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Let Me Speak To A Manager — 185 episodes

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1

Backward Induction: How to Reverse Engineer Any Goal

2

Can You Work 40 Hours a Week and Still Be Considered Ambitious?

3

The "Rubicon" Fallacy, Ego Traps, and Why Changing Course is Easier Than You Think

4

How To Stay Focused On What’s In Your Control (And Stop Ruminating On The Things You Cannot Change)

5

Stop Giving Discounts: The Art of Saying NO (Without Losing the Deal)

6

How to Respond to Criticism Without Losing Control

7

The Reason Salespeople Lose On Price (Vendors vs. Advisors)

8

Your Team Thinks You're the Problem ( and you don't know it!)

9

How Great Leaders Create Urgency Without Micromanaging

10

The Real Reason People Give You Money

11

How to Beat a Bigger Competitor

12

How to Evaluate Your Life in 10 Minutes (Self-Assessment Tool)

13

How Great Salespeople Win Without Discounting

14

Why Salespeople Quit When Markets Get Tough (And Why Some Thrive)

15

The 4 H’s Behind The New England Patriots Cultural Turnaround

16

Why Good Companies Become Complacent (And How to Fix It)

17

Why Salespeople Get Ghosted (And How To Prevent It)

18

The Four Personality Styles That Determine Every Sale

19

Why Most People Stay Broke: They're Too Cheap to Reinvest in Their Skills

20

How to Ask Difficult Questions Without Starting an Argument

21

21 Lessons From Warren Buffet's Retirement Letter

22

Abundance vs. Scarcity: Why You Benefit More From Sharing Than Hoarding Your Best Ideas And Secrets

23

"If You Lie Down With Dogs, You Wake Up With Fleas" - Lessons From The NBA's Latest Gambling Scandal

24

Zig When Everyone Zags: How to Stand Out in a Copy-Paste World.

25

Why Can’t We Recognize The Good Old Days Until They’re Gone? How To Step Off The Hedonic Treadmill

26

Why Are We So Polarized? Charlie Kirk, Cancel Culture & The Case For Nuance And Critical Thinking

27

Buy the Culture, Not the Star: Why splashy hires fail without structure, in sports and business.

28

Our next big real estate deal? We dissect an untapped investment opportunity in Richmond

29

Are You Drowning in Distractions? How To Stay Focused Amidst The Noise

30

Cracker Barrel's Identity Crisis: The Logo Change That Broke The Internet

31

Can You Fire Someone For Flatulence? (Plus Our Thoughts On American Eagle's Ad Campaign)

32

Are We Really The Average Of The Five People We Spend The Most Time With?

33

What Really Drives You? Finding The Sweet Spot Between Passion and Paycheck

34

Will A.I. Kill The Role Of The Middle Manager?

35

How To Say No Like A Pro (Without Being Offensive)

36

How To Find And Keep Your Perfect Mentor

37

What Big Businesses Can Learn From Startups: A Lesson From "Banana Ball"

38

Why Interest Rates Won't Save The Real Estate Market This Time

39

The Motley Crue Mindset: Why You Should Lean Into Your Darkest Moments

40

Our Final Weekend With Warren Buffett In Omaha

41

5 Career-Killing Mistakes of Shedeur Sanders: How You Can Avoid Overplaying Your Hand

42

How We Landed Shaq For A Celebrity Endorsement

43

Why do people do the opposite when given advice? The psychology of reactance

44

The Ben Franklin Effect: How to win anyone over (even your biggest enemies)

45

How far will real estate prices fall in this recession?

46

Trump's Tariff Play: Genius Move or Reckless Mistake?

47

What is a Mastermind and why should you join one?

48

Is this the end of working from home? Jamie Dimon's rant explained

49

Why do we get bored so easily at work? (and what to do about it)

50

How to change your manager's mind

51

How Did Burnout Become Normal? (And How To Push Back)

52

How to Stop Procrastinating by Using the “Seinfeld Strategy”

53

How to raise $2.5M in private capital

54

Why is it so hard to start again after taking a break?

55

How to shortcut a turnaround like Coach Deion Sanders

56

Inside our epic boys trip to Omaha to see Warren Buffett at the 2023 Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting

57

Should participation trophies be banned?

58

Are You Too “Busy” To Be Productive?

59

Our advice to the marketing team at Bud Light

60

How Do You Know When It Is Time To Fire Someone?

61

The Ostrich Effect: Do You Suffer From FOFO?

62

The GROVER Method: How To Connect With Anyone In 5 Minutes

63

Welcome to the next banking crisis (same as the old one?)

64

Debating the greatest party anthems of all-time (March Madness edition)

65

How to overcome 16 of the most common sales objections (March Madness edition!)

66

Is your career stagnating because you fear failure?

67

Could you handle the pressure of a $13 Million contract?

68

How Chick-fil-A scales good DNA

69

Is it time to be fearful or greedy?

70

When does it make sense to pass on a massive pay increase?

71

Why Frank spent $18,000 on a Tony Robbins event

72

Should You Narrow Your Focus Or Spread Your Bets?

73

Do You Suffer From Negativity Bias?

74

How To Follow Up After An Interview

75

Are we at risk of another debt crisis?

76

Why Do People Cheat?

77

How We Raised $2,800,000 In A Terrible Market

78

When will we hit bottom?

79

News or Noise: "Winter is coming"

80

10 Steps You Should Take Before A Recession

81

How To Build A One-Of-A-Kind Trading Card Collection (On A Steelworker's Salary)

82

How To Answer Five Common Interview Questions (Part 2)

83

News Vs. Noise: October

84

Is It Better To Be Lucky Or Good?

