Build With Rob
Build With Rob is a show about building amazing companies while building an amazing life. Whether you’re a seasoned or aspiring entrepreneur, climbing the corporate ladder, or seeking to live an optimized, balanced life, Rob Dyrdek’s advice will help propel you toward your goals. Rob Dyrdek builds & invests in startups, takes them to multi-million dollar exits, and shares lessons along the way. His one-of-a-kind venture creation studio, Dyrdek Machine, is a company that builds companies by systematically fusing art, science and magic to manufacture amazing through a process called The Machine Method. In each episode, Rob provides mentorship to entrepreneurs looking to grow their companies and achieve the best version of themselves. With each guest laying out their visions for life and business and following up with questions for each, Rob gives actionable advice in his two greatest areas of mastery: building businesses and deep life optimization. On occasion, Rob sits down with his portfolio partners to discuss how the company was created, how the partnership took shape, and share valuable lessons they have learned along the way. It’s all about being the best version of yourself, doing the things that give you energy every day, minimizing those that take energy from you, and creating harmony to live an extraordinary life. Rob is here to help you achieve that dream. Listen to Build With Rob on Apple, Spotify, and most podcast platforms. To be a guest on the show and talk to Rob about your life and business visions, go to dyrdekmachine.com/guest and submit a video.
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A Special Message from Rob Dyrdek
12/04/2023
A Special Message from Rob Dyrdek
You have the power to manifest anything you want in this life. In this very special episode, Rob explores the art of manifestation through clarity, and explains how you can practice it in just 5 steps. The clearer your vision of your desired future, the more likely you are to manifest it through your actions. Manifestation isn't just wishing and hoping for an outcome you want to come true — it's a skill developed over time. You must create a vivid mental image of your desired future, immerse yourself in it, and trick your mind and body into believing it's real. Rob, a living testament to manifestation, emphasizes that it's about feeling, sensing, and deeply believing in its inevitability. It's when your mind and body cannot tell the difference between that which you imagine in great detail and that which is actually happening. So, the more you practice detailed manifestation over and over, while taking action to achieve them, the universe will begin to listen.
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123: You Have the Gift of Creation
11/20/2023
123: You Have the Gift of Creation
We are creative beings. We must create. Sometimes people think of creativity as the realm of writers and painters and the like. Actually, we are creating no matter what we do, at every moment of our existence. In this episode Rob Dyrdek goes deep and breaks down the profound implications of that. How, whether through action or inaction, we create the present moment we find ourselves in. As it turns out, that truth carries with it a great deal of power and a message of hope that no matter our situation, better moments are just a simple change away…
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122: How Financial Clarity Leads to Financial Freedom
11/13/2023
122: How Financial Clarity Leads to Financial Freedom
In case you were wondering, the time to think about Financial Freedom is NOW. Rob is the first to admit it. There are a lot more enticing things to do with money than to save. However, the freedom that comes with clarifying your financial goals and optimizing your choices is powerful once you begin to attain it. In this episode Rob Dyrdek opens up about his sub-par financial habits, what he changed in his life, and how something as seemingly stodgy as Financial planning actually enriched his life.
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121: How to Clarify Your Goals to Achieve more, faster
11/06/2023
121: How to Clarify Your Goals to Achieve more, faster
No matter what, you are either creating Chaos or Clarity in life. Choose Wisely. High performers know the importance of creating goals in life, but many who desire the heights of success don’t practice the level of clarity needed to achieve their largest goals. Instead of bringing clarity and harmony to their future vision of themselves, many people try to do too much and end up bringing Chaos into their lives, or even worse, burn out. In this Episode of Build with Rob, Rob Dyrdek gives clear strategies for managing our expectations in the present and bringing a simple clarity to our goals that will allow us to reach them faster.
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120: Design the Ideal Version of Yourself to Get Unstuck
10/30/2023
120: Design the Ideal Version of Yourself to Get Unstuck
If you’re feeling stuck it may be time to deeply define who you want to be. In this week’s insightfully authentic episode Rob Dyrdek talks about the steps he took in life when he found himself searching for direction at the end of his thirties. It wasn’t until Rob took clear steps and defined what he wanted out of life that he found those things manifesting in his amazing existence. After sharing moments of trial and tribulation Rob gets into a clear methodology that helped him move into the richest chapter of his life, and in this week’s Build With Rob he shows us how we might also dig deeper to turn what can feel like chaos into harmony.
