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Guest Bio Dr. Rick Eigenbrod has spent years exploring what happens when we get what we want and why success, along with gain, acquisition, and achievement, can also bring loss and disruption to our lives.
In addition to a greater understanding of the profound emotional, psychological, and social impact that “success” has on our lives, Rick provides an alternative to the Grand Narrative of success as life’s supreme organizing principle. He offers a framework for choice-making, giving a reliable and enduring source of structure, meaning, and identity as we navigate the uncharted waters of ‘What next?’ and ‘Is this all there is?.’
Description Have you ever achieved a long-awaited goal, only to find yourself feeling unfulfilled or directionless? If so, this episode is for you.
In this thought-provoking conversation, Anthony sits down with Rick Eigenbrod, author of the book "What Happens When You Get What You Want?" to discuss common challenges people face after achieving success.
From discussing the importance of finding enjoyment in everyday life to reframing your mindset from destination-focused to direction-focused, Rick provides actionable advice and insights to help listeners navigate the complex world of success and personal fulfillment.

Here are a few of the topics we’ll discuss on this episode of The Anthony Sarandrea Show:
3:01 Navigating success and purpose: Insights from the speaker’s personal experience.
11:14 Finding purpose beyond money and fame: A personal journey of self-discovery and reflection.
19:54 Why the journey matters more than the destination.
24:38 The importance of introspection and discernment in life choices.
30:30 Success addiction and the cost associated with it.
39:15 The uncomfortable space of spaciousness.
42:47 The importance of rest, finding fulfillment, and declaring “enough” rather than striving for abundance.
50:10 Insights on direction, fulfillment, and self-discovery.
Key Takeaways Instead of setting a new destination, set a direction in life that focuses on enjoyment and fun.
Ask yourself, "Who am I now?" and "What matters to me now?" to get a contemporary sense of self and what's important.
When running a business, focus on moving in a direction rather than achieving a specific outcome or destination.
Success can sometimes screw up a business, so it's important to stay focused on the direction rather than the outcome.
Have an accountability partner to help you stay focused and motivated.
Quotes 20:10 “It's about the journey, not the destination”
14:45 “Fulfilment is an art and I think a lot of people when they transition to different things in life, not just selling a business, that they have to navigate.”
31:49 “That blank sheet of paper is a part of the gift. It's part of the invitation to be reflective, to be aware, to lead a more considered intentional life, to redesign where necessary.”
43:06 “People think that restlessness is a sign that they are ready. And the truth is, according to me, restlessness comes on the other side of readiness not before.”
47:15 “The opposite of scarcity is enough.”
Resources What Happens When You Get What You Want?: Success and the Challenge of Choice (book)
"Rainbow Connection" from Kermit the Frog | The Muppets
What’s Next The Entrepreneur’s Epilogue and the Paradox of Success Connect with Rick Eigenbrod Website
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Connect with the host: Anthony Sarandrea on LinkedIn
How to Get Involved:
Anthony Sarandrea, the founder of SiteFlood, is a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker known as a renowned customer and lead generator across the globe.
Be sure to follow him on LinkedIn, Instagram, and gain access to his consulting and speaking engagements via his website.
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Finances can be overwhelming when there are so many options and numbers to consider. Should you invest in stocks or bonds? Should you prioritize saving for a down payment on a house or focus on paying off student loans? The list goes on.
However, what often gets overlooked in these discussions is the importance of paying attention to the details. In a recent conversation, we learned just how crucial it is to do your due diligence before making any financial decisions. From the costs of maintenance and insurance when buying a car or a house, to automating savings and preparing for economic downturns, there are countless factors to consider.
In this episode, we'll break down the key issues in financial management and explore how you can maximize your financial potential while avoiding potential pitfalls. So, buckle up and get ready to take charge of your financial future!
 
