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Inside Invest Fest: Billionaire Networking, Automate Your Business with Notion ft. Michael MacDonald · Motion and Success

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[SPEAKER_05]: We started a motionless success about two years ago at a conference in Georgia, which is called Invest Fest.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I literally started in that one room and I left inspired, I left what a podcast, I left what relationships, I left with so many things in that one weekend, a hundred plus interviews, you know, Michael Jim McDonnell, I'm one of the co-founders of our new leaders, we have a few eight figure brands, God willing.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You guys really had went out and brought out a big, big name, you know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Like three billionaires within one weekend.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You gotta put your ego down, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Because I am not the star of show.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not even a face of show.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Most people don't even know I'm a part of it, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Listen man, the same thing that happened to them could happen to you, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's true.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We took all our own money.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Dang it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And we wasn't, we wasn't where we was today.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Let's get back to this episode because this one is going to be a banger.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Alright, y'all, so welcome back to another episode of Motion in Success.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Listen, guys, my name is Cody Brown and I got my coals from me today.
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[SPEAKER_06]: It's I.O.
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[SPEAKER_06]: and Cody, bro, we back with another great episode.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Absolutely, man.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Absolutely, bro.
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[SPEAKER_05]: This is another episode of Motion in Success and I promise you, this is probably the going to be the best one since, you know, we started this because we started Motion in Success about two years ago at a conference in Georgia, which is called Invest Fest, right?
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[SPEAKER_05]: It literally started in that one room and it was so crazy because I tell my story and I
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[SPEAKER_05]: Like, yo, I almost didn't go that year.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Like, literally, I was working my job.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Things were not looking too promising.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And, you know, I'm like, you know what?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Let me just jump out and go to this conference.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, I have not, I don't have too much to lose.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_05]: And then from there, literally, history has began.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Like, I went there, I went there, I went there, I went there, I left inspired.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I left foot of podcast, I left foot relationships.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I left with so many things in that one weekend, a hundred plus interviews and like the list continues to go on years and years and years and years later.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So we have the opportunity to interview one of the founders of the event called Invest Fest and shout out to these gentlemen, you know, they're from New York just like myself and um.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Definitely, I was more inspired that we can literally, literally, literally, literally, literally.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So without further ado, I would like to get started with the podcast man.
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[SPEAKER_05]: from the EYL family, go ahead and introduce yourself, road, tell the people who you are in it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We can start on it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I appreciate you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm glad you all, you know, I didn't just go to the festival and come, see what happens, and leave.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, from it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I still got it in motion.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, exactly.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I commend you all and I appreciate you all.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That just keeps, that's the reason why we do this to impact.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, we can see the impact people.
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[SPEAKER_03]: and it gives us the will and the power to keep going.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So it never was never about the money for us.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So I'm really like happy and it really feels good to see us succeed in so on.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But yeah, I'm Michael Jim MacDonald, I'm one of the co-founders of Arne Illegia, which is the umbrella of invest fast, E-Wild University, market Monday's in all bunch of our brands.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We have a few eight figure brands, God willing, but I'm a father, I'm a husband,
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm a man of God, and I'm great at amplifying businesses, I've been honored to see the best in people and show them how to monetize what they do great.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's my superpower.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, that's me.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And you can find me on Michael J. MacDonald on Instagram if you're looking for me.
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[SPEAKER_06]: not definitely want to jump into it.
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[SPEAKER_06]: First thing I got to say is like definitely congrats to y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y'all y
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[SPEAKER_06]: Even two guys right here, it's a lot of things you got to put to the side, you guys just make it work, you know, so how is it like how we got able to build such an impactful brand and the business like that well the first thing is
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[SPEAKER_03]: is why you started, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: So a lot of times when people start something, they start to become famous or they start to make a lot of money.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And the thing that the reason why they started a long time ago, they forget why they started.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So I think you have to kind of always repeat and you're bringing why you started.
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[SPEAKER_03]: If you remember what I just said, we didn't start for money.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We started for impact.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We wanted to impact our community because our community didn't have the essential tools that
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[SPEAKER_03]: other communities did.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So the the most important thing was the impact.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So that's the first thing, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Remember why you started.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The second thing is you got to put your ego down, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Because I am not the star of show.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not even a face of the show.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Most people don't even know I'm a part of it, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: So I have to put my ego to the side because of the bigger picture, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Even when we have disagreements, we got to always go back to the bigger picture.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The bigger picture is to change our people's lives, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: To help our people, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: So, focus on those things, I think, you know, it's not going to be hard.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I'm saying?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Like, so,
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[SPEAKER_03]: You see all these podcasts breaking up.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You see all these people breaking up.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Because they just, they, they got detached from who they were.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, and the reality, the realness came out of them.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, the money and the fame brought the realness out of them.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I always say to people like, especially starting, remember these times where you hustling, you're coming from New York to Atlanta.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Getting all this, this is a hustle, it's a journey.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This is the most exciting part about doing this.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's a journey because when you get to the top
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[SPEAKER_03]: If you don't, people are on you, people are coming at you to attack you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Right now, you can mess up, they're not going to attack you, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Right now, it's the enjoyment of your fulfillment.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But when it becomes a requirement, now it's like a job in a sense, it's like, so it becomes serious, and more serious, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Because now you're affecting people's lives with everything you do.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So you have to be very responsible.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So enjoy this moment while you're in the journey, but don't forget this moment either.
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[SPEAKER_03]: true.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That's a fact, true, true.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Like, honestly, like, it's been a long time coming.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Like, me and me and I have been doing this for about like two years and some change now.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Like, we didn't kind of figure out almost everything, cameras, computers, recording it.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You're not seeing the thing, you know, popping up.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Like, almost everything.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Like, literally everything.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And, you know, it always reminds of like, you know, like, this is the part of it, bro.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Like, it only gets better.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, we've
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[SPEAKER_05]: literally done, hundreds of podcasts, no producer.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Wow.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You just have to, just have to.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Press record and it's press record.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, we get an equipment.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: How long you had known each other?
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[SPEAKER_03]: But for a while, we got back connected at investment.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, so you didn't even go to,
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[SPEAKER_06]: you didn't go to go the y'all just get wet y'all see y'all be yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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[SPEAKER_06]: Two years later, you know, we were still cool, but we wasn't really like, you were talking like that.
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[SPEAKER_06]: So in Vesfest, I'm over here.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I'm like, I always knew like, attention was coming up.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Like, I was the next biggest form of currency.
