Overview
On this episode of Build Your Network, Host Travis Chappell interviews Ronsley Vaz, speaker, author, marketer and podcaster.
Topics Discussed:
- About Ronsley Vaz:
- He’s reached over four million listeners.
- His business highlights that conversions in business comes from conversations.
- Uses podcast, audiobooks, extraction cycles.
- Excited about having more structure in his life.
- Last year was growth focused.
- He goes all out or nothing at all and finding a middle ground is a learning process.
- What’s one of the most difficult things you’ve encountered?
- Had a big professional, emotional and mental growth spirt when the first We Are Podcast happened.
- He’s had to learn about what the market thinks the hard way.
- His first business was a failure.
- Had to learn business skills on the fly.
- There’s a lot of failure that happens in every business venture, you have to accept that that’s what you signed up for.
- Ronsley and his wife were three days from having an eviction notice.
- If he didn’t have the right people around him, his character could break.
- We tend to follow a pack.
- We find a way to level up if we’re surrounded with good people.
- What was the mindset as you’re about to lose your house?
- He’d had like five or six jobs in a few months
- You need money to sustain whatever life you want to live.
- The key is to sleep on a mat that you can afford.
- It’s important to do that basics:
- Make sure there’s money coming in.
- People lose the practicality of entrepreneurship because it’s become the “cool” thing to do.
- There will come a time when your will, values, and grit will be tested.
- You have to structure parts of your day to make sure you’re on flow.
- The most successful entrepreneurs have training they do day in and day out.
- What’s the key to seeing success long-term?
- The right people.
- It all comes down to who you hang out with.
- Hang out with people who you want your life to be like.
- Do you believe that what you know or who you know is more important, and why?
- It’s both what you know and who you know.
- There’s no silver bullet
- You must be absolutely authentic, without making justifications for why you do something.
- The journey is more how you can improve as a person, it’s about self-discovery and self-awareness.
- Personal development is about becoming the person you need to become in order to take the actions you need to take to make your goals happen.
- There’s no shortage of information, just a lack of execution.
- Entrepreneurship is a great life, it’s just not a comfortable one.
- What’s the balance between learning and implementation?
- Pay attention to how you’re feeling.
- If you feel like you’ve taken in too much information, then stop.
- You will know if you’re avoiding execution, ask yourself what you’re avoiding.
- Pushing through something is a very masculine way of doing something, sometimes it’s not the best idea.
- If you know you want to do something, then as quickly as possible create a rhythm to support it.
- The more rituals you can create allows you space to think.
- Throughout your career, how important have mentorships and masterminds been to your career?
- He’s always looked for mentors that matched values.
- Through the journey he’s realized how important any sort of coach is.
- A small correction on something in your life, even something small, can have a compounding effect in the future.
- What do you get coaches for?
- Business coaching
- Naturopath
- Personal trainer
- Climbing coach
- He has enough regularity with coaches that he can implement things outside the coaching.
- There are so many ways you can deliver value to a student who’s willing to learn, it’s more important than 1-1 time with a coach.
- How do you attract the right coaches and mentors?
- He guards his time more than anything else.
- He doesn’t care as much for money as he does for time and who he spends that time with.
- He spends a lot of time on introspection.
- Thinks “what did I do to help contribute to that?”
- He has a lot of great things that happens to him, he introspects that after the fact.
- Why doesn’t he attract on purpose?
- It’s the way you look at the world and how the world responds back to you.
- You need to find the balance between the masculine and feminine ways of living.
- The right people.
- It’s important to do that basics:
The Random Round:
- What profession other than your own do you think it would be fun to attempt?
- Musician, possibly orchestral.
- If you could sit on a park bench for an hour with anyone past or present, who would it be?
- Stephen Jarrad – captain of the liverpool football club
- How do you like to learn best, books, blogs, podcasts or video?
- One of your favorite audio books?
- The Obstacle is the Way
- Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself
- Give us a glimpse of your morning routine?
- Wake up at 4:30
- Loose first half hour
- At 5am turns on the kettle and meditates for 10 minutes
- Gets tea and writes in journal
- Stretch for 10 minutes
- Move for another 10 minutes
- Whole hour workout
- Shower and begin the day
- What is your go-to pump up song:
- Don’t’ have one
- What are you not very good at?
- Executing
- Find him online on Facebook in groups and his profile.
Tweetable Quotes:
- People lose the practicality of entrepreneurship because it’s become the “cool” thing to do.
- Personal development is about becoming the person you need to become in order to take the actions you need to take to make your goals happen.
- Entrepreneurship is a great life, it’s just not a comfortable one.
Resources Mentioned:
Buildyournetwork.com– Podcast website
BYN.media/fb – Facebook Group
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