Build A Bigger Life

BABL Ep 10 Solocast: Paying Off Debt Explained Nearly 15 years ago, I uncovered some nuggets of truth when it came to paying off debt and living (virtually) debt-free for the rest of my life. It took me about two years (25 months to be exact) to blast away all of my student loans, credit cards, car loans and consumer debt -- with the help of my most incredible wife. For the next decade, my wife and I lived a life that was perfectly suited for us. Great houses, paid off cars, quality time with our children, vacations when our lives demanded them… And in October of 2012, we undertook the next step -- to blast away the house debt. We buckled down, got super serious, had definiteness of purpose, and are just months away from retiring the largest debt most people ever take on. I’m fully aware of the fact that many people don’t agree with doing this, especially with money as “cheap” as it is right now. Yet here’s the angle for me -- it’s not about what’s smartest or investment savvy or tax-advantageous -- it’s abo

BABL Ep 9: Drew McLellan on Doing It All For A Girl For starters, Drew McLellan and I have been in a mastermind group for the past 7 years, so this interview comes from a deep understanding of who Drew is at his core. It was a special interview for me to do because I love Drew as if he was a brother of mine: Twenty years ago Drew McLellan began an advertising agency that has survived ups, downs and sideways twists and turns and has supported the Bigger Life that Drew imagined for himself. What I appreciate most about Drew is his commitment to being a Dad, and his life has been all about parenting in the best way possible for the betterment of his daughter. Listen to Drew around minute 6:00 discuss how he organized his days to make life work with his daughter. Drew talks about investing in something for the long haul and eventually seeing the fruit of that relationship, whether it’s work or in relationships. (8:00) One of the things that most don’t know about Drew is he has been in the front row of more Josh G

Time Freedom . . . Financial Freedom . . . Relationship Freedom . . . Service Freedom . . . The four legacies that I have chosen to build my life around, a life by design not by necessity. In this second solo-cast from BABL I am going to share with you what I learned from a software engineer named Matt years ago. While I never thought this by-chance encounter could have such a profound impact on my life, the Four Legacies Matt explained are simple, impactful, and fulfilling. The Build A Bigger Life blueprint is the first step to Living the Four Legacies. In the next 15 minutes I am going to break down and explain the Four Legacies in further detail. I will dive into each of these legacies and tell you why prioritizing and gaining influence from these core values will set you up for an abundance of happiness throughout your life’s journey.

BABL Ep 7 Thomas Frank on Getting a Kick Out of Creating Things Thomas Frank set out to create a site that would allow people to effectively “hack” their college experience. The site today is a podcast and YouTube Channel with unique monthly users of over 150,000! Oh, and did I mention he’s making around $70k per year with just the site? One of the things that I most appreciate about Tom is his desire to do really epic things -- to that end he created his own Impossible List and is sequentially knocking them out one by one. On this list was paying off all of his student debt prior to graduation -- which he did about 6 months before walking the stage. He talks about how he did that around minute 6. Thomas has an amazing YouTube Channel and he has succeeded in creating really quality videos with fantastic content. Check him out here: http://collegeinfogeek.com/videos. Thomas’ book 10 Steps to Earn Awesome Grades can be found here: http://collegeinfogeek.com/book. Want a unique stress relieving strategy? Thomas

I’m going to level with you, I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up. My 85 year old grandfather recently told me that age is just a number anyway and people who want you to “grow up” can blow it out their proverbial. He talks just like that… This is the first of many “solocasts” where you get to hear from just me. No guests, no script, just a little rambling on something that got me fired up, or a question sent in from a listener. This particular solocast is all about my life and specifically my life philosophy that we are in one grand experiment. I’ve lived my life this way for the past decade and a half and it’s served me very well. There are a couple hints on the show as to how I did this. I hope you enjoy it!

