Brian Bogert is a human behavior and performance coach, speaker, business strategist and philanthropic leader who helps people make their best even better. His revolutionary strategy—embrace pain to avoid suffering—has helped individuals and companies break beyond their normal to achieve the success in life and business that they’ve always wanted.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
David Meltzer – Click the following link to listen to the David Meltzer podcast episode on The Entrepreneur Way
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I did not realise the role that shame played in my life. And so shame I believe is the ultimate wolf in sheep’s clothing because it traps people in on both sides. And the reason it was so hard for me to identify and raise my level of awareness and intentionality around is because shame literally masks itself is different emotions. It can be fear, it can be guilt, it can be a whole lot of different things”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts Book by Brené BrownFavourite Quote:
“You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done!” Rocky Balboa
Recommended Online Resources:
- YouTube, LLC is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google’s subsidiaries.
- Audible – Explore the world’s largest selection of audiobook titles by best-selling authors
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“when we feel that moment of pain, when we feel that moment of discomfort, when our gut tells us that we need to turn into something or even turn away from something I want them to literally just turn into it. Turn into those moments of discomfort because that’s where growth happens, that is where we discover who we are, that is where we discover what we are capable of. I think the world has told us to reduce, eliminate or avoid pain. And I’m telling you definitively the world is wrong. We must learn to use pain, discomfort to our advantage so that we cannot only avoid suffering but gain freedom”…[Listen for More]
More About Brian Bogert:
- The Brian Bogert Companies
- Brian Bogert
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it.” Kalpana Chawla
Other Quotes From the Chat with Brian Bogert:
- “attention creates impact”
- “something that I now know and I wish I would have known four or five years ago when I first started doing this of creating evergreen content, getting on opportunities such as being with you today around a digital format, a podcast, a video blog or podcast, written content in a way that can be distributed to the masses versus what I think I have done in the historical ways which was really build around just whatever could be done in person. And so, I that it is really a healthy blend of both but I wish I would have known that earlier because I think curve to reach would have been significantly broadened earlier in my trajectory than it is at the moment”
- “I think the definition of success different for everybody. If we look at it from just the traditional like what does it mean to be successful in our world, in our society and our culture it’s have financial security, it’s properly happiness and freedom, it sometimes material things. But I want define success as is in the eye of the beholder ”
- “the only difference between who you are today and he will be five years from now is the people that you meet and the things that you read which is really what you are consuming”
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