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Waste No Day: A Home Services Motivational Podcast

Black Belt in Self Discipline - Special Guest: Damione Puopolo with Graci 717

Waste No Day: A Home Services Motivational Podcast

Brian Burton & Nate Minnich

Entrepreneurship, Business, Business:entrepreneurship

5.0547 Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

In today’s show, we interview special guest Damione Puopolo on the subject of self-discipline. Damione is a 2nd degree black belt in Brazilian jujitsu and owner of Gracie 717 gym located in Lancaster, PA. Growing up in Florida, Damione always had an interested in martial arts but it was jujitsu that really attracted his attention in college. Dedicating time to the interest every day quickly propelled Damione through the discipline obtaining his black belt in only a few years. In this unique episode, Damione discusses how self-discipline can be an asset and relates it to the home services industry for technicians, plumbers, and electricians in the field.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I find for myself when I was coming up, the days I learned the most and the days I had the

0:07.4

breakthroughs, uh, on certain moves or, you know, I, maybe I've been rolling with this brown belt

0:14.2

as a blue belt for three months now and he's just beat me up. The days I didn't want to go to the

0:19.6

gym where the days, it's like, wow, I finally caught

0:22.6

that move on them, you know, but that happens a lot. You're going to have to force yourself to do

0:30.0

stuff you don't want to do, but eventually it becomes a vigil.

0:37.1

Welcome to the Waste No Day podcast, a podcast specifically for and about the home services industry as it relates to plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and electrical.

0:48.9

More than a podcast, Waste No Day is a credo, a determination, a mindset.

0:54.5

It is a never-ending discipline. It is a never-ending discipline.

0:56.6

It is a refuse to lose pursuit.

0:59.1

It is a wake-up call every morning to waste no day.

1:03.1

Now here's your host, Nate. I'm Brian.

1:18.7

And we are here with you for a new week. We are very excited about this subject. We're breaking into self-discipline. No better way to do that on a Monday morning, bright and early, right, Brian? Oh, yeah. Glad to be here, even though we're recording this on a Tuesday morning. There it is. And for all of you running late to work right now, self-discipline's right up your alley. So let's stick into that with a quote. Go ahead, Brian. Self-discipline is the number one delineating factor between the rich, the middle class, and the poor. Robert Kiyosaki. Yeah, really good point there, Brian. And I think that what it comes down to so much is that, I mean, this is America. In most cases, I don't know that we have any people listening outside the country. But, I mean, if you want to dream, it's it's pretty

2:01.1

much right there in front of you. And it's how far are you willing to pursue it? What,

2:05.1

what level of discipline are you willing to employ to go get it? The opportunity is yours. And

2:09.9

that's really what we preach here, where Brian and I work. We say that we, we constantly say we put

2:15.8

high dollar opportunities in front of our employees,

2:18.6

and the rest is up to them.

2:20.8

Right.

2:21.5

That's our inward facing company niche.

2:25.5

Yeah, it's our niche.

2:26.3

That's what we do here.

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