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Favorite quotes of all time

We love starting off with a quote in every episode, and we’ll share which quotes have been our favorite. One of our favorite quotes thus far is “If you can dream it, you can do it.” by Walt Disney. Similar to this quote we’ve also liked “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.” by Napoleon Hill. These quotes in particular helps motivate a lot of people achieve things they want in life. For example, if you go to the ocean and you see rich people with yachts, you’ll be that guy that says “If that guy can have a yacht, then I can have a yacht.” Here are some more quotes we love and it is “You’re the average of five people you associate yourself with.” and “If you’re not growing, you’re dying.”

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This next quote is “A person does not decide their future, a person decides their habits and their habits decide their future.” by FM Alexander. This quote in particular resonated with Bob. Bob was fat, alcoholic, and a drug lover. But changing his habits such as saving money every day or putting consistent effort on his diet and work, changed the way his future is unfolding.

Favorite quotes from our guests

Jason Selk gave us three quotes which were, “Self-image is determined by how we talk to ourselves about ourselves”, “Most people’s self-image is far below where it should be”, and “Most people are talking to themselves about themselves negatively.” These quotes have had an impact in how we view ourselves, and we often stopped talking negatively when we make mistakes in sports. We played differently, if not better, because of those quotes that stuck with us.

Favorite moments in Brofessional Development Podcast

Our favorite moments when having guests such as Andy Frisella, Bedros, and Jason Selk, were they looked as differently after the episode. At the beginning, we could tell that each person would think of the podcast as another boring interview. However, after the episode is done, they would genuinely look at us and say that we did a really good job. We think their thoughts have been rewarding and made us feel really good and that our time is worth something.

Another moment was in the Colorado trip where it has been a personal professional development experience. With all the masterminds that we’ve done and seeing that if not for us, making these and having conversations with people, then we they wouldn’t have made a move in their life. Tommy Holmes was in our last mastermind and his goal was to get more clients. Everybody suggested royalties and there was this whole debate about it. Three weeks later, we received a text that he signed a new deal that they were going to try it and offer some type of royalties for each sale of the course they’re doing. With that he found success and was thankful, and for us it was also rewarding.

The podcast gave us more awareness to what we do. When we started a book club, nobody showed up for that event. Over time, we started the podcast and all of a sudden there are 25 to 40 people signing up for the events. That’s very rewarding for us because the people are putting themselves in a vulnerable position in front of people they don’t know. However, they know that everyone is like minded and they are somehow going to help them and see better results.

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Worst moments since we started the podcast

There are times where we would have disagreements and that was some of the worst moments. This is because when starting the podcast, not all of us have the same mindset to make it work. Some of us were disengaged while others would put a lot of effort to make the podcast have value. Although we had some of these challenges, it improved our friendship and helped each other level up with our personal development.

What we’re looking forward to in the next 100 episodes

The next 100 episodes, the focus for some of us would be the masterminds because those gets more value to grow our business. If we can scale off our masterminds, then we can get to help more people grow and connect. For the podcast, we look forward to having more guests to inspire our audience to grow their business as well as their personal development.

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Bobby Hitting His 2 Year mark of Sobriety

Drinking can be addictive and can interfere with your business and lifestyle. You won’t often have the time and energy to work towards your business goals and achieve the success you want for your business. We are very proud of Bobby who has achieved his 2-year mark of sobriety. In St. Louis, the majority of people can’t achieve this goal because of what St. Louis is, a drinking city. It becomes tough for people to stop drinking because it’s on almost every occasion.

The 1-year mark when quitting drinking is always the hardest. The second-year can go by without you even noticing that you’ve already stopped drinking. Aside from achieving his second year of sobriety, 75 hard is also another thing he is continuing to accomplish, a great book on helping you get a healthier body and improve your mental health.

Airbnb is banning parties

Airbnb is banning parties

There are a lot of hosts on Airbnb that are going against parties at their estate which is why Airbnb decided to ban parties. Apparently, hosts are still encouraging people to rent out their places for parties. Banning parties has already started in 2019, but loosened the ban in 2020. This was because all the bars were closed due to the pandemic. However, they still did proceed with the ban after the pandemic continued to rise.

