The Sam Ovens Podcast
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
My Workstation Setup (For Productivity)
23 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, I share my workstation setup. I get paid nothing from these companies, it's what I use. If you want to watch it: https://www.consulti...
I'm Back (What I Did For 2-Years)
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
I'm back. Here's what I've been up to for the past 2-years.
75. Sacrifice, Yield And Asymmetric Returns
25 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Sacrificing things, and doing less, is not sexy. Sacrifice is tricky thing to get right, most entrepreneurs get it wrong. Rather watch it? https://ww...
74. How To Use Metrics
17 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Here's a quick sneak-peek into the Consulting.com Quantum Mastermind event! Listen to Sam as he answers some burning questions. Note: We were using a ...
73. Scale, Mess And Debt
24 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Scaling a business is an awesome topic, cleaning up the mess and paying back the debt from scaling is not. This is a tricky thing to balance. Most ent...
72. 3 Good books in 8 minutes
11 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
3 Good books in 8 minutes. Need I say more. The books are: 1. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't by Jim Collins —...
71. Sleep To Win - Part Two - Software
04 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is part two of the "Sleep To Win" mini-series, today we cover the software required to take your sleep to the next level. Rather want to watch it...
70. Sleep To Win - Part One - Hardware
03 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Want to be smarter? Happier? Less stressed, more intelligent, more creative, less anxious, more focused, rational, and calm? If you want these things ...
69. Shiny Object Syndrome? (the cure)
27 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Do you get distracted by shiny objects? Always looking for something new to replace the thing that was new yesterday? (yes, you're crazy). At its core...
68. How To Make Decisions
13 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Are you indecisive? Struggle to make fast decisions? History of poor choices? Put things off? Resort to "other peoples thinking" or following the crow...
67. Why Your Brain Is Messed Up
06 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Do you get confused? Trouble thinking clearly? Overwhelmed by complexity? Paralyzed by decisions? Emotions contradicting logic? The brain is humankind...
66. Why You Can't Do The Work
30 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Do you procrastinate? Problems with consistency and discipline? And... Do you have a hard time actually wanting to do the work? This podcast exp...
65. What I've Been Doing Recently (BIG Change)
23 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
You might have noticed I've been quiet recently... No weekly blog videos, no daily emails, no social posts, no live-stream Q&A's, no nothing...
63. How To Play With Chaos (4 Laws)
26 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Until you make the unknown known, it will dictate your life and you will call it "fate". We live in a world of complexity and chaos — you either dro...
62. Success Has Ingredients: Garbage In Garbage Out
19 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What are the "ingredients" of success, Intelligence, and skill? What are the constituent parts? The source materials? Most people believe success, int...
61. The Genius Of Contradiction (15 Examples)
05 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Normal people believe in one true "right" and "wrong". Geniuses, billionaires, and scientific revolutionaries believe in "contradiction". Normal peopl...
60. Why I Get Away To Think (7 Things On My Mind)
19 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What you see depends not only on WHAT you look at but also on WHERE you look from. This video shares how I use distance to think clearly + 7 important...
59. What Does Perfection Look Like?
06 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What problem are you solving? For who? With what solution? What makes your solution different? And most importantly: What would the perfect solution l...
58. Why Your Mind Is Full Of Weeds
29 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Chances are your mind looks like this... It's full of "weeds", there probably is a plant somewhere in there, but you've mistaken the weeds for the pla...
57. 9 Things I Wish I Knew When I Was 20
22 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
I decided to become an entrepreneur when I was 20 years old, now I'm 30. I've made a lot of mistakes and learned important lessons. This video shares ...
56. Why Communication Is Inefficient
15 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Communication KILLS businesses. It's a BAD thing! So are open-plan offices, meetings, managers, and big teams. Last year my company grew significantly...
55. How I Learn New Things
08 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The greatest skill I have is the skill of learning. Most people haven't learned how to learn. They learned a specific skill, language or subject, but ...
54. Improvement From Subtraction
02 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Warren Buffett said: "I want to know where I'm going to die so that I never go there". The best way to improve your life and business is to avoid cata...
53. Tools To Plan For The New Year
27 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
If you don't have a plan, you'll become a part of somebody else's plan. By failing to plan, you're planning to fail. Planning your life is extremely i...
52. My Strange Behavior Explained
18 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ever wondered why I behave abnormally compared to others? Ever wondered why I use things I tell you not to use? To most people, my behavior looks cont...
51. Why I Meditate (And How)
11 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Meditation has changed my life and made me a better businessman. It's also made me more money. How does that happen? Well, let's break it down... To b...
50. Long-Term Thinking, 2nd Order Consequences & Effect Horizons
05 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The thing about money is time. The thing about time is that nobody knows how it works. The result? Frustrated people who don't have money or tim...
