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Episode 956 · Apr 22, 2024

Daily Mastermind State of the Union: Where the Show Is Headed

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George Wright III, host of The Daily Mastermind, took a pause from his usual topical format to give listeners a direct look at where the show and The Evolution Group are heading. If you have been wondering about the direction of the podcast, the Academy, or how to make the most of the free resources George provides, this episode answers those questions clearly.

This is a solo check-in packed with insight about building a life on purpose, rather than by default. George shares a weekly content roadmap, an exciting relaunch of the Mastermind Academy, plans for live workshops, and two powerful frameworks for making decisions from the perspective of your future self.

What Is The Evolution Group and Why Does It Matter

At the center of everything George does is The Evolution Group, built on the belief that four areas drive a fulfilling life: mindset, business, money, and lifestyle. Every resource he creates, whether the podcast, the Academy, or his mentoring work, points back to strengthening those four pillars for high achievers, CEOs, and business owners who want to make a real difference.

He draws from more than 20 years of working with thought leaders, CEOs, and experts to shape what he teaches. The goal is not just information; it is transformation.

How the Daily Mastermind Weekly Schedule Works

George outlined a clear weekly rhythm for the show:

  • Mondays focus on mindset, giving you the mental foundation to carry through the week, including the Prosperity Pillars he developed over two decades.
  • Tuesdays and Thursdays feature interviews with successful business owners and experts, covering business strategy and money.
  • Wednesdays bring midweek motivation to help you reset and push forward.
  • Fridays focus on health optimization, covering topics from peptides to nutrition and overall life optimization, sponsored by Lifestyle Men's Clinic.

The structure is intentional: daily doses of what you actually need to build a better life, organized around the areas that matter most.

Why the Mastermind Academy Relaunch Is Worth Your Attention

George is relaunching the Mastermind Academy, a private, application-based group that goes deeper than the podcast. Where the free show provides inspiration and education, the Academy offers tactics, marketing strategies, sales systems, and direct mentoring inside a real community.

The price point is deliberately accessible. At a few hundred dollars per month, members also receive a full CRM and business software suite, including social media links, reporting, and marketing tools, valued at over $500 per month on its own. The focus is on finding the right people: individuals genuinely committed to growth, not just casual listeners.

I want individuals that are really going to the next level to have the information, the tools, the strategy, and the mentoring.

What to Expect from Live Workshops Starting in Q3

Beginning in the third quarter, George plans to launch interactive, in-person workshops covering business structuring, taxes, wealth building, and full marketing plan creation. These events are designed to give participants the same contacts, connections, and frameworks George has developed over decades. The live format makes it possible to go deeper than a podcast or even a membership group can go on its own.

Mentoring slots are not currently open, but the live workshops will give serious growth-minded individuals access to the same level of insight.

Two Perspectives That Can Change How You Make Decisions

George closed the episode with two stories worth sitting with.

The first came from Jim Carrey, who shared with a group of graduates that his father spent a lifetime playing it safe as an accountant and never followed his real ambitions. Carrey's message was direct:

You can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

The second came from Jeff Bezos, who described how he decided to leave his corporate career and launch Amazon. He projected himself into the future and asked what he would regret not doing. That question changed everything. He chose the path that would leave him with no regrets.

George frames this as the future self exercise: instead of letting your past or current situation dictate your decisions, ask what the future version of you would choose to do today. Would that person be more disciplined, more confident, more willing to pursue their best life? When you answer that honestly, the decisions you need to make become much clearer.

How to Use the Future Self Framework Right Now

The future self exercise is simple but powerful. Picture the version of you who has already achieved what you want. Ask how that person would think, act, and decide. Then bring those standards into your present.

This is not about ignoring your current reality. It is about refusing to let your current reality be the ceiling. Your past does not have to dictate your next move. Your future self already knows what you need to do.

Rather than having your past dictate what your current activities are, I want you to go into your future version of yourself, and I want you to think about how would that person make decisions today?

Action Steps

  • Map your week to the Daily Mastermind schedule: Monday mindset, Tuesday and Thursday business strategy, Wednesday reset, Friday health and optimization.
  • Try the future self exercise: picture who you want to become, then ask how that person would act, decide, and prioritize today.
  • Reflect honestly on what you might regret not pursuing, and let that drive your next decision.
  • If you are serious about growing your business, explore whether the Mastermind Academy is the right fit for you.
  • Watch for live workshop announcements in Q3 and plan to attend if you want deep, hands-on strategy work.

The Daily Mastermind exists because real growth happens every day, not once in a while. As George reminds his community: it is never too late to start living the life you were meant to live.