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[SPEAKER_06]: So I've been all these conferences, and I'll be honest, like, I just connect with people to take their phone number, and it's not going to work.
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[SPEAKER_06]: So I'm like, yo, I'm over here.
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[SPEAKER_06]: But I think I bought the VIP ticket for Vesfest that year.
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[SPEAKER_06]: So I'm like, yo, I got a,
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[SPEAKER_06]: Maximize it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So I'm like, I spent all this money.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, yeah, that's what I do.
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[SPEAKER_06]: So I went and I already had a body camera Boy like a I got a Sony A73.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I had a microphone So I'm like, I'm just going get this content by myself like literally I have no tripod I was like, yo, I'm gonna just go get it by myself And I'll be honest.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I'll be like I'll be chill like I want to say I'm introverted, but like I'll be low-key like in my own show So when I got out them like games Hardening you so a lot of people yeah a lot of people yeah
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[SPEAKER_06]: And then it's like, you know, one person, you know, you got to hold a camera, you got to hold a microphone.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Then I see Cody, he just on his phone about that, about the escalator, he looked like he's chilling.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I'm like, and I'm like, 20,000, it was like 20,000 people.
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[SPEAKER_06]: So I'm like, out of 20,000 people, I run in the Cody, so Cody see me with the bag.
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[SPEAKER_06]: He like, you know what you're doing, bro?
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[SPEAKER_06]: I'm like, yo, just trying to get some content.
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[SPEAKER_06]: He's like, I was going, I'm like, I ain't getting no interviews.
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[SPEAKER_06]: So he goes and he's like, I'm like, yo, you're trying to, he was like, nah, man, I don't even want to be no interviews right now.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I'm like, yo, bro, it's the easiest way to meet people.
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[SPEAKER_06]: You know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_06]: He was like, you know, you can meet a lot of people.
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[SPEAKER_06]: He was like, I don't know, bro, like, I ain't really feeling it.
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[SPEAKER_06]: And then I don't know what's not in him, then he later on was like, matter of fact, he was like, let's do it, let's do it.
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[SPEAKER_06]: He put a Tom on his phone, he like, yo, the next person we see, we're going to do an interview with him.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Tom went off, he picked some random, I can know if he had some dude, he was by like, they had a Lambo during the market, yeah, in the market space.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And he was like, this was this, this past year.
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[SPEAKER_03]: 90s, I was like 23, I was 23, I think.
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[SPEAKER_06]: It's like somebody had the Lambo just talked up over there, like,
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[SPEAKER_05]: Inside the marketplace.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It was like a like a it was like a like you know I just parked up there inside the window.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Wow.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, so Cody went and he did the interview with him And then I just led to like we did like in a weekend pie like a hundred and a hundred and twenty Did you put them out?
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[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, we did we wrote we had content for like three months.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Wow, so that that content
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[SPEAKER_06]: Like not everything hit but the certain ones did hit pay started growing crazy and then that's when it falls Yeah, like a hundred Plus all platforms together, probably like 300,000 that's the part of all like 340 probably 340 So you started posting that content once and then call you came with the idea about your starter podcast That's when started.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's when I could the name for
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[SPEAKER_06]: So the name honestly, we was thinking inspired by it, I like the sound so I'm like motion you know motion was it was coming like it was becoming a hot name
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[SPEAKER_06]: back then around that time.
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[SPEAKER_06]: So we put it in like a AI name generator, coding one is something with success and then AI name generated came away motion in success and then, you know, we just like, that sound though.
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[SPEAKER_06]: That sound cool.
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[SPEAKER_06]: So that's just up.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's going to be best for us.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We can act that's great.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So it's going to be great.
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[SPEAKER_05]: The same thing that happened to them could happen to you and his true also during that weekend You know you guys really had went out and brought out a big big names you know I mean like three billionaires within one weekend That's why I thought the name inspired by success would have been the best one to go with
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[SPEAKER_05]: But we had even had the opportunity to run into CJ McCullum, you know, I mean, he was one of y'all guest speakers on I think a panel or so and he, you know, we running I was catching his cameras, things dropping off the camera bag and we trying to catch the interview.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, let's see.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And literally literally and things was just, you know, doing what it had to do And fast forward.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It was just small wins after small wins.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We get a high influencer like
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[SPEAKER_05]: Queen Latif for my lack of content using both might like the content, you know, this person might like the content and those small little wins just kept pushing and pushing what you're doing.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, you know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_05]: And now it's like our name has kind of been to a household name where we actually growing and getting more exposure, getting to audiences that we never knew we could actually get.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Young lady by the name of Joy Hunt.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I got top three right now.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Joy Hunt, Brianna, Brianna Johnson.
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[SPEAKER_05]: She does life insurance and Damon Dillard.
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[SPEAKER_05]: He's more of like a life insurance but also more of insurance.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What made him your favorite episode?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Well Joy specifically, she's actually, she went through a situation where her husband almost killed her.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, literally she had to run outside of a dealership and, you know, grab her son, grab her bag and literally run and then change, you know, living from one state to another.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Brianna Brianna had, she had breast cancer, you know, she's a life insurance agent.
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[SPEAKER_05]: She went out and used her life insurance policy to actually fund her life, you know, because she almost died off of cancer.
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[SPEAKER_05]: and then Damon Dillard, Damon Dillard's more of a motivational speaker, you know, more of his inspired and inspiring people, not just motivational people, but like, not motivational speaker, but more of like, getting people to believe in themselves.
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[SPEAKER_05]: He also teaches, you know, high energy, high income, making more money, stuff like that.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You got to let that, you love more money.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, exactly.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So yeah, that's that.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I had a different, I feel like, I feel like the top one for
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, we just posted a clip where I'm like today's storm storm.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I did want to jump into, because you guys, you know, you mentioned you guys are doing eight-figured, but multiple-figured businesses.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You know, as us podcasters, like, how can we go out there and start really, you know,
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[SPEAKER_05]: turn in the podcast industry into an actual business, you know, because people are starting podcasts, just talk about relationships, gossip, you know, 50, 50 questions, gender roles, things like that.
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[SPEAKER_05]: How can, you know, we actually go out there and use podcasting the right way to be able to make millions of dollars?
18:48
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, it's two things that I think you mentioned it too, like how you were able to network, but
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[SPEAKER_03]: A podcast is going to lie to network on a lot of different people, a lot of successful people people doing it.
