Playing Chess When Everyone Else Is Playing Checkers with Nathan Barry

The Wellness Mama Podcast

Katie Wells

Self-improvement, Wellness, Health, Education, Health & Fitness, Kids & Family, Parenting, Motherhood, Mom Life, Nutrition, Natural Living, Organic

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Episode Highlights With Nathan

What does he mean by playing chess when others are playing checkers
A fascinating way Reese Witherspoon did this with a book club
Other examples of flywheels and playing chess
Tip: Look at anywhere you spend money in business and turn those into opportunities to make money or provide services
How Amazon does both flywheel and playing chess well
His three basic principles for this type of business: build more than a personal brand, sell products rather than attention, have recurring revenue or repeat purchases
The benefits of writing and creation and how to get the benefits in your own life, even if you don’t run a business
A reason to write 1,000 words a day as a creative exercise
The benefits of taking on new challenges and getting out of your comfort zone
Why it’s fun to be a student again and stay a student forever

Resources We Mention

Soaring Child: Thriving with ADHD
A place where you will learn how to address your child's ADHD symptoms naturally..

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0:00.0	Hello and
0:02.0	Wellness Mama podcast I'm Katie from wellness mama.com and this episode is the second in a short series with my friend Nathan
0:09.6	Berry who is the founder of convertkit.com as well as several other things he has a podcast as well as a
0:16.0	blog with a lot of articles and this goes into again the world of things like business and
0:21.2	content creation and wealth which is a topic you guys
0:24.7	said you are interested in hearing more about and I share some examples from my own
0:28.7	life about this as does Nathan and in this episode, we specifically talk about the concept of playing chess
0:35.8	when other people are playing checkers, finding patterns and opportunities where others might not even
0:40.5	think to look, and the value of staying a perpetual student and I always
0:45.7	learned so much from Nathan he is an incredible human and an incredible business owner and
0:50.4	without further ado let's jump into our conversation.
0:53.0	Nathan, welcome back.
0:55.0	Thanks for having me on.
0:57.0	Well, we've had a couple fun conversations now.
0:59.0	I'll link to those in the show notes.
1:00.0	If you guys missed them, they were phenomenal.
1:02.0	Nathan's a wealth of
1:02.9	knowledge and in this one I would love to kind of dissect and learn from an idea I've
1:07.4	heard you talk about in other podcast which is the idea of playing chess
1:11.3	when other people are playing checkers and I would guess people
1:14.6	can sort of into it from that statement what you mean by it but I feel like your
1:17.6	explanation is really valuable so can you sort of broadly define what you mean by
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