Here are a few of the topics we’ll discuss on this episode of The Anthony Sarandrea Show:
2:59 Poor psychological habits are often found in young people between 18 and 35: Ignoring alternatives when paying for college.
5:58 The psychology behind financial decision making and the long-term effects of small decisions
8:51 The importance of paying attention to details in financial decisions
15:13 Why you should start investing early
22:06 The importance of financial responsibility and planning for the future
25:25 Working with a financial advisor to determine how much to invest and how much to withdraw based on one's expenses.
34:39 Tips and apps for budgeting.
37:59 Maximizing contributions and automating savings for financial security and opportunity
41:04 Creating passive income through investment.
52:26 Debt management strategies
55:26 Unlocking the secret to building wealth: Why earning more is just as important as cutting expenses
58:12 How to get your credit card debt to zero

Key Takeaways Prioritize paying off high-interest debt, such as credit card debt, before considering investments.
Consider getting a second job or delivering pizzas to pay off debt faster.
Aim to have at least six months of savings before investing.
Regularly check your credit score and aim to keep it high to improve your chances of getting approved for loans or rentals.
Focus on improving your financial psychology to avoid getting trapped in a perpetual debt cycle.
Learn from history and prepare for possible downturns or financial emergencies.
Seek advice and consultation when necessary.
 
Quotes 3:26 “The first misstep we take is just kind of blindly going and taking out debt for college tuition.”
21:38 “I think when you really do look at things, honestly, it's gonna naturally impact your spending.”
24:06 “For that delayed gratification to happen, I think what you just said is to find your why.”
39:26 “Start early, start with what you can, and automate it.”
 
Resources Rocket Money
Mint


Connect with Noaz Miller LinkedIn
 
Connect with the host: Anthony Sarandrea on LinkedIn
 
How to Get Involved:
Anthony Sarandrea, the founder of SiteFlood, is a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker known as a renowned customer and lead generator across the globe.
Be sure to follow him on LinkedIn, Instagram, and gain access to his consulting and speaking engagements via his website.
Let us know you enjoyed this episode by visiting us on Apple Podcasts and giving us a review! We love hearing from you and appreciate your support of the show!
 
 

David Emerald is the author of the best-selling books, The Power of TED* (*The Empowerment Dynamic) and 3 Vital Questions: Transforming Workplace Drama. He is also Creator-in-Chief of the Center for The Empowerment Dynamic. David specializes in personal development, leadership education, executive and organizational development, and is an expert at translating his frameworks into simple language for practical application in work and life.
When faced with adversity, we evidently see the roles of Victim, Persecutor, and Rescuer, not only in personal relationships but also in leadership, which results in drama. Drama is defined as any thought or interaction that takes our attention away from the desired outcomes.
The Dreaded Drama Triangle (DDT) illustrates the toxic nature of these roles which roots in a problem-oriented approach. Understand that all three roles can be reasonable and appropriate at times, so they aren't necessarily bad; they just limit your potential.
The truth is that we will never be able to completely eliminate organizational drama. Victimization and drama are natural parts of the human experience, but recognizing it earlier and making conscious choices can make a big difference.
In this episode, David takes us on a deeper understanding of the negative impact of DDT in our lives and how we can find our way out using The Empowerment Dynamic (TED) approach and ultimately bring forward the best version of ourselves. Here are a few of the topics we’ll discuss on this episode of The Anthony Sarandrea Show:
Understand The Dreaded Drama Triangle (DDT) and how it’s limiting your potential. A leadership perspective on organizational drama. The three dimensions of work. Some daily practices that you can do to start rewriting the rules. Three vital questions you need to ask yourself. How to manage dynamic tensions in 5 quick steps. What the two basic aspects of current reality are. How The Empowerment Dynamic can help you shift to a more positive, constructive, empowering, resilient, and outcome-based. Find The Anthony Sarandrea Show useful? Subscribe to our podcast and like this episode!
Resources:
The Power of TED* (*The Empowerment Dynamic) (book) 3 Vital Questions: Transforming Workplace Drama (book) Creating Your Life by Robert Fritz Where Focus Goes, Energy Flows Connecting with David Emerald:
Website LinkedIn Youtube Connecting with the host:
Anthony Sarandrea on LinkedIn Quotes:
1:57 "I have a foundational belief, if you will, that all leadership starts with self-leadership, that the way we lead our own lives has everything to do with how we lead in organizations, our families, our communities, etc." 7:25 "Drama is frankly, any thought, any interaction that gets us off the focus on outcomes and what we're trying to create." 13:16 "If we can upgrade our operating system, so to speak, to the outcome-focused, passion-based creative behavior, then that creates the conditions for the antidote to the toxic DDT." 19:44 "I don't want people to hear that the problem orientation is necessarily bad. It's just limiting." 22:47 "This notion that victimization and being in drama is part of the human experience but if we can recognize it sooner, make conscious choices, that's what this journey is all about." 26:03 "Just like in organizations, to say no drama is not realistic thinking that we can always be in those empowered roles is not realistic, but it's about progress. And you can't make the shift without some sort of a pause, practice." 31:18 "See problems as they are, but not worse than they are." 33:49 "Part of the discipline of being a creator is being able to hold this tension and to not react to it." 38:01 "The tongue is the most powerful weapon on the entire planet." 39:38 "All three of the drama roles victim persecutor rescuer, they're not bad. There are times where they may be reasonable or appropriate. It's just that they're limiting." How to Get Involved:
Anthony Sarandrea, the founder

