Daily Boost Podcast

More Gooder Than Badder

September 4, 2026 | Episode 5535

Host: Scott Smith

Episode Description

Years ago I made up a phrase to help somebody who was stuck. Be more gooder than badder. Terrible grammar, and it works better than almost anything else I teach.

I stopped saying it on this show about five years ago. People still email me and tell me they're living it. So today I'm bringing it back with a pile of examples: sleep, money, water, marriage, your phone, your kids, your mood.

No framework. No methodology. Just one simple question you can ask yourself all day long. Where am I right now? Let's go find out together.

Featured Story

I used to fall face first into a basket of French fries. Not a few. The whole basket. Then I'd think about ordering onion rings on top of it. That's how I stayed fat for a very long time, and I told myself it was fine because tomorrow I'd start over. Tomorrow never showed up.

What finally changed wasn't willpower. It was one small adjustment I made at the table, in the moment, with the fries sitting right in front of me. I still eat them. I still enjoy them. But the way I approach that basket is different now, and it changed a whole lot more than my weight.

Important Points

* Going to bed a little earlier more nights than you stay up late fixes your tiredness without any fancy sleep system.

* Saving a little more often than you splurge means you still get the splurge, and you stop being broke about it.

* Doing the hard thing first more days than you don't, and your afternoons quit feeling like a fight you can't win.

Memorable Quotes

* Moderation in almost everything, excess in a few things. Being more gooder than badder is exactly that one thing.

* Drink water more often than the other stuff, and your body will figure out the rest by itself.

* Nobody is happy all the time, but your mood is a volume game. Choose the better thoughts a lot more often than not.

Scott's Three-Step Approach

* Pick one thing today- sleep, water, or your phone- and take an honest inventory of where you really land most days.

* Then tilt it one notch, doing the better thing one more time this week than you do the thing you always do anyway.

* Then hold that tilt long enough to stack, and every few weeks, just fall face-first into the fun stuff on purpose.

Chapters

0:02 - the phrase I made up that people still email me about

1:20 - what our new community actually believes

3:35 - CEOs writing me about bad grammar and better lives

5:10 - sleep, money, water and my 80-20 rule for living

7:05 - why four days a week beats three every single time

9:00 - reading, parking spots and saying thanks more

10:40 - the basket of French fries that kept me fat

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Daily Boost Podcast

What Makes You Procrastinate

September 3, 2026 | Episode 5534

Host: Scott Smith

Episode Description

Procrastination is one of those clubs we all joined without signing up, and nobody's letting us cancel the membership. I've been coaching this for 20 years, and the thing most people get wrong is right at the start.

You think it's a time problem. Your schedule is packed; you can't fit it in. You need to make time. That's not it. Once you name what's actually happening, you stop reaching for willpower and start reaching for something that works.

I'll walk you through it today and give you the one move that changes everything.

Featured Story

I was sitting at my desk this morning when a message popped up from the chatbot on my website. A gentleman wanted to know how to deal with procrastination.

I answered him back in about 30 seconds. I freaked him out a little. He didn't expect to type a note into a chat window and have an actual human answer that fast.

But the question stuck with me all morning. Not because it's rare, but because it's the opposite. It's the question I've been hearing for two decades from smart people with good jobs and full calendars who still can't bring themselves to start the thing sitting right in front of them.

Important Points

* Procrastination isn't a time problem; it's a feeling problem, and you're delaying the feeling more than the task.

* Willpower only treats the symptom, so the real fix is making the decision long before the moment actually shows up.

* A vague task like I need to work on my business has no first step attached, so it never actually gets started.

Memorable Quotes

* Willpower is your friend that shows up to help you do things you don't want to do, and then it just goes away.

* When you delay a decision, you've already decided to delay it. Not taking action is still an action.

* You're trading a little bit of relief right now, but the bill will be much bigger when it shows up tomorrow.

Scott's Three-Step Approach

* Start by naming the feeling you're avoiding, because the task isn't the problem; the emotion attached to it is.

* Then decide tonight what the first move is and the exact time it happens, before the feeling gets a vote tomorrow.

* Start at that time no matter how you feel, and let the relief of being done replace the dread you carried around.

