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7. Why I Stopped 75 Hard...Wanting A Healthier Balanced Lifestyle, The Hardships Of Becoming An Entrepreneur w/ Chris Cowan
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Chris Cowan is the CEO of Eagle Endeavours and a friend of mine here in St. Johns Newfoundland. This episode we discuss leaving our comfortable full time jobs to go chase what we love doing, and why we stopped 75 hard and how its affected us!
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Introduction and Guest Nervousness
00:00:00
Speaker
Welcome to another episode of On Locking with Adam Pike and today I got my first guest on. I was actually quite nervous about this and it's something that I've been wanting to do even on my first episode I mentioned that I was going to be bringing people on but it's like I was getting in my own way of doing this and even before I started this podcast I was even a little nervous and I don't know why because I've known Chris for
00:00:26
Speaker
many years now and you know we're just having a conversation but it's just me in my own head getting in my own way it's something that I'm working on but Chris Cowan is a friend of mine and we got a lot in common we started 75 hard together up until recently but we'll jump into that later we both kind of left our full-time jobs and went into the unknown I guess and
00:00:55
Speaker
Chris started his own company actually. He is the CEO of Eagle Endeavors. Chris, how you doing?
00:01:03
Speaker
Hey Adam, thank you. Thank you for having me. I'm doing really, really well. Yeah, this, this is a really exciting opportunity to hop on your podcast. And I'm really glad that you asked me to be your guest. I'm really appreciative to be the first guest on this. I've been listening to the show. I think it is wonderful. I think a lot of people are getting a lot of value out of it and I hope I can bring some value, add some insights, have some, some cool conversations with you here today. So yeah, thank you so much for having me on.
00:01:33
Speaker
Yeah, I actually don't know why I'm nervous even doing that intro. My heart was like pounding it in my chest. I'm just I guess I'm just so used to always like talking by myself, right? It's like safe space. I'm always by myself recording. But yeah, it's definitely something that I need to
From Job to Entrepreneurship
00:01:51
Speaker
work on. So tell us about your company, Eagle endeavors.
00:01:56
Speaker
Yeah. So, um, so let me, let's, let's, I guess, rewind a little bit to kind of the, uh, the reason why I created even endeavors. And I think that this kind of speaks to something you just mentioned in the intro there that we went into the unknown and, uh, certainly, um, leaving full-time employment and, uh, with a, with a steady job and a very,
00:02:20
Speaker
I was in the telecommunications industry so it was very steady type of work and then going into owning your own business very much the unknown and there's a lot of things that you don't know about getting into business for yourself until you do it.
00:02:37
Speaker
I thought I knew a lot about business before I started my business. And I had different ideas about business before I started my business. So when I started Eagle Endeavors, it started off as a consultancy for doing sales and creating sales systems into different B2B companies and that sort of thing. A lot more consultative type of work. However, that evolved and my business evolved into what it is now is a full stack digital marketing agency.
00:03:06
Speaker
What we found was that there's a lot of companies out there that needed help selling digitally online. After the pandemic, everybody needed to get online to sell their stuff. Brick and mortar shops needed it. And there was a big disconnect in what was available for
00:03:24
Speaker
smaller entrepreneurs, people just starting out on their own, entrepreneurs, small, medium businesses, what they had accessible to them and what your bigger organizations had available to them. So what we tried to do is create a software package.
00:03:40
Speaker
that helps companies market themselves digitally. And then we also provide the skilled hands around that to assist with that. So we can create websites, do your email marketing, do social media, all the rest that goes along with digital marketing and all those supports. But we're trying to democratize that and give the access that same Madison level, Madison Avenue level
00:04:03
Speaker
marketing tools to mainstream businesses. So that's what we do and that's what we're all about. So we're bringing the internet to the world at large. It sounds like I need to hire you. I'll be completely honest. I've been always trying to figure things out on my own and there's a lot that I don't know, right? So like even me starting out
00:04:29
Speaker
I'm just trying to do it all myself, but there's definitely a lot of areas in my life that can improve like this. Even my communication skills and business aspect and all that stuff, things that I don't know.
