The Pursuit Podcast: Recent Episodes
Skylor Holm, Brady Hiney, Max Shagaev, Zach Wise, Daniel Rennie
The Pursuit is an unfiltered, unedited, weekly conversation between 5 business owners who share their thoughts on business, mindset, and more.
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This week we had the pleasure of hosting El-amine, a long time standing franchise with Student Works Painting! In this episode we discussed the difference between hard work and hard work tied in with strategy and systemization. El-amine has been able to sell his entire best year season in the preseason this year. With the goal of double his business this year.
We also chatted about the importance of your word and mindset. Hope you enjoy!
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Today we discuss goals, projections, and how to handle your goals for the season. We also discuss the process of starting a production manager, delegation and giving responsibility to those on your team. We have some fun conversations about different painting projects, and specialized crews. We then talk about paint knowledge, and how much you should know as a business owner running a painting business.
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In this episode, we dive into different ways we are self sabotaging, and how that is affecting our lives.
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Today on this 3 person episode, we chat about Brady & Max's sales structure, Zach’s structure of cold calling in the evenings vs making calls, and more.
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In this episode, we dive deep into the topics of patience, judgment & Love. We hope you enjoy, and take something away from this conversation!
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In this episode, Skylor and Dan host together as a two-person special diving into topics about what the transition is like going from Student Works to Pro Works, and what Daniel has been doing to make adjustments and adapt to a new type of business moving into the new season.
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In this episode, we discuss different objections we have been facing in our sales process, starting from the first call through to the close.
If you are a SWP Operator, Consult your DM for any advice within these areas, and take these conversations as you will.
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In this episode, we discuss our findings from the mindset presentation given by Amer Abu Shakra at the SWP Training. We talk about our blind spots and help each other uncover what's TRULY holding us back in our lives.
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IMPORTANT We will now be uploading the podcast every second Monday, with bonus episodes occasionally. This is to ensure we can have better conversations, and in turn, deliver a better listening experience to everyone who supports the podcast.
New changes coming to the podcast! We have changed the name of our podcast from "Prime 5" to "The Pursuit Podcast". We feel that this aligns more with our mission for the podcast, and what we want to create.
In this episode, we discuss Daniel's dilemma with hiring full-time staff and having them rely on him at a deeper level. We go through Zach's IG "Pitch" to make some new friends, and then we discuss what makes a candidate desirable as a painter.
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In this episode, Skylor, Brady & Zach discuss Skylor & Zach's broken down plan for their upcoming Student Works Seasons. Both Zach and Skylor have ambitious goals for this upcoming year, so it was great to break them down with Brady acting as an external third party.
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In this episode, Brady discusses with us his new appreciation for books, and how intentionally learning instead of reading for "clout" has changed the amount that he is able to retain. We also discuss Zach's struggle with his Clarity and goals, and Max's new experience with attending church.
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In this episode, we discuss the importance of being intentional with your language and eliminating "weasel words" from your vocabulary. We also discuss our takeaways from our Pheonix trip, Zach's plan for his business next year, and more.
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In today's episode, we discuss the learnings from the book "No More Mr.Nice Guy". How it has affected our lives, and what we took away from the book as a whole.
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In this episode, Max poses the question "Do you need to dive into the roof of your problems in order to effectively solve them?" This sends us down a spiral of questions and debates, and we try to uncover if there is anything deeper tying this question to Max. We then talk about Dainel's new attempt to focus his attention by narrowing down his notifications and journaling his thoughts.
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In this episode, Daniel opens up about his recent struggles, and decides to turn a new leaf. Brady asks us some pivotal questions about where we currently are, and where we want to go. Are you always learning in your life? How important is remaining a student to you?
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In today's episode, the guys have a bit of a slower conversation. Everyone's seasons are winding down, and with that, new topics of conversation are slower than typical. We discuss Zach's trip out to Kelowna to see the Proworks team, Skylor's last moments as a DM, Daniel's future systems, Cold Emailing and more.
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In this episode, we dive into Zach's communication problems, and how he feels that he struggles to have engaging conversations with the people he cares about. Then, Brady faces a moral problem, questioning if he is the best version of himself for those who "look up" to him. We hope you enjoy this episode!
In today's episode, we bring on Kyle Hiney and discuss the successes and failures of his season. We then talk about Zach's new coaching learnings, and much more.
