Latest Hota Podcast Episodes
How to Stay on Track With Your Goals (Without Depending on Willpower): Guest appearance by Keira Menon
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - September 23, 2023 00:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsLast week we heard about willpower and how ineffective it can be when we most need it. Today, we have guest—the first ever—Keira Menon. She not only gives you her version of willpower, but also tells you how she went about recording this podcast. This a fun listen so don't miss it. We had ...
Why Willpower is Weak (And How Numbers Help You Stay on Track Instead)
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - September 16, 2023 00:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsWe're told time and time again that what we need is better willpower? Yet, science and endless studies have shown willpower to be ineffective. If you're tired, for example, you'll do things that you don't normally tend to do. Your willpower is completely ineffective in many situations. ...
Re-run 06 The Paradox of Motivation and Burnout (And Where To Draw the Line)
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - September 09, 2023 00:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsSean D'Souza made two vows when he started up Psychotactics back in 2002. The first was that he'd always get paid in advance and the second was that work wouldn't control his life. He decided to take three months off every year. But how do you take three months off, without affecting your busines...
Re-Run 05 Why You May Be Scaring Clients Away From Your Sales Page (And How A Simple Fix Can Bring Them Back)
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - September 02, 2023 00:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsSean D'Souza made two vows when he started up Psychotactics back in 2002. The first was that he'd always get paid in advance and the second was that work wouldn't control his life. He decided to take three months off every year. But how do you take three months off, without affecting your busines...
Re-run 04 Why Do Clients Sign Up? Understanding The Core Motivations That Attracts Clients
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - August 26, 2023 00:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsSean D'Souza made two vows when he started up Psychotactics back in 2002. The first was that he'd always get paid in advance and the second was that work wouldn't control his life. He decided to take three months off every year. But how do you take three months off, without affecting your busines...
Rerun 3 - How To Become Fluent At Almost Any Skill In A Matter Of Weeks (And What Stops Us From Being Fluent)
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - August 23, 2023 00:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsSean D'Souza made two vows when he started up Psychotactics back in 2002. The first was that he'd always get paid in advance and the second was that work wouldn't control his life. He decided to take three months off every year. But how do you take three months off, without affecting your busines...
Storytelling: How To Edit A Story (And Why “Relevance” Is The Key To Editing Any Story)
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - August 12, 2023 00:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsSean D'Souza made two vows when he started up Psychotactics back in 2002. The first was that he'd always get paid in advance and the second was that work wouldn't control his life. He decided to take three months off every year. But how do you take three months off, without affecting your busines...
Feeling Overwhelmed? How to stop (And Why Some People Are Always Overwhelmed And Others Aren’t)
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - August 05, 2023 00:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsSean D'Souza made two vows when he started up Psychotactics back in 2002. The first was that he'd always get paid in advance and the second was that work wouldn't control his life. He decided to take three months off every year. But how do you take three months off, without affecting your busines...
Why writing down what delights you can help reduce anxiety and stress
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - July 29, 2023 00:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsNo one needs to tell you how stress can take its toll. Yet there seems no easy way to ramp down the stress factor. If anything, we seem to be more stressed than ever before. The news closes in on us on all sides and we seem trapped. However, there's a way that can ease that stress considera...
How to create a stunningly good opening story for Zoom (without having to write it yourself)
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - July 22, 2023 00:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsOne of the biggest problems when starting up a speech is that you have to find something that captures the attention of the audience. Instead, what we often get is a round of introductions, blah, blah etc. All of which causes the audience to get restless. How do you get the attention of th...
How to re-oxygenate sales instantly (with little or no effort at all).
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - July 15, 2023 00:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsWhen we want to increase our sales, we search for new methods. However, that search is often quite unnecessary. What's needed instead is a tiny bit of common sense. With little or no effort, you can change the way the client perceives you and your company. Re-oxygenation isn't that hard. Che...
Stories from the South of Spain
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - July 08, 2023 00:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsAfter three months of staying put in New Zealand, we finally made a long trip. Long in terms of distance, as well as duration. For the past three years, most of our travel has been within New Zealand and a week in Fiji. However, the month-long vacation is what brings out all the stories. An...
How I used Chat GPT (and YouTube) to create a flawless transcript
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - July 01, 2023 00:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsOften enough your client may need a transcript for a long video or workshop. Not everyone needs or wants a transcript, and it does cost a lot to produce transcripts for everything. In the past we've had AI driven transcripts, but they too have been untidy and it requires a lot of tidying up. ...
Balanced Feedback: Why People Want Endless Amounts of it
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - June 23, 2023 12:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsAll of us cringe at the thought of getting feedback. Yet, we all need feedback to improve. There are formulas for feedback but they don't work as well as they should. However, this method of balance is tricky. We can't praise people all the time, and we can't say what we really think. Is the...
