The James Swanwick Show

Show Notes: JamesSwanwick.com/261 Procrastination plagues almost everyone who dreams about doing great things. Humans are inherently lazy, which means that making progress on anything you want to do is going to be a struggle. But you have a very simple choice: The short term pain of getting off your ass and taking the first step, or the long term, immensely greater pain of regretting not reaching...

Show Notes: JamesSwanwick.com/260 A lot of you will already know my guest today. Aaron Marino of Alpha M is an expert in fashion, self-discovery, confidence, and business. Today we're talking about fashion, swag, and success for the modern man. In the current age, an alpha male is a much different thing than it has been throughout history. In previous ages, dressing well was almost considered femi...

Show Notes: JamesSwanwick.com/260 A lot of you will already know my guest today. Aaron Marino of Alpha M is an expert in fashion, self-discovery, confidence, and business. Today we're talking about fashion, swag, and success for the modern man. In the current age, an alpha male is a much different thing than it has been throughout history. In previous ages, dressing well was almost considered femi...

Show Notes: JamesSwanwick.com/259 Whether you've moved to a new place, decided to level-up the kind of friends you hang around, or just want to broaden your social circle, learning how to make new friends quickly is an essential skill for the human existence. From our earliest ages and through the rest of life, the ability to make new friends plays a large role in your ability to be successful and...

Show Notes: JamesSwanwick.com/258 These days, it's possible to find almost anything online. Not only that, if you're a little tech-savvy, you can even find pirated versions of a lot of content, and effectively "cheat" your way into thousands of dollars worth of content! But the question is: Should you? What I have learned through trying both ways is that financial investment is essential to get yo...

Show Notes: JamesSwanwick.com/257 Do you remember the movie "Limitless" with Bradley Cooper? In the movie, Cooper plays a character who gains access to a pill that will give his brain limitless functional capability, and completely turns his life around. But is something like this possible in the real world? My guest today is Daniel Schmachtenberger, founder of NeuroHacker , a company working to d...

Show Notes: JamesSwanwick.com/257 Do you remember the movie "Limitless" with Bradley Cooper? In the movie, Cooper plays a character who gains access to a pill that will give his brain limitless functional capability, and completely turns his life around. But is something like this possible in the real world? My guest today is Daniel Schmachtenberger, founder of NeuroHacker , a company working to d...

Show notes: JamesSwanwick.com/256 There is a saying that goes, "you are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with." If this is true, there's almost nothing as important to your ultimate success in life as who you choose to be your friends. That is why I would argue emphatically that YES, you should be picky about your friend group. If there is an area of your life that you definitel...

Show Notes: JamesSwanwick.com/255 While it's true that sometimes you need to make mistakes to learn, hopefully they don't have to be YOUR mistakes! This means that you can learn from the mistakes of others, through books, podcasts, and mentors. Today I am talking about the biggest mistakes that I made in business, so that you don't have to make the same ones. These mistakes were costly, and if som...

Show Notes: JamesSwanwick.com/254 There are a lot of extremely successful people in measurements of finance, fitness, and many other categories of life, who simply can't seem to be able to figure out the romantic and relationship side of things, so that is the subject that I'm tackling with Heather Ann Havenwood on today's episode of the James Swanwick Show. Heather digs into my own life, past rel...

Show Notes: JamesSwanwick.com/253 Today's episode is a bit off the cuff. I'm sharing an Uber with my mate Brad Blanks, on the way to the airport. We're both trying to switch our flights, but we manage to talk about some really interesting topics that I think you'll enjoy and find useful. We get into how I am able to travel the world through entrepreneurialism, why it's extremely worth it to get co...

Show Notes: JamesSwanwick.com/252 The choices that you make about how you structure your day, what you spend your time on, the order that you do things in, has a very direct effect on how productive you are able to be and, as a consequence, how successful you are able to be. Today I am going through the details of how I structure my day, and specifically how I do so today versus earlier in my life...

Show Notes: JamesSwanwick.com/251 Dan Peña is known around the world as the "50 Billion Dollar Man," because his mentees cumulatively have created over 50 billion dollars worth of wealth. There are not too many, if any, people who can make a claim like that, and today he is bringing his passion and fire to help others create wealth to the James Swanwick Show. We talk about how President Trump will...