85

Will It Hurt Your Career To Work From Home?

86

What Is "Quiet Quitting" And Who Does It Serve?

87

How To Respond To A Competitive Threat

88

Career Lessons From Legendary Announcer Vin Scully

89

Can You Run Your Career Like Your Fantasy Football Team? (Repost)

90

Alan Drazen - The Inventor Of The Choco Taco

91

Why Anxiety Is Good For You (Even Though It Feels Bad)

92

Is It Motivating Or Demotivating To Learn Others' Salaries?

93

How To Position Yourself For The Next Promotion

94

Business Lessons From The Watergate Scandal

95

Do You Work For A Micromanager?

96

Is Real Estate Next To Crash?

97

Are You A Multiplier Or A Diminisher?

98

Are You Ready For This Recession?

99

Steve Trang - Building A Seven-Figure Training Business

100

Zack Bubb - Finding Your Stride As A First-Time Manager

101

Five Warren Buffett Quotes To Help You Navigate Today's Economy

102

What Keeps Small Business Owners Up At Night

103

12 Terrible Money Mistakes

104

The Top 10 Hiring Mistakes

105

Before You Make That Big Decision

106

How To Stop Procrastinating (Repost)

107

The Gambler's Fallacy

108

Alastair MacDonald - Investing In Times Of Uncertainty

109

How To Profit From Inflation

110

How To Create A New Professional Identity

111

How To Profit From The "Gig Economy"

112

How To Maximize The Value Of A Real Estate Investment

113

How Do I Manage My Former Peers After Being Promoted?

114

Can Managers Have A Bad Day?

115

Surviving A Covid Christmas In Mexico

116

Should Top Performers Get "Star Treatment?"

117

"How Do I Transition From A Technical To A Sales Role?"

118

The Myth Of "Quitters Never Win"

119

Red Flags To look For When Interviewing For A Job

120

How To Build A Real Estate Business

121

Lessons Learned From Our First Year Of Podcasting

122

The Star Wars Office Draft

123

How Do I Deal With A Chronic Interrupter?

124

Meeting With GaryVee - Part 2

125

Meeting With GaryVee - Part 1

126

Are We Living In A Bubble Market?

127

Are You A Name-Dropper?

128

What Does "Gaslighting" Mean?

129

Is Conversational Style Holding Back Your Career?

130

Perfectly Acceptable Reasons To Lie At Work

131

Ten Reasons Your Presentation Sucks

132

Why Is It So Hard To Change A Losing Culture?

133

Why You Should Create A "Stop Doing List"

134

Do You Want To Stick It To Your Former Employer?

135

Five Questions To Ask Yourself When You Are Stuck

136

How To Answer Five Of The Most Common Job Interview Questions

137

The Art Of War With Special Guests David Neal And Jonathan Clark From The Eighth Mile Consulting

138

"The Peter Principle" - Have You Hit Your Ceiling?

139

How To Use Industrial Property To Replace Your Salary

140

Is Loyalty Hurting Your Career?

141

Why Your Customer Service Sucks (And What You Can Do About It)

142

Ten Things That Irritate Your Manager

143

Ian's Meeting With Shaquille O'Neal - Part 2

144

Ian's Meeting With Shaquille O'Neal - Part 1

145

Raising $4,000,000 in 60 Days

146

Our Top 5 Favorite "Sales Movies"

147

Is Radical Candor Effective?

148

How To Change Anyone's Mind

149

Jeff Paxson - From College Dropout To Indiana's #1 Realtor

150

A Message To Garcia

151

The Limelight Effect

152

Is Humor A Business Skill?

153

Business Lessons From The NFL Draft

154

The Peak-End Theory

155

Do You Experience Life With A Sense Of Urgency?

156

Do You Maximize Or Satisfice?

157

How Stepping Back (Or Even Down) Can Be Good For Your Career

158

Anatomy Of A $10M Deal (Part 2)

159

Anatomy Of A $10M Deal (Part 1)

160

Yoni Katz - Business Lessons From A 12-Year-Old Hustler

161

"The Everything Store - Jeff Bezos And The Age Of Amazon" - Part 2

162

"The Everything Store - Jeff Bezos And The Age of Amazon" - Part 1

163

"The 10,000-Hour Rule"

164

Dangerous Career Advice

165

Better Career Inspiration: Hip Hop or Country? Frank and Ian Settle a Score

166

Is Ego Really The Enemy?

167

The Ramifications Of Putting Results Ahead Of Culture

168

Business Lessons From "The Godfather" (Part 3 of 3)

169

Business Lessons From "The Godfather" (Part 2 of 3)

170

"This time it's different!" | Making sense of the GameStop stock market madness

171

Business Lessons From "The Godfather" (Part 1 of 3)

172

"Is It Time To Leave My Job?"

173

Is Tough Coaching Still Effective?

174

Working With Bad Apples

175

What Warren Buffett Taught Us About Business

176

How To Overcome Career Regrets And Move On

177

Changing Your Life Through Small Habits

178

Advice That Changed The Course Of Our Careers

179

How To Ask Your Manager For A Pay Raise

180

If Businesses Were Run Like Fantasy Football Teams

181

Hiring Mistakes We Made As New Managers

182

The Advice Frank Would Give Himself In 2010

183

Why am I procrastinating?

184

Things Managers Don’t Say Often Enough

185

Are You Self-Handicapping?