Recently they opened it back up and the issue wasn’t because of the pandemic, but because their neighborhoods were complaining about the parties. Nothing has really changed, but Airbnb has a zero-tolerance policy. So if they find that you planned a party after getting an Airbnb, then they are going to suspend you or remove you entirely from the app. We can’t really tell how Airbnb is tracking users and most high school graduates around 18-19 are booking Airbnb. If Airbnb did track and give that user a suspension or a ban, then the teens will probably just cycle to the next account.

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr asking for Apple and Google to remove Tiktok from stores

FCC COMMISSIONER BRENDAN CARR ASKING FOR APPLE AND GOOGLE TO REMOVE TIKTOK FROM STORES

They want to remove Tiktok from Apple and Google stores for its pattern of surreptitious data practice. In their data practice, all the algorithms and data they collect from the US are stored. Tiktok is owned by a Chinese company ByteDance and it would seem that the app is similar to sheep’s clothing. They are harvesting all these data from the US and the government doesn’t like that.

The algorithm for what pops up and what rewards people on TikTok is very different in China than they are in the US. In China, the algorithm works to where what China wants its youth to do. This includes videos on engineering, chemistry, science, finance, and more interesting videos. Whereas the algorithm in the US, people would see the milk crate challenge or videos about dance challenges. People could scroll hours and hours and pick up nothing that can enhance the youth. This led to debates about whether this was an actual inadvertent attempt to sabotage the youth of America.

Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced to 20 years in prison

This was a case that many people have been following but it was refused to be televised. Ghislaine was part of child trafficking or underage prostitution. She’s been involved in this for around the same length of years as she is about to go to prison for including countless other people involved.

Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced to 20 years in prison

It raises the question, “How is she not in for life?” She was luring the children back and is basically the operations manager for the whole thing.

FCC Commissioner asking to remove TikTok, Airbnb banning parties

This week we talk about the latest current events, we’re also sharing personal events along with some very interesting news. Brofessional Development is a podcast where you can find informative topics on business and occasional news updates that may be interesting for you.

Facebook and Instagram remove abortion pill posts

Facebook also removed posts previously about how people posted saying COVID-19 is not real. This is the same for people who posted about anti-masks and Facebook also took those down. There will always be something that’s right and something that’s wrong when it comes to abortion pill posts.

Facebook and Instagram removes abortion pill posts

It is a free market so people should be able to post about it. Then people started to remake posts saying the exact same thing by replacing it with a different term, and Facebook didn’t really notice that.

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Market Inflation Update

Almost everyone in business are closely monitoring market inflation and just as every hoped that inflation prices has or had reached its peak, new numbers came in on Friday. We’re at a point of 8.6% inflation since May of last year, and this has been the fastest increase in inflation since December of 1981. Unfortunately, it seems we’re heading into a recession, which is essentially two consecutive decline in quarters of GDP. However, we can’t think that this recession will be like the last recession which was labeled the Great Recession. We have to keep in mind that there has been recessions in the past and many people didn’t even notice it happened. This recession is just a decline over two consecutive quarters and we can only hope it stops.

market inflation

Stock inflation can not only be directed to one industry. Inflation rates are looked at in every area for example, last month used car prices went down, compared to the original prices they were usually offered. People started to think that was a good sign, but then this month it went back up. In the used car industry, GDP is up by 16% last year. GDP is gross domestic product which is its total value of goods produced and services provided in a country during a year. They will get that value and based it off its dollar amount identifying how much it’s worth, and that’s where they get to the total inflation.

Coinbase workforce cut

Coinbase

Coinbase have recently laid off 1,100 employees and that’s around 18% of its total workforce. They did this via personal email. This is because they’ve blocked all their employees from using their actual work email before informing them that they were fired. After doing this, they then had to resend hundreds of offer letters to their recent recruits of people that had just given notice and were getting ready to work there.

Netflix decides to evolve

Netflix

Netflix has always been almost anti-live sports since 2018. Their co-CEO Reed Hastings said we don’t do live news, we don’t do live sports, but what we do is we try to do really well. After this, Amazon got exclusive rights to 15 Thursday night football games which starts in 2023. Disney added 75 Regular Season NHL on ESPN and Hulu. Peacock locked in the Premier League, the Olympics, and the AVP. Paramount Plus got the Masters in March Madness. Other channels have acquired these and more, this had an impact on Netflix stocks where it is steadily decreasing. Right now, Netflix is trying to get F1 or Formula One. They may have decided to bid for this and get the rights for it because of their popular series that came out F1.

