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Today’s Topic: Our life in Italy   This episode comes to you from a cafe in the middle of a street in Florence, Italy. We’re loving life here so much that we’re actually looking into coming back to live here long-term.   This is how our day goes. We wake up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy. And then we walk out on our balcony and we're on the top floor of this palazzo and we can see the Duomo and Santa Croce. We stroll Sophia down to school, which is about a mile away. Everybody walks here. It's a pedestrian friendly city with bicycles, scooters and people walking down the street, so one mile is nothing.    As soon as you get out on the cobblestone streets, you're hit with the sounds and the smells of Florence. The Italians are bicycling to work and they're beautifully dressed and they're ringing their little bicycle bell so they don't kill you when they come by. But there's no rush here. Italians get up and they walk to the cafe. And they stand at the counter and they chat and sip their espresso. They ta

Resources: noaaon.com Instagram: @noaaonofficial Facebook: @noaaonofficial Soundcloud: @noaaonofficial   The Book of Truth   Mastermind: workhardplayhardpodcast.com/mastermind Connect with us on Instagram: @kimmurgatroyd | @robmurgatroyd   Pavel Stuchlik went from growing up in communist Czechoslovakia to having a career as a professional cyclist, owning Tutti Frutti Frozen Yogurt and Orange Theory franchises and being an international DJ. For him, the why is more important than what he’s doing. His mission with music is to unify people through the frequency of love. In business he came to realize that if his employees were unhappy, unfulfilled and weren’t making enough to meet their needs, that wasn’t making him a greater person, even if he was making great money.   In This Conversation We Cover:  [5:59] Pavel’s upbringing in the former Czechoslovakia [8:43] How he sold carbon bike parts to fulfil his dream of becoming a professional cyclist [15:10] How one of the biggest lessons he has learned is

Today’s Topic: Planning Long-term Travel   A few people have asked how we specifically chose the eight or so destinations that we're traveling in over this four month journey in Europe. So today we’re looking at the process we went through to determine where we were going.   We knew that my mastermind was going to start in Monaco. And I had another one four months later that was starting in Florence, Italy. So we knew that we had that space in between.    If you’re American you can’t actually stay in European countries that are part of the Schengen zone for four months unless you have some weird visa so we had to include some places that are outside of the Schengen zone. For those we chose Croatia and Montenegro.   We literally looked at a map of the world, and we zoomed in on places then looked at YouTube videos and Airbnb reviews. As we’re travelling for a long time we check if the Airbnbs have things like a stove and somewhere to do laundry. When you’re booking Airbnbs, really think about your lifestyle. A

Resources: @brendankane The One Million Followers Book Mastermind: workhardplayhardpodcast.com/mastermind Connect with us on Instagram: @kimmurgatroyd | @robmurgatroyd   Brendan Kane pioneered one of the first ever influencer campaigns by getting Youtubers with big audiences to interview actors in upcoming films. He’s built online platforms for A-listers including Taylor Swift and Rihanna and advised brands such as MTV, Skechers, Vice and IKEA on how to establish and grow their digital audience and engagement. Then he wondered if the digital marketing techniques he had developed would work for a non-celebrity with zero followers such as himself, so he tried it out and gained 1 million Facebook followers in 30 days.     In This Conversation We Cover:  [6:40] Why Brendan wanted to work in the film industry [16:26] The challenge of marketing movies (unless it’s a sequel you’re basically building a brand in three months)  [24:52] How Brendan saw an opportunity for big brands to use more analytics or data when

Today’s Topic: Self-care When Traveling   We're two months into our four month journey here in Europe. Today we’re talking about the lessons and the takeaways that we've had so far.   We’re currently in Lecce in southern Italy. The AirBnb we’re staying in has a few challenges. My feet are hanging off the end of the bed, the bathroom’s really narrow and has this huge bidet in the way so brushing my teeth is really difficult to do without knocking an elbow on the wall, everyone has to turn Wi-Fi off so one person can send an email and you have to put out a different type of trash for recycling every night. It’s also difficult to get a table at restaurants and siesta means that everything is closed from 1-5pm.   The biggest difference between vacation and travel is that vacations is usually a time that you're checking out and you're just going pure into enjoyment whereas when you’re traveling for a while, you're going to have bidets in your way.   There is a folk tale from this region about a woman being bitten

