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Success Story with Scott D. Clary
Lessons - Accountability, Ownership & Choosing the Right Partners | Ben Nemtin - #1 NYT Bestselling Author
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Host
WIX is a success story partner. Now when I started Success Story, I was doing everything myself. I was building the website, I was editing episodes, I was figuring out tech that I had really no business figuring out. But if I was starting today, I'd use wix. Here's the thing. Wix is not some basic drag and drop situation. You can build legit professional grade websites in minutes. Their AI website builder asks you a few questions and it generates a custom site ready to go. Or if you're more hands on, They've got over 2,000 templates and and an editor that lets you customize literally any detail. What I really like is the AI tools built specifically for entrepreneurs. Unlimited image generation, automated email marketing, SEO help. The stuff that used to eat up your entire week. And it's all backed by enterprise grade security with 99.99% uptime. So your site doesn't go down when it matters most. 280 million businesses run on Wix. If you've been putting off building your site, this is your sign. Sign up for free@wix.com that's wix.com Framer is a success story partner. Now you could be a solopreneur, you could be an entrepreneur. You could be somebody just sitting at home who's trying to start a business out of their house. But you know the drill. You need good design to create a website to get your business off the ground. But good design is expensive and you can't afford to hire a designer for every single landing page. Social posts. But you also can't afford to look amateur.
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Interviewer
And I've been there.
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Host
You, you need to move fast, you need to look professional. But you also need to not blow your budget on five different tools. Framer already built the fastest way to publish beautiful production ready websites. And it's now redefining how we design for the web with the recent launch of Design Pages, a free canvas based design tool. Framer is more than a site builder. It's a true all in one design platform. From social assets to campaign visuals to vectors and icons, all all the way to a live site. Framer is where ideas go live, start to finish. And the best part is it's actually free. Not a trial free. I'm talking unlimited projects, real vector tools, 3D transformations, everything you need without the nickel and diming. So if you're ready to design, iterate and publish all in one tool, start creating for free@framer.com design and make sure you use code Success story for a free month of Framer pro that's that's framer.com design and use promo code success story framer.com design promo code success Story Rules and restrictions may apply. Elay is a success story partner now. Are you spinning your wheels on low value tasks? Do you spend more time putting out fires and planning your long term goals? As your business grew, you brought on more people and booked more meetings, but focus became even harder to find. Here's the truth. Business leaders shouldn't lose hours to emails, scheduling, project tracking and avoidable interruptions. Just because it all has to get done doesn't mean it needs to be done by you. That's where our friends at Belay can help. Belay's US based remote executive assistants don't just take work off your plate. They learn how you operate, what slows you down, and where things tend to go sideways. Then they get ahead of it. So if you're looking for a practical tool to help you start leading with clearer purpose, download Belay CEO Tricia Shortino's free resource the 40 Hour CEO Workweek Planning Guide. Just text the word Scott to 55123 for your free copy today that is Scott to 55123 to start accomplishing more while juggling less with Belay. In this lessons episode, explore how accountability and shared ambition turn bold goals into lasting progress. Discover why pursuing challenges with the right people increases follow through. Understand how community support sustains momentum through setbacks and failure. And uncover practical ways to find inspiring peers who raise Expand what feels possible.
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Interviewer
Actually, you know, it's it. We didn't even, we didn't even need to jump there right away. But I think it was an important lesson, the accountability piece. And I was actually curious about when you were doing your own bucket list. Did you find that you had more success immediately because you were doing it with friends? And also sort of an add on to that question, that bucket list. I've listened to some other interviews you've been in and some of those items were shared items and some of those items were solo items. Did you find it was easier to accomplish the shared items versus the solo items or was there any differentiation there when you were doing that own bucket list?
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Guest
So we had individual items and shared items as you said, but we all did all of them together. So actually the first time I thought about this. So for instance, ride a bull. I had no interest in riding a bull. I had heard a name disc from rugby. You know, I wasn't getting on one. Dave, one of the guys was very passionate about riding a bull. He Called dozens of, you know, outfits in, in. In Idaho and Utah. No one would let him on a bull. They're like, it's too much liability. You've never, like, no, we're not going to let you put that into your documentary. Finally found someone and he did it. And Duncan ended up doing it last minute and Johnny and I did not. But we all did a lot of these most list items together. Even if it was just one person's dream, most of them were collective dreams. But the accountability of having those other.
