Season 3 Recap So Far - Happy Fourth of July!

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Foreign. [00:00:06] Speaker B: Taylor here, along with my producer jb. And today's episode of the Worst Advice I Ever Got is going to be, well, a little different. [00:00:14] Speaker A: Yeah, that's right. We're taking the week off to enjoy the fourth of July. You should too. You know, fire up the grill, light a sparkler, yell freedom into the void, whatever. It's your day. [00:00:23] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm thinking like Mel Gibson, William Wallace, Freedom. Right now my face isn't painted, so don't, don't be worried about that. It's just audio podcast. Anyway. But before we vanish into a cloud of hot dogs and sunscreen, we wanted to say thank you. Thank you for spending your time with us this season and, and maybe take the time to offer a little reminder. Why not knock out the podcast episodes that you haven't got to yet? This is the perfect week to binge. [00:00:52] Speaker A: Yeah, right? No excuses. You don't have any meetings, no PowerPoints. And you just the wisdom, bad advice, and just a few stories that'll maybe make you rethink your whole life trajectory. [00:01:02] Speaker B: Yeah, those stories just might do that. Let's, let's think about this for a minute, jb. Let's take a quick walk back through this season's episode, starting with one of my favorites. Don't start a bar for dogs. [00:01:14] Speaker A: Yeah, don't start a bar for dogs. This is from our friend Stephen Oaks. And advice came from his mom. The bar he started was Fetch park. And you know, it's now one of the most successful dog friendly bar concepts in the country. You know, and this is just an episode about how he, you know, power through the rejection. He's got investors and landlords and friends. You know, the guy heard no for a living, but he just kept going. [00:01:39] Speaker B: Yeah, he ordered 86 times, if I'm not mistaken. No, no, no, no, no. And now people are drinking beer while their golden retrievers chase a tennis ball. I think he wins. [00:01:51] Speaker A: Oh, for sure. Then we had depri come on with some more advice from the parents. [00:01:57] Speaker B: Yeah, uh, don't graduate college without a job. That was one. It was a great example of, of, of, of fear. Really, really fear. Being dressed up as advice. That wasn't just bad. It really changed the course of depries entire career. [00:02:13] Speaker A: Right. He talked about, you know, chasing job security and thinking only about that actually held him back. [00:02:20] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. And then, then how moving into the nonprofit leadership later on gave him the purpose that he was missing. It was the long arc of finding out what you are actually want, even if you take a few detours. [00:02:34] Speaker A: After we had my new real life Instagram friend, Evern Ozka. But just an awesome story. [00:02:40] Speaker B: Yeah, awesome story to say the least. His advice, the shortcut to happiness is success, was something our 20something listeners, I think, got a lot out of. And listen, if you think running 100 miles through the mountains of Turkey to deal with your inner demon sounds intense. Yep, you're right. [00:03:02] Speaker A: Yeah, you're right. You know, that episode really, you know, it was therapy. We've been hearing from our guests a lot that these episodes and the pre interviews that we do and everything are like therapy sessions for them. And this really felt like that. You know, he talked about how chasing external validation almost broke him. And that story about the day that he almost gave up until he saw his son as a toddler and wearing his oversized T shirt saying, I want to be like daddy. I mean, like, man, it's hard not to get choked up thinking about that moment for him. [00:03:29] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, it's just a raw, real look at what happens when you, when you get that wake up call. Right. And you start realizing the advice you've been listening to, it's actually harming you. That's a lot of what this show is all about, right? [00:03:42] Speaker A: I mean, that's what the show is all about. And you know, then we had our. An in studio guest with Anita Henderson. You know, to make more, you have to sell more. And she was just like so cool and collected and had some really awesome takeaways. Actually made my job a lot easier making the reels for our Instagram. [00:03:59] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, it's a great episode for anyone who's felt just run down from that constant hustle, you know, whether you, whether you have your own business or working for someone else, you know, we've all felt it. She, she flipped the script from volume to value, essentially, and instead of selling more to everyone, she focused on doing just a few things, but doing them really, really well. And it's not just smart, it's sustainable. And we don't, we don't always agree with all the bad advice stories we hear, but. But I have to agree with this one. [00:04:31] Speaker A: Yeah, it's nice when we agree with them, but yes, that's a good reminder that we don't always do that, do we? [00:04:38] Speaker B: No, we don't always do that. And in fact, I think I told our next guest that his worst advice he ever got was not really in alignment with the way I had done my whole career. Right. You know, I love a perfect segue. So let's segue right into Lloyd Avram, whose worst advice he ever got was don't reloc for a job. For those of you who don't recall, I've been at the same place for 30 years. So I was like, come on, man. [00:05:04] Speaker A: Yeah, great example of how we're not saying the bad advice from our guests are bad for everyone. We're just letting them tell their story and why it's bad advice for them. [00:05:14] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, exactly. If Lloyd had listened to that advice his whole career, his whole life, they're just different. And I'm personally glad. We're all glad that he didn't take that advice. And his story makes that, I mean, just crystal clear. [00:05:28] Speaker