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Wealth Growth Mindset and AI in Business: Ademola Odewade x Cauvee on Smart Business Strategies · King Dems Podcast | Growth Mindset, Leadership, AI and Business Insights

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Mastery of public speaking, because 75% of people would
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rather die than speak in public, right?
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So master that. You're already 25% of the game,
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25% ahead if you master public speaking.
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The art of selling, which is one thing that we teach, we call it
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relationship acquisition. Relationship acquisition is a
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sales philosophy, principle and framework.
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The way you put relationships over revenue, right?
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Relationships over revenue. But if you master the art of
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selling, really you master the art of asking questions.
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It's like playing chess. The questions that you stack up
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lead to a checkmate, which is somebody investing in the offer
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that you have, right? So now we've got public speaking
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on our belt. We got selling on our belt,
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right? And then the third thing,
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marketing, you mentioned broadcasting earlier.
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So marketing is mass selling, right?
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It's selling to the masses, right?
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You're communicating a message to get people to go through a
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funnel or a drip campaign or a series of communications where
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they are enabled to make a decision.
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Ladies and gentlemen, you once again welcome to the Kingdom's
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podcast. And today I've got with me a
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triple VIP fighting out of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil by way of
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Houston, TX. Mcwalkum Calvi, the Inspiration
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Engineer. How are you, Calvi?
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What's going on, Champions? I appreciate the opportunity for
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being here. Called a inspiration Engineer in
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the building. Let's get it.
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Whoa. The energy is massive, brother.
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Girl, guess what? Guess what, brother?
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Tomorrow. Tomorrow.
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Your boy, your homeboy is fighting Ilya Tupuria.
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Charles Olivera. Whoa, Who?
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Who are you rooting for? Who are you rooting for?
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Charles Olivera or Ilya Tupuria. You know, to be honest, I
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haven't been tapped in with the MMA man.
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I've been so on the grind and on this season, on this journey, I
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haven't been as tapped as I used to be.
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But whoever stands for the same values that we have, I'm like,
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hey, go, come out, go win it. Do the thing, You know what I
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mean? I guess they both stand for your
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values. But looking at Charles Olivera,
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he's the grassy great story from the favelas, you know, in Brazil
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to global world stage to, you know, lightweight champion of
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the world. That's the story.
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That's the that's what you stand for and that's what you know,
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you represent, you know, that is making it in life against all
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odds and be being a good person, being a resourceful person, you
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know, you are the voice behind the vibe, you know, and of
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course, I'm really honoured and grateful to to have you on the
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podcast today. Like I always love to say,
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gratitude is good attitude. And when a person shares the
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time with you, they share their life with you and never take you
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for granted. So how they is the French word
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for engineer? And of course, you know, you
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refer to yourself as the inspiration engineer in your own
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words. And of course, let's try to peel
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it back. You know, let's meet the man or
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the myth, the legend, the man behind the method.
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So how would you describe yourself in a nutshell?
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Yeah, man, I think as something that people need to understand
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is the world is going to try to box you in, right?
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It's the way that we process information really quickly.
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We stereotype information because we want it fast.
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But the problem was, yeah, I think a lot of people, we
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associate identity to something that you do.
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And there's two sides of this, right?
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They say on the pessimistic side, the Jack of all trades is
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the master of none, right. But on the optimistic.
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Side lies. Right, the Jim Rome to the
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world, they say the more value you have, the more value you can
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offer to the marketplace. But I'm going to add something
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to that Jim Rome quote, right? That's if all of your skills
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funnel under the same umbrella, right?
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If you're in marketing, let's say you do SEO, copy ads,
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branding, like people understand that.
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But for me, as far as like what I did, my identity at the time,
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I was a poet, songwriter, rapper, singer, audio engineer,
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which I still am, which is the engineer part of that
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motivational speaker, right? Marketer, event coordinator,
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event promoter and operations on events.
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I was 10 things. So I went to my community,
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right? And I was like, look, when I was
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in the Chamber of Commerce, I was more like the sales guy or
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the marketing guy. When I was around artist, I was
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the musician or the poet or the, you know what I mean?
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And I kept changing it up around who I was around.
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It made me feel inauthentic. I was like, yo, I need y'all.
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I went to my community. I was like, I need y'all's help
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because this is a problem, right?
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And I was like, I feel inauthentic to myself.
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So they took ten titles, narrowed it down and voted on
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five, five titles narrowed it down to 2.
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Two titles narrowed it down to 1.
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And Inspiration Entrepreneur was born and they they did that.
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And so that's what I would tell people is like, you got to find
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what is true to you. And I'm true to myself 2000%.
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Transparency is one of our core values.
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I am very authentic and I think a lot of people in the world, we
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don't have enough of self-awareness around who we
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are, what we stand for, what we're about, and we're listening
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to many voices. And so all I say is like saying
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that is you got to get clear on your identity.
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And the Inspiration Engineer is a hybrid of a few things that is
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here to really uplift the world and awaken dreamers.
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That's my mission. Wow.
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I guess you're probably like a clone of myself seated in
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Brazil, and certainly between Brazil and America.
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Anybody who follows this podcast very, very closely has
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definitely heard the same exact things that you've said coming
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from me, you know, talking about self identity, self-awareness,
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you know, talking about authenticity.
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I always say that I am actually an endangered species because
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I'm the most authentic person walking the surface of the
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earth. And of course, I think you are
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the second most authentic, fortunately.
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Sorry about close second, you know OK, no second you know
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I'll. I'll be robbing, right?
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I will be robbing to your Batman.
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You know, like you have had like a lot of transformations in your
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life, you know, from homeless to Huffington Post, you know, from
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college dropout to becoming a TE DX speaker.
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It's quite adventurous. It's electric.
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But what was that exact, you know, moment that's packed your
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transformation as a person? Yeah, I think it's a good
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question. I'm going to take it back,
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though. I'm going to take it back to age
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5, because that's really where it started.
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From age 5 to age 11, I had two great parents.
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My father used to give me these hero speeches.
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Anybody, son, anything you want to do, you can do.
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Anything you want to be. You can be like, you set your
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mind to it, you can do it. So my third first actor.
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Brought me into. Studio and was allowing me to
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put my poetry on his music and then he asked me a wild
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question. He said I don't want to check it
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out. He's like, you want to make a
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beat like right now. And I was like, yeah, done.
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Like, let's get it right. So I start making a beat and I'm
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eleven years old and I go into a peak state, right?
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And at a peak state, I didn't know that's what it was, but we
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were there for four hours. It felt like I was there for 5
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minutes. So it worked.
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Me and my dad, I'm from the Midwest.
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We're playing basketball the next day.
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And I said, dad, dad, I figured out what I'm going to do.
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I figured out what I'm going to do in my life and what I'm going
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to be in my dad's anxiety. What is this?
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So what is it you're going to do?
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What is it you're going to be? So I'm going to be a musician.
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And my dad goes, you can't do that.
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And I'm like, for eight years you've been telling me, or
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approximately you've been telling me I can do what I want
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to do. And now you're telling me I
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can't do something. So my dad already said gave me
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that gift of ferocity. And I was like, all right, I'm
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going to prove you wrong. That was what it was all about.
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And I became locally famous at age 18.
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We sold out a concert of 1209 people.
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I made my high school 12th grade and from that that showed me
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because as I was backstage before I even came out, my rap
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name was Artistic R-TI STIC. Before I even came out, they was
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like, and it's getting louder and louder like Gladiator, like
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are you not entertained? Like you know what I'm saying?