Resources: projectmewithtiffany.com @projectme_with_tiffany Mastermind: workhardplayhardpodcast.com/mastermind Connect with us on Instagram: @kimmurgatroyd | @robmurgatroyd   Tiffany Carter takes the mystery out of making big money while doing something you love. She uses a magnetic combination of her clear cut communication style that she developed as a TV news broadcaster for NBC and CBS, her business savvy and proven strategies as a multimillionaire entrepreneur, and her intuitive ability to connect with women on a deeper level to uncover what's blocking them from achieving their dreams. Tiffany herself went from a life of self-destruction to success after suffering devastating sexual abuse from the age of 11. She says that her mission runs deeper than helping women create wealth; her bigger purpose is to help women find their worth.   In This Conversation We Cover:  [6:06] How Tiffany has monetized her passion for travel [8:03] How what kept Tiffany truly alive when she was healing from sexual abuse w

Today’s Topic: Our Marriage   Kim and I are not relationship counselors, but people ask us relationship questions all the time. We came together after failed marriages so we do a lot of work on ours and there are a lot of people that we learn from, including Tony Robbins, Cloé Madanes and John and Julie Gottman.    In this episode we answer a few questions, and the first one is, how do you manage your expectations of each other? The answer is that we have a conversation about how we like to live and assign a numerical value to each of our needs. And whoever has a higher need in that particular area wins. For example, my need for neat, organized clean spaces wins out in our living spaces because Kim really doesn’t care.    If you have expectations of your significant other, write them down and ask, is it in their zone of genius? Is it something they naturally do? If it's not their expectation, then the buck is going to have to stop with you. For example, if having dirty dishes in the sink drives you crazy, the

Resources: fitposium.com @jpatrickphoto A Whole New Mind Mastermind: workhardplayhardpodcast.com/mastermind Connect with us on Instagram: @kimmurgatroyd | @robmurgatroyd   James Patrick stumbled into photography when he was a beat journalist and an editor asked him to take a photo for a story because all the photographers were busy. Now he photographs athletes and fitness professionals for a living. He’s also a best-selling author and the founder of Fitposium, which is an annual conference, online education network and weekly podcast that helps fitness entrepreneurs and talents launch their careers.   In This Conversation We Cover:  [5:04] Why James recently handed over his phone and stepped into a van to be blindfolded and taken out to the desert [7:40] How a chance event prompted him to transform from a journalist into a photographer [13:03] How to take amazing photos [19:01] How to choose a great camera [22:25] What it’s like photographing beautiful women in bikinis and star athletes [29:32] How Fitpos

Today’s Topic: Network marketing   Since we’re traveling around Europe for four months, we’re getting a lot of ‘it must be nice’ comments. But five years ago we were working twice as hard for half the money. We were living in a dark apartment and we were struggling to figure out what our future was. As Kim says, it’s not ‘must be nice’. It’s ‘we created this bitch’.   A big portion of the income that is allowing us to travel is income that we’ve created in the world of network marketing. We're not trying to sell anybody on network marketing. If it's not for you, it's not for you. But this subject has come up a lot because of our travels so we thought we would dedicate this show to answering some commonly asked questions about network marketing.    How did we get started in network marketing? After we had our daughter, Sophia, Kim had planned to take six weeks off, then hire a nanny and go back to managing my chiropractic clinic. But as soon as I put Sophia in her arms she realized she didn’t want to do that.

Resources: goodmancoachinginc.com Instagram: @goodmancoaching   Read: The One Thing   Mastermind: workhardplayhardpodcast.com/mastermind Connect with us on Instagram: @kimmurgatroyd | @robmurgatroyd   Chris Goodman was at law school and working a job in corporate litigation when he found himself yelling at two squirrels in his backyard. He was sitting at home trying to study contract law when the squirrels started doing what squirrels do, running around and making a lot of noise. Chris screamed at them then had one of those reckoning moments - how did he get so stressed that he was yelling at squirrels? He started paying attention to how much stress he was experiencing and realized that the reasons he was staying in law school were not good reasons. So ultimately he decided to quit and find more fulfilment in his life. Real estate looked fun so he picked up a license and quickly became one of the top buyers’ agents in the country, earned Rookie of the Year, help build a million-dollar team and coache

