Living The Red Life - The Secret to My Insane Productivity Schedule...

Episode Date: July 18, 2024

All Gas. No Breaks. In todays episode i share insights on my hectic yet productive lifestyle, emphasizing the importance of relentless effort, extensive networking, and strategic planning. I describe my packed schedule, which often includes attending multiple events in different cities within a short time frame, and how i maximize every moment, even during travel. I attribute much of my success to consistently saying yes to opportunities and pushing myself to maintain a high level of productivity, despite the challenges of constant travel and limited sleep.I also touch on the significance of maintaining a healthy routine, including regular exercise, proper nutrition, and efficient time management. I go over practical tips for staying productive while traveling, such as scheduling calls during transit, utilizing in-flight Wi-Fi for work, and ensuring a healthy diet by arranging for protein shakes and energy drinks to be delivered to my hotel. My approach combines dedication, strategic thinking, and a commitment to self-care, which i believe are crucial for achieving extraordinary success.CHAPTERS01:13 - Welcome to Living the Red Life01:18 - All Gas, No Breaks: The Hustle Mindset01:25 - The Power of Networking and Events02:05 - From Judge Panels to Red Carpets: A Busy Week02:31 - Juggling Networking and Business Management02:53 - Overcoming Excuses to Attend Events04:00 - Going Nomad: A Strategy for Success05:01 - Lifestyle Design for Business Growth06:45 - Extreme Measures for Extreme Success07:00 - A Day in the Life: Event Hopping Across Cities08:43 - The Cost of Success: Sacrifices and Payoffs09:25 - Maximizing Opportunities Through Relationships10:52 - Managing Business While Traveling13:20 - Stacking the Day: Optimizing Every Minute16:20 - Staying Healthy and Energized on the RoadConnect with Rudy Mawer:LinkedInInstagramFacebookTwitter

Probably one of my biggest success hacks is just always saying yes, always going to the event. Like I'm kind of crazy, I guess. We get this. I finished the event in Atlanta at 2 p.m. I get on a flight. I land at 5.30 in LA. My red carpet photo shoot starts at 6 and then do news interviews. And then the premiere is 7 till 9 plus networking.

And then I'd already committed, ironically, to an event in miami that next day so i had to ring those and say hey i'm actually in la the night before not atlanta now you know i finished this red carpet event at maybe midnight and i have to get on a 5 a.m or 6 a.m flight out of lax i have to go straight to the airport sleep for four hours in a hotel take a flight back and then literally go from the airport after flying for five hours with four hours sleep and speak again and and i'm not saying that because it's cool or to brag or anything like that it's more to point out most people don't want to admit or accept like that's what it takes and they don't want to do that amount of work which is why they get average results my name is rudy moore host of

living the red life podcast and i'm here to change the way you see your life in your earpiece every single week. If you're ready to start living the red life, ditch the blue pill, take the red pill, join me in Wonderland and change your life. What's up guys? Welcome back to another episode of Living the Red Life. Today we're going to talk about all gas, no brakes. Yes, one of my staff did give that headline for the show, but I wanted to talk about traveling, networking, and staying productive. Just last week, I was at, I think, four events. So many I lost count. I was a judge and helping run an event with Kevin Harrington from Shark Tank. Then I was in, I believe, LA, no, Atlanta for an event. And then with Les Brown. And then I had an event in Las Vegas. I was on a panel, um, a celebrity judge panel, uh, with Steve Forbes, the, um, you know, the chairman and,

uh, co-owner of Forbes magazine, uh, and then back to Miami for another event. And then I'm back for a few days. And then next week I go, uh, actually back to Tampa, back to Atlanta and then LA. and then I'm speaking in Miami. I have a red carpet event for my new TV show in LA as well next week. So for last week and for this next week. And a lot of what I think has made me successful has been able to go to these big events, travel network, but then also keep the companies running. So I'm going to talk about that for you today and how to manage both, how to juggle both and the benefits of both. So, you know, the first thing when it comes to networking and getting

to these events, one of the biggest things I can tell you that I often remind myself is I half the time I talk myself out of going to events. I say it's too far. It's too much travel. I'm too busy. I don't know if it will be worth it. And then every time I go, it becomes worth it. OK, there's probably a few times, right? Say I've been to 100 events in the last couple of years or, you know, since COVID, maybe less. But say every 100 events, there's maybe like five or 10 that aren't worth it. 90 are probably worth it. So it's a pretty good success rate, right? When you think about launching a new product or funnel, the success rate is the opposite,

