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    Becoming Great.com has one big goal - to be the podcast in the world with the most value-per-minute. The creators Erik Bergman and Emil Ekvardt spend over 100 hours preparing each episode to accomplish this goal. And, of course, it’s ad-free. Super entrepreneur Erik Bergman made 50 million euros before turning 30. Now he is building Great.com, a company that will give away all its profits to charity. Emil Ekvardt became a USD millionaire from professional poker at a young age. Now he runs a personal development coaching business. Becoming Great.com is a podcast that will profoundly transform your life by going into a range of essential topics that school misses to teach you - such as confidence, relationships, dealing with overthinking, and how to make money from your passion.
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    #69 - Shift mindset, build willpower and stop procrastination!

    #69 - Shift mindset, build willpower and stop procrastination!

    How come some people seem to have unlimited willpower with the ability to push through anything? Today we explore what willpower is, and how anyone can build it stronger.

    "The more voluntary suffering you build into your life, the less involuntary suffering will affect your life." - Tim Ferriss

    This quote by Tim Ferriss inspired the episode of today. We look into how to build will power and stop procrastination by making it easy to choose your challenges today.

    --
    Today's episode is a personal development episode, where Erik Bergman and Emil Ekvardt explore topics about how to grow as a person.

    We are both personal development junkies and spend many hours every week sharing our ideas and reading about new things. This episode is great for you who want to learn about our latest perspective. We share lots of personal stories, talk about how it applies in our lives, and where we have learned it from.
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    There are lots of different things that play into how to build will power and stop procrastination. We touch upon various areas where it is important, from food and exercise to porn and alcohol. The general idea is that either you make an effort to deal with discomfort today, or the future will bring you discomfort in the shape of bad health, bad economy, and bad relationships.

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    #68 - What is Great.com? Here's our long term vision - Update

    #68 - What is Great.com? Here's our long term vision - Update

    What is Great.com? To answer that question, the best way is to look at our long term vision. What will Great.com become?

    In this episode, we are diving into our founder Erik Bergman's vision of where Great.com is heading. The episode is split up on four sections:

    Part 1:
    The first part of the episode is about the charity vision of Great.com. How do we want to help? What kind of organizations are we supporting? And what have we done so far?

    Part 2:
    The second part is about the organizational vision. How do you build a team that is spread over the world, works without work hours, and have an unlimited option for vacations?

    Part 3:
    Thirdly we are diving into how Great.com wants to inspire and influence the world. Why we want to make charity cool and why we are running this podcast.

    Part 4:
    And lastly in part 4, the business model, we will look at how we make money today - and our plan for becoming the biggest company yet, in a very specific part of the internet.

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    This is an "Update episode", it means that In today's episode of Becoming Great.com podcast, Emil Ekvardt and Erik Bergman, explore the very real challenges and problems that come up when building Great.com. A company that gives away 100% of its profit to protect the environment.

    This is an opportunity for you to get a behind the scenes look, of what it feels like to build a company - and also get an update on our progress.

    What you learn here is not something you will read in a book. It’s the real story of how Great.com gets built.
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    #67 - A very POWERFUL method for LEARNING

    #67 - A very POWERFUL method for LEARNING

    What is the most powerful way of learning something? How can you engage your brain fully into a topic, tie it into your own experiences, and look at it from lots of different angles?

    This is the topic of today's episode. We have now done one year of podcasting and we will talk about the most important thing we have learned - how to learn, a very powerful method for learning.
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    Today's episode is a personal development episode, where Erik and Emil explore topics about how to grow as a person.

    We are both personal development junkies and spend many hours every week sharing our ideas and reading about new things. This episode is great for you who want to learn about our latest perspective. We share lots of personal stories, talk about how it applies in our lives, and where we have learned it from.
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    We are starting this episode with Erik talking about how he has spent the last 3-4 years dedicated to learning about social media, personal development, leadership, and social skills.

    At first, he was very focused on consuming as much knowledge as possible but it was first when he started teaching what he had learned on Instagram that things shifted. He got to embody the concepts and found that some of them he believed in and some of them made him feel like a fraud.

    We keep exploring why teaching is a very powerful method for learning, how it engages our body and our emotions, and why everything you have been teaching will be easier for you to remember.

    We sum up this episode with various ways of teaching, what you can do if you don't want to put yourself out there as a teacher in public or on social media but still benefit from this technique and what are the important things to get started.

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    #66 - How to make $1000 a month online?

    #66 - How to make $1000 a month online?