Real estate market trends

One of the trends that is common is that people think that now is a bad time to buy real estate. This is because they have seen that the prices have gone up, and have found that most real estate are 100% more expensive. Prices of housing went up by 17%, and so did rent with the same amount around 2021 nationally. People think they should just wait to buy a house because we’re looking to maybe go into a recession and the stock market is currently tanking which will have an impact on the housing market. However, at the end of the day, the housing marketing is predicted by one thing and one thing only. It’s supply and demand. There is still a lot of people waiting to buy real estate, but there are not many houses for everyone. Prices of the housing market could go down by about 5%, but it still won’t be enough to crash the housing market. There are still people wanting to buy real estate which means the demand is high.

Market Inflation & Sports Update, Coinbase Workforce Cut

Brofessional Development Podcast brings you another update on trending events that are happening now. Topics we cover can be a mix of business, sports, and general current events. We also have a lot of opinions and ideas related to the trends that we love sharing with our audience.

Sports Update

Yadier Molina

Yadier Molina breaks the record for most put outs. This record means that he puts out more than any catcher in the entire Majors. Miles Mikolas came in within one out, he was done to a final strike for a no hitter, and Harrison Bader couldn’t make the catch in center. Goldschmidt shoots three home runs yesterday with eight RBI’s in the doubleheader. With all this that has happened it seems that the Cardinals are doing well this season and are currently first place with 2 and half games up on the Brew Crew.

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What does transparency mean?

Being transparent is being clear with somebody whether it’s right or wrong, or indifferent while being honest is being truthful. When speaking to your employees about a certain problem they have with their productivity. You may think it will hurt the person’s feelings and give them a bad day. If you’re being honest, then yes, it should because you’re stating facts and that’s how it should be. No matter how challenging being transparent and honest you are toward your employee, you should still be open to both personal and professional relationships to strive.

In terms of business and leadership, it plays a big role to be transparent and not just set expectations. When you know your employees are making mistakes, it is your job to let them know as soon as possible. Let them know the consequences of continuing their way, the more transparent you are the easier it is going to be in the long term. People will often avoid being transparent because it can be easier in the short term in certain situations, but you’re eventually prolonging something that should have been fixed earlier.

Times where businesses lack transparency

There will be times in your business when somebody will get upset or your system can get messy. At the end of the day, these are factors that are part of the business. If an employee decides to quit then it was just a matter of time, and you as the owner will probably rebound a lot better out of that loss. There are two types of transparencies in business, it’s either your employee has problems with how they work or their overall health. You have the ability to assess these types within your employees. If you don’t be straightforward with your employees, then eventually, it will affect your business in a negative way.

Times where businesses lack transparency

Lack of communication will make it harder for you and employees to work in the same workplace. You can’t try a new model or system for your business, without informing your employees. This is because your ideas won’t take effect and will make it harder for you to achieve what you want. You can always try to let your employees know about how well the business is doing by informing them about the risks, how difficult the decision was to do, and the value of the job for your business goal.

When it comes to employees asking for a higher paycheck because you are making more. You can give them an idea of what you had to go through to make that profit. For starters, you’re the one taking the most risk and with that risk, you may lose in profit and revenue. Other employees may get jealous of their colleagues because they are getting a raise or a higher position, but you have to explain or make it clear how that employee achieved that. This is through announcing what that employee did for the company or how that person brings a lot more value and revenue than others.

Is Honesty the Best Policy in your Business?

Transparency is being honest with other no matter how difficult it can be in your business or your employee. Transparency can depend on you as a business owner, you can be transparent with yourself or toward others.

Areas in life where you can be transparent

Areas in life where you can be transparent

Being transparent in yourself allows you to live a happier life. You won’t feel like there will always be conflict in every decision you make in your business. Subconsciously, you know that there are milestones in your business that will get you stuck and have lower productivity, but that’s how businesses work. The decisions you make and the way you talk to your employees can always make an impact in the long term. You may struggle thinking about the approach but it will always be hard to do in the beginning. You can’t always settle for short-term solutions and forget about it, because eventually that problem will return or continue to happen to leave a larger problem for you to face.

