In this episode, Blaine talks about the differences between being an expert in something, and being an authority. He also talks about something called 'the expert trap', where someone considered an expert gets trapped in their way of thinking and has to continue prospecting for new customers and clients who consider them an expert. The authority, on the other hand, has many more options available to them. 

In this episode, Blaine talks about the 7 Proverbs of Performance he uses to remind him what matters when it comes to business growth and profitability. 

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In this episode, Blaine talks through 7 traits of unsuccessful people. To understand how to define 'unsucccesful', Blaine uses Earl Nightingale's definition of success, which is 'the progressive realization of worthy goal or ideal'. Then Blaine applies the 'contrast principle' to discern the path of success or failure. 

In this episode, Blaine talks about the 4 things every business MUST focus on if they want to be truly successful. These 4 things are present in every business whether you know it or not. If you don't know it, you're probably failing at one or all four of these things! 

In this episode, Blaine talks about why it's vitally important to be building a personal brand in 2024. He goes over the 3 R's of personal branding and what opportunities can open up for a well built personal brand. 

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In this episode, Blaine goes over the four levels of value that income and wealth are created in. He refers to it as D2C2, with the first two levels being 'doing' and 'directing', and the second two levels being 'communication' and 'creativity. 

Get ready to take some notes as Blaine drops some wealth bombs about how it's easier to get rich quickly than it is to do it slowly. 

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In this episode, Blaine asks 6 important questions to help you recap the prior year and pull some lessons to help you reimagine the new year ahead.

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In this episode, Blaine digs into the mail bag to answer some of the listener questions about the market, interest rates, and building your appraisal or real estate business. 

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In this episode, Blaine walks through the 5 steps to building a lifestyle business of your dreams. Leveraging off of the brilliant teaching from author and businessman, Daniel Priestly, Blaine goes over why you need to be presenting, publishing, productizing and packaging, managing your persona, and partnering instead of prospecting. 

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In this episode, Blaine talks about a PDF article from the famous blogger and author, Tim Ferriss. The article was a collection of questions designed to get the reader to think deeply, and also to think differently, than we might otherwise. Blaine talks about 6 of the 17 questions in this epsidoe and relates some of his own stories for each. 

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In this episode, Blaine talks about how to become a better forecaster of things to come based on 6 traits and skills that need to be developed. The art and skill of forecasting comes in handy when building a business, analyzing and assessing potential investments, and protecting one's assets during down times. 

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In this episode, Blaine reveals 5 questions he's learned to ask over the years to get clarity on life and business. As part of his Black Belt Business coaching program, Blaine introduces these 5 questions to coaching students within the first month, which helps students get very clear on the 'why' and the 'what' of business and life. 

In this episode, Blaine goes over the first 5 'wisdom keys' as they were given to him over the years by his mentors. These wisdom keys are vital to commit to memory if you want to have a more successful business and a more fulfilling life. 

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In this episode, Blaine teaches appraisers to ask 5 important questions about their business. One of the most important is learning your dollars per hour number. This is important to know if you ever want to 10X it. 

In this episode, part 2 of 2, Blaine recaps the first 5 pieces of unconventional wisdom and advice from the last episode, and then adds 5 more pieces of advice gleaned over 30+ years of travel. 

In this episode, Blaine shares 5 pieces of unconventional wisdom and advice he's been given over the years. This unconventional advice is advice that sometimes runs counter to the traditional advice people tend to give. 

In this episode, Blaine talks about the positive aspects of pressure and why pressure testing your ideas, mindsets, beliefs, and habits is one of the best ways to get stronger and better. 

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In this episode, Blaine talks about the topic of quantity over quality, and addresses the topic from a unique position. Instead of an either/or question, Blaine talks about it as a quality 'and' quantity mindset. 

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In this episode, Blaine talks about the importance of demonstrating your value to the market through creating content. If you're not demonstrating the value of what you do, or what you can do, for your market, you're likely becoming a commodity and will be replaced at some point. 

In this episode, Blaine talks about one of the most important aspects of successful branding: The Magnetic Persona! Sometimes referred to as the Attractive Character, it's the personality that buyers of your product or service identify with that make your brand stand out. Steve Jobs, Jared From Subway, The Verizon Guy, and the long list of characters that we all associate with brands. 