18:57
[SPEAKER_03]: So you become connected to these people that are doing great business, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Now it's up to you to add value to them, what they want to add value to you, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Now they have then network, so you get, once you add value to them, the value to
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[SPEAKER_03]: to you with just not just them, but to network.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Just like us, how do you get a Steve Harvey?
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[SPEAKER_03]: We add value to someone that knows closest to Steve Harvey, then they open then that we're going to and connect Steve Harvey to us.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So that's the first thing, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Add and value to your network of people at your interviewer, because they can help you monetize in ways that you couldn't even imagine like having an investment, right?
19:34
[SPEAKER_03]: Or even doing retreats and coming to speak for free, not have to pay in them to your event, or whatever, right?
19:42
[SPEAKER_03]: That's just one of you, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: The other way is this podcast you just mentioned that all these popular people are liking your content.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This is the fastest way to get whatever you wanna promote, sell or produce or whatever, get it out to the people with this podcast.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Because you've got an audience, which is, if you do it, right, you can create a community audience at every time you release, they're coming to see what's going on.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The only thing I got to say that, one thing that we didn't do correctly with EYL, but we learned from our mistakes not with market Mondays, but with EYL, we weren't the main hopes, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: We weren't the people like, people don't come for us per se.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It comes for the guests.
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[SPEAKER_03]: When that happens, your numbers are going to fluctuate, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Still a great show, but now market Mondays is 100 plus thousand every single month, every single week, no matter what.
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[SPEAKER_03]: because they come for Troy Rashad and Ian.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We did not do enough solo episodes to keep the love for us.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You want them to love y'all, because you want the show to be up here no matter what.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Exactly.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So that was one thing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So that is another way how you can monetize.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Make them fall in love with you.
20:53
[SPEAKER_03]: Because you create a community of people that really rock with you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And when you guys sum them off, and now you have a merch line.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They're going to purchase.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They're going to support it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You got a coaching program on how to produce a podcast.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They're going to support it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So, building that foundation.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So, when you do have products and services, when you offer it, you got an audience right there in position already support you right away.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And then that amplifies because they tell other people that people tell other people.
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[SPEAKER_03]: and that's how it goes.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And another thing is what you could do is do free events.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Look at where you are, big at and do free events in all those different cities, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: And then negotiate with those venues that you do to events at, tell them, say, you're listening.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It should give me your worst night.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm gonna bring 100, 200 people in here.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Let me get 20, 25% of the bar.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That means you're gonna get 25% of food and beverage.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: So if they make $23,000 that night, that's $600 in your pocket.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So a free event, you actually profiting, but then you have vendors, you can get some vendors to be there, you get merch, so merch there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So now you can actually make more than that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So you're doing a free event, get in the data, connect them with people, and that ain't all you're not.
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[SPEAKER_03]: This is a digital blueprint, they're not like damn, you've real like you mad cool you of a personal, they rock which we even more, and now you spread
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[SPEAKER_03]: you got so many people coming so fast because we did the groundwork before we started in Vesta.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Exactly.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And that's how you profit off on Paga.
22:23
[SPEAKER_05]: So you mentioned something a little earlier, you said, you know, you exchange your value with the right people.
22:29
[SPEAKER_05]: When it comes to exchange and value, like, you know, the podcast is over now, podcast is released.
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[SPEAKER_05]: How do you continuously build and, you know, make sure that you, you stay in touch, you have the top of a person's mind, you know, like the follow-up, like, how do you guys do that?
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[SPEAKER_03]: What do you mean, I'm a little confused about that?
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[SPEAKER_05]: So, say for example, I just recorded a podcast with you, right?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Today is January, podcast releases in February.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We probably might bump into an event in August or something.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Like, what do you guys do in between time and keep building relationships?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, you add value.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Like I said, you got to add value to them.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Everybody's always focused on what could they do for me.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What can you do for them?
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[SPEAKER_03]: focus on how you can add value in it like if you see somebody like it you see some what y'all this is my work for Mike let me let me hit him up this is a good opportunity you might want to work with this boom hit me up it shows value now we now we're connecting we're not working with making
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[SPEAKER_03]: We have some type of relationship for them, right, because now we're changing values, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: So, value is changing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So, that's what I would say if I was you, that's what we did, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: So, if like this one guess wanted to talk to this guy, this guess, we connected them, right, added value to this guess.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He then got value from this guess that we connected them with.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Now, he felt that we added value to his life because we connected him.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's a circle.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Now, everybody's rocking with EYL.
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[UNKNOWN]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I'm saying, I value man, that's the best way.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I know it sounds simple, but it's the easiest, but hardest thing.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Will be those acts of service when it comes to value, like, you know, well, it all depends on the person, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: So, you know, like, so far, since, right, I'm investors, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Say you connect to it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Let's say, somebody from New York, say you connected with NIs, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_03]: From Brooklyn.
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[SPEAKER_05]: From Brooklyn.
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[SPEAKER_03]: All right, so you live in Queens, perfect.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So you owe you rent to NIs, you connected with NIs.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We are connected with NIs, but just say you connected with NIs, you pick into NIs and like, yo, hit me like yo.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I just talked to NIs, I told him about investors.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He wants to, yo, he's excited, he wants to connect with investors.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I know that's a crazy thing, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: But anything's possible, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Anything's possible.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You never know.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Even your past guess.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You just said, this lady's done life insurance.
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[SPEAKER_03]: She was, she had breast cancer.
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[SPEAKER_03]: She fund her life with her thing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That might be a good story that should be heard on E.Y.O.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I'm saying?
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's just so many things.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You just gotta be creative.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Like I tell people, AI is as come to a point where the only limitation is your imagination.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's the only limitation because you can literally tell AI to do whatever you want and it'll do it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I just built it, I built it website with my imagination.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I literally told the AI to do this, this, this and this, it literally did, this and this, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And it worked, fluently.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Like unbelievable, notion-engine.AI.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's a webinar that I'm doing tonight.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'll be doing it probably following months.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But I literally did it with AI.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Built the whole entire back and everything.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Upsells or the automations, everything with AI.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It was in my head, and I just owe to AI and it made it happen.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So you only limitations AI.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You have to use your creative mind to create these relationships.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Sorry to break this amazing episode.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I just don't, and I definitely did see the poster for the webinar notion.
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[SPEAKER_06]: It seems like it's a tool.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I see a lot of business owners using, like I'm seeing them, you know, organize their business, they're keeping track of tasks.