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Like I'm just, I'm just so ready to kill the stage.
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And so from that, that showed me what is possible, right?
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And what is so mind blowing around what you were sharing was
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in 2016, I was homeless and I was sleeping under the 290
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bridge in Austin, TX, working at Starbucks, walking across the
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street as my office. And the irony of this was my
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very first student that I had inside the Calvay umbrella.
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Like as I was really understanding what Calvay LLC
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was and what it does, I helped him break 6 figures, become the
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number one salesperson at Zillow, a $34 billion company at
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the time. He was leading in the Northeast
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division and I leveraged that asset to get an article written
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about me in the Huffington Post and was like the strategist to
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watch. And so it was just crazy was
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while I'm literally sleeping in the cold with us, you know, a
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sleeping bag, all these things walking to work, which is
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Starbucks. I'm getting this article written
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about me and it just is a dichotomy.
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When we look at success and we look at people that are, you
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know, crushing it, people we admire, whatever, you never know
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what they went through and what they had to go through in order
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to be where they are. And that was what it was.
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And from helping to help from homeless to Huffington Post is
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what it what it became. You know, people don't see the
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pain behind the gains. They don't see the story behind
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the glory. And that's something I very much
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leave for. I love to support, like what I
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say, ordinary people that are doing extraordinary things.
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That was the initial, you know what I say Moto for this
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podcast, you know, sharing stories of ordinary people doing
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extraordinary things. And that is still at the bedrock
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of what I do today. So we've gone through, you know,
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a lot of rebranding and restructuring over time and
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right now it's growth mindset, leadership and pieces inside.
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But you, if you look deeply at between the lines, you see it's
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still pretty much the same thing.
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You know, growth mindset, you have actually achieved
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exponential growth over time. And of course, you have actually
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become an example of leadership and not just leadership of
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others, self leadership as well. And of course, business.
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Your business man at heart, your business acumen man is top of
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the food chain. And just alluding to what you
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were talking about. We, we, we, your father.
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Something similar happened with me and my father as well.
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You know, growing up in Nigeria, I, when I was going to
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university, I told my dad, oh, my dad asked me what you want to
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study and I told him I want to study mass communication.
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I want to become a broadcaster and like what?
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Like come on, become a professional, blah, blah, blah.
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You know, African parents want you to be one of the mainstream
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professionals because they want you to make your bread.
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You know, they don't want you to suffer reach very much, you
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know, understood. And today I'm grateful, you
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know, for, for that guidance because when I look back in
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time, I was able to work with two of the global Geek for
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accounting firms, you know, an international NGO that gave me
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that global, you know, institutional affiliation,
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global perspective, analytical skills that still help me till
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today. You know, there's something
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about having a high level of education.
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It makes you polished, right? But I wanna I wouldn't ask
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something for the listeners though, right, because I feel
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like a lot of cultures, they're trying to honour their parents
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and your parents have an idea of what is success for their kids,
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right Ultimately, most parents, good parents, they want their
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kids to be successful and have money and not have stress and
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worry. But for.
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My. Parents that looked like a
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pension, that looked like retirement with a pension.
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Go be a doctor, go be a lawyer. And what I found is that whether
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it's Nigeria, whether it's parts of India, different cultures
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like America's, not like it's different in the sense of, I
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would say our whole values around freedom and the things
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that is propaganda that we push. Out to the American Dream.
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Yeah, what it was and what it is, you know, the, the
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propaganda is like be free, go chase your dream.
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Where in a lot of countries it's like, listen to your parents,
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honour your parents, honour your elders, honour what they're
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saying. What a lot of people feel, kids,
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especially teenagers especially, is if I go chase my dream, I'm
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dishonouring my parents. And it's like, no, you don't
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have to do I. I knew a girl, she was from
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India and she, she had a four bedroom house that her father
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helped her establish. She wanted to be an event
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promoter and event coordinator. So I was like, her name was
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Aarti. I was like Aarti, when are you
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going to launch this event business?
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And she was like, well, my dad doesn't want me to do it.
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And she's a 28 year old woman and I'm.
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Like joking. Yeah, no, I'm not.
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I was like, but you got 3 rooms that you can rent out on air
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being flip that money and build this event business.
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She was like, but my dad doesn't want me to do it and I'm like So
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what? You know what I mean?
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I say So what respectively to the parents all I'm trying to
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get people to understand what you just said and what I'm just
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saying about my father. You're not dishonouring your
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parents or. Your.
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By going after your vision and your dream, you are actually
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honouring them. But make sure you come with a
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game plan and a playbook and you are executing so that you can
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again give them release that you are going to be successful
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right? You want to make sure that your
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actions match your word play so as.
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You are honouring them. With your vision and your dream
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and you're on the road to success.
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Make sure that you're giving them the assets that they need
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to be like, OK, my son, my daughter, or fill in the blank,
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whatever you identify. If I ask, they are on the path
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to success. And that could look like, you
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know, it looks different for everybody.
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But that would be my advice to the kids and the teenagers out
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there. Absolutely.
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I really, really appreciate that insight that you just dropped.
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You know, those are golden Nuggets.
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And you know, let's try to talk along those lines, right?
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For me, for example, I wanted to be a broadcaster, but today I'm
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leaving that dream. I'm a podcaster, you know, and
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that is the new mainstream media, right?
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I never, I never give up on my dreams, right?
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Me honouring my parents, you know, right now as a podcaster,
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they, they're proud of what I do.
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Last month, leasing notes listed me as global top 10%, right?
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Right. You know what it means to be
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global top 10% in any field of endeavour.
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Just to give you context, there are over 3.7 million podcasts in
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the world and to be in the top 10%.
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And right now, at the end of this month, we are going to be
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top 5%, right? It's very important to chase
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excellence. You know, in life, you know,
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especially this, this goes out to the young people out there,
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Chase excellence, anything that you do.
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I was talking about the education, how much I appreciate
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the education that I have. But education alone would not
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take you there, right? Your greed, your determination,
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your consistency, your courage. You know, your curiosity, You
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have to have a learning mindset. You know, a lot of people are
16:49
fixed in terms of their mindset. And of course, that is why one
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of the major themes of this podcast is growth mindset.
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You need a growth mindset in order for you to level up in
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life. And there's a book I read, and
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my father actually keeps typing that book, The Jewish
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Phenomenon. You see how the Jews are very
17:13
successful as an ethnic group in America and they abide by 7
17:18
principles. One of the principles is that
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successful people are professionals and entrepreneurs.
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If you want to be regarded as as a successful person on this
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planet Earth, I don't know about Pluto, I don't know about Mars,
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I don't know about Venice, but I know about planet Earth.
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For you to be regarded as a successful person, you have to
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be either of two things, a high level professional or a high
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level entrepreneur. Thanks.
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Well, you know, because I told you I was locally famous when I
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was age 18, right? And I told you off air in the
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green room, I'm still growing today, right?
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I'm master the venture capital game ain't nothing changed,
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right? I'm just playing at a higher
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level with higher calibre people, celebrities, athletes
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like influencers, a lot of people that everybody know.
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I'm still playing the same game of navigating community,
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navigating relationships, you know, leveraging.
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And when I say leverage, you know, I love the saying it's
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like you can use somebody or you can utilise somebody.
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Those are not the same, right? Absolutely.
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Everybody has the opportunity to be utilised.
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There's a difference. And so when you're utilising and
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you're leveraging, we are all 7° of separation of your circle,
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who you like. Minds like grinds, right?
