The Isaac Morehouse Podcast

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98 - How Tim Chermak Quit College, Learned Marketing, and Built a Company that Generates $50k/Month Sep 05, 2016

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Tim Chermak is the founder of Platform, the digital marketing agency for real estate agents. Tim educated himself outside of the school system, consistently invested in himself, and learned valuable skills to build a consulting career and then a company. If you are or want to be an entrepreneur, you’ll love this episode. Tim shares his stories from getting his first clients as a marketing consultant to shifting his consulting business into a scalable digital marketing company and the challenges along the way. *The episode kicks off with NFL talk, skip ahead to the 18:00-minute mark for marketing and entrepreneurship content - NFL Talk: Teddy Dridgewater, Vikings vs. Lions, Quarterbacks, Rational Choice and NFL coaches - Tim’s career path from political campaign intern to founder of Platform - The advantages young people have when entering new fields - How Tim landed his first client (as a marketing consultant) - The value of raising your prices - Using a book as a sales tool - Learning to work ON your business, not IN your business - Investing in yourself, even when you can’t “afford” it - Tim’s impact on Isaac’s first book “The Future of School” If you are a fan of the show, make sure to leave a review on iTunes. Show notes, including all links mentioned in this episode, are available at isaacmorehouse.com All episodes of The Isaac Morehouse Podcast are available on Soundcloud, iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher

97 - FwTK: Beauty, Objectivity, and Suge Knight Sep 02, 2016

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TK is back this week as we explore whether or not beauty is objective, the difference between morality and justice, why the least applicable advice is the best, and what legendary rap producer Suge Knight had to say about Praxis. Recommendations: On the Origins of Money by Carl Menger, Toward an Empirical Theory of Natural Rights by John Hasnas, and fisheconomics.org This and all episodes are available on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play, YouTube, and Stitcher. Give us a review on iTunes!

96 - Decentralizing Wikipedia, with Everipedia Co-Founder George Beall Aug 30, 2016

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George Beall is a co-founder of Everipedia, an open encyclopedia that takes puts more power in the hands of the public. In his first year of college, George founded a plug and play touchscreen tile technology company that he sold prior to joining Everipedia. George is a perfect example of learning from experience. Jumping into projects that interest him without waiting for permission or credentials. Covered in this episode: - What is wrong with Wikipedia? - Is Wikipedia censoring information? - The bureaucracy of editing on Wikipedia - How do you convince people of a problem they may not be aware of? - What are Everipedia’s biggest challenges - George’s origin story - Creating Touch Tiles as a college freshman - Learning from experience vs. a classroom - Goals for Everipedia ----------------- If you are a fan of the show, make sure to leave a review on iTunes. Show notes, including all links mentioned in this episode, are available at isaacmorehouse.com All episodes of The Isaac Morehouse Podcast are available on Soundcloud, iTunes, Google Play, and Stitcher

95 - FwLM: Unsung Entrepeneurs, Uber Class, 150 Year Lifespans, and More... Aug 26, 2016

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Pulled a fast one on you today! TK is occupied in Chicago at a family wedding and told me the house he's staying in is way too loud and full of nieces and nephews to record today. I called him a wimp. He laughed. Keeping with the family theme, today my brother Levi Morehouse steps in as TK's replacement. He's the Founder & CEO of Ceterus (ceterus.com), which provides cloud-based accounting and bookkeeping for franchise owners. Levi is a ridiculously successful entrepreneur, father, and offensive fouler on the basketball court. It was just like growing up. I did most of the talking, he made most of the sense. Some of the things we discuss: -If you lived to 150, how would that change your lifestyle today? -Could you learn more as an Uber driver than a student? -Philosophers vs. Tony Robbins -Choosing what to do based on what it does to you, instead of what it does for the world -Unsung entrepreneurs (and how Levi's company helps them!) -Smart drugs Recommendations: BOLD by Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler, Zero to One by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters. This and all episodes are available on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play, YouTube, and Stitcher.

94 - Economics as Self-Help Aug 23, 2016

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This episode is a short audio essay on one of the most life-changing mindsets I've found. Economics is the most powerful social discipline. It also has tremendous potential to improve our lives on the individual level. Not by understanding the stock market and making money, but by seeing the world through the lens of rational choice theory. The minute you do, problems and challenges become opportunities and possibilities. The world becomes a series of games. All actions become a source of information and enlightenment. Economics helps you navigate relationships with others, and your own process of self-knowledge and self-improvement. When you assume rationality, you can begin to peel back and understand the preferences, information, and incentives that cause people to do what they do.

