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Lessons - So You Got Fired, Now What? | Grant Cardone - CEO of Cardone Capital · Success Story with Scott Clary

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  What's the, you know, I don't mind asking you this because now the Cardone University
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  is free.
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  So, you know, high level, what's the playbook for people out of a job playing field leveled?
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  What do they do?
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  What's what's their next step?
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  Number one, number one, you just lost your job.
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  If you're losing it right now, don't walk away from the job.
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  If you just lost it this week, call the guy back and say, hey, I don't mind losing my
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  pay, I don't want to lose the job.
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  Don't lose two things.
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  Don't leave.
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  Just because you lost your job, don't lose your title, too.
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  You know, people get all hurt, man, like, you know, if you don't want two losses, don't
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  walk away from the job.
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  If somebody, if a company fired me right now, I'll just tell you what we did.
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  We have, like, I work for a lot of people, like a lot of people think I work for myself.
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  I don't work for myself.
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  I work for a lot of people.
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  We have a 50, 1800 people right now that pay us every month.
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  I'm like, let's call the 1800 before they fire us.
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  Let's call them and work for nothing.
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  So we started calling our clients, hey, what can I do?
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  Before you fire me, fire my services, before you cut us off, what can we do?
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  Does it need to be free?
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  Do you need three months?
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  Do you need to go half ease?
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  Do you need, what do you need, man?
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  I'll do whatever.
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  Don't get rid of me and humbly plead it bag, if you have to.
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  Please don't let me, okay, like, this goes back to what I was learning when I was a kid,
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  man, I was 25 years old and I wrecked a car and a car dealer says, you're fired, okay?
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  And I'm like, okay, and I went, before I left, I sold somebody else another car, and
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  he forgave me.
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  So I had a guy, yesterday, give me his resignation, he had the works for us.
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  He's in one of our departments, he's like, man, I got, I'm like, what are you crazy?
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  Dude, you don't quit a job right now.
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  You work for nothing if you have to.
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  I've been working for nothing, 80% of what I do every day is for nothing.
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  That's why we did card on you.
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  Card on you is free for everybody.
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  I'll get, people will sign up for it later.
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  Like if you were playing for the NFL right now, or in your case, in a hockey league,
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  NHL, right?
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  You're like, just give me a shot, just put me on the ice, man, you're not going to pay
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  you to do that.
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  It's going to be for free at first.
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  People got to put their ego aside, work for nothing for a minute, so you don't lose
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  your job and your pay.
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  That's what people have the hardest time doing, it's the ego that screws everybody.
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  Man, I'm not going to work for nothing, I'm worth more than that.
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  You're not worth anything right now, nobody's worth anything.
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  People are freaking terrified right now, okay?
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  You got people at Facebook losing their jobs.
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  You got people that had million dollar.
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  I had a hundred and forty million dollar deal under contract.
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  Be associated with that deal, loss their job.
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  Get over it, okay?
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  You're a rapper, a comedian.
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  You are going to tell jokes for free.
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  You can't even get an audience to show up in Manelay Bay because Manelay Bay shut down.
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  The entire city was shut down, everybody was fired.
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  Like we let 40 people go, everybody was like, Grant Cardone let 40 people go, okay, was
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  that make me a bad guy?
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  We have 500 and everybody.
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  It's happening everywhere, Disney let 100,000 people go.
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  Guess what?
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  That won't be the first time or the last time they let people go in Disney.
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  So people right now, number one, don't leave your job.
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  Number two, if you left your job, decide you're going to go get one.
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  Number three, go work, go trade your time with someone, don't go home.
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  Don't go home right now unless you're going to start your own business unless you're ready
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  to go start your own gig and get to cranking, do not go home.
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  Go work for someone for nothing right now so you can stay connected to other people.
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  That's really good.
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  If you haven't already, if you're listening to this and you want to check out, it's just
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  like practical advice.
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  It's just, I think common sense is in common, to be quite honest.
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  And the shit you're saying is like, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that you
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  shouldn't, you know, quit, shouldn't walk away from jobs when the world's coming to an
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  end.
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  But like you said, people are doing it.
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  So like, you know, put the ego aside, keep the relationships, right?
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  Because you need, you need people of the way out of this whole deal.
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  There's not an idea that you're going to have that's going to get you out of this
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  situation.
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  Yeah.
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  Everybody's going to get through this.
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  Nobody's getting through it alone.
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  I'm not, you're not, nobody, nobody gets through this alone.
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  You need people right now.
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  You don't need to go home and sit in your living room.
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  The biggest problem with this quarantine thing is that people are left alone with themselves.
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  You know, people like, man, people hate on you, Grant.
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  I ain't worried about them hating on me.
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  I'm worried about me hating on me.
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  I don't need their approval or disapproval.
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  It doesn't change how I feel about myself.
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  Nobody can love me and to love me.
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  And nobody can hate on me enough that I start hating on.
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  And so, so right now people need to stay connected to people.
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  I was just told here that a couple of my departments here think that they're more effective
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  from home.
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  I'm like, I don't care if you are.
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  You're not.
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  We got to get back together.
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  I think, I think that if you're sitting at home, you've just been laid off.
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  The biggest detriment to yourself is going to be your own thoughts.
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  You don't want, you don't feel like taking action.
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  You're just, you're just beating yourself up like you said and all that stuff is just
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  mental.
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  There's no, there's no, you know, there's no pandemic that's causing you to, like
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  you said, not go out, get a job, work for somebody.
