In this seven‑minute interview, Professor Pete Alexander hosts Jeremy Lassman, a coach who helps high‑achieving individuals eliminate self‑doubt and step into their larger vision. Lassman explains that entrepreneurship lets you create your own rules, time, and mastery, which brings flow, fun, and passion. He describes a "zone of genius"—a state of presence where work‑life balance is achieved by shedding the fear‑driven "survival operating system". He recommends Vince McMahon and Elon Musk as inspirational business leaders. Lassman emphasizes that originality and innovation arise when leaders confront the unknown, risk existing comforts, and move beyond fear, positioning innovation as essential for survival. He recounts his first job at SpaceX, hired straight out of high school, where he progressed from IT support to marketing technologist and even helped produce a music video with Elon Musk. The episode closes with Lassman's contact information (website, Facebook, Instagram) and a plug for the podcast’s LinkedIn, YouTube, and Facebook channels.
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This is Professor Pete Alexander with the Winning at Business and Life podcast, where business leaders share their insights. It is 6 questions in 7 minutes because successful business leaders are busy and rarely have more time to spare. So let's get to it. Question number 1: In a few sentences, please tell me who you are and what you do.
Hello, my name is Jeremy Lassman, and I Help over— high achievers overcome and eliminate self-doubt so that they can step into their bigger vision and the, the super-powered passion that they want to create with.
Jeremy, it's great to have you on the show. Question number 2: What's the best thing about working in your industry?
The best thing about working in the industry as an entrepreneur is you are creating the rules, you are creating the time, and you are the master of your life and business if you are doing it right. That brings about a total flow and fun and play and passion for just creating your dream.
I love that. Love that. Question number 3. I hear from other business leaders that staying in a good work-life balance for them and their their team members is a challenge. What are your thoughts?
The work-life balance, I mean, I— passion is my passion, so I always go down to passion. If you are off balance, if there's too much force, if there's too much stress, too much anxiety, too much time in how you're operating, it can be very heavy. And so that's what causes life to feel like out of balance. But if you can really get to the presence of yourself and the natural state of who you are, all of that stuff really solves itself and you find yourself right in the point you need to be, in what I call your zone of genius.
I love that term, zone of genius. So it's similar, I would assume, to just being really true to yourself. Yourself?
Yes. Yeah. Living your truth is a great way to put it. And feeling your innate sense of freedom from all of those conditionings and the rules and the programming of like the survival— I call it the survival operating system. The survival mode is all fueled by fear. And when you're fueled by fear, it's such a negative worldview that That's what keeps you in slow performance.
I couldn't agree with you more. That's very good insight. Question number 4: What other successful business leaders like yourself should be on my podcast?
Ooh, what other successful business leaders? I'm a huge professional wrestling fan, so I would say Vince McMahon. He's a big inspiration of mine. Just in his passion, his energy, and his focus of what he's doing. And then I also— Elon Musk, for sure.
And it's interesting, with Elon, I've had a couple requests for that, so I have reached out to him. Haven't heard back yet, but I'll keep trying. So I appreciate both those referrals.
Yes.
Question number 5: What insight or advice would you give to other business leaders?
Originality and innovation come when you are able to face the unknown of yourself, and you're willing to risk everything that you know for the passion of discovery.
So in this creativity for the passion of discovery, can you elaborate a little bit on that for, for the audience?
Mm. So especially 2020 and where we are going as a, as a civilization and as a society, originality and innovation are going to be what are going to be the game changers for industries and the reinvention of many industries in themselves. And as a leader, if you're still being fueled by the fear of survival, whether it be for your business or for your life, that's going to limit the amount of possibilities that you're able to see and the new ideas that might be counterintuitive or conflict with the business model as it stands that you don't realize is inefficient. So, so when talking about efficiency and really striving for innovation and everything that comes from living on the leading edge, you have to be able to face what you're afraid of and risk losing it all to gain something new and fresh. And that's what really, I think, is the demand of audiences, the demand of transformation is that newness and freshness. That, that is, uh, kind of rare.
And I, I can see that. It's just, it's a matter of you have to, to innovate, if I'm understanding it correctly. Innovate or basically die. Is that, that where, you know, where, where you have to take the risk or else risk being, being obsolete?
Yes.
Yeah, it's, it's, it's very wise. Very wise. And question number 6: tell me about your first job.
Ooh, actually my first job was at SpaceX with Elon Musk.
Really? Tell me more, tell me more.
So I was hired actually out of, right out of high school because I met with the chief information officer at the time and shared a passion for technology and he saw that I was a fast learner. You know, Elon is not really about degrees and all of that, so he had more liberation on the talent that he was able to hire, and he saw that I could just go, he could tell me what to do, and I get it done. Not a lot of like explaining, and I could be a self-learner, and that's what he was looking for, and I got the opportunity to assist him. Servers, troubleshooting, fixing people's laptop, Microsoft Office, all, you know, all that stuff, and then as I grew in responsibility,, to the marketing department, uh, technologist for the marketing department doing, uh, video editing, video broadcast technologies for their launches. So I was, uh, for their first success, you know, choosing the cameras for the webcasts. Um, and then eventually got to do a music video with Elon, uh, for the first successful launch.
A music video with Elon. Oh my gosh, how great is that? Wonderful. So Jeremy, thank you for being on the show. How can people find you?
They can find me on my website, JeremyLassman.com, or on Facebook. I've got a presence on Facebook, Jeremy A. Lassman, I believe. Yep. And then also on Instagram, the same thing, Jeremy A. Lassman.
Perfect. This is Professor Pete Alexander with the Winning at Business and Life podcast. For more insights and ideas, please go to LinkedIn, YouTube, or Facebook and search for Winning at Business and Life Podcast. Thanks for listening.
