#18: Peter Awad
The BetterLife Podcast: Wealth | Real Estate Investing | Life
Brandon Turner and Cam Cathcart
4.8 • 767 Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2023
⏱️ 109 minutes
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Summary
Peter Awad is a 5-time founder and executive coach, helping clients with leadership and value alignment.Â
From founding Mission Meats to traveling the country with his family in an RV, to homeschooling, to his decision to start a new career at age 40, Peter sheds light on his failures, successes, and learnings as a husband, father, and entrepreneur.Â
Peter and Brandon also talk about:
-How to use the “70/30 tool” to optimize for business success and happinessÂ
-The “Support Challenge Matrix” for leadersÂ
-Peter’s teenage daughter’s stroke and the miracle of her full recovery
-How to build a strong community you can lean on in tough timesÂ
-Buying a house in Southern California off market (for an incredible deal!)
-Why you should surround yourself with people who are willing to tell you “no”
-The 3 questions to ask yourself to find your purpose
-How to choose what advice to take, and not to take, from mentors
-Brandon’s identity-based goal setting process in the BetterLife Tribe
Link to the free guide offered at end of episode: Petergift.com
Books mentioned in this episode:
'The Road Less Stupid' by Keith Cunningham
'The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry' by John Comer
'High Performance Habits' by Brendon Burchard
The Bible
'Story Worthy' by Matthew Dicks
'Winning the War In Your Mind' by Craig Groeschel
'Extreme Ownership' by Jocko Willink
Peter’s charitable cause:
The Treigning Lab, a gym and MMA studio with a non-profit organization that supports vets and children with PTSD, and the group that helped his daughter recover through use of their hyperbaric chambers.Â
Connect with Peter on socials:
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| 0:00.0 | And what terrifies me and what should terrify the listener is like so many of us have landed in careers just out of happenstance, right? |
| 0:10.8 | Like you happen to be down the street from, you know, the mechanic shop where you happen to be, like I went to engineering because I liked cars and my brother was an engineer. |
| 0:17.2 | I could have been an engineer. I could have worked at my whole life. There's nothing wrong with engineering. I'm just not the right guy for it. And so that was one of those moments |
| 0:24.8 | where I was like, dude, what am I doing? Welcome to A Better Life with Brandon Turner. That is me, |
| 0:32.9 | where world-class guests share their wisdom on building a better life. Join me as we explore the |
| 0:37.4 | habits, the habits, |
| 0:37.8 | the actions, and the beliefs that have guided their journey with the aim of helping you apply |
| 0:42.0 | those lessons to your own. |
| 0:59.0 | Heater, welcome to the C-Shed, man. |
| 0:59.6 | Thank you, man. |
| 1:00.3 | It's good to be here. |
| 1:06.1 | You know, last time I did a podcast with you, which was a couple years ago, you had me eating, was it Carolina Reaper jockey? Yes, that's right. |
| 1:06.8 | While trying to do a podcast. |
| 1:08.2 | Yes. |
| 1:08.7 | I think you sweat through your entire shirt, if I remember. |
| 1:11.1 | I think I cried. |
| 1:11.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:12.3 | And then I think Ryan, I think he cried. |
| 1:14.9 | Uh-huh. |
| 1:15.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:15.5 | It was a great time. |
| 1:17.1 | We'll get into all that later and more. |
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