Chapters

0:15 - A chat message about procrastination shows up

1:58 - Why this question never goes out of style

3:34 - It's not a time problem, it's a feeling problem

3:47 - Delaying a decision is still making a decision

6:00 - Certainty seekers and vague tasks that never start

7:06 - The pre-planned response that beats willpower

9:04 - Get it done today and feel better tonight

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Daily Boost Podcast

Caught in a Bad Situation

September 2, 2026 | Episode 5533

Host: Scott Smith

Episode Description

Life gets in the way. You plan well, do the work on yourself, and then something lands in your lap that doesn't feel right.

A few months ago I got tangled up in a mess I didn't create. Everybody worked hard to convince me I was wrong. I wasn't experienced enough. I didn't know the whole story. I stayed calm and made every choice on purpose.

Four and a half months later, I found out I was right. Then I quit, and it became a win for everybody.

Something is sitting on your back today. Let's get it off.

Featured Story

Last week I sat down with one of the principals in this whole thing. Four and a half months of being told I was too green to understand, that I was missing pieces of the story. He finally lifted his head and asked me what had happened.

So I told him. Calm. No finger-pointing. Just here's what you don't know.

You could watch it land. Then my phone started ringing with other leaders asking the same thing. So what really happened? Was it this?

They had a fire on their hands. What they hadn't worked out yet was that they were the arsonists.

Important Points

* When something feels off, and everyone around you insists it isn't, your gut is still data. Don't hand it over.

* You can stay in a bad situation on purpose, but only if you have a plan and make every move intentionally.

* Quitting isn't failing. It's what you do when the deal changes and staying costs you more than leaving ever will.

Memorable Quotes

* I found out that I was right, but it never feels right when you know you're right. It doesn't. It never does.

* They started the fires, and now they're running around trying to put them out. And I was caught in the middle of it.

* I'm really loyal, and I believe in people, so I'll hang in there to the end. But eventually I'm going to get out.

Scott's Three-Step Approach

* Name the thing that's sitting on your back and say out loud what your gut has been telling you about it for months.

* Stay calm and make every next move on purpose, giving the situation one honest chance to change before you go.

* If nothing changes, walk out clean, keep the relationships whole, and decide right then you're never going back.

Chapters

0:02 - Fighting through a rough week and still showing up

1:35 - The community I'm building and the gamble behind it

3:12 - When something you're doing gets too hard to keep doing

4:30 - Told I wasn't experienced enough to know what I knew

6:05 - Managing through it with every choice made on purpose

7:40 - The people who lit the fire finally smelled the smoke

9:10 - Why I'm a good quitter and why that isn't negative

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Daily Boost Podcast

You Don't Need a Why

September 1, 2026 | Episode 5532

Host: Scott Smith

Episode Description

Every coach on the planet tells you to find your why. I'm going to tell you something different, because I've watched too many good people sit around whining about their why and going absolutely nowhere with it.

There's something that comes first. It's smaller, it's simpler, and it's the thing that actually gets you moving. Once you see it, you can't unsee it, and you'll catch it happening in your own head all day long.

Then I'll hand you the one action you're not taking. It's easier than the advice you've been given. Let's get to work.

Featured Story

In June I told you I was starting a community. About two hundred of you raised your hands and said, "Count me in." Then I went quiet. Not another word for months.

My mouth got out ahead of my brain, sure. But that wasn't the real problem. I knew what I wanted to build, and I hadn't figured out how to build it right. I wanted you to have a coach who actually answers your questions, not one more course collecting dust on a shelf somewhere.

So I sat with it. When I finally came back around, I had something better. That quiet stretch taught me something I still can't shake.

Important Points

* Your why is never the starting line. The what shows up first, and the why comes rolling in about one second behind it.

* If you can't name what you actually want, you will spin in circles all year long, no matter how strong your why feels.

* Massive action wears people out before they start. Massive imperfect action moves them, because perfect isn't required.

Memorable Quotes

* A goal is not a why. A goal is a what if you don't have a what, you are going to sit there and spin in circles.

* Nobody wants to take massive action. They want their thing. They just want to get whatever it is they want.

* That one word, imperfect, frees people to go after it. It doesn't have to be perfect. You just have to do it.