In today's episode, we discuss the results of Zach's 4-day fast and Brady's fire scares. We then dive into the idea of "taking a break". Is designated relaxation time a necessary factor of success? We then discuss next year's SWP Plans for Skylor & Zach, and how they will have an internal competition with one another next year. Zach makes an agreement with the guys to kickstart his fitness habits once again. And lastly, we talk about the love languages, to help Daniel navigate relationships with those close in his life.
In this episode, we recap the Northern AB vs Southern AB softball battle, Then we discuss the end of Max's season. We try to help him realize that just because the season is coming to an end, quitting early is not an option. We touch on Daniel's production situation, Zach's new nutrition framework, and more.
In today's episode, we discuss the concept of being proud of yourself. Are you truly proud of yourself? What does this even mean? what factors should impact this feeling?
The boys had a bit of a busy week, so this episode description is non-existent. This episode is a bit all over the place, but overall a great chat amongst the guys.
In this episode, Daniel tells us a funny story, Max asks a question, and we get a bit vulnerable as a group discussing drugs and alcohol. For the last half of the conversation, we talk about Daniels's coaching struggles and Max's burnout within his business.
Yesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery, today is a gift. That is why it's called the present. Today, we harassed Zach a bit about his gym habits, to determine if he truly wants to do it. Our reoccurring guest speaker Skylor joins us, and Brady even chimes into the conversation!
Today we sit down with Cam Russelle, a Student Works Painting alumni, and founder of AboveMen. A program focused on peak performance for entrepreneurial men. We discuss a wide variety of topics, including the difference between mature and immature masculinity, mindset, focus, fasting, energy, sleep, addictions, and more. Cam is a wealth of information regarding health and energy, and he shared a lot of value with us in this episode.
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Suprise! Last night we had the chance to record a very impromptu episode with the "Weekly Call" pod members. Brady, Max, and Zach were all placed into the same zoom group on a Strategy Call for the "Weekly Ballers" Patreon call, so we decided to take the opportunity to record our conversations for our own podcast. Huge thanks to Amer, Austin & John for letting us upload this recording! We hope you gain value from this, we know we definitely did.
In this episode, Kyle Hiney steps in place of his brother, Brady. We get to have our usual conversation but with a new perspective. We also get to pick Kyle's brain about his business, hear some struggles, and point out some blind spots within his business that we could see for him as a first-year operator.
Today, we talk about insecurity. What does it mean to be insecure? Can you be confident and insecure at the same time? What are the driving forces behind insecurity? How come some people experience prolonged insecurity, while others just experience it for brief moments? We made a couple of breakthroughs today, so stick around to see what we discovered.
In this episode, we talk a lot about addictions, adversity, and awareness. All of us right now are operating on some form of addiction, addictions to alcohol, phones, sugar, caffeine, drugs, and more. The human impulse that cycles around dopamine hits is significant, and most of us are not even aware that we are addicted to something. These addictions can be powerful indicators of our possible futures. What you can not control, will inevitably control you. What are you addicted to?
Today, we talk about Daniel's realizations of what success within his life looks like, and we dive into Zach's struggles with production and organization. We also chat about some funny occurrences at the recent Edmonton payroll event, and discuss how Bradfy has set his life up in ideal circumstances. To not only achieve his goals for the vision of his life but also do it in a way that he enjoys the journey. At the end of the episode, we have a rare Max and Brady one on one conversation.
Today we sit down with Illia Usach, a 23-year-old from Winnipeg, Manitoba started as a Student Works Operator. After 4 years of operating with Student Works, he moved into his own business of doing house flips. He shares with us his wisdom on his journey. What goes into house flip? How do you find structure and complete these types of deals? Beyond that, we dive into Illia's mindset, to unveil what drives his operating system. What makes reputation, systemization, and organization within his business so important? Illia then joins us for a brief conversation, touching on Daniel's adjustments as a result of last week's conversation.
In this episode, we talk about Dan's current level of frustration within his business, where we come to realize that Daniel is just making excuses. Daniel's original goal was one that he set in a different mind frame than he is now. What he thought he wanted, might not be what he actually wanted. Daniel needs to look deeper into what he truly does want, and where his priorities lie.
In this episode, we chat a lot about time management and fulfillment. What does life look like if you can have your cake and eat it too? What does sustainability look like long term?