00:04:45
Speaker
I should definitely let others kind of help me instead of just being so like I can do it myself. You know what I mean? Because you've always been a guy that has always offered your help to me. And I've yet to take up on it. You know what I mean? You know, there's lots of stuff there that we can definitely examine. And I try to not put it especially towards my friends. You know, my business, I really try to make sure that I have a business that's very valuable outside of
00:05:15
Speaker
my friends and family, people using it. I don't want to pressure any of my family or anybody into using my services. If they see value in what I'm doing and then they go, oh yeah, actually I do need some help with email or social or website or e-com or whatever it is, then I'm there to help. But I never kind of push that out towards people. I just instead try to go to the market at large and have that validate
00:05:41
Speaker
And so far it has and that's really great. But I also now feel that I have the skills and the tools to help people. So if there is something that we can, that I can help, definitely happy to take that off and anything you
Expanding Online Reach
00:05:54
Speaker
need. Sorry. I've been here like sitting thinking like how I can, you know, evolve and like, I don't do emails and all that stuff. It's everything. It's just all Instagram and something that I've actually noticed recently is.
00:06:09
Speaker
The following that I have and the numbers that I'm getting, it just doesn't make sense. And my story views used to be like a large number. And the last like two or three weeks, it's been like five, 600 people viewing it. And I'm like, this doesn't make sense at all. I could be reaching a lot more people.
00:06:28
Speaker
So I don't understand what's going on with Instagram. I don't know if you got any insight on that. There's a lot going on right now in the marketplace. One of the big catalysts there is definitely the purchase of Twitter, Elon Musk, and what's going on with that. We've noticed that there's a lot of activity around
00:06:48
Speaker
the scripts and the bots that are on all of the social media, um, different channels. There are a lot of bots that are now being taken care of and whittling that down.
00:07:00
Speaker
as well. The algorithms are being worked on pretty significantly right now. So what you're getting seen shown and what is getting out there is changing. And then continually the what the algorithm is putting out there to people is changing. So for example, you mentioned that your stories are not getting as many views.
00:07:20
Speaker
And that might be maybe they're not done as reels or maybe now they're pulling off of reels and showing more on the posts or what have you. And so it's always constantly evolving and changing. And one of the things that we try to do and help with companies do more of is actually just broaden the scope of what they're doing. So you mentioned that you're pretty deep on Instagram, right? However, you're probably not posting much on LinkedIn.
00:07:48
Speaker
or maybe not on twitter and maybe not on facebook as much as you'd like to or as much as you probably should be doing and so what we try to do is broaden the scope and how you're getting out there and how you can take that same messaging similar messaging to what you're doing on instagram and scale that out put it out there to all the different places and that should help with numbers overall and the amount of impressions
00:08:11
Speaker
uh, or eyes on your business overall. So that's what we try to do. And then we try to put it all into one pane of glass. So I've got software that kind of pulls all of that information together and you can take a deeper look at that. I'd love to show you that stuff too. Actually like plug in some of your, we gotta get together and get some of that up on the screen for you. You'll find that really interesting. I can pull out some of the stuff.
00:08:31
Speaker
you'll go, wow, I didn't know these people were looking at my stories or this was an opportunity for me. So we go out and kind of identify those gaps in digital where companies or entrepreneurs can make inroads and make a big difference. So that's kind of my insight there on that. But again, it's always changing. It's ever evolving. So it's tough to like stay on top of it. And that's what we find for a lot of companies is
00:08:59
Speaker
I don't have time to do that. I'm trying to run my business. I'm trying to train people or develop a better nutrition plan for my clients or what have you, whatever that element of your business that you're really good at doing, you're good at doing that. You're not necessarily out there trying to be a digital marketer and email people every month. That's not necessarily what you're good at or what you want to be doing. So we try to pull some of that stuff off so that we can increase the amount of people looking at you and
00:09:29
Speaker
Something I want to add, you are a family man with three children, so I know I've been thinking about doing what I'm doing right now for years, and I was just terrified to do
Entrepreneurship and Family Balance
00:09:42
Speaker
it, right? And it's just me. Like, it's just me, my cat. Like, Rebecca just came into my life recently, but...
