Zen Business - Mindfulness, Hustle and Fulfillment

The resolutions you make for a new year fall by the wayside far too quickly, for far too many people. Are you curious why that happens? It’s because most people don’t follow up their resolutions with planning, changes to their routine, and constant self-management. The “Million Dollar Morning Routine,” is a guide that can help readers establish a morning routine that maintains & builds momentu...

Since its launch in November 2022, Chat GPT has been wowing users with the sophistication of its answers to their writing prompts. Powered by a large family of language models and a huge database of machine learning interactions, Chat GPT delivers instantly researched, fact-checked answers to your questions. If that weren’t impressive enough, the answers are conversationally interesting and unique...

As 2023 opens, e-commerce businesses, managed by automated means and put together by a growing strata of digital growth artisans, are spinning up all over the place.  Of course, not every online promise to make a million dollars in a month is true, but there are certainly unique opportunities emerging.  With the advent of automated businesses, many entrepreneurs are making more money tha...

Making your first million dollars isn’t really an arrival point. It’s a place of transition.  An interesting, trying, and illuminating transition. After our Los Angeles-based growth hacking business crossed our first million dollar threshold not long ago, I found it was just the beginning of my journey in business and life.  Now I’m meeting so many others at my level, just ahead of me, a...

Enhance your output & your well-being. To achieve flow-state you need balance in every area of your life.  If you've never experienced it before, it can feel euphoric.  So, describing flow-state, essentially, means that your mind, body and spirit are all in synchronicity.  Your creative and analytical sides of yourself are in alignment and working together "in the edge". Work an...

Adversity on the path to stardom. Here’s how one man overcame addiction and became a star on the hit Netflix series, ‘Bling Empire’. In this episode we cover: Tips on making it in LA (The honest way) Resisting the triggers of doubt Building your spirit with resilience of faith Leaning into sobriety and receiving signals from the ether Learning how to trust your intuition How to develop your emotio...

Here’s how one man single-handedly drove over 5.5M in gov’t refunds to small businesses like you (and how to get your free cash refund). In this episode we cover: Tips on increasing efficiency The psychological connections between sports and business The importance of not being afraid to face down adversity How to develop a fearless mindset The art of looking for problems that need solving and how...

New problems require new perspective. A bit of background on the current landscape.  Here at K&J, it took us four years to reach 250K per month in revenue.  Recently though, we launched a drilled-down business & it took us one month to reach the same milestone.  What can be learned here?   We stretched our minds to consider the possibility that we could deliver 10x...

Epic stories contain critical lessons. If you listened to the last episode, you'll have an idea how my first company led me to the verge of several life-changing moments.  In this episode, I recount all the details behind this $2.2 million investment from Kevin Hart.  Then, how it crumbled in front of my eyes. I share this story with you in the hopes that you can relate to my experience...

The true story behind my first company. This is perhaps the most vulnerable story I've ever told and one most people would never dare tell.  I share the background behind starting a fitness app, buying the biggest penthouse in Philadelphia with 4 friends, getting a huge celebrity to commit to investing $2.2 million, then watching as it all fell apart.   Hopefully, you can learn from my m...

Dive into the practical and tactical approach to actually manifest what you desire.  However, be aware: The bigger the thing you wish to manifest, the higher your vibrations and state of awareness have to be.  This episode is the third in my series on manifestation. Building on Part 1 and Part 2, where three key laws and seven critical mindset habits are discussed, I dive into the nitty-...

When you are ready to begin manifesting anything you want, this is part of the play book available to you.  This episode is the second in our series on manifestation.  Continuing forward from the foundational video, where the three key laws were discussed, I introduce the necessary mindset habits that must be understood at a deeper level.  Remember, you are literally programming you...

Everyone wants fitness results fast, but at what cost? If any cost? Here's the secret no one is talking about.  How can we live 100 years instead of 75 years? Is your body secretly stuck in negative feedback loops you don't even know exist? These are the questions myself and my special guest, Dustin Stanley, explore in this podcast. Muscles are made up of specific muscle cells and, as many kn...

