Moonshots Podcast: Superstar mindsets and success habits

Walt Disney is famous for his ability to transform incredibly creative ideas into profitable realities. The process he used to brainstorm and develop theme parks and movies, has turned into a replicable process called “Disney’s Creative Strategy” by NLP expert Robert Dilts in 1994. Disney’s Creative Strategy can be used to create new products or to solve problems. Its simple to use as an individua...

Hello members and subscribers! The tenth Moonshots Master episode is here and we are diving into Leadership and Managing People! To get us inspired towards the topic of Managing People we start with the Moonshots Master himself, Simon Sinek, who tells us about his first job after college, and the importance of empathy . We then hear from the motivational powerhouse, Tony Robbins, who suggests that...

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey is written on Covey's belief that the way we see the world is entirely based on our own perceptions. In order to change a given situation, we must change ourselves, and in order to change ourselves, we must be able to change our perceptions. We all want to succeed. And one path to success is identifying the habits that can help us on our...

You are a badass is a self-help book for people who desperately want to improve their lives but don’t want to get busted doing it. In this entertaining how-to guide, bestselling author and success coach, Jen Sincero , serves up 27 bitesize chapters full of hilariously inspiring stories, sage advice, easy exercises, and the occasional swear word, helping you to Identify and change the self-sabotagi...

For the last 25 years, Jim Kwik has helped everyone from celebrities to CEOs to students improve their memory, increase their decision-making skills, learn to speed-read, and unleash their superbrains. In Limitless , readers will learn Jim's revolutionary strategies and shortcuts to break free from their perceived limitations. They'll learn how to supercharge their brains with simple, actionable t...

Legendary leadership and elite performance expert Robin Sharma introduced The 5am Club concept over twenty years ago, based on a revolutionary morning routine that has helped his clients maximize their productivity, activate their best health, and bulletproof their serenity in this age of overwhelming complexity. Part manifesto for mastery, part playbook for genius-grade productivity and part comp...

Hello members and subscribers! The ninth Moonshots Master episode is here and we are diving into Critical Thinking and SECOND ORDER THINKING! Helping set the scene for Second Order Thinking we think it only right to start with Howard Marks, who explains why if you think the same as everyone else you're not going to be a superior investor . We then have breakdowns, courtesy Yanis from Time Manageme...

The most successful leaders all have one thing in common: They've read How to Win Friends and Influence People . As a salesman at one point in his life, author Dale Carnegie made his sales territory the national leader for the firm he worked for. Carnegie eventually ended his sales career and taught public speaking. Even Warren Buffet , one of the most successful investors of the 20th century, too...

Episode 170: Daniel H. Pink: 'Regret is not dangerous or abnormal, it is healthy and universal, an integral part of being human', Daniel H. Pink writes in his provocative and eye-opening new book. The Power Of Regret. 'Done right, it needn't bring us down; it can lift us up.' Drawing from research in social psychology, neuroscience, biology, and more, as well as from more than 10,000 people in 35...

Chris Voss's definitive playbook for any negotiation situation, by the FBI's former lead hostage negotiator. After a stint policing the rough streets of Kansas City, Missouri, Chris Voss joined the FBI, where his career as a kidnapping negotiator brought him face-to-face with bank robbers, gang leaders, and terrorists. Never Split the Difference takes you inside his world of high-stakes negotiatio...

Robert Greene is an American author who has written best-selling books on Strategy, Power & Seduction. In his bestseller, The 48 Laws of Power , he illustrates the tactics, triumphs, and failures of great figures from the past who have wielded - or been victimized by - power. The perfect book for taking back your power, in work, in relationships, the 48 Laws apply everywhere. For anyone with a...

Hello members and subscribers! The eighth Moonshots Master episode is an under-considered topic in Personal development and transformation: FINDING YOUR PURPOSE. To prove the value of knowing your purpose, we hear from all-time great Moonshotters. Kyle Maynard explains why we should find our purpose and how making excuses is what makes you incapable of success . We then hear from Dan Millman who s...