Scott's Three-Step Approach

* Name the what first. Write down the actual thing you want today, in plain words, before you talk about reasons.

* Let the why rise behind it. Notice the reason that lands a second later, and use it to keep your feet moving.

* Take one massive imperfect action on what today. Make the mess on purpose. We can go clean it all up later.

Chapters

0:15 - why, why, why, and what actually comes first

1:40 - the community I promised and then went quiet on

3:06 - why the why is not the most important thing

4:25 - all kinds of whys walking around with no whats

6:33 - shopping for a Tesla and building the why for it

8:39 - the one word that frees people to start finally

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Daily Boost Podcast

Ambition vs Peace of Mind

August 31, 2026 | Episode 5531

Host: Scott Smith

Episode Description

You set the goal. You hit the goal. And then you stand there, wondering why it doesn't feel the way you thought it would.

I've watched that happen hundreds of times, and I finally figured out what's missing. It isn't ambition. It's the ground you're standing on when you launch.

Today I'm walking you through what I call a peaceful base — the six areas that have to be solid before anything big you build will hold. Time. Body. Mind. Money. Relationships. Meaning.

Go big. Just don't launch off a hot mess. Let's get your foundation right.

Featured Story

I brought this whole idea up with my wife over breakfast, and she asked me to explain it in a way she could actually feel.

So I pointed at her laptop.

Every single morning, before she eats, she flips it open and balances our books. House and business, both. She looks at the numbers, sees that we're fine, closes the laptop, and her whole day settles.

I would never do that. It would drive me crazy. I don't touch it.

But watching her that morning, something clicked for me. That laptop isn't bookkeeping. That's her ground. That's the thing she stands on before she does anything else.

And most people don't have one.

Important Points

• Your schedule serves you, or it serves everyone else. Control your time first, because it controls everything after.
• A peaceful base isn't a retirement plan. It's the active ground you build on so your big goals actually hold up.
• Six areas hold you up: time, body, mind, money, relationships, and meaning. Weak in one and the whole thing wobbles.

Memorable Quotes

• We set the goal, we reach the goal, we accomplish the goal, and yet we don't get what we really, really wanted.
• You can't have a cool life on a hot mess. If you want to launch something big, you better have a solid foundation.
• If you don't control your time, you control nothing. And you can control your time. I know it's hard.

Scott's Three-Step Approach

1. Pick the one area of your base that feels shakiest right now — time, body, mind, money, relationships, or meaning.
2. Fix that one with a small daily habit you'll actually stick to, like my wife balancing the books every single morning.
3. Only then launch your big goal from that solid ground, and keep the base strong while you chase whatever you want.

Chapters

0:14 - Why reaching the goal still leaves you empty

2:23 - The day I realized I only wanted peace of mind

2:46 - What a peaceful base is and why it holds you up

4:23 - Rocket launch pads and the size of your dreams

5:22 - My wife's ritual and taking back your time

9:35 - Money, relationships, and what anchors it all

11:53 - Start small today and let it compound for decades

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Daily Boost Podcast

Communication Kung Fu

August 28, 2026 | Episode 5530

Host: Scott Smith

Episode Description

Somebody drops a request on your plate, and you hear yourself saying yes before your brain catches up. Now you're doing work that was never yours, and the thing you actually needed to finish sits there.

Years ago, an improv class handed me two small moves that fixed this. They keep you agreeable, keep people liking you, and keep your calendar your own.

I use them on clients, on my kids, on anybody walking down the hall looking for a favor. Nobody has ever caught on.

Try them this weekend and watch what stops landing on your desk.

Featured Story

Years ago I was chasing voiceover and spokesperson work, and I knew I didn't sound natural. I've got this radio voice built into me. Great for reading copy. Terrible for sounding like a regular guy standing in a kitchen.

So I took classes: acting classes, commercial classes, drama classes. I scared a few people with my acting chops. I was that good.

The one that changed everything was improv. You watch improv and wonder how those people keep pulling ideas out of thin air. It looks like magic. It isn't. There's one simple rule beneath it all, and I've been using it in real conversations ever since.

Important Points

• When somebody asks for your help, agree first. Nobody gets defensive when they hear yes, and nobody walks away mad.

