Million Dollar Days

Send us Fan Mail Time is the one KPI nobody can dodge, and George’s 42nd birthday turns into a real conversation about aging, death, motivation, and the uneasy feeling that you should be “further ahead.” We unpack a simple but powerful reframe from The Gap and the Gain: progress gets easier to sustain when you stop obsessing over what’s missing and start tracking what you’ve already built. That mi...

Send us Fan Mail AI is not creeping in anymore, it is already sitting on your desktop and quietly separating the people who move fast from the people who stay busy. We talk about what it looks like when Claude becomes a real daily tool, always open next to Outlook, helping you write, think, summarize, and build better outputs in minutes. We also get into the part nobody wants to say out loud: when...

Send us Fan Mail Time is moving faster than it has any right to, and that speed exposes a brutal truth: you can hit the goals you once dreamed about and still feel unsettled. We talk about that gap between achievement and contentment, why the “I’ll be happy when…” plan keeps failing, and how comfort quietly turns years into a blur. If you’ve ever looked up and thought, how has it already been two...

Send us Fan Mail Chaos in business feels random until you see the pattern behind it. We’re joined by Troy Fazakerley, founder of Business Alchemy and author of Business Pattern Science, to talk about what really breaks as service-based businesses scale and why smart, hardworking operators can still end up stuck, stressed, and flying blind. We dig into the fundamentals that stop the bleeding fast:...

Send us Fan Mail A builder’s world used to be simple: do the job, get paid, move to the next one. Now a “small” task can mean permits, traffic management, insurance docs, inspections booked weeks out, and a council timeline that turns days into months. We sit down with our guest Steve Passas and get brutally honest about why the Australian construction industry feels harder than ever and how red t...

Send us Fan Mail Free quotes feel normal in construction until you do the math and realize you’re donating weeks of your life to people who might never call you back. We’re joined by Bowden Yarrington from Yarrington Construction in Bendigo, a builder known for heritage work, renovations, extensions, and custom homes, and we get honest about what it takes to grow without burning out. Along the way...

Send us Fan Mail A legal “right to work from home” sounds simple until you’re the one responsible for payroll, clients, deadlines, and a team that does not all do the same kind of work. We dig into the proposed Victorian changes that give eligible workers a two-days-per-week work-from-home entitlement, and the part that really raises the temperature: it’s tied into the Equal Opportunity Act, which...

Send us Fan Mail Everyone feels it right now: higher interest rates, stubborn inflation, nonstop headlines, and that constant “it’s quiet out there” chatter. But then you look around and cafes are still full, restaurants are packed, and people are somehow both stressed and spending. We unpack that contradiction and get honest about what’s really driving the doom-and-gloom mindset, how media narrat...

Send us Fan Mail We break down Australia’s new federal budget in plain English, then argue about who wins, who pays, and what it does to investment, housing, and small business. We walk through the biggest tax changes and housing policies, then call out what we think is smoke and mirrors versus what could actually move the needle. • What a federal budget forecasts and why deficits matter  • The si...

Send us Fan Mail Your brain can be trained to hunt for problems, or trained to collect wins. Today we unpack the “winning streak” mindset: a simple practice of calling out small victories (a coffee, a green light, a chat with your dad, picking up your kids) until your perspective shifts and momentum comes back. When the last few months feel like a losing streak, this is how you stop feeding the ne...

Send us Fan Mail Getting criticized is unavoidable. Losing your cool is optional. We start with a simple observation that hits harder than it should: time is flying, and if you don’t plan early, October shows up fast and so does the pressure. From there, we get honest about ambition and the trap of treating every win like it was “supposed” to happen. That mindset can make you productive, but it ca...

Send us Fan Mail A kid from Hobart starts hitting his dad’s hands in the kitchen, then six months after walking into a real gym he’s winning fights at the same hall where his father and grandfather once boxed. That’s the through-line of our talk with Grant “Tassie” Brown, a former undefeated pro who now lives on the other side of the ropes as a coach, manager, promoter, and boxing media voice trav...