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Eagles don't fly with pigeons. So with the, you want to get in
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the rooms in the circles where you can be with the growth
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minded folks, you've got growth minded advisors, growth minded
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people where you're at, right, your peers, your colleagues and
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always looking at what is the next thing for me to level up.
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And I tell a lot of people like if you're just getting started
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on your journey, you should always have your prerequisites
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down. And to me, there are three
19:00
things that are prereqs. And when you go to college,
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that's what I mean by prereqs, your core studies, right?
19:06
Mastery of public speaking, because 75% of people would
19:09
rather die than speak in public, right?
19:11
So master that. You're already 25% of the game,
19:14
25% ahead if you master public speaking.
19:17
The art of selling, which is one thing that we teach, we call it
19:19
relationship acquisition. Relationship acquisition is a
19:23
sales philosophy, principle and framework, the way you put
19:26
relationships over revenue, right, relationships over
19:29
revenue. But if you master the art of
19:31
selling, really you master the art of asking questions.
19:35
It's like playing chess. The questions that you stack up
19:38
lead to a checkmate, which is somebody investing in the offer
19:41
that you have, right? So now we've got public speaking
19:44
on our belt. We got selling on our belt,
19:46
right? And then the third thing,
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marketing, you mentioned broadcasting earlier.
19:50
So marketing is mass selling, right?
19:53
It's selling to the passes, right?
19:55
You're communicating a message to get people to go through a
19:58
funnel or a drip campaign or a series of communications where
20:03
they are enabled to make a decision.
20:05
That is usually a sales decision.
20:07
If you get those three skills under your your your tool belt,
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I call it your skill stack. You're, you're so far ahead of
20:15
the market. And that's what I tell a lot of
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people to master. And I would throw in one more of
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those, which will be AI now, because we see how fast AI is
20:22
moving. I need to upgrade our skill
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stack, right? But to be knowledgeable on the
20:26
the flow of AI and what it can do in the different tools.
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Those are the four things I would tell anybody.
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You get this in your skill stack on your tool belt and you will
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be a beast. And don't stop there.
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Keep learning, keep growing, keep understanding.
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And then you know, at some point I'll be that guy that's teaching
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people venture capital because a lot of people don't know how to
20:44
raise money, how to talk to investors, how to play that
20:47
game. And it's just another game.
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And look at it ways of level up in life, playing these different
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games, and they're all just different games of life.
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You can see him smiling, right? Because what what you're saying
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is giving me joy and I'm going to break it down, you know, and
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corroborate what you're saying. First, you talked about the
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difference between using people and being utilised, right?
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But I only say this in life we all have to be used.
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Let's just face the fact if you cannot be used, it means you are
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useless. That's what I tell people.
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It's just a fact. Life is about service and go
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check out episode 100 of my podcast.
21:35
It was about customer service. Everything we're doing this test
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is service. The greatest leaders in life are
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7 leaders. You cannot elevate in life
21:50
without 7 people. Go check out the greatest human
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beings, the greatest leaders in life.
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Jesus Christ, Prophet Muhammad, George Washington, George Bush,
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Bill Clinton, any any leader. They are all sevens.
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Abraham Lincoln, mention anybody, Mahatma Gandhi,
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Christian Churchill, they are all sevens, right?
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Service to humanity is the greatest form of pride you can
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ever have as a human being. It's the greatest song of
22:32
achievement. I'll tell you something that
22:34
that's really profound, right? The the same father who I love,
22:38
by the way, who didn't see the greatness in me, was also the
22:41
same father that gave me one of the greatest quotes I've ever
22:44
had and said, son, make sure you live a life with no regrets.
22:48
Absolutely. Regrets, right?
22:50
And when you mentioned pride, for me, it's not about pride,
22:53
it's about, you know, you can have the pain of discipline or
22:55
the pain of regret, but you're going to have one of those
22:57
pains. So you might as well choose and
22:59
choose today. And I would encourage you,
23:01
employ you to choose the pain of discipline, right?
23:04
Because there's pains on. Both sides.
23:06
But to be fulfilled and to have what I think most people want,
23:10
which is peace and joy. You know, it's like people are
23:12
chasing money but they really don't want money.
23:15
They want peace and joy and fulfilment.
23:19
And I think in order to have the higher level of consciousness,
23:23
which is peace, joy, and what you'll see on the actual gramme
23:28
as far as like chakras and all this is enlightenment, to be
23:31
enlightened at the highest level of that, I think it's going to
23:35
be being of service to humanity. And when you say your mission is
23:41
bigger than any type of of platform that you want to
23:45
create, and I'll give you an example of that, right?
23:47
55% of startups fail within the five years.
23:50
Why is that? Well, we believe we have a
23:52
framework as to why that is and the things that people are going
23:54
from going through and building from, which is usually it starts
23:58
with being edified as a child, right?
24:00
People, somebody speaking greatness over you as a child,
24:03
that's where it starts. But I say that saying 85%
24:07
people, men and women worldwide work a job that they hate.
24:12
Why is that? What it?
24:14
What would life look like? I just want y'all to imagine it
24:16
for a moment. What would it look like if 85%
24:19
of people work on things they loved, things that they would do
24:23
for free And that was what our world consisted of, people
24:25
working on dreams. Like what would our world, how
24:28
would our world be different with that approach?
24:30
But I say that saying my mission is to awaken dreamers and really
24:34
to empower black and brown kids throughout the world to
24:36
understand entrepreneurialism. Because if they understand that,
24:38
then they ain't got to steal and hustle and do all these shady
24:42
deals, theft or whatever it is to get it, sell drugs, whatever
24:45
it is. I used to say something funny.
24:46
I say, if you're going to sell drugs, sell vitamins, right?
24:49
Like it's just your, it's just your perspective and your
24:51
approach, right? But they don't see an outlet.
24:54
So the poverty around them and the community around them,
24:56
usually these are called barrios in, in Latin America.
24:59
What they see around them is like grit.
25:02
And what I did, it's a fit. It's a perfect fit for the topic
25:04
of this episode. It's like grit and griminess and
25:08
it's like you don't got to be grimy, you don't got to be
25:10
gritty. You can again, serve at the
25:12
highest, at the highest level. But I think that a mission
25:16
attached to that means that you will look back whenever you're
25:19
on your deathbed and you know you're about to exit up out of
25:21
here and transition. It's like I can look back on the
25:24
people I touch. I can look back at the messages
25:26
I had. I can look back at the places
25:28
and the countries I travelled to and I can say I did that.
25:31
And I think that gives you a sense of contentment.
25:34
I think pride and ego. Be careful of pride and ego, but
25:37
tap to I am content. I am well pleased with the life
25:41
that I lived and I think that is what true success is, as how
25:44
many lives you can touch, how many people you can impact and
25:47
how many people you can serve. Fantastic.
25:51
Absolutely true. No lies told.
25:54
I've ever heard of the Abraham Maslow's Hercule needs, right?
25:59
It's it's a pyramid with five levels and the fifth level is
26:04
what everybody's actually looking for.
26:07
And the fifth level is self actualization.
26:10
Right on the base of the triangle is physiological needs.
26:14
You know, your air, water, food, shelter, sleep, clothing,
26:19
reproduction. Once you have the physiological
26:22
needs, you now get to start thinking of the safety needs,
26:27
personal security, employment, resources, health, property.
26:32
Once you have those, then you start thinking about love and
26:36
belonging, friendship, intimacy, you know, family, sense of
26:41
connection, sense of belonging. Once you get that, the next
26:45
thing you start thinking of is team respect, self esteem,
26:50
theatres, recognition, strength, freedom.
