Joey Seeman shared their story and experiences with us recently and you can find our conversation below.
Good morning Joey, it’s such a great way to kick off the day – I think our readers will love hearing your stories, experiences and about how you think about life and work. Let’s jump right in? What do the first 90 minutes of your day look like?
I’ve tried everything to optimize the first 90 minutes of my day. I have:
– Ate breakfast and skipped breakfast
– Woken up at 5am and woken up at 11 am
– Went for an early more run and didn’t get out of bed
– Went to the gym at 6am and saved the gym for the night time
– Wrote down my goals for the day and just started with whatever came to mind first
– Got sunlight immediately and kept all my windows closed and stayed inside until 2pm
– Did breathwork and took a cold shower in the morning and just splashed water on my face
and a lot more…
After all of my testing, here is the conclusion that I came to:
Nearly all “productive” morning routines are unbelievably unproductive.
The current routine that works for me right now goes as follows:
First, I wake up, brush my teeth, and wash my face. Then, I go outside for 5-20 minutes and get sunlight while answering messages and/or making calls on my phone. Next, I go inside, get on my computer and start completing the urgent tasks that I wrote down the day before. Once my urgent tasks are done and my morning meetings have been finished, I begin working on the higher level and more important tasks I set the day before.
That is my routine.
I don’t eat, I don’t chug 4 Saratoga waters, I don’t do Wim Hof breathing (even though I love it), I don’t meditate, I don’t journal, I don’t hit the gym, I don’t always wake up very early, I just get to work!
I notice that if my first 90 minutes are productive, the rest of my day is often very productive and I know I can force myself to stop working in the evening to take care of my health most days. On the other hand, if I try to take care of my health in the morning, I work less productively for the entire day.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
My name is Joey Seeman, and I’m the President & CEO of Nova Echo AI Inc. I started my entrepreneurial journey young, after leaving high school with to build businesses that gave me true freedom and allowed me to focus on personal development.
At Nova Echo, we specialize in Conversational Voice AI (CVA) — AI-powered systems that can think, speak, and act like a real human being over the phone. What makes us unique is that we’re not just building another software company; we’re creating tools that feel alive, that can hold natural conversations, and that solve real problems for businesses in industries like law, healthcare, insurance, marketing and home services.
I love Nova Echo and the company around it and I work constantly to bring it’s vision to life.
I’m also a co-founder of the NXTUP Club, a community of young entrepreneurs where we focus on growth, networking, and experiences. We talk about business, but we also create real-life connections through curated trips, retreats, and experiences that bring like-minded people together. We just recently came back from an amazing trip in Costa Rica with many great entrepreneurs.
Amazing, so let’s take a moment to go back in time. What breaks the bonds between people—and what restores them?
Bonds break very quickly and are extremely hard to recover when broken.
Bonds break because of resentment, resentment is formed from hate, hate is formed from misunderstanding, and misunderstanding is formed from ignorance.
If you truly understand everything about someone, you cannot truly hate them. In other words, if you remove your misunderstanding about someone, you stop hating them, stop resenting them, and your bond with them stops breaking.
How easy life would be if you could just snap your fingers and fully understand someone… right?
Because, well… that’s not actually how life works. In order to understand someone you need to talk to them vulnerably and you aren’t going to do that if you already resent them. So here is what seems to be the best solution from every relationship I have studied:
You need to suck up your ego, kill every part of yourself that wants to act negatively towards a person, and you need to force a smile, a positive attitude, and a nice tone of voice onto yourself when you speak to the person you resent.
The reason this works is because typically, when your relationship is falling apart with someone, it is because one of you started treating the other badly one day – maybe it was just because one of you had a bad day at work.
Then, the other person misunderstands what happened, takes it personally, starts to hate a little bit, and treats the other worse in return.
This spiral continues until the hate has been there for so long that it becomes resentment.
You can turn this downwards spiral into an upwards spiral by simply acting unbelievably warm and nice towards someone until they are forced to return the favor. When they do return the favor, you will naturally want to act nicer back. This spiral will continue until your relationship has been healed.
Was there ever a time you almost gave up?
No.
So a lot of these questions go deep, but if you are open to it, we’ve got a few more questions that we’d love to get your take on. What’s a belief you used to hold tightly but now think was naive or wrong?
I used to think that fun was the meaning of life.
Thank you so much for all of your openness so far. Maybe we can close with a future oriented question. When do you feel most at peace?
I feel most at peace when I am under a ton of stress to complete a task in a timely manner. It clears my mind.
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