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Interviewer
Guys with me, even you, for them when riding a bull and even.
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Guest
There's no way I would have done some of the things streak a field and get away. No chance. Unless I was forced into that position because they were like, we're doing this, you know, be in a crump competition in la. I can't dance. Like, this is a nightmare for me. You know, survive on a deserted island, you know, and just have to figure out a way to make a bed on the sand and live off coconuts. Like, ask out. Trying to ask about Megan Fox on the Transformers premiere red carpet. Like, these things made me so nervous, I almost threw up. But because I had those guys with me and there wasn't an option to not do it. There was. We just. There was no option. And the other thing that I think is more powerful is like, when I tell the story of starting that road trip in 2006 and getting to, you know, these big bigger list items and make a TV show and all that, it really sounds like a great startup story. You know, it's just a rocket ship. From 2006 to the television show was. Was three, four years. And we had many times when I wanted to give up right when we. We got offered a show in Canada. By the way, a lot of people don't know this, but MTV Canada, after the first tour, we went to Toronto. We had made a trailer. We put it on YouTube and it got the front page of YouTube. We met with production companies in Canada. MTV Canada offered us a show. They wanted to own the ip. They wanted to own Barry Lynn. And we were like, we just kind of want to keep doing this on our own. Like, we don't want to. We want to make a show, not sell a show, basically. So we politely, you know, declined. The next summer, 2007, we got lots of sponsors on board. We got Palm Pilot at the time, we got Levi's. They helped us buy the bus. We must. We, you know, we. We raised a lot of money for sponsors to. Enough to get a Full crew from LA to follow us for two months on the road, put all this money into the dock, got back home, realized how expensive post production is. We had spent 90% of our money, we hadn't paid ourselves a dime and we had turned on a show. We were broke. I started working in a bar, didn't even know how to bartend in Vancouver. And I was like, we blew it, dude. We turned down a show. We spent all our money on this doc that no one will ever see. And now I'm working in a bar. I dropped out of school. I dropped out of school and it was the three other guys, right, that in those moments when I felt so down that we're like, get back up, you know, we're gonna, we're gonna keep doing this. I randomly met this girl that knew my, she, her, her parents were friends with my parents and I was on a random trip to Mexico and she lived in la and she was like, oh, this is kind of cool, you know, like I can maybe introduce you to some people. On a whim, I flew down to LA by myself, met some people and started just coming down to la, learning the entertainment business, need realize I need an agent. Realized we needed a production company. We cut our own pilot from the footage we'd filmed. So this documentary footage, we're like, oh, let's, let's cut a pilot. We had crashed the MTV Video Awards in Vegas, snuck in the whole thing, filmed it. We used that as a pilot. Ironically, we got in pretending we were filming an MTV pilot and we used that footage to cut a pilot and ended up selling the Showdown TV with that footage. But a lot of ups and downs. And if I was trying to do this by myself, I would have stopped after the first year. 2007. Yeah. So they really.
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Host
Framer is a success story, partner. Now you could be a solopreneur, you could be an entrepreneur. You could be somebody just sitting at home who's trying to start a business out of their house. But you know the drill. You need good design to create a website to get your business off the ground. But good design is expensive. And you can't afford to hire a designer for every single landing page, social post. But you also can't afford to look amateur.
- [09:36]
Interviewer
And I've been there.
