I had a lovely chat with Alex Mathers on the podcast this week. We have a far-ranging conversation about allsorts of things from creating content, using Twitter and not losing your mind whilst doing these things.

Alex Mathers is a writer, coach, and illustrator, currently based in: Krakow, Poland.

He writes and speaks about mental health, self-confidence, growing your business, creativity, and cultivating conscious awareness.

https://iamalexmathers.medium.com/

https://www.alexmathers.net/about

https://www.youtube.com/mansimian

https://twitter.com/iamalexmathers

My goal with this podcast is to try and find legitimately interesting people who can hold a conversation. Luke is one such human. After recently writing his excellent book, Wanting, we spend over an hour talking about nearly everything else other than the book. Especially my favourite topic: the cult of experts.

Luke has co-created and led four companies in wellness, consumer products, and technology. He’s currently Entrepreneur-in-Residence and Director of Programs at the Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship where he also teaches business at The Catholic University of America.

https://lukeburgis.com/about/

https://lukeburgis.com/book/

https://twitter.com/lukeburgis

Nick Winkelman is my perfect kind of guest. Well-read, intelligent and knows things beyond his own realm of expertise—we had a lot of fun with this conversation. After having the pleasure of chatting with him on Clubhouse a while back I knew I needed to chat to him in more detail in the long-form arena.

Nick Winkelman is the head of athletic performance & science for the Irish Rugby Football Union. His primary role is to oversee the delivery and development of strength & conditioning and sports science across all national (Men and Women) and provincial teams (Leinster, Munster, Connacht, and Ulster).

https://www.thelanguageofcoaching.com/

https://www.instagram.com/nickwinkelman

https://twitter.com/nickwinkelman

Nick's House music: https://soundcloud.com/movere

I got on the scales...and the rest of my life changed in that moment. Let me tell you a story and have a little bit of a rant.

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To introduce April's content of Fixing Yourself properly, I talk about what I mean by it, and what it meant to me.

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Yes, let's talk about fungal infections. Don't worry, this doesn't get disgusting.

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I think blogging can help you improve your life, not just your marketing. Want to hear how? 

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We're always being told we need to be more organised with our content creation, but what happens if you're NOT? Is that really the end of the world?

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For the month of March I’ll be talking about marketing yourself better.

Let's talk about your weirdness again. And humans in supermarkets.

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The last couple of weeks have been difficult for me to be productive. I tell you all about it today, and how I'm trying to fix things.

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For the month of March I’ll be talking about marketing yourself better.

How do you use a personal brand to get hired?

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For the month of March I’ll be talking about marketing yourself better.

I know you want to roll your eyes at the term "personal brand", but here's why it's SO important. Yeah, REALLY important.

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For the month of March I’ll be talking about marketing yourself better.

We need to have a serious talk today about jealousy.

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Phil is a bonafide interesting person. His day job is in the startup world, but his evening pursuits are about self-mastery and philosophy. This was a truly fascinating conversation, and I've already booked him back on for a round two in (hopefully) August 2021.

Phil is building Mind Vault: a new portal to powerful ideas.

https://mindvault.co

https://www.instagram.com/philhagspiel/

For the month of March I’ll be talking about marketing yourself better.

We’re going to take a brief trip away from talking marketing today for me to talk about the latest hack day I went to (and co-organised): Hack The DMC.

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For the month of March I’ll be talking about marketing yourself better.

There’s plenty of people out there telling you how best to market yourself properly but they always miss one key piece of advice. Consistency. Let me tell you more.

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For the month of March I’ll be talking about marketing yourself better.

Getting your first job in the creative industry can be difficult. Here's my 5 tips and how to do this.

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For the month of March I’ll be talking about marketing yourself better.

This is an episode about one of my biggest pet peeves because it stops so many people from making stuff: The Sneerers.

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For the month of March I’ll be talking about marketing yourself better.

Today I need to beat you over the head with the authenticity stick. It might be a painful listen for you. I also say the word "you" about 300 times.

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For the month of March I’ll be talking about marketing yourself better.