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Elon Musk Ends Remote Work

Elon Musk has recently called upon his employees, telling all of them that remote is over and they need to be back in the office for 40 hours a week. He also added, if they don’t like it, then they will be let fired. Although the idea of people working home has a lot of benefits, especially when having to work half the time. It also allows employees to cut some of their expenses on food and transportation. Employees are supposed to support the business and help it grow, but it can be difficult for employees who surrounded by distractions at home.

Elon Musk ends remote work

A hybrid model of remote and office work allows you to give the flexibility of having some days work from home. This secures that your employees are happy and doesn’t have to go to the office every single work day.

We feel that this will continue because decisions are being based on data. This means that there have been businesses that showed lower productivity when remote work was introduced into their model.

Gun possession conditions

Americans should make it more difficult for people to purchase a gun. We are still going to experience the same situation in Texas if people are still able to freely buy guns. Another thing people should start doing is finding out ways to diagnose people with mental disorders from an emotional standpoint. This is because people that end up having these issues are the ones that have fatherless homes or those who don’t have good relationships with their parents in general. We need a way to analyze these people before allowing them to purchase a gun.

If guns were regulated just like cars, then people would have tags at each point of sale. This will also mean that they’ve gone through gun training, written tests, practical tests, and basically every requirement to show that the person purchasing the gun is actually going to use it for protection and nothing else. Guns should also be taxed where you’ll have to pay tax for owning a gun and the number of ammunition you own every year

Johnny Depp awarded $15 million in the case against Amber Heard

Johnny Depp awarded $15 million in the case against Amber Heard

Johnny Depp won his case against amber heard and will receive $15 million. Amber Heard also owes another 7 million to Children’s Hospital. This due to the fact that she pledged the money that she was going to receive from the previous case that she won against Johnny Depp. She even fought that she just pledged, she didn’t mean that she gave the money or donated it. She was going to donate some money and got called out for not donating the money.

Top Gun beats Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End Box Office record

new Top Gun Starring Tom Cruise

The new Top Gun Starring Tom Cruise has recently took the number spot in Box Office revenue. The movie made $156 million in 4 days beating Pirates of the Carribean which had $153 million. The movie also received very high review ratings from Rotten Tomato’s critics. In the movie, they rented planes from the military which was never done before.

The military had to grant them to fly at a certain level in the movie. All the stunts done was 100% real and was flown by real fighter pilots.

Ricky Gervias stand-up Comedy show

Ricky Gervias is a stand-up comedian and in the Golden Globes a couple of years ago. He was reviewed in Rotten Tomato and received a professional critic review of 14%. This is even though the audience review of his comedy is 92%. The reason for this is because of his use of words about transgender people.

Taco Bell Brings back their Mexican Pizza

Taco Bell Brings back their Mexican Pizza

Two weeks ago taco brings back their Mexican pizza and everyone gone crazy about it. Now they’re at a shortage and it has gotten harder for people to find a Mexican pizza. If you tried searching for Taco Bell’s Mexican pizza in food delivery apps or Google, there would no longer be an offer for it.

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Knowing the latest news is always important so that you aren’t behind with current events. Whether it’s about sports or economic news, you can still make use of these for your business in preparing it for what are the trends that may affect it. Brofessional Development podcast covers trending news that can help keep you updated.

Mona Lisa painting gets caked

Mona Lisa painting was hit by a cake by a man dressed up as a woman in a wheelchair. The cake was eventually wiped off by a security guard. It was hard to imagine that someone would think about doing a stunt like this out of boredom or hate.

Mona Lisa painting gets caked
Sheryl Sandberg stepping down as the COO of Meta or Facebook

Sheryl Sandberg was the face of women in business, and had a huge reputation and following of women. This was a position she announced in June 1, 2022, that she will be stepping down in the fall of 2022. She acquired the position back in 2008, becoming the second highest ranking official of the platform.

Not a single company went IPO in the market

This is the first week in over 2 years that not a single company went IPO or initial public offering. A lot of companies have been going public to raise their funds and grow their company. An IPO can get you a share of that company for what you bought it for. With inflation, high valuations of these companies have gone down. People think that consumers are going to eventually stop buying startup products because of this. Although big companies are still growing, their stock price is going down. COVID-19 was the cause of the previous market crash. Currently, the market is going down every day, but the market is still tanking this.  The other thing that will be affected by this is startups are going to have trouble continuing their company. In order to survive, they must try to either cut down their expenses or make money faster.

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What it means to create a vision?

