College Prep Confidential Podcast Episodes

CPC Episode #33 - Think Like Elon Musk with These Models

What if you could install part of Elon Musk's brain into your brain? How would that change your life? In this episode, we're covering thinking tips like:

Why modeling will explode test scores and get you job interviews
What bear attacks teach you about succeeding in life
To achieve your goals, ignore the goal and focus on this instead.
What is congruence and why your social media profile may be hurting your college and job prospects
What a chain link reveals about failing college prep exams

CPC Episode #32 - Transform a Crappy College Essay into a Masterpiece with This One Skill

Are you a bad writer? An average writer? Here's how to transform yourself into a keyboard killer using one skill.

The one book you can read in 2 days which will transform your writing into greased lighting
Use this free tool to tighten up your college essay
The one skill needed to upgrade a boring college essay into something college advisors can't put down
The one thing you want your writing to trigger inside the college advisor's body

CPC Episode #31 - Attack Anxiety Using Temporal Tricks

Anxiety is a national nuisance. Can your interpretation of time affect anxiety? Yes, and you'll discover nuggets like:

6 steps to evaporate anxiety
Use this time trick to reduce anxiety
The two saddest words in the English language
How the Power of One can help you conquer your task list and reduce anxiety

CPC Episode #30 - Transform Your Life With This Equation

Can one equation really transform your life? Yes, and you'll discover how with insights like:

Why effort means nothing...and what to focus on instead
Most of what you do all day is useless. Here's why.
Ditch linear thinking. Embrace this type of thinking instead
How to do college prep on easy mode
Why y = cx^b is one of the most important equations in your life. Learn it and unlock the secret to success with less effort

CPC Episode #29 - Varsity Blues Scandal and the Most Important Skill To Learn In College

Are you disgusted yet? The Varsity Blues scandal has people questioning if college selection is rigged. The scandal teaches us a valuable lesson for those of us who follow the rules like:

Why college reputations are in the toilet right now and how to capitalize on it
What skill you should master from the Varsity Blues scandal
3 steps to building your social circle and reach
One book you must read to build your empire

CPC Episode #28 - Fortune Favors the Bold: Solving Unsolvable Problems

Society loves to tell us what to think. If you listen, you limit yourself. Instead, seek greatness by discovering:

What Alexander the Great teaches you about solving the unsolvable
The One Trait the Best People In Each Industry Share
Why Being Unreasonable is a Good Thing
The 3 Step Formula to Being Unreasonable
3 Traits of the Best Problem Solvers

CPC Episode #27 - What a Gunslinging Shrimp Can Teach You About Turning Weaknesses Into Strengths

Can you really turn liabilities and shortcomings into advantages? Yes, and you'll discover how with tidbits like:

The 3-step checklist to turn weaknesses into strengths
The 3-part inventory to measure strengths, weaknesses, and transformations
Why failure is not the end, but rather a new beginning
Why adversity helps you get stronger

CPC Episode #26 - 10 Steps to Choosing the Right College

How would you like 10 easy steps to choose the right college? If so, then check out:

The time travel method to see if your chose your college wisely
What Neopolitan ice cream can teach you about choosing the right colleges
Why looking to the future helps you choose the right college now
How alumni groups set you up for killer job offers and powerful connections

CPC Episode #25 - Now Is The Time To Stick It In... Nice and Deep

The recent college ruling rains down manna from heaven. Get the details such as:

Why the new ruling turns you into a free agent
How to earn college financial aid even after you've accepted a college offer
The new negotiation rules you have in your favor as a college bound student
Why applying to more colleges will flood you with more financial aid offers
Why the government is now your biggest ally to negotiate financial aid

CPC Episode #24 - Treating Students as Stocks

A new rival to student loans has arrived. Discover:

The wild new college aid financing idea
The marketplace where investors have an "educational draft"
How to get unemployment insurance against a student loan
The advantages and disadvantages of letting investors "finance" your college tuition
The list of colleges and universities offering this "odd" new financing
Why high salary earners might hate this new financing method

CPC Episode #23 - Do This ONE Thing On Your College Essay In 8 Seconds Or Else

College essay competition is fierce. Discover how to get your essay read with tricks like:

The one sentence which makes or breaks your college essay
Use this trick to jolt the brain out of slumber mode
6 ways Readers Digest hooks millions of readers
The only 2 purposes of your college essay opening
Burying this one piece of your college essay ensures your essay's funeral

CPC Episode #22 - Do You Make These Financial Aid Mistakes?

