Your team just crushed a sprint. Now you’re at the crossroads: rest or regress?

In this episode, Brian Gubernick breaks down how high performers recover without losing momentum. Borrowing from elite athletic training, he introduces the deload phase: a period of reduced intensity that protects the habit, not just the hustle.

You’ll learn why “strategic rest” beats burnout, how to keep standards high while volume drops, and the three keys to leading through recovery.

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Brian Gubernick is a visionary leader with over 20 years of diverse business and life experience. Currently the Chief Real Estate Officer for PLACE Inc and Co-Founder of Metrix Masterminds, Brian has held numerous other significant roles in the real estate industry including property investor, Realtor, sales team owner, brokerage operating partner, title/escrow company investor, property management partner, and start-up executive. Brian has also trained and/or personally coached thousands of sales professionals on the tenants of business success, leadership, and personal development.

Brian’s passion for excellence is matched only by his love for family. He resides in Scottsdale, Arizona, with his wife and two daughters. When he’s not creating exceptional real estate experiences or nurturing his entrepreneurial ventures, Brian can be found enjoying quality time with his loved ones.

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Brian Gubernick explores a powerful concept from Michael Easter’s bestselling book The Comfort Crisis: the Nature Pyramid. Drawing on Easter’s framework, Brian breaks down how structured exposure to nature - daily, monthly, and yearly - can help reset your brain, rebuild your resilience, and strengthen your mental toughness.

Brian shares personal stories and action steps on how you can implement this pyramid into your own life to combat the overstimulation and convenience of the day to day. From daily outdoor walks to, off-grid adventures, discover how the right kind of hard might be the key to clarity, confidence, and sustained high performance.

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Brian Gubernick is a visionary leader with over 20 years of diverse business and life experience. Currently the Chief Real Estate Officer for PLACE Inc and Co-Founder of Metrix Masterminds, Brian has held numerous other significant roles in the real estate industry including property investor, Realtor, sales team owner, brokerage operating partner, title/escrow company investor, property management partner, and start-up executive. Brian has also trained and/or personally coached thousands of sales professionals on the tenants of business success, leadership, and personal development.

Brian’s passion for excellence is matched only by his love for family. He resides in Scottsdale, Arizona, with his wife and two daughters. When he’s not creating exceptional real estate experiences or nurturing his entrepreneurial ventures, Brian can be found enjoying quality time with his loved ones.

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Most of us aren’t afraid of hard work. In fact, we’re wired for it. But in today’s episode, Brian challenges you not to to slow down, but to get clear on why we’re moving in the first place.

This episode isn’t about tactics or hacks. It’s about recalibrating. It’s about interrogating whether the life your current plan is leading you toward is the one you actually want. Are you chasing “more” because it aligns with your values or because it validates you to others? Can you access the peace, joy, or time you think is only reserved for your future right now?

If you’re an achiever, someone who thrives on progress and growth, this one’s especially for you. Because we’re the ones most at risk of winning the wrong race.

Today’s challenge: Audit your ambition. No distractions. Just you, a blank page, and one honest question: what’s the life I’m actually trying to build?

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Brian Gubernick is a visionary leader with over 20 years of diverse business and life experience. Currently the Chief Real Estate Officer for PLACE Inc and Co-Founder of Metrix Masterminds, Brian has held numerous other significant roles in the real estate industry including property investor, Realtor, sales team owner, brokerage operating partner, title/escrow company investor, property management partner, and start-up executive. Brian has also trained and/or personally coached thousands of sales professionals on the tenants of business success, leadership, and personal development.

Brian’s passion for excellence is matched only by his love for family. He resides in Scottsdale, Arizona, with his wife and two daughters. When he’s not creating exceptional real estate experiences or nurturing his entrepreneurial ventures, Brian can be found enjoying quality time with his loved ones.

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Most people don’t fail because they aim too high, they fail because they live too long in the comfort zone.