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All right, welcome back to The Daily Mastermind, George Wright III with your daily dose of inspiration, motivation, and education. I'm going to do something a little bit different today, and so bear with me. But before I do, I want to get you started with the quote of the day. The quote of the day for The Daily Mastermind is from Wayne Dyer, and it's, The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind. The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind. I love that quote because, as you know, we believe that there is an inner world, an outer world, and you need to be able to get your mindset right if you want to be successful in your life, your lifestyle, your business, and your money. So today I want to take a little bit of a different format. I don't have necessarily a topic I want to talk to you about, but I've had a lot of you asking me about, you know, what's going on, what's happening with the Academy, what we're doing this next quarter and couple of quarters throughout the end of the year. And so I want to talk to you about a new format and a new direction that we're going to be taking with my various companies and with the Daily Mastermind in general. So I'll give you kind of a state of the union. I'll give you some updates and share a couple of messages with you as well. So for those of you that are not familiar, My main company is The Evolution Group. And The Evolution Group, the whole theory, concept, and focus and direction that I've had with that is that I truly believe throughout my life that I've found that there are some core areas of your life if you want to create your best life. And that starts with your mindset, and it leads into business, and it leads into money so that you can create the lifestyle that you truly want to live. Those are the things that I'm passionate about, the things that I've spent my life doing, and the areas that I feel are important for a lot of people in our community. The individuals like yourself that might be high achievers, CEOs, business owners, individuals that really want to make a difference in the world and in their families and their lives. So with that said, the Evolution Group has put together a lot of different resources. We have the Mastermind, the Daily Mastermind, which is a daily podcast. We've got the Academy, which is a private group of members that are focused on achieving their best life. You know, I've got mentoring and marketing in several companies, whether it's an apparel, nutrition, a clinic, men's optimization clinic in Scottsdale and many other things. But the idea here is this. The reason I do the Daily Mastermind is so that you can create on a daily basis resources and things that can help you with that battle that you go through every single day. We have that daily battle, whether it's business or money or mindset. And it really all started with the Think and Grow Rich that I talk about a lot, but the idea of the mastermind and the idea that it's two or more people in a common pursuit, in the spirit of harmony to create a goal and a result. And the idea of a mastermind, and the reason I put together the daily mastermind is so that you have those resources on a day basis And the key the key behind having a true mastermind is being able to have mentoring and strategies tools and resources So let me break down for you real quick what I working what I'm focused on, because I know a lot of you have been asking. The Daily Mastermind is designed to be a free podcast. It's a community of high achievers, business owners, and CEOs. And it's designed to give you a daily dose of inspiration, motivation, education, things that you can use. And so on Mondays, we will always be starting with mindset, mindset that you can carry throughout the week, things that are principles for success, like the pillars, the prosperity pillars that I created over the last 20, 25 years of working with some of the biggest thought leaders, CEOs, and experts in the marketplace. And so mindset is the way I always start my week and you should start your week. Then on Tuesdays and Thursdays on the podcast, we'll be interviewing successful business owners, people that have accomplished things in their life and their business that you can use in your mindset, your money, your business. Tuesdays and Thursdays primarily will be focused on business and money, strategies and things that you can use. Usually on Wednesday, I'm going to come at you with a little bit of midweek motivation, things that can kind of get you refocused. And if you've had a good week, bad week. It's really to push you to the next level going throughout the week. And then on Friday, we're going to take a little bit of a different turn. And Fridays are going to be sponsored by the medical clinic that I own, Lifestyle Men's Clinic. And it's not just lifestyle for men, but it's for men and women. But the idea is how do you optimize your health? How do you optimize your life? You know, there's so many new cutting edge treatments of peptides in. Whether it's anything from TRT to weight loss, how do you get the nutrition, the fitness, and things you need in order to truly optimize your life? Which you know if you've listened to me ever that the mind-body connection is so huge. And I've learned that through a lot of experts as well. So the daily mastermind is designed to give you that daily check, that daily check for your mind, your business, your money, and your lifestyle. But we're really going to be emphasizing quite a going into the second and third quarter, the relaunch of our Mastermind Academy. The Academy goes from where on the podcast, we've got inspiration, motivation, and education. The Academy is designed to give you more training strategies and resources. This is where we'll dig into the tactics and the strategies that it takes to grow your business. This is the marketing, the strategies and sales, the people, the systems, the platforms that you can use, even at a high level, your branding and your marketing messaging. So the academy, it is a private mastermind group. It's something you'd have to apply for. But if you're interested in doing something with it, we're talking about literally I do this for less than the price of an energy drink on a daily basis. So it's not designed to make a ton of money, but it is designed to get a more qualified group of individuals that are serious so that you can move into a community of people that are like that are focused on taking their business or their life to the next level And you and I both know that a lot of people are interested in personal