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Smash The System
Discover What Drives You Toward Progress STS #072
Transcript: Welcome back to The smashes system podcast. I’m Nino Prodan. Yesterday, we left off with me seeing the impending doom in my job. My contract was about done. And I’m gonna guess that your guess was that I got another job. And that guess would be partially right. I did get another job. In fact, I got another job at the same place because they saw the value I could bring in. So my capabilities, so they hired me for another position. But for them that came with a demand for me. I asked...
2020-04-21
00 min
Smash The System
Discover What Drives You Toward Progress STS #072
Transcript: Welcome back to The smashes system podcast. I'm Nino Prodan. Yesterday, we left off with me seeing the impending doom in my job. My contract was about done. And I'm gonna guess that your guess was that I got another job. And that guess would be partially right. I did get another job. In fact, I got another job at the same place because they saw the value I could bring in. So my capabilities, so they hired me for another position. But for them that came with a demand for me. I asked if I could start in...
2020-04-21
05 min
Smash The System
You’re Never Really Taught How To Adult In The Job Market STS #071
Transcript: Welcome back to the semester system podcast. I’m Nino Prodan. This week, I want to tell you a little about something I learned as I became an adult. When I graduated high school, the expectation was that I would go to college, and I wasn’t a stellar student. In high school. I think I had like, a C plus average, my senior year, I tried to do better. So I had like a, b plus average, I really busted my butt. But before that, I didn’t really create the academic work ethic. So...
2020-04-20
00 min
Smash The System
You're Never Really Taught How To Adult In The Job Market STS #071
Transcript: Welcome back to the semester system podcast. I'm Nino Prodan. This week, I want to tell you a little about something I learned as I became an adult. When I graduated high school, the expectation was that I would go to college, and I wasn't a stellar student. In high school. I think I had like, a C plus average, my senior year, I tried to do better. So I had like a, b plus average, I really busted my butt. But before that, I didn't really create the academic work ethic. So college was an expectation but it...
2020-04-20
06 min
Smash The System
From Busy Bee Again To Becoming Free STS #070
Transcript: This is the Smash the System podcast. I’m Nino Prodan. Yesterday I was telling you about how emotional intelligence became a game changer for me how it changed my relationships, both personally and professionally. And then without realizing it, it was swept away. And it was really interesting how it went. Because I didn’t even notice it. As aware as I was at the time, I got distracted. And it’s so easy to get distracted. These days. It’s really easily accessible. There’s all the shows that you want to watch on...
2020-04-17
00 min
Smash The System
From Busy Bee Again To Becoming Free STS #070
Transcript: This is the Smash the System podcast. I'm Nino Prodan. Yesterday I was telling you about how emotional intelligence became a game changer for me how it changed my relationships, both personally and professionally. And then without realizing it, it was swept away. And it was really interesting how it went. Because I didn't even notice it. As aware as I was at the time, I got distracted. And it's so easy to get distracted. These days. It's really easily accessible. There's all the shows that you want to watch on TV through Netflix or on the on demand...
2020-04-17
05 min
Smash The System
Busy Bee To Knowing Me STS #069
Transcript: This is the smash the system podcast. I’m Nino Prodan. Yesterday, I was telling you about how my anger came up and I suppressed it. I continued working on that anger, knowing that it had an impact on my life. And so I pushed it down and continued working, started distracting myself from it. And it felt like I put it behind me. I started growing and learning new things. Technology started blossoming. And I started getting lost in the world of computers and data, analyzing stuff, found out how to use my brain. I...
2020-04-16
00 min
Smash The System
Busy Bee To Knowing Me STS #069
Transcript:This is the smash the system podcast. I’m Nino Prodan. Yesterday, I was telling you about how my anger came up and I suppressed it. I continued working on that anger, knowing that it had an impact on my life. And so I pushed it down and continued working, started distracting myself from it. And it felt like I put it behind me. I started growing and learning new things. Technology started blossoming. And I started getting lost in the world of computers and data, analyzing stuff, found out how to use my brain. I realized after al...
2020-04-16
05 min
Smash The System
Busy Bee To Knowing Me STS #069
Transcript: This is the smash the system podcast. I'm Nino Prodan. Yesterday, I was telling you about how my anger came up and I suppressed it. I continued working on that anger, knowing that it had an impact on my life. And so I pushed it down and continued working, started distracting myself from it. And it felt like I put it behind me. I started growing and learning new things. Technology started blossoming. And I started getting lost in the world of computers and data, analyzing stuff, found out how to use my brain. I realized after all those...
2020-04-16
05 min
Smash The System
I Embraced The Busy Bee, Now Look At Me! STS #068
Transcript: This is the smash the system podcast. I’m Nino Prodan. Yesterday, I was telling you about how my anger came up and I suppressed it. I continued working on that anger, knowing that it had an impact on my life. And so I pushed it down and continued working, started distracting myself from it. And it felt like I put it behind me. I started growing and learning new things. Technology started blossoming. And I started getting lost in the world of computers and data, analyzing stuff, found out how to use my brain. I...
2020-04-15
00 min
Smash The System
I Embraced The Busy Bee, Now Look At Me! STS #068
Transcript: This is the smash the system podcast. I'm Nino Prodan. Yesterday, I was telling you about how my anger came up and I suppressed it. I continued working on that anger, knowing that it had an impact on my life. And so I pushed it down and continued working, started distracting myself from it. And it felt like I put it behind me. I started growing and learning new things. Technology started blossoming. And I started getting lost in the world of computers and data, analyzing stuff, found out how to use my brain. I realized after all those...
2020-04-15
04 min
Smash The System
The We Become A Busy Bee STS #067
Transcript: This is the smash system podcast, I’m Nino Prodan. And welcome back. Yesterday I was kind of telling you about how life through my parents and through school programmed me to start keeping myself busy. And it seemed like that was a common denominator in all of society. Everything was geared towards keeping you busy keeping you occupied, keeping you thinking, worrying. worrying that you’re not good enough for worrying that something isn’t going to get done. worrying that you’re wasting your time. You only live once you only have so much...