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[SPEAKER_06]: How are you able to kind of navigate notion?
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[SPEAKER_06]: Because it's something I was telling the quality, like we should add on to the business, like, what are some features in notion that could really help business owners to get to that next level?
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[SPEAKER_03]: So if I asked you to think about how do I start a podcast right from your point of view if I ask you that right you have to sit there and tell me that right how to start it right and if I people ask you that
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[SPEAKER_03]: You have to sit down and tell five people how to start a podcast.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Imagine telling no shit once.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And every time you want to teach someone how to start a podcast, you just give them a link to go to your notion, your brain, your brain, tell them to go to that, and it'll tell you exactly how you tell them your situation, using your framework how you build the podcast, it's gonna apply exactly the framework that applies to them.
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[SPEAKER_03]: because they input their information and it spits out what you would spit out because it has your brain.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So whatever you give notion, it's going to amplify.
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[SPEAKER_03]: the output.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Simple as that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if that sounds as simple, but it's that simple.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Literally, notion is your external brain.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's what notion is.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's not a note set, it's not a task set, it's not an Excel sheet, it's not a Google dot.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's literally your brain, outside of your body.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Whatever you give it, the more you give it, the more functions it could do.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It has my whole, I do a group coaching, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: A high-level group coaching where I teach frameworks of how I build investments, or in the easier way to build all those different companies.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So I teach those frameworks to other people, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I literally transcribe every single class that I have in my group coaching and I put it into notion.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Now, every time I have a client now, I can literally give a client, not generic information, I'll give a client
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[SPEAKER_03]: a strategy on how to be successful using my brain, using my frameworks that I taught in my class, applying that to, they give me all the information about their company, I take all that information, I put it into my brain, notion, and it applies the strategy using my frameworks.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's what notion is, notions of a heavy database driven thing, because a chatGBT, you put all this information in, after 30 days, that information is going.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So now you have your information forever.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And chat to be share share information.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I was just going to say that too because because nowadays everybody they share and everything with chat Everything when they go I could say yo, give me motion is motion success Tell let me know everything about them.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, like what what they do and they'll give me stuff that you probably input it
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's crazy.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's why notion protects that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You can act to give people access to parts of your brain about, you could be a podcast framework, motion a success podcast framework.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You could give people access to that and that would be your framework on how to start a podcast.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Just, what you can go to come tonight, Sam P.M. Was a website by the way.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Notionengine.air, okay, okay, okay.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That's for the web, I mean, the mastery class.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, tonight, okay, all right, cool.
30:35
[SPEAKER_05]: So, questions, so now when it comes to growing a huge brand, you know, similar to how you guys have y'all, like who's on your team, like, you know, to make sure everything is actually functioning and everything is flowing, you know, like, what are some of the key roles that you guys have right now?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, in the beginning, obviously it was just me trying
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[SPEAKER_03]: and we was just running with our heads off like I was doing all the like the media the marketing the admin all that stuff and then
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[SPEAKER_03]: Troy would do their research.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We all had our responsibilities.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Just like, yeah, we get, you know, and then as you grow, we kept putting money back into the system, right, back into the company.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We didn't have equipment.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We had the bio equipment.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That was the first thing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We bought one mic per like time we got the money.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We got 400.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We bought a mic.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We got another one.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We bought a mic.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Got another one.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What am I?
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[SPEAKER_03]: For real, literally.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Same thing with the cameras.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And then, um, and then basically we just kept pouring in and then as we grew, our first, our first hire was
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[SPEAKER_03]: I want to say a name, but we fired this lady to control our community, right, to help us with our community.
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[SPEAKER_03]: She was a person that was in the community and we hired within the community, which was dope too.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Always look inside before you go outside, that's a bar too.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So she did great, she referred another person, which now is our COO,
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[SPEAKER_03]: is Magda, she's our CEO of our E-WILE University and then we got our CEO AB, he's our CEO of E-WILE, really the whole entire umbrella, he runs everything, everything kind of runs through him and then you know we have my brother, he does merch,
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I have another brother that does everything I used to do, editing, marketing, flies, all that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So he does all that stuff, and then you have your HR person, or I'll say, I'll see CFO, which is choice-wise.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I got my assistant, it does customer support.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Shah's sister.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He does she does like personal assistance for them.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So it's like we we hired it with them But as you grow you'll just start adding what you need when start seeing you see gaps, you know And where you can fill now.
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[SPEAKER_03]: A lot of these highers were before agents agent A.
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[SPEAKER_03]: A agent switch
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[SPEAKER_03]: A lot of ages could literally do a half of the things that everybody is doing, but the cool thing is we're able to offer our friends and family.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I was just about to get them helped them out.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So, and they help us out.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So, it works out for both parties, you know.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Because people say you can't hire a family.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We're family, me, Troy and Michelle.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We've been family, we've known each other forever.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So, you know, 20 and 30 years.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So, you know, and we worked together, we made money together, we made millions together.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So it all depends on why you're doing it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Right, right.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I was about to say that I kind of realized, you know, you said this person's wife, your sister, your brother, you know, entire family's actually growing the business to be able to go out there and do what you're doing.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Um, you got another question for you, actually.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I was just going, I was going to jump into, um, organize and invest for a slight, like, like,
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[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I went from, I think the first time you guys did that, yeah, yeah, I had 4,000, and then the next year, I think 12,000, 12,000 and it's just been up ever since.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_06]: year after year, like what was going into increasing those numbers, like, where were you guys?
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[SPEAKER_03]: So the first year, $4,000, we did that within six weeks.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We came up with the idea, and six weeks, we had the event.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The event was in the middle of COVID, so we got a discount on a lot of stuff, actually, because nobody was having an event, everybody was scared to have an event.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It was so bad that each chair was six feet apart in our first investment, so it was crazy.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We ended up, we was able to get 4,000 people in the middle of Invest Fest.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Everybody had to wear masks.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We had to have sanitation.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It was crazy.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But what happened was we had this conversation with Steve Harvey.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We went to his house and had a conversation with them.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And our conversation turned into a three-four-hour conversation.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And he's like, I want to work with you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I want to do something with you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And that's when presented the opportunity to connect with us with Invest Fest.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And by partnering with him, we were able to get, remember,
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[SPEAKER_03]: You also add value, you add, you get access to that network.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's how we got Tyler Perry.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Do Steve Harvey.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We didn't connect with Tyler Perry.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We connected Steve Harvey.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We added value to him.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We had this thing called investors.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That brings 4,000 people at the time.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We want to amplify it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We want to partner with you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: These are, oh, this is value.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I like what these young boys are doing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Let me see.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm gonna connect with my people.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm gonna bring something to you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He brought his values, Tyler Perry, and also he brought his audience.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We didn't have a connection to the older audience, and that's how we went from 4,000 to 12,000 in one year.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And then the next year, I mean, it was just, it was just, the next year, who's the headline?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if I could say that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Was that the next headline?
