Latest Hota Podcast Episodes
How to write non-boring metaphors (while using rather boring situations)
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - February 24, 2023 23:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsYou'd think you would need to have some scintillating stories to write a metaphor. Or worse still, you'd believe it's a skill that only some people have and can never be learned. Well, you know what they say, right? The proof of the pudding is in the eating. And the proof of writing metaphor...
Why the smallest offline meet-up can be more beneficial than zoom or email
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - February 17, 2023 23:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsThe myth that is perpetuated is that you just need to sit at your computer and get an endless number of clients. The reality is the face-to-face connection is far superior. This is why musicians, politicians, et cetera hit the road. Face-to-face – even with the smallest audience is extremely...
The Subtle Power of Entertainment (And Why It Keeps Clients Engaged With Your Content)
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - February 10, 2023 23:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsWhy are some books, videos and audio so much "better" than others? Or rather, why do we consider so many to be dry and boring? The style of delivery matters, of course. A well-spoken audio, a well-crafted book is always going to stand out. Yet, all information can do with the cherry on top—na...
Bumpity-Bump Travel Stories
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - February 03, 2023 23:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsSometimes, all it takes is for us to sit in a car, and all hell breaks loose. Here are a few stories of how things went a bit "off-the-road" during our travels. Did you enjoy the travel stories series? Here are a few more. India Travel Stories: The Cheese Story India Travel Stories: The G...
How Planning Gets Quickly Derailed (When You Don't Have a Stop-Doing List)
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - January 27, 2023 23:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsAt the start of the year, it's almost natural to want to wipe the slate clean and start doing something new. We create goals, set deadlines and hope like crazy that things will work out well. The part we consistently forget is the "stop-doing" bit. The very same issues that have been a pain ...
Rerun 6: Chaotic Week? How To Use The Goldilocks Method To Get Things Back On Track
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - January 20, 2023 23:00 - 8 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 5: Why You Should Pay Attention To Giving (And Why Receiving Is Just as important)
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - January 13, 2023 23:00 - 31 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 4: The Simple Logic of Email Frequency (And How It Helps Sustain A Business)
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - January 06, 2023 23:00 - 23 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: Why "write every day" is seriously misunderstood (and why it prevents us from writing every day)
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - December 30, 2022 23:00 - 20 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: Why being "late to the party" is not a crisis for your business
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - December 23, 2022 23:00 - 31 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 Create Bonuses Out Of Thin Air (And Still Make Them Extremely Desirable)
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - December 16, 2022 23:00 - 15 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 Would They Choose Me? Getting Past A Mental Block
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - December 02, 2022 23:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsNo matter what industry you're in, there's already competition. This isn't just some random competition, but rather people who are better established than you. They've worked with your clients before, have a greater profile and probably a fancy portfolio. And then there's us—you and me with ...
How "pros" practice differently than you (and therefore get superior results)
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - November 25, 2022 23:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsPractice, practice, practice! Isn't that how you get better? Well, yes, but the problem with that mantra is that few of us have the time to get to schedule in as much practice. What if you stopped believing in endless "practice, practice, practice"? Suddenly you'd have to have answers to probl...
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 - November 18, 2022 23:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsWe all seem to know that fluency takes time—lots and lots of it. It also takes a lot of effort and learning. We're told that to be fluent, we have to put in thousands of hours of work. However, what if that premise were wrong? What if you could be fluent at something in a matter of weeks, or...
Sales Pages: How to avoid procrastinating and fix three core elements- Part 2
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - November 11, 2022 23:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsIn the first part of this podcast, we noticed that there's a logic to choosing what elements to fix on the sales page. We're looking at attraction, conversion and risk. And at the same time we're trying to slow down the client from skimming. This episode puts the brake on skimming by using gra...
Sales Pages: How to avoid procrastinating and fix three core elements- Part 1
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - November 04, 2022 23:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsWhen creating sales pages—or even when fixing them, you have a long list of elements to tackle. So many in fact, that you may just put off the fix for a few weeks, which ends up taking a few months. The reality is that you and I can't do it all at once. Why not take on a few elements, instead?...