    We want to teach you how to make $1000 a month online because we believe that if you had that extra money, you would have a lot less worry in your life. $1000 extra a month is enough to solve most money problems.

    Today there are more opportunities to make money online than ever, you just have to know where to look. In this episode, Emil Ekvardt interviews Erik Bergman, who made over $50 million online, before he turned 30 and he will give you the exact steps you need to take to start making $1000 a month online.

    Part 1
    We will share a story about a friend of ours who went from 0 to $1000 per month and what made him succeed.

    Part 2
    We will talk about the most important ingredient to succeed when learning a new skill.

    Part 3
    Is about how you find the best skill for you and how you learn it.

    Part 4
    Is about how you start making money from the skill and how you can sell it.

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    Today's episode is an entrepreneurship episode, where Erik and Emil explore topics about how to become a better business person.

    We are often sharing real-life examples that have happened previously in our careers. What we have learned, whom we have learned from, and how we have applied that into our real lives. Everything in a mix with personal thoughts and reflections.
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    We start the episode with the story about Felix. A friend of ours who went from 0 to $1000 per month when studying. We get to follow the steps that he took and what made him stand out from other people who tried. What were the elements of his success?

    Then we move on to talk about the importance of having fun when learning a new skill. It's easy to forget fun when trying to make money, but the truth is that if you can find something you enjoy and make money from it, not only will you like it more - you will get a lot better at it.

    Thirdly we go in what skills to learn to make $1000 a month online. We talk about different topics to learn. Based on what you enjoyed in school, this is a list for inspiration:

    Math classes
    Programming, start with "Python"
    Web development, "Wordpress for beginners"
    Accounting, start with "IFRS"
    Spreadsheets, start with "learn excel"
    Web analytics, "google analytics for beginners"
    Facebook ads, "beginner Facebook ads"

    The music or art classes
    Create thumbnails, "thumbnails photoshop"
    Content for social media, start with "canva beginner"
    Audio editing, start with "podcast editing"
    Video editing, "video editing"

    Language classes
    Copywriting (all kinds of writing online), "write product descriptions"
    Copywriting, "SEO copywriter"
    Subtitles for videos, "kapwing subtitles"
    Translations, "start a translation business"

    The social parts / Recess
    Recruitment, "LinkedIn recruitment"
    Sales, "cold email sales"
    Coaching, "start a coaching business"

    Finally we talk about how to turn the skills that you have learned into money. How you can sell it and start making $1000 a month online.

    Link to recommended episode:

    "Find inspiring people in social media"
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaSVVSnZ9kg

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    #65 - How to make more friends in school or work? Avoid these mistakes!

    #65 - How to make more friends in school or work? Avoid these mistakes!

    In school, we don't get to learn social skills. No one teaches us what mistakes not to make. When Erik was young, he was a lonely child with very few friends. He always thought it was just bad luck and never understood why.

    A few years ago he started reading about social skills and how to interact with others and it opened a world of new knowledge. More than anything, he could see all the mistakes he had done when he was younger. For the first time, he realized that it wasn't bad luck that made him lonely, it was mistakes that he did.

    If you want to know how to make more friends at school? or how to make more friends at work? this is a great episode for you.
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    Today's episode is a personal development episode, where Erik and Emil explore topics about how to grow as a person.

    We are both personal development junkies and spend many hours every week sharing our ideas and reading about new things. This episode is great for you who want to learn about our latest perspective. We share lots of personal stories, talk about how it applies in our lives, and where we have learned it from.
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    This is another spontaneous and very vulnerable episode. We are diving into Erik's childhood and emotions. We are starting by getting an understanding of what Erik's life looked like as a 10-12-year-old, how it changed when he moved to another school as a teenager, and what he learned when he started learning about social skills.

    "How to make more friends in school?" was one of the questions he tried to understand early and "How to make more friends at work?" is something he is now teaching. After years of diving deep into social skills and personal relationships, this is now one of his core interests and something he loves talking about and learning more about.

    #64 - How to feel less nervous in social situations?

    #64 - How to feel less nervous in social situations?

    Did you get to learn about social skills when you went to school? Did someone teach you how to interact with others and feel confident?

    One of the problems with the school system is that it doesn't focus on the skill that might be the most important of all, social skills. How to feel more confident talking to new people? How to feel less nervous in social situations?

    Today we are diving into the challenges that we have had in our social life. This episode is focused on exploring Emil's struggles with feeling nervous and awkward around new people and social situations. What he did to come over it, how long it took and what are his best tips to learn social skills.
    --
    Today's episode is a personal development episode, where Erik and Emil explore topics about how to grow as a person.