Having a vision for your business is similar to your life goals. For some, their vision is to get abs they’ve been working out for, while others is to see themselves looking at their account and say, “someday this amount is going to be millions.” Having a vision for your business is similar, it’s just about figuring out what you want, then chunking that into smaller pieces to create small goals that help you get to your vision.

Why is setting a vision important?

Vision is also about clarity, you need to have a clear idea of where you want to go before you attempt to push your business to achieve that success. A business strategy is also a good thing to have, but in won’t help you achieve anything if you don’t have an actual idea of where you want your business to be. If you’re a small business owner or entrepreneur, you won’t be able to accomplish something until you have a clear picture of what your vision is.

You can’t only focus on the revenue your company will be gaining, but you also should try to see what role you’re going to play in the company you’re trying to build. Think about what strengths you have and why you enjoyed doing it in order to move forward with your plans. Set a vision that you want your business to be in the future because it’s your strength, it’s what you love to do, and enjoy your way to achieve great success.

What can you do to develop your own vision?

Here are questions you can answer by Andy Andrews:

  1. What do you really want to experience in your life?
  2. What are the most important things you would like to happen in your life before you die?
  3. Who do you want to become and what would you live for?

You may find that an answer that will revolve around your mind is freedom. You want to be able to do something that you enjoy doing and when you want to do them. Yes, you’ll need money or passive income to acquire freedom, but this is a type of vision you can put your mind to have in the future. This can be a reason why you’re pushing your business to be successful among other factors such as providing for your family or living a financially stable life.

Reticular Activating System (RAS)

Reticular activating system is network of nerves in our brainstem that filters out unnecessary information. This is so that only the important information gets through. This placed the science behind law of attraction.

Reticular Activating System

For example, you’ve been doing on research on something you’re interested in learning, eventually, you’ll see more information on that topic as you go along. When you put your daily intention and focus on something no matter what is, you’ll be able to find it. Unless you put your attention to real estate or your business, information that may help you build on it, then you’ll never notice those billboards, commercials, or advertisements about it.

RAS allows you to filter out information that will not have an impact in your goals or your interests. The more you put your mind towards your goals and vision, the more likely you’ll be able to see the answers that are presented in front of you.

How to Create a Compelling Vision

Vision casting allows you to set your business on course to succeed. The vision is a clear idea that shows where you want your business to be. Visions allow you to continue achieving goal after goal in your business.

What we’re doing for our vision?

Entrepreneurial operating system (EOS) is a popular way of how to run a business. A book called Traction talks about how you can use EOS and implement that in your business and make it a reality.

A big part of the book is about its visions, how to create a compelling one, and with successful visions you will more likely be successful in your business. We’re using this book to get a better view of how to create our own vision. These guidelines will define the culture you want, what’s your core focus, and the reason for being in your niche. There’s a 10 year target you must set for your business, and each year focus on creating quarterly milestones to measure your progress and reassess where you are.

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What’s more important getting the most out of your employees or employees getting the most out of you?

As business owners, our business won’t run the way it should without hiring good employees. It’s important to take care of your employees, because your employees are unhappy with your work environment, then they may underperform and lose you money. Your vision for the company can’t be seen by everybody. The way you handle your customers can’t be carried over to your employees. This is why you should set the standards and care for your employees if you want them to perform well for your business.

Getting the Most out of Your Employees

Your employees has the right to get something out of you whether it’s money, benefits, work life balance, growth, or continued education, one of these will be important to them. Being able to offer what’s important to them will help motivate them to maximize their production in order to receive those benefits. Your business will benefit from their production and they will benefit from your offers for their work.

What you can learn from leading people?

One of the key things you can learn leading your employees is being able to understand their emotions. You can’t always see your employee happily working every day. There will always be a day where they can be down and that can affect their performance at work. People can have problems that arise such as family, health, and other issues. How you handle and try to have a conversation with them can have an impact. Employees knowing that you care about them more than just being an individual to make you money will help create a positive workplace.

Another thing you can learn from leading your employees is that, you can’t treat everyone equally. You can’t fully focus on top performers and provide them with more privileges just because you get more out of them. Check in with your lower performers and find out one of these three things:

  • Is something you can do to help them in improving their performance?
  • Are they not comfortable or capable of doing the job?
  • Or are they just refusing to work?