Today’s Topic: Mapping out financial goals   As we record, Kim’s eating grapes from the grapevine at the back of our Airbnb in Montenegro. After our 4-month Europe trip we’re moving to California, which is way more expensive than Georgia, where we used to live, so in this episode, Kim and I talk about our financial goals and how we plan to achieve them. We just started using a system we learnt from one of our mentors.    The system is super simple. You have three financial buckets. Bucket 1 is about safety and security, bucket 2 is about comfort and pleasure and bucket 3 is called the baller bucket and it’s about your wild and audacious financial goals.    The idea is that you fill the buckets in order. First you do the safety and security bucket. And that means you're ridding yourself of any debt, you're saving for any emergencies. Then, once that bucket is full, then you move into your comfort and pleasure bucket. And that's when you get to pay off your house and you can buy the car that you want and do tho

Resources: jennytaylorsboudoirs.com Feel The Positive Podcast The Women’s Sparkle Retreat 1-on-1 Coaching With Jenny Instagram: @everythingjennytaylor Facebook: @EverythingJennyTaylor Read: The Untethered Soul Mastermind: workhardplayhardpodcast.com/mastermind Connect with us on Instagram: @kimmurgatroyd | @robmurgatroyd   Jenny Taylor is the founder of Jenny Taylor Boudoir Photography, which focuses on transforming the everyday woman into a bombshell. She has absolutely convinced me that what she's doing is God's work because she makes women feel beautiful. In this conversation we cover a few controversial topics plus how childhood traumas can influence our adult lives.    In This Conversation We Cover:  [5:28] Jenny’s early start as an entrepreneur [8:45] Why Jenny lived with severe anxiety until about six years ago and how she learnt to recognize what triggers it [27:55] How Jenny came to be a boudoir photographer [27:55] How the pinnacle of Jenny’s boudoir career was photographing her grandmother [33:

Today’s Topic: Montenegro   Kim and I are currently in Montenegro. If you don’t know where Montenegro is, it was part of the former Yugoslavia and is south of Croatia, Russia and Bosnia. I was nervous about coming to Montenegro and at first it was a total shock to the system. First I got into a little trouble at the border for Instagramming photos of the police. Then we drove around without any phone signal trying to find our Airbnb only to discover it was at the top of a very steep hill. 155 steps, one broken flip-flop and many misadventures with luggage later, I got up to the Airbnb to realize it came with a cat. I’m so allergic to cats I get hives on the palm of my hands. Then there were the bugs, the flies and the mosquitoes.   I woke up the next morning with my eyes swollen shut from the cat allergy and suffering the shits because of the dinner we’d had the night before.    At this point I was pretty annoyed. Then Kim revealed that when she’d said we were staying for “like, 14 days”, she really meant 18

Resources: Pushjournal.com Instagram: @bretjohnson11 The 131 Method Mastermind: workhardplayhardpodcast.com/mastermind Connect with us on Instagram: @kimmurgatroyd | @robmurgatroyd   Today my guest is Bret Johnson, who created the Push Journal with his wife, Chalene. Not only do I love using the Push Journal, it single-handedly allowed me to create the clarity that I needed to exit my chiropractic company and create my mastermind company. In this episode I chat to Bret about exactly how he and Chalene use their Push Journals. We also cover Bret’s recovery from a gambling addiction and how he and Chalene keep their sex life and marriage alive.    In This Conversation We Cover:  [17:29] Bret’s non-judgemental approach to his faith [24:29] How Chalene and Bret keep their sex life alive after 24 years [29:50] How EMDR therapy helped Bret address his gambling addiction [42:05] How Bret and Chalene integrate the Push Journal with their cell phones [58:41] Bret and Chalene’s nutritional business, The 131 Method

Today’s Topic: Leg-humping Today’s episode is inspired by a post from our friend, Chris Harder. He coined the term ‘leg-humping’ to describe people who are trying to climb the social marketing online business ladder.You can apply it to anything. When someone comes into a business or some sort of group or environment, you can always tell the person that's trying to find out who there can help them the most, the person who is going to make them look better. They’re thinking, If I just get that person to do an IG takeover, then I'll skyrocket, or, if I can just get that person to take a picture with me and I can post it, it's going to catapult me into the universe. if you really want to up level your tribe, you have to do it in an authentic way, provide value and create real relationships. Practice what we call sensory acuity, using your senses to see if what you're saying or doing with someone is landing. And don’t gossip because we can't connect with somebody that we can't trust. Resources: Mastermind: w

