In this week's episode we're talking about team productivity and how to win back time in your business using the right tools. Nick interviews Joshua Zerkel, the head of Global Engagement Marketing at Asana.  Joshua has dedicated his professional life to helping individuals and businesses use technology to enhance workflow, communication, and information and time management—all with the goal of becoming more productive, effective, and spending time on what’s important to them. He leads Asana’s network of productivity-oriented customers and community partners to create meaningful relationsh ..read more

Jenny Blake is an author, podcaster, and keynote speaker who loves helping business owners move from friction to flow through smarter systems, powered by Delightfully Tiny Teams. Her third book, Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business, launches March 22, 2022. Jenny’s previous book, Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One, won the Axiom award for best business book in the careers category in 2016. Licensing clients for her Pivot Programs include Google and CHANEL. Jenny hosts two podcasts with over one million downloads combined: Free Time for Heart-Based Business Owners, a ..read more

Justin Donald is a master of low-risk cash flow investing whose strategies and principles for investing to earn passive income have helped thousands of people "create wealth without creating a job." In the span of 21 months, and before his 37th birthday, Justin’s investments drove enough passive income for both he and his wife Jennifer to leave their jobs. Following his simple investment system and 10 Commandments of Lifestyle Investing, Justin negotiated deals with over 100 companies, multiplied his net worth to over eight figures, and maintained a family-centric lifestyle in less than 2 year ..read more

Ted Blosser is the CEO of Workramp, a training platform that helps empower employees to reach their full potential at work. He's on the podcast this week to tell his story of how he went from selling software to founding his own company and disrupting the entire enterprise training platform industry. In this episode, Nick and Ted discuss life as an entrepreneur and how Ted came up with the idea for Workramp. Ted explains his viewpoints on frameworks in business, how to communicate effectively in a remote environment, and which tools are actually worth implementing in your business. He also pro ..read more

Biohackers rejoice! Matt Gallant is on the Leverage Podcast today to discuss how he's been optimizing his mind, body, and those of his clients since 2004 with everything from supplements to sleep technologies and digestive enzymes. If you're interested in learning some new techniques to improve your sleep, feel better, optimize your brain and live longer, Matt is your guy. In this episode, Nick and Matt discuss Matt's story from bodybuilding to working with pro athletes to starting his own supplement company. While Matt started out focusing on optimizing his physical body, he later discovered ..read more

Dave Woodward is a world-class marketing expert, the CEO of Clickfunnels, and a stage 4 brain cancer survivor. Earlier this year, Dave was told he had a month to live—yet he's on the podcast today, cancer-free and on his way to a full recovery. Thanks to his neverending optimism, world-class doctors, and a strict health regimen Dave was able to beat cancer in just three months and get back to running one of the most successful funnel builders in the world. In this episode, Nick and Dave discuss Dave's history with cancer—from diagnosis to becoming cancer free—and how it has affected his outloo ..read more

We're going back into the archives to one of our most popular episodes of all time, Chris Voss! Chris is the author of the best-selling book Never Split the Difference, a book that covers some of the highly-effective negotiation tactics and strategies Chris learned during his 24 years as an FBI hostage negotiator and lead international kidnapping negotiator. If you've never heard this episode, you do not want to miss it—and if you have, you'll probably want to listen to it again! As lead hostage negotiator for the FBI, when an American citizen was kidnapped in any part of the world, it was his ..read more

Elliot Roe is a hypnotherapist and mindset optimization coach who has worked with everyone from Olympic medalists to Hollywood actors, CEOs and Wall Street traders—and today, he joins Nick on the podcast to discuss how he makes it all happen. After getting his start working with professional poker players, he has helped his clients generate hundreds of millions of dollars by shifting their mindsets, correcting negative behaviors, eliminating fears, and breaking through mental roadblocks. In this episode, Nick and Elliot discuss some of the commonalities that Elliot has seen with entrepreneurs ..read more

Psychiatrist, executive coach, podcast host and 9-time bestselling author Dr. Mark Goulston is back on the podcast for part 2 of his conversation with Nick! If you haven't listened to part 1, be sure to go back and check it out here. Today, Nick and Mark continue their conversation around what it means to be a productive and successful business leader, going deeper on what they talked about in part one as well as introducing a number of new topics. In this episode, Nick and Mark discuss why people like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk are not just leaders, but visionaries—and how they got that way. Ma ..read more

Psychiatrist, executive coach, podcast host and 9-time bestselling author Dr. Mark Goulston shares advice for navigating the challenging interpersonal & intrapersonal situations to which every single human can relate. His signature strategies--like surgical empathy and assertive vulnerability--provide an invaluable road map to becoming a better leader, listener and communicator in everyday life. In addition to being a former UCLA professor of psychiatry and FBI/police hostage negotiation trainer, Dr. Mark Goulston hosts the "My Wakeup Call" podcast, he's a keynote speaker, and he is the au ..read more