Digital Social Hour
From Drifting to Top 10: Building a 300K Download Podcast | John Gafford Part 2 DSH #968
10 Dec 2024
From drifting to 300K downloads a month! 🚀 John Gafford reveals how he built a top 10 entrepreneurship podcast and escaped the currents of life. Tune in for game-changing insights on achieving success and living with purpose! 💯 John shares his journey from running nightclubs to owning his first bar at 20, and how he transformed his life to become a high-level achiever. You'll learn: • The power of escaping the "drift" and taking control of your life 💪 • How to build a successful podcast from the ground up 🎙️ • Insider tips on networking and building valuable connections 🤝 • The importance of time management and prioritizing what matters most ⏰ Don't miss out on this eye-opening conversation packed with practical advice for aspiring entrepreneurs and anyone looking to level up their life! Watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly. 📺 Join the conversation and share your thoughts in the comments below! 👇 What's your biggest takeaway from John's success story? #EscapingTheDrift #PodcastSuccess #Entrepreneurship #DigitalSocialHour #SeanKelly #financialeducation #selfimprovement #realestate #howtoincreasepodcastsubscribers #howtostartapodcast CHAPTERS: 00:00 - John Gafford’s Podcast Escaping The Drift 01:28 - Working for Hooters 04:00 - Nightclub Ownership Benefits 06:32 - Future of Las Vegas Entertainment 09:07 - Local Entertainment Scene 11:00 - Vegas Golden Knights Overview 11:52 - Real Estate Insights 13:15 - Ryan Serhant Discussion 14:29 - Navigating Midlife Crisis 16:50 - Working for Others vs. Self-Employment 20:40 - Leaving for 90 Days: Impact 22:18 - Best Time Ever Experiences 24:17 - Mardi Gras Party Highlights 24:55 - Future Plans for John 26:00 - OUTRO APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [email protected] GUEST: John Gafford https://www.instagram.com/thejohngafford/ www.youtube.com/@EscapingtheDriftPodcast LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Dude, I was going to join it, you know, I got, because it was cheap to join. I got approved for the membership and I got it and then I literally, I went there with a couple friends. What it made me realize, do I really need a private club membership that I feel like I'm going to be obligated to use and the only thing really to do there is drink and the place is 35 minutes from my house.
I just decided that's probably a bad plan for me. All right. Part two with John Gafford. It's been a little over a year now. Thanks for coming back on, man. It's been a minute, man. It's been a minute. Yeah. You started your own show now?
Yeah. Well, my show's been going for like three years, consistently now in the top 15 for entrepreneurship. I think it was number nine yesterday. Yeah, we're doing good, man. It's averaging right around 300,000 downloads a month, which I'm very proud of. And yeah, we're doing great, man. That's incredible. Skipping the drift. Yeah. What's your goal with that show?
So, you know, that show is very much like, I have a book coming out very soon. It's actually, I talked to the publisher this morning. Very soon my book will come out with the same name, Escaping the Drift. And the whole idea with that is it's kind of like a user's manual to my dipshit 26-year-old self. So many people are just kind of drifting along with the currents of life.
And what I try to do is provide, uh, you know, practical advice and bring high level achievers on the drop, their secrets about how to kind of get out of that, just floating along with the currents of life and start achieving at a different level. Yeah. So at 26, you were just kind of figuring shit out.
I mean, Dude, I did a lot of really cool stuff, right? I had a lot of super cool jobs as a kid. I mean, I was running nightclubs. I mean, in my early 20s, I was a top-level brass for Hooters of America, a restaurant chain. I owned my first bar when I was 20. Damn. But, you know, I wasn't achieving any real success, right?
Like, I had a lot of cool jobs that I had, but, you know, I wouldn't say I was building any wealth. You were working for someone else. Dude, yeah, man. I was just drifting along with the currents of wherever life was taking me, man. That's what was happening. Hooters fell off, man.
Yeah, dude, I have not been in a Hooters restaurant in, you know, it's one of those things when you eat so much of something for six years, which I did. I never want to eat it again, ever. That's how I feel with Chipotle.
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