The Last 174 Days Recapped—A 10 Bullet Point Life Update
New Company, New City, New Friends
Happy Sunday from Scottsdale, AZ ☀️
It’s been roughly 6 months since my last newsletter went out.
If we haven’t personally been in touch since September 5th, hopefully you are doing well!
In the interest of publishing something instead of extending an already prolonged silence, I chose an extremely simple format for this week.
Here’s the 10 bullet highlight reel of the last 6 months.
Moved in to a gorgeous 2-bedroom apartment in Scottsdale, AZ with a lifelong best friend. 10/10 Recommend.
Adopted a Old English Sheep Dog (4 years old) named Winston. (My roommate is the primary caretaker and owner, but I pitch in of course). Photo at the end.
Joined Orbit Metrics in a co-founder role.
Published 17 podcast episodes. These are listed below.
Onboarded a dedicated podcast marketing agency to help me maintain my publishing frequency with less time. (Successful delegation).
Hosted four separate “2-Hour Cocktail Parties.” This has been extraordinarily rewarding for making and maintaining new relationships and is directly responsible for what feels like dozens of awesome new friends in Arizona 🌵
Fitness progress has been steady. Two major accomplishments are flat-bench pressing 100 lb dumbbells (at 159 bodyweight) and finally doing 135 lb strict barbell overhead press (standing). My primary bottlenecks to accelerated progress have been eating enough and navigating mild wrist and knee injuries.
Joined a year long high-ticket coaching program for people building B2B services businesses. I’ve found the investment to be extremely worthwhile thus far.
Have saved incomprehensible amounts of time by working out at the apartment gym, and using Amazon, Instacart, and a local meal prep service to eliminate 99% of food prep effort.
I’ve had countless other neurotic experiments, many failed, many successful. I haven’t reported on them recently, but do not doubt for a second that they are still happening.
New Podcast Episodes (17 new episodes since last time)
Max London: Co-Founder at Contact Bird - Using Twitter DMs to Close Deals
Farzad Rashidi: Co-Founder at Respona: Backlink-Building for B2B Businesses
Matt Leising: Author of Out of the Ether: The Amazing Story of Ethereum and the $55 Million Heist That Almost Destroyed It All
Ali Nichols: Innovating Short Term Rentals Investing with the Co-Founder of Getaway
Jeremy Miner: The Fundamentals of Modern Sales and Persuasion, NEPQ, 7-Figure Commissions and More
Daren Smith: The Path to $10k Per Month As A Creative Entrepreneur
Andy Johns: From Growth Superstar to Mental Health Advocate (Part 2)
Kelley W. Powell: Partnering With Private Equity To Grow Your Business
Nick Gray: Hosting Parties Will Dramatically Improve Your Life
Chris Smith: Author of The Conversion Code, How To Stop Chasing Leads and Start Attracting Clients
Jordan Ross: How To Build an 8 Figure Agency
Jakob Greenfeld: Experiments In Entrepreneurship, Creativity, and Performance Improvement
Aron Clymer: From Geology To Helping Pro Sports Teams with Data & Analytics
Jordan Bell: Agency Bell CEO on How AI Will Change Digital Marketing
Rajeev Kapur: Chase Greatness, Enlightened Leadership For The Next Generation of Disruption
Yael Trusch: Ancient Jewish Perspectives on Modern Personal Finance Challenges
Jake Schonberger: Swapstack Co-Founder on The Future of Newsletters
George Chanos: Chairman of Capriotti's and Former Nevada Attorney General on The Mindset to Survive The 21st Century
Alex Heiden: Founder of Closify on Scaling, Sales, and Pickle-ball
Some miscellaneous highlights
Conducted 3 high production quality in-person podcast episodes (coming soon)
Enjoyed the Turning Point USA America Fest conference in Downtown PHX
Appeared as a guest on several great podcasts (6AMRun, ThisThat, ART Lab)
Finally met Scott Mckeon in person (LK Podcast guest and mentor from Australia)
Have continued to disrespect seed oils the very best that I can.
Currently in a no-alcohol phase and finding it to be very rewarding. Likely going to do the full 2023 sober.
Have finally figured out how to use ClickUp effectively. In retrospect, the learning curve was worth it.
Have consumed 3.5, 8 lb tubs of Mass Gainer since November. Somehow managed to lose weight?
Acquired the coveted “Twitter Blue Check” (ie, I bought it for $8 monthly)
Have watched literally 0 TV, Movies, or Sports this year. Extremely confident that I’ve missed nothing.
What’s On The Radar
Highly considering adopting my own dog in addition to the Sheep Dog
Intending to get back into MMA. Very bummed that I’ve allowed this habit to go inactive for this long.
Looking forward to crossing 1,000 subscribers on YouTube
Actively looking to hire a generalist marketing ops assistant (part-time, hybrid).
Aiming for 225 x 5 Bench Press fairly soon.
Areas For Improvement
Wrist/knee injury management. Not being stupid. Need to see a PT or doc or something.
Striking the balance of using LinkedIn/Twitter/Instagram constructively without being too distracted.
Managing compulsive checking of YouTube Studio Analytics, Slack, iMessage, DMs and Emails
Eating enough food to facilitate strength gains.
Finding time for writing (taking less than 6 months for the next issue).
Effective self management: mainly prioritization (doing the most important thing first) and delegation of work that I don’t need to be the one executing.
Ways You Can Help (This Is An Informal Ad)
Orbit Metrics is my new full-time pursuit. We are an end-to-end data consulting firm and have specialized in marketing analytics.
Any intros/referrals related to the following are welcome in our early stages.
Google Analytics Audits and Migrations from Universal Analytics to GA4
Server Side Tracking, Google Tag Manager, and Pixel Configuration Audits
Outsourced Business Intelligence Team (Google Data Studio, Power BI)
Fractional Chief Data Officer (General Advisory)
Misc technical support: Google Cloud Platform, BigQuery, Cloud Data Warehousing, Reporting Automation, ETL, Mid-Budget custom SWE
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