Leverage: Optimize, Automate, Outsource: Productivity Tips, Virtual Assistant Insights, Outsourcing, Life Hacks, And More

Go to beta.getleverage.com to sign up for the waitlist of our new project management software! We are offering a very special membership to our exclusive #LeverageLabs to new listeners who go to our Leverage Podcast or OAO Podcast and subscribe to or download our podcasts, take a photo and send to us via social media. #LeveragePodcast... Send us your photo and we will mention the lucky new members on the podcast each week...  All episodes, show notes, and resources can be found at www.leveragepodcasts.com

Go to beta.getleverage.com to sign up for the waitlist of our new project management software! We are offering a very special membership to our exclusive #LeverageLabs to new listeners who go to our Leverage Podcast or OAO Podcast and subscribe to or download our podcasts, take a photo and send to us via social media. #LeveragePodcast... Send us your photo and we will mention the lucky new members on the podcast each week...  All episodes, show notes, and resources can be found at www.leveragepodcasts.com

Go to beta.getleverage.com to sign up for the waitlist of our new project management software! We are offering a very special membership to our exclusive #LeverageLabs to new listeners who go to our Leverage Podcast or OAO Podcast and subscribe to or download our podcasts, take a photo and send to us via social media. #LeveragePodcast... Send us your photo and we will mention the lucky new members on the podcast each week...  All episodes, show notes and resources can be found at www.leveragepodcasts.com

We are offering a very special membership to our exclusive #LeverageLabs to new listeners who go to our Leverage Podcast or OAO Podcast and subscribe to or download our podcasts, take a photo and send to us via social media. #LeveragePodcast... Send us your photo and we will mention the lucky new members on the podcast each week...  All episodes, show notes and resources can be found at www.leveragepodcasts.com

We are offering a very special membership to our exclusive #LeverageLabs to new listeners who go to our Leverage Podcast or OAO Podcast and subscribe to or download our podcasts, take a photo and send to us via social media. #LeveragePodcast... Send us your photo and we will mention the lucky new members on the podcast each week...  All episodes, show notes and resources can be found at www.leveragepodcasts.com

We are offering a very special membership to our exclusive #LeverageLabs to new listeners who go to our Leverage Podcast or OAO Podcast and subscribe to or download our podcasts, take a photo and send to us via social media. #LeveragePodcast... Send us your photo and we will mention the lucky new members on the podcast each week...  All episodes, show notes and resources can be found at www.leveragepodcasts.com

We are offering a very special membership to our exclusive #LeverageLabs to new listeners who go to our Leverage Podcast or OAO Podcast and subscribe to or download our podcasts, take a photo and send to us via social media. #LeveragePodcast... Send us your photo and we will mention the lucky new members on the podcast each week...  All episodes, show notes and resources can be found at www.leveragepodcasts.com

We are offering a very special membership to our exclusive #LeverageLabs to new listeners who go to our Leverage Podcast or OAO Podcast and subscribe to or download our podcasts, take a photo and send to us via social media. #LeveragePodcast... Send us your photo and we will mention the lucky new members on the podcast each week...   All episodes, show notes and resources can be found at www.leveragepodcasts.com   ---- GUEST: Helena Clegg  

We are offering a very special membership to our exclusive #LeverageLabs to new listeners who go to our Leverage Podcast or OAO Podcast and subscribe to or download our podcasts, take a photo and send to us via social media. #LeveragePodcast... Send us your photo and we will mention the lucky new members on the podcast each week... ---- GUEST: Helena Clegg KEY QUOTE:  “...when you see an opportunity now, you really have to act on it very, very quickly” KEY MOMENTS: 00:03 – Introduction to OAO 00:09 – Today’s special guest is Helena Clegg 00:16 – Helena is visiting from Mallorca; she handles Get Leverage’s social media presence 01:01 – Ari spoke at NYU about the A-Z of starting a company 01:36 – Ari is now going to be a speaker at NYU 01:43 – Nick just got back from Victoria Labalme’s Rock the Room event 02:06 – Nick got a ton of good points from Victoria’s speaking guide 02:52 – Mapping out the stage is one 03:32 – Nick shares about using V Cards 04:09 – Ari mentions Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe 06:08 – N