In today’s episode, Brian shares a powerful message sparked by a real conversation with a business partner. She asked: How do I set bigger goals -- goals that actually stretch me and my team? From that single question, Brian walks us through a tactical 5-part framework for breaking free from “baseline” goals and designing stretch goals that drive true transformation.

This isn’t fluff. It’s a system:
- Start with the obvious.
- Compress the timeline.
- Multiply the volume.
- Shift to activity-based metrics.
- Create visibility and pressure.

Whether your current target is buying a house, hitting a sales quota, or building something bigger than yourself, this framework will show you how to re-engineer your goal so it demands growth. Today’s episode is your blueprint to move from easy wins to real breakthroughs.

Challenge of the Day: Take one goal that currently feels achievable, and stretch it. Use the 5 steps Brian lays out. Then ask yourself: What needs to change in my daily actions to make this new version of the goal possible?

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Brian Gubernick is a visionary leader with over 20 years of diverse business and life experience. Currently the Chief Real Estate Officer for PLACE Inc and Co-Founder of Metrix Masterminds, Brian has held numerous other significant roles in the real estate industry including property investor, Realtor, sales team owner, brokerage operating partner, title/escrow company investor, property management partner, and start-up executive. Brian has also trained and/or personally coached thousands of sales professionals on the tenants of business success, leadership, and personal development.

Brian’s passion for excellence is matched only by his love for family. He resides in Scottsdale, Arizona, with his wife and two daughters. When he’s not creating exceptional real estate experiences or nurturing his entrepreneurial ventures, Brian can be found enjoying quality time with his loved ones.

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Brian Gubernick shares his eight favorite principles that he learned from Naval Ravikant that he believes will impact how you build your businesses and your life.

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Meet Your Host:

Brian Gubernick is a visionary leader with over 20 years of diverse business and life experience. Currently the Chief Real Estate Officer for PLACE Inc and Co-Founder of Metrix Masterminds, Brian has held numerous other significant roles in the real estate industry including property investor, Realtor, sales team owner, brokerage operating partner, title/escrow company investor, property management partner, and start-up executive. Brian has also trained and/or personally coached thousands of sales professionals on the tenants of business success, leadership, and personal development.

Brian’s passion for excellence is matched only by his love for family. He resides in Scottsdale, Arizona, with his wife and two daughters. When he’s not creating exceptional real estate experiences or nurturing his entrepreneurial ventures, Brian can be found enjoying quality time with his loved ones.

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Today isn’t just fireworks and flags—it’s a call to wake up.

In this special Independence Day episode, Brian Gubernick flips the script on what freedom really means. Yes, we celebrate July 4th to honor our nation's liberty, but if we’re being honest, most people never stop to ask: Am I truly free in my own life?

Brian doesn’t just talk about national freedom, he bridges history with high performance, using the sacrifice of our Founding Fathers as a mirror for entrepreneurs, parents, and peak performers. Because freedom -- real freedom -- isn’t handed to you. It’s earned. Through clarity. Through sacrifice. Through the boring, disciplined actions no one wants to do.

From addiction and prison to redemption and discipline, Brian reflects on the story of Charlie Engle to expose the lie we often tell ourselves: that we’re free just because we can “do what we want.” But convenience is not freedom. Comfort is not freedom. Real freedom is having the strength to choose what’s right, and to do it without needing permission.

So today, while the country celebrates, Brian challenges you to audit your own life:
Where are you still not free—financially, emotionally, physically, or relationally?
What consistent action will you take today to start earning it?

Because freedom isn’t found.
It’s forged.

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Brian Gubernick is a visionary leader with over 20 years of diverse business and life experience. Currently the Chief Real Estate Officer for PLACE Inc and Co-Founder of Metrix Masterminds, Brian has held numerous other significant roles in the real estate industry including property investor, Realtor, sales team owner, brokerage operating partner, title/escrow company investor, property management partner, and start-up executive. Brian has also trained and/or personally coached thousands of sales professionals on the tenants of business success, leadership, and personal development.