2020-04-14
00 min
Smash The System
The We Become A Busy Bee STS #067
Transcript: This is the smash system podcast, I'm Nino Prodan. And welcome back. Yesterday I was kind of telling you about how life through my parents and through school programmed me to start keeping myself busy. And it seemed like that was a common denominator in all of society. Everything was geared towards keeping you busy keeping you occupied, keeping you thinking, worrying. worrying that you're not good enough for worrying that something isn't going to get done. worrying that you're wasting your time. You only live once you only have so much time on this planet. Make the most...
2020-04-14
04 min
Smash The System
We Start Out Wild And Free STS #066
Transcript: This is the smashes system podcast, I’m Nino Prodan. This week, I’d like to share with you why I think one of our beliefs that we hold most closely is one of the biggest lies we tell us and actually holds us back from becoming more aware and more conscious of what’s going on around us and who we truly are. So as a kid growing up, I was born in the 70s, late 70s. So as I was growing up in the 80s, my mom kind of went against the grain always...
2020-04-14
00 min
Smash The System
What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You STS #065
Transcript: This is the smashes system podcast, I’m Nino Prodan. This week, we’ve been going through how to pivot, how to change directions, in this changing environment that we find ourselves in these days. And we’ve gone through sorting out what you can do, and who you can help, and even how to talk to them. But once you put all that together, sometimes it can be overwhelming. I know the first couple years when I started my coaching business, it seemed like I was always chasing after something else to learn, spinning my...
2020-04-10
00 min
Smash The System
What You Don't Know Can Hurt You STS #065
Transcript: This is the smashes system podcast, I'm Nino Prodan. This week, we've been going through how to pivot, how to change directions, in this changing environment that we find ourselves in these days. And we've gone through sorting out what you can do, and who you can help, and even how to talk to them. But once you put all that together, sometimes it can be overwhelming. I know the first couple years when I started my coaching business, it seemed like I was always chasing after something else to learn, spinning my wheels a lot not getting any...
2020-04-10
04 min
Smash The System
Who Do You Pivot Toward? STS #064
Transcript: Welcome back to The smasher system podcast. I’m your host, Nino Prodan. This week, we’re talking about how to pivot, how to switch up what you’re doing during these changing times. Because when things change, you have to adjust. When I was switching over, from working a nine to five, and to coaching, I was really excited. I thought about how I was going to help people get better focus and get more energy in their lives, how I was going to help them gain better insight into what their body was doing...
2020-04-10
00 min
Smash The System
Who Do You Pivot Toward? STS #064
Transcript: Welcome back to The smasher system podcast. I'm your host, Nino Prodan. This week, we're talking about how to pivot, how to switch up what you're doing during these changing times. Because when things change, you have to adjust. When I was switching over, from working a nine to five, and to coaching, I was really excited. I thought about how I was going to help people get better focus and get more energy in their lives, how I was going to help them gain better insight into what their body was doing and how they were gonna make...
2020-04-10
05 min
Smash The System
Big Change Brings Big Opportunities STS #063
Transcript: Welcome back to The smashes system podcast, I’m Nino Prodan. This week, I’m talking about changing gears from what you’ve been used to, and adapting to how things are changing. The world is going to be going through a lot of changes over the coming months. And right now, you can see it as an opportunity, an opportunity to be at the forefront of that change. Right now you even have the opportunity to lead that change. But to do that, you have to start looking forward. You have to start looking at...
2020-04-08
00 min
Smash The System
Big Change Brings Big Opportunities STS #063
Transcript: Welcome back to The smashes system podcast, I'm Nino Prodan. This week, I'm talking about changing gears from what you've been used to, and adapting to how things are changing. The world is going to be going through a lot of changes over the coming months. And right now, you can see it as an opportunity, an opportunity to be at the forefront of that change. Right now you even have the opportunity to lead that change. But to do that, you have to start looking forward. You have to start looking at what can be and break yourself...
2020-04-08
05 min
Smash The System
Pivot And Adjust To A Changing Economy STS #062
Transcript: You’re listening to the smashes to some podcast. I’m Nino Prodan. Yesterday, we were talking about using gratitude to help you adjust to all the changes that are going on right now adjust to the new circumstances, the new ways that things are being done, or possibly even looking at new ways of creating money in your life. And sometimes, circumstances like this, bring up the necessity to pivot to change direction on what you’re doing. Like right now, if your business is about getting commissioned from the gains in people’s 401 Ks...
2020-04-07
00 min
Smash The System
Pivot And Adjust To A Changing Economy STS #062
Transcript: You're listening to the smashes to some podcast. I'm Nino Prodan. Yesterday, we were talking about using gratitude to help you adjust to all the changes that are going on right now adjust to the new circumstances, the new ways that things are being done, or possibly even looking at new ways of creating money in your life. And sometimes, circumstances like this, bring up the necessity to pivot to change direction on what you're doing. Like right now, if your business is about getting commissioned from the gains in people's 401 Ks, well, you're probably not in a good...
2020-04-07
04 min
Smash The System
Changing Gears During Changing Times STS #061
Transcript: Welcome back to The smashes system podcasts. I’m Nino Prodan. This week, I want to talk a little about how to change gears from what you’ve been used to, to what’s currently happening. And this applies to life in general, not just during the coronavirus. And there’s one thing I like to tell my coaching clients and that’s that there’s definitely one constant in life. And that’s change as much as people fight it, no matter what. things always change. It’s the nature of the universe. And it...
2020-04-07
00 min
Smash The System
Changing Gears During Changing Times STS #061
Transcript: Welcome back to The smashes system podcasts. I'm Nino Prodan. This week, I want to talk a little about how to change gears from what you've been used to, to what's currently happening. And this applies to life in general, not just during the coronavirus. And there's one thing I like to tell my coaching clients and that's that there's definitely one constant in life. And that's change as much as people fight it, no matter what. things always change. It's the nature of the universe. And it creates a dilemma in us because our brains innately hate change...
