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It has been almost two years since our first episode and now we are halfway to 100 episodes. What started as a hobby and something fun to do has now scaled to be part of our life. And today, we hit episode 50! Join us as we share about our journey, where the Brofessional Development Podcast started, how it’s growing, and what to expect in the future. We also share our own individual stories and how this podcast has helped us grow and keep a circle that always challenges us to go for more. We talk about our favorite episodes, guests, quotes, and how we think the Brofessional Development Podcast is making an influence out there!

Halfway to 100!

It has been almost two years since our first episode. What started as a hobby and something fun to do has now scaled to be part of our life. And today, we hit episode 50! Join us as we share about our journey, where the Brofessional Development Podcast started, how it’s growing, and what to expect in the future.

Halfway to 100 Episodes!
Halfway to 100 Episodes!

Key Highlights

[01:24] What McNeil has been up to

[03:15] Does natural talent exist?

[08:03] All about Episode 50

[08:16] Our favorite quotes since starting Brofessional Development Podcast

[11:50] Why we started Brofessional Development Podcast

[16:44] Our favorite Episodes with the hosts

[23:00] Least favorite episodes

[23:53] Our favorite guests

[25:35] Least favorite guests

[27:51] List of guests we wish to have in our next 50 episodes

[30:22] How we have grown individually since starting the podcast

[46:05] Where the podcast has helped us on the road

[52:22] Where we see the podcast helping others

Powerful Quotes

  • I think that there’s natural talent and ability that people are born with, whether that’s in sports, business, or just in life in general. But the issue is a lot of people will never tap into their natural ability and it just goes to be useless.
  • You have to love what you do. You have to have a good coach. And if you put all that together, that’s where the talent starts to develop itself.
  • People do not decide their future. They decide their habits and their habits decide their future.
  • If you can dream it, you can do it.
  • I want to find that place where most people quit and I want to be there as much as possible.
  • You are the product of the people you surround yourself with and the content that you consume.
  • Anything that’s your first is going to be bad and you can’t get to 100x without starting. So many people are just refusing to start because they are scared of failing.
  • People are happy and comfortable because it’s easy. I think the podcast just forces us to do more uncomfortable things and we grow.

Resources

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Books

The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle

Mentioned Episodes

Finding Your Life’s Purpose with Jeff Lopes

Influencing Our Thoughts To Change Our Behavior with Jason Selk

Finding your greatest strength through challenge and pain! With Ben Newman

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How To Track Your Digital Marketing

In this mini-episode, Josh Sample share with us ways on how to track digital marketing ads with social media. Tune in to listen to Josh Sample giving the right strategies to ensure you run a successful ads campaign through various social media platforms.

How To Track Your Digital Marketing

In this mini-episode, Josh Sample share with us ways to track digital marketing ads with social media.

Timestamps

[01:05] The right timeframe to run a campaign

[01:30] Identifying Key Performance Indicator (KPI)

[02:31] Identifying the ideal customer

[03:50] Creating the right content for your customer

Powerful Quotes

  • The first thing you want to do is identify how long do your campaigns need to run before you’ll see that KPI.
  • After you determine what the success or failure of KPI is, then and only then can you start optimizing and placing your ads.
  • There’s a very large difference between your actual customer and the customer that you want.
  • We’re in the era of research. You’re not going to trick anybody into buying from you.

Connect with Josh Sample

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-sample-a4080759/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/freesocialsamples/?hl=en

Website: https://joshsample.wpengine.com/

Resources

Drive Social Media: https://drivesocialnow.com/

Marketing Milk: https://www.marketingmilk.com/

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You may also want to check out these previous episodes!

Saying Yes To Saying No

Integrity

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In this episode, we talk Mentality For Scaling Your Business With Josh Sample!, the founder, and Operating Partner at Drive Social Media. Josh is also a contributor to Forbes Agency Council, a public speaker, and a writer.

Mentality For Scaling Your Business With Josh Sample!

Tune in to listen to Josh’s journey, where it all started, the mentality that kept him moving forward and fast to making his first million, scaling his business, and the secrets behind his success story. 