• Then you defer. Let's talk about it later when I finish what I'm doing, the work that a flat no never could.
• Drop the word yet into your answers. Not yet keeps you positive, keeps your momentum, and buys you some real room.

Memorable Quotes

• I lost the weight 20 years ago and never gained it back, but the habit of "I'll start on Monday" has evidently stuck.
• It's magical. It takes the stress away, and you can use it all day long — on your kids, on your boss, on anybody.
• Nine times out of ten, they find somebody else, they do it themselves, or the thing never even had to get done.

Scott's Three-Step Approach

1. Start with yes right when the ask lands, because nobody gets defensive and nobody argues with an agreeable person.
2. Then defer instead of refusing: let's talk about it later when I finish what I'm doing, and hand the moment back.
3. Then drop the "and," answer "not yet" when they circle back, and let the request quietly solve itself somewhere else.

Chapters

0:02 - Two small words that keep your day on track

0:18 - Why I skipped the gym and blamed Monday again

1:24 - The hardest part is that heavy front door

3:25 - What improv class taught me about saying no

4:47 - Agree and defer, then watch them walk away

5:54 - Drop the and, then let the word yet work

8:26 - How this quietly hands your time back to you

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Daily Boost Podcast

Awareness Is A Superpower

August 27, 2026 | Episode 5529

Host: Scott Smith

Episode Description

Most people drift through life without ever noticing what's really happening. They set goals, make plans, and then wonder why nothing changes.

I found a fix years ago, and it takes about ten minutes a day. It's called the Daily Awareness Diary. Nine questions, asked the same way every morning, until you can't hide from the answers anymore.

You're going to hate the name. You might hate the first few days. But by day four or five, you'll see yourself clearly, maybe for the first time in years.

Give it a listen, then give it a try.

Featured Story

Years ago I kept running into the same wall with people I coached. I'd ask about their beliefs, their values, the actions they were taking. And they'd make it up, not on purpose. They couldn't remember. They didn't know.

So I started thinking about personal trainers. They tell you to track your diet for a week before they build a plan for you. Nobody argues with that.

I could do the same thing with a life. Track it for a week or two, read between the lines, and the answer shows up on its own.

I built nine questions and handed them to my Face Your Passion group. What came back surprised even me.

Important Points

• Ask yourself the same questions daily. The questions stay fixed, your life moves, and the real pattern shows up.
• Look back before you look forward. Yesterday's honest scorecard tells you exactly what you need to fix today.
• Plan your responses before the day starts. Decide how you will answer, and most of your stress vanishes.

Memorable Quotes

• You can only write things down and make something up for a limited time until you see what is actually happening.
• If I can point your awareness in the direction it needs to be and then give you a way to make adjustments, we can.
• I am here to tell you, this silly idea called a Daily Awareness Diary changes everything and puts you in control.

Scott's Three-Step Approach

1. Start tomorrow morning by looking back at yesterday and deciding, honestly, how you feel about what you created.
2. Then look forward and name what you will create today, instead of working through a list somebody else handed you.
3. Finish with one affirmation drawn from what you just saw, and then do the same thing for fifteen straight days.

Chapters

0:02 - Why brutal awareness beats every other tool

1:26 - The nine questions nobody wants to answer

2:15 - Track your life like a trainer tracks your diet

3:40 - Looking back, then deciding what you create

5:51 - Prayer, connection, and the people you forgot

6:48 - The preplanned response that kills your stress

8:52 - Write your own affirmation and keep going

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Daily Boost Podcast

Happiness Is Boring. Want Some?

August 25, 2026 | Episode 5528

Host: Scott Smith

Episode Description

One degree. That's all it took for me to announce that winter is coming to Florida. We notice everything down here.

I got to thinking today about why some people feel stuck and bored while others seem lit up all the time. It's not talent. It's not luck. Most of you already know every tip and habit ever published, and you're still not quite there.

I'm going to hand you a foolproof way to feel better. Two simple moves, plus one bonus that ties it together. None of it is sexy. All of it works.

Featured Story

I started late today. Didn't sit down to record until after four, and right before I hit the button I checked the internet and saw that Dolly Parton had passed away at 80.

I've been a fan my whole life. We're headed to Gatlinburg in October for a wedding, and we already had Dollywood on the list. We're still going.