How To Write a Non-Icky Blurb When Describing Your Achievements
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - June 16, 2023 12:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsThere are times when you need to introduce yourself, such as for a personal website, social media profile, or professional bio. That's where you and I often get stuck. We were told not to keep praising ourselves, and yet, without listing our achievements, how are we supposed to create an aura ...
Why We Struggle With Writing Well (And How Your Brain is Trying to Drive You Crazy)
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - June 10, 2023 00:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsWhen we start writing, we know we're hopeless. However, in time, we all get to the stage where we're average. What does it take to become outstanding and then an absolute maestro in writing? The answer doesn't lie in "practice, practice, practice". Instead, it's something as mundane as a com...
Why Business Philosophy Creates a Uniqueness Factor (Even When Clients Don't Know You At All)
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - June 03, 2023 00:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsWhat if you ran into clients that have never heard of you? And what if they've never heard of your products or services? Would they still buy from you? It seems highly implausible, even impossible that you'd get a client interested. And yet, the reality can be remarkably different. A bus...
How to Systematically Generate a Uniqueness (Even If You've Struggled With It Before)
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - May 27, 2023 00:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsIt's more than likely that you've tried to create uniqueness before. Yet, it seems a bit of a pain, because it sounds so trite. Well, how about we look at uniqueness from a "construction" point of view. Instead of just trying to dream up the uniqueness, how about we look at it with "guardrai...
Why Clients Behave "Irrationally" and Buy Your Products (Even When They Already Have Enough).
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - May 20, 2023 00:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsWhen a client buys a product, what goes through their mind? Often you'll notice they have a similar product, so why do they buy again? There are four reasons why your client (and you and I) keep searching for products. And no matter how saturated the market seems, clients will keep searchin...
The Myth of The Oversaturated Market—And Why Even AI Doesn't Matter
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - May 13, 2023 00:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsAI has sent a chill down the spines of many of those who create content for a living. —Won't so much content saturate the market? —And why would a client choose your work when some other work can easily be put together by AI? The reason why you needn't worry, is because people have not cha...
Rerun 6: Three Unusually Zany Tips To Change Your Mindset (And Behaviour)
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - May 05, 2023 23:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsRerun 6: Three Unusually Zany Tips To Change Your Mindset (And Behaviour)
Rerun 5: Why List Building Fails (And How To Avoid The Almost Obvious Failure)
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - April 28, 2023 23:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsRerun 5: Why List Building Fails (And How To Avoid The Almost Obvious Failure)
Rerun 4: How To Restart A Stalled Project: The Middle Of The Project Method
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - April 21, 2023 23:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsRerun 4: How To Restart A Stalled Project: The Middle Of The Project Method
Rerun 3 Why You Should Not Write Like An Author When Writing Articles
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - April 14, 2023 23:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsSean D'Souza made two vows when he started up Psychotactics back in 2002. The first was that he'd always get paid in advance and the second was that work wouldn't control his life. He decided to take three months off every year. But how do you take three months off, without affecting your busines...
Rerun 2: How To Turn An Average Elevator Pitch Into One That Gets Consistent Attention
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - April 07, 2023 23:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsSean D'Souza made two vows when he started up Psychotactics back in 2002. The first was that he'd always get paid in advance and the second was that work wouldn't control his life. He decided to take three months off every year. But how do you take three months off, without affecting your busines...
Rerun 1: How To Get Clients When You Are Starting Up (With A Humble Checklist)
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - March 31, 2023 23:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsSean D'Souza made two vows when he started up Psychotactics back in 2002. The first was that he'd always get paid in advance and the second was that work wouldn't control his life. He decided to take three months off every year. But how do you take three months off, without affecting your busines...
Why Does Learning Seem to Take Forever? The Surprising Reasons Behind Slow Learning
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - March 24, 2023 23:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsIf you're a teacher, you might be surprised at times at why people seem to learn so slowly. You may wonder if it's because of your method of teaching or if it is the material. The reasons why learning is so slow aren't always apparent, but it usually comes down to a factor of trust—and contro...
Why "A Walk in the Forest" Reinvigorates Our Busy, Stressful Lives
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - March 17, 2023 23:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsWe all know the little things that recharge our batteries. For most of us, a walk in a real forest would calm us down and give us that much needed energy. Yet, as we go about our everyday lives, there seems to be no way to slow down. If anything, we're told to speed up. Here's a solid case...
Will AI and ChatGPT replace you as a writer?
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - March 10, 2023 23:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsIf you haven't already heard the news on the street, you soon will. AI is going to take away all our jobs as writers. Anyone can create a course in minutes, write an article like a pro, or generate thousands of outstanding headlines. Is this just a rumour or is this our dystopian future?...
How to write non-boring metaphors in your articles (while using rather boring situations )
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - March 03, 2023 23:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsEven if you have a workable metaphor, how do you use the metaphor in your article? The key is to go backwards and find the one word or one idea that you want to convey. Almost magically, the word seems to fit the metaphor. Not convinced? Listen to this podcast and find out how to go ab...