How to get in a state of play—and not be stressed all the time
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - October 28, 2022 23:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsWe know how it feels to be in a state of flow. Our work seems so effortless. However, we almost seem to be rushing to meet a deadline, and work seems—well—just like work. We've always thought getting things done on time is a good thing, and it is. But is it possible that getting things done on...
Why Is Storytelling So Important in Marketing?
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - October 21, 2022 23:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsWe all know storytelling is a crucial skill to have as a business owner and also for you as a person. When we tell stories at the dinner table, everyone seems to listen. The same concept applies to marketing, but there's another bigger reason why you need to be able to tell stories. In this ...
Why We Stall—And How To Pull Out of the Mess
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - October 14, 2022 23:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsNo matter how good things are, there's a moment when things just don't go your way. That's when you've entered stall mode. It doesn't matter how skilled or experienced you happen to be. It's still a place that you can't pull out from. Yet, we all do. And there's a way to speed things up. Nex...
How To Gain Momentum In Business Using The Subsets Technique (And Gain New Clients Too!)
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - October 08, 2022 01:00 - 13 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 I keep writing articles (despite having written for 22 years).
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - September 17, 2022 00:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsIsn’t it better to recycle instead of writing all the time? A tiny bit of recycling may not be out of place, but there’s a good reason why we should keep writing new material all the time. Well, here are my reasons anyway. Next Step—Listen or Read over 51 articles on: How do you keep your ...
The 5000bc story (Part 2): When the diversion turned out to be better than the destination
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - September 10, 2022 00:00 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsYou know how you're told to set a goal and then benchmark your success based on that goal? Well, that's what we set out to do with our membership site at 5000bc. However, we kept running into these headaches that seemed to derail us. In time, however, we found that these constant diversions ...
The 5000bc story (Part 1): The ups and downs
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - September 03, 2022 00:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsWhat does it take to get a membership site to keep going? We go on a wild journey where the entire site was wiped out and how it bounced back again. And how nearly 20 years later, it’s still going. Next Step: Listen to: Planning On Starting A Membership Site? The Limited Membership Website ...
Why kids seem to learn faster than adults (Part 2)
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - August 27, 2022 00:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsKids have a superpower. When they're very young, they don't know Monday from Sunday. And it's this lack of knowledge that also gives them an upper hand when they're learning. Unlike adults who are clear about how the result needs to look like. just about anything will do with a child. How do w...
Why kids seem to learn faster than adults
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - August 20, 2022 00:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsYou’ve heard the line many times before, haven’t you? And at times, it seems like kids learn at a blinding pace. But why does this phenomenon occur? Is it because kids are smart or just that we are more accommodating as trainers? Let's find out in this episode. Next Step: More about kids a...
Why Sales Pages Are Annoyingly Difficult To Write..
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - August 14, 2022 02:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsOne of the toughest tasks a business owner can have is when it's time to write a sales page. You know that it's unlikely your product or service will sell unless you have that sales page. Yet, once you sit down to write something, it's almost impossible to write anything down. And when you do,...
Why some people are always overwhelmed (and others aren’t)
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - August 05, 2022 12:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsCan You Stop Feeling Overwhelmed? Almost all of us have varying levels of stress. Yet some of us are always in a fog, always struggling. Is there a fix? And is it a non-overwhelming one? Next Step: Listen or read The Overwhelm Virus: How To Get It Out of Your Daily Routine
Audience Building: Three compelling concepts from David duChemin
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - July 30, 2022 00:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsWhen it comes to audience building, we tend to fall for the hype. It's all about "getting a thousand clients" or "making thousands of dollars". If you've already been down that path you know that all of those methods fail spectacularly. You have to ask yourself: what works? Or rather, what a...
The counterintuitive—yet simple strategy—to completing courses and books
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - July 23, 2022 00:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 162 ratingsWhen we start on a course, we all expect we'll get to the end. Yet time after time, we seem to abandon the course quite early. Part of the reason may be that the content is boring or too difficult, but often the bigger problem is our desire to implement it. What if that method was one of th...
Re-Run 6 Why Writing Is So Exhausting (And How You Can Make It Less Of A Chore)
The Three Month Vacation Podcast - July 08, 2022 12:00 - 23 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...