maybe 10 or 20% work. But when I go to events, probably 80 or 90% work. So yeah, the first thing is just getting there. I think we all talk, it's all easy for us to say we're busy. It's easy for us to make excuses. It's easy for us to say we want to spend more time with family or our spouse or, you know, all the reasons we make up in our head. But generally, you know, the most successful people, they're flying a lot. They're traveling a lot. They're taking the meetings. They're taking the stages, they're doing the handshakes in person, they're having the business dinners. And it really has been

probably one of my biggest success hacks over the last, you know, eight years, nine years since I moved to America, is just always saying yes, always going to the event. It's actually the reason I went nomad, right? So if you haven't followed me for that long, about just before COVID, I went nomad. So for two years, I traveled the world and I literally didn't have a house. I got rid of it and put all my stuff in storage in Florida. And I intentionally did this because I saw my company was growing. My biggest breakthroughs, my best clients, my biggest wins, ideas and connections all came from events. So I said to myself, how do I get to more events? And I go,

well, if I didn't have a house, I would just travel wherever and go wherever and go to every event. So that's what I did. I actually got rid of my house on purpose, intentionally to force me to go to as many events as possible. Then COVID hit and I got in a routine. I got a nice house on the ocean, on the beach, big house, like four bedroom, 4,000 square foot, got a boat, jet ski. I had like an amazing life, but it actually, you know, it actually slowed me down in business because I wasn't traveling as much and I was at the beach. I wasn't at this busy place.

And then I opened this big office and I pinched myself and realized this about a year ago. And I moved to Miami because of that, because I realized I wanted to have a little more grounded because I was running a bigger company with more staff meetings. But I also was losing the network effect that I once got me to where I, you know, it got me to this point in my life. So then Miami was like, well, I can achieve both. So a couple of takeaways there. Firstly, get, say yes all the time, get to every event. It doesn't matter what it costs, doesn't matter about flights. Do whatever you have to do because you'll always, you know, very high probability, nine out of 10 times, you'll always make key connections, it'll always be worth it. And then I think the second lesson from that is like lifestyle design. Like if you really want

to be successful, you have to be very intentional in how you act, think and what you do to an extreme level, because most people would say, well, really, it's pretty extreme to like get rid of your house to force you to travel more. And I'm like, yeah, it is. But that's what makes successful people, right? Like some people that are even more successful than me, they buy their own plane for that exact reason, because they realize they can get to more events. Grant Cardone said this when I spoke to him. It's like him buying the plane, you know, obviously it's cool, right? And then there's some tax advantages. But for him, it literally let him speak in the morning and then be home with his kids in the evening. Or it would let him take his family much easier, right, than trying to fly everyone. Or he could even get to two events in one day, right? So you could literally go to an

event, speak, leave and get to the next venue. So you really do have to like play at that extreme level if you want to have extreme success. And I don't think most people talk about it. And yeah, you have to go like, you know, all gas, no brakes, right? So, this next week, I'm hosting an event with Kevin again, and then another one in Atlanta at 2 p.m. I get on a flight. I land at 5 p.m. in L.A. My red carpet photo shoot starts at 6 with all the news. You know, I have to do the red carpet walk at 6 and then do news interviews. And then the premiere is 7 till 9 plus networking. And then I'd already committed, ironically, to an event in Miami that next day. So I had to ring those, the event owners and say, hey, I'm actually in LA the night before, not Atlanta now. So I need to speak later. So they moved me right to the end of the day till

4pm. And then I have to go from LA, you know You know, I finished this this red carpet event at maybe midnight and I have to get on a 5 a.m. or 6 a.m. flight out of L.A. X. I have to go straight to the airport, sleep for four hours in a hotel, L.A. X, and then take a flight back and then literally go from the airport after flying for five hours with four hours sleep and speak again. And I'm not saying that because it's cool or to brag or anything like that, because it's more to point out that I think that's what makes me more successful than other people is a lot of people would, at that point, they'd cancel something.

They'd say it's not possible. It's too much. They can't do it all, right? And I think what makes me successful is I have this like figure it out attitude and it's just like go go go and I'll get it done right no matter what I'll always get it done and I've got a track record of doing that so I'll you know I'll go to LA do all of that and and you you know will I be tired and run down by

the weekend yeah and I'll sleep well Saturday night after I've spoke but but that's what it takes and most people don't want to admit or accept like that's what it takes. And most people don't want to admit or accept like that's what it takes. And they don't want to do that amount of work, which is why they get average results. Okay. So, you know, second part of today that I want to talk about, hopefully that first part was a, you know, obviously not a big lesson, but maybe like a reminder or a wake up call to like really get out there. Okay. And push yourself and do what it takes to get in the right room so you have to pay you have to network you have to work for free you have to help organize the event or whatever it takes right do what it takes to get in the room always say yes they're always gonna

