Intro and Liquor:
Michael is drinks Olmeca Altos margarita tequila – the best bang for your buck [1:00]
Michael gets woke [2:04]
Brian pours a glass of High West Prairie Bourbon [2:24]
Michael talks about his surprise bourbon tasting for father’s day [3:22]
Go get your own drink [4:17]
Michael gives a review on Jack Daniels Sinatra [4:35]
Brains discuss his love for Arnold Palmer + Titos = The John Daly drink [6:10]
Michael has a secret love for pink lemonade [7:10]
Life is more than just making money [8:00]
Follow, Subscribe, Like, Share and Comment [8:09]
Submit questions you have about life and money [8:30]

Word Association [9:00]
Fear is a clever trap. Brian’s fears are always a wolf in sheep’s clothing. His fears are always in the clever disguise of virtue [10:00]
Your shortcomings do not define who you are – MA [11:27]
Fear is often disguised as reasonable and rational – BD [11:33]
If you’re listening, join us in this exercise – MA [12:30]
Fear is a lie, it’s angst, deception, playing small, minimizing myself and others. Fear is controlling, it seeks to control but can also be a catalyst for growth – MA [13:00]
Everything else I do in life doesn’t matter in comparison who I am for my family and what I do with them – MA [14:30]

Main Topic:
Chasing praise over compensation Part 2 – MA [14:45 ]
I have failed multiple times at this – MA [15:00]
Jiro Dreams of Sushi – BD [16:40]
Crazy is what moves this world forward – MA [17:53 ]
Crazy attracts crazy – BD [19:00]
Michael discusses the struggle to becoming an entrepreneur [19:20]
If you want to be an entrepreneur, you’re crazy and that’s a good thing – MA [19:54]
Colonel Sanders and KFC [20:13]
Michael Angelo painted the Sistine Chapel at 70 [20:25]
Commit to your success, join the Contract CFO Program [20:42]
Removing fear from your life and business, the Contract CFO Program [21:15]
ContractCFO.com [22:35]
Nostalgia is a trap – BD [23:26]
Nostalgia is a trap and karma is a bitch MA [23:37]
Being aware of what you can control in life and take ownership and responsibility for it [24:35]
If you’re going to live to 80, you only really have a solid 30 years to go about life  [25:19]
What’s your excuse? We need you, this world needs you to be who are meant to be – MA [25:46]
Don’t let you past rob your of your present and steal from your future – MA [26:10]
It’s not too late unless you don’t start now – BD [26:31]
We can judge a society about how we take care of the most vulnerable – BD [26:52]
Greek Proverb: Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in – BD [27:22]
Quit being a victim and let people injuring you BD [28:40]
Grandma and Grandpa always sit by themselves but it wasn’t always that way [29:00]
Brian loves his adjustable bed [29:30]
I already know what happens at home, why would I stay there and never explore or take risk? -BD [29:45]
When you stop pushing on a rut it becomes a grave – BD [30:00]
Brian’s Great Aunt is a legend “I’ll have your finest beer” [30:34]
Brain’s Great Aunt locks herself in the basement but doesn’t wait to be rescued BD [31:00]
Don’t bury yourself before you die,  let other people do that – BD [31:10]
We’re all going to get old but we don’t have to get tired – BD [31:38]
Now is 100% the best time to change – BD [32:00]
A studio engineering degree won’t get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks – MA [34:00]
If we’re feeling pressure in the present it’s because we don’t have a vision for tomorrow – MA [34:26]
How to become magically rich overnight, win the lottery – MA [35:00]
What it takes to become a millionaire – MA [35:20]
What it takes to earn six figure income – Ma [35:45]
You must invest in yourself to become more valuable – MA [36:09]
You cannot use fuel from an old vision to fuel the present – BD [36:40]
It’s time to redraft the plan – BD [37:19]
Your plan has to be big enough to create some pressure that will produce the drive BD [37:38]
Learn how to be comfortable being uncomfortable – MA [37:55]
Climb out of the backseat of your life into the driver’s seat – BD [38:11]
The backseat is comfortable and allows you to complain – BD [38:40]
Who’s driving your car? [39:00]
Get a plan and take responsibility for your journey – BD [39:10]
Praise is a trap [39:40]
Employees and entrepreneurs that are motivated by praise and significance, let’s talk – MA [40:00]
Tony Robbins – [40:19]
Addiction to praise almost ruined my life – MA [41:20]
I almost ruined my marriage because I was chasing praise – MA [41:50]
Brain’s iPad dies [42:22]
Michael talks about working in nonprofit and in the Christian music industry [43:27]
Rolling Stone Magazine Article [44:34]
Michael discuss his take on religion, theology and spirituality [45:00]
We feel shame about areas we are not reconciled with – MA [45:38]
Michael talks about the business and life mistakes he made in his 20s [46:00]
I love Jesus but don’t care for religion – MA [46:32]
Doing the right things and trusting god will take care of you is not how it works [47:00]
God doesn’t want a codependent relationship with you [47:15]
