Aug 10, 2026 · 56 min · 11 segments
What if you don’t need another business strategy? What if you need to get brutally clear on what you actually want first? In this episode, Joel Brown sits down with Aaron Velky, Chief Strategy…
Aaron VelkyGuestJoel BrownHostI was sitting in the room with a guy by the name of Jordan Belfort, the Wolf of Wall Street.
And what I've realized over time is not everybody thinks with an obsessive idealist mindset.
Yeah, it's crazy because I think you're casting from a place where you only know what you know up until now.
But I think what I was doing without knowing what you're drawing out here, because I love this.
I wish I actually learned this when I cast it because I probably would have achieved it in four years or three years.
I was very much, I could tell, it was almost like my reticular activating system could tell when something was going to be a yes and a tick, or if it's a no, I was like, I don't have time for that.
I was doing it unconsciously, but to hear you teach it now, I'm just like, oh, this totally makes sense.
I was sitting in the room with a guy by the name of Jordan Belfort, the Wolf of Wall Street.
And what I've realized over time is not everybody thinks with an obsessive idealist mindset.
Yeah, it's crazy because I think you're casting from a place where you only know what you know up until now.
But I think what I was doing without knowing what you're drawing out here, because I love this.
I wish I actually learned this when I cast it because I probably would have achieved it in four years or three years.
I was very much, I could tell, it was almost like my reticular activating system could tell when something was going to be a yes and a tick, or if it's a no, I was like, I don't have time for that.
I was doing it unconsciously, but to hear you teach it now, I'm just like, oh, this totally makes sense.
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