2020-04-07
04 min
Smash The System
With Great Anger Comes Great Responsibility STS #060
Transcript: I’m Nino Prodan. And this is the smashes ism podcast. This week, I talked a lot about facing your emotions, but not only facing them, also using them. Because in these days being stuck inside, with so much uncertainty, it’s hard to hide from your emotions. It’s hard to get away from them to distract yourself. So why not take the opportunity now, to learn how to deal with them to practice the skill to grow the skill to learn how to utilize your emotions, to gain knowledge and insight. You know, there’...
2020-04-03
00 min
Smash The System
With Great Anger Comes Great Responsibility STS #060
Transcript: I'm Nino Prodan. And this is the smashes ism podcast. This week, I talked a lot about facing your emotions, but not only facing them, also using them. Because in these days being stuck inside, with so much uncertainty, it's hard to hide from your emotions. It's hard to get away from them to distract yourself. So why not take the opportunity now, to learn how to deal with them to practice the skill to grow the skill to learn how to utilize your emotions, to gain knowledge and insight. You know, there's that phrase from Spider Man back...
2020-04-03
04 min
Smash The System
Listen To Your Anger STS #059
Transcript: Welcome back. I’m Nino Prodan. And this is the smashes system podcast. Yesterday I left off telling you about how I contained my anger, and grew my relationships because of it. But I also paid a consequence. And it was my health. But it wasn’t only my health, there was also a fire to life, that I lost a little edge that I had. And it was a part of me that. if I could harness without losing my control to it could benefit everybody. And I realized this as I started learning to...
2020-04-02
00 min
Smash The System
Listen To Your Anger STS #059
Transcript: Welcome back. I'm Nino Prodan. And this is the smashes system podcast. Yesterday I left off telling you about how I contained my anger, and grew my relationships because of it. But I also paid a consequence. And it was my health. But it wasn't only my health, there was also a fire to life, that I lost a little edge that I had. And it was a part of me that. if I could harness without losing my control to it could benefit everybody. And I realized this as I started learning to understand my anger, I talked...
2020-04-02
03 min
Smash The System
Push The Anger Down And Move Forward STS #058
Transcript: Welcome back to the semester system podcast. I’m Nino Prodan. Yesterday, I was talking about how anger used to consume me how it could steal the joy out of my days and weigh heavily on relationships. And it made me think about a relationship I once had, where we went on a road trip to Pittsburgh from Cleveland, Ohio. So it’s about a two hour drive. We were going there to meet up with her friend, hang out for a night and then drive her back with us. So we get there. We have...
2020-04-01
00 min
Smash The System
Push The Anger Down And Move Forward STS #058
Transcript: Welcome back to the semester system podcast. I'm Nino Prodan. Yesterday, I was talking about how anger used to consume me how it could steal the joy out of my days and weigh heavily on relationships. And it made me think about a relationship I once had, where we went on a road trip to Pittsburgh from Cleveland, Ohio. So it's about a two hour drive. We were going there to meet up with her friend, hang out for a night and then drive her back with us. So we get there. We have a wonderful night hanging out...
2020-04-01
04 min
Smash The System
When Anger Consumed Me STS #057
Transcript: Welcome back to The smashes system podcast, I’m Nino Prodan. A while back, I used to have a problem controlling my temper when someone did something wrong, or I felt like someone was trying to offend me, I would lash out. And I would do on that anger all the time. And if I didn’t lash out enough earlier on, sometimes I would hold it in. And that way, I could save it up, and then find a way to teach people a lesson. help them understand what they did end, give them what...
2020-03-31
00 min
Smash The System
When Anger Consumed Me STS #057
Transcript: Welcome back to The smashes system podcast, I'm Nino Prodan. A while back, I used to have a problem controlling my temper when someone did something wrong, or I felt like someone was trying to offend me, I would lash out. And I would do on that anger all the time. And if I didn't lash out enough earlier on, sometimes I would hold it in. And that way, I could save it up, and then find a way to teach people a lesson. help them understand what they did end, give them what they deserved. And that would...
2020-03-31
03 min
Smash The System
A System To Create Consistency STS #056
Transcript: Welcome back to The smashes system podcast, I’m Nino Prodan. Today I want to talk about one of the systems that I use for getting myself to take action when it’s tough or when I don’t feel like it when I’m physically exhausted. You know, if you’re working a nine to find job all day, and then you have to cook dinner, and if you have kids, you have to take care of your kids. After all, that it’s really hard to continue pushing yourself. And all you want to...
2020-03-30
00 min
Smash The System
A System To Create Consistency STS #056
Transcript: Welcome back to The smashes system podcast, I'm Nino Prodan. Today I want to talk about one of the systems that I use for getting myself to take action when it's tough or when I don't feel like it when I'm physically exhausted. You know, if you're working a nine to find job all day, and then you have to cook dinner, and if you have kids, you have to take care of your kids. After all, that it's really hard to continue pushing yourself. And all you want to do is just rest, take a break, relax, recover...
2020-03-30
04 min
Smash The System
Create A System To Make Your Brain Work For You STS #055
Transcript: Welcome back to The smashed system podcast. I’m your host, Nino Prodan. This week, we spoke a lot about the impact of the corona virus on our daily lives and the uncertainty that it has created. And I’ve given you a couple tools to deal with it. And what all that really comes down to is creating systems. And what those systems are is ways to take advantage of the way your brain normally reacts, things that you can repeat to get a predictable result. See, as a kid, I used to forget my...
2020-03-27
00 min
Smash The System
Create A System To Make Your Brain Work For You STS #055
Transcript: Welcome back to The smashed system podcast. I'm your host, Nino Prodan. This week, we spoke a lot about the impact of the corona virus on our daily lives and the uncertainty that it has created. And I've given you a couple tools to deal with it. And what all that really comes down to is creating systems. And what those systems are is ways to take advantage of the way your brain normally reacts, things that you can repeat to get a predictable result. See, as a kid, I used to forget my keys all the time. I...
2020-03-27
05 min
Smash The System
How To Solve The "What Ifs" STS #054
Transcript: Welcome back to The smashes system podcast. I'm your host, Nino Prodan. This week, we've been talking about dealing with the uncertainties that have been given to us with a Corona virus. And today, I want to dig further into that by talking about the what ifs, the what if this happens, what if that happens? A lot of the time these concerns are valid. There's something that you need to think about. So you can take action. But the problem is, most of the time, we get stuck in a loop and keep thinking about all the bad...