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119: My Process for Creating the Life I Want
10/23/2023
119: My Process for Creating the Life I Want
Become Clear on Who You Are, and The World is Yours Have you ever sat down to truly and deeply imagine the person you want to become? Are you stacking the deck of existence in your favor or are you letting the cards fall as they may? Rob Dyrdek is here to tell you that there is a PROCESS behind realizing the person you want to become, and one of the critical early steps is to get clear about who that person is. In this episode of Build With Rob he shares his personal struggles in his late 30’s with reckoning who he was with the person with who he wanted to become, and in doing so provides clear insights into how to radically increase the probability of realizing your full potential.
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118: The 5 Phases to Experiencing Joy Forever
10/16/2023
118: The 5 Phases to Experiencing Joy Forever
It’s not as elusive as you think… Joy can be a tricky thing to define. Some say it is a state of being when everything else is stripped away, others say it is something you must work towards. Perhaps it is both. In this episode of Build With Rob we learn about five phases that Rob Dyrdek applies to his life to create the potential, and ultimately the sustainable existence of Joy. As a bonus Rob gives a new reveal about his life that he now sees as a turning point.
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117: How To Become the Most Amazing Version of You
10/09/2023
117: How To Become the Most Amazing Version of You
We are the Creators of our Future So much of life can feel like it’s beyond our control. That is a completely valid feeling. But the truth is that as self creationists we accept that feeling while recognizing that there are things that we, in fact, CAN control. One of them is how we evolve as people. “You don’t go through life, you GROW through life.” is an oft heard -ism that doesn’t offer a lot in the way of advice. Rob Dyrdek is here to talk us through steps and strategies that allow us to control our evolution, and in doing so, our lives.
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116: Wish you had more time in a day? I have GREAT news…
10/02/2023
116: Wish you had more time in a day? I have GREAT news…
If we change our relationship to time incredible things WILL happen. This week Rob Dyrdek is challenging us to do something small but incredibly powerful. A shift in perspective that requires little effort but can create incredible results all across our lives. We all know that there are only 24 hours in a day, and we’ve been taught that we need to be MANAGERS of that time, but Rob is here to tell us that we can be more than that. We can be the creators of time, taking control from the endlessly ticking clock and affirming our place as the masters of our destiny.
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115: How to transform from PESSIMIST to OPTIMIST
09/25/2023
115: How to transform from PESSIMIST to OPTIMIST
This one’s for anyone who wants to change their pessimistic ways. Whether you’re a reformed pessimist or you’ve just admitted that you want to change you’re on the right track - and Rob is here to help you. In this episode of Build With Rob we’re going deep on what optimism even is, what keeps a person in an optimistic mindset, the tools Rob uses to move from a pessimistic place to an optimistic existence, and finally a big reveal of what Rob Dyrdek still must work against in his extraordinary life that manifests as pessimism in his mind. It’s an episode filled with tangible takeaways and vulnerable moments that you won’t want to miss.
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114: Do THIS to maximize your flow | The Rhythm of Existence
09/18/2023
114: Do THIS to maximize your flow | The Rhythm of Existence
Start thinking of your life in weeks, and change your whole year “Win the morning and you can win the day” We are so used to living our life day by day because we, well, we do. But that doesn’t mean you have to THINK of your life as a continuum of days! Instead, Rob Dyrdek shares his secret perspective of thinking of his life in more manageable segments, why it is so powerful, and how to live your life in the elusive ‘rhythm of existence’ for more happiness, energy, positivity, and an overall amazing existence. BONUS - find out the genetic trait Rob gained from his father that helps him in a very specific part of his life.
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113: You're Never Too Old to Create a Vision Board
09/11/2023
113: You're Never Too Old to Create a Vision Board
I promise it’s never too late to create the life you dream of. Are you worried that “it’s too late” to achieve the deepest desires of your spirit? Well, great news! It is time to set worry aside and turn fear into action. An easy step in the process of creating the reality you want to manifest is putting together a vision board. In this episode of the Build with Rob Podcast Rob Dyrdek has a confession of sorts, that he is a 49 year-old, highly successful man with a vision board. Not only does Rob share what’s on his vision board, but he thoughtfully outlines the process of turning photoshopped images into tangible achievements to enrich your life.
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112: Introducing the Abundance Vortex
08/28/2023
112: Introducing the Abundance Vortex
Imagine a place where the universe provides your best possible life… Rob has found this magical place, and he calls it: THE ABUNDANCE VORTEX. In this state of being, your energy is so high, that every part of your existence is amazing. You are provided answers to questions you’ve asked, and even ones you haven’t. You attract the things you need, and even incredible things you didn’t know you wanted or needed. We all have the ability to create our very own abundance vortex that continues to serve up astounding experiences over and over again. It is an elusive state that Rob has spent many years perfecting to the point where he now lives within it every single day. In this episode, he will share his tried and true formula for seeking out the abundance vortex and staying there indefinitely.
