Brock Johnson

I think also unfollowing anyone who consistently makes you feel that way, whether it's you just can't stop yourself from comparing yourself to them or something in their content is fueling that comparison.

Maybe there's some way they're speaking or something that they're always talking about.

They're always stroking their own ego and it's,

just fuels that comparison in you.

Mute them or unfollow them or heck, block them if they're just showing up in your recommended posts all the time so that you don't fall victim to that game.

And then make sure that you are surrounding yourself by people, and this is my personal opinion, surrounding yourself by people and by content creators and podcasts that don't preach hustle culture.

Because I think, you know, we're all familiar with, you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

Well, nowadays, think about how many of us are spending the most time with a three-hour podcast on the way to work or with a long YouTube video when we're at the gym.

Those content creators and those influencers who were binging their content and spending hours with it every week, a lot of them were spending more time with their posts than our friends and family.

And we need to recognize that they are influencing us just as much, if not more,

And if what they're spewing out is hustle culture, toxic work environments, become a slave to your work, burn the midnight oil, neglect all your priorities in life, and just focus on grinding and hustling and more money and more et cetera, whatever, I think that's really unhealthy.

And so I think that that's something that not everyone would agree with.

I know that there's lots of people who have great success with hustle culture and make a lot of money, but that's just not me.

It all comes back to trust.

And that's the really cool thing about the smaller accounts is the less followers you have, that can be your superpower.

Because now if you only have, let's say 150 followers, it is realistic that you could maybe not memorize all of their names, but you could get to know almost all of them on a personal level and have conversations with them.

And that's going to build trust.

I had a woman on my podcast who was one of our students a few months ago,

who had, I think it was a $30,000 launch.

And then a few months later, another 30 or $40,000 launch with less than a thousand followers.