newfound wealth and surplus was a new kind of citizen ready to wreak havoc on society: the teenager. In this chapter of Hard Times Create Strong Men, Stefan explores the birth of the teenager and how it led to the deferral of adulthood, also known as the emerging adult. The continuous struggle for adults in this generation is to “find themselves” and their perfect match. And how the constant quest for happiness and fulfillment leaves many men in between things and never allowing them to reach their full potential… Why not. instead of trying to find yourself, you define yourself, make yourself and create yourself as you go. Draw a line in the sand, claim yourself and say: this is who I want to become. Th

Jason Capital was born in the late eighties, and he vastly went from living in his mom’s basement and struggling as an online salesman, to become an internet marketing guru and certified BSD. Jason decided to drop out of school to achieve his dreams and get out of the rat race. Thanks to the networking he did during an underground online marketing seminar with Yanik Silver, he managed to bring his e-book business from the ground, and ha hasn’t looked back ever since. Author of the book: Higher Status: The New Science of Success and Achievement, Jason’s net worth is $2 million dollars, thanks to coaching men and women to improve their finances. Capital is part of Barack Obama’s list of Top 100 Entrepreneurs in the USA and he is one of the top leader motivators around the world when it comes to personal finance and dating. There isn’t a thing Jason Capital can’t do, he sells his books and amazing courses like “Email Income Experts” and “Sales God”, in order to help people replace the fastidious rat race life fo

Let’s remember something: Anyone who is pursuing entrepreneurship, business or real estate investing, your relationships are your one and only asset. We are now entering the 7 Core Levels of Agreement universe. The base of these levels is two words we often use when we talk about the weather: COLD or WARM.  The seven levels of agreement work in a sequence. That means you must follow each step to make it to the next level. From clichés, facts, and opinions, to hopes, dreams, feelings, weaknesses, and needs, these levels of agreement will give you the wide capacity and understanding to reach a true agreement or make a successful sale.  We all know opportunities come from connecting and being intimate with the people we come into contact with. A situation of this kind can present at work, at home, with our family or friends, or even with someone we just met. At the end of the day, we are all looking for the same thing: connecting with others. Learn to never be stuck in a conversation with nothing to say ever aga

Let’s face this fact: we are living in the digital era more than ever before. Everything, absolutely everything can be sold on Instagram, and even if you think you have your brand in control and is doing its best performance with online marketing strategies, there are experts that know exactly how to play this game and win. Our guest for today’s show knows all about digital strategies, online marketing consulting and putting your business as high as it can be, with help from influencers like Kim Kardashian and Gary Vaynerchuk. If you want to discover the secrets and benefits from influencers to grow your business (trust us, Fyre Festival got some things right), stay with us to hear Shane Barker’s story.  Barker is a personal branding and influencer marketing instructor at UCLA. He is recognized in the influencer scene and has seen how over the past seven years, this industry is constantly evolving and changing, giving him the opportunity to learn every time and improve his marketing skills. He has been a keyn

What should we do when we realize our dreams are dead?  Stefan’s rock band sank like the Titanic and with that, he felt empty and exhausted. He didn’t move, didn’t shower and felt like no sleep at all. Some people would say he was depressed, but he called it burnout.  “I felt like an obsolete computer that had been tossed in the trash bin. I had been a loyal and compliant machine; I had faithfully gone down the assembly line of the entire education system from kindergarten through high school graduation and on to a post-secondary degree. I had gone to school; I had gotten a degree and I had a ‘good’ job just like I was told.” After the great disappointment, Stefan was the only thing he didn’t aspire to be: an average guy.  You may know that average is dangerous, but extraordinary is where the fortune lies. After reading Rich Dad Poor Dad in his mother’s couch, real estate became his new rock’n’roll. Learn how Stefan Aarnio went from selling luxury hotel rooms over the telephone in the middle of the night, wit

What would you do if we told you can help and coach other people to generate millions in sales? Nothing makes our today’s guest happier than watching honest, dedicated business owners achieve their dreams. Over the past years, Ajit Nawalkha has built and sold numerous companies, online brands of coaches, authors, speakers, and online educators. He has co-founded and lead amazing companies like Mindvalley Teach towards massive growth, Evercoach, and Global Grit Institute, to teach the world what it is like to live extraordinary, fulfilling, happy lives. Ajit is a firm believer that in order to live an inspiring life and have true relationships, you must surround yourself with people who inspire you to be a better human being. He is the author of the best-selling book, The Book of Coaching and Live Big, where Ajit shares why having your own mindset can get you closer to your goals and the importance of emotional, spiritual, and mental power to fight the ups and downs of business. Ajit has consulted several othe