00:09:49
Speaker
I was fucking terrified to leave my job and you know getting that nice cushy paycheck every week and like everything was just like you just knew what your numbers were going to be so I can't imagine how tough it was for you to make that decision like were you battling in your head for a while with that or oh yeah absolutely you know uh starting off um
00:10:18
Speaker
It came down to a couple of different things. One, I couldn't afford not to. I'm just an entrepreneur at heart. I know in my being, in my soul, it's just, it's something in me. Every time I was working for a company, even when I was sales and marketing director for a company, for an IT company, healthcare IT company, when I was, you know, an accounts man, an account executive with another company, all of these times,
00:10:44
Speaker
I always looked at myself as owning my own book of business and kind of operated as if it were my own business anyhow. So I always felt that kind of that drive even in the roles that I was doing to be a business person. And now moving into business ownership, it was clear I couldn't rely on other people for being in business. I couldn't rely on anybody else. I didn't want to rely on anybody else for where I was getting
00:11:14
Speaker
And so I wanted to build something for myself, something that mattered, something that I could help people with. I knew that I had a strong digital, uh, background and that, um, I had a really strong partnerships and network that could make a go of this. So I didn't feel, I felt, yes, it was jumping into the unknown, but it was also, I had always been called to it. And so, uh, thing was if, if it failed and if it falls down, I could go back and get another job.
00:11:43
Speaker
I could go, I can go, and especially now in the world post-pandemic where everything is remote, I can go get a job and work remote from my home office here and do what I was doing before, selling things or what have you. So I felt that there was still enough of a cushion there, but more importantly, in terms of my life and my lifestyle, this allowed me to stay at home with my kids when they needed me.
00:12:10
Speaker
This allows me to go to whatever, uh, recital or basketball game or what have you for my kids. So it was a big part. Um, a big part of this decision was what lifestyle do I want to have now? I don't know. I'd necessarily call this a lifestyle business. I don't know. You know, that term, right? Like where people are like, Oh, I get to like travel everywhere. This lifestyle business is kind of like that.
00:12:37
Speaker
But when you're a family man, it's a bit different, right? It's not about traveling in all those places. It's about being able to be there for the kids' events and just live a life that's a little bit more in balance with what I see my life being. So that's a lot of what it was about.
00:12:57
Speaker
Scary, yeah. Financially, I invested everything in that business. I put everything on the line to do this. This is no joke. It's a real bet. It's a real put your money where your mouth is type of situation that when you're going into business for yourself.
00:13:14
Speaker
That's what you do. That's how you win. You gotta be on though. It's like you gotta be on all the time and you're making the money now. So you don't have time to just sit around and do nothing. I find that for me, if I am sitting around doing nothing, it's almost like I'm beating myself up because I'm like, no, I gotta be doing something now. I gotta be creating content.
00:13:38
Speaker
Like for me, when I was at my last job, I found that it was just sucking the soul out of me. And I was just this number coming in every single day, working for people that literally don't give a fuck about you. Like if you were to leave, well, I left, I didn't even get a phone call from these people, right? So I found just showing up every single day and doing that,
00:14:05
Speaker
I've done it for years. As soon as I got out of high school, I did it for 10 years. Now that I'm here, we're in the position I am right now. When I look back on that, I was like, how the fuck was I doing that for so long? I had a phone call with a client last night and he's only been with me for
00:14:24
Speaker
Two weeks now and like just his the change from that first phone call to the second phone call Like you just so much more happier. He's like, oh man, I can't I can't wait to get up like fuck Yeah for life and like that makes me feel good because then I'm like, well Jesus like I'm I'm doing something right but just showing up to that job every day like just doing like my my past job just doing mindless shit and
00:14:51
Speaker
breathing in chemicals. And you know what I mean? It's just that I always knew that there was more for me. That's that's why I actually tried for a bit. I tried out for Big Brother because I was always telling myself, there's more to life than this than working. So I was like, fuck it up. I'll try for Big Brother. Yeah, so yeah, that's that's awesome. And
00:15:11
Speaker
You know, similarly, right? Uh, trying out for big brother and doing all that stuff. You can kind of feel it in, in you that there was something bigger. There was something more that you wanted to achieve and go do, uh, which is really neat. Um, because right, you're in that job still, you're still doing that job, but you still felt that in there. And I find that there's a lot of people out there.
