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Business Made Simple Podcast

#100: Bonnie St. John—How to Stop Mental Exhaustion So You Can Work Smarter

Business Made Simple Podcast

StoryBrand.ai

Marketing, Story, Bmsu, Businessmadesimple, Brand, Business, Bms, Storybrand, Entrepreneurship, 474622, Storytelling

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Why are we always mentally worn out?

As business leaders, we ask a lot of our brains every day. Decisions, creativity, strategy, and more. And if we don’t protect our mental energy, it will show up in our bottom line.

Today on the Building a StoryBrand podcast, Donald Miller sits down with Olympic medalist and leadership consultant Bonnie St. John. She shares small but mighty “micro-resilience” techniques that can help us keep our mental sharpness so we can be at our best for the people who count on us.

http://buildingastorybrand.com/100

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Building a Story Brand podcast where we believe if you confuse you'll lose noise is the

0:13.7

enemy and creating a clear message the best way to grow your business I'm your

0:17.7

host Donald Miller I'm joined by my co-host jay jay Peterson

0:20.1

hi don't jay jay jay what do you do when you're tired but you need to perform? You got something you got to do,

0:26.9

you got a meeting coming up, you got a sales call, you got a workshop you have to deliver,

0:30.9

yeah. But you're feeling it at 2 o'clock what do you do? I do the

0:36.3

stereotypical like I'll do jumping jacks. Oh you get your blood flowing I

0:40.2

actually like have to I will well even there been times I know this may come as a

0:45.2

complete surprise but there's been times where we're getting ready to cord the

0:47.7

podcast and I'm a little tired yeah and I put my arms above my head and I start like pumping fists in the air.

0:55.0

Yeah, I've seen you do that.

0:56.0

That's what you're doing. You're trying to get your blood going?

0:58.0

I'm just like getting my blood going.

0:59.0

Because once we start and same thing like when you're about to teach or anything,

1:02.0

it's fun, it's exciting, but you'll sit down, you're like,

1:05.0

all right, I gotta do this.

1:06.0

And so I do the stereotypical, like,

1:09.0

move my arms, move my feet,

1:11.0

sing the song Father Abraham, Had three sons, you know, I'll like kind of do

1:14.5

all those little things that you have to do

1:16.2

to get excited.

1:17.5

So you know what I discovered recently,

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