Bad Advice

What Is Bad Advice?

Bad Advice is Peter Saddington's video series on everything school never taught: how to master your mind, deal with failure, build real friendships, handle money, find faith, and survive the messy reality of building a life worth living. The series ran for 72 episodes, each one a raw, personal monologue drawn from Peter's own experiences — startup exits, Bitcoin conviction, depression, adoption, marriage, and raising a family.

The title is ironic. The "bad advice" is the conventional wisdom that keeps people stuck: play it safe, follow the rules, don't take risks, wait for permission. Every episode challenges a piece of that conventional wisdom with something more honest.

Themes

Mindset & Mental Mastery

Episodes on controlling your thoughts, overcoming fear, dealing with depression, building self-confidence, and programming your mind for success. Peter draws from stoic philosophy, personal experience, and practical frameworks.

Philosophy & Wisdom

Stoic principles applied to modern entrepreneurship. Episodes reference Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Emerson, and Gerald Weinberg alongside Peter's own hard-won lessons from 25 years of building.

Faith & Purpose

Peter holds three graduate degrees in theology from Luther Rice Seminary. These episodes explore faith, forgiveness, contentment, and purpose — not as abstract concepts but as daily operating principles.

Success & Career

Money lessons, mentor relationships, self-education, and the discipline of execution. Practical episodes on how to level up without waiting for permission or credentials.

Relationships & Community

Friendship, accountability, family, marriage, and building communities. The social architecture that makes everything else possible.

Complete Episode Archive

Mindset & Mental Mastery

1. Future Focused — What Defines You: The Future or Past Failures
2. How to Become Unstoppable — Answer This 1 Question
3. How to Win the Battle of the Mind — #1 Self-Programming Tip
4. The Real Interpretation of Pygmalion — Mind Over Matter to Create Your Success
5. Your Fears Are Bullsh*t — #1 Thing to Remember: You Haven't Faced Death Yet
6. 3 Tips on Mastering Your Mind — You Are Your Thoughts
7. Knowing Your Death Brings Life — 2 Reasons Why Accepting Your Death Is Winning
8. Resistance Is the Enemy — No One Is Waiting on You
9. How to Re-Program the Pains of the Past — 10 Steps to Freeing Your Future
10. Practice. Every. Day. — You'll Always Improve Whatever You Practice
11. Master Your Emotions — You Never Have to Act on How You Feel
12. Security Is a Superstition — 3 Ways to Embrace Every Opportunity
13. Nobody Is Thinking About You — Image Control Is Bullsh*t
14. Never Underestimate How Wrong You Can Be — 3 Ways to Reduce the Pain
15. My Battles with Depression — How I Overcame 3 Experiences of Trial
16. Trust Your Gut — Never Second Guess Yourself

Philosophy & Wisdom

17. Do Opposite of the World — Disrupt the Sacred (Roger Ver's Strategy)
18. The Law of Raspberry Jam — Influence or Affluence (Gerald Weinberg)
19. Fisher's Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection — Adapt and Die
20. Permission to Fail — Shame Produces Willpower
21. No Pleasure Without Skill — 6 Tips to Skill Up
22. Personal Responsibility vs Victimhood — Peter's ABCs to Taking Control
23. Cancer of Inaction — Go Find Your Mini Me
24. Choose Your Suffering to Succeed — Master Your Fears
25. Compare Yourself to Others — Timelines Are Bullsh*t
26. Good, the Enemy of Great — Don't Be Busy, Be Valuable, Be Effective
27. The 1st Law of Success — The Success and Reward Function
28. The Real Law of Attraction Applied — See, Engage, Leverage
29. Operate from Your Highest Values to Truly Live
30. Execute to Learn — Self-Education Is the Key to Success

Faith & Purpose

31. Is Adventure Dead — What Story Are You Writing Now
32. Promises, Accountability, Capability, Misery
33. 5 Ways to Unlock the Power of Imagination
34. Second Chances — Give Yourself Permission to Heal
35. Whom Do You Need to Forgive — 5 Reasons to Forgive Others
36. 3 Benefits of Fasting — Do Not Let Your Appetites Control You
37. Seek to Unify — Pride Divides
38. Motivated by Love — Being the Best You for Others
39. The Way to Freedom Is Accountability
40. Read the Bible — It'll Make You a Better Person (3 Reasons)
41. Live a No Reserve Life
42. Why Gratitude & Contentment Are Daily Life Savers
43. How's Your Heart — Why Emotional Health Matters
44. 3 Ways to Overcome Temptation

Success & Career

45. 7 Reasons Why You Should Dream Big
46. Now Is the Time — Take Control of Your Life
47. 5 Ways to Avoid Bullsh*t Advice — Trust Your Gut
48. 5 Ways to Boost Self-Confidence
49. Forced to Rest — 5 Tips to Avoid Burnout
50. Pride Forgets, Humility Remembers — Wings of Wax
51. Exceed Expectations — 4 Areas of Life to Go Bigger
52. Your Identity Must Be Inside — How to Be Invincible
53. Respect Is Earned, Not Demanded or Assumed
54. Why So Serious — Don't Let Work Suck the Joy Out of Life
55. How to Be Like the 1% — The Most Powerful Principle of Wealth Building
56. An Audience of Zero — Provide Value & Connection to Grow
57. 7 Money Lessons That Guarantee a Better Life & Freedom
58. Never Take Other's Sh*t Serious — Stay Positive

Relationships & Community

59. My Son, Strong & Courageous — Love, Appa (Open Letter)
60. The Consultant's Best Asset — Solving Problems for a Great Life
61. 5 Reasons Why Not Giving a F*ck Is the Best Way to Live
62. It's Time to Upgrade Your Friends — Say Goodbye
63. 3 Benefits of Solitude — The Power of Being Alone
64. Feeling Lost in Life — 3 Steps to Getting Unstuck Now
65. Dispense Courage — The Best Way to Gain Courage Is to Encourage Others
66. 5 Reasons Why You Should Get a Mentor
67. Asking Is Always Free — A Lesson from My Father
68. 3 Types of Friends — 2 Traps to Avoid
69. Your Friends, Your Future — You're the Average of Those Around You
70. 3 Quick Questions — Goals, Rest, Podcast Setup (Community Q&A)

Series Finale

71. Where Do You Find the Strength When Nobody Believes in You — Episode 1 Callback
72. Things You Didn't Learn in School — Complete. Next Up: Hunting for Venture Capital

The Voice

These aren't polished TED talks. They're raw, personal, sometimes profane monologues from a guy who has built four companies, battled depression, been adopted from Korea, earned three theology degrees, bought a Lamborghini with Bitcoin, and raised a family. Peter draws from Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, and Gerald Weinberg in the same breath as his own failures and breakthroughs.

The series ended with Episode 72, transitioning into Peter's venture capital focus. But the content stands as a complete curriculum on the intangible skills that separate people who build from people who plan to build.