Brendan Hufford | Entrepreneurs and Coffee | Branding
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Today we welcome to the BRAND New You Show Brendan Hufford the Chief Happiness Jedi at Ok! Kimonos where he hustles around the clock to make the best kids BJJ Gis in the world.
In addition to running a 6 figure business Brendan is also an assistant principal, a blogger, husband, father, a Brazilian Ju Jitsu practitioner and a podcaster.
As the Chief Podcast Jedi on his podcast, Entrepreneurs and Coffee, three times a week Brendan releases a mixture of solo shows and interviews with high profile guests such as Gary Vaynerchuk, Michael Hyatt, Hal Elrod and Pat Flynn.
One of his goals with the podcast is to help you find the best actionable advice in whatever area of your life and business that you want to take to the next level.
Just as he promises on his podcast Brendan provides us with some serious inspiration, motivation and actionable advice in today’s show.
Brendan, Welcome to the show.
BRENDAN’S STORY
We all have the same 24 hours in a day it’s what we choose to do with our time that matters. If you were to conduct a time audit of how you spend your time, what would you discover?
To his time “in check”, Brendan has a two sticky notes on his computer. One reads,“ No news feed” meaning stay off Facebook. The other is a little more personal and reads, “Wasting time online is wasting time with your son and wife”. This one hits me maybe as hard as it hits Brendan. I’ll just let you marinade on that for a minute.
In the intro I mentioned that Brendan is still a full-time teacher. We discuss the most difficult part of being a teacher. Hint: It’s not what you think.
Having not gone to school to become a business owner, Brendan and I talk about how to gain the skills you need to be successful. We also walk through the 3 stages of blogging and Brendan’s Ah ha moment when he moved from stage 2 to stage 3.
Critical to his business success, Brendan and I discuss the difference between mentors and heroes. Mentorship is a big ask and a lot more of a