Show Notes: JamesSwanwick.com/250 If you feel stressed out, like you're always striving for more and more, and never able to attain it, or like nothing ever goes right for you and you're constantly fighting an uphill battle, this episode will speak to you directly. This episode is a book review of the book "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle, which is all about the freedom, joy, and happiness that...

Show Notes: JamesSwanwick.com/249 In this age of big businesses, there is a subtle change that is starting to take place: Business are starting to focus on doing good! Whereas businesses used to focus exclusively on the bottom line and pocketing more money, social businesses are starting to pop up, whose founders and operators are focused on doing good in the world, and Adam Force is here to talk...

Show Notes: JamesSwanwick.com/249 In this age of big businesses, there is a subtle change that is starting to take place: Business are starting to focus on doing good! Whereas businesses used to focus exclusively on the bottom line and pocketing more money, social businesses are starting to pop up, whose founders and operators are focused on doing good in the world, and Adam Force is here to talk...

Show Notes: JamesSwanwick.com/248 Being liked by other people is an essential aspect to living a happy life. Your happiness is, in some ways, going to be directly proportional to the quality of your friend group, and so making sure that you know exactly how to make yourself more likeable is going to be essential to creating a good social circle. On today's episode I am going through my top 10 prin...

Show Notes: JamesSwanwick.com/247 Today I'm going over my 21 principles for success. These are the things that I do daily to ensure that my life is setup for as much success as possible. Implement these in your own life to turn it around! Slowly, maybe one at a time, create a habit out of each of these 21 steps. The Principles: Write down your goals Practice gratitude daily. 2-minutes is enough Me...

Do you ever wonder how some people have endurance beyond what seems at all normal? It seems that Dr. David Minkoff as cracked the code. He has run 41 Ironmans, and it doesn't seem like he's stopping anytime soon. Today, we're talking about the mindset behind endurance competition, as well as health aspects. Dr. Minkoff has a vast knowledge about amino acids, their importance and their use, protein...

Do you ever wonder how some people have endurance beyond what seems at all normal? It seems that Dr. David Minkoff as cracked the code. He has run 41 Ironmans, and it doesn't seem like he's stopping anytime soon. Today, we're talking about the mindset behind endurance competition, as well as health aspects. Dr. Minkoff has a vast knowledge about amino acids, their importance and their use, protein...

Self confidence is the single ingredient that is completely essential to almost anything you want to do. But it's so difficult to understand exactly how to increase it, isn't it? Sometimes, it seems like you're either born with it or not. The good news is that you certainly can improve it, and YahYa Bakkar is showing us exactly how on today's episode! The 3-Ways Understand that your self-worth is...

Self confidence is the single ingredient that is completely essential to almost anything you want to do. But it's so difficult to understand exactly how to increase it, isn't it? Sometimes, it seems like you're either born with it or not. The good news is that you certainly can improve it, and YahYa Bakkar is showing us exactly how on today's episode! The 3-Ways Understand that your self-worth is...

Show Notes: JamesSwanwick.com/244 Why do humans love the ocean so much? Why is it that we enjoy going to the beach? What draws us to the open fields, meadows, and water? As it turns out, our brains are simply wired this way. From an evolutionary, self-preservation standpoint, the open spaces would have allowed us to see danger sooner, to be able to react more quickly. This is why being in these sp...

Show Notes: JamesSwanwick.com/244 Why do humans love the ocean so much? Why is it that we enjoy going to the beach? What draws us to the open fields, meadows, and water? As it turns out, our brains are simply wired this way. From an evolutionary, self-preservation standpoint, the open spaces would have allowed us to see danger sooner, to be able to react more quickly. This is why being in these sp...

Understanding how to convince somebody to do something is one of the most important skills that you will ever learn in life. While it's obviously important in business, being persuasive is essential to almost to accomplishing anything that you want to accomplish, because you will nearly always have to convince others of your idea and point of view. Josh Muccio is the host the podcast The Pitch, wh...