530: Peter Kozodoy | How Brutal Honesty Leads to Massive Success

Peter Kozodoy, after working with hundreds of leaders from Warren Buffett to startup founders, found that the surprising secret to extraordinary success isn't knowledge, hard work or luck: It's HONESTY. Peter is passionate about unlocking people’s potential for success through brutal honesty and it’s through this that he co-founded the tech platform Stradeso, coaches people in personal and professional growth, and has spoken at TEDx, CEO Clubs of America, Digital Book World, as well as written the book Honest to Greatness.

Let’s jump in and learn from Peter how brutal honesty leads to massive success. 

Things you will learn in this episode:
[00:01 - 05:56] Opening Segment 

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I introduce today’s guest Peter Kozody

Ink 5000 serial entrepreneur 

Coach and consultant 

Featured in Forbes and CEO Clubs of America 

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Peter gives some background on himself 

Grew up South of Boston 

Bored quickly 

Private schooling 

Into figure skating as a kid 

Natural elitist; wanting to be best at everything 

Becoming Lift Other’s orientated 

[05:57 - 16:42] Being Honest with What You Want to Achieve 

Peter talks about what drives him

Natural elitist; wanting to be best at everything 

Becoming Lift Other’s orientated 

Being honest about what you want 

Becoming the best version of yourself 

Building upon a network 

Peter’s story going back into further studies 

Peter’s advice to younger people who identify with this path 

Be honest about who you are 

Coming out of the what and the why into the who 

Picture your life at 30 and 40; what makes you happy 

Peter talks about the ability to navigate finding yourself 

The Monopoly game example 

The advantage you have starting out 

Reflect and acknowledge where you’re starting from

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[16:43 - 26:34] How Brutal Honesty Leads to Massive Success

Peter talks about what he did after getting his Mba 

Becoming an author 

Challenging the lack of honesty in marketing and sales 

Becoming a coach and consultant

Peter’s thoughts on the concept of brutal honesty

Strategic honesty 

Honest about those around us; ultimate empathy 

Making great things happen 

Honesty within relationships 

Relating to personal responsibility 

Getting rid of, ‘you should’

Intimacy versus honesty in business situations 

Telegraph who you are first 

Establish an expectation of what you will say

Spending time becoming their best friend 

[26:35 - 32:24] Closing Segment

Who you know, or What you know?

Who every single time

People go with people who they like

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ThE RaNDoM RoUnD

How to reach out to Peter 

Links below

Final words 

Tweetable Quotes: 
“I found that I hadn’t been completely honest with myself about all the things that I DID want to achieve that were an important part of who I am and my identity.” - Peter Kozodoy

“When it comes to brutal honesty, it’s about strategic brutal honesty… Most times we need to be brutally honest about people.” - Peter Kozodoy

Resources Mentioned: 
Honest to Greatness

You can connect with Peter on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram. Check out his website https://peterkozodoy.com to learn even more. 

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