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John Lee Dumas - Entrepreneurs on Fire, Dealing with Naysayers, & Be v Do! EP128 Sep 19, 2019

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Folks,
This is another 1% Better short (what was an episode of The 864) with the world famous Podcaster & Coach John Lee Dumas. It's a short one but full of interesting lessons from JLDs journey so far. The show notes from the original post last year are below. I hope you enjoy!
John Lee Dumas is the Founder and Host of EOFire, a top-ranked, daily podcast featuring interviews with today's most inspiring and successful entrepreneurs. John & EOFire have been featured in Forbes, TIME and Inc. Magazine.
During the show, we touch on:
Releasing Shows 7 Days a Week
Common Traits for Entrepreneurs – Focus!!
Follow one course until they get the success - Cut out all the fat!
Dealing with Negative Feedback with Empathy
Publishing monthly earnings from his business
Sharing mistakes and successes from the financial reports
Knowing when to shut down initiatives and have the courage to do it!
Stand out guests that John’s learned from!
Damian John – The power of broke – how to learn to hustle
Complacency – how to deal with that
Key Tips:
Be a person of Value, not as someone chasing success
If you want to Be, Do!
Do things that don’t scale – have 1-1 conversations to understand how they found you!
Link to JLD:
John Lee Dumas - https://www.eofire.com/
You can find John Lee Dumas on the socials
Twitter - https://twitter.com/johnleedumas
Instagram -https://www.instagram.com/johnleedumas/?hl=en
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/johnleedumas1
Please do let me know what you think via the feedback page or any of the socials – links below.

Casey Lynn Hancock - From Air Force to Artist, Managing Risk, and Balancing Creativity & Discipline – EP127 Sep 13, 2019

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Casey Lynn Hancock is a self-taught artist and has exploded on to the scene in the last 2 years with her very unique paintings and distinctive style. I noticed her work through social media, connected and was delighted when she agreed to come onto the show to talk about her career, her passion, focus, style and her backstory.
Casey was in the military for a number of years in the US air force and only decided to pursue a career as a full-time artist.
Summary of the discussion:
•Growing up – always having a passion for drawing, mainly of animals.
•Originally being bad at drawing animals
•Having an innate passion for drawing from her earliest memories
•Being a perfectionist from her youth
•Not having art, creativity or design in the family
•Despite having a passion and an eagerness to moving into this world early on, her father was very against it as artist don’t make any money!
•Instead of art school, Casey joined the military and Lessons learned and principals take from the army – discipline, preparation, professionalism, integrity, and other core values – developed accountability and focus
•Expressing creativity through photography while in the military
•After leaving the military, deciding to dive into a marketing degree to develop these skills – still remembering having her father’s words in her head
•Working in Marketing after the military which also have helped in her current career choice
•Key learning and takeaways from the Corporate world – social media, marketing, understanding what people want to see!
•Time lapse videos being a big hit with her followers which was something she’d never have realised before
•Taking the step out on her own – what was the strategy before taking the leap?
•Planning, Saving, and having a clear plan!
•Having a 2 Year window to really start making progress
•Living well within her means!
•Telling her father 30 days after taking the decision to go out on her own
•Trusting her judgement and having an exit strategy if it’s not working out!
•Dealing with great months and slow months
•Once out, starting to build up her portfolio
•Not having the benefit of mentors when starting out
•Finding inspiration for some of the initial pieces of work
•Developing her own style, preferred colours (Teale is prominent) and approach
•A breakthrough piece that helped raise awareness of her work
•Experimenting and trying out new techniques
•The energy put into the work
•The importance of the design phase of the work – coming up with the concept as the most challenging part
•Playing with skin tones which is proving a big challenge
•Having no formal training, every day is a learning experience but using YouTube and other resources to grow and develop
•Practice a specific technique over and over in a deliberate way
•Working style & doing the work – focusing on big blocks of time
•Getting into flow and loving the process
•Painters Block – leaving work for days, weeks and somethings months before coming back and finishing it
•Perfectionism v Good Enough
•Quote – Perfection is the Enemy of Profitability!
•Time Management Approaches – Tracking hours spend on every piece ever done
•Breaking down work into earning per hours
•Dealing with Fear, Self-Doubt, and Judgement – The hardest thing!
•Promoting her work was the hardest thing compared to a product!
•Knowing this is the work she wants to do, just keep doing!
•Quote – Andy Warhol – Keep Creating! Keep doing the work
•Biggest lesson learned - Don’t wait until you feel like you know who you are before you get started!
•Don’t wait till you feel like you’re there! IT WILL PROBABLY NEVER COME!
•Enjoying seeing the progression & just start!
•Don’t compare your real life to someone else high light reel
Website – www.caseypaintings.com
Instragram - @caseypaintings