Mark Manson says most of us struggle throughout our lives by giving too many f’s in situations where f’s do not deserve to be given. Finding something important and meaningful in your life is the most productive use of your time and energy.  This is true because every life has problems associated with it and finding meaning in your life will help you sustain the effort needed to overcome the parti...

Reed Hastings is an entrepreneur and philanthropist and is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Netflix. He is also on the board of the social networking website Facebook and several non-profit organizations. Reed's first book is out in September 2020: " No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention ", in which Reed reveals for the first time the unorthodox culture behind one of...

Paul Graham is a programmer, writer, investor, and co-founder of the influential startup accelerator and seed capital firm Y Combinator . In 1995, he and Robert Morris started Viaweb , the first software as a service company. Viaweb was acquired by Yahoo in 1998, where it became Yahoo Store. Y Combinator is an American technology startup accelerator launched in March 2005. It has been used to laun...

Dyson has become a byword for high-performing products, technology, design, and invention. Now, James Dyson , the inventor, and entrepreneur who made it all happen, tells his remarkable and inspirational story in Invention: A Life . Famously, over a four-year period, James Dyson made 5,127 prototypes of the cyclonic vacuum cleaner that would transform the way houses are cleaned around the world. I...

Hello members and subscribers! It’s time for our seventh Moonshots Master episode, and we are tackling a huge topic: ENTREPRENEURSHIP. To get us started we hear from some of the most well-known and highly regarded entrepreneurs and authors out there. Darren Hardy kicks us off with a breakdown of what it means to be an ‘Exception’ and how it takes guts to succeed . We then hear Steve Jobs’ entrepre...

What is the E-Myth ?  It is the myth that if you are good at doing “something,” you can turn that “something” into a profitable business.  But, being good at something is.not.enough. The E-Myth Revisited explains why 80% of small businesses fail, and how to ensure yours isn't among those by building a company that's based on systems and not on the work of a single individual. Michael Gerber advoca...

66% of small businesses fail, and it’s not for the reasons you think. So why do they fail?  That is what Darren Hardy set out on a mission to discover in The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster .  What he found was startling. All the previously reported reasons and assumptions for the failure rate (capital, location, credit, inventory management, and competition) were wrong. Failure was not due to outside...

In Let My People Go Surfing , by Yvon Chouinard , the legendary climber, businessman, environmentalist, and founder of Patagonia , shares the persistence and courage that have gone into being head of one of the most respected and environmentally responsible companies on earth. From his youth as the son of a French Canadian handyman to the thrilling, ambitious climbing expeditions that inspired his...

Dame Zaha Hadid born October 31, 1950, died March 31, 2016. She was known as the “Queen of the Curve” for buildings such as the Heydar Aliyev Center in Azerbaijan with its gently sloping and yet zany curves. She was an Iraqi-born British architect known for her radical deconstructivist designs. In 2004 she became the first woman to be awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Only rarely does an ar...

Forget everything you think you know about exercise. International model and fitness expert Roger Frampton has developed a revolutionary new approach to movement, designed to get your body working in the way it was designed to. Just 10 minutes of training per day can help you work towards unlocking your body’s full potential. ‘ The Flexible Body : Move better anywhere, anytime in 10 minutes a day...

Food. We all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to defend it? Michael Pollan's premise In Defense of Food is a simple seven-word summary; 'Eat food, not a lot, mostly plants.' The rise of nutritionism and industrialization means the Western diet has changed for the worse. We're suffering from over-nutrition, so we need to stand up for "real food," and reclaim good health and natural ingredi...

Hello members and subscribers! It’s time for our sixth Moonshots Master episode, and here we are breaking down the number one business skill: the ART OF COMMUNICATION. To inspire us on the importance of communicating well, we hear from Sharon Ellison who helps us identify if we are being defensive in our communication . We then delve into a Moonshots-favourite as Cal Newport breaks down the limita...

All living creatures need sleep. The question is: why? In Why We Sleep , neuroscientist and sleep expert Dr. Matthew Walker presents groundbreaking discoveries about sleep and how it affects all aspects of our physical, mental, and emotional health, including our creativity and longevity. So why should you sleep, and how can you improve your quantity and quality of sleep? Unfortunately, most peopl...