December 26, 2022 • 11 mins
How well do you know yourself? What makes you tick? Have you done that deep dive into who you really are or what you’re all about?
In this 8-Minute Mic Drop Episode, our guest, Max Avery, who is a nationally recognized entrepreneur, international trade consultant, politician, independent writer and contributor, tells us why doing that inner work is the best thing that you can do for yourself and your goals.
A lot of us might get fixated on where we want to go but often forget to start at the beginning and start within ourselves. Listen in as Max shares some tips and strategies in doing that inner work and becoming the best version of yourself!
Episode Highlights:
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In this 8-Minute Mic Drop Episode, our guest, Max Avery, who is a nationally recognized entrepreneur, international trade consultant, politician, independent writer and contributor, tells us why doing that inner work is the best thing that you can do for yourself and your goals.
A lot of us might get fixated on where we want to go but often forget to start at the beginning and start within ourselves. Listen in as Max shares some tips and strategies in doing that inner work and becoming the best version of yourself!
Episode Highlights:
- The importance of understanding yourself and working on yourself to get to where you want to go
- Practical tips on how to navigate that inner work
- Why having a pen and paper is better than typing things out
- Visit Max’s website at maxavery.org
- Connect with Max on Instagram @realmaxavery
- Connect with Max on Facebook at Max Avery
- Connect with Max on LinkedIn at Max Avery
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(00:03):
Hey, it's way, and you'relistening to Untethered and Prosperous, the podcast
where we focus on the two biggestthings passionate, purpose driven entrepreneurs need to
untether to become wildly prosperous and successfullyhappy. And those two huge anchors are
bad money stories and chronic self sabotage. So what we do is have real
(00:24):
and inspiring conversations with amazing entrepreneurs whohave done just that. So get ready
to get untethered and get prosperous.Hey, it's way, and welcome to
another episode of Untethered and Prosperous Podcasts, which is all about helping you untether
from your bad money stories or chronicself sabotage patterns to create a more prosperous
(00:48):
life. And once again we havean eight minute mic drop from one of
our amazing guests that are having afull episode coming up soon. And today
we have Max Avery on the callon the show, and it's a call.
He's not calling in, it's onthe show, and he's about to
give you a tip and a strategyon how to become more untethered, how
to be more prosperous. He isa seven figure entrepreneur. So I'm not
(01:10):
gonna say too much about his biobecause you're gonna have to listen to the
full episode for that. So Max, welcome in eight minutes or less.
Leave a tip or strategy for amic drop moment so that you can just
basically drop the mic and leave theroom and leave our audience speechless. Yes,
you, thanks for having me.I will I will preface this as
I also did on the episode thatwe're going to do here by saying that
(01:32):
my voice is a little bit rescuetoday, so this is not how I
always sound. So my first pieceof advice is don't have seasonal allergies,
and you will. You will havea better, more prosperous life. But
take take your claritnrser tech and you'llbe better off. You know the things
that I want to talk about,and we can go into a whole different
(01:53):
episode on something else, probably,But I think the main thing that has
helped me in in becoming the Maxthat I am today is doing the necessary
introspective work and learning who you are, what drives you, and what is
going to carry you into position whereyou actually feel fulfilled in what you're doing.
(02:15):
And it's not something that really happenspassively to a lot of people.
And it's not necessarily something that isa comfortable process either. Sometimes and so
you really have to look into yourpast and you know, kind of almost
psychoanalyze yourself to the point. AndI think there's a lot of entrepreneurs that
(02:36):
try to hide from whatever past traumathey have or negative experiences they have.