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[SPEAKER_03]: It was, wasn't it?
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[SPEAKER_03]: It was.
35:37
[SPEAKER_03]: 23, that was the next headline, huh?
35:39
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so he was the next headline, I think.
35:44
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, headliner, to sell tickets.
35:48
[SPEAKER_03]: Every other headliner, no disrespect to them.
35:50
[SPEAKER_03]: They did not sell tickets.
35:52
[SPEAKER_03]: We mentioned not God.
35:53
[SPEAKER_03]: Everybody came to do it.
35:55
[SPEAKER_03]: So the same as the one of them.
35:58
[SPEAKER_03]: That's just, he does push the envelope.
36:00
[SPEAKER_03]: And, you know, shout them, because he definitely, like, it was through a relationship.
36:05
[SPEAKER_03]: We knew this other dude, he connected us with it.
36:06
[SPEAKER_03]: We had to pay for him.
36:08
[SPEAKER_03]: He came up for free.
36:09
[SPEAKER_03]: How do you get somebody of that caliber free?
36:12
[SPEAKER_03]: We didn't pay for Tyler Perry.
36:14
[SPEAKER_03]: do connections, do, cause we don't see for our view.
36:17
[SPEAKER_03]: And that's what it is.
36:18
[SPEAKER_03]: That's why I said just add value.
36:20
[SPEAKER_03]: Consistently add value to people, they're gonna wanna add value to you.
36:24
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, it's just like this.
36:25
[SPEAKER_03]: You have a, like y'all partner, right?
36:28
[SPEAKER_03]: He might be outworking you sometimes, or you might be outworking him sometimes.
36:33
[SPEAKER_03]: The other person who's gonna feel like damn, I gotta pick up Slack.
36:35
[SPEAKER_03]: I gotta work up.
36:36
[SPEAKER_03]: That's the same thing.
36:37
[SPEAKER_03]: But when you work with partner with people, add value to people,
36:41
[SPEAKER_03]: If you add so much value to their life, they're gonna feel obligated to want to help you.
36:45
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you know what I'm saying, and that's the same thing.
36:48
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38:47
[SPEAKER_00]: Wow, wow, wow, wow.
38:49
[SPEAKER_06]: That is so true.
38:50
[SPEAKER_06]: That is so true, because like even us pie casting.
38:53
[SPEAKER_06]: You know, had some guests where, you know, us adding value was bringing them on the show.
38:58
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, that's what I was looking at.
38:59
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
38:59
[SPEAKER_06]: One of them went out the way.
39:00
[SPEAKER_06]: Like, he was just, like, hey, what can I do for you guys?
39:03
[SPEAKER_06]: Like, like, got to put us on the phone with somebody who goes out and gets people responses with his shows.
39:09
[SPEAKER_06]: And this is like, kind of a little bit early on.
39:11
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
39:11
[SPEAKER_06]: And he didn't have to do that.
39:13
[SPEAKER_06]: Some like, you know, he went on his way to actually do that.
39:16
[SPEAKER_06]: It's because we went out and we provided value to him.
39:18
[SPEAKER_06]: So he was trying to,
39:20
[SPEAKER_05]: In fact, our studio for the longest was through our first guess.
39:25
[SPEAKER_05]: You know what I mean?
39:26
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, that's crazy.
39:27
[SPEAKER_05]: Our first guess is Charles Newton, a big, real estate investor out of New York.
39:32
[SPEAKER_05]: He has a studio out in the story.
39:34
[SPEAKER_05]: He's a very first guess.
39:37
[SPEAKER_05]: He's like, yo, listen, I got a studio.
39:40
[SPEAKER_05]: Y'all could go shoot anytime you want, you know, just let me know.
39:43
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm like, whoa, are you just, that's like, yo, opening your house is doing, but like, yo, just go, I'm not there.
39:48
[SPEAKER_05]: It's cool.
39:49
[SPEAKER_05]: And then from there, that one relationship has literally blessed us to be able to interview dozens and dozens and dozens of people to be able to be the brand that we're all today.
39:59
[SPEAKER_05]: I couldn't have done it all my house.
40:02
[SPEAKER_05]: I couldn't have done it all my house.
40:04
[SPEAKER_05]: You know what I mean?
40:05
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
40:05
[SPEAKER_05]: That's where it came from, that kind of relationship and that value and we've seen it so many times like Tom and Tom again, where it's like y'all like we don't have people coming to show they increased their follower count.
40:17
[SPEAKER_03]: a lot of people make a lot of money, they get more exposure and I'm like all right cool like that's more that's put in more money in their pocket you know what I mean eventually I at some point we'll be able to do some together you know so that's how it looks yeah the power is in the follow-up too yeah out of sight out of mind stay in sight always say yeah what's going on maybe just checking in how you doing you know saying yeah hope was well you know how's the family how you know like it's that that goes a long way
40:43
[SPEAKER_03]: Because a lot of times, like people just don't care about training more, just show what you care, right?
40:47
[SPEAKER_05]: I'm saying, I do want to ask you guys, like, how do you guys find certain rooms to get in?
40:52
[SPEAKER_05]: Like, are you guys connecting with, like, I mean, starting out where you guys connecting with top PR people, you know, like, that's all worked through mouth.
41:01
[SPEAKER_03]: It was all just hitting the streets.
41:03
[SPEAKER_03]: And, you know, going, so you got me as a guest, right?
41:07
[SPEAKER_03]: Now you can go through my following and see who I follow that you want to connect with and that follows me and say yo, can you connect me with them?
41:15
[SPEAKER_03]: Simple as that, it's just like that.
41:17
[SPEAKER_03]: So every guest that you have on, just go through a follow and see if anybody is interested in you that that follows them, they have a direct connect, like if when they de-dem them, it goes straight to the top of their message.
41:28
[SPEAKER_03]: They don't go in the request or vary somewhere.
