Chase The Vision
Host: Isaac Mashman · March 7, 2020 · Episode 17 · 16 minutes
Transcribed from the episode audio and edited to read cleanly: names and terms corrected, grammar fixed, filler words and false starts removed, punctuation added. Words in [brackets] could not be made out with certainty. Wording can differ slightly from what was said; the episode itself is the record.
Hey, what's going on, everyone? Isaac Mashman here, and you are now listening to episode 17 of The Hustler's Choice podcast. Just kidding, just kidding. You're probably like, what? What are you talking about, just kidding? This is your podcast, right? Yes, it is, but I'm here to tell you in today's episode that I am doing away with and retiring the name Hustler's Choice. There are a variety of different reasons, which I'll go into in this episode. But I want to announce that the podcast is now going to be called Chase the Vision with Isaac Mashman. Back when I started this podcast in June of 2019, I was in a very entrepreneurial mind.
I was in a very, I don't think entrepreneurial mind state would be the best word to use, the best phrase to use, but rather in a mind state of, I got to frame myself as an entrepreneur online.
Really, not like I was ever trying to flaunt. I was never trying to be something that I'm not, because deep down I'm an entrepreneur at heart, don't get me wrong. But I was trying to fit into this entrepreneurial space and build up an audience based around other like-minded individuals, based around business owners, based around entrepreneurs that like Gary Vee, that like Andy Frisella, that like Tai Lopez, and there's nothing wrong with that. But since June of 2019, fast forward, now it's the first week of March 2020, I've noticed a very large evolution has happened. I'm starting to recognize that that entrepreneurial space is so crowded and it's so saturated, and I don't want to be a part of that. I'm not saying this in a way of, like, it's a horrible space that I [can't] associate myself with.
But rather, I don't see the point of trying to put a label on who I am or what businesses I'm doing. Just the fact that I'm a business owner means that I'm an entrepreneur. Just because I'm running companies, I'm automatically those things. So why do I have to label myself as that individual? The one thing that I've never wanted in life is to be put in a box. I've never wanted to be put in a niche. A lot of entrepreneurs speak about niching down and speak about going and finding your niche and building your niche. See, that works for other people. But for me, I've always been a bigger thinker.
I've never wanted to just niche down, because I feel like I'm going to suffocate myself, and suffocation to me is one of the worst feelings in the world.
Obviously, [the feeling] that you can't breathe. And I feel like by putting myself in a box, I'm limiting my opportunities. It could just be a perspective, it could just be a paradigm. But regardless, I've made the decision that I'm going to be more so focusing on a lifestyle of growth, a lifestyle of evolution, of actually chasing what you want out of life and being yourself rather than trying to label every single thing that you do or label the niche that you're involved with. Today's episode is going to be rather short. It's going to be rather sweet. This is, like I said, the closure of a chapter and the beginning of a new chapter, of a new page.
I believe that this journey that we're on in life, and I'm not trying to get into some spiritual talk, but this journey we're on is about evolution and is about growth.
About continuous growth, and that is the premise of this new name. The new name of this podcast, the new brand, is Chase the Vision with Isaac Mashman. The one thing that I've noticed in a lot of people, in my own personal life, and looking and watching other people and watching actions and watching how other people behave in life or what they pursue, is the moment a person stops growing is the moment that they die. They don't die physically, but they die emotionally, they die mentally, because they stop and they become stagnant. They forget what they're chasing after. They're no longer active, and I see a lot of people, even younger individuals, who just don't grow.
It's like they go to high school, they get an education, they learn, they go to college, they might continuously learn a little bit. Then they quit college or they graduate, and they stop growing. They never pick up another book.
They never listen to an audio. They never study for anything. They never grow themselves, and that isn't how it should be. We as human beings, I believe, are meant to be creatures of continuous growth, that's survival. The more we grow, the better we can survive. The more we know, the better use we can put that knowledge to. We can use that knowledge and get better results at a quicker pace. It just makes all the sense in the world to me to encourage that growth mind state. So, the Chase the Vision podcast. I was really contemplating completely doing away with The Hustler's Choice podcast, and not necessarily rebranding it but starting up a third podcast, because I started up The Isaac Mashman Show way back when I first got started in business in 2018.