Mentality For Scaling Your Business With Josh Sample

In this episode, we talk to Josh Sample, the founder, and Operating Partner at Drive Social Media. Josh is also a contributor to Forbes Agency Council, a public speaker, and a writer.

Timestamps

[01:33] Josh Sample’s background story

[09:37] How to scale your business

[13:05] Making the first million

[14:43] “Not satisfied mentality”

[15:15] Josh’s work ethic

[23:26] Where Josh has grown the most as a person

[26:26] Biggest pivots experienced

[29:45] The legacy Josh Sample wants to leave behind

[30:43] Recruiting challenges

[35:02] Work from home idea

[40:20] Developing good leadership culture in an organization

[43:23] Only fans inquiry

Powerful Quotes

  • When I was young, I realized that you had to work to make money. And if you didn’t work, you didn’t have any money.
  • I have always had the ideology of throwing as much money as you can strategically and smartly. But do whatever you can to move faster.
  • The point when I thought that I was going to make my first million was the day I saw a  million.
  • I was always so fearful of losing it all. I protected it over and over again.
  • You can always turn a loser into a winner. But winners will always be winners.
  • You have to put as much energy into the people that are just like you in the organization, as you do to the people who aren’t like you at all.
  • Everybody hits a rough patch in their career. Everybody has ups and downs.
  • I just think that if you do good for other people, stupid as it sounds, Karma is a bitch.
  • The only way you could beat Facebook is if you figure out a way that they can’t rip you off.

 

Connect with Josh Sample

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-sample-a4080759/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/freesocialsamples/?hl=en

Website: https://joshsample.wpengine.com/

Resources

Drive Social Media: https://drivesocialnow.com/

Marketing Milk: https://www.marketingmilk.com/

Please help us by liking, sharing, and subscribing to our podcast if you enjoy this content.

You may also want to check out these previous episodes!

Saying Yes To Saying No

Integrity

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We hope you enjoyed Mentality For Scaling Your Business With Josh Sample!

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In today’s episode, we speak to Connor Beaton, the founder of Man Talks. Man Talks is an organization that is focused on men’s health and success. Helping Men Find Their Purpose And Confidence With Connor Beaton! Connor is also an international speaker, a podcast host, and an event leader who pushes men to dig deep for their purpose and for confidence. He’s also appeared at TEDx multiple stages.

Tune in and listen to our guest share about finding inspiration after hitting your rock bottom, his own experience and how he got out of it, how you can leverage uncertainty, and more from his upcoming book.

Helping Men Find Their Purpose And Confidence With Connor Beaton

In today’s episode, we speak to Connor Beaton, the founder of Man Talks. Man Talks is an organization that is focused on men’s health and success. Connor is also an international speaker, a podcast host, and an event leader who pushes men to dig deep for their purpose and for confidence.

Connor Beaton on the Brofessional Development Podcast. Helping Men find their purpose and confidence!

Timestamps:

[00:45] About Connor Beaton

[01:29] ‘The first rule of men’

[05:19] Has Connor’s views on ‘the first rule of men’ changed after becoming a father?

[09:10] What men generally hide

[14:58] Connors tears and the turning point

[20:08] Finding inspiration out of your rock bottom

[22:43] Advice for the desperate people out there

[26:44] “Sex for validation”

[31:40] Thoughts on fraternity initiation

[34:36] The purpose of initiation

[37:58] How to leverage uncertainty

[40:43] The biggest lesson about uncertainty

[42:04] Connor’s upcoming book: what to look forward to

[43:25] Only fans inquiry

Powerful Quotes

  • A man’s work begins in pain. It begins in us being able to look at our lives in a very real way and say, why am I suffering?
  • I’m very grateful for having put in the work to be the man that I am today to give my son the best chance possible in a world that is admittedly radically chaotic.
  • Some men feel like frogs because they’re not owning who they are or what they’re actually doing in their life.
  • The biggest moment for me was deciding that lying, hiding, and being untruthful in any way was a damaging impact on my life.
  • If you can find somebody that can help you get into that shame and grief before you hit the rock bottom, you can circumvent your situation.
  • The inspiration comes from giving yourself the permission to experience the things that you don’t want to experience, talk about things you’ve been avoiding, and own the things you’ve been running from.
  • For a lot of men, it’s easier to get validation from women than it is for them to go on a journey.
  • The purpose of initiation of putting you in contact with death is so that you could come back to culture, community, and your family, and be more effective as a man.
  • Uncertainty is the force of change. When you don’t know what’s going to happen, then what you’re left with is faith.

