Brad Ferris

Founder & Principal Advisor, Anchor Advisors · 1 appearance on the record.

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Brad Farris advises creative agency founders and small business owners on scaling past revenue plateaus, mastering delegation, and developing leadership capacity. Drawing on decades of advisory work and personal meditation practice, he focuses on sustainable work habits, self-leadership, and eliminating hurry to build resilient businesses.

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Ferris: VCs created hustle culture to maximize internal rates of return

“The longer it takes you to earn them a return, the lower their rate of return is. And that's what they're driven by. And so the venture capitalists instilled this idea of you have to work all the time because it's good for them because it increases their rate …”

Brad Ferris Oct 10, 2025 ▶ 1:22 20 Years of Meditation Taught Him to Feel Nothing - Here's Why That Wins

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Ferris: Daily specialists outperform founders who learn technical software setups

“By the time you have another campaign to set up, those interfaces will have changed. And someone who's doing it every day is always going to do better job, even if you do a great job learning.”

Brad Ferris Oct 10, 2025 ▶ 21:24 20 Years of Meditation Taught Him to Feel Nothing - Here's Why That Wins

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Ferris: Founder health is the greatest threat to unfunded businesses

“Particularly if it's your own business and you don't have outside funding, the thing that is the biggest threat to your business is actually your own health. Like if you can't work, your business is going to suffer. And so to work in a sustainable way is actua…”

Brad Ferris Oct 10, 2025 ▶ 2:54 20 Years of Meditation Taught Him to Feel Nothing - Here's Why That Wins

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Ferris: To-do lists fail because they ignore actual calendar capacity

“And so the problem with the to-do list is it doesn't necessarily respect the capacity that we have to get things done.”

Brad Ferris Oct 10, 2025 ▶ 18:26 20 Years of Meditation Taught Him to Feel Nothing - Here's Why That Wins

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Ferris: Process-focused sports teach emotional detachment that aids business success

“And I think the two that you picked are interesting because they are sort of process over results situations where even if you do it perfectly, you're not going to hit the center of the target maybe every time. And so it also teaches us to deal with our emotio…”

Brad Ferris Oct 10, 2025 ▶ 27:53 20 Years of Meditation Taught Him to Feel Nothing - Here's Why That Wins

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Ferris: Practicing Internal Stillness De-escalates Tense Business Conversations

“That when I can come to a place of quiet or stillness or silence, then when I'm in a phone call with someone and things are starting to get, you know, tense, I don't have to get tense with them, but that I can stay, I can live from that place of quiet and have…”

Brad Ferris Oct 10, 2025 ▶ 32:02 20 Years of Meditation Taught Him to Feel Nothing - Here's Why That Wins

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
20 Years of Meditation Taught Him to Feel Nothing - Here's Why That Wins	Oct 10, 2025	11m

Brad Ferris

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