Brian’s passion for excellence is matched only by his love for family. He resides in Scottsdale, Arizona, with his wife and two daughters. When he’s not creating exceptional real estate experiences or nurturing his entrepreneurial ventures, Brian can be found enjoying quality time with his loved ones.

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Brian Gubernick breaks down one final, powerful lesson from his recent conversation with ultra-endurance athlete Charlie Engle: change your relationship with pain.

Whether it’s running marathons, building a business, or enduring the trials of life, high performers don’t avoid pain -- they invite it. Brian unpacks what Charlie meant when he told Matt Damon, “You just have to change your relationship to pain,” and explores how that mindset separates the fragile from the formidable.

You’ll learn about:
- The Pain Paradox: why discomfort is often a sign you’re exactly where you’re supposed to be
- The Finish Line Fallacy: how your mind decides when to stop, and how to push beyond that
- Why success demands that you break the addiction to easy
How to treat pain as your training partner, not your opponent

Plus, Brian issues a challenge: pick one hard thing you’ve been avoiding and step toward it today, not to suffer, but to sharpen. Pain isn’t punishment. It’s preparation.

If you haven’t listened to the full Charlie Engle interview, go back and hit play. It’s packed with stories and strategies that will rewire the way you think about struggle, growth, and grit.

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Brian Gubernick is a visionary leader with over 20 years of diverse business and life experience. Currently the Chief Real Estate Officer for PLACE Inc and Co-Founder of Metrix Masterminds, Brian has held numerous other significant roles in the real estate industry including property investor, Realtor, sales team owner, brokerage operating partner, title/escrow company investor, property management partner, and start-up executive. Brian has also trained and/or personally coached thousands of sales professionals on the tenants of business success, leadership, and personal development.

Brian’s passion for excellence is matched only by his love for family. He resides in Scottsdale, Arizona, with his wife and two daughters. When he’s not creating exceptional real estate experiences or nurturing his entrepreneurial ventures, Brian can be found enjoying quality time with his loved ones.

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Brian Gubernick takes a deeper dive into one of the most powerful lessons shared by ultra-endurance athlete Charlie Engle in his recent interview: “Optimism is true moral courage.”

But this isn't about wishful thinking or “positive vibes only.” This is about forged optimism -- the kind that’s born in the middle of chaos, failure, pain, and pressure. Brian explores what it really means to choose optimism when everything is falling apart -- when your business is struggling, your family is stretched thin, or your confidence is taking hits from every angle.

He unpacks why optimism is more than personality, it’s a leadership stance. It’s a practice. A discipline. A refusal to let doubt silence belief.

Drawing parallels from Charlie’s Sahara expedition, the leadership of Ernest Shackleton, and real-life decisions we make every day, this episode challenges you to ask yourself:

Where am I letting doubt silence my belief?

This is a must-listen if you're leading a business, a team, a family—or simply trying to lead yourself through adversity. Because holding belief when it’s easy is not courage. But when everything’s against you? That’s when optimism becomes your sharpest weapon.

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Meet Your Host:

Brian Gubernick is a visionary leader with over 20 years of diverse business and life experience. Currently the Chief Real Estate Officer for PLACE Inc and Co-Founder of Metrix Masterminds, Brian has held numerous other significant roles in the real estate industry including property investor, Realtor, sales team owner, brokerage operating partner, title/escrow company investor, property management partner, and start-up executive. Brian has also trained and/or personally coached thousands of sales professionals on the tenants of business success, leadership, and personal development.

Brian’s passion for excellence is matched only by his love for family. He resides in Scottsdale, Arizona, with his wife and two daughters. When he’s not creating exceptional real estate experiences or nurturing his entrepreneurial ventures, Brian can be found enjoying quality time with his loved ones.

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