A lot happened this week! Our new community for 7 & 8-figure founders is filling up fast and we’re stoked to open the doors to TMBA listeners. On this week’s podcast, we explore frameworks for identifying and dealing with high-conflict personalities.

We’ve got news! Dan takes the stage to deliver some big updates about the podcast, the new high-level community, and more. Plus, how you can get involved.

This year felt busy. Part of the busyness was travel, which for me, returned to pre-pandemic levels – with a trip every month and a few long stays abroad. Our business was equally frantic at times.

Just before Christmas of last year, I wrote an annual update about the various aspects of our business. Many of you emailed me positive feedback

It was nearly one year ago today – June 2020 – that our team decided to make it a primary focus to build product and

It’s time to get inspired and motivated by movies. We’re all hanging out quarantine, so let’s enjoy some movies about entrepreneurship that may just encourage us to do better in life.

Today I'd like to share a letter from reader Kevin Marshall. He responded thoughtfully to a YouTube rant that in retrospect, I'm not very proud of. As in many poor and one-sided debate, I committed all the same errors I was accusing others of.

Entering the entrepreneurial life does not always require light bulb moments and inventing the next great thing. The following are five trusted methods to help you look for new opportunities and capitalize on them.

Despite teams adopting project management tools and more platforms for communicating, email is still the center of business in 2020. It’s highly probable that the importance of email will continue to endure.

Have you thought about starting a business with all this extra time at home? Many people are, and they are seeking the right information on how to get started. A listener named Sabrina, who is quarantined in Tokyo wrote to us as she’s looking for entrepreneurial opportunities and wants to know how to best use this time to learn.

When does an entrepreneur become wealthy? If an entrepreneur can follow the path without too much diversion, potentially within ten years of starting. This generalized path to wealth for bootstrapping entrepreneurs is straight forward but it’s not the same for everyone.

In the meantime, Bossman and I have taken to doing daily Youtube livestreams as a way to share and brainstorm ideas in real time with TMBA listeners. It’s been really fun.

As a team we’ve been doing tons of interviews in our efforts to match remote professionals with great companies over at Dynamite Jobs. We’re exploring ways to ask more elegant and efficient questions.

Back in the day I strongly encouraged quitting your job. But there are lots of ways to get more freedom and flexibility in your career and business without necessarily doing that. Let’s dig a little past mere possibility and start to look at what’s working for people.

The Charisma Trap is when a job candidate shows a tremendous amount of enthusiasm for the position in a way that resonates deeply with the entrepreneur. This enthusiasm manifests in compelling ways: the candidate is a true believer in the company’s purpose, the candidate is passionate about future prospects and in the companies potential.

It’s worth noting that I’m not 100% clear whether or not all of these entrepreneurs would identify themselves as doing business in the 4HWW style. In fact, our adoption and implementation of some of the book’s principles have led us, as a community, to both expand and critique them (naturally!).

The archetype at the core of the digital nomad identity is that of the backpacker or traveler. So you might say: earn like an entrepreneur or freelancer, and live like a backpacker or traveler and boom: digital nomad.

Many members, though, have been sharing their thoughts about the event, how they experienced it and how it might change their business. One that caught my eye was that of Nabeel Keblawi, who is a professional B2B copywriter.

We’re seeking someone with a lot of energy and ambition to join our team this winter as an apprentice. The gig is a paid (but not much!) marketing apprenticeship designed to be a springboard into the location independent lifestyle.

In this conversation they touch on a broad range of topics: sports, hustle, the importance of a ‘scene,’ how creative movements depend on many creators collaborating, befriending influential and powerful people, family, business strategy, getting to “your number,” why Michael Jackson’s “Off the Wall” is a more important record than “Thriller,”.