Finding FLOW through a Podcast 🎙️

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Each week I fly an entertaining and motivating story that provides actionable items to inspire growth towards your success and happiness.

The weekly flights bring you one of the following:

A MINDSET SHIFT to prepare for opportunity and build better habits towards success. 🤯

Or…

AN OPPORTUNITY STORY sharing inspirational pivotal moments from someone’s life that changed their trajectory in a positive way. 🚀

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The SuccessFlow Podcast mission is simple. To relay findings, stories, highlights, and frameworks to help relentless humans continue defining Success for themselves.

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Hi there! 👋

Although…

Lately…

I’ve been tuning into PODCASTS 🎧 during my workouts, runs, or while driving for a nice change of pace. 🏋️‍♂️🏃‍♂️🚗

Basically anytime I’m flying solo…

…So let’s talk about why this has been helpful…😁

One of my personal goals this year is to FEEL like an ATHLETE again.

I’ve been extremely disciplined and consistent with my workouts since April, strength training 3 days a week and now after recently signing up a half marathon, I’ve added in another 3 days a week for my runs. 🏃

I crave it. It’s become my lifestyle. An identity shift.

I also drive 🛻 A LOT running my business.

Going to and from my home office, the company’s office, meeting with my team, clients, partners, networking, and finding new ways to drive business growth and efficiencies to scale. 📈

On top of that, I drop off and pickup my kiddos from school or their sports practices/games all throughout the week and into the weekend.

Needless to say, I am always ON THE GO. 💨

Engaging in these activities, I find that I actually do have a ton of time to myself.

If any of the above sounds a bit like your life right now as well…

HECTIC… 

CHAOS…

Running around like a chicken with their head cut off…

And more often than not, you’ve got the tunes blasting to keep you going.

Then… I have a suggestion for you…

Switch to PODCASTS. 🎧

Podcasts are an incredible way to gain knowledge and pick up thought provoking ideas to implement in your life.

You can start, stop, and listen to them ANY TIME, ANY WHERE.

I believe Podcasts are still just barely getting started.

They will become the main source of how we take information from more niche topics and experts, because they can be enjoyed on your schedule, listened to while doing other things, and are easily accessible.

After switching from MUSIC 👉 PODCASTS for my runs 🏃, I found that I’m able to knock out those miles much easier by getting into a STATE OF FLOW.

To the point where I forget that I’m even running. 😱

HOW?!

Well… first of all… each episode is BRAND NEW.

Music pumps you up for sure, but playlists and songs can get overplayed…

…So when you hear the same songs during your runs, you start thinking about… well… running! 😏

And that’s not fun to think about running, while actually running. 🙄

But with a Podcast…

You have the opportunity to pick up something you’ve never heard before.

You can let your mind get lost in the episode conversation, and enjoy the opportunity to be a fly on the wall with industry experts.

Now, you can’t just listen to any podcast show, though…

…the episodes, hosts, and guests have to be entertaining and engaging for this to work.

When they’re engaging and you can relate to the people speaking, you get excited about each new episode that’s coming out.

Lemme give you a real life example…

Yesterday, I was ACTUALLY looking forward to my early morning run, because a new episode from one of my favorite podcasts, Creator Science, had just come out a few days earlier.

And this one was particularly interesting to me because it included a guest I was eager to learn from.

The guest was Justin Welsh, who’s become the face of solopreneurs in the creator space, helping people build their ONE-PERSON businesses.

As an advocate for entrepreneurship, I love learning about how to grow business and finding new creative ways to continue bringing added-value to the marketplace for my own business at Journey Payroll & HR in PHX. 🌵

One of the biggest takeaways, at right about at MILE FOUR yesterday🏃, was how Justin broke down becoming a leader in your industry by defining each of the below…

Feel free to check out the EPISODE (👈 Click that link)

When you’re working on yourself, you’re constantly in GROWTH MODE. 📈

Growth mode promotes TRAINING MODE. 💪

Training mode for your mind and body, requires building positive DAILY HABITS to remain disciplined.

Building habits that fuel your MIND 🧠 and BODY 🏋️‍♂️ are crucial for your overall SUCCESS and HAPPINESS.  🙌

Build a habit of listening to a podcast instead of music the next time you’re by yourself.

When you’re in the car or working out or on a run or a walk with your dog.

These are the times to work on yourself to become the BEST VERSION of yourself.

When you have the OPPORTUNITY to PREPARE by working on your mind and body at the same time, that’s when the MAGIC happens. 🤩

This is the MINDSET SHIFT. 🤯

Not sure where to start…??

CHECK THIS ONE OUT 👇

SuccessFlow Podcast - Hosted by Phil Crawford and YOURS TRULY!

We produce a weekly show sharing stories, thoughts, ideas, frameworks, and guests for individuals seeking growth towards their own perception of success.

Below are some others that I would recommend checking out as well.

HOSTED BY SOME PHX FRIENDS

• Into the Storm - Hosted by Ryan Madrid

  • Mortgage | Real Estate | Entrepreneurship | Community

• Sexy Business Status - Hosted by Jason Von Payne

  • A podcast for business owners who are looking to grow and SCALE!

NATIONAL

• My First Million - Hosted by Sam Parr and Shaan Puri

  • Every week we dive deep into different business opportunities and explain how to pounce on them.
    Basically...we spoon-feed you interesting businesses you can start tomorrow. And hey, maybe it'll help you get your first million users, revenue, profit, employees (that'd be wild), or whatever it is you want a million of.

• Creator Science - Hosted by Jay Clouse

  • Creator Science® explores how to succeed as a professional content creator.

    Each week, Creator Science digs into the details of how creators are finding success today. Not what worked 2, 5, or 10 years ago, but specific strategies and tactics that are working TODAY.

• The Ed Mylett Show - Hosted by Ed Mylett

  • The Ed Mylett Show showcases the greatest peak-performers across all industries in one place, sharing their journey, knowledge and thought leadership.

• Founders - Hosted by David Senra

  • Learn from history's greatest entrepreneurs. Every week I read a biography of an entrepreneur and find ideas you can use in your work.

• New Heights - Hosted by Travis and Jason Kelce

  • Football’s funniest family duo — Jason Kelce from the Philadelphia Eagles and Travis Kelce from the Kansas City Chiefs — team up to provide next-level access to life in the league as it unfolds. The two brothers and Super Bowl champions drop weekly insights about their games and share unique perspectives on trending NFL news and sports headlines. Plus, entertaining stories from a combined 21 years in the league, off-field interests, and engaging conversations with special guests.

These are heavy in business, entrepreneurship, and thought leadership, while also very entertaining.

Full Disclosure: The Kelce Brothers Pod, New Heights, was a late addition due to the recommendation by one of my favorite people, someone who knows her sports, and who I TRUST A WHOLE HECKUVA LOT, my Payroll Manager at Journey Payroll.

THANKS FRANKIE!!!

Do a quick search in Spotify, Apple, or YouTube for podcasts that align with your passions, values, or industry.

Then, give it a shot the next time you find yourself with some alone time and leverage them to continue being a KNOWLEDGE SEEKER.

GOOD LUCK!

Until our next FLIGHT, enjoy your YOUTUBE Podcast of the Week! 👇

Remember, Opportunity is Everywhere!!

Cheers! Steven

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