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Daily Boost — Motivation and Personal Growth

Daily Boost — Motivation and Personal Growth

By: Scott Smith
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The Daily Boost is a weekday personal growth podcast for adults who live in the real world and want real results. About 10 minutes a day. No canned content, no recycled material — host Scott Smith and his practical way of understanding how life, business, and the world actually work. Some days he'll pump you up. Some days he'll make you think. Some days you'll love him. Some days you'll wonder why you listened. Every day, you'll know exactly what they call him: the nicest renegade you'll ever meet. Smile. Nod. Change everything. That's the code. If you played by the rules. If you built a good life — career, business, relationships. If you decided you want more. The Daily Boost is your show. Topics include personal growth, motivation, purpose, decisions, work, money, relationships, time, and keeping your head straight when things get complicated. 20 years. 5,000+ episodes. 130+ million downloads worldwide. Every episode stands on its own. It's always real, and occasionally pretty funny — because if you can't laugh, what's the point?Copyright 2026 • Motivation To Move, LLC • All Rights Reserved Worldwide. Daily Economics Hygiene & Healthy Living Personal Development Personal Success
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  • Never Let Your Dreams Die

    Never Let Your Dreams Die
    Aug 12 2026
    Daily Boost Podcast Never Let Your Dreams Die August 12, 2026 | Episode 5518 Host: Scott Smith Episode Description Have you ever gone all-in on a dream and watched it fall apart anyway? I just got back from Death Valley, where I spent days in 124-degree heat supporting a friend chasing a world record — a solo, self-contained crossing on foot. Nothing was easy. Everything went wrong before it went right. And the ending wasn't the one anybody planned. Today I'm sharing what happens when you go for it anyway — and why the gift you get from trying is different from the one you expected. If your dream feels impossible from where you sit right now, press play. Featured Story Somewhere around 7:30 that night, I noticed something. I don't know what it was. I said stop, got out of the truck, and called him over. Croix looked at me — a guy's dream about to die — and said, I'm getting too hot. I can't control my temperature anymore. I don't have enough water to finish. His heart rate was 109 just standing there. We were 90 miles from anything. It took me ten minutes to talk him out of his dream — maybe ten minutes that saved his life. Then something I didn't expect happened: a big smile crossed his face. Five minutes down the road, a hotel sat with a pool. That's where this story begins. Important Points Facing your passion is hard. Doing it is even harder. Falling short is hardest of all — and worth every step anyway. If your dream feels foggy, you're missing two things: the right information and a real plan to pay for it. Fix both. When someone you love is chasing a dangerous dream, support them fully — and stay close enough to save their life. Memorable Quotes This dream became possible simply because he decided to do it. Decide what you want to do and say, let's do it. The story you get, the gift you get from trying, is often different than the one you thought you were going to get. If it's not going your way, look for the gift you're being given — something more powerful than you can ever imagine. Scott's Three-Step Approach Decide what you want and say it out loud. Every dream becomes possible the moment you commit to going after it. Then solve the money problem before it stops you. Find a sponsor, build a plan, and fund the passion you just named. When the outcome isn't what you planned, hunt for the gift inside it. That lesson becomes fuel for your next attempt. Chapters 0:00 - A resilience story begins in 124-degree Death Valley 1:03 - The night Croix announced his impossible dream 2:34 - Nothing was easy, not one single step of it 4:42 - Flat tires and 124 degrees at Furnace Creek 6:19 - Ten minutes to talk a man out of his dream 8:37 - The record holder who had already done it all 11:57 - Look for the gift you're being given today Connect With Me Search for the Daily Boost on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify Email: support@motivationtomove.com Main Website: https://motivationtomove.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/dailyboostpodcast Instagram: https://instagram.com/heyscottsmith Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/motivationtomove Facebook Group: https://dailyboostpodcast.com/facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • Never Grow Up