Learn the 4 most important character traits for building your own magnetic persona so you can stand out in a noisy and crowded marketplace. 

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In this episode, Blaine talks about his reluctance to do traditional networking type activities as an introvert, but goes on to explain the 3 main categories of people Appraisers, real estate agents, lenders, and really anybody who wants to grow their business should be reaching out to and connecting with. 

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In this episode, Blaine recaps the big 5 commandments from the last show and the covers several more commandments of building a successful business. Blaine also talks about the Appraiser Increase Academy and Community and the successes many have had after joining. 

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In this episode, Blaine reveals the 5 commandments of business building and explains how it's tied to an appraisal business. Pulling from the book, The Millionaire Fastlane, by MK DeMarco, Blaine expounds on some of the most important considerations when starting or building your business if you want to make real money and not have the business consume all of your time!

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In this episode, Blaine explains the Stoic principle of Amor Fati, which loosely translates to 'love of your fate'. Instead of labeling things as either good or bad, Amor Fati teaches us to stop labeling things and, instead, accept things as they are and love that they are happening the way they are. This attitude and mindset allows us to remain loose and flexible to all that happens around us, instead of being seized by negative events. 

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In this episode, Blaine addresses the recent announcement from Fannie Mae that full appraisals will no longer be the default option on every loan. While many appraisers are getting upset and think the industry cannot longer support them, Blaine talks about the options and opportunities appraisers have in front of them.

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In this episode, Blaine talks about 2 things you should be focused on in 2023 to make you and your business more magnetic. Blaine also talks about the 3Gs of a good business mindset: Gratitude, Graciousness, and Generosity. 

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In this episode, Blaine talks about whether or not it’s better to just try to supplement your appraisal business by diversifying into the non-lender segment of the industry, or to scale up and try to build a six figure segment of the business. 

In this episode, Blaine talks about some of the mindsets, skills, and techniques for breaking into and building a busy non-lender appraisal business. 

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In this episode, Blaine talks about the 7 mindsets of success that he’s learned over the years through trial, error, and good mentorship. These seven mindsets of success can be applied to anything and everything, and should be!

Listen in and see how many of these mindsets of success you have already. 

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In this episode, Blaine talks about the struggles that appraiser trainees, and those looking to enter the real estate appraisal industry, are facing with the change in market conditions. Blaine has several suggestions for appraiser apprentice candidates, and he also highlights some of the trends he sees on the horizon.

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In this episode, Blaine asks 10 vital questions for real estate appraisers, Realtors, and Lenders to ask themselves as 2022 ends and 2023 begins. 

Ask yourself these 10 questions honestly and write down the answers! This is part of Blaine’s ‘Recap and Realign’ process at the end of every year. 

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In this episode, Blaine covers chapter one from the book by Blair Enns called, The Win Without Pitching Manifesto. In chapter one, Enns talks about the very strong need to specialization in almost every business. Although he talks primarily to designers and creatives, Blaine found the author’s directives to be fundamental to almost every business, and most definitely the appraisal and appraiser business. 

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In this episode, Blaine discusses some of the recommendations for  things appraisers could and should be doing in a down market. Blaine has been coaching real estate appraisers for over a decade and has built and sold several appraisal businesses over his career. 

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In this episode, Blaine talks about how most people have somewhere between 50,000 and 80,000 thoughts per day with the vast majority of them being subconscious. The staggering statistic is that 90% of those thoughts are the same thoughts that you had the day before, and the day before that, and the day before that. This means that all of us are living from the past yet expecting something better in the future! 

Learn how to change your future by going back to those past thoughts and changing them. 

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In this episode, Blaine describes the pyramid of expertise and how to move from the lowest level of skill to the highest level of authority. Blaine also describes some of the mindsets and requirements at each level on the pyramid.

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In this episode, Blaine shares some of the key lessons from the great Dale Carnegie, author of the world renowned book, How to Win Friends and Influence People.

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In this episode, Blaine talks about the common refrain from Appraisers that, if everyone just keeps their fees up, the clients will have to pay them! He covers the psychology of lowering your fees, free markets, and why the logic of this ‘war cry’ is backwards. 

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In this episode, Blaine explains how to 10X your business, your free time, your revenue, and anything else you’d like to expand, and why its easier than just trying to double those things.