Tim Rhode on Gettin’ The Goods In The Woods This podcast is one of my favorites as Tim Rhode is one part dude I want to hang with everyday, and one part dude I want to BE everyday. You’ll find Tim to be high energy, high passion, and high on life. Tim is a successful real estate investor, having been in real estate for 18 years and working his tail off to enjoy the BIGGER life he’s built for he and his wife. On the podcast, you’ll hear how Tim thinks daily about the highest and best use of his time. He’s consumed with being EEP -- Efficient Effective and Productive. Around 22:00, Tim talked about being in neutral in his life where he was winding the propeller to then think about what’s next. Around 25:00, Tim’s 501(c)3 1LifeFullyLived is brought up. The core messages from the conference are: Who am I at my core? What’s my plan for me? Offense: how am I going to make money? Defense: how am I going to avoid debt and invest wisely? EEP - How can I be efficient, effective and productive? 1LifeFullyLived has a gro

BABL004 Build A Bigger Life Podcast: Derek Hendricks on Synchronicity Surfing Derek was a multi-millionaire in his 30’s when the world came crashing down around him leaving him and his business broken and bankrupted. Then, the revelations came. Derek realized that the money he pursued was in an attempt to fill a void from his childhood years. Derek is a man on a unique mission -- to help people find the synchronicities of life, to ride the waves of life, and to live according to your deepest beliefs and values. In this week’s podcast, you’ll learn how to take control of the bad things that happen to you and turn them into lifelong positives. Derek’s code is boiled down to three rules: If you don’t ask the questions the answer is always no. If you don’t go after what you want you’ll never have it. If you don’t step forward you’ll always be in the same place. Around 10:00, Derek talks about letting go instead of fighting… Around 14:00, Derek goes into asking for what you want in life… Are you FRAUDing yourself?

Ep 3 BABL Podcast: Mitch Matthews on One Hour Businesses and Dream Jobs Mitch Matthews and I met on a networking “blind date”. We planned on spending 30 minutes or so together and ended our first meeting 3 hours later. The bromance had begun… Mitch is a warrior at heart, a total creative, and a guy that has spent a decade or more studying Dream Jobs in an attempt to find his own. In the process, he did. Mitch now coaches, consults, writes and speaks, and has a popular podcast on iTunes called Dream.Think.Do. On the podcast, you’ll hear Mitch talking about the early years when he and his wife lived the sitcom life (Single Income Two Children Oppressive Mortgage), and how he transitioned into testing business concepts in one hour a day blocks. Around 8:00, Mitch talks about how he began to feel the pull to get out of working in pharmaceutical sales and into being self-employed. They made some serious changes to their lifestyle, simplifying by ditching the big spread in the country for the smaller home across fr

Ep 2 BABL: Lori Harder on Letting Down Your Guard Lori Harder and I met at Jack Canfield’s Train the Trainer event in 2014. We spent three weeks getting to know each other’s businesses and, quite frankly, I’m completely jealous of the success she’s created for herself. She is a self-made multi-millionaire, author of The Busy Girl Cookbook, a successful network marketer with Isagenix, and the founder of The Bliss Project - an life empowering event for women. The next Bliss Project weekend is February 27th-March 1st in Newport Beach, California and tickets can be purchased at http://loriharder.com. Lori maintains the most important thing we can do for each other is share our stories, become vulnerable, and realize that we’re all just trying to get over the same stuff. When we connect on a personal level, we can finally support each other instead of comparing ourselves to one another. Health and fitness are top priorities for Lori, but her money mindset is… well, money. She read T. Harv Eker’s book Secrets of T

Ep. 1 BABL Podcast: Scott Ginsberg on Being Profoundly Absurdly Committed I first met Scott Ginsberg at a conference for Young Professionals where we were both speaking. It was impressive to me that Scott had such an approachable air about him and then after hearing his presentation, I completely understood why. Scott has made a business out of wearing a nametag for the past 15 years of his life. What started out as an experiment of “what would happen if I didn’t take off this nametag” turned into a reputation, then a lifestyle, a career, and now a calling. Meet Scott once and you’ll be blown away by the level of creativity this artist shares. And he is, without question, an artist. Scott spent the past year releasing his documentary called Tunnel Of Love. It’s all Scott, raw and rough playing guitar and singing his own music in a walking tunnel in Brooklyn in between stories of his life. You can see his full documentary here: http://www.tunneloflovedoc.com/ You can read some of the nuggets of brain candy fro