26:52
And once you have that, the next thing is self actualization, the
26:56
desire to become the most that you can become in life, right?
27:00
What people do not realise is everybody's chasing self
27:03
actualization, but they think they're chasing money.
27:08
Well, you know, something interesting and I'm I'm glad you
27:11
said that. I was listening to Brandon
27:13
Bouchard, which if you're not familiar with Brandon Bouchard,
27:15
I worked with a lot of billionaires and like high level
27:17
multimillionaires. And even Oprah was publicly
27:20
said, you know, she was working with Tony Robbins because even a
27:23
billionaire Oprah, she was having imposter syndrome.
27:26
Think about that for a moment, right?
27:29
You've done really hit all the checkpoints when we look at, and
27:34
I say this loosely because you've got fleshly checkpoints,
27:37
things in flesh that we say is success and you got spiritual
27:40
checkpoints like what matters to the creator of life.
27:42
All right, Those two are not the same depending on what religion
27:46
or spirituality you subscribe to.
27:48
But I say that saying in the flesh, we look at, you know, you
27:51
got a nice car, you got a nice house, you got a beautiful woman
27:55
or beautiful guy or whatever you enjoy when it comes to intimacy
27:59
since you brought that up and then you've got these accolades,
28:02
right? You are successful.
28:04
But even some of the most quote unquote successful people are
28:08
still having, if you want to call it identity crisis.
28:12
You know why? Self actualization?
28:15
What was that? Yeah, self actualization is what
28:18
everybody's chasing, right? According to to to Abraham
28:21
Maslow, you know your neck of the woods American, a
28:24
psychologist and philosopher. But I'll tell you this, my
28:28
birthday is April, April 8th. And on my birthday I came up
28:32
with this, you know, philosophical construct and I'm
28:37
going to share with you and you'll see that is what
28:39
addresses what you're talking about.
28:41
Now I've interviewed over 100 individuals, successful
28:46
individuals in different fields, but I had to sit down, you know,
28:51
and think about it like what is an all around successful person?
28:57
Who is a well-rounded successful person?
28:59
What do you need to be successful and be considered as
29:04
a well-rounded successful person?
29:07
And it brought me to one word. Do you want to know what that
29:11
one word is? Yeah, hit me with it.
29:14
Fitness, fitness, right? But it's not just fitness.
29:21
Fitness has four quadrants. 4 quadrants #1 you have to be
29:29
mentally slash emotionally fit #2 you have to be physically fit
29:38
#3 you have to be financially fit and #4 you'd need to be
29:44
spiritually fit. If you have those 4, uncheck.
29:49
Then you're well-rounded successful person.
29:53
Can I, can I play Angel's advocate to that for a moment,
29:56
have some that philosophy 1 moment?
29:58
I don't disagree with that in, in its totality.
30:01
I don't disagree with that. I think having those principles
30:03
and having those pillars, I think anybody that accepts that
30:07
acknowledges that and you know, implements that they will have
30:11
success. But I'll say a couple things.
30:13
You know, there's so many people.
30:15
I, I personally am very challenged by this and I know
30:18
that many people are challenged by this.
30:20
The hardest thing in life is to keep everything balanced, right?
30:24
You got to work your team members or your employees.
30:28
You've got your romance life. You got keeping fun in that
30:32
bucket and making sure you're still taking care of yourself.
30:34
You got your growth, you got your professional development,
30:37
you got your coaching or your mentors, you got your friends
30:40
that you try to keep touch with. You got your family that you try
30:42
to keep touch with. Which by the way, This is why I
30:44
love Instagram Stories and Facebook Stories because I keep
30:47
up with so many people, which is a matter of five seconds, right?
30:50
But I say that same keeping everything balanced in my
30:54
experience is by far the hardest thing to do.
30:58
And that is hard for everybody because the people that you
31:02
admire, whether it's the Eric Thomas or the Elon Musk's or the
31:05
Mark Cuban's, and we can name drop all the names, they may not
31:08
have that that physically fit box.
31:10
Checked. Don't have many of them.
31:13
Don't have it. Let let.
31:13
Let's not deceive ourselves, you know.
31:15
Let's not deceive ourselves so. So here's.
31:17
Most people don't have it. Here's.
31:19
Here's what I would add, or here's what I would.
31:20
Just something for you to consider.
31:22
It's not gonna add. It's just something to consider.
31:25
What do you deem as successful? Right.
31:29
Success, I think is relative. I was dating this girl and we
31:32
didn't we. I thought I was going to get
31:34
married. Tread up like I like.
31:35
I wasn't chasing it. It came to me.
31:39
Beautiful man proposes, God disposes.
31:42
Well, this is what was so powerful.
31:43
What I'm saying Like, everybody's different, right?
31:46
Her goal was to be a mother. That was her goal, her
31:51
objective. And though she has some things
31:53
that she was doing, like that was the primary thing.
31:55
And I told her straight out, I said, look, I want kids, but I'm
31:58
married to this business right now.
32:00
And for me to honour you, I got to put time and I will make time
32:03
for you. Like like I make time for
32:05
anybody that means something to me, like ever.
32:07
Like, time is not the situation, but I ain't got time for kids
32:10
right now. Like that's not gonna work.
32:12
Yeah. Everything that I'm putting in,
32:14
all energy goes into my baby, and my baby is my empire.
32:18
It's not one business is an ecosystem of businesses.
32:20
And so with that stated, I already knew that I'm not the
32:24
best fit to supply that need. Absolutely.
32:28
That came up with maybe not grandparents, maybe they didn't
32:31
have good parents, maybe they were or whatever the situation.
32:34
And that's a great goal and that could be successful to them.
32:37
I want to have you maybe, maybe you want to adopt some kids and
32:40
you want to be what you didn't have, right?
32:42
And that could be successful for you.
32:44
So I think for me, it really comes down to getting aware of
32:48
what is success, right? It doesn't take as much money to
32:52
go and live in Thailand or go and live in Philippines or
32:55
Vietnam or there's multiple places throughout the world
32:57
where it doesn't take a lot of money.
32:59
People think to travel the world.
33:01
It takes a tonne of money and it doesn't.
33:03
And so all I'm getting that. And, and reason why I say this
33:06
is because I think, I definitely think people need to have the
33:08
mental piece down for sure. It's a mental fit and it's a
33:11
spiritual fit. What a David Goggins calls
33:13
putting a callus on, on your, on your soul, right?
33:17
Putting a callus because the more hard adversities you go
33:19
through is going to strengthen your character.
33:21
So I think that that is super important for everybody,
33:25
everybody. Strengthen your character.
33:26
Please hold that I have something.
33:28
Yeah. Yeah, facts, you know,
33:29
strengthen your character for sure.
33:31
I think if you want longevity in life, the fuel, notice I didn't
33:36
say food, the fuel that you put into your body, working out and
33:41
exercising. I don't think there's too many
33:43
people that are going to argue that that will contribute the
33:46
probability of longevity. You have a much higher
33:49
probability if you're doing that, no?
33:51
It does. It does contribute to that.
33:53
Let's not deceive ourselves. That's why even the medical guys
33:57
say you're what you eat, you know?
33:58
Absolutely. So here's the last part that
34:00
I'll throw on there. Not everybody's trying to be a
34:03
multimillionaire or a billionaire.
34:04
Most of those people are hoarding wealth.