2020-03-26
05 min
Smash The System
How To Solve The “What Ifs” STS #054
Transcript: Welcome back to The smashes system podcast. I’m your host, Nino Prodan. This week, we’ve been talking about dealing with the uncertainties that have been given to us with a Corona virus. And today, I want to dig further into that by talking about the what ifs, the what if this happens, what if that happens? A lot of the time these concerns are valid. There’s something that you need to think about. So you can take action. But the problem is, most of the time, we get stuck in a loop and...
2020-03-26
00 min
Smash The System
Stash That Cash STS #053
Transcript: Welcome back to The smashes system podcast. This is Nino Prodan. This week, we’ve been talking about what steps you need to take during this uncertain time. And Monday, I talked about getting everything off your mind and dumping everything from your mind onto paper. So you can organize it and get it off your mind. So you stop worrying about it. Stop trying to answer those questions and put it in order so you can start taking action. And yesterday, I talked about grounding yourself in a morning routine, setting off your day, right...
2020-03-25
00 min
Smash The System
Stash That Cash STS #053
Transcript: Welcome back to The smashes system podcast. This is Nino Prodan. This week, we've been talking about what steps you need to take during this uncertain time. And Monday, I talked about getting everything off your mind and dumping everything from your mind onto paper. So you can organize it and get it off your mind. So you stop worrying about it. Stop trying to answer those questions and put it in order so you can start taking action. And yesterday, I talked about grounding yourself in a morning routine, setting off your day, right? With the right mindset...
2020-03-25
04 min
Smash The System
Ground Yourself During Times Of Change STS #052
Transcript: Welcome back to The smashes system podcast. I'm Nino Prodan. This week, I'll be talking a little bit about what to do now that the world has been flipped upside down yesterday I talked about how to kind of sort everything out Now that everything's being thrown at you coming at you like 100 miles an hour and what to do to get all those thoughts out of your brain? No, I hope you really follow through and you've gotten things out of your brain so you can kind of focus on what you need to do and start getting...
2020-03-24
04 min
Smash The System
Ground Yourself During Times Of Change STS #052
Transcript: Welcome back to The smashes system podcast. I’m Nino Prodan. This week, I’ll be talking a little bit about what to do now that the world has been flipped upside down yesterday I talked about how to kind of sort everything out Now that everything’s being thrown at you coming at you like 100 miles an hour and what to do to get all those thoughts out of your brain? No, I hope you really follow through and you’ve gotten things out of your brain so you can kind of focus on what...
2020-03-24
00 min
Smash The System
Get Sorted In The Chaos STS #051
Transcript: Welcome back to The smashes system podcast. This is Nino Prodan. Today I want to talk about one of the tricks that I use when everything's chaotic. And this is especially helpful in stuff like what's going on right now. You know, there's lots of chaos going on, and you are totally thrown out of your regular routine. And so you feel Off Balanced, kind of like antsy or edgy, stressed out something, something's not right. And this is one trick I use, and I have used for a really long time to start to get everything back in...
2020-03-23
06 min
Smash The System
Get Sorted In The Chaos STS #051
Transcript: Welcome back to The smashes system podcast. This is Nino Prodan. Today I want to talk about one of the tricks that I use when everything’s chaotic. And this is especially helpful in stuff like what’s going on right now. You know, there’s lots of chaos going on, and you are totally thrown out of your regular routine. And so you feel Off Balanced, kind of like antsy or edgy, stressed out something, something’s not right. And this is one trick I use, and I have used for a really long time...
2020-03-23
00 min
Smash The System
Opportunity Is Knocks If You Look For It STS #050
Transcript: Welcome back to The smashes system podcast, I’m Nino Prodan. This week, we talked a lot about working from home, and how to develop working from home as an opportunity to breaking yourself free, free from the daily commute. free from all that time that you spend, that’s committed to work, but isn’t about working, and how to get the most out of your time to develop new skills and systems to create more time for yourself. And then I talked about how I use that opportunity to also break myself free from...
2020-03-20
00 min
Smash The System
Opportunity Is Knocks If You Look For It STS #050
Transcript: Welcome back to The smashes system podcast, I'm Nino Prodan. This week, we talked a lot about working from home, and how to develop working from home as an opportunity to breaking yourself free, free from the daily commute. free from all that time that you spend, that's committed to work, but isn't about working, and how to get the most out of your time to develop new skills and systems to create more time for yourself. And then I talked about how I use that opportunity to also break myself free from my job and create a business...
2020-03-20
03 min
Smash The System
Focus On What You Can Do STS #049
Transcript: Hey, welcome back to the Smash The System podcast, I'm Nino Prodan. This week, I've been talking about taking advantage of working from home, creating a system to take advantage of it. And I told you the story about how I started working from home and progressed from there creating my own freedom by opening up my time. And then using that time to develop something. Time is really important, because it's the most limited thing that we have. But we don't always have to trade that time for money. And one of the most powerful ways to take...
2020-03-19
03 min
Smash The System
Focus On What You Can Do STS #049
Transcript: Hey, welcome back to the Smash The System podcast, I’m Nino Prodan. This week, I’ve been talking about taking advantage of working from home, creating a system to take advantage of it. And I told you the story about how I started working from home and progressed from there creating my own freedom by opening up my time. And then using that time to develop something. Time is really important, because it’s the most limited thing that we have. But we don’t always have to trade that time for money. And one...
2020-03-19
00 min
Smash The System
How To Create Your Time STS #048
Transcript: Welcome back to the Smash system podcast. I'm Nino Prodan. Yesterday, I kind of left you off on a cliffhanger. And that was something crazy that I did while I was working from home. And what happened is I started outsourcing my job, I actually hired a personal assistant, I created a whole bunch of macros and systematized my whole job. So it was very easy, pretty much fail proof. And I created a process where I was really only involved and working maybe half an hour a day, responding to emails and initiating the system, which involves removing...