Productivity Part 2: On Purpose, with Purpose! - EP126 Sep 05, 2019

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The article and episode I did on productivity a couple of years back got some great feedback. But always felt like there was more to cover. This is part 2! Listen and/or read the full post (link below to the written version).
Please like,share, comment!
Productivity Deep Dive - See blog post for full written version of this
https://robofthegreen.ie/2019/09/03/productivity-part-2-on-purpose-with-purpose

Sir Stevo Timothy – Tom Foolery, Online Trolls, Panic Attacks, & Sell-Out Shows! – EP125 Aug 30, 2019

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Steve Timothy is a comedian, online sensation, soon to be Author, Rapper, Satirist, and other titles. He calls himself a chancer and professional Tom-fool. Whatever you want to call him, he’s making a mark.
We connected a couple of weeks back, shortly after his sell out show in Cork, to talk about his career, struggles with anxiety, dealing with trolls, disability, love for Everton Football Club, creativity, business, Conor McGregor, and of course the character he and his partner, Sinead, are best known for, Farmer Michael and Kathleen!
The Summary of our conversation includes:
•Everton FC & support from the team players and raising the status of Everton in Ireland
•Social media following
•The realisation of selling out shows
•Preparing content and dealing with fears and pre-show nerves
•Goodwill from random people and begrudgery from Irish
•Dealing with online Tolls & Death Threats
•Authentically talking about life struggles and dealing with anxiety
•Mental Health Struggles - Sharing this, Making it Normal & de-stigmatisation
•Losing followers when sharing about anxiety and depression
•Not sharing these for likes and followers
•The origins of Farmer Michael and Kathleen & how it’s evolved
•The process followed for creating the content – using every day events
•Working through the bits with Sinead testing out content
•The reaction to followers finding out about Steve’s disability
•Getting support from Disability Ireland
•Dealing with a breakdown and using writing and rapping as an outlet hitting number 1 in the Irish iTunes Charts with the ‘most depressing rap song ever written’
•Moving out of the car onto the stage – coping with the anxiety with this
•Terrifying ideas and using flooding techniques
•Removing the choice of suffering with Panic and Anxiety
•Looking for the Panicky Steve back to be more comfortable
•The Material for the full hour+ stage show – manic and measured
•Crowd interaction and enjoying hecklers
•Future shows and selling out gigs across the UK and Ireland
•The Farmer Michael in all of us & future generations
•Innocence and Ignorance from past generations
•Working towards a release of their first book on Everton FC
•Building a Business behind Farmer Michael
•3 hours per day on social media to market the content
•Finding the balance with posting online
•Other influences in comedy and satire
•Influenced by others – Stewart Lee
•Getting Conor McGregor in the Car!
•How Sinead complements the overall work
•What’s coming next?
oBook
oGigs across the globe?
•How to connect in
•Website:
owww.stevotimothy.com
•Social Media @sirstevotimothy

Rosanna Arquette - Developing Core Values, Staying in Gratitude, & Inspired by the Youth - 1% Better in 864 - EP124 Aug 23, 2019

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All,
This is another episode of the 864 from last year that I'm now releasing on the 1% Better channel. It's a big name and a great chat.
In this episode, I talk with Rosanna Arquette.
If you want to find out about her relationship with Madonna or other standard movie questions from her acting career, this is probably not the interview for you!
The 864 aims to understand a little bit more about the person, what they value, how they have been successful, deal with life challenges and other obstacles that get in the way and we stayed close to these topics in this conversation with Rosanna.
What I did totally not stay true to was the 864 seconds duration piece. It’s more like the 1500 second podcast but it’s not every day I get to chat with Rosanna Arquette and the good stuff kept coming so I wasn’t going to break the flow!
Check out the high-level summary of the conversation below along with some book recommendations and links the 1% Better podcast, Newsletter and more.
Quid Pro Quo Alert:
Finally, thank you for checking out this episode. My only ask – if you do enjoy, it, check out previous & future episodes, consider sharing it out in your own networks. Any of these take just a few seconds and would mean a lot me.
Summary:
•Values that Rosanna developed from a young age from her Mother & Family
•Growing up in diverse community and schools
•Her Mother having a struggle with wealth when Rosanna started to do well
•Marching with Martin Luther King
•The Flint Crisis
•Staying Positive & How to Deal with this – working hard to be positive – this is very difficult
•When you stay in gratitude, you can’t be in fear!!
•Inspired by the energies of the youth and students!
•Focus on the Good and We shall overcome!
•Harvey Weinstein
•Cliché & Sayings to Live by - March for our Lives & No human being is illegal
•The Porn Industry – the impact this is having on young boys
•Trump, Putin, Sex Trafficking
•Twitter Clean-up & Losing 300k followers Bots
•Rosanna’s New Show - Sideswiped
•Transition from Acting to Directing
Book Recommendations:
•Mary Beard – Women and Power
•An Essay on Love and Cruelty – Jacqueline Rose
•Sex and Rage – Eve Babitz
•Witches, Sluts, Feminists – Kristen J. Sollee
•The Despair of Monkey and other Trifles: A Memoir by Francoise Hardy
•Please Let Me Go – Caitlin Spencer
1% Better tips:
•Write list for what you’re grateful for!
•Practice Gratitude
Please check out the 1% Better show and other content on www.robofthegreen.ie