Connect with Connor

Connor Beaton Website: https://connorbeaton.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/connorbeaton/?originalSubdomain=ca

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mantalks/?hl=en

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ConnorBeaton?s=20

Man Talks Website: https://mantalks.com/

Mentioned Book

The Wisdom Of Insecurity— Alan Watts

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You may also want to check out these previous episodes!

Saying Yes To Saying No

Integrity

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This week on Brofessional Development the guys talk about  QUIT BITCHING AND COMPLAINING!

Entrepreneurs from St. Louis talk about why you should quit your bitching and complaining!

Quit Bitching and Complaining

This week on Brofessional Development the guys talk about BITCHING AND COMPLAINING! What is covered in this podcast: Personal and Professional relationships with complaining. Have you gone a full day without bitching? What people complain about! Why people bitch. If there is a time and place for it!

What is covered in this podcast:

  • Personal and Professional relationships with complaining.
  • Have you gone a full day without bitching?
  • What people complain about!
  • Why people bitch.
  • If there is a time and place for it!

We give input from some great minds such as Simon Sinek, Ed Mylett, and Gary V on this episode as well. The conversation starts with 4 outstanding quotes centered around the topic and a huge announcement of a future guest you wont want to miss!

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Dan ends the podcast with his tip of the week and we answer a listener question from Rich!

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Shoot us an email about why you think you should quit your bitching and complaining!

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This week the guys talk about Planning Versus Action and the importance of the two!

Often in the business and entrepreneurship world there is a large amount of time that is spent on planning towards your goal. Thoughts and ideas are put down in effort to try and achieve success. What if you never take action though? Can your goals be achieved or will they just be dreams that never became reality. On the flip side though, can you achieve your goals by taking action without plans? Most the time the answer is yes! You may fail or stumble along the way but odds are you will find success!

Planning versus Action

This weeks topic is Planning vs Action and the importance of the two.  We discuss what percentage we feel should be put towards both in order to succeed toward your goals.  We talk in depth about paralysis by analysis and the Pareto Principal as they go hand in hand with this topic.

On this episode the guys discuss what percentage they feel is correct in order to have the right amount of planning vs action. Matt also touches base on his Ennegram personality test that relates to how he plans, for more on that listen to our entire episode on it here!

We discuss Elon Musk “5 Minute Rule” in which he plans out his day in 5 minute time blocks the evening prior! This is coming from one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world.

The Pareto Principal is also touched on in how the 80/20 rule affects the amount of time needed on planning vs taking action.

Send us an email with any topic ideas or guests you would like to see in the future here!

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This week on the Brofessional Development Podcast was joined by Emily Frisella! Emily is one of the leading female entrepreneurs in St. Louis, MO! Hard Work Knows No Gender!

On this episode Emily fills us in on her latest business venture The Paper and Plan Co. which just debuted this month along with her thoughts on female entrepreneurs!

STL’s leading Female Entrepreneur!

Also, the guys dig into a topic that is often overlooked with women in the business and entrepreneurial space, and that is how to overcome the mentality that females cannot be successful! On the podcast Emily drops a quote that will change a lot of views on this matter that you will not want to miss!

Finally, Emily shares her thoughts on something she has said before! Hard work knows no gender! Your work equals your results and respect! Emily brings it to our audience in a laid back and easy to approach way that makes this a must listen to episode!

Let us know your thoughts and send us an email with any comments! Please also send us guest requests for future episodes!

Emily Frisella – Hard Work Knows No Gender!

This week the Brofessional Development Podcast was joined by one of the leading female entrepreneurs!  Emily Frisella joined us this week to talk to us about her newest venture! She also filled us in on her thoughts about women in business and how to overcome the mentality that females cannot be successful.

