Uploaded January 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Welcome to The Quest Pod Season 2: Episode 36 with James Beshara.

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James is the founder of Magic Mind and co-founder of Tilt, an award-winning payments application acquired by Airbnb. He was also a seed investor in Gusto, Clubhouse, Bolt, Mercury and more.

In this conversation, James and Justin open up about the bad habits they held as startup founders, which posed barriers to their productivity and success. They discuss sleep, diet, self-accusation, unrealistic expectations, lack of trust and substance dependence.

More importantly, they discuss the impact these habits had upon their work life and how to go about eliminating them!

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00:00 Intro
1:52 Bad sleep
4:18 Diet
7:12 Self-accusation
8:24 Unrealistic expectations
13:51 Lack of trust
15:31 Substance dependence
17:42 Embrace discomfort

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