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This week, my friend Josh Jansen joins me to talk about morning routines, the world's obsession with waking up early, why plan Bs are the biggest distraction and much more.

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matthiavella.com. No spam, unsubscribe at any time. Enjoy the show. All right, Josh, welcome back

to the ground up show. Thank you so much for being here. You've been on the show before.

You were here with your friend Tommy. You guys got a

business together. Can you give me in our audience a little bit of an introduction to your work,

what you do, just the basics. Yeah, sure. So I have a business called big media company here in

Melbourne. I started it with Tommy last year. We specialise in doing

video production stuff, short form documentaries. That's how we make our money, but we're now

putting all of that money that we make into building out a studio for the daily talk show, which

is a podcast which we've been doing for uh over 330 episodes

haven't missed a day and uh yeah that's that's the basics yeah i love the naming uh i'm always terrible

at coming up with names for things and big media company the daily talk show it. It's straightforward. It's minimalist.

Yeah, well, I think the other thing where minimalism really applies with what we're doing is

since we've started building the studio, everyone's asking, can I rent out your space?

And I think that that's like such a common problem, which is like

once you do something, once you build something, it's probably like even you when you bought

the red camera, when you buy this thing, it sort of, it starts to dictate what you do. It's like,

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