development but they not all interested in the commitment and dedication that it takes to do it And as a bonus just kind of funny because for a couple hundred dollars a month, you can get access to the academy if you're the right fit. But we also include in that a full suite software that you can use for your business. It's a full CRM. It includes everything from links to your social media, your reporting, your marketing, and everything else that you could possibly use in your business. And it's literally something you would spend $500 a month on just for the software for your business. But I do this because I want individuals that are really going to the next level to have the information, the tools, the strategy, and the mentoring. And so the evolution group's goal is to have that mastermind daily free community, have a private academy. And then I do have the mentoring category as well. So the mentoring, just so we could be really clear before people start asking me, I am not taking on any clients right now. I only have a couple of clients, but the idea here is that on a daily basis, you need that information from the mastermind. And on a weekly basis, I hold the Academy. The mentoring is designed to really dig deep into marketing and consulting. And so I'm not taking on any clients right now, but the reason I bring it up is because we're going to be having some live workshops that are going to start taking place in the third quarter. These are interactive, in-depth, full workshops where we cover everything from structuring your business, your taxes, your wealth, to literally creating your marketing plan. And so the mentoring for me has always been speaking and consulting and marketing and training, but we're going to put that into a live format. And I do that because I want individuals to have access to the same contacts and connections and things I have. See, over the last 20, 25 years, I've had the opportunity to work with some amazing individuals, people that have achieved success at all levels. And I realize not everybody can get that type of a background or be able to have access to those resources. So I try to put as many as I can into the free mastermind podcast and as many as I can into the private mastermind group, the Mastermind Academy. And these live events we're going to be doing will be another opportunity for you to be able to take advantage of that. So, you know, ultimately at the end of the day, the reason I'm saying this is that there's really no excuse if you want to create your best life, if you want to be able to create and grow and launch and scale a business, if you want to be able to find a way to go to the next level in your personal growth, your business growth, your money growth. I've been able to put together a ton of resources. I've got a lot of connections and contacts. And that's just kind of a state of the union of where we're going to be going with the mastermind and the mastermind community. But let me just leave you with a couple of thoughts. These are a couple of thoughts I wanted to leave you with today that you may or may not have heard me mention before, but they're good things to bring up again. And one is a quote that I heard from Jim Carrey. Jim Carrey was speaking to a group of alumni and he said something that always kind of resonated with me and he said you can fail at what you don so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love And he was talking about the idea that his father was an accountant and he went his whole life not really taking a chance, not really going out there and following his passion and his dreams. And it's so true. I want you to think about that. And maybe you think about it often, but what kind of regrets are you going to have if you don't go follow your dreams, follow your passions. And this reminds me of a second thought I wanted to leave with you. I was listening to an interview from Jeff Bezos and he was talking about taking the leap from being a corporate executive to launching Amazon. And at the end of the day, it's really difficult sometimes for people to take the leap. And it was for him too, because he had a really great job. And at the end of the day, some of us have you know, good enough positions where we're at that it's hard to be willing to risk. But he said one day he kind of sat back, he had a couple of days to think about it. And he says he, he put himself into the future, into his future version of himself. And he said, what would I be thinking? And he realized that he didn't want to be that future person having regrets on what he didn't do. He wanted to be that person that had no regrets, that felt great about what he had accomplished. And there's a principle in that. We talk about success leaves clues. There's a principle in that that I want you to think about. And I want you to think about what the future version of yourself thinks like, what the future version of yourself wants, what the future version of yourself will grow to become. Because rather than having your past dictate what your current activities are, or rather than trying to look at your current situation and do things that'll take you into the future. I want you to go into your future version of yourself. And I want you to think about how would that person make decisions today? What would that person work on? Would they be more confident? Would they be more disciplined? Would they be more aggressive at pursuing their best life? Because when you can use the future version of yourself to dictate the actions you take in the present, you're going to act totally differently. You're going to be more in tune with what it is that you want to accomplish. So those are a couple of thoughts I want to leave you with. I hope that you have an amazing week this week. I just wanted to give you a bit of a state of the union. We've got a couple of great interviews coming up this week that we're going to be dropping. And do me a favor, just share the show. I want to be able to share the message of where we're going with the mastermind and what we're doing. I want you to do whatever you can to help others around you. you learn more that way. And feel free to hit me up on The Daily Mastermind on Facebook, Instagram. You can contact me directly if you have any interest. I'll be talking to you a little bit about how you can become a founding member of our Mastermind Academy. But until then and until tomorrow, I hope you have an amazing day. Look forward to talking with you more then. Once again, this has been The Daily Mastermind. My name is George Wright III. I'm your host, and I'll look forward to talking to you more. Thank you.