    We are both personal development junkies and spend many hours every week sharing our ideas and reading about new things. This episode is great for you who want to learn about our latest perspective. We share lots of personal stories, talk about how it applies in our lives, and where we have learned it from.
    --
    This episode was spontaneous and unplanned. We wanted to keep the conversation as real and genuine as possible and instead of planning, we dove into it. The focus became on exploring how Emil locked himself into a bubble of online poker for 10 years and during this time just stayed in his comfort zone.

    When his girlfriend broke up with him he had to start socializing with others and found that he couldn't even talk to women. He asked himself "How to feel less nervous in social situations?" and "How to feel more confident talking to new people?"

    He started challenging himself, growing his comfort zone, had friends to learn together with, and went from being socially challenged to someone who now loves social situations, meeting new people, and values his social skills as one of his main talents.

    #63 - Climbing the corporate ladder - IT'S A TRAP!

    #63 - Climbing the corporate ladder - IT'S A TRAP!

    What is a successful career? What's the difference between climbing the corporate ladder, or becoming an entrepreneur?

    It's easy to start climbing one latter and not being sure if it's the right one or how to change the ladder you are climbing. In this episode, we touch upon what's the difference between climbing the corporate ladder and becoming an entrepreneur, when is the right time to start your first business and what are the risks of climbing the corporate ladder?

    This is an episode that is extra important for you early in your career, this is when you decide what ladder to climb.

    Today's episode is an entrepreneurship episode, where Erik and Emil explore topics about how to become a better business person.

    We are often sharing real-life examples that have happened previously in our careers. What we have learned, whom we have learned from, and how we have applied that into our real lives. Everything in a mix with personal thoughts and reflections.

    We start this episode by exploring what it means to be climbing the corporate ladder, what are the steps, and what happens when you climb them?

    We then talk about why it's easy to get trapped in the corporate ladder and why it's harder to switch over to the entrepreneurial journey later on. It's easy to start identifying with your job, making the title a part of whom you are, increasing your expenses, etc. All things that can make you stuck.

    We then move on to thinking about life from a 10-year perspective. If you draw a line into the future from where you are today, will you end up where you want to be 10 years from now? If not, what changes can you do today that will make you reach where you want to be? Is climbing the corporate ladder the right strategy or is it better to start saving money, lowering your expenses, and give entrepreneurship a try?

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    #62 - What to do when an employee wants to quit? - Update

    #62 - What to do when an employee wants to quit? - Update

    What is it that all the richest people in the world know?
    How do you get 20 million people to collaborate in one project?
    And how to deal with a team member that has an anxiety attack and wants to quit the job? These are some of the questions we are diving into in today's episode.
    --
    This is an "Update episode", it means that In today's episode of Becoming Great.com podcast, Emil Ekvardt and Erik Bergman, explore the very real challenges and problems that come up when building Great.com. A company that gives away 100% of its profit to protect the environment.

    This is an opportunity for you to get a behind the scenes look, of what it feels like to build a company - and also get an update on our progress.

    What you learn here is not something you will read in a book. It’s the real story of how Great.com gets built.
    --
    This episode starts with Erik reading a message from our public slack channel. One of our team members is sharing about a panic attack he has been having that is related to work. How to deal with situations like that?

    After this, we are going into a segment where Emil describes our new "Great.com talks with..." charity podcast. He is explaining the progress that we have been making, what the purpose of the podcast is, and sharing some of our biggest milestones so far.

    In the third section of the episode we are diving into something that the richest people of the world already knows, that is, the power of networking. We explore why Erik has spent so much time on social media over the last year and how it is now starting to add lots of value to Great.com as a business.

    In the final act of the day, we are diving into the importance of celebration. That even in times where it seems like we are missing all of our goals, we find lots of important energy in asking ourselves the question "What are we proud of?" and by using that finding area of the great progress that we haven't even been aware of earlier.

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    Charity podcast - Great.com talks with...
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWoEGVR89zo8Ltd1EhMDLDw?sub_confirmation=1

    #61 - Inspiring people in social media - how to find them

    #61 - Inspiring people in social media - how to find them

    "Social media has changed the game. Don't use it as a way to waste time. Use it as a way to surround yourself with people that in any other time in history you would have been unable to reach." - Tom Bilyeu

    Both Emil and Erik are constantly looking for new ways to learn and grow. Social media and more specifically Youtube has been an endless source of inspiration. With countless hours of videos and podcasts, we have found our favorite people to learn from and be influenced by.

