EDGY Conversations

" Great breakthrough never happens without sacrifice. " - Dan Waldschmidt

This episode of Dan's podcast will remind us that clarity comes from activity and not the other way around. You can't wait to know what you are going to do perfectly before you get started.

The things that you should say NO to are the things that you're using to patch over your feelings, your concerns, the outcomes, and results that are their that teach us something.

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" If you don't know your purpose you will not be able to execute at the highest level. " - Dan Waldschmidt

This podcast episode talks about the importance of knowing our purpose in life. As we age, this purpose that we focused on might change. What we want at 4 years old is not the same at 40 years old. Your life purpose is your contribution.

Why is finding your purpose so important? Listen to this podcast episode and uncover the answer to this question.

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" Being effective is not just doing more work but stop it, put yourself in a position where you can look at where you are and know if it's working. " - Dan Waldschmidt

This episode talks about being effective versus being efficient. Performing or functioning in the best possible manner with the least waste of time and effort, Being effective is about doing the right things while being efficient is about doing things right.

As you listen to this episode, try to ask yourself this question, Is this getting me closer to where I want to be?

Recommended book: The Miracle Club by Mitch Horowitz

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" Your present purpose doesn't have always your purpose." - Dan Waldschmidt

Do you know your purpose?

Once you find your path, you’ll almost certainly find others traveling along with you, hoping to reach the same destination—a community. The goals that foster a sense of purpose are ones that can potentially change the lives of other people.

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" You can give up and die or you can try and live and become the hero of your life from this day forward." Dan Waldschmidt

This episode of the podcast will talk about how we can keep on living despite all the struggle in life. You can live or you can die. Pick one. If you choose to live, it is all a matter of HOW you choose to live.

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"Somewhere in life, you got to have to pick what you want and then focused on it." - Dan Waldschmidt

This episode will talk on how you stay focused. Dan shares that without focused we will not achieve our dreams. As you listen to this episode, try to ponder on this question, "How do you stay focused with everything that you are doing?"

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"Part of building a bigger version isn't about dreaming wild dreams. It's about unburning yourself from the things that hold you down, the things that blind you." - Dan Waldschmidt

The biggest part of this episode is forgiving yourself. We all don't realize how good we are in forgiving ourselves. We might don't even know that we like ourselves.

As you listen to this episode, try to look deeply at yourself.

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"Even if you didn't make it the last time, this next time might be the perfect opportunity for you to prove to yourself that you are tougher than you ever thought possible."

How can something so awful, something that causes pain to others be so helpful?

Like other complicated things in life, pain may not have any specific cause at all. It can have many underlying causes but pain can also be clearly beneficial.

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"Not every single thing that you do is a representative of you but that's okay because you put in the time to get there and you just learn by continuing to do things." - Rockit Gaming

Russel and Vinny of Rockit Gaming share how we normally focused too heavily on doing things and that we don't realize how unimportant those things are and until we do it enough. They share their journey on how they started working in the nerdcore gaming music. Together with Broc and Dan, you will surely hear another zero to hero kind of story, get inspired on how these dudes overcome all the struggles they encounter and learned another way on how to become more awesome in your life.

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" I have destroyed more good things in my life because I didn't make the right decision soon enough than just it out any other problem that I could put my finger on " - Dan Waldschmidt

Let us all listen as Dan shares how he overcome some bad decision in his life. Dan describe these like a corroded battery but like a battery, we can all replace it so that we won't make the same mistake again.

What is corroded inside you that you need to clean up?

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"You can be successful in business, you can be a successful entrepreneur or you can be successful in your family but if you are not managing your money that will continually get in the way. " - Ashley Jankowski

Ashley and her husband married at a very young and went through a tough time financially just understanding what it meant to be an adult into this society. Ashley will share her journey on how she struggled as she learned how to be financially fit. You will learn that to become financially fit, you need your finances to be in order.

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" Winning isn't really winning especially if you are on the other side of somebody who lacks empathy, someone who lacks feeling and kindness. "

In this episode, Dan talks about how to make other people awesome. He shares how he is raised by very conservative parents. Dan shares about a point in his life where he spent a number of years in Mexico doing missionary works. He then began to notice how kind and generous those people doing this kind of work.

Listen to this episode as you learn how you can heal other people's wound, how you can make other awesome.

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In this episode, Dan shares his insight on how we can make other people awesome. He talks about his experience when he was in the West Coast doing business with some powerful people.

This episode will teach us how we can build this deep personal relation. It will help us to understand better on why it is important to build relationships with people around us.

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Dan and Broc have a conversation with the founders of JT Music. As a music artist, the group needs to face different challenges for them to succeed in their chosen field. There are all of these things you have to figure out even at the next level where you are successful, where you're going. They will how on how they grow their Youtube channels and get at least 7 million subscribers.

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We all want to be in our best self. Who wouldn't want it? This month we talk about the idea of how to make other people awesome.

Dan shares how he remember a time where he wanted a rich uncle. Someone who can jump in and rescue, save you from all the drama and chaos, all the frustrating things that slow you down, stop you from having fun and achieving success.

We all feel connected when we hear other people doing some awesome things. We feel like we are not alone when there are other examples of people out there doing and crushing it of being awesome.

Have you already helped someone to become awesome? Share us your thoughts by visiting our Edgy Empire facebook group. Let us all help each other to become awesome.

Dan shares another great book that we should all read - The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande. Having a checklist doesn't seem to really be a big deal.

A great quote from the book that Dan shares, "Do everything 1% better". Do everything 1% better and once all of these would add up, it will result in a massive progress over time.

How do we level up? Maybe we are better than everybody around us, but the idea of leveling up says we are still gonna take it to that one next bit of brilliance.

Listen to this episode l, get inspired, be better and then come and visit our Edgy Empire facebook group.

Dan shares about a book he read - How I Raised Myself From Failure to Success in Selling by Frank Bettger.

We all have to have enthusiasm about being enthusiastic. You can't make others awesome as a leader until you will become awesome yourself.

Sometimes, we are so focused on trying to please everybody else. We are so focused on trying to encourage everybody else. We are so focused that we think it's a good thing but we don't understand how much it becomes so negative for us.

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In this episode, Dan shares a short story about the power of radical candor. When you let people control your emotions, you make them important even when they shouldn't be simply because of your frustration.

Dan believes we can all be a better version of ourselves if we treat each and everyone with radical candor.

How disrespectful are we if we don't treat people with the respect they deserve? If we don't give them the time they deserve?

Come and visit the EDGY Empire of Awesomeness and share your own story where you unknowingly practice radical candor.

In order to build a culture of radically candid guidance, we need to give, get and encourage both praise and criticism.

This episode will talk about the idea of giving praise and criticism as a way of showing that you care and that you want your people to level up. You gonna care so deeply that you're gonna change immediately.

Do you think you are now a radically candid person? Share your thoughts with us by visiting our EDGY Empire of Awesomeness Facebook page. Share your journey in learning radical candor.

Dan shares about Kim Scott's book, Radical Candor. He shares how Kim break down Radical Candor into 2 very simple concepts.

The book also highlights 4 areas of Radical Candor. This episode will help us to understand more or even helps us to effectively practice radical candor.

One of the big things that are required of the Radical Candor model is before you give criticism, you demand that other people give you criticism first. You show leadership by accepting that criticism.

Come and visit the EDGY Empire of Awesomeness and share what you learned about this episode. We are so excited to read your comments.