- [09:37]
Host
You need to move fast, you need to look professional, but you also need to not blow your budget on five different tools. Framer already built the fastest way to publish beautiful production ready websites. And it's now redefining how we design for the web with the Recent launch of Design Pages A free canvas based design tool Framer is more than a site builder. It's a true all in one design platform. From social assets to campaign visuals to vectors and icons, all all the way to a live site. Framer is where ideas go live, start to finish. And the best part is it's actually free. Not a trial free. I'm talking unlimited projects, real vector tools, 3D transformations, everything you need without the nickel and diming. So if you're ready to design, iterate and publish all in one tool, start creating for free@framer.com design and make sure you use Code Success story for a free month of framer pro. That's framer.com design and and use promo code success story framer.com design promo code success story rules and restrictions may apply. LinkedIn ads is a Success Story Partner Now I get served the worst ads. Like I'm a 35 year old guy running a podcast and a business and I'm seeing ads for retirement communities and cat food and I don't have a cat. Someone paid for that impression and it was completely wasted on me. So when you want to reach the right professionals, use LinkedIn ads. Over a billion professionals, 130 million decision makers you can target by job title, seniority, industry, company size. You're actually reaching the people who can say yes. LinkedIn ads delivers the highest B2B return on ad spend of any major ad network. Not just some of them, all of them. So here's the deal. Spend $250 on your first campaign and get a $250 credit on your next campaign. Just go to LinkedIn.com success that's LinkedIn.com success. Terms and conditions apply. Elay is a Success Story partner Now are you spinning your wheels on low value tasks? Do you spend more time putting out fires and planning your long term goals? As your business grew, you brought on more people and booked more meetings. But focus became even harder to find. Here's the truth. Business leaders shouldn't lose hours to emails, scheduling, project tracking and avoidable interruptions. Just because it all has to get done doesn't doesn't mean it needs to be done by you. That's where our friends at Belay can help. Belay's US based Remote Executive Assistants don't just take work off your plate. They learn how you operate, what slows you down and where things tend to go sideways. Then they get ahead of it. So if you're looking for a practical tool to help you start leading with clearer purpose, download Belay CEO Tricia Shortino's free resource, the 40 Hour CEO Workweek Planning Guide. Just text the word Scott to 55123 for your free copy today. That is S C O T T to 55123. To start accomplishing more while juggling less with Belay.
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Interviewer
That's super important. But that's, that's, that's also a sort of like a, a hidden facet in being successful in your bucket list and your goals because you have to find that support group. So, yeah, if somebody is building out this list, they probably have people in their life. Of course they have their family. They probably, they could have a partner, a spouse, whatever, boyfriend, girlfriend, but not always. So if somebody does want to radically improve their life, you mentioned a few things that could maybe detract from them being successful at this. And I want to actually walk through those so people can understand fear. The, the deadlines and the will, the waiting to feel inspired, those three items. But I think the other item that could stop somebody from being successful is lack of accountability and that and those partners in their life that can hold them accountable. So I would ask you, how can somebody find people that can hold them accountable to the level where you held your friends accountable, they held you accountable?
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Guest
I think this is likely a very common question maybe, because I get it a lot. And you know, it's like, I don't know anybody that's inspiring or how do I find these people? And I think that that's why a lot of people move to different cities like LA or New York, because it feels like there are creative, inspiring people there. It doesn't mean that you're going to find those people, though, because there's also a lot of other types of people in these cities and you can get caught up in the, in the wrong types of crowds. So the. I'll give you my experience of what led me to this and then what I think would help. So even before I called up Johnny on the phone, who was the filmmaker, and I was like, you're inspiring. I want to hang out with you. Let's make something about a year before, a guy that I knew from high school, he was younger than me and he was in high school and I was in university, he started a clothing line out of nowhere. I was like, blown away. A really cool clothing line. And I was so flabbergasted. I was like, how did you do that? You don't have any experience in fashion. He's like, what do you mean? I just took out a loan And I did it. I was like, wow. I was like, can I get involved? Like, can I? So immediately I was drawn to this person. I was inspired by him and I asked if I could help not thinking about anything other than I was drawn to this dude because he was doing this thing. And so I asked him if I could help and he said yes. I need press. Maybe you can get me some press, you know. And there was this. These are the days of like cool hunting blogs, you know, where people would just post stuff they thought was cool and like they would just get. It was the greatest gig of all time. You just get sent all this cool stuff and if you really liked it, you'd post a photo of it, right? So there's this, there's this guy, Josh Spear, who had a website, Josh spear.com. and he was, I saw him on the front page of the Toronto Sun. Style or Toronto Star. It was like the style section or cool. It was the lifestyle. And it was like, if Josh says it's cool, it's cool. So this is early 2000s. And I was, I was like, I bet you he would like this. My friend's clothing line. Anyways, got in contact with him, just sent him an email. He got back to me through his website. I was like, wow, I got in contact with this guy. We sent him my friend's clothing. He did a post about it. I was like, holy crap. Like, that was easier than I thought. I was like, if my friend made a clothing line, I wonder what I could do? And I was like, I want to make a movie.
