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What does it take? - 40 Under 40 with Viktor Gorgjieski · Teach Me Something Hosted By DJ Prostyle & Penny Dellas

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  Speaker 1: Hey, what's up.
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  Speaker 2: This is DJ pro Style and this is Penny Deellas.
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  Speaker 1: And this is Teach Me Something.
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  Speaker 3: Brought to you by Berkeley College.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome back to
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  Speaker 1: Teach Me Something, presented by Berkeley College. I am Pro
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  Speaker 1: Style and.
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  Speaker 2: I am Penny Dellas.
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  Speaker 4: How are you doing today, Penny?
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing phenomenally well. How are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing great.
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  Speaker 2: I love that outfit. I've seen it before, exclusive.
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  Speaker 3: I love it. I love it. And the Yankees we're
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  Speaker 3: not rocking the next.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the Colors didn't go it.
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  Speaker 4: Did I didn't have the.
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  Speaker 2: Great No, very monochromatic today, But I'm glad you said
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  Speaker 2: that because I am. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, but I love it because we're very monochromatic,
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  Speaker 3: business oriented. For the guests that we have today. We
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  Speaker 3: have doctor Victor Georgieski.
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  Speaker 1: Stop.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, you say the name.
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  Speaker 1: If I must said it, Victor George, you have to
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  Speaker 1: like you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, GEORGEI right pretty close?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, No, No, they can't fumble a name. That's unprofessional.
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  Speaker 3: And my name is so complicated.
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  Speaker 4: I hate when people jumping in. It was supposed to
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  Speaker 4: be funny. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Victor is not only a doctor but also the director
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  Speaker 3: of the Business Elite Awards, a globally recognized platform honoring
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  Speaker 3: excellence in business leadership. Since twenty nineteen, he leads the
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  Speaker 3: organization Strategic Vision Global Operations, connecting top innovators and change
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  Speaker 3: makers across international markets.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the pod, Victor.
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  Speaker 5: It's an honor to be here. I'm so happy that
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  Speaker 5: I can join your podcast. I've been following it for
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  Speaker 5: a while and I can say that you're great. You're
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  Speaker 5: doing an amazing job.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you so much. Pro's going to take all
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  Speaker 2: the credit.
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  Speaker 4: I know you're going to say.
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  Speaker 3: That, no, but thank you so much for flying in
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  Speaker 3: from Toronto. We're so pleased that you're here with us.
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  Speaker 2: How was the trip.
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  Speaker 4: It was short, It's fine. Yeah, it's a quick trip
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  Speaker 4: by Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: The thing is, I'm here also for the gala dinner
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  Speaker 5: that is happening tomorrow night, May twenty seven, Redges on
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  Speaker 5: New York, where will be honoring the forty honorees for
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  Speaker 5: the New York edition for twenty twenty six. And I'm
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  Speaker 5: using this opportunity as well to congratulate Penny, who will
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  Speaker 5: be part of that gala as well.
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  Speaker 2: As forty under forty crew.
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  Speaker 5: So her profile stood out from more than three thousand
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  Speaker 5: nominations that we received for the New York edition this year,
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  Speaker 5: and which speaks of her great personality and great professional
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  Speaker 5: career investment that she had in the past.
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  Speaker 4: So congratulations had.
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  Speaker 2: Made Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Now I'm blushing on a second episode.
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  Speaker 1: The pleasure, I know, right, so pro it's crazy because
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  Speaker 1: I thought you really just flew here to watch our
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  Speaker 1: next play.
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  Speaker 5: Well I would have been gone by by by by
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  Speaker 5: now after last night. Oh yeah, but I was here
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  Speaker 5: for the celebration though, Yeah, yeah, oh good, it was
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  Speaker 5: really fun.
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  Speaker 4: Oh good.
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  Speaker 2: Take us to the beginning. Your journey began in New Pouls.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, right, well it began a little bit earlier. Uh. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I finish high school in Oklahoma actually. Uh.
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  Speaker 5: Then after high school, I went for two years in
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  Speaker 5: uh Athens, Greece.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: And then I transferred too soon in New Pouls after
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  Speaker 5: two years of university, and I graduated at the State
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  Speaker 5: University of New Pouls Ah. So uh, basically it's it's
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  Speaker 5: I feel in New York. I feel like at home
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  Speaker 5: because also I've I've worked here afterwards as well.
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  Speaker 3: So let's be honest. Out of all of those places
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  Speaker 3: you mentioned, Greece was the best, right, I.