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  Maybe it's maybe you're, you know, for free to start or whatever it looks like, build
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  those relationships, like a million things, but I see people sitting at home.
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  I saw a tweet the other day, some guy, we got, we, a whole bunch of students got handed
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  out, like I don't know, like 17, 50 a month for, for a stipend.
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  And some guy, he was offering jobs to students and they're saying, no, I rather just sit at
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  home, take the money.
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  Yeah.
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  And it's just like, listen, that's not the way to be.
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  This is going to be over.
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  There's going to be an economy after this.
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  It's going to be, you know, there's going to be business after this.
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  You got to figure out how to, how to ride the wave, ride out the tough times, but then
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  you want to excel when, when stuff's good and things are going to change for the better
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  always.
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  Yeah.
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  So, no, that's, that's, I really like the, the insight, man, I like seriously appreciate
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  it.
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  That's really, really good.
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  What do you, what do you think is, I want to, I want to just ask question about COVID,
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  your thoughts on just very, very high level, and then just like some like life lessons
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  you learned and everything else is awesome.
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  So, I appreciate it.
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  Where do you think, where do you think we're going to be after coronavirus?
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  How do you think it's going to change business, the way we do business, the way we interact?
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  Well, you know, I mean, it's definitely going to change.
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  It's going to be, it's going to be a rebirth of industries, ideas, new ways of doing things.
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  People are now more, more open to, to pivoting and figuring out how to do their business
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  different.
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  Yeah.
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  I think there's going to be tremendous opportunity on the other side of this, but it's going
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  to be extremely painful while we go through this.
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  I think a lot of people are underestimating just how long this goes.
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  I asked people on Twitter last night, how, how many of you think this is three to six months,
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  six months to nine months, nine months to a year or 12 months to 18 months?
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  Like, majority of the people thought it was going to be over in six months.
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  I'm like, I don't, I don't think so.
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  This thing could be, yeah, this could be two or three years before this is over.
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  I don't know.
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  The world is definitely going to be different on the other side of this.
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  And the good news is we all get through it.
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  Everyone gets through this deal.
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  The question is, how do you get through it?
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  You know, you're going to have a bigger policy around you or smaller.
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  Are you going to, are you going to be better off or worse off?
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  That dude behind me, he don't go any place.
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  He's always got, he don't, you don't pay him anything.
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  He's still not going any place to loan.
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  He's going to hang with this tribe, he's going to, he's got, he's only as strong as the,
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  the group he's with.
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  And so I know that everyone watching your show is going to get through this.
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  They just got to decide right now on the other side of this, because we survive everything.
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  Somehow, the human species, we're like, we're like roaches, man.
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  It's like no matter what, we just keep coming back, right?
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  The question to know is, how do you come back?
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  How does your family come back?
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  How does your business come back?
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  Does it come back better or faster?
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  It won't come back to sign.
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  So that's seven billion people.
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  Everybody's going to go through this transition right now.
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  And either get better or they're going to get worse.
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  See it, you see it already and is to sort of reiterate that point that in Wuhan, everybody's
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  free to do whatever they want right now.
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  Everybody's going to restaurants.
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  Nobody's doing the things, acting the way that they thought was normal before.
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  So there's a living breathing example of a city that was the epicenter now.
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  I don't think they have any more cases, but everything's all screwed up, all business
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  all screwed up.
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  Restaurant owners aren't, they're not selling, no one's going anywhere.
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  It's like a layer of fear that's almost just surrounding.
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  So that's going to be, that's going to be a thing too, like through the aftermath.
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  What's next for you?
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  What do you want to do if this didn't happen?
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  If this didn't happen, you know, what was in the, the game plan for, well, we would have
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  just kept doing what we were doing now.
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  Now, you know, this is a blessing to the skies, like we're, we're forced to pivot now.
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  We're forced to, the way my business was built, we would do another big event every year.
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  We would slowly add people on card on university.
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  This is going to be a massive expansion for us.
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  When you go, you take a $20, $30,000 product like card on university, all of a sudden you
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  offer free to the public, you start promoting this free, you know, 20, I should be able
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  to get 25 million people on this product that are unemployed, just in America.
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  It's just how well can I tell my story to get that information out?
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  Because nothing else is going to help you get a job.
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  An unemployment check doesn't help you get a job.
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  It just gets you through for a minute.
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  So sooner or later, you have to go back and get a job.
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  You don't have to do the interview, do the pitch, find an industry to pick.
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  So that, that video content is going to help people, it's going to help business owners
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  that want to start a business, it's going to help people that want to start over.
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  We're helping people figure out how to get their money from the government, how to figure
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  out whether it even works or doesn't work, how to get on the other side of this, how
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  do you actually make money, fund the project, how do you cash flow a business?
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  All that content in Cardone University, I think we look back out 10 months from now, we'll
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  have more people three or four times more people on Cardone University.
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  The real estate, my real estate portfolio, we should be able to double that here in the
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  next 12 to 18 to 24 months.
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  I could have never done that in that period of time without this, without this crisis,
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  if you will.
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  Just got lean into it, man.
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  Just like when I was a young salesperson, I'll finish with this.
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  When I was a young salesperson, I hated my job.
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  It didn't get better until I committed to it.
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  I had to commit to not liking it.
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  I don't like what's going on right now, I hate this.
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  I hate being quarantined, I hate not being able to expand, I hate everything about it.
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  I need to lean into it and hug it out with it until I figure out how to make the most
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  of it and turn a crisis truly into an expansion.