Over the next 3 days I’m telling my story of how I got to where I am today in podcasting, and making videos, and blogging. Why did I suddenly take the decision after 12 years to start doing all of this random stuff?

Today, I talk about how everything I've been doing with my blogging, podcasting and website has been wrong.

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For the month of March I’ll be talking about marketing yourself better.

Over the next 3 days I’m telling my story of how I got to where I am today in podcasting, and making videos, and blogging. Why did I suddenly take the decision after 12 years to start doing all of this random stuff?

Today, I talk about writing a book, and why I decided to do it.

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For the month of March I’ll be talking about marketing yourself better.

Over the next 3 days I’m telling my story of how I got to where I am today in podcasting, and making videos, and blogging. Why did I suddenly take the decision after 12 years to start doing all of this random stuff?

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For the month of March I’ll be talking about marketing yourself better.

The world is changing. Your CV doesn’t matter anymore but your online personal brand does.

Why I’m doubling down on this from now on, and a look at two case studies that I think you'll find useful.

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For the month of March I’ll be talking about marketing yourself better.

In this intro episode I talk about some of the topics I'll be discussing in March.

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Tony is a Google Data Engineer specialising in working with small local businesses.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwBzfD9tmSyiAlcC-Z-BToA

https://anchor.fm/tectony

https://www.tiktok.com/@hitectony

For the month of February I’ll be dissecting the concept of getting started.

It’s the final episode of February and I recap on what I think is some of the most important lessons to get started.

Some of my fave episodes:

1. 111 - Jimi Hendrix Once Learned To Play The Guitar
2. 108 - Becoming Proud of your Desire To Become Better
3. 106 - The End Goal Doesn’t Matter
4. 104 - [RANT] The game is simple. You make it complicated.
5. 100 - The 7 Things That Will Stop You From Starting

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For the month of February I’ll be dissecting the concept of getting started.

Why you’ve got enough time, you’ve always had enough time, and why it’s your fault.

1. You’ve got enough time to enjoy yourself
2. You’ve got enough time to browse Facebook or something else for 2 hours a day
3. You’ve got enough time to see friends
4. Therefore you have enough time
5. Don’t confuse not having enough time with not WANTING to have enough time

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For the month of February I’ll be dissecting the concept of getting started.

1. Wake up early
2. Go to work
3. Come home from work and immediately do something else (lifting weights, recording podcasts, writing)
4. Eat
5. Read, then bed (no phone about 45-60 mins before bed)

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For the month of February I’ll be dissecting the concept of getting started.

An episode about how you won’t be amazing when you first try, but you’ve still got to try anyway.

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For the month of February I’ll be dissecting the concept of getting started.

This episode extends yesterday's episode about personal branding, and about how I'm solving my personal branding problem.

Some of the things mentioned in this video:

1. Gary Vaynerchuk's YouTube
2. Jonathan Pie's YouTube

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For the month of February I’ll be dissecting the concept of getting started.

This episode talks about how important I think it is to be working on your personal brand.

1. You’ve already got a personal brand
2. You have a choice. Own it or continue to dismiss it.
3. Start sharing your authentic personality.

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For the month of February I’ll be dissecting the concept of getting started.

This is my story about how I learned to become proud of becoming better.

1. My story from losing weight and how it was difficult to become a “social pariah"
2. A common stumbling block I’ve experienced is how difficult it is to put up with the ridicule of becoming better at something.
3. BECOME PROUD
4. To become better than 95% of people you need to be different and think different to 95% of people.
5. That level of thinking doesn’t take much.

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For the month of February I’ll be dissecting the concept of getting started.

Today is all about good rituals, not the evil ones.

1. What is a ritual?
2. Why doing something regularly makes it automatic
3. What happens when you stop regular doing (you’ve got to think)
4. Embrace the ritual

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For the month of February I’ll be dissecting the concept of getting started.

Here's why I don't believe that goals matter as much as people like to tell you.

