
Codie Sanchez
@Codie_Sanchez • 715,588 subscribers
Founder. @contrarian @ctventurecap @bizscout_ Wife to @chris_petkas My book on how to scale profitable businesses 👉 https://t.co/NcDaWIlXRE
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Communication expert explains how to get people to like you more:
Codie Sanchez5,676,180 views • 1 month ago

This guy coaches Sam Altman. He also works with leaders at Anthropic, Google, Apple, and SpaceX. I sat down with him to learn how he coaches billion dollar businesses. Here are Joe Hudson’s 7 operating rules: 1. Kill your 1:1s These meetings lead individuals to solve problems instead of the team. Much better to bring problems to the whole team so everyone feels responsible for solving them. I agree, haven’t done them for years... 2. Rotate who runs recurring meetings When the same person always leads, people focus on pleasing or rebelling against them. Spreading the authority makes everyone accountable to the team instead. 3. Give anyone the power to change a bad meeting Everyone already knows when a meeting isn’t working (and usually why). Giving people permission to say it makes meetings more effective. 4. Make every employee run at least 5 experiments a quarter on their own job It makes the team more productive, keeps people interested, and helps retain smart employees who would otherwise get bored. 5. Ask your team to push back on your ideas If you try to sell them on the idea, they may nod in the room and do nothing afterward. Asking for objections tests the idea + gets everyone aligned before you commit to it. 6. Start by building the part you understand the least If you leave the confusing part until the end you might find out it doesn’t fit and have to rebuild everything around it. 7. End every email with an action needed Name the person responsible, the action they need to take, and the deadline. Joe says this rule increased productivity in his business by 35 to 40%. Thanks for coming on Joe Hudson and sharing how you run your business. Search “BigDeal pod” on youtube.
Codie Sanchez306,608 views • 20 days ago

I'm home after two weeks that felt like two months... and a few of the lessons surprised me. I met with 3 billionaires, launched Own or Be Owned, walked 170,000 people through the 12 profit levers, met with YouTube execs, recorded podcasts with a guy who's done $2 billion in sales and a woman who's screened 2 million executives, and launched our new business tech product. Here are 12 lessons from two weeks of too many meetings: 1. Stop improving broken systems. Question why they exist. Joe Liemandt's Alpha School has kids finishing core academics in 2 hours a day while reportedly learning twice as much. Most people would use AI to make the 6 hour school day 10% better. Joe asked why school needs 6 hours at all. 2. Take smarter risks. Jenny Just turned $1.5M into a multibillion-dollar company, PEAK6. Her edge is nearly 30 years of decisions where the feedback is immediate and the stakes are real. Confidence is the receipt you get after surviving risk over and over. 3. Build an ecosystem of assets, not just one business. David Adelman started with student housing (Campus Apartments, $2B+ in assets) and kept going: alternative assets, a family office, the Philadelphia 76ers. Instead of asking what business to build, think about assets you can own to make every other one more valuable. 4. Every billionaire I met was weirdly comfortable being misunderstood. They make fewer decisions, but bigger ones, and they go all in on them. From the outside, that looks crazy. But you can't build an abnormal life while trying to look normal. 5. An audience is not a business. We walked 170,000 people through 12 profit levers in three days. That attention is powerful… but it only matters if it turns into customers. 6. Nothing X-rays a company like a live launch. Three days live exposed every weak spot in our messaging, tech, team, offer and follow up. Too many people joined for Zoom to handle. Our payments broke. Amazon pulled our listing because the demand looked fake. Scale finds every crack you've been ignoring. 7. Information is cheap. Most owners already know what's wrong. They just need to DO THE THING. 8. The best operators simplify aggressively. A lesson from Dean Graziosi, right hand to Tony Robbins: great operators don't leave a meeting with 30 priorities. They leave with one constraint. 9. Creators are quietly becoming holding companies. Meeting with YouTube execs made this obvious. One video can bring in a customer, a hire, an acquisition, an investor and product launch. 10. The best conversations rarely happen onstage. One of the most valuable ones of the trip was at 9 am in a café. The rest happened backstage, in cars, and in the ten minutes before my next meeting. 11. Growth is usually hiding behind one uncomfortable decision. Raise the price. Kill the offer. Replace the person. Narrow the customer. Two weeks. Three cities. Three billionaires. One book launch. 170,000 owners. My biggest takeaway of all? The next level rarely requires more information... just moving faster.
Codie Sanchez46,888 views • 8 days ago

Kanye West advice on haters will change your life. *I keep a folder of his best lines ever.
Codie Sanchez143,232 views • 24 days ago

Meet Russell Shepard. Former NFL wide receiver who's now running a porta-potty business. Year 2 he made $1M? (more than ever in the NFL) It started when he played for the Giants. He noticed the city filled with trash at night. By morning? All gone. He knew someone was making bank on all that waste. So with his NFL earnings, Russell bought: - A vacuum truck with a 2,000-gallon tank - 125 portable toilets - 50 hand wash stations - 20 holding tanks - Some nearby land His first few months of recurring revenue: - Month 1-2: $6k - Month 2-3: $12k - Month 3-4: $18k By year 2 they'd hit $1M in revenue. Now multi-millions. How it grew so fast? reviews and referrals. His company Shep Boys manages waste from construction sites to disaster zones. Simple model, recurring revenue, commercial contracts. I will say - I've never been so close to throwing up when visiting a small business before. But Russell doesn't care what it smells like. He cares what it pays.
Codie Sanchez867,848 views • 6 months ago

Never apologize for chasing money. It is very hard to change the world when you are broke.
Codie Sanchez61,057 views • 14 days ago

Tony Robbins has the best take on why men and women process emotions so differently: "Men don't share their feelings, because their job is to solve a problem. In a man's world, the more you solve problems, the more you move up the hierarchy of being a man. In a woman's world, you share your problems so you can connect and feel for the person."
Codie Sanchez268,205 views • 2 months ago

Entrepreneur who’s started 75+ businesses reveals 3 simple gigs making people six figures+:
Codie Sanchez54,692 views • 17 days ago

Luxury real estate broker reveals how to get a total stranger to trust you with their money:
Codie Sanchez163,530 views • 1 month ago

Tech billionaire explains the difference between an MBA and an entrepreneur:
Codie Sanchez34,948 views • 12 days ago

Maybe we should put our kids in BJJ. This study looked at Brazilian Jiu Jitsu's effect on young people. The results are incredible. Kids did jiu jitsu 1-3x per week, 45 minutes on average, and they increased their self control by double digits compared to their peers. They showed more inhibitory control - aka, less easily distracted, more focus. Other studies say the same thing: One looked at MMA vs BJJ, and the kids who did BJJ had: • Increased self-control • Increased pro-social behavior • Decreased levels of aggression Another study looked specifically at boys with autism. It found that the social + motor control aspects of martial arts have a huge effect: The group who did martial arts had a 12.79 LOWER score on problem behaviors than the control group. In a world that’s constantly trying to distract us, BJJ makes you disciplined. In a world where kids are increasingly isolated, BJJ puts them together & challenges them physically and mentally. What do you think? Would you put your kids in martial arts?
Codie Sanchez1,780,252 views • 2 years ago