The Missing Secret Podcast

In this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast , John and Kelly talk about how judgment is NOT correlated to intelligence. At least not in a significant way. That’s what the science says. In this podcast John says that he previously thought that the two were highly correlated. And it was surprised to find that’s not the case. John also mentioned that one thing that has made life easier for him rega...

In this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast , John and Kelly talk about how are advanced leadership of self 12 minute a day methodology plays off human nature. There are six principles of human nature. John and Kelly go through each one of them. And talk about how the 12 minute a day methodology addresses each one. The most significant one is the proven phenomenon that every action we take is pr...

In this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast , John and Kelly talk about how critical it is to only have A players on your team. During this episode John and Kelly play a five minute video by Darren Hardy that talks about the merits of embracing the concept of only having A players on your team. Darren talks about how they typically can do the work of three or four people. And pay them based on t...

In this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast , John and Kelly talk about the process of getting more enlightened. Exactly how it happens. They take a stroll down memory lane in each area of their lives and look at how they have become more enlightened. They start with career. John talks about launching into becoming an entrepreneur when he was 30. The lesson he got is always be in the control pos...

In this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast , John and Kelly discuss the idea that self talk establishes your identity. And that’s significant because your identity defines your long-term actions. And your actions ultimately determine your success in life. In this episode John and Kelly play clips from a video by Dr. Joe dispenza – the world acclaimed mind-body expert. So John plays for five min...

In this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast , John and Kelly talk about how critical it is to be highly organized. Where you’re planning your day the night before and time blocking your day. Most people would rate themselves typically a five or six on a scale of 1 to 10 regarding being organized. If you’re going to be highly successful, that just won’t cut it. You have to be a nine or a 10. In f...

In this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast , John and Kelly talk about the fact that success is not primarily determined by IQ. At the end of the day, you had to figure out your life. Most people are just winging life. Because no one ever taught most of us the alternative. But the alternative is advanced leadership of self. Where you purposely and intelligently lead yourself using a system. And...

In this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast , John interviews a special guest . Rob Dube. Who is truly an enlightened soul. He wrote an amazing book called Shine. He co-authored this book with Gino Whitman, the founder of the wildly popular EOS operating system for businesses. In this book he talks about how looking inward is the key to unlocking true entrepreneurial freedom. Does that sound fam...

In this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast , John and Kelly talk about leading and inspiring employees today. John makes a compelling point. Leadership today isn’t working. According to Gallup, 70% of employees are disengaged from their job. It’s been this way for 20 years. The reason is leadership has it backwards. You can’t lead others until you can effectively lead yourself. And the unfortun...

In this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast , John and Kelly talk about the concept of having a purpose to your life. Where you’re living your life driven by something that helps other people. This is different than having a passion regarding something you enjoy. A purpose always involves helping other people. And it can be one’s guiding light through their career. In this episode John talks abo...

In this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast , John and Kelly talk about the concept of having a system for leading yourself versus just winging life. John talks about what a difference it made in his life in his 50s when he had a system for leading himself versus it is 30s and 40s when he was just winging life. When he was in his 50s he had a system that figured out the right actions to take. He...

In this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast , John and Kelly talk about the effect of having a lack of clarity. In the advanced leadership of self methodology, it’s all about clarity. You define exactly the person you want to be, exactly what you want to accomplish, and precisely how you are going to achieve your clearly defined goals. You then feed that clarity to yourself each day as your morn...

In this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast , John and Kelly talk about AI. Today in the United States, approximately 75% of people are against AI. John talks about how misguided that is. The train has already left the station. AI is revolutionizing the world. And even if we wanted to, we couldn’t turn back now. Because China is intent on being the dominant force in AI and if we don’t keep up wi...

In this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast , John and Kelly talk about the experience of doing the 12 minute a day advanced leadership of self methodology long-term. What is like on a daily basis versus just winging life. They talk about the effect on the most important relationship in your life. Your relationship with yourself. They talk about the impact it has on career. The impact it has on...

In this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast , John and Kelly discuss the idea of making the audience appreciate individually how precious their life is. Coming to grips with that. John talks about when this really came home in his life. It was when his mom was dying of pancreatic cancer when he was 50 years old. At the same time John was engrossed in reading think and grow Rich probably 20 times...

In this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast , John and Kelly discuss the concept of creating a nest egg so you can retire. In discussing this, Kelly notes that she was a saver from a young age. Literally putting aside 20% a year. She was taught this by her dad who made her read the classic book Richest Man in Babylon. It truly is a fabulous book that really explains the concept of saving and com...

In this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast , John and Kelly discuss the struggle of life, then the solution. So little back story on this topic. Recently John met a brilliant guy that is in the field of maximizing brain health. He read John’s book and had a candid suggestion for John on how to improve the book. He said there w was not enough explanation of the struggle that people go through in...

In this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast , John and Kelly introduce an interesting idea. You are two people in one. There is the do’er you and there is the observer you. John points out that this is a powerful way to look at your life from a 30,000 foot view. And it is particularly appropriate for someone doing the think it be it 12 minute a day methodology. That’s the case because the observ...

In this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast , John and Kelly talk about the idea of renewing one’s wedding vows. John was recently at a wedding a month or two ago and he was taken by the wedding vows the bride and groom were articulating. John was thinking about how he and Ginger are going to Europe in a few weeks. And so they decided to renew their vows at the Eiffel Tower in Paris. John goes o...

In this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast , John and Kelly talk about what the true test of intelligence is. As John ultimately discloses, it’s getting what you want in life. Creating the life you want. Then the second question. What is the currency of life? Is it time or is it money? Or something else. It’s actually your attention. During this podcast John and Kelly talk about why people’s li...

In this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast , John and Kelly talk about the concept that the reason you’re not more successful than you are is because your intelligence and intellect is not choosing your actions. John mentions in this podcast that he is writing a new book called advanced leadership of self. He’s establishing the academic discipline of the emerging field advanced leadership of se...

In this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast , John and Kelly talk about the concept that attaining success is not about working harder. Without sounding cliché, it’s about working smarter. Both John and Kelly were blessed to take their own personal annual income to over $1 million a year by working smarter. More specifically, understanding how the human mind works. Appreciating that one’s daily...

Takeaway from today’s show is you need to be up to speed on using AI to your maximum advantage .In this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast , John and Kelly talk about how the difference is widening between the 2% in the 98%. And there’s two factors at play here. The first is artificial intelligence. The people who understand how to use products like chat GPT and Claude adeptly are very definite...

In this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast , John and Kelly share their observations on creating success in your career. John mentions that he started out as a CPA and became an entrepreneur when he was 30. Then he was in seven different businesses in his 30s and 40s. But in retrospect, he sees that he was not connected to any of them emotionally. Then when he turned 50, he got in the reverse m...

In this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast , John and Kelly talk about taking the advanced leadership of self 12 minute a day methodology to the next level. Using AI. And here’s the thing to appreciate. At the end the day, one success is determined by taking the right actions on a consistent basis. On the issue of consistently taking the right actions, that’s addressed in the 12 minute day meth...