    In this episode we will dive into our favourite teachers within:
    - Social skills
    - Health
    - Sex
    - Spirituality
    - Business
    - Creativity

    and what we have learned from them.
    --
    Today's episode is a personal development episode, where Erik and Emil explore topics about how to grow as a person.

    We are both personal development junkies and spend many hours every week sharing our ideas and reading about new things. This episode is great for you who want to learn about our latest perspective. We share lots of personal stories, talk about how it applies in our lives and where we have learned it from.
    --
    We start this episode by exploring the questions "What would you have changed in your upbringing?" This is one of Emil's favourite questions to ask and it opens up a lot of interesting perspectives.

    From there we move on to exploring the role models that we've had from social media.

    Tony Robbins
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxOQPgz_Vdg
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruApkmEkPxM
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P6yoK7tH3Y

    Charlie Houpert - Charisma on command"
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5_KFy6qy-A
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLnrx6mbcSo

    Ester Perel - "Where should we begin"
    https://www.estherperel.com/podcast

    David Sinclair
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOTS0HS7aq4

    Teal Swan
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMC7ULTSPEE

    Eckart Tolle
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTFDfR47dl4

    Matt Kahn
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2da2CQEyy0

    Dave Asprey
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YjLMdx3YZY

    Dr Erik Berg
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwCRjwDs1Ek

    Matt D'Avella
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG2GJZcBKOE

    Peter McKinnon
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PXCa6RCG28

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    #60 - Is college important before starting a business?

    #60 - Is college important before starting a business?

    Going to college or not can feel like the most important decision of a lifetime. Standing in front of such an important choice can easily cause confusion, apathy and a feeling of overwhelming.

    Erik Bergman has built a company with 300+ employees. Today we explore his perspective of the importance of a college degree both as an employer and as an employee.

    One of the most common questions that Erik gets from social media is "Is college important before starting a business and becoming an entrepreneur?" or "Is college even important?". We are no experts in this topic but we have lots of thoughts and our own experiences to share.

    Some questions we touch upon are:
    - Is college important as an entrepreneur?
    - Why didn't we go to college ourselves?
    - How did our parents take that?
    - When is it a good idea to not go to college?
    - What skills are most important for an entrepreneur, and is college the best place to learn them?
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    Today's episode is an entrepreneurship episode, where Erik and Emil explore topics about how to become a better business person.

    We are often sharing real-life examples that have happened previously in our careers. What we have learned, who we have learned from and how we have applied that into our real lives. Everything in a mix with personal thoughts and reflections.
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    We start this episode by exploring what "college" even means. As two swedes this is a somewhat confusing term that has been romanticised by teen comedy movies.

    We move on to describe the confusion that is very common to feel when standing in front of such an important decision. It can feel like the entire future depends on this and that's a very overwhelming feeling.

    From there we move on to talk about what skillsets we believe are great for an entrepreneur to learn and how college can be used to find those skills. How networking can play an important role and how college can be a great place to find likeminded people with inspiring goals.

    Is college important before starting a business and becoming an entrepreneur?
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    #59 - How to build immune system against corona

    #59 - How to build immune system against corona

    Everyone has been talking about the coronavirus lately, but what is actually a virus? Other than staying away from infected people, what can you do to protect yourself? And how does your immune system play into this? How to build an immune system against corona?

    These are some of the questions we are answering in today's episode of "Becoming Great.com". The purpose of this episode is to make you feel a bit safer and prepared for dealing with a virus and learn about different ways to improve their immune system.

    The two friends Erik and Emil are both nerds and the topic of health and personal development, every now and then we do episodes with this theme and this is one of those episodes.

    We dig into our own life hacks, tips, and tricks for how to improve our lives. We are not scientists or doctors, but we are passionate learners and we talk about the things that we apply ourselves.

    In the introduction, we touch on the questions of how to build an immune system against corona but all in all the episode is about how to defend ourselves vs any virus. We describe what a virus is, how it works, and how our immune system works to protect us.

    We talk about the most important factors that play into the immune system. Age, genes, nutrition, gut flora, stress, and sleep. Age and genes aren't much we can influence so instead we dig into how you can decrease your stress levels by becoming better at saying no and by practicing gratitude and meditation. How to improve your nutrition by eating different high vitamin levels foods such as sauerkraut, cod oil, lemon, turmeric, and garlic.

    We are also talking about the importance of sleep for the immune system and what we are doing to be able to sleep better in stressful times.

