The Good Grow Great Podcast

Paul Maskill, CEO and founder of The Ultimate Freedom mastermind talks pitfalls you should avoid if you’re starting or growing a business (so that you still have the time to do whatever you want).

Now more than ever, many people are looking to make massive waves. Paul talks how to get your life back while earning a handsome living:

• (02:07) How doing things that no one else is willing to do can get you ahead, but not much furth...

If you’re an introvert like me, I’m sure you’ve been in situations, a party, a giant conference, or a get-together, when you look at your best friend, or brother and sister, or colleague and mouthed from across the room, “Help me get out of this conversation! Please”.

Usually it has nothing to do with the people who were there.

It was just that you’re tapped out. 

And the thought of a quiet night with your favorite book or show, so...

I get a ton of questions lately about working from home and growing passive income.

What’s great is that I see a whole range of questions, like:

• Thalia, how do you stay motivated?
• How do I keep my kids from driving me insane?
• How am I supposed to set goals when I don’t know what’s going to happen?
• How can I possibly get everything done at home?
• What’s the best way to earn money on the side?

I love all these questions. It...

I remember a time when I was sitting in a meeting with three other guys in suits in a room with grey concrete walls. The meeting was going on and on and everyone was starting to get fidgety. The door opened and in came the top dog’s secretary, who said that so and so was there to meet him. Five minutes later, she came back in to give him another note. Seven minutes go by, and again she came with yet another thing, this time waving ...

Today, I want to talk about some favorite books of mine that have changed my life.

I believe in investing in yourself in any way possible, including sitting down and reading from great minds in the world.

Besides, that’s how the greats did it—by learning from other people as well.

If you are hitting a ceiling and you feel a bit stuck, here are my top 3 books that created massive changes in the way I look at how to work, live, and r...

Recently, I was given the opportunity to traverse through some river rapids. Before outdoor adventure became one of my favorite things to do, I thought there’s only ONE way to do it. As in, if you’re in the water, it’s just plain dangerous.

I had NO idea that there were levels of danger, and the corresponding skill sets you must have. It’s like the difference between cooking at home and cooking professionally.

There are a lot of in...

How many times have you heard people say to you, “work hard” or “hustle harder”? Plenty probably. But as your life changes, you might start to realize that those old rules are not something you can (or care to) keep up with. If you get to fast forward your life in 10-20 years, would you honestly want still be doing the grind?

So then the question now becomes, is it at all possible to still be super successful AND do things your way...

If you’ve known me for a long time, you know that I used to be super shy, quiet, and would avoid conversations that I know I needed to have.

I don’t know where this came from. It might’ve been the playground insults that happened whenever I tried to raise my hand and said something. Yeah, I was that little Asian kid who just stayed out of trouble most times.

In some ways this followed me to this day. 

And it just made difficult con...

Growth Solvers, I’m doing it. In the last BONUS episode #44, I touched on how I walked barefoot in Las Vegas. Today, I’ll share with you the full story. In this episode, you’ll get to find out:

1. The behind-the-scenes of walking barefoot in Vegas
2. What it taught me about creating a wealth of opportunities
3. The challenge that can help you finish the year strong

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I don’t know if you’ve seen the video of a cougar who followed a hiker outdoors recently. But it’s been making the rounds among a lot of my friends who regularly spend time outside.

If you haven’t seen it, it basically shows how a cougar decided to follow a hiker because he had accidentally encountered one of her cubs. She followed him for a good six minutes while making sudden movements here and there to make sure the hiker is far...

You know what’s sometimes really weird about trying to find a solution to our problems?

Is that we tend to hear the same things over and over again. I felt this way once when I was really looking for ways that I could get more things done without simply adding more things to my day.

I realized that I wasn’t making time for important people in my life as I should.

It was really a wake-up call when my daughter said to me at dinner on...

So my kids used to go to sleep kicking and crying. They’d throw a hissy fit for over an hour, and I’d try everything in my might not to make them even more upset—often with little success. Of course, this meant that I wasn’t sleeping much either.

Everyone hated it.

Then one day as I was driving my newborn to the store to grab something, I dozed off at the wheel for a couple of seconds. Luckily nothing happened. But it was a close c...

One of my students came up to me once and asked me, “Thalia, how do you know when to go for the ask?”

Whether this is about asking for a job, or asking for someone to buy what you have--this is probably as tricky as protocols on asking someone to move in with you or deciding how not to offend the neighbor who has been WAY too loud at night.

It’s like walking on eggshells.

But does it have to be?

Because think of a time you just cli...

I remember years ago, I had gone back to my hometown to visit my family. They wanted to throw this huge party and feast to celebrate. It had been a long time since I saw my grade school friends and people that I knew.

Years, actually.

So when the time came for everyone to hang out, I was a bit embarrassed. I was super jet-lagged. The time difference was an ungodly 11 hours! So you can only imagine that by the time everyone was knoc...

Back when I had to go into a big grey office building and clock in every day, I remember something very specific about the end of the year. It wasn’t so much the merriment of the end of the year (though that does come into play). It was that left and right, I'd notice different kinds of people show up.

Kind A: The ones that binge-consume simple pleasures

It’s really weird to see this because having lived in the US for some time n...

If you see someone jumping off a waterfall for fun, and they survived it, would you do it, too?

Here’s where my friends and I are different. A lot of them LOVE ... just love things like this. Things like roller coaster rides. You see, every single time I go up a ride like that, I lose all senses below my chest. It’s like the only thing I can feel is my heart pounding. My heart, which at that point is almost like a disgruntled road ...

As we are nearing the VERY end of this year, here's #3 of the top 3 conversations the Good Grow Great podcast has had this year. Tyler King talks about how he grew his company from scratch, and even said no to investors so that he can earn on his own term

Listen and find out how you can do the same, and get control back of your life.

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If you're new here, I'm Thalia Toha, CEO and Entrepreneur magazine author.

Every week, I'll share with you:

(1) Growth Amplifiers: Meaningful ways you can turn obstacles into opportunities, so that you won't get stuck in the hustle bravado and value-add race.  

(2) Six Degrees of Greatness: Conversations bet...