41:31
[SPEAKER_03]: So they can, you know, listen, I just did interview with these young dudes from New York, they're doing a thing.
41:36
[SPEAKER_03]: They want to connect you with them.
41:38
[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, everybody has a relationship with them because they follow each other.
41:40
[SPEAKER_03]: They have some type of relationship.
41:43
[SPEAKER_03]: So that's how we did it.
41:44
[SPEAKER_05]: How do you know when it's too early to ask for a certain thing, you know what I mean?
41:48
[SPEAKER_03]: They've been on your show, it's not too early.
41:51
[SPEAKER_03]: It's never too early.
41:53
[SPEAKER_03]: If they've been on your show.
41:56
[SPEAKER_06]: It's twenty twenty six and I know that a man is going to be crazy this year I think the world cup every day is like a lot of things going on in Atlanta I know y'all got something crazy probably playing and then it's going to be jam-packed So like what is what is some things coming out from the best best this year?
42:11
[SPEAKER_03]: I see I move the dates up too Well, yeah, I mean, you know the world cup is messing up everything You want we like it really and like late and I'll guess but I mean This year is definitely going to be packed with a lot of education of course
42:25
[SPEAKER_03]: The VIP night, we just got the venue, it's gonna be different.
42:32
[SPEAKER_03]: It's gonna be different, it's gonna be elevated.
42:35
[SPEAKER_03]: It's gonna be high level, high class, bring your black touch type of thing.
42:42
[SPEAKER_03]: It's gonna be real sexy in there.
42:43
[SPEAKER_03]: It ain't gonna be what you used to.
42:45
[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I'm saying?
42:46
[SPEAKER_03]: So that VIP night is gonna,
42:49
[SPEAKER_03]: If you don't have a VIP ticket, you might want to be a VIP ticket this year.
42:54
[SPEAKER_03]: Like if you never have one before, you might want to have one this year.
42:57
[SPEAKER_03]: Because we are pouring into our VIPs this year.
43:01
[SPEAKER_03]: Like...
43:02
[SPEAKER_03]: tenfold.
43:04
[SPEAKER_03]: And as far as the performance, you know, we've got to have somebody great.
43:08
[SPEAKER_03]: We haven't secured anybody, but we've been in talks with some really great people.
43:12
[SPEAKER_03]: So expect the unexpected.
43:15
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
43:16
[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
43:17
[SPEAKER_05]: I know we got to wrap up soon, but on question, I really wanted to know, like, for example, you know, like, you guys have 50 last year.
43:24
[SPEAKER_05]: You know what I mean?
43:25
[SPEAKER_05]: Like,
43:25
[SPEAKER_05]: How do you guys, I mean, I feel like you answered it, but how do you how did that come into play like what was the thought process in picking him?
43:33
[SPEAKER_05]: You know, having him be a headliner and like him saying, yes, city opportunity.
43:38
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, 50, we've been trying to get 50 for since day one.
43:41
[SPEAKER_03]: We want to 50 forever.
43:43
[SPEAKER_03]: We want to know as we still haven't gotten nice.
43:46
[SPEAKER_03]: But they're really trying to reach out to close to know as now.
43:48
[SPEAKER_03]: So they just, they go to dinner all the time.
43:51
[SPEAKER_03]: But I just think, right, time is everything.
43:53
[SPEAKER_03]: Just like 50 cent, the time was perfect.
43:55
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
43:55
[SPEAKER_03]: Obviously, the time was perfect, the guy before the 50 cent.
43:58
[SPEAKER_03]: that it couldn't have been better.
44:00
[SPEAKER_03]: That's the last stage.
44:01
[SPEAKER_03]: He's probably ever going to talk on.
44:03
[SPEAKER_08]: Yeah.
44:03
[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I'm saying?
44:04
[SPEAKER_03]: So, time is everything.
44:06
[SPEAKER_03]: It connected through Tirens Jack.
44:09
[SPEAKER_03]: Tirens Jays really close to Troy and Rashad.
44:11
[SPEAKER_03]: And he, it just came up in conversation.
44:14
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, we really want to get 50, man.
44:16
[SPEAKER_03]: He's like, 50.
44:17
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
44:18
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, fit.
44:20
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, um, I'm going to need you to invest this year.
44:23
[SPEAKER_03]: It was just that simple.
44:24
[SPEAKER_03]: Wow.
44:25
[SPEAKER_03]: It's about your, all about your network.
44:27
[SPEAKER_03]: Wow.
44:28
[SPEAKER_03]: We met, we met, met, turned Jay through our friend, M.G.
44:31
[SPEAKER_03]: The Morgan's got.
44:32
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
44:33
[SPEAKER_03]: So, it's just all, it's a small world.
44:37
[SPEAKER_03]: If it's a small world on the other side, you just got to use a correct, that's definitely true.
44:42
[SPEAKER_03]: You got to use correctly.
44:43
[SPEAKER_06]: How do you guys, like, especially like early on, like how are you guys able to handle certain things that come with, which you know, having a platform?
44:51
[SPEAKER_06]: Like some people might want favors like hey put me on the show and then you know y'all got a paper You quit me y'all got certain things y'all got a good one.
44:58
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, how are y'all able to navigate you know That side of the business, but what do you mean like put me on a show who's like like?
45:06
[SPEAKER_06]: Let's say it could be somebody who you know something.
45:08
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, you possibly.
45:09
[SPEAKER_03]: Whoa, might not be that you got to protect the brand at all course Yeah, if the if the if the brand doesn't
45:17
[SPEAKER_03]: Like for instance, in Vesfest, you can't just put anybody on stage.
45:20
[SPEAKER_03]: I could have been on stage the first year, but I wasn't ready.
45:24
[SPEAKER_03]: I didn't feel ready, I didn't put the work in, I put my reps in, I had to work up to that, right?
45:28
[SPEAKER_03]: So, I didn't feel deserve, I own Vesfest.
45:31
[SPEAKER_03]: I didn't feel deserving to be on that platform.
45:34
[SPEAKER_03]: I had to put my work in before I can feel like I deserve to be on this platform.
45:39
[SPEAKER_03]: So, goes the same way with it.
45:42
[SPEAKER_03]: If you're doing it for yourself, you should be doing it for everyone else.
45:45
[SPEAKER_03]: They have to put in the work to be able to fill the right to be on your platform.
45:51
[SPEAKER_03]: And the most powerful word in the dictionary is no.