And you're always in that mindset oftrying to pump yourself up and feel like
you know, you're a rock star, You're going to do this, and
so you don't want to look atthe ugly parts. But the sooner you
start looking at the ugly parts anddissecting those and understanding how to how to
(02:58):
overcome them and in some ways howto manipulate them to work in your benefit,
is really what you're going to seethe acceleration in what your abilities are
to become successful and take yourself tothe next level. And so, you
know, what I like to dois really and it seems very basic,
and this is a silly practice initself, but it works silic it is
(03:22):
what it is. And so gostart writing almost like like an autobiography story
about your past and what put youwhere you are today, because when you
start trying to tell your story,if you have never gotten to a point
of telling your childhood and your teenageyears, where you went to high school,
(03:45):
what you went to college for it, if you went you know,
what your first job was, andreally kind of work through those things.
And I'm not saying you have toget super detailed, but kind of tell
the basic story, start looking forthose triggers that shift your path, and
then start to dig into what thosetriggers were and why they led you to
where you are. And then youcan really look back and evaluate is that
(04:10):
something that was a good decision ora bad decision, did it have an
effect that ultimately changed me as aperson, and what caused that? And
so, you know, this issomething that I kind of just stumble onto
by accident. Just I've always kindof been interested in just you know,
writing, creative writing, you know, personal writing, whatever. And so
it's one of those that I'll getbored and open up word documents, start
(04:32):
tapping stuff out, and it's it'sbeen a really good meditative way to almost
get in and do that, dothat inner work and build that inner game,
because once you understand who you are, what your triggers are, what
your personality type is, and what'sdriving you a certain direction, it no
(04:57):
longer controls you. And so onceyou master your emotions and your mental state
and and you know where you're wantingto be with that, uh, it's
going to be that much easier totake the next step to go into where
you want to be. And thisis not something that you do it once
and suddenly you've succeeded. No,this is always an ongoing process. But
(05:20):
the more time you spend just justsitting alone with with those thoughts and putting
them into a perspective of not Iwish I could have done this different,
but putting in in a perspective ofwhat changed me in this process. UM.
(05:42):
I think that's really that's really somethingthat all people can benefit from.
And it's it's something that UM letsyou understand in the moment when something bad
does happen, what your next stepneeds to be that actually is going to
benefit you and not put you backinto those same self destructive patterns. Because
if you know, if you knowwhat triggered the situation, you know what
(06:05):
your reaction was and where it putyou, you can start to separate those
reactions that put you in a betterposition from the reactions that put you,
you know, back in the homelessshelter or back living in your car,
or back on your mom's couch orwhatever. And those can become really well
defined actions. You know, itcould be any number of actual things,
(06:29):
but in the broad stroke of kindof what that process is, it starts,
it starts becoming clear that like,oh, this is one of those
and once you can see that,you can really start setting yourself up for
success in those moments. Yeah,and that is a phenomenal mic drop tip
right there, because you've did youdid double duty on that one. You've
(06:51):
literally talked about an amazing tip andstrategy and you've inadvertently promoted all that we
do on the back end and hereof this as well. That's because that's
exactly how and this this explains whyyou're successful. So successful what you do
is because that's exactly what we helppeople facilitate, is to be able to
(07:12):
unpack those stories, right that.Oh absolutely, and yet so many people
don't do enough of it, orthey do it once or twice. They
go to retreat or they go toan event, and they do and like,
oh my god, it was amazing, and that they don't do it
anymore, and they really and theydon't understand why they didn't make that huge
leap that people like you and otherthose around them that have been able to
(07:35):
do same business. They hit sixfigures. Everybody else hit seven figures.
Like what am I doing differently?It's unpacking those stories. And I love
this approach. And when you firstdid it, did you write it or
did you type it? Or doyou do both? So I originally I
started writing stuff out. I'll typestuff in WordPad or whatever when I'm on
(07:56):
the road and don't have a lotof time to do it. But having
that mental connection with a pin yehas some real magic to it because it
makes you slow down. And soI like the brain dump approach I have.