00:15:30
Speaker
that want to be an entrepreneur uh they they feel this inside of them too they go wow i know that there's more for me than this job that i'm doing right now but they can't really see that the forest through the trees they can't see the light at the end of the tunnel they can't figure out the way out of there and a lot of times it's a
00:15:49
Speaker
traumatic event that gets us to kind of shake out of what we're doing and into into that next Part of who we're going to be right? Sometimes that's really uncomfortable Sometimes it's not a fun thing to go through right like the pandemic really changed the game for me and forced me into needing to do something different and I was
00:16:12
Speaker
And I struggled with it. Even though I knew that I wanted to go do my own business, I didn't know what that business would look like, how I would make money, where our meals would come from, how I was going to pay the mortgage, all that stuff. It really was really, really dark, man. There's definitely a dark side to entrepreneurship and to doing your own thing that isn't talked about a whole lot out there.
00:16:35
Speaker
because a lot of people just romanticize the entrepreneur lifestyle, right? Like that, it's the lifestyle of being an entrepreneur. And it's really tough to kind of go inside after a traumatic event that shakes you out of whatever you're doing into a new business. That's a really difficult period of time for a lot of people.
00:16:57
Speaker
And it requires that to shift you into this but through going through all of that i ended up with this great business i ended up in a much better place and i'm a much happier person now because i've gone through it all but i see that there's so many people out there that didn't get that shake that still feel the same way that i did inside.
00:17:14
Speaker
going, Hey, I really want to do that. So that was a big part of why I made the business that I did, because I want to help those people, the people who are going, Hey, I don't know if I can do this. I don't know how to sell things on the internet. Well, I wanted to help those people sell things on the internet so that they could go and take that leap with a little bit less of the trepidation that I had. Right.
00:17:33
Speaker
Something that I definitely feel like we need, like going out into the unknown is your mindset, right? Cause like you need to constantly be motivating yourself to get up and go. Like when you have a job, it's just like alarm goes off, you get up, you're like, you fucking hate your life, but you do it because you have to, or you're going to get
Challenges of the 75 Hard Challenge
00:17:55
Speaker
fired. But like when you're on your own, you have to just motivate yourself, right? So.
00:18:01
Speaker
I feel like us doing 75 hard kind of helped with that. You know what I mean?
00:18:08
Speaker
How is, yeah, should we just jump right into that? Sure, yeah, dive in, yeah. Yeah, 75 hard. Let me just jump in. So me and Chris started 75 hard roughly around the same time. And you guys know that I've done it before and I'm doing it again. So basically, like you do the two workouts a day, one has to be outside, you don't drink, there's a bunch of tasks and it's just, it like makes your mental state very strong.
00:18:38
Speaker
but the other night, I was kind of thinking in my head, I have this wedding in Toronto coming up, I'm actually leaving tomorrow. And I was questioning myself, I'm like, am I really gonna go to Toronto when all these, like all Rebecca's friends I've never met before are gonna be like going for dinner, going to cocktails and this and that and like party and I'm gonna be like, well, no, sorry.
00:19:05
Speaker
I'll be I'll be there like an hour I got I just gotta go run outside for an hour or I'm gonna go read or I gotta do this and like the 75 heart really is it's really a Huge commitment, but I know I'm making excuses right now because there is no reason why I can't get up at 5 a.m. And crush all these things out while they're all hungover so I am making excuses, but I just decided to take a break so I was kind of
00:19:33
Speaker
I sent the text to Chris of a beer can and I was like, I want to open it, I want to open it. I literally had it, like I was watching the basketball game and I had the beer can just there and I was like probably an hour and I finally opened it up and had it.
00:19:52
Speaker
and then i went to the store uh with rebecca because she wanted to get some some snacks and i was like man i cracked a bear so i might as well fucking go all out tonight so i went to the store about cookies candies chips and everything then i get a a picture from chris he's like at the bar having a beer so i don't know if i influence you into doing that or
00:20:18
Speaker
Well, you know, it definitely influenced me into trying 75 hard again in the first place. So if anything, you got me to start it right off the bat, right? So there was that because I had done it previously. Hold up. It just says that you're offline offline.
