Mid-Day Squares - UNCENSORED! Nick, Lez & Jake
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The Mid-Day Squares story: how we're trying to build the next biggest Chocolate Company, family business, and our unfiltered thoughts on entrepreneurship. Nothing is off topic, no subject is off limits. Entrepreneurship the way it should be told with no f***s given.
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The Crunchy Peanut Dance
It's our crunchiest, creamiest bar ever! Crunchy Peanut is out now!
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The Crunchy Peanut Dance
With both a creamy and crunchy texture, our new Crunchy Peanut bar is the best of both worlds!
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The Secret To Achieving Peak Performance: It’s All In Your Mind
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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Mentorship is a CHEAT CODE!
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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Misery is a Choice.
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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Why Survival is Painful.
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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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Customer Reviews
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Love this guys!!!
Great stuff!
Who wouldn’t want to listen to this? Great founders, real talk! Love it!
This podcast is a riot
Midday squares got it goin’ this podcast equally cracks me up and gives me sage business advice, whats more to ask haha