Ep. 31: What’s Your Box of Awesome? An Interview with Dan Waldschmidt

Dan Waldschmidt is a best-selling author, motivational speaker and business strategist. He’s been an successful entrepreneur, a failure and a successful entrepreneur again. Dan also came within a whisker of committing suicide – he had a gun to his mouth, about to pull the trigger. But he didn’t. He decided that his life’s story wasn’t meant to end that way – that there had to be one more chance, one more opportunity, one more way forward. 

 

His book – Edgy Conversations: How Ordinary People Can Achieve Outrageous Success” – is a 9-time best seller. The Wall Street Journal calls his blog, Edgy Conversations, one of the Top 7 sales blogs anywhere on the internet. 

 

Dan is also a champion ultra-runner. He’s training to get down to a 2:20 marathon and has a personal goal of setting the world record for the most running miles covered in a 24-hour period, currently set at 180 miles.

 

Fasten your seatbelt. He’s intense with a purpose.

 

In this episode, Dan and I apply his EDGY Framework to life as an entrepreneur and startup CEO.

 

EXTREME: What is the AWESOME that you want to achieve with your business? What are you tolerating in your work and business that’s holding you back? 

 

3 Steps to Start:

1. Take the time to sit and be quiet. Figure out what your mission is for your life and your business. 
2. Identify the resources available to you – people, money, time
3. Take action and ask for help.

 

DISCIPLINE: Are you putting in the right time and the right effort to achieve your awesomeness?

 

GIVING VALUE: Give until it hurts. Give until it makes no sense that you are giving so much.

 

Y(H)UMAN FACTOR: How can I make my startup more human? What’s the danger of not being human? What are the things that you’re doing that are SLOPPY or DON’T CONNECT with customers?

 

Links & Resources:

• Dan’s home page: http://danwaldschmidt.com/
• Dan’s book on Amazon: "Edgy Conversations: How Ordinary People Can Achieve Outrageous Success"
• To Write Love On Her Arms: https://twloha.com: To Write Love on Her Arms is a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury, and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire, and also to invest directly into treatment and recovery.
• Getflow.com
• https://bond.co/
• Dan’s recent ultra running race results