Overview
On this episode of Build Your Network, Host Travis Chappell interviews Mark Asquith, Podcaster, global keynote speaker and co-founder of Podcast Websites and the creator of Excellence Expected.
Topics Discussed:
- About Mark Asquith
- Self-described perennial geek.
- Used to own a digital agency and has been involved in the startup world.
- Now he leads a podcast to help people in the service industries.
- Wants to teach them how to productize their time through Excellence Expected.
- In high school he was a non-descript band guy.
- Before he quit his job, he was working in corporate.
- He hated his job even though he was making good money with a good team.
- He would always leave before he got fired because he was unfulfilled.
- Got out of corporate in March 2005, he quit the same day he showed up.
- He hated doing the same thing every day.
- He worked for his dad for a couple of months as an electrician and learned about freedom.
- In May of 2005, he got into a freelance contract for the National Health Service in the U.K.
- He went from 20k a year as a permanent employee and jumped up to 130k as a freelancer.
- Did this for a couple of years and at times earned 200k a year, but it was boring, so he quit.
- The problem wasn’t the money, it was the lack of control and fulfillment.
- He went from 20k a year as a permanent employee and jumped up to 130k as a freelancer.
- He knows the exact event that caused him to not be fulfilled with work he found boring.
- In 1991, he was at his last school dance with his close friends.
- After an hour he was in line for a hot dog next to a girl he had a crush on.
- He didn’t have the money to buy the hot dog and he had to give it back.
- He was humiliated and embarrassed.
- That’s the moment that put him onto the path of being an entrepreneur
- He will always drive himself to do more, he doesn’t want someone to control what he can and can’t do.
- Do you believe that what you know or who you know is more important and why?
- Both are equally important.
- The what you know will never go anywhere unless you treat people with respect and help them.
- The people that you know can’t help them unless you know what you’re talking about.
- You’ve got to be good at what you do and find your own people.
- A time when a connection led to a moment of success:
- He asked a few connections to start a podcast together and now it employs 10 people.
- He was chosen to speak at different conferences due to his relationships.
- Why do you think that so many people don’t network?
- Because it’s hard.
- It’s not easy to think that you might do something because someone else helps you.
- Most people are lazy, they just want quick wins.
- We’re being sold quick wins by every book we see, and it’s rubbish.
- Advice for introverts
- Mark is an introvert.
- Everyone will support you, you’ve just got to be decent.
- No one gets different treatment from Mark, he gives the same level of high respect and friendship.
- You never know when someone or someone they know can be the exact person you’ve always needed.
The Random Round:
- What profession other than your own do you think it would be fun to attempt?
- A comic superhero movie writer
- If you could sit on a park bench for any hour with anyone past or present, who would it be?
- His grand dad.
- How do you like to learn best, books, blogs, podcasts or video?
- Depends on what it is: technical stuff – videos, more passive stuff – podcasts
- Favorite podcasts?
- Revisionist history
- Give us a glimpse of your morning routine:
- Get up, drink a lot of water
- Try to do some reading
- Do some planning
- Go to work
- What is your go-to pump up song:
- Elmo’s Fire
- What are you not very good at?
- Delegating
- Excellence-expected.com click on free coaching tab and get coaching for free.
Tweetable Quotes:
- “We’re being sold quick wins by every book we see, and it’s rubbish.”
Resources Mentioned:
Buildyournetwork.com – Podcast website
Excellence-expected.com – Mark’s website
Revisionist History – Mark’s favorite podcast
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