Resources: Learn more at: brandonthompson.me Instagram: @brandongthompson Read: The 4-hour Workweek Read: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck Read: Essentialism Listen: Django Reinhardt Mastermind: workhardplayhardpodcast.com/mastermind Connect with us on Instagram: @kimmurgatroyd | @robmurgatroyd   Brandon Thompson is a real estate investor that is doing something radically different - using Airbnbs to move into the digital side of real estate investing. Brandon has an amazing story - he grew up in a trailer park, went on to make a lot of money in real estate, then lost it all when he was forced to declare bankruptcy in the recession. Now he’s more intentional about the way he makes money.    In This Conversation We Cover:  [7:00] Brandon’s modest beginnings [9:42] How he teaches his kids to appreciate what they have [14:04] His trajectory from making money to losing money to making money again [21:50] How his bank forced him to declare bankruptcy [30:58] How he learned to more intentional about his busi

Today’s Topic: The 15-Year Overnight Success   This podcast, our business, the incredible tribe of people around us: it all started as a dream.   Not last night. Not last year. Over a decade ago.   Then, we created a plan – and after some time, a few stumbles, and a whole lot of action, we started seeing our dreams come true. Some may look at our posts on social media and call it an overnight success, but it took 15 years.   And we know that a lot of you are dreamers, too... but we also know that bridging that gap from dream to reality can feel impossible at times! So, today, we’re going to share the four things that helped shifted everything for us over the course of 15 years:   Getting really, really honest with yourself (and your partner, if you have one) – dig deep to find out who you really are and what you really want, without the fear of judgement. Learning to manage your mindset. You will – not might – run into physical, mental, and emotional obstacles, so you have to be prepared for that. Be willing

Resources: Stephen on Instagram: @Adkins.Stephen Stephen’s clothing line: https://www.altonlane.com/stephen-adkins Mastermind: workhardplayhardpodcast.com/mastermind Connect with us on Instagram: @kimmurgatroyd | @robmurgatroyd   Today my guest is Stephen Adkins – but before I say any more and before you start this episode, check out this guy’s Instagram: @Adkins.Stephen. Then, you’ll see how dang stylish and fit this guy is. He’s an actor, model, and fashion designer who’s always dressed to the nines and ready to have a good time, but he’s getting a whole lot of work done in the process.   In This Conversation We Cover:  [6:20] How Stephen transitioned from the military to modeling and acting, in a surprisingly seamless way [11:15] How Stephen creates his “dressy messy” style [15:45] What is a tailored fit? [25:15] Why are there 250,000+ people (including me) who want to peek inside of Stephen’s world online? [31:00] Bridging the gap between what you’re currently doing and what you want to be doing [35:1

Today’s Topic: Leadership   If you’re going to lead other people – in your job, in your home, or in your community – you have to learn how to lead yourself.   At the same time, if you’re anything like me, you have to be able to recognize whether or not leading is something you excel at. Over the years, I’ve realized that I’m not the best person for leading a team of employees, so I’ve had to put systems and people in place to help me. Kim, on the other hand, is a natural!   So, today, Kim and I are going to get a little introspective before she shares three things you need to know and embody if you want to be a great leader:   A leader’s job is to hold other people’s vision A leader empowers. A leader doesn’t enable Your ego will inhibit your ability to grow as a leader, and you can only lead as far as you can grow   Resources: Mastermind: workhardplayhardpodcast.com/mastermind Connect with us on Instagram: @kimmurgatroyd | @robmurgatroyd Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win by Jocko Willi

Resources: Learn more at stevedvalentine.com Instagram: @stevedvalentine Purpose Driven Real Estate: anchor.fm/pdre The Limitless Project: tlp.stevedvalentine.com/start Mastermind: workhardplayhardpodcast.com/mastermind Connect with us on Instagram: @kimmurgatroyd | @robmurgatroyd   Steve Valentine isn’t just one of the most successful real estate investors I know – he’s also a collaborator who helps others in the real estate community learn, invest, and grow. So the Valentine family are knocking it out of the park right now, and they’re teaching others what to do when they’re at bat, but Steve definitely struck out a few times before he found his niche.   In This Conversation We Cover:  [4:45] How theft pushed Steve to, reluctantly at first, join the real estate game [5:45] The most important lesson that Steve learned from his dad [7:15] What Steve learned from the real estate bubble bursting [11:30] Tactical advice for getting into real estate if you have bad credit or don’t have a lot of cash [20:00] S