Sometimes, slowing down helps you go faster. And we'll cover how to avoid financial aid blunders with tips like:

14 mistakes which will cost you thousands in financial aid
Don't fill out the FAFSA until you have these items
How to speed up your financial aid report
Why the FAFSA response is not guaranteed financial aid
The magic number to call to get $250 worth of free college financial aid advice

CPC Episode #21 - Crush College Exams Using This 100 Million Year Old Trick

In this episode, we'll transform your mind into a thermostat for success with tips like:

How to take your exam temperature
Why there's no such thing as failure. What it is instead
What Angry Bees Can Teach You About Improving
7 questions to ask after you attempt anything
3 categories expert learners use to group concepts

CPC Episode #20 - Desperation Is The World's Worst Cologne

This episode is dedicated to giving you negotiation power with tips like:

Why you should treat college choices like dating and jobs
The 7 letter word which guarantees you more financial aid
Do this one thing if you like giving away all your power
How to flip a coin where you win with Heads or Tails
The 3 positions in any negotiation, and which one you should always strive for

CPC Episode #19 - Secret of the 3 Sisters

Want to power up your brain? Then check out the learning habits of Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Oprah with nuggets like:

Dilbert Creator's guide to multiplying your talents
The learning habit of great minds like Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Davinci
Rewire your brain to be smarter with this one trick
The 3 traits of the top 5% of exam takers

CPC Episode #18 - Why Phone Numbers Have Dashes And the Secret to a Steel Trap Memory

College Recruiters research your social media. To reel them in and get attention, optimize this photo on LinkedIn with tips like:

Memory experts cite one special technique for their skill. In this episode, I'll reveal...

What you can learn about memory from a carpet company phone number song
Crush your college prep exams with this memory expert pyramid trick
The one question to ask to determine if a student likes big picture learning or nitty gritty details
Why you should start with a conclusion and work backwards for better memory
Our 2 memories, and which one you need to optimize to memorize faster

CPC Episode #17 - The Most Important College Recruitment Photo You Will Ever Take

College Recruiters research your social media. To reel them in and get attention, optimize this photo on LinkedIn with tips like:

Discover the most important social media photo you will ever take for college prep
3 traits college recruiters judge your LinkedIn photo on
Learn what the squinch is, and how it magnetically attracts more college attention
Wear these clothes to get more social media connections
Where to "field test" your social media photos to optimize your connections

CPC Episode #16 - Stop College Admissions Officers Dead In Their Tracks With This Tabloid Trick

We're dissecting Tabloid Magazines and the powerful writing lessons they give such as:

What are the 4 U's, and why using them will make your college essay irresistible to read
Why writing out tabloids will make your college essay magnetic
Build this personal "library" of headlines to improve your college essay title skill
What this 1928 book reveals about the most important part of your college essay
How hacking the lizard brain glues college admissions officers to your college essay

CPC Episode #15 - 7 Math Brain Filters

2 people can see the exact same math problem, but interpret it completely different. This is because we all use brain filters. And in this episode, we'll reveal:

7 ways we see the world, and how it affects math
The magic about thinking about thinking
Top frustrations about math, and what to do about them
What the 3 Rectangles Test reveals about your brain organization
Who really determines when your successful in math
Wants versus Have Tos - Which One Are You?