Send us Fan Mail Fuel prices spike and suddenly the mood changes everywhere. We start by talking through the fear we’re seeing around fuel shortages, travel costs, and the way uncertainty creeps into everyday decisions. It feels familiar for a reason: once people have lived through COVID-era panic, they’re quicker to assume the worst. And in business, especially in construction, that fear shows up...

Send us Fan Mail “Good people are hard to find” is one of the most repeated lines in business and it can quietly wreck your growth if you treat it as a permanent truth. We unpack what’s really going on when owners feel forced to do everything themselves, and how to escape that trap by building repeatable systems, training your team on the why, and delegating in a way that actually improves quality...

Send us Fan Mail Most people think marketing is a switch you flip and revenue magically appears. We’ve seen the opposite: marketing works when you respect the delay, track the right numbers, and stop treating ads like a lottery ticket. George and Robby get blunt about what they see at almost every event: nearly everyone is running paid ads, yet most can’t explain what’s happening on their website,...

Send us Fan Mail Fuel hits three dollars a liter and suddenly it’s not just “cost of living” anymore, it’s a stress test for how we think. We kick things off with the everyday reality of expensive petrol, expensive groceries, and the weird way the world feels heavier when war headlines and uncertainty are always in your face. Then we zoom in on what we’re seeing in the construction industry: clien...

Send us Fan Mail How many people from your past are still “friends” if you’re being brutally honest? We start with a simple question about primary school and high school mates, then pull on the thread until it turns into a bigger conversation about adult friendships, effort, and the quiet moment you realize someone has drifted from close friend to acquaintance. We talk about the nostalgia of runni...

Send us Fan Mail The fastest way to stay broke in construction is to keep selling like a commodity. We talk about the real reason so many builders, trades, and service businesses get stuck in “cheap quote” hell and why some operators never hear the words, “we chose them because they were cheaper.” The difference is not luck. It’s positioning, qualification, and the confidence to charge for the out...

Send us Fan Mail Want a life that leaves little room for failure? We pull the thread on a single question—what would it take to make success unreasonable—and follow it through health, business, and the quiet moments at home that end up meaning everything. Fresh off our biggest Builder Summit, we break down why 500+ registrations produced just over 100 attendees, how data made headcount eerily pred...

Send us Fan Mail News moves fast, but the questions behind it don’t. We sit down and pull apart the US–Iran strikes with a simple starting point: who benefits, who suffers, and what do we actually know versus what we’re told? From “nuclear program” justifications to the human cost of collateral damage, we weigh whether deterrence delivers security or just breeds the next wave of extremists—and why...

Send us Fan Mail What happens to our minds when AI does the reading, thinking, and planning for us? We open with a bold claim: just as mechanization made gyms necessary for our bodies, ubiquitous AI will force us to create “brain gyms” to protect attention, reasoning, and judgment. From The Blind Watchmaker to Bezos vs invention, we explore why execution at scale can outpace invention and why, in...

Send us Fan Mail What changes when you stop splitting life into “work” and “home” and see oneself showing up everywhere? We took our mentees out of the daily grind for three days and came back with a sharper way to lead, parent, and live—built on a practical form of Stoicism that anyone can use. Not numbness. Not suppression. A simple loop you can apply in traffic, in meetings, and at the dinner t...

Send us Fan Mail What if the hard part of learning isn’t reading 300 pages but knowing exactly which three pages matter to your business right now? We dive straight into that tension and follow it all the way to the edge: from AI book summaries and everyday fixes to autonomous agents that touch your systems, spend your money, and act while you sleep. Along the way, we share hands-on wins—like draf...

Send us Fan Mail What does it really take to move from coffee runs and safety walkthroughs to calling the shots as General Manager? We sit down with Simon to unpack the long road from unpaid intern to leading Pascon, and we get honest about the moments that mattered: the sting of being passed over, the decision to stay and prove it, and the pressure-cooker months where deadlines beat comfort and g...

Send us Fan Mail A $4.5k VicRoads fine. A broken loop of forms, phone transfers, and “come in-store” dead ends. And somehow, that’s the spark that pushes us to dissect why most goals die by February—and how to build a system that won’t. We get real about the 83% who abandon resolutions, then map a simpler path: shrink the goal, raise the stakes, and win the moments. Think two-minute windows where...