This is also a way of diving into their emotional side and understand how you can have a real relationship with your employees to help boost their work performance. Allow your employees to be able to reach out to you and you as their leader, be more open to conversations that not only focus on their performance but also their comfort of working on their job.

What’s better to have in an employee skillset or mindset?

A person with a good mindset of what they want to do and how they want to perform can acquire skills. If a person’s mindset doesn’t want to focus on the type of job they want, then even if they have the skills for it, they won’t be able to perform well. An employee with a positive mindset will be happy to be in the company and be willing to learn more skills. That’s a valuable type of employee, because in long-term employment that same employee with a great mindset can adapt to new trends and acquire the skills necessary to apply those trends to your business.

Some recruiters are caught up with the skill set an employee must have to perform in the company. These are essentially the qualifications required for the role a business is offering. A person with the skillset you need can still lack other skills which you might still take some time and resources to get them to learn it. If you’re training someone with a positive mindset, they will also take the same amount of time but may outperform the person with the skill set you set for the job role.

Getting the Most out of your Employees

If you create good systems as an employer or employee, then you can have a successful business. You define how well your employee will perform in your business starting from your hiring process, how you lead your employees and choosing the right employees that will match your business goals.

New tactics or methodologies to maximize production of people

One of the tactics you can try as a leader is to find out your employee’s personality traits. Personality testing is to try understand their traits that they show given a situation. Every individual has a different personality trait and each one will approach and accomplish your goals in their own way. If given a task, one employee can try to accomplish it through problem solving, while another employee can be innovative or improvise in solving it. Different personality types can be successful in the same role but have very different ways to do it.

The 90 day guarantee is when you should have some data within an employee that shows if he or she is going to be successful or productive to your business in the long-term. When you recruit a potential employee, you go through their references, skills, experience, and all the normal hiring procedures. You want to add another test which is the personality test to figure out if they are checking the right answers you’re looking for in an individual. At the end of the day, you want to hire someone who will benefit your clients and make a positive impact in your business.

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Being Flexible and Adapting in Business

Being flexible is not getting emotionally attached to specific outcomes. You can’t always get what you want, and there will be problems your business will have to face. You must have the ability to adjust when things don’t go according to plan. Being able to quickly adapt to a new circumstance can help you get to a new outcome that can further benefit your business growth. From a sports point of view, there are a lot of teams that show different types of changes in front of you. If you don’t learn to adapt and make adjustments your team will have a harder time winning.

Flexibility and Adaptation in Life and in Business

Being flexible is not getting emotionally attached to specific outcomes. Being able to quickly adapt to a new circumstance is another way of being flexible in business. Understanding that even when things go wrong there are always opportunities there. You have to be flexible to become a successful business owner or you won’t last very long.

Is being flexible more of an attitude or behavior?

Being flexible is about understanding that even when things go wrong, there will always be opportunities present.

The attitude should stay the same and your behavior should shift. This is because the attitude should remain constant when trying to achieve your goals. However, something may interrupt your behavior while trying to achieve that and this is where you have to be flexible. When a problem arises you shouldn’t always change your attitude, but your behavior instead. Attitude and behavior are a combination, and it’s a situation where you can’t only focus on one over the other.

Action creates motivation, if there’s action then you will be motivated to carry on with the action. So, if your attitude isn’t good, then this will be a big part of your problem. If you don’t take action, then you will never get your business to be successful.

Flexible and Adapting in Business

Benefits of being flexible and rigid in business

Being fluid is important, this is if you plan on something, then you should stick to it while changing a couple of things along the way. However, if you go back and forth with your plans or change too much, it causes you to get stuck. For this reason, being rigid especially when it comes to your business is really good in life. You can’t allow people to dictate your course of action with what you already have planned.

If you agree with a customer saying that you need to lower the prices on your products, then it will be expected of you on your next product. This is the same when managing your employees. If you set a standard they need to follow and keep it, and one employee doesn’t keep that. You will eventually need to confront that employee. You can be flexible in your business when you know it is in your capabilities, but only be flexible when things are out of your control.

For example, if your employee has a family emergency, then you can be flexible with letting them go for the day. If something happens to your supply chain such as an accident, then you can’t control that. Only worry about things you can control and try to develop an action plan to get to a solution.

When you learn from a problem or situation, then you are adapting. Adaption by definition is the process of changing. This applies to changing your product or service to better suit the preferences of your customers. You will move forward with your business by adjusting little things.