If you want to begin manifesting anything you want, there is a play book available.  This episode represents the first in a series of episodes I will be doing on the subject.  Have you ever wondered, when you buy a car, why you always see the same car on the road?  Not only is there a mindset that comes with this phenomenon, there are many books on the subject.  But, the bottom...

We are extremely picky in who we bring on as clients.  They have to bring something to the table that's unique if it's going to be a win-win situation.  This is the truth in the matter because we, at the end of the day, are performance-based.  Explosive growth does not come from being lucky.  There's a formula to it that can be cracked.  As a team, K&J drills down into...

There's really no reason to "Learn the hard way" yourself.  That simple concept is what led me to value coaching so much.  Fast forward to Ian, my coach who passed away.  This 23 year old was revered by executives twice his age so I hired this true visionary alien when I was 27, and even after five years, the knowledge he shared is extremely relevant. He was so on target with his re...

Would you make a change in the business that threatened its very existence? Here's the story of how we took a massive leap of faith, and ended up doubling our revenue in six months. And why you should be willing to take risks in business, in life and in relationships. Vulnerability is the core of all risk taking and those who avoid risk not only reinforce their insecurity toward perfection but thr...

Every entrepreneur dreams of having a multi-million dollar exit and retiring to a beach, but it’s not that simple. A close confidante asked me, “If you had ONE chance to make an "exit", would this be the one? Are you willing to give up the last 5+ years of your life for this acquisition?" I provide my thinking behind our answer, no.   If you’re considering selling your company or your dream i...

Psilocybin (aka Magic Mushrooms) is not new to human-kind in terms of medicine. Our ancestors have utilized the power of Fungi to approach Mental, Physical, and Spiritual growth. And now, we are coming full-circle as a society to recognize the benefits of this gift, as opposed to believing the stigma built around Mushrooms. In this case, we are talking about Microdosing.  Mushrooms are i...

Welcome back to the Zen Business Podcast! Let's talk about breathing. Are you doing it wrong? Most don't assume there is a strategy to "breathing correctly", but there is a correct way to do it and it may take some learning. The way we apply our breathing vs. how we breathe due to habit can totally change your overall wellness in terms of storing energy, releasing stress, filtering out harmful ger...

Welcome back to the Zen Business Podcast! I have a question, what does "Ownership" mean to you?  It's a great word, isn't it? A few years back, someone explained it in the form of an analogy. A group of friends decides to book a vacation and they stay at a beautiful Airbnb. Things get crazy, and the partying leaves the beautiful airbnb trashed. But you and your friends aren't really worr...

Welcome back to the Zen Business Podcast. Ayahuasca and Psychedelics - Let's talk about it!  In the last few weeks of travel that I've being doing for both work and recreation, I found that I returned to home unrested, ansty, and simply just in an unpleasant state of being. An immediate assumption from many would be, "How could vacations and travel cause you to feel more stressed than before?...

Happy New Year, ZenBiz fam!  After a short hiatus for the holidays and fruitful Q4, I am excited to return with some very special episodes for all my listeners. The last two years has affected entrepreneurs in different ways - some of us have taken full advantage of these difficulties as a means of creating new experiences and challenges to further grow.  As the first month of 2022 is co...

In today's episode of the Zen Business podcast, we invite businesswoman and psychologist Dr. Kizzy parks to discuss her journey to entrepreneurship and her use of IO psychology in the workplace From hustling golfballs to seasoned entrepreneur & workplace psychologist, Dr. Kizzy Parks, like myself, had entrepreneurs' blood coursing through her veins from an early age. With humble beginnings and...

In this episode of the Zen Business Podcast, I am joined by two of my long-time cohorts and business partners from our own K&J Growth Hacking Company to dig deep into work habits and the changes that made us stronger through the years. For years, the K&J Partner team (Kale Panoho, Adam Stinson, and myself, Jonathan Maxim) have been optimizing the way companies grow online. As a result, we...