Jeff Hoffman.Words Of Wisdom From A Self-Made Billionaire. Episode 369 with The Real Brad Lea (TRBL)
Dropping Bombs
Brad Lea
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2021
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Jeff Hoffman is an award-winning global entrepreneur, proven CEO, worldwide motivational speaker, bestselling author, Hollywood film producer, a producer of a Grammy Award winning jazz album, and executive producer of an Emmy Award winning television show. Jeff has been part of a number of well-known successful startups, including Priceline.com/Booking.com, uBid.com and more. Jeff is the CEO of Driving Force Enterprises, a strategic consulting firm that teaches exponential growth to business owners and entrepreneurs, as well as teaching innovation strategies to corporations and governments worldwide.
In this episode, Jeff and Brad have a serious conversation about entrepreneurship and how to use your money for fulfillment.
00:00 Intro
00:34 Bomb 1: “I want my claim to fame to be the work I am doing now.” - Jeff Hoffman
01:51 Touring with Justin Timberlake
04:29 Bomb 2: “Instead of complaining about the company you work for, create the company you want to work for” - Jeff Hoffman
07:20 “This is my moment” - Jeff Hoffman
11:00 You’re never as smart as you think you are
13:27 Bomb 3: “Running the company is not your only job, taking care of the amazing people around you is more important.” - Jeff Hoffman
14:18 Bomb 4: Talent doesn’t find you
22:27 Culture
24:00 Political Correctness
29:20 Why mutual respect is important to Jeff
30:23 Jeff Hoffman’s book called, “Scale”
31:17 Bomb 5: People & Technology
34:00 A spending spree
37:25 No one hates you when your broke
40:00 When your money saves people
41:00 Bomb 6: “Your success is someone else’s miracle” - Jeff Hoffman
43:10 Bomb 7: “There’s no shame in life in making money, the shame in life is in not using it to help other people.” - Jeff Hoffman
44:00 Pitbull
48:30 “Info sponging”
51:10 The burn out
53:20 Winning an Emmy
01:02:53 Bomb 8: When people laugh at you, shake it off because those are the people who will ask for something
01:03:11 Storytelling
01:07:55 Are you the kind of person Jeff wants to work with? (https://www.jeffhoffmanadvisory.com)
01:11:42 Bomb 9: The grant program JH put together to help companies. (https://www.covid19businessservice.com) If people need help go there.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Listen up or run |
| 0:03.5 | for cover |
| 0:23.2 | What it is Bradley back again with another episode of dropping bombs today in the studio folks |
| 0:29.0 | I got a real treat for you now this dude you might not have heard of I've never heard of you |
| 0:34.8 | But everyone's heard of you if you know what I mean Jeff Hoffman what's cracking with you? |
| 0:40.7 | Absolutely thrilled to be here. I'm thrilled that you're here most people are going well |
| 0:44.5 | Who's Jeff Hoffman? Well number one you've heard of companies. He's been involved with he's one of the original big wigs of |
| 0:49.9 | Price line that's your claim to fame really price line |
| 0:52.0 | Um, I hopefully that's not my claim to fame actually hopefully it's the work we're doing now |
| 0:57.3 | Yeah, a lot more the humanitarian work, but |
| 1:01.4 | See most people like yeah, yeah, that's what I did you're worried about what are you doing now? I like that |
| 1:06.6 | But price line folks let me just read this little a little bit because I had a few questions as I was glancing |
| 1:13.4 | You're an award-winning global entrepreneur proven CEO worldwide motivational speaker best selling author |
| 1:20.0 | Hollywood film producer a producer of Grammy award winning jazz album the executive producer of an |
| 1:26.0 | Emmy award-winning television show you've been in multiple startups founder of multiple startups price line |
| 1:32.4 | Obviously everyone's heard of that has been the CEO of both public and private companies has served as a senior executive in many capacities |
| 1:39.8 | And you're definitely a part of a number of well-known successful startups including price line booking dot com you bid and more |
| 1:47.3 | And now basically you do a lot of other things |
| 1:50.2 | But the one I'm most interested in talking to you about is the Jeff Hoffman advisory |
| 1:56.0 | Why because you're out there helping other companies blow up and avoid situations and that's what drop bombs is all about |
| 2:03.3 | We're just gonna shoot the shit all right and drop bombs on prime situation and probably tell stories because I'm sure you have a lot of them |
| 2:09.6 | But that's that's kind of the way I talk and learn anyway through stories |
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