Eoghan Quinn - Type 1 Diabetes as an Enabler, Kite Surfing from France to Ireland & the Hunt for a Bionic Pancreas! - EP123 Aug 16, 2019

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Eoghan Quinn came to my attention a couple of months back. For a couple of reasons.
1)He gained nationwide news coverage as he was attempting to kite surf from France to Ireland (227 miles or 295 nautical miles)
2)Like me, he’s a type 1 diabetic and is keen to show the disease can be an enabler, not a disabler.
I was delighted to get him onto the podcast to talk about both in detail and a whole lot beside.
As you’ll hear, Eoghan is a very focused and motivated guy, keen to keep healthy, fit, not be held back by Type 1 diabetes and even more driven to inspire other Type 1 diabetics to do more and not be held back by limiting beliefs
Topics covered:
•One of his first memories as he was Diagnosed at the age of 4 and managing the disease ever since
•Remembering the panic in his mother’s eyes knowing they were going into a whole new world
•No history of type diabetes in the family
•Becoming a Coeliac at the age of 5 which added to the complexity
•Recalling his first diabetic testing kit
•Having a great doctor that supported Eoghan all the way through Primary School
•Always being active and leading a full life all the way
•Sometimes trying to ignore being a diabetic but changing the mindset and embracing the disease
•Dealing with the stigma around being a diabetic and overcoming the shame
•The psychological element of being a diabetic
•Embracing the technology and having a huge impact once doing this
•The Insulin pump being a life changing device
•Testing the body and testing the boundaries you can do as a Type 1 diabetic
•Realizing that Type 1 Diabetes is not your fault
•The impact being of a high glucose, acting fidgety and tired
•Turing Type 1 Diabetes into an Enabler
•Becoming addicted to challenges to push the limits
oBike Riding from Ireland to Gaza – 180km a day over 5000km
oBike Racing from Melbourne to Sydney in support of Aboriginal healthcare and diabetes
•Life expectancy without Insulin & having to pay for insulin in some countries
•The challenge of travelling with work as a Type 1 diabetic – the insulin pump works great for this
•The preparation into Planning to Kite Surf taking 8 months
•As the planning got deeper, the challenge became more and more real
•Getting support from Diabetes Ireland and other big brands
•Kite Surfing and the challenges of being a Type 1 diabetic
•Sending a positive message to other Type 1 diabetics that they can achieve whatever they want
•Using the Abbott Free Style Libre and the Insulin Pump to manage his diabetes
•Support from Ballycotton Sea Adventures
•Working with a Support team who are essential to the success
•Setting sail at the end of June but just failing short due to adverse weather conditions
•Managing the blood sugars during the challenge and keeping the level between 10 and 11 readings
•Planning for everything and controlling everything but the Weather
•Arriving into Cork meeting with 60-80 other Type 1 Diabetics and feelings great about the challenge
•Raising the awareness for Type 1 Diabetes by doing this challenge
•Research into new technology and advances like the bionic pancreases
•Learning about the ‘closed-loop’ artificial pancreases creator in the US and looking to get on the clinical trials here
•Edward Dimanino motivated to work on a solution after his son was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes
•Not expecting a cure of T1D ever but looking at technology as a management tool
•Huge advances expected in the next 5 years
•If you could listen to anyone in a podcast interview – Getting inside the head of a Manager of a Gaelic Football or Hurling Team
•Future Challenges & Plans!
To Connect with Eoghan and find out more:
•Croke Park in November – Event Type 1 Diabetes
•Twitter – @EoghanQuinn1
•Instagram - @EoghanQuinn1
•LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/eoghan-quinn-59b15437/