00:20:37
Speaker
Let's just keep, let's just keep going guys. I'm like, I don't know much about this. This is my first time. So I'm going to pray for the best that this is going to continue to record. Um, but I just noticed that the, yeah, but anyways, okay. Okay. All right. I still see it online. I still see recording myself. So I don't, I don't know if that's something weird, but, uh, we'll keep going. Hopefully it does record us because I think the 75 hired thing is really important to, um,
00:21:04
Speaker
It was really important the first time I went through it and then the second time, you know We got through whatever it was 45 days or something like that 45 days no alcohol working out outside every day You know, I lost a bunch of weight lost
00:21:21
Speaker
you know, a lot of tolerance for alcohol too. So that one beer at the bar, I was definitely feeling it. So be careful when you go out to Toronto, man, you can't drink like you used to be able to drink before you do the 75 parent is ridiculous. That's why I actually started 75 hard was because of drinking because I had this, this one night where I just drank way too much. And I,
00:21:49
Speaker
Something in me just like Adam Adam wasn't in here anymore. Adam wasn't here. He was gone. He was just like Saying ridiculous shit to people and it was embarrassing So like the next day I got up and I was just like, oh my god, like I had anxiety. It's like there's not there's not it there's not it I can't like me like who I am I can't be going out in public and Making like because that's just not a good look and that's not who I want to be seen as right so
00:22:19
Speaker
That's why I started 75 hard, but I did notice that when I stopped, that night I had a couple of beer, had a few cookies, snacks, and then the next day I even had a couple of beer, a couple of snacks. I was still working out, but I actually noticed a difference in my body.
00:22:38
Speaker
building up, I was 47 days into it, right? So I noticed that I was like getting like my abs are starting to show again. And just from those three days of stopping, I noticed that, you know, that my abs were slowly starting to go away. And I was like, Holy shit. So I, the people that I work with, you know, sometimes they start off very strong and they're like, they're doing the workouts or eating clean. And then they kind of fall off the mat.
00:23:06
Speaker
And I like even, even myself, I've noticed that since stopping 75 hard, um, I'm kind of falling off the map, but I'm still, I'm still working out, but like everything once it gets like a slippery slope when you kind of get off that path. So that's why I feel like most people don't have it in them. When they get off that path, they just keep going down that path. Right. Yeah. Momentum is definitely a big thing. Right. Uh, and you know,
00:23:39
Speaker
You know, you had your, your conversation with somebody and they're feeling really pumped and they're seeing some results. And, uh, it's easy that first week and they're feeling more energized and they feel that momentum and it gets easier as they build a routine to do those things. Right. And then it's a routine every day at lunchtime. You go to your workout and you, you know, you, you do your meal prep on Sundays at this day, at this time and all of those sorts of things. It becomes easier to, to do that because of that momentum. And similarly.
00:24:01
Speaker
It spirals upwards, right?
00:24:07
Speaker
when you're going downhill, it's easy to keep that momentum going downhill as well. So it's like, you know, you slip up and you have a beer, but then you go out and you buy 12 cookies and then you go out and buy 12 more beer and then you buy, you know, a big bag of Sour Patch Kids and whatever, right? And it's easy to see how it can quickly spiral downwards
00:24:35
Speaker
But that's an interesting phenomenon that I found in everything in life is a sense of momentum. It's not very often that we're just standing still where we are. We're maintaining like that part of your life where you're just maintaining this, this body or this mindset or this financial situation. That period of time is very, very seldom. It's usually you're either on the way up or you're on the way down.
00:24:57
Speaker
And, uh, so that sense of momentum is, is really important to know what's going on in your life and how you're, you're moving. So oftentimes it's hard to find that you're, you're in that downward spiral of how do I get out of it? But no, just knowing that there's momentum pulling you in either of these directions is really important to know. And I've, I've tried to use momentum to my advantage a lot, um, because it's.
