The School of Greatness - 663 Hustle for a Purpose with Ryan Holmes

Episode Date: July 6, 2018

"THERE I SUCH A THING HAS BAD HUSTLE.” The more successful you get, the more you are going to feel you need to hustle. You’ll feel the need to keep moving and it’ll seem like if you stop, all of the pieces will fall apart. Unfortunately, that can end up being your downfall. If you move just to keep moving, you can end up in the wrong place in life. After a while, other areas in your life will start falling apart: especially your health. And without that, what’s the point of all the work? That’s why it’s important to find that balance in your life. Find the time to hustle for yourself and for the ones you love. All of that is just as important for an entrepreneur as their business. On this episode of 5 Minute Friday, I’ve decided to bring you back this clip from Ryan Holmes. If you aren’t familiar with Ryan, he’s the founder and CEO of Hootsuite. He let his life get out of balance and fell into some serious health issues that turned his life upside down. Hear his story and what you can do to find the right hustle, on Episode 663. In This Episode You Will Learn: Why you need a balanced life (1:00) What good hustle is (1:33) Ryan’s darkest years (1:50) Who Entrepreneurs have to rely on (2:56) Plus much, much more

This is 5-Minute Friday! Welcome everyone to a special edition of the School of Greatness podcast. I am so pumped to bring on my good friend Ryan Holmes. Now for those that don't know who Ryan is, he is the founder and CEO of Hootsuite. He started the company in 2008 and has helped grow it into one of the world's most widely used social relationship platforms with 10 million plus users, including 800 of the fortune 1000 companies. I met Ryan briefly after he launched Hootsuite and it's been incredible to see where he's taken his company from with just a couple hundred thousand subscribers to now over 10 million and taking his company from, you know, just a few hundred thousand dollars in revenue to evaluated over a billion dollars. I think that having a balanced life is so critical.

That includes, you know, there's a great post that I saw and I posted out a while ago. I shared it had good hustle and bad hustle. And I think there is such a thing as bad hustle and negative hustle. It's like no sleep. No sleep, yeah. I stayed up and I worked 24 hours straight. And it's like, that's bad hustle. Congratulations, you're going to give yourself a heart attack and die. Don't do that. That's not healthy hustle. What's good hustle? Those are the things I want to focus on. Good hustle, it's working smarter,

not harder. It's like getting exercise and balance in your life. It is attacking things with passion. Sure. This piece I'll share with you it's awesome and and uh it resonates so so well with a lot of people but you know as i said balance in health hugely important to me i had a back injury a few years ago that is another speaking of of uh formative things in my life and adversity that was actually i'm surprised i didn't immediately climb onto that but that was a huge moment of adversity one of my darkest years i was using a crutch and a cane yeah it was really bad that's why you got into yoga i think right yeah that's why i got into yoga yeah absolutely and out of that like balance and you know not sitting down at your desk all day you know i created my stand-up desk company because i wanted to you know

give that out to people and uh you know put that back to the world to give people a little balance and sitting down and standing up. I exercise probably three, four, sometimes five days a week. I try to get a little something in. I've got a gym at the office. I'll take off at lunch and I'll go work out a couple days a week. I'll go for a run. I'm trying to get faster running right now.

Cycling season's on. In the winter, I backcountry ski. I just try to get a little bit of something everywhere and enjoy myself while I do it. Find sports that I like and get exercise in when I can. And then lots of yoga. I really enjoy that. I talked about the good hustle, bad hustle. I'm huge into hustle. Entrepreneurs are self-propelled. It all comes down to you. You have to own accountability. all comes down to you. You have to own accountability. It is not about the, the, you know, entrepreneurs need to be insane. You have to be insane in a, in a good and bad way. You, you are crushing through walls every day. You've got these, all of these things that are stacked

against you that are going to tell you that you, what you are doing, you can't do. And you need to just have your own way of thinking about things. You need to basically build your mental game's got to be as strong as your physical game. You need endurance on both fronts, but you've got to be able to persuasively talk about what you're going to do to get people aligned around a vision, to move the ball ahead, and to work through bureaucracy.

And bureaucracy is the enemy of entrepreneurship, right? Sure, sure, yeah. And so you have to be able to do that. And that just takes hustle. It takes perseverance. It takes self-discipline and motivation. And you've got to find that yourself.