Michael Houghton - How to Achieve Financial Independence, Tracking Happiness, & Peer to Peer Lending! EP122 Aug 09, 2019

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Michael Houghton is an Entrepreneur & Investor, originally from New Zealand and now living in Ireland. He is on a mission to become financially independent. Like many, he has grown tired of selling his time for money so started to look into ways at which he could work less, but still earn as much and enjoy more free time with his family.
After spending a lot of time planning how, he started to execute on his strategy and in 2018 he was able to cut down from full time to part time work as a freelance developer.
This was his first step towards freeing up my time and seeing a lifestyle change as a result of his decision to chase financial freedom. Since then he’s been continuing to work towards this goal and earlier this year set up his website – playingwithfire.ie where he transparently shares his investment portfolio and how much progress he is making. Michael also has started sharing his learnings and advice through his podcast and blog posts. All available from his site here
His ultimate goal is to build a portfolio that produces enough monthly income to cover my monthly expenses - at that point, he will be truly financially independent.
For me this was a very interesting conversation. I wanted to learn more about his approach and sacrifices he and his family need to make to realise this goal. I also was very interested in learning more about the Peer to Peer lending services he is using as well as other investments that he is making.
Here is a summary of the topics we covered during the interview. I hope you enjoy listening to this one and learn something new from it that might be of value.
Summary:
•Earning 12-15% interest with Peer to Peer lending with Minos.com
•Investment in forestry & Christmas Trees!
•Seeing an investment as an expense
•Changing the Mindset on investment – Earning for now instead of for retirement
•The Value of Compound Interest
•Passive Income to replace Earned Income
•Saving for the Future or your Pension!
•Setting up a Happiness Index
•Saving €3000 per month for 11 years to achieve the freedom he seeks
•Monitoring expenses on a daily basis and the challenge of this
•Changing the lifestyle now, not at 65
•The day to day struggle of managing the budget to attain this
•Tracking their expenses and knowing where their money goes.
•Tricks to prevent themselves living pay cheque to pay cheque.
•Reducing expenses that simply don't bring them happiness.
•Discussing the time VS money debate and focusing on giving ourselves more time
•Challenging the "I hate Monday's" attitude by working towards something bigger than just getting up and going to a 9-5 job.
•As a freelancer, charge for output, not time
•Getting people out of the "work / spend" cycle that leads us down the rat race.
•Building cash flowing assets one day at a time!
•Capital Growth Report -- Asset Classes
•Productivity and overcoming risk of burnout
•Being efficient and delivering outcomes instead of working on time!
•Setting up your own business in Ireland & how to manage Tax?
oKeep money in the company and start a pension – huge upside to this
oInvest the cash you have in the company
oOnly Pay Tax on your Profile in a Company – so deductions are less
•Freedom and Control as two key words and values that come up!
•Influenced by others?
•Dan Lok – Business influencer - https://danlok.com/
•Publishing Goals & holding yourself accountable
•The House as an Asset? Or your Greatest Liability?
•Aiming to have the passive income covering the mortgage
•House Hacking!
•Books – Robert Kiosaki – Rich Dad, Poor Dad - https://amzn.to/2MPMvTy
How to connect in with Michael?
Website - https://www.playingwithfire.ie/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/MyCoolHowTon
Check out Financial Independence Meetups in Dublin & Limerick on Google!

Nicole Ryan – Turning Tragedy into Alex’s Adventure, Improving Drug Education & Social Entrepreneurship! – EP121 Aug 02, 2019

