Episode 290 Focus & Flow States with Steven Puri (Part 1)

John talks with Steven Puri — 3x CEO, former Vice President of Production at 20th Century Fox and Executive Vice President at DreamWorks during the eras of major films like Braveheart, Independence Day, Se7en, Transformers and Star Trek. Steven is also Founder & CEO of The Sukha Company, which helps people overcome procrastination & distraction so they can be focused, happier & healthier, and is a caring husband and father. Listen to this episode to learn more: [00:00] - Intro [00:57] - Steven's bio [01:33] - The challenges of starting businesses [04:27] - How Steven began his career [05:26] - Breaking into film tech [08:14] - Switching fields and starting over as an intern [13:57] - Steven's experience working at DreamWorks vs. Fox [19:05] - Dealing with failure and finding support from his wife [22:26] - The Sukha Company [25:27] - What Flow State is and the usefulness of Flow States [30:12] - How the Sukha app runs itself [31:27] - Listening to your clients [32:49] - How Sukha's community grew to 70k members [33:20] - Chocolate talk NOTABLE QUOTES: "In entrepreneurship when you don't innovate, you die." "If you are someone who is not from an entrepreneurial background, doesn't understand that world, you are in for fights like you've never had." "If you align your boat with the current, it carries you forward. It magnifies your efforts, and you go further and faster." "Once you've gotten in control of your day and you have that good feeling, you don't want to give it up. You're like I can actually do what I want to do." "We build this app without being paid, because we're like, the world would be better if more people got into flow and could do the thing that they are capable of doing." "I'd like to think that I've done enough dumb things in my life that now I'm really focused on doing a couple things well, helping people do what they can do, and want to do." "It's nice for folks to feel like when they have a concern that somebody (business) not only hears it (their issues), but does something about it. In a lot of companies that never happens. They're making money. They don't care." "You can tell by the referral rate when people like what they see and when they don't." USEFUL RESOURCES: https://www.thesukha.co/ https://www.thesukha.co/media https://www.linkedin.com/in/steven-puri/ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0003065/ https://www.instagram.com/the_sukha_co/ https://www.facebook.com/steven.puri https://x.com/StevenPuri CONNECT WITH JOHN Website - https://iamjohnhulen.com    LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnhulen Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/johnhulen    Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/johnhulen    X - https://x.com/johnhulen    YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLX_NchE8lisC4NL2GciIWA    EPISODE CREDITS Intro and Outro music provided by Jeff Scheetz - https://jeffscheetz.com/