2020-03-18
05 min
Smash The System
How To Create Your Time STS #048
Transcript: Welcome back to the Smash system podcast. I’m Nino Prodan. Yesterday, I kind of left you off on a cliffhanger. And that was something crazy that I did while I was working from home. And what happened is I started outsourcing my job, I actually hired a personal assistant, I created a whole bunch of macros and systematized my whole job. So it was very easy, pretty much fail proof. And I created a process where I was really only involved and working maybe half an hour a day, responding to emails and initiating the...
2020-03-18
00 min
Smash The System
Train Them To Except What You Want STS #047
Transcript: Welcome back to the Smash assistant podcast. I'm Nino Prodan. Yesterday, we left off talking about how I started working from home. And like I said, At first, it was great, I didn't have to commute anymore. I didn't have to get dressed up all fancy to go into the office. But my job started bleeding in to my whole day, taking over my life. And finally, at one point, I said, Enough is enough. I need to fix this. Or I need to find another job. And most of the time people think, Oh, you know what, I'll...
2020-03-17
06 min
Smash The System
Train Them To Except What You Want STS #047
Transcript: Welcome back to the Smash assistant podcast. I’m Nino Prodan. Yesterday, we left off talking about how I started working from home. And like I said, At first, it was great, I didn’t have to commute anymore. I didn’t have to get dressed up all fancy to go into the office. But my job started bleeding in to my whole day, taking over my life. And finally, at one point, I said, Enough is enough. I need to fix this. Or I need to find another job. And most of the time people...
2020-03-17
00 min
Smash The System
The Blessing Of Working Remotely? STS #046
Transcript: Welcome back to the Smash assistant podcast. I'm your host, Nino Prodan. This week, I want to talk about something you may be going through right now. And that's working from home a little over 10 years ago, I was kind of in the same shoes as you. But for me, I was working at my nine to five at the time, and they wanted me to do data analysis and do data cleanup on a whole bunch of research that we were doing. We had a whole team of people putting together data from a whole bunch of county...
2020-03-16
04 min
Smash The System
The Blessing Of Working Remotely? STS #046
Transcript: Welcome back to the Smash assistant podcast. I’m your host, Nino Prodan. This week, I want to talk about something you may be going through right now. And that’s working from home a little over 10 years ago, I was kind of in the same shoes as you. But for me, I was working at my nine to five at the time, and they wanted me to do data analysis and do data cleanup on a whole bunch of research that we were doing. We had a whole team of people putting together data from...
2020-03-16
00 min
Smash The System
Make Room Make More STS #045
Transcript: Welcome back to the semester system podcast. I'm Nino Prodan. And in this episode, I want to continue on the topic of outsourcing. But I want to talk about what it would allow you to do, what will allowing things that you don't need to do go out of your hands create for you. Quite often, we think that if we have control of everything, we can make everything go right, we can make everything work the way that we want it to. But the problem is, you're not always the best person to do things. But that's not...
2020-03-13
04 min
Smash The System
Make Room Make More STS #045
Transcript: Welcome back to the semester system podcast. I’m Nino Prodan. And in this episode, I want to continue on the topic of outsourcing. But I want to talk about what it would allow you to do, what will allowing things that you don’t need to do go out of your hands create for you. Quite often, we think that if we have control of everything, we can make everything go right, we can make everything work the way that we want it to. But the problem is, you’re not always the best person...
2020-03-13
00 min
Smash The System
When & How To Outsource STS #044
Transcript: Welcome back to The smashed system podcast. I'm your host, Nino Prodan. And in this episode I want to talk about what should you outsource? And when should you outsource? The first thing you want to look at is, what the core function of your business is. And what takes you away from that. See anything that isn't part of your core business is something that is possibly a candidate to be outsourced. So the first thing is to get a handle on what your core businesses What does it revolve around, because that's the thing that you want...
2020-03-12
06 min
Smash The System
When & How To Outsource STS #044
Transcript: Welcome back to The smashed system podcast. I’m your host, Nino Prodan. And in this episode I want to talk about what should you outsource? And when should you outsource? The first thing you want to look at is, what the core function of your business is. And what takes you away from that. See anything that isn’t part of your core business is something that is possibly a candidate to be outsourced. So the first thing is to get a handle on what your core businesses What does it revolve around, because that’...
2020-03-12
00 min
Smash The System
Still Doing It All Yourself? STS #043
Transcript: Welcome back to the match system podcast. I'm Nino Prodan. If I didn't convince you to outsource yesterday, I'm going to continue to do it today. Now imagine working in your business and doing everything that you like about your business and someone else, doing all the things that you don't like to do. How would you feel at the end of the day? How fast would your day go? How much into the zone would you get into? And how would you feel once you got home after you were done working? Or when you were done working...
2020-03-11
04 min
Smash The System
Still Doing It All Yourself? STS #043
Transcript: Welcome back to the match system podcast. I’m Nino Prodan. If I didn’t convince you to outsource yesterday, I’m going to continue to do it today. Now imagine working in your business and doing everything that you like about your business and someone else, doing all the things that you don’t like to do. How would you feel at the end of the day? How fast would your day go? How much into the zone would you get into? And how would you feel once you got home after you were done...
2020-03-11
00 min
Smash The System
If You Want It Done Right, Find Someone To Do It Better STS #042
Transcript: Welcome, everyone to the smashes system podcast. I'm Nino Prodan. And in this episode, I want to dig further into hard work and the quote of if you want something done right, do it yourself. This is one of the biggest lies that people tell themselves that keep them locked into their business. So they can't actually work on their business to working in their business. And this too, is a lie. If you want something done, right, you don't have to do it yourself. You have to figure out a way to teach someone how to do it...
2020-03-10
03 min
Smash The System
If You Want It Done Right, Find Someone To Do It Better STS #042
Transcript: Welcome, everyone to the smashes system podcast. I’m Nino Prodan. And in this episode, I want to dig further into hard work and the quote of if you want something done right, do it yourself. This is one of the biggest lies that people tell themselves that keep them locked into their business. So they can’t actually work on their business to working in their business. And this too, is a lie. If you want something done, right, you don’t have to do it yourself. You have to figure out a way to...