And this surprised me. I didn't feel sad, and I didn't feel happy. I just sat back and said, good job, Dolly.

I don't know her story. I don't know if there was pain behind all those wigs. What I know is I caught myself smiling, and I'm still working out why.

Important Points

• Exploring future possibilities costs you nothing. Look around with zero commitment and watch what jumps at you.
• Your anticipation engine needs two or three things on the calendar, close enough that your mind can picture them.
• Like-minded people have to be genuinely like you. Somebody who tolerates your thing is not the same as obsessed.

Memorable Quotes

• The things people are most passionate about are the things they literally stumbled upon. It wasn't intentional.
• A peaceful base is that solid foundation, where your relationships, your money, and your time are all in control.
• Two or more people engaged in the pursuit of a definite purpose with a positive attitude are an unbeatable force.

Scott's Three-Step Approach

1. Start a list tonight of everything that sparks your curiosity, without letting a chatbot hand you a single one.
2. Pull two or three items off that list and put real dates on them for the next 12 months, then track them.
3. Take those dated plans and find people already obsessed with the same thing, because obsession keeps you in.

Chapters

0:02 - Winter arrives in Florida after one whole degree

0:46 - Ralph says everybody deals with the same stuff

2:10 - Dolly Parton news lands and I catch myself smiling

4:02 - Exploring possibilities with zero commitment required

5:56 - The anticipation engine and why your list matters

7:46 - Finding people who are bonkers about the same thing

9:36 - A peaceful base is boring, and that is the point

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Daily Boost Podcast

What You Don't Know About Goal Setting

August 25, 2026 | Episode 5527

Host: Scott Smith

Episode Description

Yesterday I told you I wasn't going to teach goal setting. Today I'm going to teach you how to set goals. Sort of.

Most of what you were handed about goals has quietly fallen apart. The 21-day habit. The Harvard study everybody quotes. Smart goals. Gone. Disproven. And yet you're still sitting there in August wondering why the thing you decided in January never happened.

Two words fix most of it, and one measurement that explains why you quit. Ten minutes, and you'll never look at your goal list the same way.

Featured Story

I mentioned to my wife the other day that I'm in the mood to get a Tesla. Just shopping around. Looking.

She got quiet. Then a little scared. Because after all these years, she knows exactly what that sentence means in my house.

She knows my brain already flagged it. She knows the velocity has started. And she knows that if I keep drifting in that direction, week after week, there will eventually be a Tesla in the driveway and nobody will remember deciding on it.

That's not a car story. That's the whole mechanism of how you get anything, running right out in the open.

Important Points

• Start your morning retrospectively. Not what you did yesterday, but what really happened and how it honestly felt.
• Then go prospectively. Ask what you'll create today to close the gap you just found, and only three goals max.
• Velocity keeps motivation alive, so chop any goal more than six months out into segments you can actually feel finishing.

Memorable Quotes

• Velocity is the key. It's more important how fast you're getting to your goal than if you're getting to your goal.
• The daily awareness diary will hold you to your honesty forever. It exposes what you said you want and what you're doing.
• Remember the Harvard study where people who set goals are 93% more effective—never done, ever. It's a wives' tale.

Scott's Three-Step Approach

1. Tomorrow morning, ask retrospectively how yesterday actually went, and be honest about whether it matched your want.
2. Then ask prospectively what you'll create today, and write down the single adjustment that closes that gap for you.
3. Now break your big goal into velocity segments close enough together that you feel you're finishing one each week.

Chapters

0:02 - A twist on the goal setting I said I'd skip

0:38 - The obsession behind everything I teach you

1:47 - Goal setting myths that got quietly disproven

3:22 - The retrospective question I ask every morning

4:48 - Prospection, the one thing only humans can do

6:09 - Why velocity beats the goal itself every time

8:36 - The Tesla my wife is hoping I forget about

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Daily Boost Podcast

Being Human in an AI Era

August 24, 2026 | Episode 5526

Host: Scott Smith

Episode Description

Something shifted in my calls this month. The people I work with are all over AI. Some are building with it. Some are making money with it. And they still can't sort out a decision without help.