45:55
[SPEAKER_03]: It's the hardest word to say, but it's the most powerful word because that gives you space for more yeses.
46:01
[SPEAKER_03]: But every note that you say, you get more space to say yes, to something else, right?
46:07
[SPEAKER_03]: I just, I just committed to saying, I'm not going to say yes to businesses that need to grow their business because it takes too much of my time.
46:16
[SPEAKER_03]: Like businesses that just start off, I can't, I don't have the capacity to put in the
46:24
[SPEAKER_03]: grow your business from from the bottom for the ground.
46:26
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't.
46:27
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't have the capacity.
46:28
[SPEAKER_03]: My boy just asked me, can you help him?
46:30
[SPEAKER_03]: I said, I'm sorry I can't.
46:32
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, you get some momentum, some motion from the back of probably asking fire to that.
46:37
[SPEAKER_03]: But I just don't have the capacity.
46:38
[SPEAKER_03]: But that no opens me up to work on a different project that could add more value to me right now.
46:44
[SPEAKER_03]: Right.
46:46
[SPEAKER_06]: And I did want to ask too, like, when I was, when I first started
46:53
[SPEAKER_06]: Like how did you start like monetizing like early on like was it like to guessing with the job when did you introduce digital products to the side of your business?
47:01
[SPEAKER_03]: Whoa
47:02
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't even think we have digital projects yet to this day.
47:05
[SPEAKER_03]: But we started with this cycle anchor.
47:08
[SPEAKER_03]: I think Spotify owns them now.
47:10
[SPEAKER_03]: But we started with Anchor, and Anchor, like we were getting a lot of downloads really fast from like early on, like in the first month, I think we started monetizing.
47:19
[SPEAKER_03]: We were making like $900 a month for our first month.
47:21
[SPEAKER_03]: And we bought a mic.
47:22
[SPEAKER_03]: We bought our first mic our first month.
47:24
[SPEAKER_03]: So, you know, Anchor was the first monetization.
47:26
[SPEAKER_03]: It took like eight months to monetize on YouTube.
47:28
[SPEAKER_03]: So it took a long time monetize on YouTube.
47:32
[SPEAKER_03]: By the time we started my enticing on YouTube, we were making like maybe four or five thousand a month on anchor.
47:39
[SPEAKER_03]: So that was a blessing because more people were watching on audio than you're watching our video.
47:44
[SPEAKER_03]: But then we started in January and October released E-WI University.
47:49
[SPEAKER_03]: That's our community.
47:50
[SPEAKER_03]: That was when.
47:52
[SPEAKER_03]: And literally it went from 4,000 members from the October to like December we had 4,000 members.
48:00
[SPEAKER_03]: So in two months we had 4,000 members, right?
48:03
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think we were charged like $100 a month or so.
48:06
[SPEAKER_03]: So that, that, once that happened,
48:10
[SPEAKER_03]: We were able to pour back into our business and get more, you know, more stuff.
48:14
[SPEAKER_03]: And we were able to build the studio out and things like that just pouring back into the business.
48:19
[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah.
48:20
[SPEAKER_03]: and you know, do events, do real like live events, and stuff, we just, we were just able to, like, move a little bit more, right?
48:28
[SPEAKER_03]: Higher people.
48:29
[SPEAKER_03]: So that, the community's the most, do you have a community?
48:32
[SPEAKER_03]: We do.
48:34
[SPEAKER_03]: How's that going?
48:35
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it's free, but we're not.
48:36
[SPEAKER_03]: We've been talking for 45 minutes.
48:38
[SPEAKER_03]: I hate, I hate you mention the community once.
48:40
[SPEAKER_03]: We did.
48:41
[SPEAKER_06]: We, well, we started one.
48:42
[SPEAKER_05]: We started one like two, three times, but right now we, yeah, you answered, bro.
48:47
[SPEAKER_05]: It basically, we have one, but it's not really pumping, you know what I mean?
48:52
[SPEAKER_03]: Because the leadership in the community, the leadership is the most important thing.
48:55
[SPEAKER_03]: You lead that thing into the people take over and lead it for you.
48:59
[SPEAKER_03]: But it has to have good leadership.
49:01
[SPEAKER_03]: right, and that's what we provided.
49:03
[SPEAKER_03]: We were all in that community pouring into that community and connecting with everybody and now it runs on its own.
49:09
[SPEAKER_03]: We don't even have to be in the community and it's still going to run.
49:11
[SPEAKER_03]: Plus they're making a lot of money from all these different colors they're getting from, you know, Troy and whatnot.
49:15
[SPEAKER_03]: So, but the community, like I said in the beginning, the community's going to allow you to grow every branch of your tree.
49:24
[SPEAKER_03]: Simple and important.
49:25
[SPEAKER_03]: Wow.
49:25
[SPEAKER_03]: So don't don't take that community lightly and when you start it back up It needs to be mentioned every podcast EYL University EYL University.
49:33
[SPEAKER_03]: EYL University.
49:34
[SPEAKER_03]: Makes sense.
49:35
[SPEAKER_05]: The business engine.
49:36
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, makes sense
49:38
[SPEAKER_05]: so any as far as like what you guys know like where you know you probably might see other podcasts or other influencer or other people in the space where they may be dropping the ball like what's you know some advice that that you always share that you always come and see I see people doing the same thing over and over again they try to
49:59
[SPEAKER_03]: They talk about financial literacy, this and I have to do it the same thing and they after they get burned out after six to seven months, you won't see them no more.
50:09
[SPEAKER_03]: Because you're not connecting, you're not hitting the album because you're not doing that different.
50:14
[SPEAKER_03]: If you're going to do something, do something that no one else is doing.
50:18
[SPEAKER_03]: You know when we started our religion, nobody was in hoodies talking about financial literacy.
50:22
[SPEAKER_03]: Literally, it's sometimes it's just one thing got to change and it'll change everything for you Like you change one thing you ability to change everything for you Yeah, and that's the one thing I would say is just do something that no one else is doing Right, and it don't have to it could still be talking about financial literacy But it might be you know talking in a sauna or something or talking in a bank or something You're just talking like just doing something that's like unauthorized Yeah, you know I'm saying because that that that was our that was our visual hook the hoodies and so
50:52
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, these dudes is black, 30s, and that's all about financial literacy, what?
50:56
[SPEAKER_03]: It's usually just that one little thing.
50:59
[SPEAKER_03]: That was awesome.