When can are you being too flexible?

Adapting is a part of our life, if you’re not adapting, then you’re putting yourself in a position not to succeed and grow your business. When you’re too flexible with every area of your business, then this may turn into passivity. Don’t expect to have growth if you’re not going to change and not meet your own expectations. You’ll only need to be flexible when you plan on achieving your goal, and can be too flexible for that goal.

If it’s for another thing, then it may have a negative impact on your business and its growth. Not everyone in your business is going to think like you and expect you to be flexible. If you have employees that you are often flexible with and allow them to do things that are out of your business growth, then you’re setting your business to get stuck. Your expectations should always be met and being too flexible can be a hindrance.

You need a solid structure to ensure that you’re ready to keep going forward. This is through setting your goals and allowing your employees to be aware of that goal. You still have to stay rigid in order to help your business grow and accomplish the things you want your team to accomplish every day.

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One out of five mobile searches is for porn. In 2018, there were 33.5 billion viewers, that’s 92 million visits per day which is as much as the population of Canada, Australia, and Poland combined.

Tune into this episode and listen to some of the top-earners in the porn industry, highest-paid scenes, average annual pay, and our go-to search! Besides, just like any business, we get to discuss the new venture in porn, VR  porn. Tune in for more!

Porn as a Side Hustle? The business of the PORN industry!

One out of five mobile searches is for porn. In 2018, there were 33.5 billion viewers, that’s 92 million visits per day which is as much as the population of Canada, Australia, and Poland combined. Tune into this episode and listen to some of the top-earners in the porn industry, highest-paid scenes, average annual pay, and our go-to search!

In this episode

[01:26] What we’ve been up to

[06:11] Euphoria movie on HBO

[10:58] Porn overview

[13:19] The wage gap in the porn industry

[14:42] The highest net worth of all pornstars

[16:58] Highest paid scenes per type of porn

[21:22] How long is a porn scene

[23:05] Average annual pay

[26:28] The Go-To search

[30:44] Why do a lot of girls watch lesbian porn

[32:15] Percentage of porn mobile search

[32:57] The new venture in porn-VR porn

[35:30] A funny story on uncircumcised dicks

Powerful Quotes

  • It’s more a supply and demand thing. There are more people into anal than there are in double penetration.
  • If you do lesbian porn for 40hours a week, you are a millionaire
  • I like understanding the dynamic between the two people. It’s interesting, aligns up, and I feel like I could be the guy.
  • A lot of girls watch lesbian porn. There is no incarnation to become lesbian, do anything with other chics, or be bi. It’s like the porn that is guy and female porn. It’s all about the dude.
Porn as a Side Huslte

The main of every business is making significant earnings out of it. The porn industry is not any different. The industry makes $95 billion annually, with some top actors making lucrative earnings.

In this episode, we get to discuss porn statistics from the wage gap in the industry, highest-paid scenes, average annual pay, percentage of mobile porn searches, and the favourite go-to search. Besides, we get to dive deep into why most girls watch girl to girl porn.

If you’re looking to understand the various dynamics in the porn industry, this is for you!

Porn Overview

The porn industry makes $95 billion annually. That is like the NFL, MLB, and NBA combined. In 2018, there were 33.5 billion viewers, that’s 92 million visits per day which is as much as the population of Canada, Australia, and Poland combined. Those are huge numbers.

The wage gap in the porn industry

The highest-paid porn star of all; time is Peter North. He made it from porn and appeared on the big screen in movies like Blade and Zack and Mirri Make a Porno. Peter’s Networth stands at 11 million dollars.

Jenna Jameson has the highest net worth on the female side, which stands at 30 million dollars.

When it comes to top earners, Tiger leads with 7.7 million dollars.

Highest paid scenes per type of porn

What is the highest paid scene between the different types of sex? That is Solo, Lesbian, Straight, Anal Group Sex and Double penetration? The answer is Anal.

“It’s a supply and demand thing. There are more people into anal than there are into double penetration.”

As opposed to what type is more difficult, it depends on what’s popular.

How long do sex scenes last

Some sex scenes could last from 45 minutes to roughly one how, but most scenes will last 20 to 30 minutes.

Let’s say one scene lasts an hour. You are a millionaire if you do lesbian porn for 40 hours a week.