49. Why Outsiders Always Win: 8 Unorthodox CEO's You've Never Heard Of
27 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ask people who the best performing CEO in history was and they'll tell you "Jack Welch". What's interesting, is that Jack Welch was far from the best ...
48. 9 Inconvenient Truths About The Online Business Market
14 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In a time of universal deceit — telling the truth is a revolutionary act. Right now the online business market is in a state of delusion, fantasy an...
47. How To Be More Productive (Quantum Mastermind Recording)
01 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It's funny, people try to make the business so complicated. They get all worried about the latest software, the new podcaster microphone and making su...
46. How Billionaires Think - Decoding The Billionaire Mind
23 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How do billionaires think? Are their brains different than other peoples? Success isn't magic, it's cause and effect. There are actions people have ta...
45. Why Does Your Business Exist? (Other Than Making Money)
20 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Why does your business exist other than for the purpose of making money? This is the MOST important question you can ask! And what's scary is that mos...
44. Death By 1,000 Cuts: How You Waste Time
04 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Tired of moving slowly and getting pulled in 100 directions? Tired of projects lying in limbo and not completing anything? Chances are, you've suffere...
43. Stop Confusing Yourself - Define The Problem And Solve It!
22 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Confused? Frustrated? Not sure why you're doing what you're doing? Confusion occurs when you don't know what to do. To figure out what to do, you must...
42. Systems Thinking: How Billionaires Think
14 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Do Billionaires think differently? How does their thinking differ compared to normal people? This question has fascinated me and finding the answer be...
41. The 3 Stages Of A CEO/Founders Focus
08 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What should you focus on as the CEO/Founder of a brand new company? Most people have no idea and they waste their time focusing on the trivial many in...
40. Why I Only Hire "Full Stack People"
30 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The difference between "exceptional people" and "good people" isn't incremental, it's exponential. Exceptional people are 10x better than good people....
39. Top 3 Reasons Why Businesses Fail: A Postmortem Analysis
10 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Why do most businesses fail? What do they do wrong? And most importantly, how can you avoid making these fatal mistakes? Most entrepreneurs and busine...
38. Promoters VS Operators -- How To Scale To 8-Figures Without Blowing Things Up
03 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How do you grow your business from a scrappy 1-man band to a well oiled 8-figure machine? This transformation is hard and most entrepreneurs don't mak...
37. Quarterly Reviews - How To Rethink Everything & Grow Exponentially
26 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How do you come up with those 10x ideas that get you exponential growth? How do you break the linear growth trajectory and go exponential? I can tell ...
36. Machine Everything - Remove The Need For Humans To Think
14 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
More with less -- That's the objective of evolution, to remove waste and optimize for value and efficiency. Darwin was right: Life is a game of "survi...
35. How To Filter Your Information - Everybody's Wrong Until Proven Right
07 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How do you find the TRUTH in today's world? How do you navigate the minefield of misinformation, fake news, propaganda, biased views, and blatan...
34. Cause & Effect Timeframes - Why Today's Results Came From Last Years Work
31 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Most people fail to see long-term cause and effect relationships...They're shortsighted and they only think in timeframes of today, this week and this...
33. How To Turn The "Hard Things" You Avoid Into Base Instincts You Can't Live Without
25 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Most people suffer from the "natural giftedness" delusion. They think that successful people are born naturals who master things immediately -- and --...
32. A Recipe For Domination: Long Term Thinking, Moats And Asymmetric Warfare
16 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How can you do things that others can't? That's the question you must ask yourself if you want to gain a competitive advantage, slaughter the competit...
31. Decision Fatigue: Why Successful People Wear The Same Clothes Everyday
08 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Why do people like Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, and Dr. Dre wear the same clothes every day? It's because of something called "decision fa...
30. Shiny Object Syndrome: Why The Grass Isn't Greener On The Other Side
27 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Do you struggle to stick to things and get distracted by new shiny objects? If you look back over the past month or the past year -- How many di...
29. Does It Make The Boat Go Faster? How To Focus On Speed Instead Of Maintenance
24 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Most people think they're hustling and grinding, but really they're just going hard on maintenance. And no matter how hard you go on maintenance...
28. Chunking: The Secret To Achieving Big Goals
20 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Do you know that Amazon has 560,000 employees and 300,000,000 customers? Right now, today, there are people out there that are struggling to reply to ...
27. Tired Of Wasting Your Time?
13 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Are you tired of burning yourself out trying to do 1,000 different things and feeling like you're going nowhere? Time is the most finite and pre...
26. Why Productivity Is Overrated! The Secret Is To Do Less Not More
04 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We all have the same amount of time and energy, so why do some people achieve 1,000x more than others? This question fascinated me. Did it becom...