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In this episode, Blaine talks about a very important mindset shift he learned from the Strategic Coach, Dan Sullivan, called ‘Always Be The Buyer’.  Always being the buyer is a specific mindset that has you always setting the standards for everything you want in life and business.

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In this episode, Blaine discusses the controversial topic of work-life balance. He goes over what some of the expectations are, why they’re different for men and women, and how to know what work-life balance looks like for you?

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In this episode, Blaine talks about the 2 biggest factors that cause the commoditization of an industry, and the 3 warning signs that its happening. Learn also how to take advantage of a market or an industry where the products and services are considered to be a commodity and chosen based primarily on price!

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In this episode, Blaine covers the ‘million dollar mindsets’ spectrum, which has 8 fixed mindsets on the left with the corresponding growth mindsets on the right. The great thing is that we get to choose our mindsets, so which ones will you choose?

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In this episode, Blaine picks up where the last episode leaves off and continues to add some new lessons he’s learned while working for real estate appraiser startup company, True Footage.

In this episode, Blaine shares 5 lessons he’s learned while working for a tech start-up appraiser company named True Footage. True Footage came on the scene in 2021 in Seattle, Washington and has rapidly expanded its footprint across the US. Blaine has been working with True Footage for the past year and has learned several valuable lessons for appraisers and appraisal companies that he’s sharing in this episode. 

In this episode, Blaine goes over the research around the rise and fall of the once great entertainment company, Blockbuster. Known as the behemoth of the video rental business, Blockbuster became its own worst enemy when it came to making good decisions about its customers. Although many believe it was Netflix that killed Blockbuster, it wasn’t. Learn what the real story is about how Blockbuster ruined a great thing!

In this episode, Blaine talks about how traditional goal setting sucks and doesn’t work. He also talks about the 4 reasons goal setting is counterproductive talked about by James Clear, author of the best selling book, Atomic Habits. 

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In this episode, Blaine continues with the Earl Nightingale teachings from the ‘Lead the Field’ recording. Blaine speaks the exact transcript from the original recording. 

In this episode, Blaine introduces listeners to the famous Earl Nightingale, founder of the Nightingale-Conant motivational publishing company. 

One of Earl Nightingale’s most famous recordings was Lead the Field. Chapter 12 is titled, “Let’s Talk About Money”. Blaine speaks the exact transcript of this talk from Lead the Field. 

In this episode, Blaine talks about the science behind people who seem to be lucky, and also those who claim to be especially unlucky. Learning from Dr. Wiseman and the Luck School, Blaine goes over the 7 habits of lucky people that, if adopted and practiced, can increase your luck too!

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In this episode, Blaine picks up where he left off in the last episode about building a recession proof business. Tough times create strong businesses and tough people, but there are a few things appraisers should be doing to ensure that they survive and thrive during down times. 

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In this episode, Blaine talks about some of the most important things for appraisers, as well as Realtors, Lenders, and people from all walks of life to do during an economic recession. 

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In this episode, Blaine explains how the human brain works to conserve energy to keep us alive. Knowing how we see the world and how we make decisions, we can learn to see how we typically respond to change and opportunity. Instead of reacting with fear and anger, we can learn to embrace changes and create greater opportunities for ourselves. 

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In this episode, Blaine introduces listeners to famed angel investor and business philosopher, Naval Ravikant, and his 4 (really 5) steps to building wealth. 

In this episode, Blaine talks about the changes currently happening in the market and some of the things appraisers (and Realtors and lenders) should be doing to stay in the game and scoop up more market share. 

In this episode, Blaine talks about the 4 Ds from author, Mike Michalowicz, in his book, Clockwork. The 4 Ds are Doing, Deciding, Delegating, and Designing. Blaine adds 2 more Ds to those 4 to make a complete system for entrepreneurs to build a business that is scalable and salable.

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In this episode, Blaine talks about a 3 phase process of going from ordinary to extraordinary. You might be surprised at what it takes to be extraordinary and how to build an extraordinary business. 

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In this episode, Blaine covers several of the most common questions asked each week by people inquiring about hiring a business coach. 

In this episode, Blaine covers the 5 big rules of building wealth 'on purpose'. Many people are unaware of the unwritten rules of how top build wealth for a fabulous future, so here they are. Read the blog here: Wealth Building Rules Blog

In this episode, Blaine talks about adopting a mindset of being the CEO of You, Incorporated. Regardless of where you are within a company you have the power to add tremendous value by thinking like a CEO. 