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111: Want to Change Your Life Forever? This Decision Changed Mine
08/21/2023
111: Want to Change Your Life Forever? This Decision Changed Mine
Can a single decision really change your entire life? Yes. The answer is yes. And Rob is here to tell you about the single solitary decision that changed his life and set him on the path to great success and happiness. But it is not just a decision to make and forget about, that would be magic, and this is only sort of magic. It is about making a strong commitment to yourself and to your life. A commitment to your every day that you continue to do and never stop and never look back. It is a perpetual decision that continues to pay out better and better dividends the longer you do it. The spoils become more and more valuable over time. Your life improves steadily until the moment it ends. If you’ve read this far, you probably want to know what it is. This lifelong commitment, this existence-altering decision. Well for that, friend, you’re going to have to take a moment, say your goodbyes to this lesser version of yourself, and go ahead and hit that play button.
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110: Master These 3 Forces to Gain Control of Your Life
08/14/2023
110: Master These 3 Forces to Gain Control of Your Life
What do you actually control in this life? And how can you control more of it? We are all constantly told to focus only on those things we can control, and ignore those we cannot. But understanding what parts of our life we do actually control may be simpler than you realize. Rob is here to tell you that it’s nothing more than these forces: your thoughts, actions and emotions. That’s literally it. Everything you have control over in your entire life is one of those three things. In this episode, we talk through how these essential elements integrate to make up your entire existence. Also, how you can gain control of each of them and make them work together to control a much greater portion of your life. With that sort of power, you can purposefully guide your life toward its absolute ideal.
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109: How to Always Keep Momentum
08/07/2023
109: How to Always Keep Momentum
Are you depressed? Or did you just lose momentum? Momentum is more important to your existence and your happiness than you may realize. It is the thing that drives you toward the future you desire. If you maintain forward motion, you don’t have time to dwell. But when you stop, you stagnate and leave room for anxiety to creep in. If you find yourself moving backward, you could be on the road to depression. In this episode, Rob details how to always keep momentum going, constantly moving forward toward a better future and a harmonious life. As a key driver of wellbeing, momentum is volatile, and thus can be lost or reversed if not actively maintained. The key is to understand momentum, what it feels like, and how to perpetuate it every day to avoid disruption and escalate progress.
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108: High Quality Energy vs. Low Quality Energy
07/31/2023
108: High Quality Energy vs. Low Quality Energy
Do you understand the structure of your energy? The driving force of your life is energy. And the more you understand what it is, and the difference between feeling high quality energy and low quality or negative energy, the better you can optimize your life for the former. In this episode, Rob dives in on the components that determine the quality of your energy. When you have knowledge about what you’re doing, when you truly understand something, it makes it easy, success is more likely, and that provides high quality energy. When you’re clear about your goals and where you’re going, you can get excited and feel more motivated about every step it takes to get there. These factors contribute to belief that you will achieve next steps. Versus, when your future aspirations are vague, you don’t really understand the thing you’re trying to do, and thus you don’t have any logical reason to believe in yourself. These things create low quality energy, make everything harder, and prevent you from living the life you deserve.
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107: Your Health and Decision-Making are Completely Intertwined
07/24/2023
107: Your Health and Decision-Making are Completely Intertwined
Health has as much effect on how you think as it does on how you look. When we think about improving our health, it is most often associated with looking better and generally feeling better. But there is also a direct correlation between the quality of your health and the quality of your decision-making. When you are eating right, exercising and getting enough sleep, your mind is clearer. When your brain is sharp, you procrastinate less, you process information faster, you contextualize inputs properly, and you’re able to be more decisive in important moments. Setting your mind up for consistent, successful decision-making will ultimately have a compounding positive effect on your overall life. And it all begins with committing to improving and maintaining your health.
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106: The #1 Reason You Need Systems & Automation in Your Life
07/17/2023
106: The #1 Reason You Need Systems & Automation in Your Life
Automate your way toward energy neutrality and effortlessness. The reality is that you have limited time and energy to deploy on this thing you call your life. They are both finite resources. And even if you don’t realize it, you are constantly driving aspects of your life toward a state of energy neutral. Unfortunately, bad habits and destructive systems can be a part of this if you don’t consciously control them. The elements that have a profoundly positive effect on your life, such as your health and fitness, diet, and clarity of goals, take effort up front, but if you are able to automate them toward energy neutrality, you can improve your everyday life with little to no effort on an ongoing basis. This episode is a deep dive into the process and philosophy of systematizing and automating the net positive aspects, and identifying and eliminating the negative habits to achieve a more fulfilling, effortless existence.