25. The Importance Of Quarterly Reviews
29 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This is because most people don't fact check themselves throughout the year and by the time year-end comes around -- it's too late. In this podc...
24. Outputs Derive From Inputs: You Are What You Consume
20 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to achieving something great, people tend to think that it's "magic" or the person is "gifted" or "lucky". This couldn't be furthe...
23. 5 Profound Lessons I Learned From Reading Jeff Bezos Letters To Amazon Shareholders
28 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
If there's anybody in the world you should learn from, Jeff Bezos should be one of them. Bezos has grown Amazon to be the most valuable company ...
22. The "Flywheel" -- The Secret Behind The Success Of Amazon, Google, Uber And Facebook
22 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ever wondered how companies like Amazon, Google, Uber, and Facebook grew to be so big? The answer isn't luck, chance, raising capital or timing... &nb...
21. The "Expert" Lie That's Holding You Back: Why You Don't Need To Be An Expert To Get Paid In Business
16 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
One thing that fascinates me is why people believe they can't do things that they are clearly capable of. Some people call these "limiting belie...
20. 8 Things That I Use Everyday To Get More Out Of Life
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
HERE'S THE LIST OF THINGS: 1. Quest Bars -- The Best flavor is chocolate chip cookie dough 2. La Croix -- Best flavors are the tall skinny cans ...
19. How The Myers Briggs Personality Test Can Change Your Life
22 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It's not often that I come across something this accurate and this powerful. I have taken almost every behavior and personality test there is and noth...
18. How to Achieve Peak Performance by Taking Daily Breaks and Vacations
17 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
As business owners, we are constantly faced with the internal and external conflict of achieving "work-life balance". At times we can feel guilty for ...
17. How to Gain Laser Focus In a World of Distraction
11 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Finding focus in a world full of distraction can be an extremely hard thing to obtain. Sometimes we need to think outside the box by inverting the equ...
16. The Greatest Factor That Determines If You'll Be Successful
04 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Finding the key commonalities behind what makes an individual thrive in a given circumstance while others may crumble has been an obsession of mine ov...
15. How I Would Start a Business From Scratch (If I lost Everything)
27 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Starting a business from scratch can be a challenging endeavor. Many people become paralyzed by self-doubt and uncertainty when starting a busi...
14. How Do You Gain Self-Confidence In Business?
21 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Why are some people more confident than others? Is it something they're born with or is it something else? One question we get time and time again is:...
13. Is it better to be a specialist or a generalist?
20 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The man who chases two rabbits catches none, but how does the man know which rabbit to chase? How does he know that he wants that particular rabbit? I...
12. How you do one thing is how you do everything
20 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Early in my career, I noticed a pattern...I’d build things up to a certain point, then I'd break them down to a certain point. For every action, the...
11. How do you come up with an awesome idea?
20 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
How do you come up with a good idea for your business? Most people believe that the thing stopping them from starting their own business is a "good id...
10. How do you deal with friends and family who are against you?
20 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
“9 out of 10 businesses fail” “Don’t get your hopes up too much” “Maybe you should just finish your degree” These are the verbal b...
9. Why being yourself is a myth in life and business
20 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Why do people think it's bad to be somebody who you're not? Why do people always say "Be yourself". "Stick to your roots" and "Don't forge...
8. The Compound Interest Of Success
16 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Albert Einstein once said: “Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it earns it. He who doesn’t, pays it.”...
7. What Steve Madden Can Teach You About Natural Selection
04 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
How do you know whether your ideas will fail or be successful? You can think about it for a month, a year or even an entire lifetime but thinking alon...
6. Why You Should Focus On The Basics & Ignore The Complex
17 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Do you ever feel like you're drawn towards complexity like a moth to a flame? Most people are obsessed with complexity and they feed their addictions ...
5. Four Books Every Entrepreneur Must Read
19 Mar 2015
Contributed by Lukas
As an entrepreneur starting out there’s a lot of things you need to know. The best way to learn is by reading books. I have been to university, I ha...
4. How I'd Start Over And Rebuild My Business From Scratch
26 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
One question that I get all the time almost every single week is: “Sam, if you were starting from scratch, you knew nothing and had nothing, say no ...
3. Four Beers And How To Create Revenue Generating Habits
18 Feb 2015
Contributed by Lukas
When you're starting out as an entrepreneur or early-stage business owner NOTHING is as important as sales. Without sales you don't have custome...
2. Are You Inventing Things To Avoid The Important
27 Jan 2015
Contributed by Lukas
We as humans constantly have voices inside our heads that guide us through decisions in life however when we try to do something important or somethin...
1. The Importance of taking breaks
20 Jan 2015
Contributed by Lukas
When was the last time that you took a proper break? If you want mental clarity, that sharp edge and those quantum leaps in both your life and your bu...