Tripp Lanier is a professional coach, author of This Book Will Make You Dangerous, and host of The New Man Podcast: Beyond the Macho Jerk and the New Age Wimp which — for over a decade — has been downloaded millions of times. Since 2005, he has spent thousands of hours coaching people all around the world to get out of the rat race, become an authority in their field, and make a great living doing the work they were put on this earth to do. Over the years he’s designed several businesses to support a simple lifestyle focused on freedom, ease, meaning, and fun.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
None specific
When business started difficulties overcame:
“my first business was actually pretty easy. I was used to being broke, I was still living in my college apartment with my broke college buddies. There didn’t seem much to lose. If I failed it wasn’t going to be that big a deal. When I sold that business to become a coach I flailed. I had enough money in the bank where I could basically screw around for several years and I realised that without having to do something, without that deadline I could avoid doing anything that was uncomfortable, I could avoid doing anything that was risky, I could avoid doing something would jeopardise how I saw myself. And so those several years even though people would come and say wow congratulations on selling your business and you live in Hawaii part of the time and you do this and you do that but inside I felt so lost and so scared”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom Book by Don Miguel Ruiz and Janet Mills
- Don Miguel Ruiz Books
Favourite Quote:
“If You’re Going Through Hell, Keep Going” Winston Churchill
Recommended Online Resources:
turn off the screen
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“realise that you’ve got a gauge on your dashboard that says fun and start to pay attention to that one to. The more fun we are having in what we are do… And it does not have to be frivolous, it doesn’t have to be goof… It’s just that when we are having fun, we do a lot better. We are designed as mammals to play. We are at our best when we play. It’s where we are strongest where we are able to take chances and experiment and learn things. So, I think those who know how to play and know how to have fun are the ones that are the toughest and the most resilient”…[Listen for More]
More About Tripp Lanier:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“No one succeeds without effort… Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.” Ramana Maharshi
Other Quotes From the Chat with Tripp Lanier:
- “I look for those people who think outside the box so to speak and find different ways to play with business or to play with offerings or play with ways to do something impactful in the world”
- “I think getting help early on more. It’s ironic as a coach that I had to learn that. I see the huge benefit that people get from coaching day-to-day. I wish that I had employed that early on. I wish I had gotten out of my own isolation and hired coaches early on even in my first business”
- “you have got to define what success means for yourself. We are screwed if we just think it’s about more and more, more… Success is something that is being redefined all the time month by month, quarter by quarter instead of okay I’ve figured it out what success was going to be in my twenties. And a lot of us just we don’t want to do that, we just want to put our heads down and go onto autopilot. We don’t want to have to think, we don’t want to have to be the authority of our lives and I think that that’s unfortunate”
- “be open to being surprised . Be willing to be surprised at where those experiences might arise from, it might not be from more, more, more. It could be but it’s that willingness to be fluid in there and experiment as we go instead of here’s the path, this is how it’s going to be, I’m going to do it exactly like these guys did it and that’s the thing”
- “this hardship won’t last forever keep going”
Leave a Reply