A Recipe To Be Extraordinary With Jeremy Slate

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On today’s episode, we have Jeremy Slate. Jeremy is one of my oldest entrepreneur friends and his podcast was the first podcast I was ever on about five years ago. We have been friends, colleagues, and collaborators ever since. He has interviewed hundreds if not thousands of great minds in many different areas. He has really been working on distilling everything he has learned into one powerful book called Extraordinary. We are going to learn about what it takes to be extraordinary in this episode.

Jeremy Ryan Slate is the founder of the Create Your Own Life Podcast, a show to help people create life on their own terms. He studied literature at Oxford University and is a former champion powerlifter turned new media entrepreneur. He specializes in using podcasting and new media to create celebrity and was ranked #1 in iTunes New and Noteworthy and is consistently in the top 200 in the iTunes business category. Jeremy was named one of the Top 26 Podcasts for Entrepreneurs to Listen by CIO Magazine and Millennial Influencer to follow in 2018 by Buzzfeed. The Create Your Own Life Podcast has been downloaded almost a million times. He’s also a featured writer for Influencive and Business.com and has been featured himself by Forbes and INC. Magazine.

We discuss:

[03:16] Jeremy shares about his defining moment.
[04:12] His defining moments showed him how adversity can fuel us and make us the better person that we’re meant to be.
[07:04] He was able to use his adversity as fuel to power whatever the next things were going to be.
[10:01] It is really important to have the right viewpoint on how you look at things.
[11:36] Any type of motivation can also be your determent.
[13:12] The stories that seem really mundane are actually some of the most powerful and highest converting sales stories.
[14:01] One of the most powerful things is telling relatable stories because you need to show the transformation you have experienced.
[16:16] You have to continue showing up because opportunities are going to come for and they are not always going to be in the way you think.
[17:18] People that are extraordinary have realized that it is up to them to create the life they want. They realize that there is this other principle that can guide your life.
[21:28] If you let your curiosity guide you a lot of times you are going to have some incredible conversations and connections.
[23:34] Extraordinary people look at what is comfortable and they are willing to go harder and longer and that goes back to adversity. Everything you want is on the other side of that discomfort.
[25:26] We have lost grit in a lot of ways and we are trying to figure out how to get it back.
[26:42] We are capable of doing a lot of things. In terms of ROI, does it make a lot of sense for me to be doing some of these things myself?
[29:16] Any tasks you are going to give away have to be well detailed. It is important to have an SOP so you can give it away in the right way.
[29:52] You don’t have to be able to do everything in your business, but you need to know how it functions so you can guide the ship.
[32:44] You have to be willing to tell your story.
[34:04] He is looking for the place where he can speak his truth and feed his soul, but at the same time show the people that need help that he is there to help.
[35:18] When you want to be extraordinary or you want to be that next level, you have to realize that no one is going to do it for you. The total responsibility comes back to you. You have a lot more control over your life than you think.