Professor of psychiatry at Stanford University and New York Times bestseller Dr. Anna Lembke joins me to discuss how people get addicted to different behaviors, the dangers of social media addiction, and how we can beat our addictions. Dr. Anna Lembke has always been interested in psychology and how the brain works, and as the professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic, she knows a thing or two.  A clinician scholar, Dr. Lembke has published more than a hundred peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, and commentaries where she dives into what makes us tick.  Dr. Lembke also sits on the board of several state and national addiction-focused organizations, she has testified before various committees in the United States House of Representatives and Senate and maintains a thriving clinical practice.
The Social Dilemma rocked many of our beliefs around social media and addiction and you may recognize Dr. Lembke for her appearances in the Netflix documentary, discussing how social media was affecting our lives and the vast dangers of social media addictions.
She is also the author of Drug Dealer, MD – How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop and New York Times Bestseller Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence which explores how to moderate compulsive overconsumption in a dopamine-overloaded world. Here are a few of the topics we’ll discuss on this episode of The Anthony Sarandrea Show:
What makes social media addictive. How dopamine works and the ways it can hijack your brain. The drugification of everyday life and our increased vulnerability to addiction. The need for government intervention in social media. How governments can limit damaging internet behavior. The science of the ‘lizard brain’ and what causes compulsive repetitive behavior. The similarities between drug addiction and internet addiction. How to detox from social media and quit addictions. The dangers of being addicted to social media. How long do you need to abstain from addictive behaviors for your brain chemistry to reset. Find The Anthony Sarandrea Show useful? Subscribe to our podcast and like this episode!
Resources:
The Social Dilemma Dopamine Nation Connecting with Dr. Anna Lembke:
Website Connecting with the host:
Anthony Sarandrea on LinkedIn Quotes
02:05 - “Human connection is good, and it also feels good, and the reason it feels good is because it releases dopamine, which is our rewarding neurotransmitter, so then what happens with social media?.” 03:14 - “Social media has essentially drugified human interaction.” 10:12 - “The reason that the platforms are created to keep us engaged is because the longer we’re engaged the more likely we are to interact with the ads. So if there were regulations on advertising that could potentially mean that the makers of these products would be willing to make them less engaging.” 13:48 - “Anything that’s pleasurable will release dopamine, the more pleasure the faster and more dopamine it releases, our brains will immediately try to compensate for that increased dopamine by downregulating our dopamine production and transmission, not just to baseline levels, but actually to below baseline levels so we go into this dopamine deficit state before we go back to equilibrium.” 16:38 - “Understand the neuroscience, and be honest, what is that behavior that we’re overconsuming that is contrary to our goals and values.” 17:23 - “What people, in my experience, are mostly looking for is just to not be for a while they just want to escape and that's a very natural human urge and we've lost the art of finding more adaptive ways of doing that.” 18:46 - “The universal symptoms of withdrawal from any addictive substance are anxiety, irritability, insomnia, depression, and craving but if you can just get through the first two weeks usu