I have a really fast warm soit's like I passed my keyboarding class
the first day that I was inin high school. Like it's just like
a type. But the detriment ofthat is I get too many thoughts out
(08:20):
really too fast, and I don'thave time to process, and if you
give me a pen and paper,I'm going to get kind of frustrated with
it. But I really have tosit there and go through the thought process
of what I'm doing and why.And so I think that that doing those
you know, like kind of afteraction reports on a regular basis, and
(08:41):
and you know, journaling it's there'sthere's a lot of well documented, you
know, benefits to journaling things.It's not something you even have to when
you get done with it, youcan water it up and throw it away.
You don't have to keep this asa diary that you look back on
a year from now, just butgetting it out and going through that mental
process is something that that is veryvery therapeutic. And it you know,
(09:03):
it costs you about a dollar,so it's not you know, to go
to the Dollar General and you know, get you a WordPad and the you
know, just a cheap big pinand that's really all you need to get
started. And that can be oneof the biggest mental shift game changers that
I have seen people experiences when youactually have to go sit with your thoughts.
Yeah, I agree, and Ithink so many people will will say,
(09:26):
oh, I don't have time todo that, and it's like more
like you can't afford not to puttime towards that, because I think based
on what you've demonstrated as a result, what I've done, my clients have
done, and people that I'm sureyou've advised and mentor have done, is
that the return, the return onthat investment of time is sometimes limitless because
(09:50):
think of what happens when you're untetheredfrom those shackles that have been holding you
back, as you've mentioned in thefull episode, right, And I think
this is such a simple and powerfulway to do it. I couldn't have
conveyed it better myself. So Imean, this is really good, and
I'm thank you for saying that.And I want you to shut up now
because otherwise you're gonna give away toomuch more. Because if they want to
(10:11):
get more of you, Max andtake it to the max, they have
to listen to the full episode that'scoming up. And how you listen to
that, how you make sure thatyou don't miss that, is to make
sure you subscribe to this podcast andhit the notification so you can get all
the goodness that Max is going tooffer in the full episode. So,
Max, why are you still here? The mic should have been dropped.
You should be out of the roomnow to a boom, so I don't
(10:37):
want to break it. Okay,okay, well then it was at least
thirty dollars. I don't want to. Well it sounds pretty good to me,
so anyway, thanks again Max,that was so perfect and looking forward
to you sharing all the goodness inthe next full episode. Great, thanks
for having me. And that's itfor this episode. Thank you for listening,
(11:01):
because you listening is what inspires ourguests and me to continue doing what
we can to help untether and elevatemore human beings to new heights of prosperous
success. Now, if what youheard today inspired you to want to finally
untether from the bad money stories orchronic self sabotage behavior patterns that's been holding
you back, then you'll want tojoin our exclusive, members only private podcast
(11:26):
that dive deeper into the topics discussedhere, along with more actionable strategies,
tips and trainings. Just click onthe link in the description of this episode
to find out more. Until nexttime,
Hey, it's way, and you'relistening to Untethered and Prosperous, the podcast
where we focus on the two biggestthings passionate, purpose driven entrepreneurs need to
untether to become wildly prosperous and successfullyhappy. And those two huge anchors are
bad money stories and chronic self sabotage. So what we do is have real
(00:24):
and inspiring conversations with amazing entrepreneurs whohave done just that. So get ready
to get untethered and get prosperous.Hey, it's way, and welcome to
another episode of Untethered and Prosperous Podcasts, which is all about helping you untether
from your bad money stories or chronicself sabotage patterns to create a more prosperous
(00:48):
life. And once again we havean eight minute mic drop from one of
our amazing guests that are having afull episode coming up soon. And today
we have Max Avery on the callon the show, and it's a call.
He's not calling in, it's onthe show, and he's about to
give you a tip and a strategyon how to become more untethered, how
to be more prosperous. He isa seven figure entrepreneur. So I'm not
(01:10):
gonna say too much about his biobecause you're gonna have to listen to the
full episode for that. So Max, welcome in eight minutes or less.
