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No Days Off with Brian Gubernick

Brian Gubernick

Welcome to the No Days Off podcast with Brian Gubernick - where we believe that each day brings a new opportunity to get better - better at business, better at our relationships, better in health,…better at life! 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

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918. The Power of a Name: When to Rebrand a Metric, a...

No Days Off with Brian Gubernick ·

2026/10/06

Brian discusses a wave of rebranding stretching from Washington to Silicon Valley: a new executive order replacing "artificial intelligence" with "Super Intelligence," tech giants describing their data centers as factories, and one of the most famous nuclear plants in America returning under a new name. Brian breaks down what a rebrand is actually meant to do, why the word a team uses ends up shaping how that team behaves, and how one of the world's best-known entertainment companies built its

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08:14

917. Do the Work, Clear the Way, Shorten the...

No Days Off with Brian Gubernick ·

2026/10/05

Brian discusses a blunt claim from Gwynne Shotwell, President and COO of SpaceX, at the 2026 All-In Summit: there is no such thing as a people manager. In Shotwell's view, every manager has to be able to do the work their team does, and the real job of leadership is clearing the way so talented people can perform. Brian breaks down why leaders who can't do the work end up unable to judge it, what clearing the way looks like in an ordinary week, and why Shotwell's most provocative idea, giving

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13:00

916. Replay - How to Create a Culture of Winning

No Days Off with Brian Gubernick ·

2026/10/02

A culture of winning is a culture that sets the groundwork for success. What are the characteristics of a winning culture and how do you incorporate them into your organization to achieve success? -- Text NDO to 59559 to subscribe to our daily texts + get a link to the newest episode. Tune in to this podcast every weekday morning for 10 minutes or less as Brian shares lessons and stories about how to make positive changes in your life and business, one day at a time. That's what the "No Days Off"

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11:03

915. Replay - The Preparation and Psychology of Game Day

No Days Off with Brian Gubernick ·

2026/10/01

In this episode, Brian Gubernick breaks down one of the biggest lies in business: that showing up is enough. Pros in sports spend countless hours preparing their bodies and minds so when the lights come on, their performance isn't a surprise — it's the inevitable result of disciplined work. So why do so many entrepreneurs wing it? Brian unpacks the athlete's blueprint — conditioning, film study, visualization, recovery, and ritual — and translates each principle into the sport of business. You'll

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08:11

914. Replay - What Keeps You Going When Everything Hurts

No Days Off with Brian Gubernick ·

2026/09/30

Brian Gubernick shares a powerful concept inspired by endurance athlete James Lawrence, aka the Iron Cowboy: your bag of whys. It's not just one big reason, it's a deeply personal collection of motivations you can reach for when discipline and willpower aren't enough. Brian opens up about his own "bag," including being a role model for his kids, honoring those who believed in him, and pushing the limits of what he's capable of in this life. He challenges you to build your own bag of whys -- full of

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08:36

913. Replay - Integrity and Being True to Yourself

No Days Off with Brian Gubernick ·

2026/09/29

Are you being true to yourself? Are you displaying integrity in your actions? In this episode, Brian shares a lesson from one of his mentor's, Mack Newton: living with integrity. -- Welcome to No Days Off with Brian Gubernick. Brian is a visionary leader with over 20 years of diverse business and life experience. Tune in to this podcast every weekday morning for 10 minutes or less as Brian shares lessons and stories about how to make positive changes in your life and business, one day at a time

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56:25

912. Replay - Impossible Goals Made Practical with...

No Days Off with Brian Gubernick ·

2026/09/28

In this episode of No Days Off, Brian Gubernick sits down 1-on-1 with Dr. Benjamin Hardy, organizational psychologist and bestselling author of The Gap and the Gain, 10x Is Easier Than 2x, and his latest release, The Science of Scaling. Dr. Hardy's work has reshaped how entrepreneurs, leaders, and high performers think about growth — not just in business, but in life. Together, Brian and Ben explore how to evolve from who you are into who you need to become next. They unpack why thinking bigger

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08:34

911. Decide, Delegate, Schedule, or Kill It: Clearing...

No Days Off with Brian Gubernick ·

2026/09/25

Brian discusses a liability that never shows up on a balance sheet but charges interest every single week: decision debt. Every choice an owner puts off keeps costing something. It costs attention, it leaves a team unsure which way to go, and it leaves work sitting and waiting. Brian also discusses why this problem gets worse with success rather than better, and why keeping options open feels safe while quietly slowing everything down. He walks through the warning signs that decision debt is

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08:15

910. Capital Can't Fix a Production Problem

No Days Off with Brian Gubernick ·

2026/09/24

Brian discusses one of the most expensive mistakes a business owner can make: using money to fix a problem money can't fix. When revenue falls short, the instinct is to borrow, raise, or pull from savings to buy time. Sometimes that's the right call. Often it only delays the real issue and stacks debt on top of it. Brian also discusses the difference between a timing problem and a demand problem, why that difference has to be diagnosed honestly before any dollar goes in, and the two safeguards he