It’s easy to abdicate the power and authority we have over our own life to another power, don’t fall for it [47:33]
Don’t give up your responsibility for growth and development in the name of surrender to a higher power [48:24]
It’s easy to blame God for your lack of progress but it’s not God’s fault, it’s yours [49:00]
It’s easy to be confused and naïve when we are young [49:30]
I believe God would wave the wand and make me insta rich. I was playing the lottery, and I lost – MA [50:00]
Craving praise is unhealthy [51:00]
It’s ok to want to know that you’re doing good and the right thing but don’t let it drive you [51:17]
Michael talks about being a badass booking agent and promoter for christian artists [52:21]
Seeking praise and external acceptance took the place of my family – MA [53:00]
Letting good people take the wrong position in your life leads to dysfunction [54:00]
Michael talks about the danger of letting others feed his need significance – MA [54:55]
Female CEO’s feel they have a lot to prove because there’s so much going against them Be careful not to fall into the praise trap [55:28]
Our culture fails to celebrate hard-working women [56:00]
Why the CEO cheats on his wife with the receptionist [56:50]
We have an innate need for significance that’s not wrong, learn to recognize when it is dysfunctional – BD [57:35]
Where Michael is at today – work is what I do but it does not define me – MA [58:35]
When you’re out of alignment, you’ll give your best at work and have nothing to give to those at home [59:00]
it’s not too late to turn your life around [59:24]
Ask yourself, ‘Will this keep me warm and wipe my ass 20 years later?’ [1:00:28]
The reward of being rightly aligned in life is huge [1:01:07]
Michael talks about repositioning himself, transitioning to sales and coming home to his daughter running into his arms [1:01:45]
If you missed today, don’t miss tomorrow – MA [1:02:09]
We feel the pressure for instant change when we don’t have a plan for tomorrow – MA [1:02:29]
I haven’t done it up to now so I can’t do it moving forward mentality is fatal – BD [1:02:50]
Stop putting conditions on change – BD [1:03:00]
www.workwithsymmetry.com/change  [1:03:45]
Other people will always put self-limiting beliefs on you because they want you safe or to fail – BD [1:04:35]
Scarcity mindset vs abundance [1:05:00]
Brain talks about learning to value his Fiance [1:05:22]
When you don’t have momentum it’s hard to do the right thing, don’t use that as an excuse [1:06:00]
Know better. Do better – BD [1:06:15]
You need to know when you’re going too far at work and taking away from the people that actually matter at home – BD [1:07:00]
It’s hard work to be excellent – BD [1:07:10]
It’s not what can we do, it’s what can we do consistently and long enough that will make you successful – BD [1:07:30]
Consistency and sustainability, they must go together – BD [1:07:43]
Attention seeking vs attention getting behaviors [1:07:59]
Excellence only matters when it’s built on a foundation of consistency BD [1:08:19]
Stop playing your business and potential like it’s the lottery – BD [1:09:37]
Lottery is luck and success is skill – BD [1:09:40]
Skills take work and time to build – MA [1:09:47]
Chop wood + carry water = success [1:10:33]
Don’t judge your chapter 1 against someone else’s chapter 15 – MA [1:10:44]
Leaders eat last – MA [1:11:38]
Do what has to be done – MA [1:11:45]
You’re only competing against yourself – MA [1:11:56]
Work begets work, whatever we do we get more of – MA [1:12:18]
You need to be fucking selfish about our life. No one else is going to run your race for you – MA [1:12:56]
What do we do when shit happens? – MA [1:13:19]
The area you’re most insecure in is the area you will be the most needy for praise – BD [1:13:49]
External praise is supposed to be a temporary bridge until you build confidence in yourself – BD [1:14:00]
If you’re going to make money you’re going to have to hear a lot of no’s first – BD [1:14:32]
You have to know you’re doing the right thing even when the perceived outcome isn’t what you thought it would be [1:14:56]
Build your internal feedback loop – self assurance [1:15:18]
I’d always rather do the right thing and be wrong than do the wrong thing and be right – BD [1:15:31]
If you let yourself be manipulated for too long, you will become a manipulator – BD [1:16:17]
Sometimes it’s about just getting on base, just hitting a single – BD [1:17:14]
If you don’t hit the singles you won’t be around for the home runs – MA [1:17:34]
Your reality is the cumulative consequences of your choices [1:18:29]
Consistency is king – MA [1:18:47]
Michael talks about body image  [1:19:11]
Michale discusses the ups and down of dieting [1:20:43]
The philosophy of cheat day [1:21:11]
If we don’t address the root issues in our lives, nothing will change – MA [1:21:21]
It’s important to get your mind off of an abbreviated timeline [1:21:36]
What sacrifices am I making consistently that will lead me to what I want? [1:22:19]
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth [1:23:19]