• 54 - The Problems (and Positives) With Setting Goals
• 47 - Reflections on 2017
• 48 - Setting a Daily Challenge To Improve Yourself

1. How I used to focus on end goals when I was younger (and why it didn’t help me)
2. What happened last year when I set 16 goals
3. Why I’ve removed the word “goal” from my vocabulary
4. What happens next after you complete a goal
5. What to do instead of focusing on the end goal (focus on the process)

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For the month of February I’ll be dissecting the concept of getting started.

This is an episode all about lifting weights, but not really about lifting weights.

1. Overload and Progression
2. How I’ve used them for 3 years 
3. How you can use them everywhere else in your life 
4. How they make getting started easier 

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Jesse is a lifelong creative with ADHD.

http://jessejanderson.com

http://lostinroam.com

http://adhdcreative.io

For the month of February I’ll be dissecting the concept of getting started.

When we try to get started with stuff we often overcomplicate things. Actually, things are really simple.

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For the month of February I’ll be dissecting the concept of getting started.

This is connected with yesterday's episode of feeling lucky, and why you should always strive for improvement.

1. Today I talk about satisfaction

2. When you get started there has to be a deeper reason to carry on

3. The process and the desire to do something is eventually not enough

4. You should feel satiated, not satisfied

5. You get comfortable and everything moves on

6. The world doesn’t wait for you

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For the month of February I’ll be dissecting the concept of getting started.

Today I talk about feeling thankful and the concept of luck.

1. An example of lucky thinking
2. The dangers of “lucky” thinking
3. Remembering to never settle

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For the month of February I’ll be dissecting the concept of getting started.

Today I talk about MOTIVATION. Yes, it must be capitalised like that.

• 52 - Action Breeds Action
• The other episodes about motivation

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For the month of February I’ll be dissecting the concept of getting started.

Here are the 7 most likely things that will stop you from starting something new. I know this because they’ve all stopped me.

1. Peer pressure (shitty friends)
2. Telling yourself you “don’t have time”
3. Telling yourself you’re “too busy”
4. Not understanding the importance of routine
5. Refusing to accept you need to change
6. Spending too much time on pointless stuff (TV, YouTube, consuming other people’s content)
7. Telling yourself you’re not good enough

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For the month of February I’ll be dissecting the concept of getting started.

Today I tell you a little story, and give you some suggestions and tips on focus.

1. What happened when I first learned to focus
2. The power of learning to focus
3. Don’t try and do too much at once
4. Suggestions on things you could get started with

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For the month of February I’ll be dissecting the concept of getting started.

February is all about getting started. Today I talk about how to ACTUALLY get started.

• 36 - Extreme Production
• 48 - Starting a Daily Challenge To Improve Yourself
• 49 - How I’ve used daily challenges to improve myself

1. What does it mean to “get started”?
2. Why should I want to get started on something new?
3. What could I get started on?

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• 94 - Suck It Up
• 92 - Do The Things That Hurt You (YouTube Episode 4)
• 91 - It’s Always Easier To Quit

1. How things are difficult for me when I first get started
2. Why things will get difficult when you get started and why you should continue
3. Why it’s important to do the difficult things
4. Why there’s no easy way around this and there’s no shortcuts
5. On Monday: WHY do you want to get started?

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Today is the start of February, where I’ll be spending the entire month dissecting the concept of getting started.

Let me introduce to the concept a little bit and talk about some of the topics I’ll be discussing this month.

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From tomorrow I'm introducing something new. I'm approaching my podcast in a different way.

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Art is a former startup founder who is now trying to become a full-time creator.

We had an interesting long-form conversation about Art's journey, why he's getting out of the startup game, and what being a creator means to him.

https://www.artlapinsch.com/about

https://twitter.com/artlapinsch

This is an episode about continuing when things get difficult. It's also about me being ill, as I tell you several thousand times during this episode.

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An episode all about not taking one person’s negative feedback and changing everything because of it.

1. What happens when we receive negative feedback
2. Why we clamour to try and “fix” it
3. What it REALLY means when somebody says something negative
4. Why you shouldn’t listen to the one person who doesn’t look you

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I nearly didn’t record a podcast tonight after two hard days of work. I did though, and I’m here to talk about it.

This episode was originally recorded as a video and put up on YouTube.

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