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🗓️ 6 July 2017
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Noah Kagan is interviewed on the show this week (@noahkagan). Known for his marketing skills, Noah is a recognized entrepreneur with an enthusiasm for fitness. He was the 30th employee of Facebook and has started companies such as mint.com, sumo.com, and app sumo. We dive into topics such as how to be less busy in order to get things done, the importance of coaches, what he learned from his time at Facebook, how to develop habits and increase your follow through. All of these topics Noah contributes to his overall success in business and leading a healthy and fulfilling life. Enjoy the show!
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Topics of discussion:
[1:37] Michael answer’s a listeners question about injury rehabilitation
[5:20] Being less busy to get better things done
[12:05] The Facebook experience
[20:21] The difference between your 20s and 30s
[25:01] Internalizing material with book reports
[27:25] Being a fit entrepreneur
[33:54] The muscle of habit and increasing your follow through
[39:31] The role of coaches and accountability groups in success
[44:56] Why you should embrace not knowing and difficulty
[48:54] Using flexible dieting to meet your ideal body composition
[51:42] Building your nervous muscle
[56:50] Why you need to review anything you want to improve
[1:00:00] Fulfillment over success or happiness
[1:07:56] Rapid Fire Questions
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0:00.0 | Hey everyone this is Mike Kaju and you're listening to the brute strength podcast |
0:04.4 | this week's guest is Noah Kagan Noah was the 30th employee of Facebook |
0:09.3 | He helped grow mint.com before starting his own company, |
0:14.1 | sumo.com and app sumo. |
0:16.6 | Noah is really well known in the entrepreneur community |
0:19.5 | as a wicked marketer and he's helped grow some enormous companies but what I find really |
0:25.7 | interesting about Noah is more so how he lives his life he's always having fun he's you, in the way that he writes and does business, |
0:35.4 | he's always making jokes and trying to make people laugh. |
0:39.1 | And he just really seems to have his priorities in line, |
0:42.4 | which I really, really appreciate. |
0:44.4 | So this one's a little bit more casual, but there are lots of practical tips for how to |
0:49.4 | live a healthier life, a more deliberate life life as well as some business and productivity tricks. |
0:56.3 | So without further ado, enjoy the show. |
0:59.1 | Hey Mike, my name's Bill from North Carolina, big fan of the podcast, appreciate all the information you put out there. |
1:05.4 | My question relates to I had shoulder surgery last week and I was wondering if you could provide some advice on keeping a good mindset while you're out and trying to recover and how you would focus on training to get the strength back into the arm without causing any further damage or any further problems. |
1:31.0 | Love to hear what you have to say about it and keep doing the great work. |
1:34.5 | Thanks man. |
1:36.5 | Hey Bill, first off I want to commend you for including that piece about mindset |
1:41.8 | before even asking about what you can do for your shoulder physically. |
1:45.4 | Because a poor mindset can lead to re-injury, extremely slow recovery, or even permanent damage, |
1:52.1 | while the right mindset can lead to you making progress in your |
1:56.4 | fitness while most others would stay stalled or even regress. |
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