93- Don't Do Stuff You Hate, with Author Mitchell Earl Aug 22, 2016

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This week's guest is Mitchell Earl, the co-author of Don't Do Stuff You Hate and a Praxis participant working at Ceterus, one of the INC 5000 fastest growing companies in the country. Topics covered in this episode: - Mitchell’s journey from growing up in rural Oklahoma to writing his first book and working at a fast-growing startup in South Carolina. - Life lessons from livestock and meat evaluation - Why do so many young people want to go to law school? - Being entrepreneurial as a college student: Freelance writing and photography - The “Don’t Do Stuff You Hate” origin story - Lessons learned from writing a book - Mitchell’s next book - Tension between getting things done and getting things perfect - The benefits of co-writing a book Don't do stuff you hate is now available on Amazon. Visit dontdostuffyouhate.com for a free preview of the book. --------------- If you are a fan of the show, make sure to leave a review on iTunes. Show notes, including all links mentioned in this episode, are available at isaacmorehouse.com All episodes of The Isaac Morehouse Podcast are available on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play, YouTube, and Stitcher.

92 - FwTK: Listener Questions on Tons of Stuff Aug 19, 2016

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Today TK became inexplicably obsessed with me respecting his name (also he's getting a haircut for the first time in years so he's respecting his mane...ba-dum!) We talk a little about PDP's and persistence without doing stuff you hate, then we dive into tons of great questions from: Eric Olson, Sigal Sharabani, Andrew Stover, Simon Fraser, Thomas Bogle, Michael Hogan, Julia Patterson, Jeff Till, Forrest Plaster, Gabe Mitchell, Philip Gross, and Kelly Hackman. Some of the questions were: Can you promote my book? (Yes! See below) Can order exist without state monopolies, even when bad people want to do bad things? The Terminator-like future of Praxis How to get important people to do favors for you Why is success specific but failure is universal? (or is it?) Should you cut negative people out of your life? (Yes) Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson duets How to get off the conveyor belt Hayek and the size and structure of companies Is boredom good? Is the German school system good? Lessons from seeing life as a game Mentioned in the episode: Blake Boles, Taking a Walk as a Revolutionary Act, Noble Boredom, Ronald Coase, The Pretense of Knowledge, The Use of Knowledge in Society, Robert Heinlein, Ursela Le Guin, Don't Do Stuff You Hate (now on Amazon!) Today's recommendations: The Option Method by Bruce Di Marsico, The Optimistic Child by Martin Seligman. This and all episodes are available on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play, YouTube, and Stitcher. Eric's Book: Why Every President Sucked - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1929635985/why-every-president-sucked-hardcover-book

91 - How to Succeed at a Startup, with Connor Jeffers Aug 15, 2016

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Connor Jeffers is the Director of Revenue Operations at Dose Media, one of the world’s fastest growing digital media startups. Dose uses innovative testing to create massively viral content on their popular sites OMGfacts.com and Dose.com. Connor shares how he built his career from interning at an education startup to becoming Director of Revenue Operations at Dose in only a few years. He tells you how to get hired at a startup, how to stand out once you are there, and how to leave a job without burning bridges. Also covered in this episode: - How Dose uses testing and experimentation to create viral content - How Facebook is flipping the advertising world on its head - Trends in how people consume content online (Hint: Not on your website) - Connor’s smart house - How to get noticed and hired by a startup - How to move on from a job without burning bridges - The value of changing “maybe we should” ideas, into “can I?” solutions - Connor’s favorite books and podcasts right now If you are a fan of the show, make sure to leave a review on iTunes. Show notes, including all links mentioned in this episode, are available at isaacmorehouse.com This and all episodes are available on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play, YouTube, and Stitcher.

90 - FwTK: Anger, Work, Crappy Arguments, and the Supernatural Aug 12, 2016

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TK and I get into discussion on a recent post I did about working your butt off before trying to optimize your life, and his story of learning the "carry the tray". Then we dive into a little philosophy and explore crappy arguments for and against the supernatural, aliens, immortality, God, and more. Mentioned in the episode: Carl Sagan, Bertrand Russell's Problem of Philosophy, not finding yourself until you know how to work, game theory, carrying the tray, John Hasnas, Descartes, the Socratic method, Steven Brams, and more I'm probably forgetting. Recommendations: Superior Beings, and, The Fabric of the Cosmos. This and all episodes are available on SoundCloud, iTunes, Google Play, YouTube, and Stitcher.

89 - Lightning Projects, No Hipsters, Abundance Mindset and more, with Derek Magill Aug 08, 2016

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Lots of people have ideas, not many take action and create valuable products. Derek Magill, Director of Marketing at Praxis and Voice & Exit, turned a frustrating problem into nohipsterstocks.com in the course of a day. Instead of complaining or talking about your ideas, what lightning project could you be creating this week? Also in this episode, you will learn: - How side projects create value for you and your business - How to make decisions on outsourcing vs. doing the work yourself - How to persuade by showing, not telling - How treating yourself like a company changes your mindset - The value of answering questions on Quora - How to bring an abundance mindset to your work - How spending your own money at work is a great investment in your career Full show notes including all links mentioned in this episode are at isaacmorehouse.com Show your support by leaving a review on iTunes. This and all episodes are available on SoundCloud, iTunes, YouTube, and Stitcher.

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