Mid-Day Squares - UNCENSORED‪!‬ Nick, Lez & Jake

Achieve your highest potential with this Mid-Day Squares podcast episode featuring Jake, Nick, and Lez.

Discover the secret to maintaining the right mindset during challenging times, leverage the principle of consistency to achieve forward momentum and learn the key to unlocking your brains reward system for optimal performance.

This is an opportunity to gain valuable insights that can help you reach peak performance, tune in now.

We share key takeaways on:


How to focus on feeling good
Hacking your body’s reward system
Focusing on the small wins
Using momentum to fire up your brain
Saying “No” to societal pressures

Show notes:

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0:57 - Jake in Forbes 30 under 30

1:57 - Negative response to Forbes

3:29 - It’s all about the mind set

4:34 - Look Good, Feel Good

6:39 - Understanding your body’s reward system

8:41 - The myth of the “All or Nothing” attitude

15:45 - The power of Momentum

19:10 - We wouldn’t have survived 2022 without Momentum

21:40 - THERAPY

22:22 - Using movement to get away from negativity

24:12 - Let yourself get lost when going on walks

25:10 - How Jake turned around the energy at the office

26:46 - Cutting negativity out of your life

26:24 - What does your body need to achieve peak performance?

29:00 - Nick & Jake cutting out alcohol

32:17 - Stop caring about what others do to achieve peak performance

33:00 - Kobe and Micheal Jordan VS Dennis Rodman / Hacks for peak performance

35:00 - The people that inspire us

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In this episode, Jake, Nick and Lez answer questions from the audience on our upcoming flavor and tips they would give to new founders building in the CPG space

We discuss Jake taking over R&D without permission, how we pump ourselves up when stress gets too high, how mentorship is a cheat code for founders and so much more.

We share key takeaways on:


Why flavor development is challenging
How failure can lead to success
How finding World Class mentors changes the game
Helping people without an agenda
The struggles in finance for early CPG companies

Show notes:

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1:21 What’s going on with Cookie Dough?

2:52 Why Cookie Dough is so complex to make

4:40 Cookie Dough’s origin story

6:03 Jake brings the momentum up

6:45 Jake hijacked R&D to make his own flavor

9:52 Go-to motivational techniques when stress becomes too high

16:10 Who’s bought into the concept of sleep?

17:53 Jake’s PTSD

19:10 How important trust is with mentorship

21:45 Lez’s trust issues with mentors

25:34 Have no agenda when helping people

27:13 Mentorship is a cheat code

29:55 Tips for starting a new CPG company

32:13 Be at stores as often as possible

37:00 How difficult finances are as an early CPG company

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In an impromptu podcast recording, Nick and Lez choose to no longer be miserable.

 We discuss the issues that have arisen in the last few weeks and the mindset we’ve adopted on misery and how even though things are tough at Mid-Day Squares, we’re choosing to no longer be miserable.

We share key takeaways on:


What it means to be a World Class organization
How important mindset is in tough times;
The “secret” to our relationship as married co-CEO’s;
The importance of working on your ability to have hard conversations;
What you should expect out of a relationship

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Show notes:

1:00 Why we’re working till 11pm tonight

2:57 Is Mid-Day Squares a sh*tshow?

4:30 We aren’t World Class. Yet.

5:37 Surprise appearance from Alba Saltarelli

7:25 Accepting that we aren’t World Class

9:53 How we evolving our leadership to be World Class

12:40 How accepting misery makes you more miserable

15:13 Acknowledge the misery but don’t let it consume you

18:48 Getting juicy with Nick and Lez

19:55 How therapy helps our relationship

21:33 Hard conversations

24:35 How we have more capacity for hard talks.

27:20 You need to constantly be working on your relationships

28:15 In a partnership you need the output of 3x

29:44 What our relationship means

31:04 What World Class is to us

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Description:

This episode is about how it's sometimes necessary to take 3 steps backwards to take 10 steps forward.

We discuss the transition we're going through at Mid-Day Squares moving from a 2 square per package to a 1 square per package product and how it's slowly eating away at our spirits and the realizations we have had as we go through it.

We share key takeaways on:


How to convert your energy into something that propels you and doesn’t eat away at you;
Why the negative person in the room always feels the loudest;
Why survival is painful;
How your true measure of success is thriving in bad times;
The suffering in our world and how this has made people project their emotions rather than deal with them.

We leave you with our biggest learning:

“No one has achieved anything significant without a course of critics standing on the sidelines explaining why you shouldn't do it or why it can not be done and you should go for it anyways.”

Show notes:

We share our unorthodox approach to building a chocolate empire & how to win at raising  capital, the importance of “just starting” and demanding what you want at all costs.

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1:00 The difficulty of transitioning from 2 squares to 1 square

2:27 Jake’s notes on negativity and his personal breakdown

3:30 Emergency therapy session pre-recording

4:34 How to use energy to your advantage

5:23 Why we changed from 2 square format to 1 square format

6:42 How the change is keeping our business alive

8:05 The fine line of figuring it out: does the world want a good product? Or a low price point?

9:25 Why the fringe minority is the loudest in the room

14:15 Why change is hard and what we are going through

16:30 The difference between making a decision for change and living through it

18:48 Milestone: we opened our 3000th store

20:15 Jakes demoralization

23:30 Why founder conflict happens

25:10 How putting in the work pays off in communication

26:29 Were under attack: Who is attacking Mid-Day Squares right now

27:56 Why do people police us?

30:41 Be okay with going 3 steps backwards to go 10 steps forward

31:15 A powerful note on critics

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EP 35: After 11 months- we’re back.

We dive into where the f*ck we’ve been and scratch the surface on what the f*ck has happened since our hiatus.

But first, we focus on the power of “just starting” as a key component of winning.

We discuss how important it is to stick to a plan and touch on the uncertainty and difficulty of pulling back when you are on a roll in order to balance the see-saw of momentum in a business.

Learnings from our last $10 Million dollar raise are shared with key takeaways on:

-how to keep investors and key relationships looped in when you aren’t ready for them,

-why our fundraising process is successful: the power of content and building out loud,

-the importance of demanding what you want and staying true to who you are, and worrying not about your competition- but only about your customers.

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Show Notes:

We share our unorthodox approach to building a chocolate empire & how to win at raising  capital, the importance of “just starting” and demanding what you want at all costs.

Stay up to date with  Mid-Day Squares on Instagram and LinkedIn


Watch our raise video 

1:48 The power of just starting

3:29 Denying demand

4:25 The importance of your game plan

8:09 Watch the raise video here

8:35 The difficulty of pulling back and thoughts on momentum

10:41 How to keep investors and key relationships looped in when you aren’t ready for them

13:30 Shoutout to our sponsor caffeine

15:25 a fact check on Jake’s caffeine hiatus

16:38 pulling off a $10 Million Dollar fundraise

18:13 Watch the raise video here (same as above)

18:47 Advice to anyone fundraising

19:18 Why our fundraising process is successful: The power of content and building out loud

22:16 Staying true to who you are and demanding what you want

24:00 How to keep investors in touch with your business, before they invest.

25:20 Not worrying about your competition, but only about your customers

26:16 Remarks on consistency and just starting

EP 34 : When scaling a business, every growth point  brings the same  struggles with higher stakes, and for MDS the stakes have never been  higher! Just months away from closing a 10 million dollar raise, it's  time to distil what blitz scaling actually means and why once you hop on  the train, there's no getting off.

We Also Talk ...

- Embracing chaos

- Crushing vs Crashing

- Why Slowing Down isn't An Option

- Mental Preparation 

- Getting comfortable with being uncomfortable

- No Going Back