In this episode, Blaine talks about 3 tactics of Market Revolutionaries, those who are changing the way business is being done. These three tactics are a recap from a prior episode called Becoming a Market Revolutionary.

In this episode, Blaine covers the 5 steps required to develop an intentional personal ecosystem that empowers you to reach new heights of growth and success. 

In this episode, Blaine picks up where he left off in the last episode where he covered the first 5 Wisdom Keys. This episode starts with Wisdom Key number 6, and follows through explaining the last five keys. 

In this episode, Blaine introduces the first 5 ‘Wisdom Keys’ for life and business. These wisdom keys can be used in both life and in business and are a great filter for daily habits and decisions. 

In this episode, Blaine explains what an API (application programming interface) is and how APIs are everywhere. He introduces an idea of two worlds where half the world lives below the API, meaning their decisions are dictated for them by the software, and half the world living above the API, those who write the code, ask questions, think critically, are creative, make their own decisions, and are not dictated to by the software. 

In this episode, Blaine covers the top 5 traits of those who tend to struggle with progressively realizing a worthy goal or idea. Blaine talks about Earl Nightingale’s definition of success and how to avoid the traits and habits of the unsuccessful. 

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In this episode, Blaine recaps the drama triangle from the last episode and then gives the antidote to the drama with the Empowerment Dynamic. The Empowerment Dynamic entails becoming a coach, a creator, and a challenger. 

In this episode, Blaine explains the Drama Triangle and the different roles we sometimes play in certain situations and with certain people. The Drama Triangle can be very destructive and emotionally draining. Learn the different roles and scripts that get played out so as to avoid them when possible. 

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In this episode, Blaine talks about what it means to be a Chief Evangelist and why should be one for your company! As the Chief Evangelist for True Footage, a growing national appraisal and data analytics company, Blaine shares some rules for positioning your company for growth by becoming an evangelist. 

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In this episode, Blaine teaches listeners about an exercise from a billionaire named Conrad, and how to avoid doing time wasting activities. 

In this episode, Blaine teaches listeners how to do an exercise taught by famous podcaster and investor, Tim Ferriss, called ‘fear setting’. As opposed to goal setting, fear setting addresses the things we fear the most before trying to come up with some goals that may not be inspiring to us. 

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In this episode, Blaine talks about the Law of Reciprocity and how its hard wired into all of us. Learn how the law works, how we’re influenced by it, often without knowing it, and how we can know when its being used against us. 

In this episode, Blaine talks about how some of the best, and most forward thinking companies in the world created their own business category and escaped having to compete with anybody else. 

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In this episode, Blaine talks about the top 6 things that good leaders do. If you like to study leadership and want to be a better leader yourself, this is a ‘not to be missed’ episode!

I this episode, Blaine draws heavily from author and friend, Ethan Beute’s, book, Rehumanize Your Business, and talks about the value of using voice and video to convey our most important messages over using plain text emails and texts. 

In this episode, Blaine introduces authors Mark Camp and Chris Voss. Jim Camp wrote the book, ‘Start with No’, and Chris Voss wrote the wildly popular book called, “Never Split the Difference”. Both authors introduce a premise that its more important for building trust and confidence to get your prospects and clients saying ‘no’, instead of trying to get them to say ‘yes’. 

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In this episode, Blaine explains the Japanese concept of Ikigai. Ikigai is a concept around living a life well, operating a business well, and an overall set of questions around what you love to do, what you’re really good at, what the world needs, and what you can make money at. 

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In this episode, Blaine discusses 5 things every company should be doing if they have any remote workers. Since most appraisers work from their homes, if they work for a company they are likely working remotely. It can difficult to build a company culture that encourages personal and professional growth, not to mention fun, if you’re not doing these things.

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In this episode, Blaine introduces the thinking methods of Aristotle, Rene Descartes, and Elon Musk, a method called ‘thinking from First Principles’. 

In this episode, Blaine talks about four types of behaviors that have been identified by famed marriage therapists, Drs John and Julie Gottman, as the four things that, if addressed and fixed, can save relationships. What these four horsemen also infect are boardrooms and businesses. Address these four bad behaviors and your company culture gets infinitely better! 

