128. Colton: Find Something You Love, Build Your Routine, and Change Your Life

144. Colton: Praise More, Better Leadership, and Smarter Systems

Episode 144 is about becoming a better leader by learning how to recognize what people are doing right. Colton reflects on a lesson from Unreasonable Hospitality and opens up about the importance of giving more praise, more appreciation, and more clear positive feedback instead of only pointing out what needs to be fixed. He also shares updates from Grizzy’s, including a successful fish fry giveaway, and breaks down how he’s building smarter AI systems to stay more organized, manage communication better, and create stronger workflows across the business.

143. Colton: Building With Friends, Hard Conversations, and Growing Together

Episode 143 is about friendship, business, and the reality of building something together. Colton shares stories from the early days of Grizzly and Priority, what it was like working with his best friends from the start, and why doing business with people you love can be both one of the hardest and most rewarding things you’ll ever do. This episode is about trust, conflict, communication, and learning how to put the business first without losing the relationship.

142. Colton: Let It Go Faster, Think Like Future You, and Stop Stepping in the Same Shit

Episode 142 is about emotional control, perspective, and learning how to recover faster when life throws something at you. Colton talks about why so many people let one bad moment ruin the rest of their day, how asking what “future you” would think can help you zoom out, and why holding onto stress only makes it heavier. He also shares a simple reminder that if life keeps teaching you the same lesson, it’s on you to stop stepping in the same mess twice.

141. Colton: Time, Focus, and How Bad You Really Want Itpod 141 final

Episode 141 is about focus, discipline, and what your free time says about the life you really want. Colton talks more about using AI as a tool to think better, analyze deeper, and make smarter decisions, but the real message of this episode is bigger than technology. It’s about how many people say they want more, but never actually use their free time to work toward it. If you want a different life, different results, or a bigger future, you have to stop pretending you want it and start acting like it.

140. Colton: Your Dreams Have a Deadline, Focus Matters, and Time Is Running

Episode 140 is about urgency, focus, and realizing that your dreams do have a deadline. Colton shares takeaways from a recent event in Scottsdale, including lessons on purpose, managing focus instead of just time, and why too many people keep pushing important things off like they have forever. He also talks about being careful who you ask for advice, why not every opinion deserves equal weight, and why success usually comes with more critics, not fewer.