In this episode, Max gets called out by Skylor. We dive into his business to find out exactly why things are the way they are. We push, and discover friction points, that if alleviated could be beneficial. We also talk about operating systems. Daniel has become aware of his operating system, and has realized that he operates in fear-based decision-making. What fuels your operating system? What is your call to action?
In this episode, we talk about business, recruiting, and the benefits of lawn signs, and using them strategically. Then we dive into the topic of deserving your goals. Do you feel like you deserve to hit your goals, based on your current efforts? Who do you have to be to earn the life you want in the future?
Today's conversation is a bit more laid-back for us, but it was a lot of fun nonetheless. Daniel dives into the results of Brady's goal exercise, and we talk about the goals he came up with. We cover a few topics between and wrap up with some goal setting and overall development.
While we often times practice what we preach here, it's important to remind ourselves that we are all human. We make mistakes, we learn, and we grow. If you take what we say here as advice, it is up to you as the listener to question the things that we say, take time to further understand the subject, and make educated decisions based on what you've heard. We do our best to provide high-quality, actionable advice. but what works for one person might not work for someone else. If you're unsure, talk to someone you trust, or reach out to us. Today, we talk about our authenticity. We discuss wanting to have more deep and real conversations with one another. We discovered that to be genuine during these calls we had to put the audience to the back of our minds and engage as if no one was listening. About mid-way through, we dive into Dan's mini-meltdown, Dan had a very brief mental moment of weakness, that was very difficult to talk through, but we worked through it as a group.
In this episode, we have a more intimate conversation between Max, Zach, and Daniel. We discuss our weeks, switching between Student Works & Pro Works, and happiness. We try to learn more about Max's happiness levels and find out why they are so low. How happy are you at any given moment? Do you think it's something that you can choose?
Andres Romo, A multitalented business owner and entrepreneur, operating in the lovely land of British Columbia in Canada. Starting at the age of 5, playing soccer with dreams of becoming a professional athlete. However, as a young man, he realized that his passions were rooted in the sales world. Facing adversity, living on his own in Toronto with only $600 to his name and rent due the next month, Andres made the choice to commit to a door-to-door sales role and become a force to be reckoned with selling telecoms. Starting from the bottom with no previous experience, Andres quickly built confidence in sales and started selling high ticket offers for different businesses, including Grant Cardone. Andres believes in a no-nonsense, consistency-driven mindset.
In this episode, we talked a lot about thinking. What is the meaning of life, are you thinking intuitively or analytically, what's the difference? While these may be challenging to fully comprehend, we did our best to share our thoughts on the subjects, so we hope it gets the gears in your mind turning.
In this episode, we talk a lot about our financial goals for the future, and what they mean to us. During our conversation, we discussed what it would mean to be a multi-millionaire, or billionaire and what the true value or cost would be behind those titles. Many people automatically assume that more money is automatically better, however, having more in one area of your life may mean having less in another. What would you willingly give up in the pursuit of extreme wealth?
In this episode, we dive into our week's successes and pain points, talk about our consistency with our habits as of late, and then we jump into a discussion about some possible threats posed to our current society. What would happen if the power grid were to suddenly fail? What are some of the risks of ongoing AI development? While we are blessed to live in what could arguably be the greatest time to live on earth, it's very shattering to think of what could happen if it all came screeching to a halt.
In this episode, we start off by talking about our recent employee drop-off. We suffered the unfortunate event of losing a significant amount or position within our staff. We all experienced employee turnover, and a difficult week for lead acquisition with sub-optimal temperatures. Despite this, we didn’t feel saddened or defeated, we all understand that in the realm of business, nothing is guaranteed. We then talk about a variety of things like dreams, and aliens, and somehow wind up on therapy. It really is a wide range of conversation but it’s also a lot of fun to learn new things and discuss different points.
We start off this episode by discussing our successes and failures with our habit challenge week, and we end up going over some of the challenges we liked and didn't like as much. All of us agreed that we enjoyed the challenge overall, and we've opted into continuing these good habits into the future, and we hope that you will too. Then we discussed relationships and influence. Whether we realize it or not, the greatest influences in our lives are often our parents and close friendships. While the influence of those people shapes who we become, I believe we all may be semi-blind to this, I know we all were. It was not until we had this conversation that it really started to hit me. While you listen along, we recommend you take a second to think deeply about who has helped shape the person you are today, and what parts of that influence were good or bad.