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Nicole Ryan is a Business Founder at IGNITE, Managing Director of Alex's Adventure - The drug education program that's built around you.
Every episode of 1% Better tells a story. This week’s episode is that of Nicole Ryan’s story.
It began in Jan 2016 when my only brother Alex went to a house party in the Greenmount area, Cork City and took a synthetic substance believing it to be a less potent drug called 2-CP. Alex had thought he had done his research on the substance he was trying. He was 18 years of age and had a lot of plans for his future. Alex ended up taking a huge dose of the lethal drug known as Nbomb which resulted in him being brought to Cork University Hospital where Alex never regained consciousness and subsequently 4 days later sadly passed away after being pronounced brain-dead.
Alex changed the lives of 4 people by donating 2 of his kidneys, his liver and his heart but Alex’s story did not end here. Nicole wanted what happened to my family to never need to happen to another so needlessly again so she decided that Alex would change the world and she would be his catalyst and his storyteller.
She gave up her career as a Marine & Plant Engineer to come home and build Alex’s Adventure. Over the last 3 years Nicole travelled the length and breadth of the country visiting schools and delivering her workshop educating and sharing how our choices can impact our lives forever.
She has visited over 55+ schools, colleges & youth clubs and has delivered this workshop to over 5500+ students nationwide. From this life changing experience Alex’s Adventure was born. Nicole and her team developed a brand-new program that aims to not only help the students learn more about substance misuse and about the impacts our choices have on the greater community.
In this episode, we hear in more details how Nicole decided to take the chance with setting up Alex’s Adventure, what she’s learned since starting out, how the business has grown and evolved, how she is constantly pivoting, learning, and iterating Alex’s Adventure to be a better product.
I really enjoyed this one and know it’s one that you will enjoy listening to, as there are many stand-out takeaways from the interview.
Other topics covered:
•Being a realist but having to be strong for her mother
•Media and Empathy with the loss of Alex
•How Alex’s Adventure works and focusing on learning & key skills
•Dealing with Feedback
•Creating a Digital Solution
•Pivoting & Letting go of the original ideas
•Entrepreneur’s journey
•Learning to influence and sell
•Language, Additions and how we speak to young people
•The importance of Coffee Meetings
•Working on your strengths, weaknesses and working on growing
•Expanding her team with others that are adding value to the program
•Taking herself out of the mindset of working in her business to working on her business!
•The Importance of Social Entrepreneurship
•How to switch off and detach from the Business
•Standout Moment from Nicole’s journey so far!
•Mentors & Great Advice – Her Friend asked Nicole - The worth thing that can happen is nothing!
•If you knew one thing at the start that you know now?
•Next for Alex’s Adventure – looking at the 5 year map!
Get in touch with Nicole
Website - https://www.alexsadventure.ie/index.html
Twitter – https://twitter.com/nicoleclareryan
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicoleclareryan/
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/alexs_adventure_/?hl=en
Check out more details on www.robofthegreen.ie

Isa Nacewa – Morning Routines, Learning Curves, and the Value of Positive Distractions - 1% Better in 864 - EP120 Jul 26, 2019

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1% Better – The 864 Rebooted!
I’m bring the 864 back but on 1% Better! All is explained in the Intro which I suggest you check out.
Here is details of the episode with Isa Nacewa
We're continuing the sporting theme (last episode with Irish International Football John Egan), but shifting code to Rugby this time. I'm delighted to be able to share this podcast with the Leinster legend Isa Nacewa.
Isa joined Leinster in 2008 and, over the next decade, in two stints with the province, won four Champions Cups, the Challenge Cup and 3 Pro-14 titles. He has been called greatest import to Irish Rugby if not European. He’s been not only immensely successful at winning trophies, he’s humility, lack of ego, and selflessness also very much stand out in the legacy he’s created in the game.
I talked with Isa couple of weeks back when in Ireland just for a few days during which time there was a testimonial dinner in his honour. It was a flying visit, but he still managed to squeeze in time for an early morning chat for the podcast.
As we recorded it in the morning, morning routines started off the conversation and we went from there. Rugby does get a mention but habits, behaviours, and mental strength are at the core of the podcast.
It was a real pleasure to talk with Isa. I’ve taken something (actually many things) of value from it that I can put into practice. My hope is you can too. Thanks to Mereula for helping make the connection.
Just before I hand it over, please do subscribe to the podcast wherever you listen to it. Helps with extending the reach as well as ensuring you get notified when the new ones come down. Check out the other show – 1% Better, sign up to the newsletter on robofthegreen.ie and take a minute to connect/send feedback/troll/etc
Ok. Over to the conversation with the great man – Isa Nacewa.
Topics covered:
•Morning Routines during & post Rugby
•Taking 3 Months off to mentally reset
•Developing an approach and philosophy to mindset early in his career
•Retiring in 2013 and the Mindset with this!
•Work as a Mental Skills Coach
•Learning how to adapt and adopt approaches
•Documenting and Tweaking Approaches
•Decision Making
•Negative Self-Talk
•The law of attraction
•Benefits of Mindfulness, Yoga & Meditation
Books Recommendation:
•The Monk who Sold his Ferrari – Robin Sharma
•Win Forever – Pete Carroll

Amy Shine - Access Consciousness, Running your Bars, & Embracing Unlimited Beliefs - EP119 Jul 19, 2019

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Amy has amazing capacities with bodies and is a trained Massage Therapist, Thai Yoga Vedic Bodyworker, Dance facilitator and movement coach for adults and kids. She loves all forms of movement and have created her own specialty movement classes called ''Shine Movements''.
For a full summary of the episode and how to connect in with Amy, go to the episode page on
https://robofthegreen.ie/episodes/amyshine-ep119
Thanks for listening!

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