    Never Grow Up
    Aug 11 2026
    Daily Boost Podcast Never Grow Up August 11, 2026 | Episode 5517 Host: Scott Smith Episode Description It's Wing It Tuesday. I walked in with no notes, warmed up by telling my wife stories over coffee, and I've got a good one for you — a mastermind-level breakthrough that happened on a client call. She's nice. Nice has gotten her everywhere, just like it's gotten you everywhere. But there's another side of her too — the renegade side. What she said about how her company uses that side of her flipped me out, and what she decided to do about it might change how you walk into work tomorrow. Featured Story A client of mine — very high up, very highly paid, very smart — said something that wigged me out. Scott, they weaponize me. They weaponize my skill set and send me out to close the deals. It's why our department succeeds and why my boss keeps his power. She's right. I'd weaponize her in a second. That's what you do with A players. Then she flipped it. She said, I think I need to weaponize myself within the company. Boom. She realized the very thing they pay her for, she'd never once aimed at her own career. We spent the next hour working out what that means — and immediately, she had a thousand ideas. Important Points The nice that got you everywhere has another side. Being influential and impactful is a skill, not a betrayal of it. If your company weaponizes your best skill for its profit, you can aim that same skill at your own career on purpose. Be the nicest person in the room and the most capable one at the same time. That combination opens every door. Memorable Quotes They weaponize your skill set for the company's profit. The breakthrough is deciding to weaponize it for yourself. Be the nicest person in the room and the most dangerous person in the room, all at the same time. That's the renegade. If you don't weaponize your A players, they're going to leave, start a company, and compete against you. Count on it. Scott's Three-Step Approach Name the exact skill your company weaponizes you for — the one they send you out with when the deal has to close. Turn that same skill around on your own career: your boss, upper management, the rooms where your future gets decided. Stay nice and keep it ethical while you do it — the power comes from pairing the renegade with the nicest person around. Chapters 0:09 - Winging it with no notes and a great story 1:26 - My wife is the warm-up act for the podcast 1:58 - The client who has done everything right 4:24 - They weaponize me and send me out to close 5:38 - The boom moment — deciding to weaponize yourself 6:52 - Turning your best skill toward your own career 9:10 - A mastermind-level breakthrough for free Connect With Me Search for the Daily Boost on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify Email: support@motivationtomove.com Main Website: https://motivationtomove.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/dailyboostpodcast Instagram: https://instagram.com/heyscottsmith Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/motivationtomove Facebook Group: https://dailyboostpodcast.com/facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    11 mins
  • Stack Dense Days

    Stack Dense Days
    Aug 10 2026
    Daily Boost Podcast Stack Dense Days August 10, 2026 | Episode 5516 Host: Scott Smith Episode Description Happy Monday. I'm heading back from Death Valley today, and we're going to stack some dense days and get some stuff done. Everybody wants a quantum leap. It's not magic, it's not luck, and nobody wants to hear what it actually is: one ridiculously focused day, stacked. Busy is motion. Dense is progress. The math is stupidly encouraging — you don't need 365 of these days, just a handful. Today I'll show you how to pull one off, and the one itty-bitty thing to start with before the day is over. Featured Story Years ago I built my television business doing commercials for martial arts schools. One day I wrote a script about how hard we work: come watch us sweat, hit each other, block and punch — the best workout you've ever had. A great businessman I worked with said, no, don't say that. Nobody wants that. I argued — sure we do. He said, yeah, you do. But nobody runs toward the sweat. He was right. And yet it's exactly that stuff — at the gym, at the dojo, at your desk — that changes your life. Nobody buys the work, but the work is the only thing that ever produces the result. Important Points Busy is motion, dense is progress. A quantum leap is one ridiculously focused day, stacked back-to-back with more. The math is stupidly encouraging: you don't need 365 dense days. A handful of them will change absolutely everything. A dense day is a deadline you set on purpose — and you can't schedule one into a cluttered week without subtracting. Memorable Quotes Busy is motion. Dense is progress. It's one thing, hours deep, with nothing around you. That's what changes your life. A quantum leap isn't magic, and it isn't luck. It's one ridiculously focused day, stacked. Nobody wants to hear that. Everything that ever gave me the freedom and income I wanted came down to a handful of days and a handful of ideas. Scott's Three-Step Approach Name one itty-bitty thing that, put in motion today, would change everything about the next ten years of your life. Clear the deck for it — subtract, pull things away, and put your phone in the other room so the day can get dense. Go hours deep on that one thing like a midnight deadline, then stack the next dense day before the momentum fades. Chapters 0:11 - Heading home from Vegas and a Wing It Tuesday tease 1:04 - Action gets you into motivation really fast 2:55 - The very real science behind quantum change 3:55 - The martial arts ad nobody wanted to see 5:35 - Busy is just motion, but dense is progress 6:04 - The stupidly encouraging math of dense days 8:26 - Start with one itty-bitty little thing today Connect With Me Search for the Daily Boost on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify Email: support@motivationtomove.com Main Website: https://motivationtomove.com YouTube: https://youtube.com/dailyboostpodcast Instagram: https://instagram.com/heyscottsmith Facebook Page: https://facebook.com/motivationtomove Facebook Group: https://dailyboostpodcast.com/facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    11 mins
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