34:06
If we're going to be straight up about it, we're really going to
34:08
be honest. So all I'm saying is money to me
34:11
is not the checkbox, right? Are you doing something in your
34:16
life that brings you joy and fulfilment that you are
34:18
passionate about, that also brings you profit?
34:21
And if you're doing that, you are successful, whatever amount
34:25
of money that is. Teachers don't make money, a lot
34:28
of money in the United States of America.
34:30
I don't know what that's like for UK or Nigeria.
34:32
Even the UK and Nigeria, they don't make much money they don't
34:36
make. Money.
34:37
But if your goal is to be the greatest teacher and professor
34:41
and you're sowing into your children or your students or
34:44
your teens or your young adults, you are successful.
34:47
So it's not to me relative to how much money you have in your
34:50
bank account. Are you doing something you're
34:52
passionate about? Does that passion make you
34:55
profit? And are you of service to
34:58
community? And if you check in those boxes,
35:01
then I would go ahead and stamp in and say now you're
35:03
financially fit. So basically, what is success to
35:10
you? To me, for me, what is success
35:17
for me is when I bring all the visions, the dreams, the ideas
35:21
that I have, because there's a lot up here.
35:23
That's why we started building this VC startup studio.
35:26
But when I bring it all to the marketplace, right, and become
35:30
from me now this is me. You asked me mine, right to be
35:34
famous. I've already been that.
35:36
Like I don't care about fame. I don't care about money.
35:38
Those things don't don't light me up, right?
35:41
But the vision that I have faith is in, it's inevitable from what
35:44
I'm going to create. So it's a byproduct of the
35:46
impact that I'm going to have. And so from that standpoint,
35:50
then it's about for me, what biblically is said is treasures
35:53
in heaven and treasures in heaven.
35:55
For those of you that subscribe to biblical philosophies,
35:58
principles, and scriptures, it's to sow into this world to the
36:01
poor, to the orphans, and to widows and you're giving them
36:05
money. There's money usually, and
36:08
you're uplifting those communities and you're not
36:10
talking about it publicly. You ain't doing it for press.
36:13
You ain't doing it for accolades.
36:14
You ain't doing it for humans to tell you you're great.
36:17
This is who you are and what you stand for.
36:18
And this is by God. This is covenant by God, right?
36:22
That is success to me. And so I will say I am focused
36:26
on my fleshly goals more something my treasures in heaven
36:29
right now. But there will come a time there
36:32
will come a time when that changes.
36:34
And so lastly, you know my I have a fleshly purpose, which I
36:38
told you all, I have a spiritual purpose too, and it ultimately
36:41
is to make the creator of life happy.
36:42
So as long as I've done those two things, then that is success
36:47
to me. OK, I like that.
36:50
So from me, I'd say I love, I love to observe people in
36:54
society. I'm a social scientist.
36:56
If I were to put a construct to success based on observing
37:00
society, I would say success is a state of mind wherein after a
37:06
person is set a goal, they work towards it and they achieve it.
37:09
Tick box that is success. General definition.
37:12
But from my own perspective as a modern day business philosopher,
37:17
as endowed by Morgan Anderson, one of the top tax debt
37:22
resolution experts in the United States, the CEO of Golden Lion
37:26
Tax Solutions, she said you are a modern day business
37:30
philosopher. Based on my philosophy, success
37:33
is the ability to optimise passion, profits and impact.
37:40
If you're able to optimise your passion, your profits and your
37:44
impact, then I would regard you as successful.
37:48
That is my own yardstick. I think people, we need to get
37:53
clear on what that does mean, right?
37:55
Does a monk have the same idea of success that I shared or that
38:00
you shared, right? I think everybody, you served
38:02
very well to make sure that you know, just for yourself, because
38:07
it's about you. It's your life, people.
38:08
It's not, you know, it's, it's not me for me to set the
38:11
criteria for your life. And I think that's where parents
38:14
go wrong with their children is they try to set the criteria.
38:19
God bless you. It's.
38:20
Life and it's like no, your child is not your property.
38:24
You don't own them. You are a guide.
38:26
And this is to about maybe age 1314 and it depends culture to
38:30
culture, but you no longer be our parent at some point,
38:34
meaning that your role transitions into more of a
38:37
mentor and to understand that your child is going to be
38:40
mentored. I, I don't think that a parent
38:42
raises a child. I think that a neighbourhood
38:44
does and a community does. It takes a community to raise a
38:46
child. It takes a village to raise a
38:49
child and I think a lot of parents don't get for our
38:51
parents out there, we love you. I I support you.
38:53
Now I want to here parents can get paying philosophy around
39:00
this criteria that you set because you're actually putting
39:02
a, if we're being honest, you're putting a weight around your
39:06
child's neck, right? You're not trying to, it's not
39:08
your intention, but based on this criteria that you said that
39:12
you're not God. You don't know what's in their
39:13
future. You don't know what they're
39:14
passionate about. You don't know what they're
39:16
designed to do with their life. It's their purpose.
39:18
It's their purpose, not yours. So with that statement, if you
39:23
set this, this weight and this criteria over them, they're
39:27
going to do their best, most children to honour you and that
39:30
criteria. And then that's not your
39:32
responsibility. Your responsibility is to give
39:34
them tools and to give them opportunities and ideas and ways
39:38
to be great, whatever greatness looks like for them.
39:42
And I think hopefully we get that clip on a high bar because
39:45
I need that because that's the truth.
39:47
Like that's what it is. I think a lot of parents miss.
39:49
That. And they're putting them into
39:51
this box of like, you know, you need to do this for me and it's
39:55
not your life parent, it's the child's life.
39:57
So I'll say one last thing on this.
39:59
And this is really powerful. I used to work for this merger
40:01
and acquisition company and they found the same concept because
40:07
parents that were setting up basically a successor plan and
40:10
now they're basically having the child now, you know, older
40:13
child, it's a adult now, but come in like work at the
40:16
business, learn everything about the business with the intention
40:19
of one day you're going to take over the business.
40:23
Again, that's a criteria that you set on them that puts a
40:25
challenge on them. So majority of businesses that
40:27
have an emerging acquisition strategy like this where they're
40:30
going to success it off and you didn't make sure that they love
40:32
this business, you're setting them up to fail more or less.
40:35
You're setting your own business fail because they're not
40:38
passionate about the work you do, you're passionate about the
40:40
work you do. So you want to understand like
40:44
what is the best for my child and help them fulfil their
40:48
purpose, not your idea of what their purpose should be.
40:51
And that's huge. There is no success without a
40:54
successor. That's one of my philosophies.
40:57
And you know what? You've actually been talking a
41:01
lot in the direction of the principles of the Drish
41:05
phenomenon. Now I'm going to tell you the
41:08
principles. Let me call up the book and you
41:10
see that everything you've been saying actually aligns with
41:14
these principles #1 is understand that real wealth is
41:19
notable. It's knowledge.
41:21
That's the number one principle #2 principle is take care of
41:24
your own and they will take care of you #3 principle is
41:28
successful people are professionals and entrepreneurs
41:31
#4 is develop your verbal confidence.
41:35
That is something you we're very, very vocal about.
41:39
Develop your verbal confidence #5 the selectively extravagant
41:45
but prudently frugal #6 celebrate individuality,
41:49
encourage creativity and #7 is have something to prove a drive
41:55
to succeed. This is the framework you've
41:59
just been talking all podcast long group.
42:02
We've been on this recording for 41 minutes now and as.
42:06
You can see I'm very, very passionate about it, right?
42:09
Like one of my shout out to one of my mentees here in Brazil,
42:13
Jeffrey's an actor doing his thing.
