Overview

Ronsley Vaz is a fellow podcaster who runs the podcast conference “We Are Podcast” and one of the largest audio marketing agencies in the world.  He helps clients produce high-quality, marketing-focused audio content. We discuss the psychology of entrepreneurship, and mental health for entrepreneurs, and a variety of topics around podcasting. 

Episode Highlights:

• What Ronsley has been up to, and current projects.
• Using what you are passionate about to create content
• The importance of mental health for entrepreneurs.
• The effect of social media on mental health.
• What might surprise you when discussing psychology with entrepreneurs.
• Navigating the line between “be ok with who you are” and “need to improve yourself.”
• The need to focus on the day to day development vs. the destination.
• The detriment of the “destination mindset.”
• The key indicators that you need to “take a step back” and re-evaluate.
• How busyness gets in the way of allowing for our personal needs.
• Confirmation bias: the best way to lose yourself.
• The moment Ronsley realized he was doing the right thing.
• The top skills every podcaster needs to be successful.
• Empathy: the missing piece of all relationships.
• Who you know or what you know? Both: what you know can influence who you know, and vice versa.
• The Random Round: a quick-hit question and answer session.

3 Key Points:

1. Entrepreneurs are uniquely positioned with skills and challenges that require extensive work to create a healthy mental state.
2. Focus your daily activities on what you need to do to be where you want to be.
3. Spend the time necessary to just “be” and listen, so that you don’t get lost in the noise of our world.

Tweetable Quotes:

• “As entrepreneurs, we have different psychologies and different ways that make the noise inside our heads harder to deal with.” – Ronsley Vaz
• “The destination is only a result of the work you put in.” – Ronsley Vaz
• “If you squeeze an orange, you only get orange juice, you don’t get apple juice.  If you squeeze, what’s inside you, comes out.” – Ronsley Vaz
• “The answers to our questions are already inside us, we’ve just got to get ourselves out of the way to listen.” – Ronsley Vaz
• “As a podcast host, I think our job is to get someone’s story.” – Ronsley Vaz

Resources Mentioned:

• “The Psychology of Entrepreneurship” Podcast with Ronsley Vaz
• Ronsley Vaz’s Website
• Ronsley Vaz on LinkedIn
• Visit Travis’ website at Buildyournetwork.co
• Join the Build Your Network Facebook group BYN.media/fb
• Join the Build Your Network University Facebook group here byn.university.
• If you want to amplify your network through podcasting apply at travischappell.com/coaching
• Get the #1 online tool to make your business management quick and easy with Honeybook.  Go to www.honeybook.com/travis to 50% off your first year!
• Download the Himalaya App in the App Store or Google Play
• Leave a rating and review for the Build Your Network Podcast on iTunes
• Watch Travis’ free masterclass on how to build the network of your dreams at threenetworkingsecrets.com