Listen to your gut bugs

Hustle Machine

To start with, a disclaimer: no one at Hustle Machine is a licensed medical practitioner and neither Jason nor Zack are qualified to give medical diagnoses or professional health advice.

Yes, it’s that sort of episode this week, the sort that starts with discussions of “shoulder nipples” and “gut bugs” and veers into Zack showing off his basket full of vitamin supplements as he decries the unhealthy habits of modern society and our need for more nutrients. You have been warned.

Eventually, however, we do execute a clumsy segue into talking about the unhealthy landscape of American business practices as we talk about today’s topic, when to listen to your gut. (That’s not a weight joke, or, if it is, it’s at Jason’s expense, which makes it OK).

As Jason says, “Listen to your gut bugs,” (which may or may not look like those cartoon viruses in “Dr. Mario,” mind you). That is neither a reference to Zack’s future rock band name or to Jason’s hypothetical college nickname, but simply a colorful way to tell you to learn when to trust your instincts, and when to seek a second opinion.

We’ll talk about learning to look for red flags, finding someone to serve as a sounding board, recognizing the difference between a gut feeling and simple doubt and determining when something is simply not a good fit for your business.

Trust your gut but have someone to keep your gut in check. Know that sometimes, your gut can be wrong. Sometimes you can let hope or excitement override your gut feelings, despite Jason’s desire for an emotional readout of his current state of mind.

All that, plus Jason fails to pronounce “inevitably” correctly in nearly a dozen tries, Zack toots his own horn, we demonstrate some invisible semaphore, Jason shows off his handy dandy notebook and we even slip in a oblique Captain Planet reference at one point. Add on to that more mentions of “gut bugs” than you’ve ever heard in one place at any point in your life.

Yes, it’s just another extraordinary episode of Hustle Machine ready for your listening pleasure. Have at it!

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1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Talking about the gut (00:01:22)

3. Gut bugs, baby (00:02:18)

4. We are not licensed medical professionals (00:03:45)

5. Why we started Hustle Machine (00:04:56)