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  Speaker 1: Know, we're going to go back to Greece.
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  Speaker 4: I have to be honest and I are both Greek.
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  Speaker 4: Let's be real.
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  Speaker 2: We're not biased.
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  Speaker 5: If I have to, if if you have to do,
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  Speaker 5: if you have to put them in one category, maybe,
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  Speaker 5: but I wouldn't put New York in any especially in Mahaddan,
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  Speaker 5: in any force. Yeah, that's that's that's pretty separate from
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  Speaker 5: anything else. Like it's it's one thing and all the
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  Speaker 5: rest is another thing. And Athens stops the others. So
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  Speaker 5: I would put the New York aside. You can compare
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  Speaker 5: it to anything else, every country, you can compare it
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  Speaker 5: to anything else. It's New York and the rest. And
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  Speaker 5: from the rest, I would put Sydney and Athens on
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  Speaker 5: the top.
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  Speaker 4: There. I love that.
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  Speaker 3: So you served as a diplomat at the Consulate General
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  Speaker 3: of the Republic of North Macedonia. Correct, How does that
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  Speaker 3: transition come to play well?
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  Speaker 5: I studied My major was international relations at university and
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  Speaker 5: masters and the doctoral degrees in political science and international relations.
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  Speaker 5: I also did six month internship at the un here
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  Speaker 5: in New York. Basically it was it was a natural
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  Speaker 5: flow of my international relations career. On the post at
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  Speaker 5: the Consulate here, I was actually in the economic part
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  Speaker 5: of the of the of the Consulate, where I was
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  Speaker 5: responsible for attracting, for presenting North Macedonia's capacity for attracting
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  Speaker 5: foreign investment and trying to pursue and convince American companies
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  Speaker 5: to go.
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  Speaker 4: And invest there.
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  Speaker 5: So that was my main responsibility, and I had an
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  Speaker 5: opportunity to work with huge American companies like Hershey's, like
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  Speaker 5: top top American companies, and I understood back then that
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  Speaker 5: networking is key if you want to succeed in life
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  Speaker 5: and especially business. Networking if you want to succeed in business.
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  Speaker 5: So basically that helped me understand how the importance of
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  Speaker 5: networking and for me to the decision to continue that
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  Speaker 5: path was pretty easy because I understood that's something that
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  Speaker 5: I want to do in the future as well. When
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  Speaker 5: in twenty nineteen, together with a group of very successful
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  Speaker 5: entrepreneurs or managers that sit at the Advisory board since then,
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  Speaker 5: decided that we and will go ahead and create a
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  Speaker 5: platform to help businessmen and business women around the world
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  Speaker 5: connect and be able to expand their network their business networks.
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  Speaker 3: That is a common theme that we've seen over the
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  Speaker 3: past three seasons on this podcast. Now every single person
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  Speaker 3: that comes on this pod speaks about network.
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  Speaker 1: You're only as big as your network.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, well that's saying network your net worth is your network.
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  Speaker 5: It's yeah, it's it's it's pretty uh accurate. It's pretty accurate,
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  Speaker 5: and it's used a lot in the past. Globalization has
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  Speaker 5: helped a lot to easn the path to to to
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  Speaker 5: building bigger networks, especially globally now and everything is moving
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  Speaker 5: towards that and all all these advancement in technology and
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  Speaker 5: the way we leave now it makes it easier to
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  Speaker 5: to connect. However, it makes it harder to select who
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  Speaker 5: you connect to. Us much so much out there, and
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  Speaker 5: you have to be really careful who what channels you
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  Speaker 5: use in order to find the right people you you
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  Speaker 5: connect to, because it's not just the connection, it's how
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  Speaker 5: how important that connection is to you and what can
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  Speaker 5: bring yeah, and what it can bring you as well,
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  Speaker 5: whether it.
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  Speaker 4: Will hurt you or help you. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: So basically we're we're doing uh the best we can
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  Speaker 5: do in order to filtering. Uh Yeah, that that pull
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  Speaker 5: of potential UH candidates who who we believe that can
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  Speaker 5: and that everyone that joins the programs will benefit from
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  Speaker 5: being part of it and knowing those people there.
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  Speaker 4: I love that.
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  Speaker 2: It's all about nurturing those relationships, right.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of really it's really we say.
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  Speaker 3: We connect with someone, we're going to follow up. We
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  Speaker 3: don't follow up because we're so bombarded by the accelerated
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  Speaker 3: consumption that it's hard to keep those relationships. So you
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  Speaker 3: really have to be intentional about networking you do.