Serial entrepreneur Ryan Blair started his first company at the ripe age of 21. By 24, he’d sold it in a $25 million transaction. Not long after, he bought a company on the verge of bankruptcy, with more than $6 million in debt. Within 16 months, he was selling it as a $792 million business.  Just 10 years before selling his first multi-million dollar business, though, Ryan was a teen gang member in L.A.  His father, formerly a worker in the aerospace industry, had gotten addicted to drugs, and multiple of Ryan’s siblings followed suit. By the time he was 14, he’d been pushed into a gang to retaliate the murder of his sister’s best friend, and things were moving in a dark direction, fast. That’s when he met his first entrepreneur — the man who would become his mentor and, later, his stepfather. 
Having an entrepreneur as a mentor changed Ryan’s mindset and helped (literally) reverse his fortunes. But later on, following the death of his mother, he’d come to determine he’d attributed too much power to new Ferraris and mansions. Ryan was still, essentially, a walking wound of childhood trauma. That’s when the real shift started. 
 
“Through the process of learning forgiveness and learning meditation and breathwork, along with various other modalities, I started to change,” he recalls. “I started to have a different heart and a different energy about me. And people noticed that.”
(37:55)
On this episode of The Anthony Sarandrea Show, Anthony and Ryan talk about how those changes became the foundation for his new company, AlterCall, how he helps others to gain self-mastery, and what it means to be the architect of your own business and life.
 
What You’ll Learn:
Which MLM myths deserve to be debunked, and what good Ryan has seen come out of direct selling models (11:55) How he created procedures and processes out of his own healing work, and how others use that as a template today (38:03) Why, as a business owner, your emotional state will filter into your business operations, and how to ensure it’s a positive alignment (38:17) And much more!  
Favorite Quote:
“If you master your emotions and you master yourself, your business is going to be a reflection of that because your business is a reflection of you.”
— Ryan Blair
(38:25)
 
Connect With Ryan: 
LinkedIn
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AlterCall
 
How to Get Involved:
Anthony Sarandrea, the founder of SiteFlood, is a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker known as a renowned customer and lead generator across the globe. 
Be sure to follow him on LinkedIn, Instagram, and gain access to his consulting and speaking engagements via his website.
Let us know you enjoyed this episode by visiting us on Apple Podcasts and giving us a review! We love hearing from you and appreciate your support of the show!
 

The Co-founder of Sports 1 Marketing, David Meltzer’s mission in life is a simple and also, at first encounter, extremely grand one: to empower over one billion people to be happy.  Recognized by Variety Magazine as Sports Humanitarian of the Year, formerly the CEO of real-life “Jerry Maguire” Leigh Steinberg’s sports and entertainment agency, and the producer of the world’s first late-night entrepreneur show, David is used to having a wide reach. And he’s also, throughout his life, been a believer in owning his mindset, heartset and happiness, and teaching others how to do the same. Growing up as one of six kids with a single mom who worked two jobs, learning to cultivate his happiness was something he learned early on.
“If you find the light, the love, and the lessons of being poor, you have a superpower that other people don’t have,” he says.
(10:45)
That’s part of the reason why, in 2008, having lost the hundreds of millions of dollars earned in his earlier Silicon Valley career and with his back against the wall, David knew he’d find a way out. Finding ways out of seemingly insurmountable situations is something he coaches others on today, in his No. 1 rated show “The Playbook Podcast,” in the books he’s written, and in one-on-one coaching sessions. 
In this episode of The Anthony Sarandrea Show, Anthony and David talk about how, exactly, he plans to help a billion people find happiness, the biggest lessons of his multi-chaptered career, and how he learned to control his mindset.
 
What You’ll Learn:
David’s five daily practices for gaining mastery of your thoughts and emotions (16:39) Why David “starts every day at 9 p.m.” (and what he means by that) (23:09) Why he works with a sleep coach and what impact that’s had on his life And much more!  
Favorite Quote:
“There is nothing like having nothing to lose. There's no greater freedom in the world.”
— David Meltzer
(9:50)
 
Connect With David: 
LinkedIn
Facebook
Podcast
 
How to Get Involved:
Anthony Sarandrea, the founder of SiteFlood, is a philanthropist, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker known as a renowned customer and lead generator across the globe. 
Be sure to follow him on LinkedIn, Instagram, and gain access to his consulting and speaking engagements via his website.
Let us know you enjoyed this episode by visiting us on Apple Podcasts and giving us a review! We love hearing from you and appreciate your support of the show!