James Altucher and Joe De Sena: What are They Doing Now?
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Entrepreneur, chess master and angel investor James has had a number of great successes, used his winnings and then found himself back at zero again. Each of these times he used his creativity and ingenuity to find another opportunity and make it happen. Life is like an ultra marathon with many peaks and valleys to ascend and descend. Enjoy it all! Sometimes it's not even about being the smartest, but about being the most agile.
LESSONS
90% of communication is non-verbal
Be able to play with possibility not certainty
Three skills to money: making it, keeping it, growing it
Investment decisions and deciding correctly
Combine skill sets to create something unique
Podcasts are the wild west of radio
When you get knocked down, keep getting up
Take "two steps back" to observe your situation
Exercise your creativity muscle daily | write 10 ideas a day
Enjoy difficult situations
You don't have to be the smartest, be the most agile
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LINKS
The James Altucher Show https://omny.fm/shows/the-james-altucher-show
TIME STAMPS
1:25 GONEROGUESNACKS.COM intro
3:15 Changing behaviors
6:00 The backdoor into the Ivy Leagues
10:00 College Card start-up
12:00 Changing business climates in quarantine
13:30 Shifting to the remote landscape
15:00 Owning a comedy club
16:15 HBO & building websites for Fortune 500
18:15 Three skills to money
20:15 Going broke & 9/11
21:05 GONEROGUESNACKS.COM break
22:20 Software to model the stock market
23:30 Writing financial books
25:20 Combing skill sets to forge something new
27:00 The Wild West of radio
28:45 bad economy & uncertainty
30:34 Taking two steps back
31:30 Exercising creativity & 10 ideas a day
36:00 How to start a podcast
39:45 Cultural ultra marathon runner
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CREDITS:
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Hosts: Joe De Sena. Sefra Alexandra, Johnny Waite & Colonel Nye are at his comedy club, social distance of course.
Synopsis – Sefra Alexandra
Production Assistant - Andrea Hagarty
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| 0:00.0 | Spartans Joe DeSena here, founder and CEO of Spartan. |
| 0:04.2 | I'm on the farm. |
| 0:05.7 | I had the pleasure of doing my first ever online podcast interview. |
| 0:11.4 | Okay, I interviewed James Altature. he's got a famous podcast and it was actually pretty |
| 0:16.2 | interesting. I was nervous, you know, I've been holding out all the interviews we did |
| 0:19.6 | over all these years I said I'm not doing one of these virtual meetings. It's got to be in |
| 0:25.3 | person otherwise I'm not doing it which is a nightmare because I'm traveling all |
| 0:28.7 | over the world. Well now with the lockdown I'm locked down on the farm James |
| 0:31.8 | was locked down at his apartment. |
| 0:33.3 | We did it. |
| 0:34.6 | And turns out he went to Cornell. |
| 0:36.9 | I went to Cornell. |
| 0:38.0 | Turns out he had some tough times. |
| 0:40.0 | I had some tough times. |
| 0:41.6 | It turns out he's from Queens. I'm from Queens. |
| 0:44.0 | Guy was pretty interesting. I mean he's had some serious |
| 0:48.0 | ups and downs in his life. I'll leave you with that. I don't want to give |
| 0:52.1 | too much away and he's |
| 0:54.0 | figured out how to bounce back, how to dust it off his shoulders and not how not to |
| 1:00.1 | get in his own head. I think you're going to learn a lot with this interview. I think |
| 1:04.8 | he's a real interesting cat. So stay tuned. Listen up. And listen, life is not a straight rise to the top. Life is like this and if you're lucky, if you're lucky at the end you're a little higher than you were at the beginning. |
| 1:20.0 | If you're lucky, so pay pay attention let's learn something. This episode of |
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