meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
My First Million

Laird Hamilton: The Big Wave Surfer Who Built a +$10 Million Business Empire

My First Million

Hubspot

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.72.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Episode 485: Sam Parr (https://twitter.com/theSamParr) talks with Laird Hamilton (https://lairdhamilton.com) about his well-rounded approach to life, the story behind launching Laird Superfood, why he’s such a viscous competitor, what vices he’s struggled with in the past, his thoughts on Bryan Johnson’s longevity protocol, and much more. Want to see more MFM? Subscribe to the MFM YouTube channel here. — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com/ Check Out Shaan's Stuff: • Try Shepherd Out - https://www.supportshepherd.com/ • Shaan's Personal Assistant System - http://shaanpuri.com/remoteassistant • Power Writing Course - https://maven.com/generalist/writing • Small Boy Newsletter: https://smallboy.co/ • Daily Newsletter - https://www.shaanpuri.com/ — Show Notes: (0:00) Intro (3:00) How Laird describes himself (5:30) How Laird got into entrepreneurship (10:20) Laird’s revenue streams (11:30) Reaction to Laird’s Superfood stock plummeting (21:15) Other business ideas Laird considered pursuing (29:00) Laird’s epic house & training regimen (36:15) Most impressive athlete Laird’s trained with (39:20) Being a viscous competitor (43:00) Laird’s vices (48:30) Thoughts on Bryan Johnson (54:15) Laird's relationship with technology (56:25) How Laird tracks his personal finances (1:03:40) Laird’s 2023 goals (1:06:45) Laird’s book recommendations (1:12:25) Why the world’s so soft right now  — Links: • XPTLife - http://xptlife.com/ • Life After Life - https://tinyurl.com/35w8227v • Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World - https://tinyurl.com/yckeyysm • The Psychology of Totalitarianism - https://tinyurl.com/2mksfrds • The Trap - https://tinyurl.com/y77bsj53 • The Wager - https://tinyurl.com/pvu9drrb • The Heart of the Sea - • Undaunted Courage - https://tinyurl.com/ya6zkw6k • Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. — Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. — Other episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto • #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • ​​​​#218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

I used to use the guilt from drinking to make me feel motivated about training, so I'd be like,

0:06.6

oh yeah, I could drink Pinot Noir, you know, bottled, two bottled, three bottles, no problem,

0:11.1

you didn't go to sleep, wake up, five a.m. train like an animal. What's the problem? No problem,

0:15.9

no problem, no problem, I don't see a problem. You could train, hungover. Oh yeah, like an animal.

0:19.8

Yeah, man, we're live. We just, we get things going and I can kind of fill you in. You probably

0:34.8

don't know anything about who we are, do you? No, but that's not unusual. I don't know much about

0:40.6

anything really. Good. Hey, save. I've learned about you. I mean, I've, this podcast is called

0:50.4

My First Millions. Basically, I owned a fairly successful and big media company that I sold and

0:57.6

one of our products was this podcast and it's listened to by millions of people a month and it's

1:03.8

mostly a business podcast. You can like a, I'm a health nut and a health nerd. I was a former college

1:09.6

athlete. So I'm going to talk to you all about like a layered super food and some of your businesses

1:14.0

and stuff like that. That's where we're going to spend most of the time. But the reason why I wanted

1:17.8

to have you on was because we have people, we normally don't have guests. Normally, it's my co-host

1:23.0

Sean who's out here and someone was asking us like, who's your dream guest? And I was like, man,

1:28.2

layered Hamilton. That's who I want. And they're like, why? And I was like, he, I had my description

1:33.9

as to why I liked you best, but you said it in another interview a while back. You said something

1:38.4

like your life is like a wheel and like business is one spoke health is another spoke.

1:45.6

Relationships is another one and like there's all these spokes and like they all have to be nice

1:49.2

in order to make this whole wheel work. And I was like, oh man, that's described best why I like you

1:53.1

because you know, I like making money. I like being fit. I like having a lovely, lovely relationship

1:57.9

with my wife. I like doing all this stuff. And so I'm pumped to talk to you. This is a, I'm normally

2:04.4

never nervous to talk to anyone, but you're like when the first, maybe you're, you and Andrew

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Hubspot, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Hubspot and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.