    Welcome to Becoming Great.com and the episode "How to build an immune system against corona"

    Book:
    Why we sleep - Matthew Walker

     

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    #58 - BORING TASKS, how to deal with them? - Update

    #58 - BORING TASKS, how to deal with them? - Update

    Boring tasks are a killer of joy and creativity, still, every job has them. What can you do to make boring tasks more fun? How can you use your selfishness to become a better team player? These are the questions we explore in today's episode. This episode can change the way you are thinking about boring tasks, forever.

    Today’s episode is an update episode, where Erik and Emil explore the very real challenges and problems that come up when building the company Great.com.

    This is an opportunity for you to get a behind the scenes look of what it’s like to build a company and also get an update on our progress. What we learn here is not something you will read in a book. It’s the real story of how Great.com gets built.

    In this episode, we are exploring our new project in Great.com, a charity podcast. Emil has been swamped in admin work and boring tasks and feels both frustrated and overwhelmed.

    When he brings this up with the team he feels like a bad team player and worries that he will let everyone else down. He feels that he is just supposed to suck it up and do the tasks, that's what everyone else does.

    We are exploring the importance of creating an environment where concerns like this are being raised. What are the effects on the team? How can this be good for the team? What can we learn about how to make boring tasks more fun?

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    #57 - Job opening & launching a NEW podcast - Update

    #57 - Job opening & launching a NEW podcast - Update

    We have just launched one of our biggest projects ever. A new podcast! We are interviewing charity organisations with the purpose of building more trust and understanding between the causes and people that want to donate.

    Our ambition is to launch 7 episodes every week and now we are hiring to make this dream happen. The role we are looking for will be a podcast coordinator, a project manager role responsible for booking guests, building relationships with organisations, creating processes to easily get things moving and simply be the spider in the net of the podcast.

    Today’s episode is an update episode where the good friends Erik Bergman and Emil Ekvardt, explore the very real challenges and problems that come up when building Great.com.

    A company that gives away 100% of its profit to protect the environment.

    This is an opportunity for you to get a behind the scenes look, of what it feels like to build a company - and also get an update on our progress.

    What we learn here is not something you will read in a book. It’s the real story of how Great.com gets built.

    This episode took off with a playful start (as usual) and we went over the two different parts of this episode.

    First part is about the charity podcast, why we are doing it, who is it for, whats the value for the organisations and what's the business value for us.

    The second part dives into the role we are currently hiring for. What is that we want help with and who would be a suitable candidate for the role? What is it like work with Great.com?

    EP15 - Albert Schweitzer Foundation, animal welfare.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgPa63npzu8&t=186s

    EP21 - Clean air task force, climate change research
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgPa63npzu8&t=186s

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    #56 - 6 POWERFUL HABITS you probably haven't tried

    #56 - 6 POWERFUL HABITS you probably haven't tried

    We have realised that we are addicted to creating habits. We think outside of the box and we look for ways to live our lives with constant small improvements, different from most people.

    Most of these habits are pretty shitty and don't stick, but some do! Then we keep building on them. This is a personal development episode for you who want to build success.

    SPOILER If you want to be surprised of which our surprising habits are, don't keep reading :)

    The habits that we have built are:
    - Self-reflection, and why that is so important.
    - Absurdly regular eating and sleeping patterns, and what impact that has on decision making and creativity.
    - Acting like a dog, and how humans life can be better if they are more doglike.
    - The secret memory app that creates an eternal memory just by using it 10 minutes per day. It takes a lot of work to get started, but once you do, it's a revolution.
    - The most simple food hacks, that can easily change your diet without taking up much of your time or thought processes.
    - Sobriety, why not drinking might be the best decision you have taken and how to be brave enough to do it.

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    #55 - 7 Books that CHANGED our lives

    #55 - 7 Books that CHANGED our lives

    Some books can change lives, and some books have truly changed ours. Today Emil and Erik talk about which books have influenced them the most.

    We talk about books on topics that range between social skills, spirituality, sleep, sex, saying no, creativity and communication. It turned out that both Erik and Emil have the same favorite book ever that they rank higher than all the other books combined. Find out which one it is!

    Some of these books introduce new ideas that are highly useful in our lives. What we discovered though, is that a lot of these books are very good at pinpointing the negative behaviors we are doing, that we might not be aware of. So we can change.