51:01
[SPEAKER_05]: So I do have one last question before we wrap.
51:03
[SPEAKER_05]: So one thing I do realize with you guys, you guys started a show within the show.
51:08
[SPEAKER_05]: You guys have black out, is it black out or black out?
51:15
[SPEAKER_05]: Black out, that more is more of an uncut and then you also got the realist, not, do you guys have like a real estate segment as well?
51:24
[SPEAKER_03]: No, we have blackout, market money isn't EYL.
51:27
[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, so my question is like, when it comes to doing like networks like within a show, is that like a bad, you know, business, like, what should it take or not?
51:37
[SPEAKER_03]: I wouldn't, if you if you start as a network, that's cool, but if you like we start as our new leisure, and if you're not,
51:47
[SPEAKER_03]: If the algorithm says we find that you're literacy, putting something else is not finding your literacy on a platform, is not going to be beneficial to that platform.
51:56
[SPEAKER_04]: Let me see this.
51:57
[SPEAKER_03]: So if you started at motion next success, whatever industry you decide to be in, stay focused to that one industry, I like to say focus on the problem niche.
52:10
[SPEAKER_03]: That should be your thing.
52:11
[SPEAKER_03]: Whatever that problem is in that side of that niche, that's what you should focus on, because that gives you that small little gut, that can widen the audience to your liking.
52:20
[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I'm saying?
52:21
[SPEAKER_03]: So that's what I was saying.
52:23
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
52:23
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
52:24
[SPEAKER_06]: I started going like global now, like you're doing events a year.
52:27
[SPEAKER_03]: Learn this a lot.
52:28
[SPEAKER_06]: I'm running Africa.
52:28
[SPEAKER_06]: A lot of people that need us.
52:30
[SPEAKER_06]: How has that been going like?
52:32
[SPEAKER_06]: Because I know.
52:33
[SPEAKER_06]: In different places, like, you know, I talk about investing in
52:37
[SPEAKER_03]: U.S. stock markets like how is like this financial literacy in America translate out to 100% is just it's just important as it's here is important out there and a lot of people think like places you know countries in Africa are starving and pouring there's a lot of money moving in there it's a lot of opportunity in there just think that they're just you're you're seeing the future when you go to Africa because
53:07
[SPEAKER_03]: You know at the bottom at the ground zero before it blows up and get things for less like if you got by and property Again property by businesses again businesses at the low level at the ground level before it's Extremely expensive like Dubai.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you went into Dubai like 12 years ago.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you up right now But you didn't now.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I was just chance to go into Africa go to Ghana You know go to Nigeria go to all these different countries
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[SPEAKER_03]: and now you can get on ground level and get a part of that piece of that legacy that history and really monetize like crazy from it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So it's a lot of people that need our information, need our impact.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's the fun.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So that's what we're doing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We're expanding.
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[SPEAKER_06]: That's definitely impactful.
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[SPEAKER_06]: And I didn't want to actually know about Fatherhood.
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[SPEAKER_06]: You know, how is it?
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[SPEAKER_03]: And like, you know, especially greatest gift in life.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That is the best thing that's ever happened to me.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's becoming a father.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if you are a father yet, but...
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[SPEAKER_03]: The day I become a father that is going to be probably the best day of your life.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Because now my sons again, they look up to me.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They follow me and everything I do they want to do.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's the greatest feeling in the world, you know what I'm saying?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Being a husband, it's the greatest compliment to myself that I've ever, my wife has made me such a better human being all around.
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[SPEAKER_03]: that I would like that is just priceless on on marriage.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Like people look at marriage as a deaf sentence, like my life ends, my life just started become something married.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's the fact.
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[SPEAKER_06]: And how is it like, you know,
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[SPEAKER_06]: What would you recommend for like guys like us like yeah, sometimes we sit here and we talk about it like You know, we might just wait till we get to the top to settle down before oh and like you think it's a good idea Plus I will be a tension too.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know how old y'all 26 Right now y'all should be focused on building your brand Yeah, once you build your brand like you said once you get to the top everything else will follow Yeah, it's the fact you know saying and you want to make sure that you have somebody that's only at the same level Right you don't want to have to be whistle and now that
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[SPEAKER_03]: might not be able to grow with you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So you get committed to this relationship and you start growing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They start showing animosity, hatred, because you're up here and they're still down here.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They're not able to grow.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They don't see the vision and it just pulls you down, pulls you down.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So instead of being pulled down, you focus on the back, focus on the business, focus on the vision and as when you get to this level.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Not only do
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[SPEAKER_03]: You have access to more people, but the view up here is a little different than the view down here.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Tell you that much.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's true.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's definitely true, man.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Any fun of words before we cut?
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[SPEAKER_03]: You're listening, man.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I really love what you're doing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: God inspired me.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, it brings that fire back to see like people.
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[SPEAKER_03]: coming to things that we created and making something out of it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That just is a beautiful feeling.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That tells me that we're doing something that we're supposed to be doing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We are living in our purpose, you know.
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[SPEAKER_03]: My purpose, I feel like is helping people.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I think that me being a part of it and vests fast and Arneelysia has been really monumental to my life and being able to add to other people's life.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's truly fulfilling, so I appreciate y'all and I think y'all.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I appreciate you guys, you know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Like, without you guys, you know, having that event or even making that final decision, like, yo, let's go wall in, let's go do this.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So let's go, you know, drop this bag in this.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I remember that day.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, you know, I'm going to have a pocket.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's what we had to pay for the first event.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Wow.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We took all our own money.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Damn.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And we wasn't, we wasn't where we was today.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That one point too, if it were went back.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They've been no more nothing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So we've risked it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We've risked it all in the middle of COVID.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Wow.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But sometimes you've got to risk to see success, you know?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Without struggle, there's no success.
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[SPEAKER_03]: but I appreciate your appreciate you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Follow me.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Michael Jim McDonald on Instagram.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Michael Jim McDonald, appreciate you for coming through, man.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I greatly appreciate, appreciate this episode.
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[SPEAKER_05]: This interview has been amazing, man.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You guys inspired me from the day one.
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[SPEAKER_05]: At first I had no idea of starting a podcast and next to you two weeks later, I have to leave an advice for us.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We have a podcast.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And that's been, you know, amazing since then.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So appreciate you and the whole scene that you guys are doing amazing.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Keep in touch, man.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I'm here.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Let me keep this mic right there.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But there we go.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Appreciate you guys.