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  Speaker 4: But also there is another aspect of it.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: The more you have in common with that person, the
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  Speaker 5: easier is for the relation to be nurtured. How many
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  Speaker 5: friends do you have from the past that you haven't
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  Speaker 5: spoken to in five years, but when you talk.
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  Speaker 4: To them, it's there, it's yeah, like you've been talking.
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  Speaker 1: High yeah all the time. So I talk to people
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  Speaker 1: I haven't told to like ten years, but we spent yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I tell people too, because everyone's lives get busy,
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  Speaker 1: and I tell people all the time, like you don't
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  Speaker 1: have to. If we don't speak all the time, that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean that we're not cool. No, we're not right
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  Speaker 1: this life. We're going in different directions right now, when
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  Speaker 1: we collide again in an a season, all leve laws.
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  Speaker 5: Right, Well, there is the emotions that connect you basically
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  Speaker 5: and what your brain remembers from the past. But here
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  Speaker 5: in business is your interests. So if you have the
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  Speaker 5: same values with someone on ethical or ambition or whatever values,
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  Speaker 5: and you share those values, you don't have to be
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  Speaker 5: very persistent in nurturing it.
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  Speaker 4: It will nurture naturally and there will be a flow
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  Speaker 4: in that relationship.
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  Speaker 5: So that's what we are trying to achieve, is because
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  Speaker 5: after every single gala that we organize, the feeling of
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  Speaker 5: the participants is that I've known these people here. I
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  Speaker 5: feel like I've known these people here for the for
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  Speaker 5: my entire life. And that feeling comes because they share ambition,
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  Speaker 5: they want to succeed. They're young, and they know that
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  Speaker 5: that they are young, but they know that they want
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  Speaker 5: to SUCs and they know that the path to succeed
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  Speaker 5: is with hard work, with dedication, with expanding your network and.
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  Speaker 4: All of that.
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  Speaker 5: It takes a lot of sacrifice to do it, and
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  Speaker 5: they're ready to sacrifice. And everyone is sacrificing a lot in.
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  Speaker 4: Order to be successful. Right, It's pretty simple.
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  Speaker 1: Well, talking about Gallas, yeah, and talking about being young. Right,
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  Speaker 1: you serve as the director of the Business Elite Awards
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  Speaker 1: and between us, what does it take to qualify for
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  Speaker 1: the forty under forty.
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  Speaker 4: We have different different selection criteria.
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  Speaker 5: That that's that we use as guidelines to who we
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  Speaker 5: invite and who we don't. Yet what we focus mostly
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  Speaker 5: on is ambition because basically, by being forty you cannot
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  Speaker 5: really achieve much in profession. You study until twenty for
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  Speaker 5: twenty five, then maybe you do some other programs where
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  Speaker 5: you shape your profile. But basically we're looking for active
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  Speaker 5: candidates who are active in different fields, they're active in life.
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  Speaker 5: They want the profile shows that they want to achieve something,
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  Speaker 5: and ambition is our key and the key determinating the
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  Speaker 5: determination factor that we look for in the candidates. For example,
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  Speaker 5: Penny here, she's not just doing her job at the
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  Speaker 5: Berkeley College. She's doing this, dedicating time to do this.
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  Speaker 5: She's dedicating time to do all the other stuff she's doing.
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  Speaker 5: She's out there and doing it, managing her time, managing
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  Speaker 5: her activities. So basically that's what we are looking for.
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  Speaker 5: We are not looking for someone that is procrastinating. We're
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  Speaker 5: looking for someone that is taking action that is active,
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  Speaker 5: shows initiative and because you might not be very successful
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  Speaker 5: by forty, but if you were willing to sacrifice and
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  Speaker 5: to work and to and you're capable of managing your
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  Speaker 5: your your life and your time, then you will certainly
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  Speaker 5: succeed at a certain point. So basically, the first on
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  Speaker 5: res in twenty nineteen. Now they are forty seven, some
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  Speaker 5: of them for example, you know, so they're not under
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  Speaker 5: forty and most of the cases that that that that
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  Speaker 5: that we have an examples that we are using in
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  Speaker 5: order to show our up our past on orisi's uh success.
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  Speaker 5: So basically that shows us that we our selection criteria
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  Speaker 5: is correct and and that we're doing a great job
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  Speaker 5: with it.