Average Annual Pay

Just like in any business, there are low and high seasons. However, the average annual pay for a porn actor is between $40,000 to $50,000. In comparison to, the general annual salary for a person outside porn is $46,000

Favourite Go-To search

Most people do not have a go-to search, but they just browse all pages until they find the most interesting videos.

“I just browse the main page. When I see something I like, I pop it open and check related videos.”

You can also multiple tabs and figure out which is the best for you.

“It’s like asking me what my favourite type of food is. It depends on time.”

Why do most girls love watching lesbian porn?

A lot of girls watch lesbian porn. There is no incarnation to become lesbian, do anything with other chics, or be bi. It’s like the porn that is guy and female porn. It’s all about the dude.

They know what they are doing more than we ever could. It is more realistic to them.

Virtual Reality Porn

VR porn is expected to be a $1 billion business by the end of 2025. Just like virtual reality gaming, which is at $1.4 billion.

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What better way to learn Customer Service with Expert Shep Hyken! Great customer service keeps your customers coming back and increases your referrals. It is one of the best strategies to increase your revenue and gain a competitive advantage.

Customer Service Expert Shep Hyken!

Improving customer service is a vital part of growing any business. After all, the lifeblood of any company is repeat customers. As many as 70 percent of customers say they’ll spend more with companies that provide excellent customer service. In a market where it’s easier than ever for customers to take their money elsewhere, how can you improve your customer service?

What are some tricks in customer service? How can you succeed in excellent customer service? Besides, what’s your role as a leader in implementing customer service?

This article expounds more on some strategies you need to succeed in your business and keep your customers coming back. If you are wondering how to handle that unhappy customer who keeps complaining, this is for you!

Tricks in Customer Service

  • ●Process Improvement
  • ●Listening to the customer
  • ●Getting Feedback from customers
  • ●Acting on that feedback

Why most organizations fail customer service

Some organizations aim to invest in customer service, but they end up failing. Where do these companies go wrong? Such companies tend to invest in customer service based on the competitors rather than their customer’s wants.

You can’t just say, let’s give great customer service. There are certain angles you need to hit:

  • ●Have it in your culture

“Customer service is not a department, it’s part of the culture. It is the philosophy of the company.”

  • ●Proper Training

Training is not one time. You can’t just watch the course once. You have to go through it over and over again.

“Training is not something you did, it is something you do. It is ongoing.”

  • ●Who to train

Instead of creating the culture and training people properly, most organizations think they only need to train front-line workers. However, it’s never the case. You have to recognize that you have internal customers, the people you work with. If you do not treat your internal customers the right way, you do not expect these people to go and do a perfect job for the outside customer.

Role of Internal customers in Customer Service

Whenever a customer comes into contact with any aspect of the business, they form an impression. Therefore, no matter how big or small the company is, every person in your company has some impact on the customer’s experience.

Always ensure that you have good customer service. Are your employees working for a paycheck or the company? Do you pay them what they are worth? Ensure you create an environment that is fulfilling for your employees.

“If you take care of people on the inside, they are going to take care of people on the outside.”

Customer Service Solutions

Teach your customers to use customer service resources such as customer relationship software.  Using this software enables them to resolve issues on their own within a short time.

“It is impossible to wow someone everytime they call. I’m calling to enquire my bank balance. Wow that’s amazing. It doesn’t happen.”

Although you cannot always wow a customer, you can amaze them all the time by ensuring every interaction they have is slightly better than average.

The unhappy customer versus the happy customer

If you get someone that complains and always has an issue, it is an opportunity to learn from that. How do you get to eliminate, mitigate, or train people to respond, so it does not happen again?

For both the happy and unhappy customer, you need to ask the reason behind it. If it is bad, what can you do about it and prevent it? If it is good, how do you operationalize it?

The role of leaders in great customer service

In a customer-focus culture, leaders have to demonstrate what they want everyone else to do.

“Wear it on your sleeve and have it in your heart. Walk the talk.”

As a leader, always stoop to excellence. Be willing to stoop to whatever level to ensure an excellent experience.

Communicating with your Clients

Good customer service involves communication with your clients. You can do this via personalized handwritten thank you notes, texts, emails, or videos. It does matter whether it is digital or handwritten. Just personalize it and do it right!

Hope you enjoyed our episode with Customer Service Expert Shep Hyken!

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