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In this episode, Blaine reveals 7 questions the Stoics asked on themselves daily which lead to greater insight and understanding about who we want to be, how we want to be, and who we might want to be that way for. 

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In this episode, Blaine talks about the ‘python of progress’ and what is happening in almost every industry. Better data collection and use of that data is disrupting many industries, and the appraisal industry is right in the crosshairs of disruption. 

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In this episode, Blaine talks about some of the well known ‘secrets’ of the business world’s greatest leaders and communicators. This is part one a multi part series about why one’s communication skills are vital for brand recognition, strategic differentiation, and as a competitive advantage against competitors. 

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In this episode, Blaine talks about four reasons why intentionally focusing on culture building within your company is so vital. Company culture constitutes all of the organization’s goals, values, guiding principles, ideals, and the overall spirit of the company. Your company culture has been called ‘the soul’ of the company. 

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In this episode, Blaine talks about the different levels that almost every business can go through on its rise and growth. Blaine has noticed over the years that there are around seven levels businesses go through, or can go through depending on the owner. 

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In this episode, Blaine talks about the differences between leadership roles and management roles. It’s important to know the differences between the two since entrepreneurs and business owners often find themselves moving in and out of different roles in their businesses. 

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In this episode, Blaine lays out 8 ‘Power Moves’ of the most successful businesses. If you don’t know, or have a story about your business, and know what your mission really is, its time to develop it. Use these 8 Power Moves to help you develop your story, your mission, and your dominance in the market. 

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In this episode, Blaine talks about Tim Ferriss’ book, The Four Hour Work Week, and a couple of important questions posed in the book: what would you do with your time if you were told you could only work 2 hours per day? If you only had 2 hours per day to do the most valuable things, what things would you do to contribute the most revenue and profitability to the bottom line?

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This is part 2 of the Content is King series where Blaine goes over the steps, and requirements, for using content marketing, social media, and content creation for building a six figure business. 

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In this episode, Blaine teaches the listener how he built several six figure businesses using content: social media, podcasting, blogging, and information. If you’re thinking about trying to use social media, or some other method to grow your business, get ready to take notes on how to master content creation and build a killer business that is untouchable!

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In this episode, Blaine talks about whether or not you should become a generalist, a ‘jack of all trades’, or a specialist, ‘a master of one’. Blaine asks six vital questions in this episode that will help appraisers, agents, and any other business to decide what they want to specialize in, if they choose that route.

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This is part 2 of the Rules Are For The Other Guy series where Blaine talks about the 10 mindsets and traits of several of his mentors throughout life. These mindsets helped those mentors bypass many of the typical roadblocks and challenges that many entrepreneurs tend to get stuck on. In essence, Blaine’s mentors seemed to have a ‘fast pass’ to the front of the line almost every time!

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In this episode, part 1 of 2, Blaine talks about the first 5 things he’s recognized in high achievers, several of his mentors, and people who seem to have a ‘fast pass’ to the front of the line in life and business. 

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This is part two of the series Blaine started on the most common logical fallacies used in argumentation. These logical fallacies are great to study because they help us identify the errors in logic that often lead to incorrect thinking and beliefs. 

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In this episode, Blaine goes over the 3 main phases of a business: the launch phase, the growth phase, and the scaling phase. Blaine also explains how you can scale your business by using ‘scaling thinking’, which is a way of thinking that allows business owners to create the business they want before ever actually having to hire, train, or buy anything. 

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In this episode, Blaine introduces and discusses several of the most common logical fallacies, which are errors in reasoning that lead to potentially wrong conclusions. Logical fallacies occur all around us and its very helpful to be able to spot them so as to head them off at the pass and not be fooled by them.

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In this episode, Blaine talks about a few of the 7 different types of intelligence, focusing primarily on the most important one, emotional intelligence. Blaine also introduces the Gyges Effect, which is the phenomenon of feeling anonymous while communicating via the internet. 

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In this episode, Blaine talks about a different way to see things based on the idea of thinking ‘outside the box’ versus ‘inside the box’. The ideas are based on the book, Inside the Box, by Drew Boyd and Jacob Goldenberg. In it they talk about a variety of examples of new products, services, and systems that were created by simply subtracting something from the existing product, dividing something up and making it better, and multiplying a products features. 

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