CPC Episode #14 - Access Forbidden Knowledge From an $80 Cup of Cat Poop

I bet you never thought you'd find deep lessons inside cat turds, did you? Well you will, in Episode 14, with nuggets like:

What experts do instead of work hard
What cat poop coffee can teach you about opportunity spotting
Learn how farmers got around an obstacle to discover "beans of gold"
How you can get $250 of college prep advice, free
Use this Tony Robbins "cloning" process to shrink your exam learning curve
Expert ACT and SAT consultants charge $150 per hour. Find out how you can get their knowledge for a fraction of the cost

CPC Episode #13 - Lord of the Flings

Are you turning your brain into mush with this one behavior? Discover the diagnosis and cure with tips like:

Why checking your social media feed makes you dumber
Want to relieve stress? Stop jumping between tasks
What multi-taskers have in common with drug addicts
Eradicate brain-drain by eliminating this one habit
Napoleon's 8 word quote on focus will remove uncertainty from your life
What you have in common with the Prancing Pony
Get laser focus using the "Tomato Technique"

CPC Episode #12 - It's There If You Know Where To Look

This week, we're tapping the power of "the search", and how it gives you laser focus for your college prep journey and beyond with insights like:

What Patrick Swayze can teach you about learning
Why you'll find anything you want with the right search
Why you have two identities, and which one you need to feed to improve your life
Study these two wrestling celestial bodies to resolve your inner conflicts
Why breaking out of your routine helps you find breakthroughs

CPC Episode #11 - What the U.S. Navy and a $2,500 Flash Drive Can Show You About Getting College Advisors Eyeballs Glued to your Essay

College Essays can make or break your college prep. Discover how to make your writing pull in college advisors with tips like:

What this U.S. Navy Test can show you about clear writing
What type of writing makes people trust you more
Why big words equal headaches
What pouring grease down a slide will teach you about better writing
Why this multi-million dollar writer forces his employees to write for 7th graders
How to Channel Ernest Hemingway for Free
Writing Secrets From a $2,500 Flash Drive

CPC Episode #10 - Don't Apply To College Until You Jot These 3 Letters Down

College Prep can be grueling. You need help, and this episode will show you how with tips like:

The 3 letter word which simplifies college prep
Carry this piece of paper around and read it twice a day to visualize your college prep goals
What monks can teach you about college prep
The 2 reasons people give for doing anything. One is a lie, the other is truth
Ask these 5 questions to avoid lying to yourself
2 success secrets a billionaire revealed to reduce college prep time

CPC Episode #9 - Optimize your memory using this invention by "Napoleon's Scientist"

Want to build a memory like a steel trap for your ACT and SAT exams? Then let's pull back the curtain to reveal tips like...

A form of handwriting, popularized by old ladies, which earned higher SAT scores
A device to turn on the light switch in your brain
Record your thoughts using this device to get smarter
How a power outage improves your memory
Eliminate distractions using this "guided missile" brain bundle technology
What a 4 year old can show you about learning acceleration
Where to get concentrated notes prepared by ACT and SAT experts for pocket change

CPC Episode #8 - Is the Key To Exam Dominance Hiding Inside These Russian Dolls?

In this episode, we're tapping into Russian culture, wind currents, and horse racing to reveal:

What these wooden Russian Dolls reveal about expert test preparation
The key difference in this 3-tier horse racing structure between amateur and expert ACT and SAT Test takers
How peeling an onion can make you smarter
What testing experts remove with each study session
What an air current can teach you about better study habits
How $1 can get you a 150 point increase on your SAT exams
What's even better than solving an ACT or SAT problem

CPC Episode #7 - Warren Buffett’s College Prep Strategy: Seek Stupidity to Get Smarter

In Episode 7, we'll channel Warren Buffet’s Seek Stupidity to Get Smarter trick to help you conquer college prep. You'll discover:

Use these models to avoid college prep mistakes
Use this lens when looking at the world
Don't take any exam before you look for this 8 letter word
Improve test scores by writing this obituary
Why seeking stupidity makes you smarter
Think backwards to move forwards
Ask yourself this two letter question to avoid exam failures
Avoid this to find this
The Graham Quiz - Warren Buffet took this quiz and what he learned can improve your college prep scores
Avoid college prep failure by watching this Brad Pitt Movie
The most dangerous person in the room when you take ACT and SAT exams

CPC Episode #6 - Alien Invasions and Electrical Insulators Reveal Clues To Better College Test Scores

In Episode 6, we're digging deep into learning mastery tips for College Prep Exams including:

The fatty electrical insulation sheath you can strengthen through "mental weight lifting" to get better test scores
Tom Cruise used this technique in the movies to get smarter. You'll find it on CD players
These little blobs in cookies show you how to structure your study sessions
The only type of practice to improve your skills. Miss this, and you reduce your potential on college prep exams
How this "weird" soccer game holds the key to quicker learning
Why the best musicians in the world ripped up their music sheets during practice
Learning maximization using the "Go Slower to Go Faster" Technique
How and where to "download" an Ivy Leaguer's Exam Experts Brain

CPC Episode #5 - Financial Time Machine Earns you $87,050 over 10 years if you avoid THIS 4 Letter Word

In this episode, I'll reveal:

The 4 letter mistake millions of college prep parents make
The College Prep Decision worth $87,050
What is a financial time machine, and how it saves you money
The most valuable commodity in life - Learn this, and you'll master College Prep
What billionaire investors and a Nobel Prize Winning scientists call the most powerful force in the universe. Use this to pocket more cash for College Prep
Discover the free resource to extract more financial aid from colleges

CPC Episode #4 - Discover How To Use Financial Aid Alchemy To Boost Your Financial Aid Package

In Episode 4, we cover the secret of Financial Aid Alchemy, and how you can move, or reclassify your assets and income to get more financial aid. You'll discover:

What financial aid alchemy is, and how one family used it to get $30,000 in additional financial aid
The Financial Need Equation, and what lever you can pull to get more money by lowering this 3 letter number
How lowering this 3 letter acronym raises your financial aid eligibility
How To Make Income and Assets "vanish", raising your financial aid yield
What you can learn from magicians to increase financial aid
What the base year is...and why lowering your income in this year increases financial aid
What number to reduce which is 8 times more effective than any other number to getting more financial aid
Avoid these artificial increases in income, and the government will give you more money
The two types of assets. Skip this, and you'll leave thousands on the table for financial aid
The Mother Bird Secret to getting more money from colleges
7 states which will give you more money just by winning this "race"

CPC Episode #3 - Canadian Game Show Hosts Discovers The Key to Test Taking Mastery from Addition By Subtraction

In this episode you'll discover a test taking secret expert test takers use. The secret comes from combining a Canadian Game Show Host's problem and neuroscience. In this episode, you'll discover:

The Power of Addition By Subtraction to get better test scores
How Eliminating What Could Never Be Earns You Better Test Scores
The 3 Step Guessing Recipe to Immediately Increase Your Guessing Power
Discover the power of opposites, and how it helps clarifies correct answers on exams
What a "brain tax" is, and how to reduce it to have more vitality on exams
Shrink this "space", and get better test scores

CPC Episode #2 - These 3 Letters Will Have Colleges Eating Out of the Palm Of Your Hand

In episode #2, we cover the 3 letters you can use to have colleges eating out of the palm of your hand. We show you how you can use these 3 letters like businesses do to. A

These 3 letters turned FedEx into a multi-billion dollar force
These 3 letters transformed Dominos pizza to a nationally recognized name
And these 3 letters turned a simply candy into a multi-billion dollar empire
These 3 letters will have colleges lining up to give you money

You'll also learn the 2 sales made for college prep, and how you can take advantage of both of them. When you make the first sale, you'll discover:

The one thing you can do with colleges to get them to stand up and pay more attention to you
How to make your college application jump out of the pile
Social media tips to move to the front of the line in college admission officer searches
3 questions to ask to make colleges pay extra attention to you
The power of "squinching", and why it makes college admission officers think you're more intelligent
Why chewing gum gets you more social media followers, including college employees

CPC Episode #1 - You Are The Prize

In this pilot episode for the College Prep Confidential podcast, we show college bound students and parents of college bound students how to take advantages and get more money. We'll cover:

How enrollment shortfalls can be used to get you more financial aid
The one thing you need which forces colleges to compete over you by offering you more financial aid
Why getting your grades in the top 25% helps you get more financial aid
The power of Social Proof, and why colleges use this to determine your value
Show this piece of paper to a college to get additional financial aid considerations
How the "Curse of One" evaporates your financial aid options
Negotiation tactics to extract more financial aid into your pocket