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Interviewer
So, so you found a way to get into, into his life, like through providing tons of value, through associating with him, through, through you built a relationship by being listen like. And then you showed up too, which is another important thing too. Like when he asked for help or.
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Host
Whatever it is like you showed up.
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Guest
Exactly. And then he was friends with Johnny, so I started hanging out sort of with his friends. So, you know, like minded people tend to hang out with each other. So my advice is find one person that you think is doing something cool or that is inspiring you in some way, shape or form. And if you know them a little bit, just try and get to know them a little more and see if you can get to know their friends. Because likely they run in a circle of like minded people. And you sort of try and go down that rabbit hole to open up your circle to these types of people. And you're following your energy. So you're not following. It's not necessarily Tactical, where you're like, this person's successful. I need to hang out with this person. They're making a lot of money or they're doing this, like, what are the people that make you feel more alive? Who are the people that give you energy and inspire you? Because by surrounding yourself with inspiring people by osmosis, subconsciously you feel that you can do good, great things. Because you see your friends doing these things and you realize, well, if they did it, I wonder what I could do. The flip side of that is if you see people you don't know do incredible things, I think your initial reaction is, oh, they're smarter than me, they're better than me. That's why they're doing those things. But when you know them, you're like, I hang on this person all the time. They're not that smart, right? They're not that great. You know, like, I can probably do this stuff. And so you're the high tide rises, the boats. You believe that you can do great things just because you know these people. So your level of thinking subconsciously rises. And that's the power of surrounding yourself with inspiring people.
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Host
Thanks for tuning in. If you found this valuable, don't forget to hit that subscribe button so you never miss an episode. And if you want to dive deeper into this conversation, check out the links in the description to watch the full episode. See you in the next one. WIX is a success Story partner Now when I started Success Story, I was doing everything myself. I was building the website, I was editing episodes, I was figuring out tech that I had really no business figuring out. But if I was starting today, I'd use wix. Here's the thing. WIX is not some basic drag and drop situation. You can build legit professional grade websites in minutes. Their AI website builder asks you a few questions and it generates a custom site ready to go. Or if you're more hands on, They've got over 2,000 templates and and an editor that lets you customize literally any detail. What I really like is the AI tools built specifically for entrepreneurs. Unlimited image generation, automated email marketing, SEO help. The stuff that used to eat up your entire week. And it's all backed by enterprise grade security with 99.99% uptime. So your site doesn't go down when it matters most. 280 million businesses run on Wix. If you've been putting off building your site, this is your sign. Sign up for free@wix.com that's wix.com Elay is a success Story Partner now are you spinning your wheels on low value tasks? Do you spend more time putting out fires and planning your long term goals? As your business grew, you brought on more people and booked more meetings, but focus became even harder to find. Here's the truth. Business leaders shouldn't lose hours to emails, scheduling, project tracking and avoidable interruptions. Just because it all has to get done doesn't mean it needs to be done by you. That's where our friends at Belay can help. Belay's US based Remote Executive Assistants don't just take work off your plate. They learn how you operate, what slows you down and where things tend to go sideways. Then they get ahead of it. So if you're looking for a practical tool to help you start leading with clearer purpose, download Belay CEO Tricia Sortino's free resource the 40 Hour CEO Workweek Planning Guide. Just text the word Scott to 55123 for your free copy today. That is S C O T T to 55123 to start accomplishing more while juggling less with Belay. Northwest Registered Agent is a Success Story Partner now. When I first started my business I had no idea how much goes into just existing legally, right LLC paperwork, registered agent, business address, compliance. I was googling at 2am trying to figure out what all this meant and if you're starting something right now, I am telling you, don't do it that way. Northwest Registered Agent lets you build your complete business identity in just 10 clicks and 10 minutes. We're talking LLC formation, domain name, business email, phone number, business address, registered agent and compliance all for just $39 plus state fees. They've been doing this for almost 30 years. Largest registered agent service in the country with over 1,500 corporate guides who are actual who know your state's laws and will walk you through it. Don't wait, protect your privacy, build your brand and get your complete business identity in just 10 clicks and 10 minutes. Visit northwestregisteredagent.com paid success and start building something amazing. Get more with Northwest registered agent@northwestregisteredagent.com paid success.