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This week on the Brofessional Development Podcast the guys talk about COMMITMENT!

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So what are Commitment Issues?

They break down what does it mean to commit, is it possible to over commit, and when to say NO! Not only do they give you this, but they actually apply it to several real life situations that happened this week among the hosts as well. This not only gives you outline of each but also gives you a real life application to open your eyes to what commitment means!

What about 75Hard is new with the boys? Well do we have some BREAKING NEWS on this episode! We have had our first FAILURE among the group! You will not want to miss the guys talk about it this week as it is sure to make you laugh! While one victim has lost his battle we still have three guys who are going strong!

Commitment Issues

On this weeks episode of the Brofessional Development Podcast the guys talk about COMMITMENT!  They discuss what commitment means, is it possible to over commit, and when to say NO! The guys apply it to some real life examples that happened among the group this week that is sure to make you laugh and give you a good insight of commitment!

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We hope you enjoyed this weeks episode on Commitment Issues and hope to see you again next week!

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On this weeks episode the Brofessional Development guys tackled a couple different topics including the Enneagram Personality Test and 75 Hard!

Each host took the Enneagram Personality Test this week which you can also take right HERE! This was something that Dan thought would be an interesting topic and we were very interested to see if we were all similar or had different personalities. During the episode we try and guess the results of each of the hosts and discuss what our personality says about each of us. It was a very interesting topic to see if we thought what the test produced was a correct or incorrect answer for our personality!

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An Enneagram test is a model of personality in which there are nine personality types, related to each other in the geometry of the Enneagram figure! These are often used by various organizations for self help, business development, and spiritual development! If you want a much deeper insight please check out the link HERE!

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75 HARD

Along with the Enneagram test the boys have decided to dive deep and try and complete Andy Frisella’s 75Hard Program. To get an in depth look at what 75 Hard is we invite you to check out as much information on this page HERE! A quick glimpse at what 75 Hard is though includes 7 Key Items to be completed for 75 days STRAIGHT! You mess up once and you start back over at DAY 1!

  • 2 Workouts of 45 mins! 1 workout MUST BE OUTSIDE
  • Read 10 pages of a self help-business development book CANNOT BE DIGITAL!
  • Drink a gallon of water!
  • Follow a Diet
  • No Cheat meals or Alcohol
  • Take a Progress Picture

Follow along with the process and please feel free to join us! At the time of recording Bobby is already 24 days and he talked about it on this episode HERE! Brad is 5 days in and enjoy the process and seems to be very motivated! Listen to the podcast to see why Colin went from 3 days in back to day 1 after not knowing the complete rules to the program! Also our boy Dan is at day 1 with an interesting strategy leading up to the start of the program! Matt is going to be the judge through the process and make sure everyone stays on track as he wants to continue to enjoy his seltzers at volleyball each week!

Enneagram Personality Test and 75 HARD!

This week on the Brofessional Development Podcast the guys all took the Enneagram Personality Test.  We discussed our results from the test, had an open discussion on our thoughts about it, and tried to guess each hosts results!

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This week on the Brofessional Development Podcast the guys cover one of the most popular subjects in the personal and business development world, The Law of Attraction! In this episode we cover what it is, how it is used, and what we think of it. We steer you through some of the crazy things that are said about it and give it to you in an easy to understand explanation!

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The Brofessional Development Podcast Crew after recording!

We also welcomed our newest co host on this episode, Bobby Drummond! Bobby shares with an insightful story about how he is changing his life for the better and how he feels the law of attraction helped guide him down that path!

As usual we covered our weekly takeaways from the professional development world. Some good podcast suggestions, new books that we are reading, along with some insightful quotes that will never get old!

Law of Attraction

This week on the Brofessional Development Podcast the guys talk about the Law of Attraction.  What is the Law of Attraction, how does it work, and how do we feel about it is all covered in this episode!  We also welcomed our newest host Bobby Drummond on who shares an insightful story on changing his life for the better!  As usual the guys share some key takeaways in the business development world!  Buckle up and enjoy!

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