00:25:26
Speaker
Once you're going up, it's easy to take your foot off the gas. It's easy to go, oh, I'm already doing so good. I don't need to do so well now, right? I try to use momentum to propel myself more. And I think that that's been something that's really, really helped me in business and in life. Yeah. 100%.
00:25:46
Speaker
It is, it's crazy. Like this week for me, or even last week as well, I guess it's just the start of this week, but it's been off.
Maintaining Motivation and Routine
00:25:55
Speaker
Like honestly, I don't know if it's just the season and it's just darker now, but like I'm finding that I'm not getting off as early. I'm like kind of struggling to get out of bed and I've just been like, I'll have a whole day plan, but it's like I'm almost in my head about it and it's like,
00:26:14
Speaker
it's my motivation is starting to go down and but i noticed that the things that i was uh stopping was i was meditating every single day and i just i kind of stopped doing that and i was also journaling every single day and i stopped doing that like last summer journal was four or five days ago right so i was doing that every single i had like a solid routine but then i slowly stopped doing some of those things right
00:26:38
Speaker
and then i stopped 75 hard so now it's like the last two days it's just been shit so it's like it's just it's just constantly down and it's like you've got you really really got to stay on top of your mental state and most people don't and that's when they dig themselves a really dark hole and it's it's tough to get out of
00:27:00
Speaker
Hard to take yourself out of that when you're, when you're down there, but I think you can see, right? You, you already are recognizing some of these patterns where it's like, Hey, I'm doing this and it's gone down and I'm doing less of the journaling, less of the meditating, but you know, but you're, you're recognizing that. I think that also is probably a good idea to plan in some, uh, breaks, some downtime, some time for you to ease off of the gas and spiral down a little bit for it's okay. If you, you know, take your foot off the gas for a week here.
00:27:30
Speaker
go to Toronto, go to the weddings, go do your trips and your dinners and all that stuff, and then come back to it. And then make sure that when you do come back to it that you're doing these things to build momentum again. So maybe it's just doing one journal a week or a five minute meditation instead of the 15 minute meditation or whatever that it is to kind of build that momentum back up. And I think that that's,
00:27:55
Speaker
something that I do, that I've seen to myself as well, because I can get pretty lazy or down on myself for what have you as well, right? And stop doing the things that are making me successful. But I find that the way to turn that around is to just put one foot in front of the other and start building that momentum and just do that one thing, do one thing more, do that one extra thing. And then eventually I'm to the point where I'm going, yeah, you know what, I'm going to do 75 hard,
00:28:25
Speaker
I got to work out two days or two times a day. I'm going to not drink alcohol. It's not easy. You know, it's not easy. It's 75 hours. It's not fucking easy. Yeah. They didn't call it 75 medium or so. And then there's actually, have you listened to the podcast?
00:28:42
Speaker
Yeah, I have that you know about live hard. Yep. Yeah, see I haven't I haven't done that like the last stage of there's like three separate phases after 75 hard It's called live hard. So I think you After the 75 is done you do three 30 days And you got to add two extra tasks and then there's another one after that. It's like you got to have a what is like a
00:29:08
Speaker
20-minute conversation with a stranger every day. That's hard, man. I guess you can do that online, but I think his rule is you got to do it in person. When in the hell are you around that many people where you can just... Most people will literally look at you with two heads if you try to strike up a conversation, especially even just say hi. They won't even acknowledge it.
00:29:33
Speaker
I don't know how in the hell that guy done that challenge. Right. And so all of the same, anybody that's trying to do that, uh, I find are kind of my people, right? So similarly, there's that those people that have that internal feeling of, Hey, there's more meant for me. I want to do more. I want to, I have more. I want to deliver to the world. A lot of those people are the same people that try to do hard things like, like doing 75 hard. So, uh,
00:30:03
Speaker
Anybody that I've found that even knows about it, for one, I end up having things in common with them. They think about life similarly. They're trying to do different things. They're trying to improve their life.