But I didn't want to overcomplicate it, so I was like, I'll just rebrand The Hustler's Choice into this new podcast. And I'm here to welcome you guys on this new journey that we're going to be on together. I really hope, sincerely, from the bottom of my heart, that you guys continue following me for this.
But this podcast is going to be centered around self-improvement first, because I believe that [it's] at the cornerstone of all success and achievement of dreams, or the achievement of any such dream, whether you're an aspiring musician who wants to be a world-known musician, or you want to be an actor that is in a whole bunch of different roles, or even if you just want to open up a small store or be a painter or be a business owner. You have a vision and you have a dream, but the only way that you can ever achieve that dream is by putting in the work. That's not going to change.
You have to put in the work, but putting in the work equates to growth. You have to grow. You have to work on your craft. You have to study new things, or at least you should. A lot of people don't, but that's why we're here, to change that narrative.
So guys, for this new direction that we're going, I really just want to challenge you guys to expand your thinking, to examine your habits, and to embrace a lifestyle of continuous improvement, continuous growth. Encouraging the lifestyle of growth and saying goodbye to the negative actions that you're doing, kicking the negative habits you're doing. I'm not over here trying to tell you how to live your life, but rather making you question why you do the things that you do, and what are some things that you could do to replace the bad habits with positive habits. There are so many different things that we're going to be able to go into and discuss.
You can already tell my brain is all over the place, because this is such a big topic. But I feel like just the overall topic of self-improvement and encouraging mental, physical, spiritual, and emotional well-being is so important, and it's oftentimes overlooked.
One of the reasons why I decided to get out of this entrepreneurial space is because everyone tells you how to grow your mental health, especially for a lot of you who are business owners who listen to self-development by a lot of these entrepreneurs. They only tell you about the books that you should read or the things that you should study, the audios you should listen to. But they don't necessarily tell you how to physically grow, how to physically be better. They don't mention meditation. They don't mention any practices for emotional well-being. I had to take a step back over the past couple of months. It's been one crazy journey, and I'm finally evolving into this person where I'm like, okay, this is actually, like, I'm not evolving, I'm actually just realizing that this is who I've always been.
I feel like by trying to be in that entrepreneurial space, I was trying to emphasize what I've always been, and there was no need to do that. I'd much rather just be myself and be a little bit more comfortable in the things I do. But anyways, I'm here to educate you guys, to encourage you guys, and to actually talk about, okay, well, you want to grow your business, you want to chase and achieve this dream, but what are some of the steps that you can take in order to get to that point? Everyone tells you what you should be doing, but very, very few people actually tell you how you can get to that point, how you can actually do those things.
That's a big problem in my own life, man. I noticed that there is a very big void in the self-development space. They would cover one area of health and wellness, and they wouldn't cover, they would just forget, everything else. Obviously that was the brand they were building, but at the same time, it's like they were limiting themselves, and not only the brands they're building, but also the value and the knowledge they're purveying. Because if you look at the habits of a lot of ultra successful people, and obviously success is subjective.
It's whatever definition you want it to be. But if you look at their lifestyle, they have different success habits in their life: meditation, the foods that they eat, they work out, they get up at a certain time. But very rarely do these people talk about that. I just want to be able to have an open conversation and be able to help you guys grow and continue expanding your horizons and stuff like that, to where it's like, we might not have everything figured out, but at least by taking these action steps, we're going to be able to get one step closer to our vision and our dream, one day at a time, as we progress, as we move, as we get better.
Guys, the one thing I've also realized about chasing after a vision and chasing after a dream is that you're never going to truly achieve it, because there are always new levels that you can reach.
You can achieve the basics of that dream, but there are always new levels that you can push through afterwards. I want to really emphasize that infinite potential, that infinite growth that we have. We are infinite beings. We do not know the limits of our capabilities because there isn't any limit. We are infinite creatures. That sounds super spiritual, but it's true. We went to the moon. We went to the moon, and whenever JFK asked the main engineer at NASA, or whatever it was, what was required to get to the moon, the guy replied, the will to do so. Guess what? Fast forward 10 years, or however long the time was, we got to the moon. We can do whatever we put our minds to, but the one issue that we have is ourselves.