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105: Think of Manifestation as a Magic Goal
07/10/2023
105: Think of Manifestation as a Magic Goal
What is it that you most want to manifest? In this episode, Rob takes us on a deep dive into what it takes to manifest that which you desire, through the lens of clarity. The clearer you are in knowing what you want the future to be, the more likely you will be able to manifest it through your present and future actions. Manifestation is not just wishing or hoping something will happen and expecting the desired result. It is a skill that must be developed over time, working in tandem with a crystal clear picture of how one wishes to shape the future. It requires the ability to place yourself in the future in your mind, feel the feelings, smell the smells, hear the sounds, and trick your mind into believing the images you conjure are real. Whether or not you believe in magic, by learning to manifest through clarity and practice, it sure can seem like it.
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104: A Personality Assessment Changed My Life Forever
06/26/2023
104: A Personality Assessment Changed My Life Forever
How well do you really know yourself? The year was 2014. Rob Dyrdek is in his late 30’s and supremely confident that he knows himself inside and out. Then, he takes a personality assessment. And his whole world is turned upside down. The results became the catalyst to build the strategy and design the life he lives at an incredibly high level today. In this episode, Rob shares the deep insights he received from that first and subsequent personality assessments that have shaped and refined the way he approaches building and designing his business and his life. It’s not just about the results, it’s about what you do with the results. How you apply them. How they validate your strengths and highlight weaknesses you may not be able to independently admit to yourself. One of the most transformative processes he has experienced, Rob encourages you to take the time to do the same.
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103: Are You Using the Present Moment with Purpose?
06/19/2023
103: Are You Using the Present Moment with Purpose?
The present is yours to use how you see fit. This episode is all about driving your mind into the center, creating balance, and allowing you to experience the present moment at the highest level. It’s about more than just trying to force yourself to stay in the moment and experience what is happening. It’s about learning to control the present moment with the intention of enhancing future present moments, in which you will experience more joy. You won’t always be planning for the future. The best use of a particular present may be simply relaxing and clearing your mind. It may be dealing with an issue from the past, or it may be strategizing. The point is to control your present in a way that you can intentionally use it with purpose. You design your life, design your time, design how you want to expend your limited energy, and all of that culminates to master your present experience.
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102: The Three Layers of Ultra Awareness
06/12/2023
102: The Three Layers of Ultra Awareness
Are you really as self-aware as you think you are? Self-awareness is fundamental to achieving happiness in life. If you don’t know who you are, or think you’re something you’re not, you will not have the proper perspective through which to make decisions. First you must recognize who you are, and that it is different than who you ultimately want to be. You have to get specific about your strategy to become more self-aware. The next step is then becoming time-aware, and understanding the value of your time and how to maximize the quality of it. This is achieved through energy awareness, realizing how the ways in which you spend your time affect you emotionally in the moment. Optimizing for these aspects, and others detailed in the episode, over time, can lead you to becoming Ultra-Aware. This is the state that opens the door to success and happiness.
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101: How to Create the Reality You Want
06/05/2023
101: How to Create the Reality You Want
What type of reality are you living? Are you living in a REACTIVE reality, where you allow the things occurring around you to dictate the direction of your life? Getting bounced around like a pinball, believing there’s nothing you can do about it, that you are at the mercy of the universe? Or are you living in a PROACTIVE reality, where you’re constantly assessing and finding ways to manipulate your situation and guide your reality toward the one you most want to live in? Hopefully, it’s the latter, but if not, and you find yourself feeling a lack of control, Rob is here to give you the tools to take charge of your own reality and transform it into the best version it can be. Only by living in a proactive reality can you truly accomplish your goals and live a happy, fulfilled life.
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100: From Founders to Philosophy: The Evolution of "Build With Rob"
05/22/2023
100: From Founders to Philosophy: The Evolution of "Build With Rob"
The best moments and biggest learnings from 100 Episodes! We did it! 100 Episodes and still we’re just getting started. In this very special episode, Rob reflects on the origins of the show, how it evolved, and what he’s learned along the way. As a show that spent its early days interviewing Dyrdek Machine portfolio founders, it soon began leaning into advice for aspiring entrepreneurs. But as Rob continued honing his life philosophy, working on a book, designing software, it became clear where the show needed to go moving forward. As it turned into the show you’ve enjoyed and learned from over the past year, everything seems to be aligning. Rob will also take us through five of the most resonant moments on the journey so far, and provide even greater insight for each. Thank you for joining us on this adventure. Here’s to the next 100!