2020-03-10
00 min
Smash The System
No Hard Work Is Not The Secret To Success STS #041
Transcript: This is the smashes system podcasts. Welcome back. I’m your host, Nino Prodan. And in this episode, I want to talk about the one thing that everybody tells you is gonna bring you success. And that’s hard work. And right now, I want to tell you straight out that if you think hard work, is your key to success. You’re believing a lie. I know way too many people that have put their heart and soul into work, have come to the brink of killing themselves because of the hard work that they’...
2020-03-09
00 min
Smash The System
How To Stop Fear From Holding You Back STS #040
Transcript: Welcome back to the Smash system podcast. I’m Nino Prodan. And in this episode, I’m going to continue talking about fear. But I want to get specific today I want to talk about your fear, and what to do about it. See, a lot of the times we have fears that come up and we just push them down, push past them. And when we do that, those fears get suppressed. And when fears are suppressed, they’re still there. And they still haunt us. They still affect us, and we need to deal...
2020-03-06
00 min
Smash The System
Fear As A Weapon STS #039
Transcript: Welcome back to The smash a system podcast. I’m Nino Prodan. And today I want to continue talking about fear as we have this week, and move on from yesterday where we talked about fear as a superpower. And I want to talk about fear as a weakness as a kryptonite. Throughout evolution, our species has evolved because of fear. We had to find a way to stay alive. We had to avoid predators, and other things that wanted to eat us. So we had to be on alert. Fear kept us alive, but we...
2020-03-05
00 min
Smash The System
Fear As A Superpower! STS #038
Transcript: This the Smash system podcast. Welcome back. I’m Nino Prodan. Today I want to talk further about fear, which is what we’ve been talking about this week. And everybody talks about fear as something bad, something that you need to avoid. And I want to talk about the good parts of fear. Fear is something that keeps you honest, it helps you understand that something’s not right. The problem with fear is that you’re kind of hard wired to react to it to run away from it. But if you override that...
2020-03-04
00 min
Smash The System
Fear Of Not Being Accepted Keeps You Contained STS #037
Transcript: Welcome back to the Smash system podcast. I’m your host, Nino Prodan. And in this episode, I want to dig deeper into one aspect of fear. And that’s the fear of not being accepted. There is one aspect of humanity. That’s wonderful. We work as a group, we work together in a community. And because of that, we want to be part of a community, we want to be accepted into it. That way we can work together and get more things done, because the manpower because the whole concept of two heads...
2020-03-03
00 min
Smash The System
This 1 Thing Is Holding You Back From Success STS #036
Transcript: Welcome back to The smash a system podcast. I’m Nino Prodan. This episode I want to talk about the one thing that is holding you back from success. There’s one thing that we all have in common. Every human being has this problem. And until you address it, you’re going to always struggle to move forward. There’s always going to be something in your way and that one thing is fear. Be it fear of success, fear of failure, fear of not knowing, uncertainty, which is just fear, not being accepted, having...
2020-03-02
00 min
Smash The System
What To Do If You Just Don’t Feel Like Doing It STS #035
Transcript: Welcome back to the Smash system podcasts. I’m Nino Prodan. And today I want to talk about what to do when you just don’t feel like doing it. What do you do after a long day at work, you get home and you’re going to work on your business, you’re going to work on something that’s important to you. And you’re just wiped out, wiped out by all the BS you had to deal with while you’re at work like that by all the traffic you had to drive...
2020-02-28
00 min
Smash The System
What Are Marketing Hooks? STS #034
Transcript: Welcome back to the Smash The System podcast. I’m your host, Nino Prodan. And yesterday, I talked about testing your marketing. And one of the most important aspects of your marketing you want to test is the hook. And the hook is the attention getter is the part of your marketing that draws people’s attention. It’s like the headline stops them from scrolling stops them from reading onward. It gets them involved in what you’re doing, focusing their attention on you. And hooks could be headlines or images, videos, something that interrupts...
2020-02-27
00 min
Smash The System
One Of The Biggest Pitfalls in Marketing STS #033
Transcript: Welcome back to The smash a system podcast. I’m Nino Prodan. And then this episode I want to talk about one of the biggest mistakes I see mostly beginning entrepreneurs or beginning marketers make when they’re doing their marketing. And that is thinking that their first try is going to be the best is going to be right is going to make them the most money. And the one thing I learned about marketing is you could feel like you have the most genius idea. You could feel like you have the best perspective...
2020-02-26
00 min
Smash The System
The Secret To Marketing STS #032
Transcript: Welcome back to the semester system podcast. I’m Nino Prodan. Yesterday I talked about changing your perspective of what marketing is. I talked about how marketing is a relationship, developing a relationship with clients and possible future clients and customers. And today I want to expand on what marketing is and what it’s not. First, let’s talk about more of what it’s not. Marketing is not telling people what your product is, and the features of it, and how it’s going to benefit you. It’s not talking about yourself, and...
2020-02-25
00 min
Smash The System
How To Create A Relationship With Customers STS #031
Transcript: Welcome to the Smash system podcast. I’m your host, Nino Prodan. And in this episode, I want to talk to you about how to create a relationship with your clients. And there may be a word that you’re familiar with in this regard, but don’t consider it creating a relationship with your clients. And that’s marketing. And before I started my coaching business, I used to look at marketing as a bad thing. It was a bad word to me. To me, it felt like someone out there trying to just convince...
2020-02-24
00 min
Smash The System
Do It One Bite At A Time STS #030
Transcript: Welcome back to the Smash assistant podcast. I’m your host, Nino Prodan. Yesterday, I talked about growing your skill, and why many people don’t have the skills that they need. And today I wanted to talk more about how to develop the skill. Now this isn’t writing or business, but pretty much applies to any skill that you want to build. And it’s very easy to conceptualize. So when I started playing tennis, I was 35 years old, and I was out of shape and wanting to lose weight. And a long time...
2020-02-21
00 min
Smash The System
The #1 Reason People Don’t Have Skills STS #029
Transcript: Welcome back to the Smash system podcast. I’m Nino Prodan. And in this episode, I want to talk a little about developing your skill. Before I started a podcast, before I really started doing anything where I was talking online, I was terrible at public speaking. I wouldn’t say Sam great still, but back then I was awful. Ivan ran for local office without the ability to speak publicly. I was terrible. And it took me a while to understand why. And I finally figured out the event that kind of triggered this in...