pay off and then just go more right like I mean it's so easy to make these excuses but you'll get the biggest breakthroughs through relationships partnerships and people so just go to more of these things. The more you can go to, the more successful you'll be. And then when you're there, like maximize and stack them. So when I was in Vegas, for example, last week, I did this. Well, I had a business meeting. So I did four hours of calls in Vegas in the morning, 6am till actually five hours of calls in Vegas in the morning 6 a.m till actually five hours of calls till 11 because of the time zone difference my Miami calls start at 9 a.m which is six there so I did five hours of calls I walked the Vegas strip and then I went for a run

after the five hours of calls and then I went and had a business meeting at the venue and then I had to shoot some ads for one of the sponsors of my TV show. And then I had the celebrity judge panel. Then I did an interview with Steve Forbes, which has already launched. Um, you can check that out. It just dropped. And then I went back, did an hour of work, and then I went to dinner with someone you may know, a guy called The Professor, a basketball, like, dribbling YouTuber and influencer, very famous online, really cool guy. I'm a big basketball fan. We were talking business. And then I went home and flew out the next morning. So I, like, stack that day, right? Super productive day, which kind of transitions and leads me into that second part, which

is how do you manage both? Because again, a lot of people can't manage both and it's like they make it. It's like one or the other. They can't do both. But successful people figure out how to do both. So, you know, and hopefully that was a good example that leads into this second part, like how do I manage both? Well, you know, I got up at 6am, I kept all my morning calls. And I, and it would have been easier for me to like, I left Atlanta at 9pm the night before,

after the last event, and most people would have logically not flown out like that night at 9pm, because I didn't land till 2am because it's just too much, right? They'd have flown the next day, but then if they flown the next day, they'd have lost that five hours of calls that I did and they could have risked being late for the actual event, which I didn't want to risk. So, you know, I'll always push it. And obviously I'm younger. I'm not saying I'll be doing this when I'm, well, when I'm 50, I'll have a private jet. So it'll actually be easier then because I can fly whenever I need to fly but i always try and maximize the day so if i'm traveling i'll try and stack like there it works well time zone wise going to put uh the

west coast because i have the time zone on my side where i can do calls at 6 a.m 7 a.m 8 a.m 9 a.m and then most events will start at 10 a. right? Or I'll turn up at 10am. So I'll still be able to do four hours of work. And then I'll do whatever I'm doing, you know, on that side of the coast. And I'll generally go to sleep about 8, 9pm. Because it's obviously a time zone wise, that's like 11 or 12. And it lets me get up and be super productive. So I always try and stack the day and when traveling i think it's super important to maximize every minute like i'm kind of crazy i guess where if i know i'm flying say i'm flying at 11 a.m i'll have calls booked at 9 a.m 9 30 10 10 30 11 so i'll

literally do two hours of calls um because i know at 9 8 9 and i have a bit of calls because I know at 9am and I have a bit of a routine, I know at 9am I would be calling an Uber to go to the airport. 9.30am I would arrive at whatever airport I'm at. 9.30am till 10am I'll be checking in and going through security. 10am I'll be through security going to my gate. You know, I always fly first class. I'll be boarding straight away at 10am and then I'll sit. So I'll be on a call during boarding, right? Just scan a code. I'm on headphones. And then from 10 till 1030, I'm boarding, sitting down, doing that call. And then I'm on another call from 1030 till 11, even if the flight takes off.

But 1055, they're never on time. And, you know, I'll be on the on the call. And so it's literally on the runway going up and I'll say bye. So I really stack, I stack the day, right? Until I'm, you know, obviously I'll turn the phone off once we have to go in airplane mode, but I'm stacking the day there. And that's, you know, four meetings I'll get in during my airport run where I guarantee 90% of people, because I know most people, wouldn't have any calls booked during those two hours

because they're like not on their laptop, they can't sit down, there's background noise. And obviously, I wouldn't host like a big business meeting with a billionaire during that, right? It's more like internal calls or cell phone calls or interviews or catch-ups. But with someone that, you know, I'll still have high-level calls with entrepreneurs. I had one with one of the sharks from Shark Tank and I was just polite and told them hey yeah let's do a call at 9 30 tomorrow just so you know there'll be a two-minute pause while I go through security as long as you're cool with that and they're like yeah right so or a bit of background noise on on the you know the

announcements so do whatever you can to stack the day. And this isn't just when traveling. This is in life. I'm always acting that way. And like I walk home every day generally is for that 30 minutes walking home. I'm catching up on all my messages, emails, replying to people or I'm on a call. being strategic in how you're planning the day around your travel will let you maximize both the networking in-person travel and the business keeping it running and I think it's a mindset shift that you don't have to separate them you don't have to say oh well if I go to these events I can't keep my funnels live or my ads or work on this new project I think that's a limiting belief that if you if you say that you just haven't either built a big enough team, good enough team, good enough system, or you don't maximize time, right? So the next example is once the plane takes off, I'm like never on a flight have I not bought Wi-Fi, right? So I'm always buying Wi-Fi and I actually go into a flight with a to-do list. So I have like four or five things I want to do on that flight and it can be big or small things.

