Jeremy Ryan Slate
Jeremy Ryan Slate is the founder of the Create Your Own Life Podcast, which studies the highest performers in the world. He studied literature at Oxford University, and is a former champion powerlifter turned new media entrepreneur. Specializes in using podcasting and new media to create celebrity and was ranked #1 in iTunes New and Noteworthy and #1 in the business category, as well as ranked #78 in the iTunes Top 100. He also hosted me in episode 266: If You Can Do this in Leadership, Then You’ll Win in Business.
Jeremy was named one of the top 26 podcast for entrepreneurs to listen to in 2017 + 18 by CIO Magazine, top podcast to listen to by INC Magazine in 2019 and Millennial Influencer to follow in 2018 by Buzzfeed. The Create Your Own Life Podcast has been downloaded over a million times. He’s also a featured writer for Influencive and Business.com, as well as contributing editor of New Theory Magazine and Grit Daily. After his success in podcasting, Jeremy Slate and his wife, Brielle Slate, founded Command Your Brand Media to help entrepreneurs get their message out by appearing as guests on podcasts, and to help podcasters be more profitable.
215: Jeremy Ryan Slate, part 2: How long have you gone without a phone?
When was the last time you went without a cell phone for more than a few hours? Jeremy went longer than he expected, but as chance favors the prepared mind, he was ready to take advantage of an opportunity.
It sounds to me like he enjoyed using less power, however modest the reduction, he did it and discovered fun and improved relationships. Once we created machines to save labor. Now I see we create machines to create craving, which makes us miserable. Or at least the absence seems to enrich our lives.
I’m thinking about taking more digital vacations. Everyone says they’re hard but rewarding—like Jeremy or Vincent Stanley, Director at Patagonia, in an earlier episode—a pattern I find signals experiments I like.
His experience leads me to wonder what lower limit I could get to in using my cell phone.
The big picture is that I hear little things lead to big, important things.
What can you start with?
206: Jeremy Ryan Slate, part 1: Leadership: Doing What Others Don’t, But Want To
This episode is about doing what others don’t, but want to.
We recorded it nearly 2 years ago when I was still getting into my groove. We start talking what sounds like about oranges but we’re talking about leadership — doing what others want to but don’t. It may sound weird at first, but turning one healthy food into two unhealthy foods looks pretty weird to me.
Everyone I know says “You shouldn’t care so much what other people think,” usually in a condescending voice, but they succumb to social pressure too to keep doing what everyone else does. Leaders find ways to do what they value.
Jeremy shares his journey of addressing what others think and learning to manage it. Look at the guests on his podcast as a measure of his leadership skills. We also laugh a bunch. It was a fun conversation. We talk about sales, athletics, podcasts, and more.
Acting on your environmental values feels weird at first, sometimes, but we have to change our behavior if we expect to avert the greatest disasters that could happen. If you value clean air, land, and water, you’ll have to lead others.
Jeremy put his money where his mouth was for the challenge.
For whatever reason, he had low awareness of environmental anything, so taking on a challenge, no matter the scale, seems like a big deal no matter the scale from others’ perspective. Lower cell phone usage doesn’t reduce power use that much but does something. Regarding this conversation, it puts him up for judgment. Since I know what happened in his challenge, I know that it led to more change and discovery than he expected.
Actually, I learned that while a cell phone may not use much power, using it causes a lot of power use on remote servers. The cell phone’s battery isn’t as important as their power demands on the internet’s infrastructure.