I've been three years deep in this stuff. Agents, apps, automation, the whole office running while I'm out of the room. I love it. It still can't do the one thing you get paid for.

Today I'll show you exactly where the machine stops, and you start, and why that line is worth more this year than it was last year.

Featured Story

I'm mid-sentence on a client call last week, and I catch it. Eyes drop. Fingers moving. They're running my answer through ChatGPT while I'm still talking.

I love it. Check me. I'm not worried about a machine that reads everything and decides nothing.

What comes back is a beautiful, balanced, on-the-other-hand answer with six options. And they sit there. Still stuck. Then they look up and ask me what I'd do, and I tell them in about nine seconds, and off they go.

Same information. Totally different result. Once I understood why, I rebuilt my entire business around it.

Important Points

• AI will hand you every option, and it will never pick one. The deciding is still your job, so quit waiting on it.
• Use AI for your figure-it-out mode at two in the morning, then shut it off and ask what you would actually do.
• Being curious about everything used to look scattered. In an AI world, it's the trait that lets you zero in fast.

Memorable Quotes

• Humans are coming back in the mix, believe it or not. Human wisdom in an AI world is now very, very, very valuable.
• You're busy. The trip from a data center to your iPhone is very long, so this will take longer than you think.
• AI does it cheaper, easier, better, and faster, and I can't compete with that, so I'll just do what it can't do.

Scott's Three-Step Approach

1. Dump the whole mess into AI tonight and let it pull every angle, every option, and all of the data it can find.
2. Then shut the machine off, take a walk with your eyes open, and answer one single question: what would you do?
3. Write that answer down, act on it before today ends, and let your life experience be the tiebreaker from now on.

Chapters

0:02 - Why human wisdom is suddenly in high demand

1:44 - Three years deep in AI and what it changed

3:20 - The clients who hire me to decide for them

4:30 - AI as your two in the morning life coach, flaws included

7:03 - The polymath advantage nobody warned you about

9:49 - Three things AI will never do for you, ever

12:43 - Take the position that turns you into a superstar

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Daily Boost Podcast

Telling the World About You

August 21, 2026 | Episode 5525

Host: Scott Smith

Episode Description

People are watching you right now. Not in a creepy way. In a normal, human, sizing-you-up kind of way.

They find you somewhere online, they binge your stuff, they ask AI about you, and then they quietly decide whether you're worth their time. I call it the shadow search, and it's happening whether you like it or not.

Today I'll give you the two moves that turn all that watching into opportunity. One of them nobody wants to do anymore. The other takes more patience than most people have. Both of them still work. Let's go.

Featured Story

I was twenty-six, and I'd been to Larry's house: five thousand square feet, the cars, the whole thing. I wanted what he had, and I wanted it on my schedule, not his.

So I pinned him down at the office and made my best case for a raise. I'd shown up. I'd done the work. He had gobs of money sitting right there, and I figured my share belonged in my pocket.

Larry gave me an answer I did not want to hear at twenty-six. I stomped out and complained about it in the office kitchen. Twenty years later, I finally understood what he was actually telling me.

Important Points

• Outbound beats waiting around, so send the letter, knock on the door, and make the call nobody else will make.
• Segment and target every piece of outreach, because blasting the same thing at everybody reads as noise, not help.
• You can't manipulate what people find, so build something honest enough to survive their shadow search on you.

Memorable Quotes

• Sometimes you have to keep showing up long enough for the right people to notice. Then they will step up for you.
• There is a hidden layer of successful people all around you, and they are keeping an eye out for somebody like you.
• Just do what you do so people can see what you do, then reach out and give them the chance to get to know you.

Scott's Three-Step Approach

1. Pick one person this week and reach out to them first with a real letter, a phone call, or a knock on their door.
2. Keep showing up the same honest way every day, so whatever they dig up about you backs up what you already told them.
3. Give it longer than feels comfortable, and then let the right people come to you once they have seen enough of you.

Chapters

0:13 - People are watching and learning about you now

0:45 - The attention era and why outbound wins today

2:06 - The shadow search happening behind your back

3:33 - Why the influencer act finally stopped working

4:24 - Larry, a raise, and the answer I hated hearing

6:44 - The hidden layer of successful people watching

7:41 - Three cruises later, Donna finally said hello

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