2020-02-20
00 min
Smash The System
The Promise Of 15-Hour Work Week STS #028
Transcript: Welcome to the Smash assistant podcast. I’m your host, Nino Prodan. Today I want to talk about john Keens and his prediction that we’d be working a 15 Hour Workweek. Was he completely wrong in the idea that we’d be working a 15 Hour Workweek? I mean, 90 years ago, we were working in factories. There’s nobody working at computers, there’s people doing paperwork at desks, writing things out by hand. What happened? When you think about paperwork now is done so easily. We don’t have to calculate things like we used to...
2020-02-19
00 min
Smash The System
Are You Showing Up In Your Life? STS #027
Transcript: Welcome back to the Smash system podcast. I’m your host, Nino Prodan. Today, I want to ask you, are you showing up in your own life? Are you there for the people that are important in your life? When you say you’re going to do something, do you do it? When you tell yourself, when you make promises to yourself? Do you follow through? I used to think to myself about all the dreams that I had all the things that I want to accomplish all the things that I wanted to have all...
2020-02-18
00 min
Smash The System
Do You Tell Yourself That “It’s OK?” STS #026
Transcript: Welcome to the Smash system podcast. I’m your host, Nino Prodan. And this episode I want to tell you about what happened to me after my first trip to Europe, came back to the US and I was, everything was different. I looked at my ambitions differently. I looked at what I wanted in life differently. The problem was, when I came back, I kept telling myself the same story kept telling myself that what I had to do was slog through life. And every once in a while, give myself a treat. Every once...
2020-02-17
00 min
Smash The System
How To Build Your Offer STS #025
Transcript: Welcome to the Smash system podcast. I’m your host, Nino Prodan. Today, I want to ask you, if I offered to sell you the iPhone 11 Pro Max, which goes for about 1500 dollars, would you pay me $10,000 for it? My guess is you say no. But what if I told you that the phone that I give you, it’s going to have the 512 gigabytes. And that 512 gigabytes is going to be filled with all the 300 courses I’ve taken over the last 10 years. The courses that helped me learn marketing courses that have helped me...
2020-02-14
00 min
Smash The System
Finish On Top, Avoid The Race To The Bottom STS #024
Transcript: Welcome back to The smash a system podcast. I’m your host, Nino Prodan. I want to ask you, have you ever heard of the phrase the race to the bottom? You know, you see the race to the bottom and a lot of industries and especially one that comes to mind is the airline industry. And in fact, the race to the bottom there has been so bad that it actually prompted Richard Branson to create an airline because he was tired of having terrible service service. That was the bottom line. You know, the...
2020-02-13
00 min
Smash The System
How To Know What Your Clients Want STS #023
Transcript: Welcome back to the Smash system podcast. I’m your host, Nino Prodan. One of my clients once asked me, How do I know what my customers want? And I told them, why don’t you just ask them? They said, I don’t know how I don’t know where to find them like her. How do I ask them that? Do I have to hire somebody to do a poll? Or do I have to pay somebody to do that research for me or what? And I said, Well, why don’t you just...
2020-02-12
00 min
Smash The System
Don’t Recreate The Wheel STS #022
Transcript: Welcome back to the Smash system podcast. I’m your host, Nino Prodan. Let me ask you, have you figured out your offer yet? If not, today is your episode. What I’m going to do today is to help you figure out how to create your offer. And it’s easy because it’s pretty much done for you, all you have to do is go out there and find people that are doing the same thing as you are generally doing the same thing as you and are successful. So by now you should...
2020-02-11
00 min
Smash The System
Where To Start The Business You Love To Do STS #021
Transcript: Welcome back to the Smash cism podcast. I’m your host, Nino Prodan. And I want to share with you a discussion that I had yesterday, I was talking to an artist and she was telling me that she wishes that she could make a living off of art. And I told her, it’s possible to do that. But what you need to do to make that happen is to create the right offer. See, it’s not about simply selling her paintings, what she has to do is make it more appealing for people...
2020-02-10
00 min
Smash The System
How To Get Unstuck STS #019
Transcript: Hey everyone, welcome to the Smash system podcast. I’m your host, Nino Prodan. And today, I want to ask you, have you ever been stuck, felt like you didn’t know what to do don’t know where to start saving procrastination because you’re not trying not to do anything. It’s just that you don’t know what to do. Or the thing that you’re working on, you just don’t know where to start. It’s like you have this big gigantic mountain that you need to climb up and you...
2020-02-06
00 min
Smash The System
Learn More To Fail In Business STS #018
Transcript: Welcome to the smashes system podcast. I’m your host, Nino Prodan. A couple years ago, I was listening to some podcasts and learning a lot. It was about the time that I just finished my coaching program got my certification, and I was feeling really good. I accomplished a lot. I had a business that I started. And that day, I was listening to some podcasts and man, it was just like really opening up the world to me really helping me understand how the brain worked, helped me understand how the body works better...
2020-02-05
00 min
Smash The System
No! It’s Not Your Work Ethic Holding You Back…It’s The Way You Work STS #017
Transcript: Welcome to the Smash assistant podcast. I’m your host, Nino Prodan. And today I want to ask you, have you found your groove? Have you found the groove that you work best in? For me, I worked a certain way and never really realized which way fit me the most. In fact, I didn’t even realize that there was a way that I worked that was different from others. But when I tried one, I was really productive. And when I worked another way, I was everything but productive. When I first started creating...
2020-02-04
00 min
Smash The System
How To Stop Not Taking Action STS #016
Transcript: Welcome, everyone to the Smash system podcast. I’m your host, Nino Prodan. A while back, I had somebody come to me and asked me if they could work with me. They wanted to start a business. And they told me that they were really, really motivated. And so I inquired, what made you become so motivated? And what they told me was that they were desperate. They needed to make $10,000 to stop from losing their house. And so I asked them, Do you have any capital to start? And they told me No. I said...