“It’s a totally different idea from the virtual assistance but again, using the same mentality and methodology, [you’re] able to build a really quick MVP” Time-Stamped Notes 00:03 – Introduction to OAO 00:12 – The Hykso smart tracking tool for boxing 01:28 – Lemonade is a new way to get insurance for renters and property owners 02:23 – Bulletin is basically a retail store that can carry your products 03:12 – Scale – API for human intelligence 03:47 – Scale can be an alternative for Rev 04:52 – Storyo is an app that turns your photos into stories 05:52 – Sous Vide cooking with ChefSteps Joule 07:20 – The food is incredible – consistent texture and perfect 07:55 – “It will never be overcooked – it will be perfect” 08:08 – Yay let’s you send actual prizes to somebody 09:14 – Nick had a brainstorming session with his girlfriend for a styling startup 10:13 – Nick used Typeform, a tool that let’s you create web forms, to create StylebyFran 10:45 – Nick discusses the technical process of StylebyFran 13:35 – Using t

“There’s definitely people on our team that I think this (Steps) will be pretty cool for...This is a pretty good way to get yourself out of your comfort zone.” Time-Stamped Notes 00:03 – Introduction to OAO 00:34 – Ari took his family to Miami for the President’s Break 00:41 – While his family was in Miami, he had to go to Phoenix and Chicago for Entrepreneur’s Organization 01:18 – Nick will be out in Los Angeles for Victoria Labalme’s Rock the Room Live 01:39 – Nick just bought Raden Luggage, which has a built in scale and an app 03:27 – Steps is an iPhone app that beats social anxiety with small challenges 05:49 – Amazon Chime already came out a week ago, which is a competitor of Skype 06:46 – Get Leverage has a big need for a team of people to be able to make calls so Nick has been testing out platforms 07:01 – Ring Central seems to be the best platform so far for Get Leverage as it allows clients to send texts, calls, and you can create phone extensions 09:07 – reMarkable is like a limited feature iPad i

“Doing charity work was one of the things that I (Nick) wanted to start getting into this year.” Time-Stamped Notes 00:02 – Introduction to OAO 00:15 – Ari and Nick are now recording episodes by the batch 00:33 – Defy Ventures brings successful people into the prison community to teach and guide entrepreneurship 02:32 – Only 5% of Defy people go back to prison 03:33 – The excitement Ari feels with Defy Ventures is the same feeling he had with American Dream U 03:50 – FeetMe is a runner’s in-sole tracking device 04:45 – There are no less than 80 ways to tie your shoes 05:53 – Nick is looking for travel solutions! Please email Nick at nick@getleverage.com if you know a tool or an app that could help 07:36 – Demio is a cool option for hosting webinars 08:37 – End of today’s podcast Less Doing Podcast Resources: www.leveragepodcasts.com

“I recently started a Crohn Support Community...it’s just a free resource that I created where I curate some content and help guide the discussion on how to manage that illness.” Time-Stamped Notes 00:02 – Introduction to OAO 00:19 – Slack Pass is the best way to manage Slack invites 00:32 – Ari recently started a support community for people battling Crohn’s Disease 00:53 – Ari loves using Slack for community chat 00:58 – It’s a separate app and place to communicate 01:20 – It’s easy to automate and share content on Slack 01:33 – There is threaded communication 01:42 – Ari has been using InviteBot for his support group which you can access here 01:53 – Slack Pass lets you have free groups, paid groups, paid channels and etc. 02:15 – Slack Pass does credit card processing for subscribed members in your group 02:53 – Get Leverage’s website is now being optimized 03:06 – Nick started using Optimizely, an experimentation platform where you can make changes to your website without needing a developer 03:38 –