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08:39

909. You Can't Transfer Trust With an Intro Email

No Days Off with Brian Gubernick ·

2026/09/23

Brian discusses what actually happens when a client, account, or team member changes hands. The work moves in minutes. The trust does not, and the standard intro email quietly leaves the most important part behind. Brian also discusses why the usual way owners choose the new point of contact is the wrong first question, and what to ask instead. He breaks down what a handoff has to carry across for a relationship to survive the change, and he shares the word-for-word script he recommends for the

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09:27

908. If Your Best Employee Quit Friday, What Breaks...

No Days Off with Brian Gubernick ·

2026/09/22

Brian discusses why the employee a business can't afford to lose is less a talent story than a design flaw. Starting from a recent retention conversation, he makes the case that the person everyone leans on carries far more out the door than their skill set, and that most owners are protecting only half of what's at risk. Brian also discusses why retention and documentation, usually treated as separate projects, are really the same problem, and why building a system around a key person can become

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09:31

907. How to Become Someone People Actually Root For

No Days Off with Brian Gubernick ·

2026/09/21

Brian discusses a short piece of advice from writer and investor Sahil Bloom: be easy to root for. Show up, do what you say, be kind, be reliable, and you become a magnet for opportunity. Brian takes it out of the realm of nice sentiment and turns it into a working definition entrepreneurs can act on immediately. His case is blunt. Your next real opportunity comes from a person, and that person makes their decision about you in a room you are not in. What drives that decision is not talent. It is

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07:53

906. Obsolete Yourself Before Someone Else Does:...

No Days Off with Brian Gubernick ·

2026/09/18

Brian discusses a line from SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell at the 2026 All-In Summit: if you don't make your own products obsolete, someone else will do it for you. SpaceX is building the rocket that will replace Falcon 9, the very rocket that made the company, while that rocket is still winning. Brian unpacks why the thing that makes you money today is often the thing that leaves you most exposed, and why some of the most famous companies in history thrived or collapsed on this one decision

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10:32

905. The Emotional Cycle of Change, and Why You Want...

No Days Off with Brian Gubernick ·

2026/09/17

Brian discusses the Emotional Cycle of Change, a model developed by Don Kelley and Daryl Conner and published in 1979, and why it explains the sinking feeling that shows up a few weeks into almost every decision you were excited about. Unlike most change models, this one was built for voluntary change, the kind you chose, which is exactly what makes the downturn so disorienting when it arrives. Brian walks through the five stages as they show up in a business and focuses on the one where nearly

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08:57

904. To Do Something You've Never Done, You Have to...

No Days Off with Brian Gubernick ·

2026/09/16

Brian discusses a line he keeps coming back to: when you are trying to do something you have never done before, you may need to do something you have never done before. It sounds like a tautology until you separate the two halves, and Brian argues that almost everyone wants the first half without paying for the second. He explains why doing more of what you are already good at does not count as doing something new, and why that distinction is where most growth quietly stalls. He then applies the

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12:42

903. Why Balance May Be the Most Underrated Predictor...

No Days Off with Brian Gubernick ·

2026/09/15

Brian discusses balance, and makes the case that it may be the most underrated input in the entire longevity conversation. Most people rank sleep, nutrition, strength and cardio as their health priorities. Almost nobody ranks balance, and Brian argues that is a mistake with real consequences. He walks through what the research actually shows, including a study of seventeen hundred adults where a single ten second test was independently associated with a dramatically higher risk of death, and Mayo

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11:05

902. The Two-Question Test for Reversing a Decision...

No Days Off with Brian Gubernick ·

2026/09/14

Brian discusses the courage to change your mind after you have already announced your decision. He opens with a seventeen year old family friend who quit football before his senior season, held that line through summer workouts, preseason, and the first two games, and then did something almost no adult ever does. He reversed himself and asked for his spot back in week four. Brian argues the reversal matters far more than the decision, and that most seasoned business leaders would never have made the

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10:02

901. The Horseshoe: A Test for Whether You've Taken a...

No Days Off with Brian Gubernick ·

2026/09/11

Brian borrows a model from political theory and puts it to work on management. Horseshoe theory says the ideological spectrum isn't a straight line but a bent one, where the two extremes curl toward each other and end up more alike than either is to the center. Brian spends a minute on the origin, is candid about why political scientists question the model, and then leaves politics behind for the part that actually matters to operators. Because the same pattern runs through business. Two founders

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09:44

900. How to Argue Better: Steel Manning, Straw...

No Days Off with Brian Gubernick ·

2026/09/10

Brian breaks down two terms that get thrown around loosely and are worth understanding precisely: the straw man and the steel man. One of them is a trap most leaders fall into daily without any bad intent, usually because they're moving fast and their brain compresses what someone said into something simpler and easier to argue with. The other is a discipline that traces back to game theorist Anatol Rapoport and was put in front of a business audience by philosopher Daniel Dennett, and Charlie

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11:13

899. Leaders are Teachers: The Five Laws of Learning,...

No Days Off with Brian Gubernick ·

2026/09/09

Brian makes the case that a leader is a teacher above all else, and that most of what a leader does has a hard ceiling of one person's capacity. Teaching is the only leadership activity that compounds. He also points out that you are teaching your team whether or not you intend to, and that the only real question is whether you are doing it on purpose. Brian looks at three entrepreneurs worth modeling on this, none of them the names you would expect, and what they built that most companies never do

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