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  Speaker 2: That's amazing.
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  Speaker 3: The number one question I always get, whether it's like
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  Speaker 3: Instagram questions or TikTok is how do you do everything
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  Speaker 3: you do with the same twenty four hours? And I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: will you sleep a little less? And sometimes plate falls?
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  Speaker 3: We're all human. Not everything is going to run how
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  Speaker 3: we expect it to run. But you do the best
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  Speaker 3: that you can, and you learn from your actions and
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  Speaker 3: you improve as time goes on. That bro, it's going
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  Speaker 3: to start writing our scripts moving forward, giving me a
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  Speaker 3: little bit more.
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  Speaker 1: No, I've been always busy.
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  Speaker 2: I've always stayed active.
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  Speaker 1: You know what, when you when you stay really active,
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  Speaker 1: it becomes so natural, so natural that to you, you're
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  Speaker 1: not doing anything. We're just going my whole life. People,
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  Speaker 1: when do you sleep? Because you do this and this
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  Speaker 1: and this and this, and I'm like it in my head,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm not doing.
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  Speaker 2: Right sometimes but I can be doing more.
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  Speaker 1: But i feel like I'm not doing enough.
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  Speaker 3: But we hold ourselves to a higher standard and that
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  Speaker 3: sometimes can be a downfall, but.
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  Speaker 5: We get but it's better better than that way. And
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  Speaker 5: in terms of mistakes, we all make mistakes. But it's
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  Speaker 5: better to decide on something and act than just put
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  Speaker 5: it under the the carpet and and and wait for
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  Speaker 5: it to solve by itself.
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  Speaker 3: So, speaking of advice, Victor, for those listening to us today,
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  Speaker 3: what piece of advice would you give an aspiring business professional?
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  Speaker 5: Uh, don't give up. That's that's something. If you have
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  Speaker 5: something in mind, try it. It will It might seem
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  Speaker 5: that it will cost you something at the beginning, but
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  Speaker 5: if you don't try it, you'll never know if you'll succeed.
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  Speaker 5: And and that's something I I wanna give advice to
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  Speaker 5: to the ones that are making their mind whether to
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  Speaker 5: to to do it, because we all have some feelings
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  Speaker 5: about something and we imagine something based on our past
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  Speaker 5: experience and what we are character wise u.
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  Speaker 4: Shaped.
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  Speaker 5: But if you feel that something might work and it
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  Speaker 5: will be better for you, you just just try it. If
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  Speaker 5: you fail, it will teach you a lesson and you'll
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  Speaker 5: know basically what might happen in the future. But if
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  Speaker 5: you if you if your gut tells you that you
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  Speaker 5: should do it, you should do it. Risk something, whether
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  Speaker 5: it's time or money or whatever it takes. Risk it,
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  Speaker 5: but try it. If you don't try it, you'll you'll
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  Speaker 5: fail for sure.
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  Speaker 2: That does That's beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes our gut feelings are the best, whether it's not
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  Speaker 3: to do something or do something. You have to follow
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  Speaker 3: your intuition.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's not it didn't come from the sky.
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  Speaker 5: It's based on your experience, based on what you like,
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  Speaker 5: based on what you envision yourself in the future. So
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  Speaker 5: it's not that someone told you you should try this.
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  Speaker 5: If it comes from from your gut, it's it's something
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  Speaker 5: that you really need to try it. And if you fail,
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  Speaker 5: that's fine, But if you succeed, then it's it's another story.
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  Speaker 4: And you failed it. If you haven't tried it from.
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  Speaker 3: The story, it's a better way to end this segment.
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  Speaker 3: I think, person try it and see what happens. Yeah, Victor,
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  Speaker 3: thank you so much for.
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  Speaker 2: Being with us. We're gonna tag business leader words.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna tag Victor so y'all can connect with him,
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  Speaker 3: get some business advice, expand your network, right your net worth,
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  Speaker 3: and also.
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  Speaker 2: Follow the Elite Awards. Maybe we'll get pro fifty under
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  Speaker 2: and fifty. Maybe we always grow pro. Thanks for listening, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Until next time, This is Teach Me Something, presented by
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  Speaker 1: Berkeley College.
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  Speaker 2: I am Penny Dollas, I am pro Stout.
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  Speaker 4: See you soon.
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  Speaker 2: Bye, Hey, thanks for listening. Tune in next
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  Speaker 1: Week for all new episode of Teach Me Something, brought
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  Speaker 1: to you by Berkeley College.