Leave a tip or strategy for amic drop moment so that you can just
basically drop the mic and leave theroom and leave our audience speechless. Yes,
you, thanks for having me.I will I will preface this as
I also did on the episode thatwe're going to do here by saying that
(01:32):
my voice is a little bit rescuetoday, so this is not how I
always sound. So my first pieceof advice is don't have seasonal allergies,
and you will. You will havea better, more prosperous life. But
take take your claritnrser tech and you'llbe better off. You know the things
that I want to talk about,and we can go into a whole different
(01:53):
episode on something else, probably,But I think the main thing that has
helped me in in becoming the Maxthat I am today is doing the necessary
introspective work and learning who you are, what drives you, and what is
going to carry you into position whereyou actually feel fulfilled in what you're doing.
(02:15):
And it's not something that really happenspassively to a lot of people.
And it's not necessarily something that isa comfortable process either. Sometimes and so
you really have to look into yourpast and you know, kind of almost
psychoanalyze yourself to the point. AndI think there's a lot of entrepreneurs that
(02:36):
try to hide from whatever past traumathey have or negative experiences they have.
And you're always in that mindset oftrying to pump yourself up and feel like
you know, you're a rock star, You're going to do this, and
so you don't want to look atthe ugly parts. But the sooner you
start looking at the ugly parts anddissecting those and understanding how to how to
(02:58):
overcome them and in some ways howto manipulate them to work in your benefit,
is really what you're going to seethe acceleration in what your abilities are
to become successful and take yourself tothe next level. And so, you
know, what I like to dois really and it seems very basic,
and this is a silly practice initself, but it works silic it is
(03:22):
what it is. And so gostart writing almost like like an autobiography story
about your past and what put youwhere you are today, because when you
start trying to tell your story,if you have never gotten to a point
of telling your childhood and your teenageyears, where you went to high school,
(03:45):
what you went to college for it, if you went you know,
what your first job was, andreally kind of work through those things.
And I'm not saying you have toget super detailed, but kind of tell
the basic story, start looking forthose triggers that shift your path, and
then start to dig into what thosetriggers were and why they led you to
where you are. And then youcan really look back and evaluate is that
(04:10):
something that was a good decision ora bad decision, did it have an
effect that ultimately changed me as aperson, and what caused that? And
so, you know, this issomething that I kind of just stumble onto
by accident. Just I've always kindof been interested in just you know,
writing, creative writing, you know, personal writing, whatever. And so
it's one of those that I'll getbored and open up word documents, start
(04:32):
tapping stuff out, and it's it'sbeen a really good meditative way to almost
get in and do that, dothat inner work and build that inner game,
because once you understand who you are, what your triggers are, what
your personality type is, and what'sdriving you a certain direction, it no
(04:57):
longer controls you. And so onceyou master your emotions and your mental state
and and you know where you're wantingto be with that, uh, it's
going to be that much easier totake the next step to go into where
you want to be. And thisis not something that you do it once
and suddenly you've succeeded. No,this is always an ongoing process. But
(05:20):
the more time you spend just justsitting alone with with those thoughts and putting
them into a perspective of not Iwish I could have done this different,
but putting in in a perspective ofwhat changed me in this process. UM.
(05:42):
I think that's really that's really somethingthat all people can benefit from.
And it's it's something that UM letsyou understand in the moment when something bad
does happen, what your next stepneeds to be that actually is going to
benefit you and not put you backinto those same self destructive patterns. Because
if you know, if you knowwhat triggered the situation, you know what
(06:05):
your reaction was and where it putyou, you can start to separate those
reactions that put you in a betterposition from the reactions that put you,
you know, back in the homelessshelter or back living in your car,
or back on your mom's couch orwhatever. And those can become really well
defined actions. You know, itcould be any number of actual things,
(06:29):
but in the broad stroke of kindof what that process is, it starts,
it starts becoming clear that like,oh, this is one of those
and once you can see that,you can really start setting yourself up for
success in those moments. Yeah,and that is a phenomenal mic drop tip
right there, because you've did youdid double duty on that one. You've
(06:51):
literally talked about an amazing tip andstrategy and you've inadvertently promoted all that we
do on the back end and hereof this as well. That's because that's
exactly how and this this explains whyyou're successful. So successful what you do
is because that's exactly what we helppeople facilitate, is to be able to
(07:12):
unpack those stories, right that.Oh absolutely, and yet so many people
don't do enough of it, orthey do it once or twice. They
go to retreat or they go toan event, and they do and like,
oh my god, it was amazing, and that they don't do it
anymore, and they really and theydon't understand why they didn't make that huge
leap that people like you and otherthose around them that have been able to
(07:35):
do same business. They hit sixfigures. Everybody else hit seven figures.