00:30:17
Speaker
examining life through this lens of self-improvement and how can I get more out of it. These are people that I want to know more about. I don't know anybody who's actually done the live hard, gone through the whole 75 hard, successfully done it, and then moved into the next stages. I don't actually know anybody. If anybody out there is that person,
00:30:39
Speaker
please give me a message. I'd love to have a chat with those people. Uh, I just find it fascinating because it's really, really hard to just do the part that we, we didn't do. We've, we failed at that. It's really, really hard to, to get through that whole thing. And if you're doing that and you're, you're living life and you're trying to, to improve and you're knocking these things out of the park, I think that you're doing really, really well. You have a lot of upward momentum and I'd love to hear from those people. So I'm always out here now networking, talking about speaking to strangers.
00:31:08
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Now I'm trying to talk to strangers every day. It's really, really hard to find people to just have a chat. I'm messaging people across all social medias. I'm going out networking events. I'm doing everything. I can't speak to different people every day. And you're right, it is really hard because people are going, what are you, you know, you're wasting my time. I don't have time for this. I got, you know, all this other stuff that they want to do. So it's really difficult. I should start, I need to start doing that. I need to start like,
00:31:36
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getting out there be more social and like you know what I mean like it's it's like I've been the last doing 75 hard it's like I isolate myself and I don't go anywhere I don't do anything and it's just like trying to work online and getting the workouts done and I don't go to these events and go talk to people and there's probably something that I should probably start doing
00:32:01
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Yeah, you know, let's get out there in the world, right? We're both here in this smallish city of St. John's, right? But there are a lot of different networking events and different things on the go here locally that I want to do a lot more of. So that's something I'm definitely trying to put myself out there more for.
00:32:19
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And putting myself out there and doing a lot more personal branding stuff like this, do a podcast with you here. This is really great for personal brand. I'm trying to do a lot more of that and just get my name out there so that I can have more of those conversations with.
00:32:31
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people who are out there trying to build business, improve their lives, get more out of life. I'm trying to elevate my own living situation, financially, mentally, physically, in my relationships, all of these different ways. And I find that the best way for me to learn is have conversations with people who have done it or are trying to and have ideas about how it can be done.
Networking and Personal Growth
00:32:56
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That's where I'm learning the most out there in life. So
00:33:00
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That's that's a big part of why I was so excited to hop on you have a you have a great Audience that you've already captured and kind of pulled in and they you're my type of person who's out there trying to improve and do better so I imagine a lot of people who listen to your podcast and who are in your environment are those same types of people so Really really appreciate coming on here and having this chat today Why don't you let everybody know where they can reach you at like your social medias or emails?
00:33:30
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Cool. Yeah. You can visit my website, EagleEndeavors.com, and that's endeavors spelled, I guess, the Canadian way. It was also the way that they spelled the space shuttle endeavor, but it's EagleEndeavors.com. And then you can get me at Chris at EagleEndeavors.com.
00:33:50
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And you can also reach me on Instagram at Namwalk that's at N A M W O K. Um, then that's, that's kind of my, uh, gamer tag handle as well. I do a lot of Twitch streaming and other things on the internet. That's kind of my more playful side, let's say. Uh, but you can reach me for any business inquiries at that Chris at Eagle endeavors.com or go visit the website. There's free, uh, tools on the website that anybody can sign up and start using. There's a free, um, software.
00:34:19
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that you can plug in your own website, get a report back and get back some really interesting information on your own website and your own digital presence there. So I encourage anybody to pop into my website and pop in for some free insights and tools for your business.
00:34:35
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Cool, cool. So thank you, Chris, for stopping by, giving us your time. But let's wrap it up. I'm glad you came by today. It's a little bit more weight taken off the shoulders. I got it done. It's November 30th, and I literally got it on my goals. Get one person on the podcast. So, I can check it off. I can check it out.
00:35:00
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That's right, man. That's awesome. Yeah, I was really happy to hop in. I was a little bit nervous, too, because, you know, I wasn't sure where we'd go with all the conversations. But, you know, I think it's easy to talk to you. I think that people would be really happy to hop on this podcast and have conversation like that.
00:35:19
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So yeah, I think people see the value in that. And like you said, I think that there's a momentum in doing it, right? You ticked off that thing, right? Had somebody come on. And so now there'll probably be other people who will want to hop on. And so it should get easier for you to do that. And the momentum should carry through. All right. Well, I hope you guys enjoyed this podcast and we will see you on the next one. Peace.