Key Quote “I’m so tied to my computer and phone all the time that just 30 minutes forcing me to not be by some form of electronic, I feel, is valuable” Time-Stamped Notes 00:09 – Ari and Nick are in a studio for the first time 01:22 – Not recommended, but worthy of discussion is the Starbucks app where you can order your coffee through the chat bot 02:44 – Slack’s new feature called Slack Enterprise Grid allows you to have multiple workspaces for big organizations 04:07 – Box Breathing is a website that takes you through the motions of the Navy Seal breathing technique 04:44 – Nick does Mndfl Meditation that incorporates box breathing 05:58 – Ask Ari and Nick any questions that you may have and they will answer on the podcast 06:01 – Chris Mottram is our in-house audio engineer 06:17 – Ari will be hosting a webinar on February 15 Less Doing Podcast Resources: www.leveragepodcasts.com

Key Quote “This is the last episode that we will be recording outside of a professional recording studio.” Time-Stamped Notes 00:03 – Introduction to OAO 00:12 – This is the last episode outside a studio 00:28 – Ari and Nick offers their thanks to their listeners 01:02 – EloBot is a bot for your Facebook Messenger that acts as your personal assistant 01:52 – Nick mentions his friend who also built a bot for Facebook 02:06 – Temp File allows you to share files less than 1GB temporarily and for free 02:35 – ai provides services to help you classify data 03:00 – Nick explains further how they use Mighty.ai for Get Leverage 03:44 – Amazon Mechanical Turk is similar to Mighty.ai except they do not allow as much personalization 05:07 – Ari shares a hilarious article from Business Insider regarding the craziest requests concierges have ever received 07:17 – Ari shares an article about what successful people, like Elon Musk, ask job candidates in interviews 08:15 – BeLive allows you to broadcast on Facebook Live w

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"Long term goals should be broken into smaller chunks to try and achieve something on a shorter time scale." Time-Stamped Notes  00:02 – Introduction to OAO  00:22 – Ari doesn’t believe in long-term goal setting  00:40 – Ari now wants his goals to be measurable and have more impact  00:51 – Launching “Book Club Thursdays”  01:19 – Ari heard about goal-setting on Tim Ferriss’ podcast  02:02 – It’s about tapping into your potential  03:14 – Ari invites Nick to do a Dexa Scan – the most accurate scan of body composition  03:45 – Ari created a workout for himself  05:05 – Dseat.me finds your random, online accounts and helps you delete them  05:35 – Shift allows you to switch into Gmail accounts in a better interface  06:35 – MicroBot Push is a device that automates button pushing  07:38 – Philips Wakeup Lamp – an alarm that simulates the sunrise  09:45 – Ari discusses one of the triggers in Zapier for Slack that triggers a DM to new members  10:16 – Athelas is a service that comes to you to che

Ari and Nick reflect on the past year and look forward to the year to come.   Full show notes coming soon.

360 Video Cameras, On-Demand Baby Doctors, Call Centres for Cyber Criminals, Print a TV Image on a Box and Reduce Damage, Nick tries Cryotherapy and more.    Full Show Notes Coming Soon   OAO Podcast Resources - www.leveragepodcasts.com

“The people who give us this feedback...they want to be able to make it work and I think that really says something about what we’re offering, it says we’re solving a big problem” Key Quote  “The people who give us this feedback...they want to be able to make it work and I think that really says something about what we’re offering, it says we’re solving a big problem”  Time-Stamped Notes  00:02 – Introduction to OAO  00:10 – Ari and Nick just got back from their trips  00:29 – Ari shares about his Strategic Coach experience with Dan Sullivan  00:56 – Nick shares about his Genius Network Event experience  01:34 – Nick missed the main dinner because a client gave him feedback  01:52 – Despite the issues, Leverage still gives world-class service  02:02 – People who give feedback to Leverage are people who want to make things work  02:29 – Pixibot is a tool you add to Slack that reads text in images  02:52 – Talla is also a bot for Slack that brings together a lot other services  04:00 – Sharetr