Like what am I doing differently?It's unpacking those stories. And I love
this approach. And when you firstdid it, did you write it or
did you type it? Or doyou do both? So I originally I
started writing stuff out. I'll typestuff in WordPad or whatever when I'm on
(07:56):
the road and don't have a lotof time to do it. But having
that mental connection with a pin yehas some real magic to it because it
makes you slow down. And soI like the brain dump approach I have.
I have a really fast warm soit's like I passed my keyboarding class
the first day that I was inin high school. Like it's just like
a type. But the detriment ofthat is I get too many thoughts out
(08:20):
really too fast, and I don'thave time to process, and if you
give me a pen and paper,I'm going to get kind of frustrated with
it. But I really have tosit there and go through the thought process
of what I'm doing and why.And so I think that that doing those
you know, like kind of afteraction reports on a regular basis, and
(08:41):
and you know, journaling it's there'sthere's a lot of well documented, you
know, benefits to journaling things.It's not something you even have to when
you get done with it, youcan water it up and throw it away.
You don't have to keep this asa diary that you look back on
a year from now, just butgetting it out and going through that mental
process is something that that is veryvery therapeutic. And it you know,
(09:03):
it costs you about a dollar,so it's not you know, to go
to the Dollar General and you know, get you a WordPad and the you
know, just a cheap big pinand that's really all you need to get
started. And that can be oneof the biggest mental shift game changers that
I have seen people experiences when youactually have to go sit with your thoughts.
Yeah, I agree, and Ithink so many people will will say,
(09:26):
oh, I don't have time todo that, and it's like more
like you can't afford not to puttime towards that, because I think based
on what you've demonstrated as a result, what I've done, my clients have
done, and people that I'm sureyou've advised and mentor have done, is
that the return, the return onthat investment of time is sometimes limitless because
(09:50):
think of what happens when you're untetheredfrom those shackles that have been holding you
back, as you've mentioned in thefull episode, right, And I think
this is such a simple and powerfulway to do it. I couldn't have
conveyed it better myself. So Imean, this is really good, and
I'm thank you for saying that.And I want you to shut up now
because otherwise you're gonna give away toomuch more. Because if they want to
(10:11):
get more of you, Max andtake it to the max, they have
to listen to the full episode that'scoming up. And how you listen to
that, how you make sure thatyou don't miss that, is to make
sure you subscribe to this podcast andhit the notification so you can get all
the goodness that Max is going tooffer in the full episode. So,
Max, why are you still here? The mic should have been dropped.
You should be out of the roomnow to a boom, so I don't
(10:37):
want to break it. Okay,okay, well then it was at least
thirty dollars. I don't want to. Well it sounds pretty good to me,
so anyway, thanks again Max,that was so perfect and looking forward
to you sharing all the goodness inthe next full episode. Great, thanks
for having me. And that's itfor this episode. Thank you for listening,
(11:01):
because you listening is what inspires ourguests and me to continue doing what
we can to help untether and elevatemore human beings to new heights of prosperous
success. Now, if what youheard today inspired you to want to finally
untether from the bad money stories orchronic self sabotage behavior patterns that's been holding
you back, then you'll want tojoin our exclusive, members only private podcast
(11:26):
that dive deeper into the topics discussedhere, along with more actionable strategies,
tips and trainings. Just click onthe link in the description of this episode
to find out more. Until nexttime,
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