    Books:
    How to win friends and influence people - Dale Carnegie
    The power of Now - Eckart Tolle
    Come as You Are - Emily Nagoski
    Women's anatomy of arousal - Sheri Winston
    Mating in Captivity - Esther Perel
    Why we sleep - Matthew Walker
    Essentialism - Greg Mckeown
    War of Art - Steven Pressfield
    Non-Violent Communication - Marshall Rosenberg

    #54 - Not reaching GOALS, how to deal with it! - Update

    #54 - Not reaching GOALS, how to deal with it! - Update

    We are currently missing all of our goals with Great.com. It's a source of frustration and powerlessness. We believe this is a common challenge in when building an organisation and in this episode, we explore how to deal with it and how to move forward.

    Today’s episode is an update episode, where Erik and Emil explore the very real challenges and problems that come up when building the company Great.com.

    This is an opportunity for you to get a behind the scenes look of what it’s like to build a company and also get an update on our progress. What we learn here is not something you will read in a book. It’s the real story of how Great.com gets built.

    We started by exploring why we are missing the goals and it felt like opening Pandora's box.

    When planning the episode we were thinking about the missed goals from a logical perspective and found lots of valid reasons for it. When the microphones were turned on and things got real, the conversation, however, took unexpected turns. There were a lot of unexpected answers that came up and we ended up questioning the goals altogether and if we have even understood the goals in the first place.

    Erik found that he didn't feel committed to the goals himself and Emil realised that he had no understanding about why the goals were there in the first place. We both felt that we were lacking an emotional connection to the goals.

    This became a very valuable episode for ourselves and probably the most important one we have recorded seen from the perspective of Great.com and the importance for our team.

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    #53 - 100k followers, how many messages do you get every day?

    #53 - 100k followers, how many messages do you get every day?

    Erik has just reached the milestone of 100k followers on Instagram. This results in a lot of joy but also in a feeling of being overwhelmed and not enough with messages coming in 24/7. In this episode, we explore what to do as an entrepreneur when there are more tasks than time, how important it is to prioritise and what you can do if you want to talk personally to Erik.

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    Today's episode is a special edition episode. It doesn't fit into our normal categories. It's a mix of how it is being an influencer, some struggles of being an entrepreneur and some guidance of what you can think about if you want to reach someone you look up to.
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    We start the episode by explaining that this is spontaneous and not planned. The reason is that during Erik's morning meditation he found himself longing for a time with fewer notifications and messages coming his way.

    We explore how many messages he gets per day. How it feels for him to answer them all and what keeps him going.

    We move on to do the math in how many messages there will be when there are a million followers and can easily realise that the direction we are heading in is not sustainable.

    We end by giving you a treasure map of the steps you can take if you want to reach Erik personally and make sure that he reads your message.
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    #52 - Food HACKS - Part 2

    #52 - Food HACKS - Part 2

    How would higher and more stable energy affect your career and business? In the first Food HACKS episode, we explored different ways to get more focus and live a healthier life. In this episode, we enter the world of sugar.

    Three years ago Erik's energy levels were like a roller coaster. When the food reserves crashed, so did his temper and some times he could barely speak unless he got a banana.

    What effects does sugar have on your body? What can you replace it with? And what are the main sugar traps around us? How would you feel if you are less sugar? What would the benefits be for you?

    #51 - Food HACKS for energy, focus & a longer life

    #51 - Food HACKS for energy, focus & a longer life

    Entrepreneurs live a busy life and high energy is a key element to get more stuff done. What can you do to get energy? What are some effective ways to keep your focus high and your output higher?

    This is a personal development episode focused on health. How to eat to get the most out of your life.

    We will dive deep into different health hacks.

    What are the benefits of fasting? How can you make it easier and how do you get started?

    What do healthy fats do for you? Which fats do you want in your body and which ones do you want to stay away from?

    Is coffee good for you or is it an addictive drug?

    #50 - The 4-STEP PATH to SUCCEED in social media

    #50 - The 4-STEP PATH to SUCCEED in social media

    This is an entrepreneurship episode. Erik Bergman has grown from nothing to 75 000 followers on Instagram in three months.

    Today we will learn from Erik Bergman, who has tried hard since 2010 on social media, failed multiple times, and learn his 4 step path to success.

    Do you want to use social media to scale your personal brand or your business? Have you maybe already tried, and failed? Or do you feel that you don't know in what social media to start? Do you struggle to keep the motivation up?

    Today we will define what different social media is good for different purposes. We are going over how he started out in 2010 and what social media meant for the success of his previous company Catena Media. How he then put social media on hold for several years just to come back and failed.

    We will learn from Erik's mistakes and see what he changed to reach success in 2019.