We hold ourselves back because we focus on all the reasons why we can't do something, or how we can't, or we let other people influence our decisions. When, in all honesty, we have one life to live, and we got to make the most out of this life. So I could continue opening up and explaining the show and what we're going to be doing and different things, but I think the name also expresses a lot of what we're doing, and it's chasing the vision. Chase the Vision. The one thing I'm going to be using is, I guess you could say, the tagline: Chase the Vision, chase the dream, chase your vision, chase your dream. I'm here, living my own and chasing my own dream.
I'm out in California. I flew across the freaking United States again, I'm sleeping on floors, building up a business from scratch, and it's been one crazy journey. But you know what? I'm chasing after that vision and looking every single day at ways I can be better, ways I can improve, ways that I can really expand my horizons and achieve my dream. That dream is to help every single one of you, and as many people in life as I can, recognize, respect, and act on their dreams and potential, and become the very best versions of you, yourself, whatever you want to call it. That is my purpose in life, because I see so many people with such great potential that just need a little bit of guidance, a little bit of an extra shove. Someone to tell them the opposite of what everyone else has told them their entire life.
I know a lot of people who want to be an artist in school, and then they have someone tell them, oh, you've got to be realistic. That won't pay the bills. Why won't it pay the bills? The people who are shitting on your dreams, excuse my language, they're shitting on your dreams when they're not even pursuing their own dreams. I'm here to tell each and every one of you to chase after that one thing that you want in life, because I know that whatever you put your mind to, you can achieve. The one thing that I also want to emphasize with this podcast, and then I'm going to close this out, is to actually put action steps into place, to take action. Why do you think it's [called] Chase?
Chase is an action. It's an active pursuit of something. [Let's say you're] chasing after a girl. What are you doing? Actively pursuing that woman. This is the same thing. You're actively pursuing your dreams. That's the reason why I named it the Chase the Vision podcast, because we are always going to be in pursuit, and we can always be in pursuit. That's the brilliant, amazing thing about being human, about being on this journey, and about being us. So guys, I look forward to this new chapter. My entire brand is pivoting, my entire Isaac Mashman online presence. I'm no longer using words like motivating. I'm no longer using words like inspiring or labeling myself as an entrepreneur.
The most cliche word I'll use is visionary. Even then, I'm not even using that term very much anymore, because I feel like I just want my actions to do the speaking. I want my businesses to build up their own characteristics, their own traits. I want to be known as Isaac Mashman. I don't want to be known as Isaac Mashman, the guy who does this or the guy who does that, but rather for who I am, what I stand for, the morals I [live by], and the message I'm speaking.
With that, guys, I'm really excited. Thank you guys so much for sticking with me through the [rebrand]. A lot of you are longtime listeners, longtime people, I don't want to say fans, but longtime members of this family and this community that we got going on and are starting up. It's been crazy, because I started this out over the past two and a half years. I was building up an audience. I didn't know why I was building an audience. Now that I do, oh, I'm excited. I am genuinely excited, because for the first time in my life, I have this purpose cemented, I have this passion figured out.
I'm like, let's go after this. Let's really make a difference in the lives of a lot of other people. Let's start a, I don't want to say, like, start a ripple effect, but that's what we're doing.
One thing leads to another, that leads to another, leads to another. I'd much rather that influence and that ripple effect be positive than be negative, or be something that is telling people to do the things that they really don't want to do and try to feel like they have to fit a criteria. Man, that's a horrible thing, trying to feel like you have to fit a criteria. Yeah, that's going to be an episode in and of itself. And I know that this is going to be the first episode that I refer a lot of you guys, a lot of my future audience, to. It is episode 17 of the podcast.
If you listen to any of the earlier episodes, I do start out by saying, hey, you're now listening to The Hustler's Choice. Disregard that and just start at episode 17. This is a new beginning. This is a new beginning. Technically, episode 1 of Chase the Vision.
So I could keep rambling on, but I think I got the message across, and I would love to get your opinions. Honestly, your opinions mean the world to me. Every single one, even if it's like, it was great, or it could have been improved, whatever it is, let me know. Let me know. Follow me on social media @isaacmashman. I'm on Instagram and on Twitter, so send me a message on either. Go to my website, isaacmashman.com, and make sure you're following the podcast page, Chase the Vision podcast, on Instagram. You can find all of those things from my Instagram page. With that being said, guys, thank you guys so much, and remember to always chase your vision and chase your dream. Have a fantastic day. Be safe.