42:15
And I feel like a lot of people, he's like 24 years old and, you
42:19
know, he's trying to figure it out.
42:20
And what's really cool about this topic, right, is it's it's
42:23
universal. It doesn't matter where you're
42:25
from. It doesn't matter what country
42:26
you're in. It doesn't matter your ethnicity
42:29
and trying to figure out, you know, what that looks like.
42:33
And I think we're all on this. One of our companies is called
42:36
Sanat Ana. It's a holdings company.
42:37
It's an Indian word, which means the, the journey of
42:40
enlightenment, ongoing self improvement, discovery.
42:43
And I think we're all that's what we're doing.
42:44
But I want to say something, Jenny here and reason why I
42:47
brought up Jeffrey to what you just said.
42:49
He was telling me the other day. He said I'm reading three books
42:52
at a time. And I said, OK, how many, how
42:55
many of those books do you remember and how much of it are
42:58
you applying? And so I got this from Peter
43:01
Vogue from six months to six figures.
43:03
He says it's not about how much knowledge you take in, right?
43:06
It's about applied knowledge. Applied knowledge is wisdom.
43:09
Applied knowledge is where it's at.
43:12
I just gave the parents a nugget.
43:13
Use what I just said. It's not good enough to just
43:16
hear it. It's better to hear it,
43:19
implement it, and then take it. Because if you teach it, they
43:22
say psychologically the brain better restores the information.
43:26
So you're absolutely right. That, that's actually very true.
43:31
I've been a teacher, you know, and it's one of those things
43:34
that I really pride myself in. You know, being a teacher is a
43:37
higher level of calling when it comes to knowledge.
43:42
You'd need to have a higher level of understanding of a
43:45
concept in order for you to teach it.
43:49
Trust me, I've been dead on that.
43:51
And yeah, it's, it's, it's just different.
43:53
You know, in order for you to teach, you have not just
43:57
internalised it, but you have internalised it and processed it
44:02
and you cannot express it. So it's, it's a different level
44:07
of, of knowledge and understanding.
44:09
So it's one thing to, to have knowledge is another thing to
44:13
have understanding. I think it's something that the
44:16
Bible talks about, you know, in all that I get and get
44:18
understanding by people perish for lack of wisdom.
44:21
You know, wisdom is now the application of knowledge and
44:24
understanding in order to achieve results.
44:26
No, I always see something. Potentials are always different
44:30
from credentials. Credentials is what we see.
44:32
You know, our potentials do not always result in credentials.
44:37
But one thing as a human being is you will never forgive
44:42
yourself and you would always regret if you know that you have
44:45
potentials that you did not turn into credentials.
44:52
I think that is the greatest fear of mine and for many was to
44:56
you know, you've got this thing inside of you that's you know,
45:00
it's like it's like it's like feeding you, right.
45:03
It's just like a hunger or thirst to be, you know, it's
45:07
like the creator, and I want to add this right, the creator of
45:10
life did not give you that vision, that idea and put it
45:13
into your imagination. If it wasn't for you to bring it
45:16
to fruition, why else give it to to a person, right.
45:20
Yeah. And so I say that saying is like
45:23
so many people that they don't act on their dreams.
45:26
And that's where they say the wealth.
45:28
And I don't know if you subscribe to this, but they say
45:30
the real wealth is in the grave. Yeah.
45:32
I mean I. Heard that the man time.
45:34
They took their talent, they took their dreams, they took
45:37
their IPAKA intellectual property.
45:39
They took all that to their deathbed and they never acted on
45:43
it. And I'll say something going
45:44
back to the man I love, my father.
45:46
My father is a genius, genius. And what's so sad is he's worked
45:50
at a factory his whole life and that's all he knows is our
45:53
labour. And I was talking to him the
45:55
other day and was like, hey, I can't say what the idea is on
45:58
the air, but I'll just say he has this genius idea for a very
46:01
known sports association franchise that revolutionises
46:05
that franchise. And I was like, hey, once we get
46:07
that capital, you want to build that idea.
46:08
Like you still want to engineer it?
46:10
Because my dad's really an engineer, this man build a house
46:13
with no architecture background. No, it's just like no official
46:16
who just like wakes up one day and builds A two Storey house.
46:19
Like, OK, I'm going to build my wife a house and just do it.
46:21
But, and so this is what I'm saying.
46:23
I'm saying this to say in honour of him, you know, he
46:25
unfortunately will fall into that category if he doesn't act
46:29
on some of these ideas, which is very sad for me, right?
46:31
But how many people throughout the world are sitting on a
46:34
goldmine of ideas? And ideas is not where it's at
46:37
people. It's the execution of the idea
46:39
of where it's at. And so how many people are doing
46:42
that? And that's what we're here to
46:43
change is to where now there's a framework, now there's AVC firm
46:47
that brings ideas into the marketplace, not just elitist
46:51
technology ideas. That's so biassed, right?
46:54
Because technology is just one piece of greatness.
46:57
It's not the whole ecosystem of greatness.
46:59
And there's not really any other ecosystem that focuses on that.
47:02
And so that's, you know, that's what we want to do is really
47:04
change and shift dramatically the people that could be
47:08
successful in other areas and can go to a place that can raise
47:11
money and bring their ideas to to the surface.
47:14
You know what? That is what this podcast is
47:17
about. At the beginning of the podcast,
47:20
what did I tell you that they had to rebrand structure.
47:27
And now we calibrate the words right about what the podcast is
47:38
about. Now I'm going to take you from
47:40
what you've said. You talked about ideas, right?
47:44
But ideas are not just enough. You need to understand and you
47:49
need to have the requisite knowledge and the greed and the
47:52
grind in order to be able to take this ideas right from
47:57
abstract ideas to material right to materialisation by way of
48:03
what execution, right? Good and this broadcast is about
48:09
growth growth mindset. You need the right mindset in
48:14
order to have the right ideas and in order to have the
48:17
motivation for execution leadership.
48:23
You need to be able to lead others and lead yourself in
48:28
order to be able to achieve this thing and business insights
48:31
right. You need business acumen in
48:34
order to be able to commercialise these ideas.
48:38
That is why, that's why we're here.
48:41
I'm going to lay this out as to the question I get all the time.
48:45
People will say, call me, what's this rise and ship method?
48:48
What is that? What does that mean?
48:49
And it's an acronym, all right, R stands for Rockstar brand, I
48:53
is increased visibility, SS sales explosion, E is elevated
48:57
authority, and the SIP is strategic, excuse me, strategy,
49:01
instruction and programming, OK? And so as I was saying at the
49:04
top of our podcast, majority of people, it starts at the root,
49:07
meaning their parents, their neighbourhood, their teachers as
49:10
a child didn't edify them. They don't have the confidence,
49:14
they don't have the belief because they will never edify.
49:17
OK, you have that down. Now you need some level of
49:21
awareness. And once you get some awareness,
49:23
this is where mindset comes into play because I tell everybody
49:27
you're going to need to be resilient.
49:29
You're going to go a lot of pain.
49:31
And you're going to go through a suffering on the journey.
49:35
And this is where mindset comes into play, right?
49:38
But let's even elevate that one one for a moment.
49:42
I learned if I learned from Proctor.
49:44
And now you need to get a paradigm.
49:48
And a paradigm, I think of it as, we're going to call it a
49:50
word that most people don't like, but in this sense, it's
49:53
great. It's brainwash.
49:55
You need to brainwash yourself, a part of your subconscious mind
49:59
to know just how great, how beautiful, how amazing, and how
50:04
phenomenal you are. But you got to work on self to
50:10
get that mindset and that paradigm.