A: Yeah. It's all about, you know, calculated risk. And speaking of calculated, Jamie Brindle's episode, the next one, is all about how you can be too calculated when it comes to a business plan. [00:05:39] Speaker B: Oh, boy. [00:05:40] Speaker A: Yeah. I finally got my own Segue Season 3 goal hit. [00:05:44] Speaker B: Well, we're all. We're all happy for you, jb. I'm glad you hit your goal. But you're right. Jamie's make a business plan being the worst advice he ever got. That was. That was really interesting. [00:05:55] Speaker A: Yeah. It's a whole episode about how a plan is only useful if it lets you move and, you know, not if it keeps you frozen trying to predict every single little detail. You absolutely still need a goal, but not a step by step on how to achieve it. [00:06:09] Speaker B: Write the goal in stone and the implementation in pencil. [00:06:13] Speaker A: Okay, 100. [00:06:15] Speaker B: Then you got Jeff Hillemire. One of our best interviews, I think, you know, you hate to rate these from top to bottom, and I try not to, but, man, his episode, Dream Big, that. That just stuck out to me. It sounds like, what do you mean? Why wouldn't I want to dream big? But when he breaks it down, you see, really, how that advice nearly cost him his. I mean, frankly, his sanity. [00:06:39] Speaker A: Yeah, right. You know, going too fast, chasing a huge vision. All that, you know, just leads to burnout and failure, you know, so he's basically just saying, start small so you can actually start something. [00:06:50] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Small dreams done well become big dreams over time. That's the truth. And it doesn't have to start out perfect. [00:06:59] Speaker A: Oh, man, we did it again. Great segue. So into the next episode, which is Kelly Johnson's Make It Perfect, and she used a term that she loved calling herself a recovering perfectionist. She learned the hard way that perfection is a moving target and not really a healthy one. [00:07:16] Speaker B: She was so honest about how perfection helped her succeed. But she was also very honest about how it drained the joy from everything. And she's moved by this, Right? She's coaching others to let go of that mindset before it steals their peace. [00:07:30] Speaker A: Yeah, definitely. My wife's favorite episode of the season so far. Little sidebar here. What was your wife's favorite episode? [00:07:37] Speaker B: Has to be the dog bar, but I have a feeling her favorite might not have been released yet. [00:07:43] Speaker A: Oh, a teaser. I love it. [00:07:45] Speaker B: Yeah, I got to keep the audience on their toes. Just like Alan Colton did with his parents in the next. Next episode, be an accountant. [00:07:54] Speaker A: Oh, man. Another great segue. Yeah, you know, he was told, you know, he was the worst accountant his boss had ever seen. So, like, why would that be the worst advice he ever got? [00:08:03] Speaker B: Yeah, I mean, go ahead and listen for yourselves. He's such a leader in the accounting industry. It's. It's. Frankly, it's a pretty wild story. [00:08:10] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah, you're right. We don't have to tell you everything, you know, Go listen. It's a good one, I promise. [00:08:14] Speaker B: Yeah, we. We can't do all your thinking for you, which we really are on a roll here, because our next episode with Kevin Palmieri. [00:08:23] Speaker A: Think less segues all around. Yeah. Terrible advice for a guy who's built his whole career around self awareness and personal growth. [00:08:33] Speaker B: Yep, absolutely. Confirmed terrible from an ex girlfriend. And who. Who doesn't have bad advice from an ex girlfriend or boyfriend? We need more bad advice from exes on this show. I don't know, J.B. you should work on that. [00:08:47] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, I'll do my best. I mean, you know, why not? Well, finally, with the last episode we released just last week where Allison Blood gave us diet doesn't affect your hormones. You know, food ingredients obviously a hot button issue right now. So I know that we're mostly an evergreen content kind of machine, but that doesn't mean that our episodes can't be trendy. [00:09:08] Speaker B: No, absolutely. We've got our finger on the pulse of the nation or whatever it is. That news channel says Allison's background as a nutritional therapist really pulled back the layers of just how damaging not just food, but, I mean, everyday products can really be in our lives. [00:09:25] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, fairly terrifying episode with the microplastics and everything, but she did leave us with some actionable things to do. So it's not all doom and gloom. [00:09:35] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, actionable things like rest in peace to every breakfast cereal I've ever loved. But like you said, she wasn't there to just scare us. I think it was more about empowering us to pay attention to those things that were, you know, dismissed in her life growing up. So. So you don't make the same mistakes. I mean, that is, in a microcosm, the whole point of our show. [00:09:56] Speaker A: Right? That's exactly right. That's the whole point of our show. [00:09:58] Speaker B: Well, this was good, jb. Hopefully today you got the point that we've got a lot of great episodes to listen to and it's worth going to check them all out. And I know some of you maybe have joined us as new listeners while the season had already started and maybe you didn't backtrack. So we're hoping you're going to take some time to do that. But what we really hope is that all of you enjoy your Fourth of July. Be safe, be grateful. And as always, just because you got some advice doesn't mean you need to listen to it. [00:10:29] Speaker A: Except about listening to our advice about our show and following and such. That's. That's great advice. [00:10:35] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah, obviously. Obviously. Thanks for listening, everybody. And we'll be back next week with an all new episode of the Worst Advice I Ever Got.