In this episode, we talked a lot about our successes and failures this week and really started to dive into our habits and fitness. Then we talked about learning, and the actual skillset it takes to properly learn. It seems crazy that while we all have to be able to learn, there really isn't anything in school taught about the art of learning. How good would you say you are at learning? Lastly, we throw down a habit challenge for the 5 of us, Each one of us picked something we feel we do very well, and challenged the other 4 to achieve a goal based on that habit. We will be logging our completion rates, and posting them for everyone to see on our Instagram page. Although this is an internal competition, we would love it if any of our listeners would like to jump on it as well and compete with us.
In this episode, we dive into our sales processes and talk a lot about things we've been finding successful, and things that have been not quite as successful. Then, we have a lighter conversation about the ens that involved reminiscing, fun stories about our past, how we met, and a few random tales thrown in. Today felt like a much lighter conversation, and we all had a lot of fun recording it.
Disclaimer In this episode, we discuss the topics of hypothetical right or wrong. We end up tying in very controversial topics, such as rape and murder into the discussion, and we did a poor job explaining what our intentions with the conversation were. By no means do we condone any of the topics we discussed, we were simply discussing the idea of "just because one person views the situation as wrong, doesn't mean another person views it as wrong, even if we may not understand where you're coming from". Once again, we do apologize if there's any miscommunication, and we hope nobody was rubbed the wrong way as a result of this conversation.
Right or Wrong? In today's episode, we spend a lot of time talking about right and wrong. What makes something "right", and is there even such a thing? Towards the end of the call, we dive into cold-calling, as we try to get Zach to understand the true value of it, by discussing the perks and skills it helps build that make us stronger both in business and everyday life.
In this episode, we talk a lot about difficult situations. When you are first learning how to run a business, you face a lot of adversity. Something that is both a blessing and a curse as a business owner is that you'll have to address unfavorable situations. Today we share some of our stories with each other about some of the hardships that we have faced. It's interesting that while all of us agreed that while these events were unfolding, it was tough to comprehend and get through them, however looking back on them now, we find them to be fantastic lessons in mindset, and even shared a few laughs together. Hard things are not hard forever, your perception plays a large part in how things unfold.
"Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters" - Nathanael Emmons. Today, our conversation is focused a lot on habits. Are your habits helping, or hurting you? The one thing that I think we all agree on in this group is that our habits should help us learn dedication and discipline, and make us better people along the way. Having good habits makes everything else in life easier. In fact, when you try and live an easier life today, you most often end up making it harder down the road. If you are struggling in this area, find a group of accountability buddies, and spend time with people who want you to grow. Your habits will determine your future.
In this episode, we talk about goal setting and fears. If you want to start your year off right, it's important to find a balance between the two. Often, people set goals that are easy because they are scared of what it means to not achieve those goals. What if we told you that fear is incredibly useful for pushing past those limitations. As we get older, I realize that the things that scare you the most are also the things that you need to be paying attention to, and utilizing to become even better.
In this episode, we talk about living life to the fullest. If you knew you were dying within a predetermined amount of time, would you live your life differently? It's crazy to realize that time really is not on our side, and we are just blips on the radar. Next, we discuss a few miscellaneous topics. At the end of the conversation, Daniel and Max get into a one-on-one conversation where Daniel picks max's brain, discussing many topics such as business, mindset, life choices and more.
In this episode, we dive into the conversation of self-investment. We discuss how much to spend on ourselves, and how each of us does so. Do you invest in yourself? If so, how? Alex Hormozi’s Diet: https://youtu.be/RpqSy5V1fFQ
In this introduction episode, we take a moment to introduce the members of the podcast. Enjoy our lack of reading ability, and learn a bit more about the 5 hosts!
In this episode, we discuss Zach's vision for his clothing company "Overlax Apparel". Then we dive into Skylor's role as a coach. From there we discuss confidence. At what point does confidence become a problem, and what is the difference between confidence and arrogance?
In this episode, we dive into Zach’s struggle with his attention & memory. From this, we talk about being intentional with your actions, and having a more detailed schedule.
In this episode, we dive into the conversation of death and mortality. Should you live your life today, or wait for the future?