154. Joe Polish | Addiction & Carpet Cleaning Taught him to Sell Anything
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2017
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
A marketing genius, a renowned connector of the elite, carpet cleaning taught Joe Polish everything he needed to know about business. But there's much more to the story. Joe is best known for his his Genius Network, a meeting of industry transformers. He is known as the master connector. In the interview he also discusses his path from a troubled childhood of addiction and abuse in which connection was hard to come by and what he's doing now to help addicts of all kinds.
Lessons: 1. Doing things the hard way, selling something as dull as carpet
1. Doing things the hard way, selling something as dull as carpet cleaning, can pay off with expertise and strength.
2. When you take the human mind from one level to another you are being entrepreneurial.
3. Addiction is a connection disorder, what you do when you don't feel safe in the world.
To learn more about Joe Polish and his passion projects, please visit:
www.JoePolish.com
www.GeniusNetworkEvents.com
www.JoesMarketingBook.com/request
www.ArtistsForAddicts.com
www.GeniusRecovery.com
CREDITS Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc. Hosts: Joe De Sena with Johnny Waite, Sefra Alexandra, Col. Tim Nye, & Dr. Delle Synopsis – Matt Baatz © 2017 Spartan
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Spartan Up Podcast. I'm Johnny Waite. I have a very special guest, |
| 0:04.5 | Zach Evernesh, who is no stranger to podcasting. We learn a lot from this guy. It's |
| 0:08.4 | fantastic. |
| 0:09.4 | Sefra, Tim Nye, and behind the camera Marion and Andrea who make us look good. |
| 0:16.0 | Hey speaking of looking good, this guy is incredible. |
| 0:19.0 | This interview is with Joe Polish. |
| 0:21.0 | You know Joe. You'd said about the most well-connected guy you've ever met. |
| 0:25.6 | That's what he is. He's known as being a connector. If you want to meet somebody, you need to get in touch with Joe and he has overcome some, you know, amazing life challenges and the stuff he's doing now is truly transformational. |
| 0:42.0 | I think this could be one of the most inspiring Spartan Up |
| 0:45.4 | Podcast ever. Yeah, pressure is on. Let's do it. |
| 0:49.8 | We are here in Arizona for Spartan up podcast with Joe Polish. |
| 0:57.0 | That's right, like nail polish. Like nail polish. |
| 0:59.0 | Or shoe polish, whatever. |
| 1:00.0 | So we don't know each other. |
| 1:02.0 | Yeah. I, a couple of people over the years |
| 1:05.8 | I said you got to meet this guy you got to meet this guy. I haven't been in Arizona. I showed up in Arizona today. My |
| 1:10.4 | shoulders dropped. I don't know what you guys got in the air here but it works |
| 1:13.5 | because I'm pretty relaxed and I'm learning about you you pulled out a fortune |
| 1:19.3 | magazine yeah Joe is recognized in this magazine. |
| 1:23.0 | Yeah, as what do you do it's this genius network people pay like a lot of things but I have the highest level |
| 1:30.7 | discussion group for what I would call industry transformers and marketers in the world, |
| 1:36.0 | meaning people that are at a certain income level, some of the best people in the world at their |
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