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99: Quantified Joy: Measuring Your Path to Happiness
05/15/2023
99: Quantified Joy: Measuring Your Path to Happiness
Make it simple. Make it measurable. Make yourself happy. If you create simplicity and measurability in several areas of your life, you will then be able to strategize how to achieve those goals, resulting in happiness upon completing those goals. Then you’re able to set new, simple goals, measure success, and create even more happiness. It’s a process Rob calls Quantified Joy. In this episode, Rob takes us through his process of creating measurable outcomes and then allowing the numbers to inform the strategy and track the progress. The more you make incremental progress toward those goals, which you can only track if they are quantifiable, the more motivated you become, and the faster you achieve them. The output: Joy. The more you implement this practice in various parts of your life, the more joy you will experience through achievement, and thus the happier your life will become.
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98: How Much Money are You Truly Making Per Hour?
05/08/2023
98: How Much Money are You Truly Making Per Hour?
It’s probably a lot less than you think… Have you ever wondered how much you really make per hour of work? It’s a bit more complicated than dividing your salary by 40 hours per week. First of all, there’s the obligatory taxes we all pay, so subtract those–that money goes straight into Uncle Sam’s sizable pockets. Next, you have to account not just for said supposed 40 hour work week, but also the actual amount of time and energy you spend thinking about work, preparing, networking, training, and everything else that contributes to your ability to generate income. Why would Rob spend an entire episode talking about this? Because at the center of his philosophy is Financial Harmony. This means designing your financial life in a way that allows you to maximize your time and energy to spend on things you most enjoy while still generating wealth. In this episode, Rob shares his secrets to creating financial harmony, and provides his playbook to work hard and save harder.
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97: Qualitative Awareness: Rating Your Life From 0-10
05/01/2023
97: Qualitative Awareness: Rating Your Life From 0-10
A simple technique that reveals extraordinary insights about your life. Asking yourself how you feel about something on a scale from 1-10 is about as simple as it gets. But this practice, if applied consistently over time, begins to show you insights about your overall life, or aspects of your life, that you can then continue to improve to better your overall experience. You can begin with “how do I feel about my life overall today?” as a more general way to start, or you can get more specific. “How do I feel about my relationship today?” “How do I feel about my health and wellbeing today?” “How do I feel about work today?” In this episode, Rob provides a breakdown of the scale he uses to generate consistent results, which over time, illustrate the ups and downs of his existence. This allows him to target elements of each aspect he tracks and identify things that repeatedly cause lower ratings. Developing qualitative awareness can lead to a much higher quality of life.
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96: Organized and Purposeful Knowledge is a Superpower
04/24/2023
96: Organized and Purposeful Knowledge is a Superpower
Knowledge is power. But learning with the intention of making your life better is a superpower. We tend to spend an incredible amount of time learning things that have no applicable value to betting our lives. One may call it gathering useless knowledge. While that could make us the hero on trivia night, it does nothing to aid our evolution into a better version of ourselves. Dedicating an inordinate amount of time to researching characters from your favorite TV show or learning everything about golf does nothing to better your overall experience. However, dedicating the same amount of time wasted across many meaningless such pursuits instead to understanding yourself, your work or your time better creates real, tangible value. Learning a new skill set you can apply to increase the value you bring to the world and therefore benefit from personally. These are the aspects of life that provide the fruit of a better, more meaningful existence. Thus, when you focus on enhancing them through organized, purposeful learning, the rewards are exponentially higher.
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95: Using Time Design for Life Design
04/17/2023
95: Using Time Design for Life Design
Time is the canvas of your entire existence. Thinking about time design as life design, and using the metaphor of time being the canvas on which you get to paint your life however you want it to be, opens up unlimited possibilities. You are the artist, and by designing your time, you have the opportunity to create the life you desire. It’s not just about efficient scheduling day to day. It’s actually much broader. If you look at your time more holistically in the past, present and future, you can actually begin to design the evolution of how you spend your time, which equates directly to your quality of life. What percentage of your life do you want to spend working, or devoting to family or health ten or fifteen years from now? It may seem impossible to predict, but if you design it, and create a deliberate path to achieve it, then such goals are absolutely within your grasp.
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