036: Chris Johnson – “The Relationships You Have Will Define The Quality Of Your Life” | Working with Seth Godin, Ariana Huffington, and Ryan Holiday

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🗓️ 13 July 2015

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Episode 036: Chris Johnson – “The Relationships You Have Will Define The Quality Of Your Life” | Working with Seth Godin, Ariana Huffington, and Ryan Holiday

This episode was absolutely packed full of action oriented takeaways to help us all improve in each of our environments. I love the strategy Chris employs to maintain such a great and giving network… You’ll learn about his 52X group, his 8X group, and his 2X group. These are new strategies that haven’t been shared before that you can implement today.

Chris Johnson is the founder of Simplifilm, a motion graphics and trailer studio for bestselling authors, startups, and Fortune 500 companies. He’s a ceaseless entrepreneur and salesman who has tested his skills at everything from political fundraising, web design and real estate. Since founding Simplifilm in 2010, he’s become a paid advisor to leaders in many fields including New York Times bestselling authors and entrepreneurs and worked for and with the likes of Brad Feld, Ryan Holiday, Robert Greene, Seth Godin and many others.

A graduate of George Washington University (Economics), Johnson lives in Portland, Oregon. He considers himself a full-time student of books and a bad chess player in good practice.

Episode 036: Chris Johnson – “The Relationships You Have Will Define The Quality Of Your Life” | Working with Seth Godin, Ariana Huffington, and Ryan Holiday

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“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what brings you alive.”

Some Questions I Ask:

What one common characteristic do all successful leaders share?
How did you get to this point? What’s your story behind the success?
What is a 52X network?
What is your philosophy on exceptional customer service?
What does GRATT mean?
Who are some great learning leaders that you know and/or study?

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

The common thread amongst Ariana Huffington, Ryan Holiday, and Seth Godin
The importance of having bracketed networks (3 groups)
The process for creating some of the best videos in the world
The importance of “Know, Do, Feel”
Goal, Requirement, Action, Tone, Target
Advice to people running a business (Hint: Empathy)
The importance of feedback loops

“The relationships you have will define the quality of your life.”

Continue Learning

Read: The Ryan Holiday Book List
Go To: http://simplifilm.com/
Follow Chris on Twitter: @genuinechris

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Episode 010: Shane Snow – How To Accelerate Success Using Smart Cuts

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Episode edited by the great J Scott Donnell

Bio From Simplifilm.com

A graduate of George Washington University (Economics), Johnson lives in Portland, Oregon. He considers himself a full-time student of books and a bad chess player in good practice.

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0:00.0	The relationship you have determines the quality of your life and if you're not obsessed with making those the best they can be then you're depriving yourself and depriving your friends of all of the stuff that you can have.
0:14.0	Our leaders born or are they made.
0:16.3	Our host Ryan Hawk believes that leaders can be made through determined, focused work
0:21.1	on learning the art and science behind the makeup of other
0:24.0	successful leaders. Now it's time to inhale knowledge and exhale success. You're
0:29.0	listening to the Learning Leader Show with Ryan Hawk extremely excited
0:51.4	about the featured leader tonight.
0:53.4	It's Chris Johnson, the founder of Simple Film or Simple Media
0:57.3	as it's being rebranded.
0:58.7	Chris is a very intelligent, deliberate thinker
1:02.0	and his process for everything that he does.
1:04.0	He actually does book trailers for all the big time authors like Seth Godin,
1:09.0	Ariana Huffington, and Ryan Holliday. his work is incredible.
1:14.0	He's very smart also when it comes to sales,
1:16.6	communication, negotiation.
1:18.9	We got into a number of great topics.
1:21.0	A couple of them were, building a world-class network. We talked about his 52X group
1:27.0	and exactly what that means and how he defines it and how he's very deliberate in building
1:31.7	and giving to that network. I love that part.
1:34.1	Also his process for creating these videos. Again Chris is very detail oriented has
1:41.3	a process that's laid out perfectly to make these world-class
1:45.0	videos for his customers. Again that leads into the exceptional customer
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