50:12
So at this point, now somebody's like, OK, I've got the mindset,
50:15
I've got the paradigm, and I've got a vision.
50:18
What do I do? We need to get clarity around
50:22
that vision. Okay, As we get clarity, people
50:25
hire me to give them a road map. I'm a strategist and a coat, but
50:29
a hybrid. So now you need the strategy and
50:32
we're going to lay out that road map.
50:34
And then from there, now we need a network and we need the
50:37
resources. So you want to build in
50:39
community, but community is not enough.
50:42
You also need an advisor and coaches and mentors.
50:45
Something we we talked to him earlier about the Bible, one of
50:48
the wisest men to ever live in the Bible.
50:50
His name is King Solomon. The first thing King Solomon did
50:53
when he got in office was he surrounded himself with good
50:57
truth and advisors. Think about that.
50:59
You know the Bible says in the multitude of counsel their
51:02
safety. You know, the Bible says in the
51:05
multitude of counsel, they're in safety.
51:08
Facts. You have to have advisors,
51:11
folks. You have to have people not that
51:13
are talking it. Your parents are not your
51:14
advisors. Your parents are your parents.
51:16
You need people that done what you want to do or are doing what
51:19
you want to do. Exactly.
51:21
Proper and advice to guide you so you can dodge the pitfalls
51:26
right and then the last one goes back to then resources like
51:29
resources, network resources and you need resources, which could
51:32
be training things of that nature frameworks.
51:34
I teach a lot of AI prompts like you need those resources, but
51:37
then you're going to. Prompt engineering, you know
51:40
it's garbage and garbage out. Yeah.
51:42
But to put fuel on those ideas to really bring it to market,
51:45
when you say commercialise it, it's going to take capital.
51:48
And I mean we're just going to call it what it is.
51:49
Capital is the bloodline to every business and it's going to
51:51
take capital to bring these things to market.
51:53
And so let's not forget like, like you can get a lot of stuff
51:57
done free 99. You can learn a lot free 99.
51:59
I'm not, I'm not knocking free, but if you really want to go to
52:02
the next level, folks, you're going to have to invest in your
52:06
personal brand and your business and your genius.
52:09
It's not all going to be free. OK, You've got to invest.
52:13
So I want to make sure that everybody has it.
52:15
But that's that ecosystem and that framework that we teach to
52:17
make sure people got all their IS dotted and and their T's
52:20
crossed. You know, you remind me of an
52:23
episode I had because she brought it right from the pain
52:27
perspective, right? In order to achieve and gain in
52:30
life. It definitely starts with pain.
52:34
And do you want to know the title of this episode?
52:37
It's called pain, purpose power. Stamp it.
52:42
Stamp. It, yeah.
52:43
And life. In order to attain power, you
52:46
need to go through pain. And when you go through pain,
52:50
you're able to discover your purpose.
52:52
When you discover your purpose, you can elevate to a position of
52:56
power. But you cannot skip these steps.
53:02
Love it. I think in my experience, and
53:04
they did a lot of people talk about this, but in my
53:06
experience, you know, you don't necessarily like the pain.
53:10
I think I don't know. Let me let me ask you when
53:12
you're in the gym, do you like the painters?
53:15
Absolutely not, you know. And you don't like it, but you
53:18
like when you're butt naked and you're looking in that mirror
53:21
and your muscles is popping. That's what you like, right?
53:23
And you're like, whoa, is this me?
53:26
Exactly, I think that's the same thing in business.
53:28
You don't. I didn't like it that I was
53:29
homeless, sleeping outside, going to churches to eat
53:32
breakfast. I'm Kodish, can I purse on this
53:34
show? I said Kodish shit.
53:36
Feel free. I'm calling this shit.
53:38
I'm freezing. I got to go to Starbucks.
53:40
They see me everyday. I'm not fresh, I don't look
53:43
clean. I didn't shower.
53:44
I'm showering at the gym. I didn't like that.
53:46
You think I like that? It's embarrassing.
53:48
I didn't like it, but it was necessary.
53:51
And it also showed me some different sides of life.
53:54
You need these different elements, the darkness to
53:56
contrast with the light. You need these different parts
53:59
of all of it because the times when you're in grief, the times
54:04
when you're crying and you're emotional bring so much more
54:07
measure and greatness to the joy and the things that are
54:12
phenomenal. So I could never have gotten to
54:15
Brazil. You mentioned that I'm in
54:16
Brazil. I'm in Brazil right now.
54:17
I'm travelling the world. I'm doing Latin American thing,
54:18
right? And so as I'm doing that, that
54:20
could never have happened without the homeless peace, that
54:23
wouldn't have happened. And so I think it's best that we
54:25
reflect on it and we understand. And one other thing, when it
54:28
comes to success, I love how Kobe Bryant said it rested in
54:32
heaven to his spirit. He said success is really the
54:35
journey of looking back, of who you became while chasing the
54:38
championships and the championships.
54:41
I told you all what the championship is for me and what
54:43
success looks like for me. But who I've become, there's no
54:47
taking that away from all those experiences.
54:50
And it's those pains that are going to channel that purpose
54:52
and that purpose that's going to bring you into empowerment.
54:55
And as he just told you, you can't do it without it, so you
54:58
might as well choose the pain of discipline because that's the
55:02
discipline that's going to take along your path.
55:04
Wow. I guess it's almost time for you
55:08
to go because I think I just heard the alarm and definitely
55:12
we have to do Part 2. Please go schedule Part 2 else
55:18
I'm going to send the what's the police in Brazil police here
55:23
police. Here.
55:24
Police. Yeah, yeah, you will see the
55:26
police here knocking on your door if you do not schedule Part
55:29
2 within 24 hours. So let's end with a quick fire
55:37
round. I'll ask you 5 questions and
55:39
just give me the first thing that comes to your mind.
55:41
Oh, I told you to hold on something, bride.
55:43
I was going to tell you something.
55:45
My favourite scripture. My favourite verse in the
55:48
scripture. Do you want to know it?
55:50
Please. Philippians 413 I can do all
55:54
things through crisis. Transcend to me.
55:56
Hey, step it, step it. Yeah, I'll give y'all one dude
56:00
that that really changed something for me because it
56:02
touches on what I just said a few minutes ago.
56:05
Give me 20 seconds, I'll have it pulled up.
56:07
Which is it talks about suffering.
56:10
A lot of people don't have this one in their in their Rolodex,
56:13
but it's so powerful because it lets you know that suffering is
56:18
part of it when it comes to journey and greatness.
56:21
And not everybody goes through Job.
56:24
You know, Job is one of those stories where it's like.
56:28
Another level. This is Romans, this is Romans
56:32
5, three, he says. Not only so, but we also glory
56:37
in our sufferings, he said. Because we know that suffering
56:39
produces perseverance, perseverance, character, and
56:43
character hope. And it says, and hope does not
56:45
put us to shame because God's love has been poured into our
56:47
hearts through the Holy Spirit. And so a lot of people, that's
56:49
from the creator of life people, whether or not you subscribe to
56:52
that or not. And so that's all I'm getting
56:54
that is suffering has a purpose. So if it's going to be here
56:57
regardless, you might as well choose it on the beautiful side
57:00
of life of discipline versus the side of regret and not bringing
57:03
your greatness to the surface. And I really, really appreciate
57:06
what you, what you've said this now and you know, the scripture
57:10
that you have referenced. And of course, you know, to to
57:13
cap it all up, I think he just reminded me of Hebrews Chapter
57:17
11, verse 1. And that's faith.
