He did $2.6M in sales, so why was he so anxious? – with Charlie Hoehn

Charlie Hoehn, Play It Away, Educational Company, Mental Game, Selling 1-on-1

Not only did Charlie Hoehn help develop an App Creation course which generated $2.6 million in sales, but the guy got to apprentice for his heroes.

I asked him to walk me through how he did all that, because I know you come to this site to glean ideas you can use.

I also asked Charlie to talk about how the work that got him there also caused him to collapse from anxiety and stress. If you’re a stressed out workaholic (like I am, at times) listen to what happened to Charlie and how he now keeps anxiety away using a process he describes in his book, Play it Away.

Charlie Hoehn

Play It Away

Charlie Hoehn is the author of Play It Away: A Workaholic’s Cure for Anxiety, a book about his experiences working for Tim Ferriss, where he was head of special projects.

 

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I am the founder of Mixergy.com, home of the ambitious upstart, the place where entrepreneurs come to talk about how they built their businesses so that you can learn from them and go out there and build a successful company yourself. And chances are, on your way to doing that, you’re going to be full of stress, anxiety, and overwork.

And so today’s guest, Charlie Hoehn, wrote a book about that. It’s called… here, let me see if I can… I read everything digitally, which unfortunately means that it’s a little hard to show it up on the screen. But there it is. You guys can see it on my phone. “Play It Away: A Workaholic’s Cure for Anxiety.”

The book is about his experiences working for Tim Ferriss, where he was head of special projects, and took on more and more work, and then kept begging Mr. Four Hour Work Week to give him more and more work still on...

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