2020-02-03
00 min
Smash The System
What to do if your marketplace is too crowded STS #015
Transcript: Welcome to the Smash system podcast. I’m your host, Nino Prodan. And today, I want to ask you, are you thinking about starting a business, but look at what you’re going to do and think, How the hell can I do this? With all these people already doing it? They’re all these big names doing the same thing that I want to do. And there’s no way that I can compete with them. This is you. I totally understand when I first started coaching and it was like, big names like Tony...
2020-01-31
00 min
Smash The System
How do you speak to the core desires of your customers? STS #014
Transcript: Welcome, everyone to the Smash system podcast. I’m your host, Nino Prodan. Today, I want to ask you a question. Do you know how to sell your product or service to your customers and clients? And I’m not asking, if you think you know how to sell it. I’m not asking if you do sell it. I’m asking you if you know how to sell it. Do you know how to pique their interest in your product or service? Do you know how to appeal to their interests, to their basic desires...
2020-01-31
00 min
Smash The System
Why Everyone Isn’t Your Customer STS #013
Transcript: Welcome to the Smash the system podcast. I’m your host, Nino Prodan. And I want to ask you, why is it that you can’t have everybody, as your customer as your client? You know, this is something I wish somebody asked me when I first started coaching because when I, when I first started coaching, somebody asked me, who’s it that you see as your client? What do they need? And I said, Hey, you know what, I think everybody needs coaching. I think everybody could do with a little more growth, do...
2020-01-29
00 min
Smash The System
So, What Are You Going to Do Then? STS #012
Transcript: Welcome to the smash a system podcast. I’m your host, Nino Prodan. And yesterday, we talked about intent. And today I want to talk about what to do with that intent how to implement that intent. In other words, what should you do? Throughout most of my adult life, I always tried to figure out what I wanted to do. What is it that I really felt like doing? I thought it was teaching. I thought it was I was going to be a professor, because I loved helping people learn. And then I went...
2020-01-29
00 min
Smash The System
What?! Making Money is Not The Intent for a Business? STS #011
Transcript: This is the smash the system podcast. I’m your host, Nino Prodan. And in this episode, I want to ask you, what is your intent with this business? Someone first beginning of business, most people think about how they can make the business profitable. Think about how much money they can get how the house that they buy is going to be huge and magnificent, and they’re going to have the fastest cars going to be badass, it’s going to impress a whole bunch of people want to be successful and you want...
2020-01-28
00 min
Smash The System
This One Thing Can Wreck Your Business Before Your Start STS #010
Transcript: Hey everyone, welcome back to the Smash system podcast. I’m your host, Nino Prodan. And in this episode, I want to talk about the one thing that will kill your business before it starts. And that one thing is expectations. Yeah, it’s kind of weird. What expectations Yeah, no kidding. When you’re starting off, you want to keep your expectations low. In fact, you want to just throw them out. What you want is goals. What you want is something to aim at. But I’ll tell you one thing if you have...
2020-01-25
00 min
Smash The System
Getting Clear to Stop the Fear STS #009
Transcript: Welcome back, everybody. This is the Smash system podcast. I’m your host, Nino Prodan. And in this episode, I want to talk about getting clear to stop the fear. Fear holds us back from achieving our dreams, it stops us from taking the steps that we need to take. So I want to ask you, do you ever have any of the following? Do you procrastinate? Do you feel tense for no reason? You stop progressing forward because you need everything to be perfect before you move forward. In other words, are you a perfectionist...
2020-01-23
00 min
Smash The System
How to Find Resources to Start STS #008
Transcript: Hey, welcome back to The Smashing system podcast. I’m your host, Nino Prodan. And in this episode, I want to talk about resources. It’s a question I hear a lot people ask me, How do I get started if I don’t have the resources? And I answer that with a question. What if the founders of Apple thought that while they were working in their parents garage would they have ever started if they thought about the resources they didn’t have? Don’t look at where your idols are. Now, don’t...
2020-01-23
00 min
Smash The System
Use Motivation to Create Momentum STS #007
Transcript: Hey everyone, welcome to the smash a system podcast. I’m your host, Nino Prodan. And in this episode, I want to talk about motivation. And the motivation killers and fillers the things that fill you fill your motivation up. One of the first things is, being tough on yourself is a total killer. Think about it, you’re trying to do this, to get people to stop telling you what to do. Stop being authoritative towards you. So why do it yourself? You know, you’re working to smash the system. So why recreate it...
2020-01-22
00 min
Smash The System
Choices & The Stories That Come with Them STS #006
Transcript: Hey everyone, welcome back. This is the Smash assistant podcast with your host, Nino Prodan. And today I want to talk about the decision you’re going to make this all starts with a decision. Are you going to do it or are you not going to do it? It’s made within you inside your brain. And the reason I want to start here is because this is the foundation for everything. It’s like the suspension for your car. If your suspension isn’t working, then the first bump you hit is going to...
2020-01-21
00 min
Smash The System
So, how do you smash the system STS #005
Transcript: Welcome back, everybody, this is a smash the system podcast. I’m your host, Nino Prodan. And in this episode, we’re going to talk about the how how are you going to do these changes? How are you going to make this change in your life and bring these changes to your life? I talked about the first part of it yesterday. It’s to get your time in order once you get your time in order, and you got to start slowly building your skills, building your mindset. Everything happens slowly. If you try...
2020-01-18
00 min
Smash The System
When should you do this STS #004
Transcript: Hey everyone, I want to welcome you back to the Smash the system podcast. I’m your host, Nino Prodan. And in this episode I want to talk about when when are you going to do all this magnificent stuff with your life? And how are you going to fit into your day. I know working a nine to five you got to commute to work, you got to come back you got to get ready for work. If you got kids, you got to get them ready for school and get them to school. If...
2020-01-17
00 min
Smash The System
Why should we smash the system STS #003
Transcript: Hey everyone, welcome back to the Smash system podcast. I’m your host, Nino Prodan. And in this episode, I want to talk about why why smash the system? Why is it that you want to do this? Well, for me it started when I just I felt like I had something wrong. Something was wrong with me. something wasn’t right. I felt like I was carrying around in a visible weight around me around with me all the time. And I didn’t know why. I was depressed but I didn’t understand why...
2020-01-16
00 min