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A Productive Conversation · 2026-01-21 · 39 min · 7,158 words

Brad Farris Talks About Leadership, Presence, and Scaling Beyond the $1M Agency Plateau

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Quick one first. There's a word we lost somewhere between the factory and the laptop. My new book is called Productiveness, and mikevardi.com slash productiveness is where you can get it. Okay, in we go. Hi, I'm Brad Ferris, and I'm about to have a productive conversation with Mike Vardy.

Uh hey Brad, thanks for joining me on the program. This is a truly collaborative effort right out of the gate. Um be c you know, the the one thing that that um And for anyone who's listening to this podcast like down the line, so if you're not listening to it as it's released, um, you know, there were moments and times where I actually thought about quitting doing the podcast, or at least it is current iteration. I haven't told anybody that.

And by the time this episode comes out, uh, it's probably close to the point where I would have said something. But what's interesting is it often, for me, it just took a flip. a different perspective to make that shift to say, hey, you know what? Um, I'm going to do more outreach to find people to talk to as opposed to having it sent my way. And that's when you've been doing 600 plus episodes, that natural like you naturally will get pitches and pitches.

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