Motivation alone does not lead to success [1:23:52}
Zig Ziglar [1:24:05]
If you do the right things long enough, the right things will show up [1:24:39]
Start small with consistency and build on the daily wins [1:25:17]
Consistency is everything [1:25:46]
Life is lived in the gray, success is found in the gray – MA [1:27:19]
People spend billion of dollars in marketing to lie and convince you, you deserve things you haven’t earned – MA [1:27:59]
Don’t let other people’s opinion of you or things own you – MA [1:28:49]
There is not material thing worth you giving up your destiny for – MA [1:29:10]
There are billion of dollars being spent to convince you you’re missing out on something [1:29:45]
Motivation is a state – BD  [1:30:15]
What a good market does well is offer you something that will change your state – BD [1:30:23]
State is alignment of body mind and soul [1:30:49]
Don’t give away your power to someone who manipulate your state – you control your state [1:31:29]
Only you can control your emotions – no one can “make” you feel anything it’s all your choice [1:32:18]
The Contract CFO is bullshit free, real talk [1:32:42]
Retail therapy is actually retail control. It makes you feel in control of something – BD [1:32:58]
I can’t have only 90% control of my thought process and be in the top earners – BD [1:34:00]
When I could agree to a point and disagree to a point and still ask clarifying questions. That’s when I knew I was free. – BD  [1:34:22]
The more I try proved myself right, the more invested I become in who I’ve been rather than getting invested in who I’m becoming – BD [1:35:03]
Any idea with 10 years of applied intention will make your successful – BD [1:35:43]
Brian speaks about entering the insurance world [1:36:45]
Michael talks about how his parents almost divorced over an MLM [1:37:11]
If you want to work like a regular person, go get a regular job, and get an average paycheck, entrepreneurship isn’t for you. [1:38:45]
Our security must be in the value we provide not the praise we get on the outside – BD [1:39:25]
Brain talks about Walmart robots [1:40:10]
You doing the right thing and adding value to others will build you security, not promises of other people – BD [1:40:28]
John D. Rockefeller [1:41:26]
The wealthiest people are often major philanthropists at their core [1:41:57]
Michael talks about how he made his 40th birthday significant [1:42:36 ]
Understanding the gift of giving [1:43:33]
Any business where you have to pay to have a job you’re fucked – MA [1:46:13]
You cannot be a successful entrepreneur with an employee mindset – MA [1:47:54]
Michael talks about the responsibilities of a business owner [1:49:29]
As a business owner you’re no longer the cup waiting to be filled, you’re now the pitcher pouring water into the cups – MA [1:49:47]
It’s important to switch your mindset from “I need” to “I create” – BD [1:50:22]
Don’t beat yourself if you’re at the “I need” stage. Be aware of where you’re at and keep moving forward [1:50:53]
If you need stability leverage the stability that you have in your life to create stability in other places where it doesn’t exist – BD [1:51:19]
You can have anything you want you just can’t have everything you want – BD [1:51:36]
The right thing at the wrong time is disastrous – BD [1:51:59]
What’s the next thing you’re not wanting to do? That’s where you need to start working [1:52:24]
Because you don’t want to, you must – BD [1:52:58]
What are you hesitating to execute on? – BD [1:53:42]
If you have to think about it, you don’t have to think about it, it’s not for you – MA [1:55:10]
Don’t settle because of FOMO – fear of missing out [1:55:41]
What fears are holding you back and keeping your mind shut to possibilities? [1:56:34]
Sometimes we make commitments in the present that our future can’t handle – BD [1:57:01]
Michael talks about making the best decisions possible with the information you have [1:58:13]
It’s the little lessons we learn every day that will ultimately shape our future selves – MA [1:58:55]
Choose to grow and evolve every day [1:59:29]
Life is not black and white, it’s gray [2:00:00]
The small daily habits are what create our greatness, or our own demise [2:00:22]
Are you voting for your past self or new self? Your actions are the ballots being cast [2:01:03]
Every day we are reborn and so are the opportunities  [2:02:35]
Brian talks about getting in the driver’s of your own life [2:02:51]
A calm confidence comes from knowing you did your best each and every day – BD [2:03:00]
Self judgement in a negative sense, never promotes change. Grace to give yourself a chance to get back up. – MA [2:03:47]
Grace is life giving and keep us going – MA [2:04:17]
Just get the shit you need to, done [2:04:49]
Business is growth, life is growth, finances is growth – MA [2:05:08]
If you’re in a job or relationship that is not serving you, you deserve better – MA [2:06:00]
Be brave enough to do what is right for you and for those around you – MA [2:06:14]
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