It can be writing reviews, reports, checking in with a team, mapping out some new systems or frameworks or SOPs, planning a new podcast, you know, like a new studio, reviewing a bunch of interviews. So I'll always be working on the flight and then I'll always be working on the fly. And then I'll have my phone on the laptop. So I'll be working on the laptop. And then on the phone, I'll either be listening to a book or most of the time I'll be doing a YouTube, listening to a YouTube of some capacity, right? Most of the time it's work related or like Mr. Beast or something where I'm still like

reverse engineering how he's doing stuff and getting good ideas and occasionally it'll be recreational watching a movie and stuff but yeah you know I'm always working and I actually am my most productive on the fly because I'm not on calls I get a ton done as long as the wi-fi is good so yeah I think that's a good summary the only other thing I miss is staying I think healthy, healthy and energized. So I have a good routine. So I always train when I'm traveling. I try and go to sleep and stay in my current time zone whenever I can. If I'm only going for a day or two, I always pick a hotel with a good gym. And then whenever I land, as soon as I land, I Instacart protein shakes and energy drinks and whatever I want to the hotel. So it's actually there waiting for me when I arrive or just shortly after I arrive.

You know, by the time you land, get an Uber, it's an hour. So it's normally there when I get there. I always make sure it has a fridge. And then, yeah, I'll often Uber Eats, you know, if I have to anything. And yeah, that's generally it, sleeping well. I always try and pick a hotel room with good sunlight. I like to, and then I like to get outside. Like I say, Vegas had five hours of calls

instead of just sitting in a dark hotel room. There's no balconies in Vegas, sadly. I did most of the calls walking. So I did 25,000 steps. And then I sat outside by the pool to do some of them because I like the sunlight. So yeah, staying active, staying hydrated, super important. Trying to keep the gym routine. There was one day I really didn't want to gym. I was exhausted, but I just did. I have this five minute rule that if you don't want to gym, I just go for five

minutes because every time you go for five minutes, by the time you're down there in a routine, you end up staying for 20, 30 minutes and, you know, 20, 30 minutes, you can do a good workout. So, yeah, I think that's, I think that's a wrap, guys. That's, you know, all gas, no brakes, how I maximize events and maximize success in the business and stay productive. As you can tell, I kind of I'm going all in all cylinders. And generally, when I get back from like a crazy week, I'm a bit run down this week, honestly. So I like, I skipped a gym session to rest, take, you know, lots of vitamins and stuff, try and sleep well. And then, you know, just rest day or two, and then you do it all over again. So and like I said, you you know a lot of time

building up to the travel is like travel what I call travel anxiety like oh here we go again I don't want to do it blah blah blah but every time it's worth it every time it's a great time every time there's even though you are tired there's a lot of breakthroughs I think one rule I didn't say I made this commitment two years ago is I only fly first class now, even if it's double, triple, five X the cost or I have to do a different flight. It's just every time I like a Kate, like probably twice I broke that rule in the last two years and every time I regret it. But pretty much always because it's about like the energy and environment. It makes the travel less stressful. I mean, it balances your energy and hormones and productivity much better when you're in a

bigger seat and you're not waiting 45 minutes to get in and then they don't have space for your bags and then you get upset and all these things. Right. So, yeah, I know you generally get better people around you as well, more respectful people and you have some good business conversations. I've had some conversations with people that have built major major companies and made good connections so you know you can't always afford that i didn't fly first class for many years of my life even when i probably could have afforded it and i've flown hundreds of times economy i at least recommend exit row if you're gonna do economy uh but yeah try and fly first class because it puts you in a better state and mood going in and leaving whatever trip as well. And generally, you know, a normal

ticket is two, three hundred first class tickets, probably a thousand each way. So it is more. But I do think it's worth it if you can afford it. So, yeah, that's a wrap for me. All gas, no brakes. I hope you got some ideas there maybe a little motivation um and just understood how i balance everything because a lot of people ask rudy how do you run all these things while traveling uh well there you go there's your answer see you soon take care you