Watch my 2024 review: https://youtu.be/FFqg1UlrSg4?si=T6E3kKHOTM5TEAED
Watch my 2023 review: https://youtu.be/QGVuium5E34?si=dGzzHEh5xkgcVJGE
Watch my 2022 review: https://youtu.be/gJ86uTvACp8?si=3IgNu-z4N2nn2Vyx
Read on Substack here: https://dickiebush.substack.com/p/reflecting-on-2025-and-my-gameplan
Full timestamps here:
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2:57) Life Recap Begins --
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7:56) Starting the year on a slowmad adventure
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9:14) Bought my first condo, immediately regretted it
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16:13) Integrated lives fully with my girlfriend on multiple continents
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23:37) Took the fewest number of days fully off at any point in my life
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28:28) Became the physically strongest I have been in 10 years
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32:55) Continually refined & reunderwrote my relationship with money
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37:05) Felt like I operated below my potential in every area
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40:17) Life Lessons And Realizations Begin --
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40:17) Your environment will win in the long run, for better or wose
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43:06) Travel is a tool, not a default lifestyle
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44:54) Put your own oxygen mask on before helping others
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47:21) You cannot fix your stress from a place of being stressed
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49:17) Happiness and rest are skills that must be trained
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52:22) Spend more time learning to precisely describe your emotions
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55:25) Stop deciding - design a "Hell Yes" and build toward it
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57:22) Have 3 goals: health goal, business goal, life goal to guide your daily actions
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59:38) Business Recap Begins --
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1:00:02) Overall portfolio revenue +18% year over year, but net after ads & labor -14%
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1:02:15) Vertical by vertical breakdown
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1:04:00) Made 12 key hires, ascensions, and personnel improvements
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1:05:35) Learned how to profitably run paid traffic to live events
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1:06:18) Added multiple products to improve our money model
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1:07:35) Launched 3 digital products to our email list
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1:09:37) Business Lessons & Realizations Begin --
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1:09:58) It's not "organic versus paid" -- it's all about MER
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1:15:00) Perfect attribution is the enemy of scaling
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1:18:28) As you scale, you shift from purely "how" to "what"
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1:21:40) You need periodic time removed from the "how" to think about the "what"
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1:23:51) Know where your operating leverage kicks in & obsess over getting there
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1:31:13) Don't try to scale through the "valley of death" by starting other verticals
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1:35:00) There is no such thing as overcommunication especially as a team grows
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1:40:03) Business is simply cost per X & cash per X
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1:45:10) My 3 Main Quests for 2026 --
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1:48:18) Closing Reflections & One Request --