174: The Better Sleep, No Alcohol Challenge with James Swanwick
The Chris Harder Show
Chris Harder
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2018
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In This Episode You Will Learn About:
- How James went from being a sportscaster on ESPN's Sport Center to helping people sleep better
- Why James started reading a book a day
- Actionable tips to reading a book a day
- How James' 30-Day No Alcohol Challenge was created
- The positive side effects participants experienced during the challenge
- Leading with generosity
- Why James helped 11 charities in 11 weeks
- The effects of blue light and the glasses that James created to combat it
- Importance of sleep and how it impacts all areas of life, health and business
Resources:
- IG: https://www.instagram.com/jamesswanwick/
- How James reads a book a day: https://youtu.be/Ew3KIRBuE5Q
- www.swanwicksleep.com
- www.jamesswanwick.com
- www.30daynoalcoholchallenge.com
Show Notes
If today's guest's voice or picture looks familiar to you, it's likely because you've seen James Swanwick at some point on ESPN. While that's where he found early success, since that time this Australian-American has become an incredibly successful entrepreneur, speaker, health coach and podcast host.
We covered a variety of topics, but I was blown away by the common beliefs and habits we shared, including the act of reading a book a day. While I only did it for 30 days, James has been faithfully reading a book a day for years. James and I dig deep into his generosity practice and why he feels it's the only way to lead in order to form true and authentic relationships, why he gave up alcohol and now helps others do the same with his 30-Day No Alcohol Challenge. Genuinely wanting to help others, he also founded Swanwick Sleep that focuses on better sleep in a blue-light filled world.
Be sure to check out the Resources here to follow all of the amazing things he's doing!
Question Highlights:
- What is one of your favorite books?
- What is one of your superpowers?
- What is a challenge you're facing right now?
- Can you give us a high-level overview of your upbringing and how you got to where you are today?
- What are your practices to reading a book a day?
- Who's the most fascinating entrepreneur you've ever interviewed?
- Why did you quit drinking?
- What is your 30-Day No Alcohol Challenge?
- Can you tell me about a transformation that really stuck out to you?
- How does someone join your challenge?
- How are you able to connect people so well?
- What has being involved with charities done for you and which charities mean the most to you these days?
- What was the best lesson you took away from working with 11 charities in 11 weeks?
- What is the rage behind blue light-blocking glasses?
Quotes
"Just do it and do it now."
"Your network impacts your net worth."
"You have to lead with generosity with people in order to earn an authentic relationship with them."
"There is no good, there is no bad – there's just happenings. Our perception makes it good or bad."
James Swanwick is an Australian-American investor, entrepreneur, speaker, health coach and former SportsCenter anchor on ESPN and host of The James Swanwick Show podcast. He is the creator of blue-light blocking glasses Swannies from Swanwick Sleep, which helps people sleep better; and the 30 Day No Alcohol Challenge, which helps people reduce or quit alcohol. Forbes magazine voted him one of the Top 25 Networking Experts. Swanwick has interviewed celebrities including Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Kobe Bryant, David Beckham and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Follow me on social media @ChrisWHarder on Instagram and check out www.ForTheLoveOfMoney.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I probably drank the way that society would say is normal, just average. |
| 0:04.8 | But I woke up on this particular morning in March 2010 and I looked in the mirror and I just felt average. This is for the love of money where we are making you unapologetic about your pursuit of success |
| 0:26.0 | by sharing the tools, tips, and stories of those who have already made it. |
| 0:31.3 | My name is Chris Harder and each week I will bring you incredible |
| 0:35.1 | guests in order to prove that when good people make good money they do great |
| 0:39.9 | things. really pumped about today's episode because I'm sitting down with James Swanick. |
| 0:53.8 | Yes, that James Swanick, the anchor on E-SpN's Sports Center not to mention a journalist |
| 1:00.4 | for 20 years who has interviewed like the biggest celebrities and I cannot |
| 1:05.4 | wait for you to hear all of the things that we are about to talk about now |
| 1:09.2 | James is a very successful entrepreneur as well and one of the keys to being a successful |
| 1:15.8 | entrepreneur of course is making sure that your tribe pushes you to do all the |
| 1:21.0 | things in order to reach that next level of success. |
| 1:23.7 | And that is absolutely why I put together and carefully cultivated |
| 1:28.9 | my elite mastermind for anybody who is making multiple six figures all the way up to a |
| 1:35.1 | few million dollars a year. Now the whole point of getting into this mastermind |
| 1:39.3 | is to throw you into not the next level but the next few levels over the course of just one year's time by |
| 1:46.7 | collaborating and learning from the best of the best and the best and getting support from |
| 1:51.1 | you know 30 some other high-level entrepreneurs that you could |
| 1:54.3 | not otherwise afford to hire yourself. There's a sense of family that gets cultivated |
| 1:59.8 | where everybody rolls up their sleeves they pitch in to help you get past whatever it is you need to get past, |
| 2:05.8 | to give you the ideas that you need to get, to give you the connections that you need to have, |
| 2:09.4 | in order to get into the multiple seven figure range year after year after year. |
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