1032: How to Find Yourself and Create Your Ideal Life through Rebellion with Graham Cochrane

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🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Graham Cochrane discusses how to stop living on autopilot and start making progress towards your ideal life.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The problem with autopilot and “the logical next thing”

2) The five-part REBEL framework

3) The magical time frame for goals

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— ABOUT GRAHAM —

Graham Cochrane is a 7 figure entrepreneur, TEDx and keynote speaker, and bestselling author of How To Get Paid For What You Know and Rebel: Find Yourself by Not Following The Crowd (2024).

He is the host of The Graham Cochrane Show, a top .5% ranked podcast globally, where each week he helps people create more money, margin, and meaning in their lives. With over 14 years of online coaching and content experience, 700,000 YouTube subscribers across his channels, and having built multiple 7 figure businesses that require less than 5 hours of work per week to run, Graham is a leading voice in the life-giving business movement.

His insights have been regularly featured in national media outlets like Forbes, CNBC and Business Insider.

As a coach and dynamic keynote speaker he can help any success-oriented person who feels stuck, exhausted, or disappointed, leverage their true identity to experience clarity, confidence, and make life and business more effortless through utilizing his signature REBEL framework.

• Book: Rebel: Find Yourself by Not Following the Crowd

• Instagram: @thegrahamcochrane

• Website: GrahamCochrane.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: The Go-Giver: A Little Story about a Powerful Business Idea by Bob Burg and John David Mann

• Book: The Prosperous Coach: Increase Income and Impact for You and Your Clients (The Prosperous Series) by Steve Chandler and Rich Litvin

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Most people go into like this kind of self-inner work out of a place of I got to fix myself.
0:14.0	I'm a mess or I have this problem and we all do.
0:16.6	But when you bring that energy, you're never going to have curiosity.
0:20.0	You're never going to be imaginative, these parts of your brain that you really need to write and create new neural pathways.
0:25.5	We're trying to be who we think we should be.
0:27.5	But ironically, if you just be yourself, then you will have more impact and be able to serve more people in your sphere of influence because the real use coming out to play.
0:40.9	That's Grand Cochran.
0:42.4	He's a successful entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and fellow podcast host.
0:46.3	He's also the author of the book, Rebell.
0:48.5	Find yourself by not following the crowd.
0:50.9	So you'll learn one, the problem with autopilot and doing the next logical thing.
0:55.5	Two, the five-part rebel framework. And three, the magical time frame for goal setting.
1:02.0	And if you want a quick summary write-up of some of these takeaways are recommended to sign up for the free gold nugget email newsletter at awesome at your job.com.
1:08.6	I'm Pete McItis. This is How to Be Awesome at Your Job. And now, here's Graham.
1:16.8	Graham, welcome. Good to be here, Pete. Graham, we are talking about being a rebel, finding yourself
1:24.6	by not following the crowd. That sounds cool. Can you tell us about one of your most rebellious decisions and how it worked out for you?
1:32.3	I think the one that changed sort of the course for me was when I lost my job in the middle of the Great Recession,
1:39.3	it's 2009.
1:41.3	We just bought a house.
1:43.3	We just had our first baby. We just moved a thousand miles away.
1:47.6	And I lost my job. And I just didn't want to go back to any job. I had floated for a few years.
1:54.6	And I think I made this subtle agreement with myself that I am going to do whatever it takes to find.
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