57:20
Everything, everything is anchored on faith.
57:23
And Hebrews 11/1 says faith is a substance of things hoped for,
57:27
the evidence of things not seen. Stamp it.
57:31
Stamp it and that, that, that's power.
57:34
That's power. So we got rapid fire.
57:35
I'm ready, I'm excited. I might need like 3 seconds
57:39
'cause my brain is. OK, number one and number 11
57:43
book that changed your mindset forever.
57:46
Oh, oh, that's, you know how tough that is with a book
57:49
library of over 100 books read, you know.
57:52
What's the number? What's the number one that
57:54
kicked the journey? Right now, what's on top of my
57:57
mind is E Myth. E Myth really changed how I see
57:59
business. OK, your favourite lyric or
58:02
quote that fuels you today? I'm gonna go with Ralph Waddell
58:09
Emerson as to methods. There may be a million in some,
58:12
but the man I'll add, or woman that can successfully grasp the
58:16
principle may successfully select his own method.
58:20
I love it. There's all this method to the
58:22
madness number 31 AI or tech tool you cannot leave without
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right now. We'll go with a ChatGPT.
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I have that I have that on my mind, ChatGPT, but trust me, I
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now have like fantastic alternatives to ChatGPT.
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Come sponsor this podcast #4 first thing you do when you wake
59:02
up. I see why you gonna throw me
59:05
under the bus because I got to tell my truth.
59:07
What you're supposed to do with people is you're supposed to tap
59:09
into the Bible, read a devo and do that.
59:12
Usually, right now, I usually respond to messages.
59:14
You are not supposed to be on your phone or first thing.
59:16
It is what I've been doing. I get on.
59:19
I respond to all my people, starting my gratitude practise.
59:24
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Gratitude.
59:26
Yeah. I think for me it has to be the
59:28
gratitude thing. Like a lot of people are angry
59:31
with me because I don't respond to messages.
59:33
I'll do better. I'll do better.
59:36
I'm big on I'm big on, you know, service, going back to service.
59:39
And so I don't like people to be waiting.
59:41
So like you got so many when you're omnipresent and you're on
59:45
every channel. Like people don't tell you this,
59:46
but I'm going to say this. When you're on every channel and
59:50
you're getting comments and messages from every channel and
59:53
you're staff is not 30 or 40 and we're not there yet.
59:56
So somebody's got a response. I.
59:58
Don't have? Pending on me and my team.
1:00:01
So yeah. So I hit the messages back and
1:00:05
then start my start my thing. What you're supposed to be doing
1:00:08
not be on your phone, you know, not be on your phone or even do
1:00:11
all that. So yeah.
1:00:13
Not now. Now I am convinced I need to
1:00:15
give my mom your number because my mom is on his fight to me.
1:00:19
I don't respond to messages and of course you know that is the
1:00:23
guy that will respond to all your message.
1:00:25
Don't, don't leave your mother All read.
1:00:27
He read it. And then let it down.
1:00:29
I'm trying you. I'm not trying you under the
1:00:31
bus. I'm trying you over the bus now.
1:00:33
And you know the conversations you had about parents, you know
1:00:36
you need to have another conversation with her as well
1:00:38
with. Your Mama I 11 real quick.
1:00:43
I know we don't wrap a part, but I want to share this with
1:00:45
everybody. Have you make sure that you have
1:00:49
a habit and a routine that can set the state of your day and
1:00:52
what what that looks like for me because I walk you through the
1:00:54
rest of that minus the messaging gratitude Bible devo in the
1:00:58
morning, read the Bible. I start off with a Scripture
1:01:00
from the Lord. Then I usually listen to music
1:01:03
or a motivational speech that gets my mind prepped for today,
1:01:07
a piece of a book, go to the gym and then I start my day.
1:01:11
So it is good to have a morning routine.
1:01:13
And so I just wanted to share that with folks so that they can
1:01:15
hear a few things like those are some of the things that we
1:01:17
include in that routine. But having that practise and not
1:01:20
getting it on your phone, you did not get a call.
1:01:23
I'll just keep it down. Absolutely.
1:01:26
Absolutely. For me, it's gratitude first.
1:01:29
Gratitude first, you know so #5 if the world gave you a mic for
1:01:33
30 seconds, what message would you shout out loud?
1:01:37
I would tell everybody that you've got greatness in you and
1:01:40
it's your choice to choose the pain of discipline or the pain
1:01:44
of regret. But don't let anybody put you in
1:01:46
a box and tell you what is not possible for your life.
1:01:51
Absolutely. Thank you very much.
1:01:52
Love and respect to you brother, and do not forget me.
1:01:56
And I say what I mean and I mean what I say.
1:01:58
If you do not book Part 2 within 24 hours, federal policia would
1:02:05
come. Not get the hell.
1:02:07
I've really enjoyed our time. I've enjoyed our jam.
1:02:10
I'm excited for opportunity and I'm just super grateful for all
1:02:14
the listeners and everybody you know to to connect.
1:02:16
I'm very, as you just heard, I'm very engaged with our community,
1:02:20
with our fans, with everybody. So if you guys have questions,
1:02:23
you guys got thoughts, you guys need help, you need clarity, you
1:02:27
need strategy. Like hit me up.
1:02:28
Like I'm not one of those people that's like, oh, I'm too big to
1:02:31
chop it. Like Nah, that's not my vibe.
1:02:32
So you need me. How can they reach you?
1:02:35
What? What's social media platform?
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Best way is going to be inspirationengineer.com and I'm
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going to have linked up because you're just phenomenal hopes and
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there's a phenomenal everything. I'm going to give you guys a
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Can get the book for free and I'm going to put some other
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next level. So I'll have those in the show
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notes and you guys, I'll give you guys a special code.
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It's going to be kingdoms or whatever automotive wants to
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Kingdoms is a dope but that's a dope code bro.
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So I'll make sure that you guys can get at least $300 off of
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So we'll do that everybody that wants to link up and and really
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take it to the next. Wow, wow, wow.
1:03:15
I don't know what to say. But of course, you know,
1:03:18
gratitude is always good attitude.
1:03:19
A very big thank you to you, and of course, a very big thank you
1:03:22
to the audience. Please keep supporting.
1:03:25
Please keep supporting. We need your support.
1:03:27
And of course, we keep going up. Guys, stay out of trouble.
1:03:30
Keep working on your dreams. Don't let anybody put you in a
1:03:33
box. Believe in yourselves.
1:03:36
Very, very important. And of course, there's no limits
1:03:38
to what you can achieve in life. You know, big shout out to you
1:03:41
guys. Thank you very much.
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Now we've been on the Apple podcast top 200 chats, you know,
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It only gets better from here. Thank you very much, my brother.
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God bless you. Do you want to leave a shout out
1:04:20
to anybody before you leave? And, of course, please instruct
1:04:22
our people. Let them do the needful.
1:04:24
Yeah. My my biggest shout out would be
1:04:25
for everybody, you know, let us know in the in the comments what
1:04:30
takeaway you got from today's episode.
1:04:32
Make sure you share it out with Franks.
1:04:34
More and more people need to hear these messages and hear
1:04:36
these philosophies. So again, thank you guys for
1:04:38
being here. We love you.
1:04:39
We appreciate you. Until the next time you already
1:04:41
know what it is so much. Energy, love, respect, you know,
1:04:45
blessings to you guys. Until I come your way again,
1:04:48
stay blessed.