Asking Wealthy Americans How They Got Rich!

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We went to Miami Florida and I went around interviewing the most successful business moguls in the city including even the founder of solid core, Anne Mahlum.
A couple months ago, I interviewed one of the richest self-made women in the entire world.
Excuse me, ma'am. Ma'am, question for you. Is this your Bentley?
Uh, yes, it is.
And what do you do for living out here in Miami to be able to afford a Bentley?
I'm an entrepreneur, an investor.
How long have you been a business owner?
Oh my gosh, well, I'm no longer really a business owner. I sold it in 2023.
You sold your company?
I sold my company, yeah.
How much?
For me, my equity shares were worth about 90 million.
90 billion dollars?
Yeah.
So how much was the total company sold for?
Well, the company was valued at the time a little over 300 million.
That video got over 30 million views across social media.
That's Ann Malem.
And she sold her business and made over 90 million dollars in a single day.
She's got a hundred million dollar net worth, you guys.
And I flew all the way out to Miami to go to her house and interview her.
Get the actual blueprint and the secret to get rich in today's world.
So this video is about to be insane from start to finish.
With that being said, let's get this video on the way.
All right, you guys.
So we're going to be linking up with the nine-figure mogul, Ann Malem, very soon.
Before we do that, look, I'm in one of the wealthiest parts of Miami right now
in the design district to go around to find eight-figure, nine-figure billionaire entrepreneurs
to figure out how they created their wealth in one of the richest cities in the entire world.
Let's go see who we can find out here.
Excuse me, ma'am.
Ma'am, question for you.
How old were you when you became a millionaire?
I know you.
I was 23.
Are you an entrepreneur?
Yes.
How long have you been a business owner?
Six years now.
Do you think I can interview you for a minute for the channel real quick?
Is that cool?
Yes, I would love to.
Let's do it.
What was the turning point to becoming an entrepreneur?
I left Saudi Arabia when I was 18.
My dad called me and he's like,
I know you're 18, but I can't send you money anymore because his business was failing.
He was also an entrepreneur.
And when your back is against the wall, you always end up figuring it out.
So I don't pray on anyone for their back to be against the wall,
but it is probably the biggest blessing.
Like when you have no way out, you make a way no matter what.
Did you hit rock bottom?
Yes, because I was literally 18 going to university.
I had to work two, three jobs to provide for me and my family.
As 18, for someone that lived in Saudi where the culture is women don't work,
so suddenly I'm working all these jobs trying to figure out why I had even a broken English.
So that's why I always tell women,
there is no reason why you couldn't make it in this life.
Broken English, background, this family, this whatever your past is,
take that, take all the lessons and use it to just make a lot of money.
What was the most amount of money that you made in a single year?
It will be this year.
How much?
We're on track to make 20 million, me and my business partners.
Are you serious?
Yes.
20 million?
I know.
That's incredible.
Like how did you scale from a one to a $10 million company?
The most important thing is hire people that are better than you in your company
because I don't know it all and I know I don't know it all.
I'm not the smartest but you know what happens to the smartest people?
They're always the brokest.
Why?
Because smart people, they're overthinking, overanalyzing, they need it to be perfect
and when you want something to be perfect, there's someone,
half your talent, half your luck, half your intelligence,
already making moves and making millions because they're faster, they're bolder,
they figure it out along the way.
Most people want to have all the plan before they move.
Just move.
You will figure everything in the doing.
It's not in the thinking.
That's why they always say that the A students always end up working for the C student.
Yeah, I was a C student.
Did you have anybody that doubted you?
Everyone.
A Middle Eastern, like Middle Eastern women are more like, you know,
just have kids, sit at home.
That was the culture that I was in.
Obedience is what I was taught my whole life.
Just be obedient, listen to the man, like your little voice, be quiet.
But the side of me that reveled is what made me successful and free.
So you're good at selling?
Oh, if it's one thing to make you rich as a woman, sales, branding.
You will never be broke.
If you have a brand, you'll never be broke.
Everyone's literally throwing opportunities at you.
Like, please do this with me.
Please speak here.
Please sell this.
So give me a million dollars worth of branding advice right here.
People are not nice anymore on social media.
They don't give chances anymore.
So if you want to blow up on social media and you want people to respect you, two things.
Number one, they're not going to give you a chance to make sure whatever you're saying
in the first three seconds is going to trigger them.
And sometimes that could be something positive that you're going to say or negative.
But the hook, the first three seconds is more important than the video.
If you look at my Instagram reels,
the first three seconds is when people like they don't even watch the full video.
Then another thing is always giving perspective shifts.
If you're someone that says something that is maybe controversial,
or maybe it's not the normal or what people are used to listening.
If you give perspective shifts on why you believe whatever you believe,
people are going to respect it, even if they don't believe it.
And then you can charge high prices for whatever you try.
Some of the best branding advice that I ever heard was that the best personal brands are
superheroes because they fundamentally stand for and against something.
You have to be willing to like die on that hill that you're making.
You have to polarize.
Controversy is not a bad thing.
You have to be hated.
Look at the most successful people.
Elon Musk hated.
Trump hated.
Andrew Tate hated.
Kim Kardashian hated.
But then there is that other side that people love them and adore them for whatever they do.
Whether you like them or not, they're successful.
They're billionaires for a reason.
And they're not rich.
They're wealthy.
Yes.
The more heat you can get as an entrepreneur, the more successful you're going to get.
If you don't want heat, you don't want the people talking about you,
I think just working a job is nice.
You've got amazing advice.
Thank you so much for your time.
I appreciate that.
It was good to meet you.
So nice meeting you.
Keep crushing it.
One thing about you, your consistency is unheard of.
And I love that.
And I already know the billionaire status is happening
because people our age, they're not doing it like that.
They're not consistent.
So I'm proud of you.
Thank you so much.
I appreciate that.
You guys, we just ran into a 26-year-old multi-millionaire
who's going to do $20 million this year at her business.
She's from the Middle East.
Got her out here in Miami.
And she just gave a million dollars worth of game during that entire interview.
Miami's going crazy right now.
We got to keep this one rolling and go get another one, you guys.
Come on.
Excuse me, guys.
Who's the richest person here?
Who's the richest one here?
How did you get rich?
I own one of the largest tanning salon franchises in the world.
What's that?
I own one of the largest tanning salon franchises in the world.
So you own tanning salons?
Yes, sir.
How many?
We're currently up to like 270.
So tanning salons made you rich?
Tanning salons made me wealthy, yes.
How wealthy?
What is your net worth?
I'll let you guess.
More than 10 million?
Over that, yeah.
50?
A little over that.
More than 100 million?
A little over that.
Over $100 million?
Yes, yes.
So if you lost everything tomorrow, could you make it all back?
What would you do?
Honestly, if I lost everything and I had literally no capital to start with,
but I did have my network, that's easy.
I'd go raise money and basically do the same thing I'm doing now.
Which is what?
Commercial real estate and business.
Why tanning salons?
Any business you could have got into, why tanning salons?
I was 21, naive, a bunch of white girls at the University of Arkansas where I was going to school.
They always complained about tanning in Arkansas and saying that it just wasn't up to par with
what was in Dallas.
So I saw a gap in the market and decided to take advantage of it.
So how do you feel about haters?
Man, I don't pay attention to them.
I've never met anybody who's doing better than me that hates on me.
As someone who's worth over $100 million,
what is the best financial advice you can give to the younger generation?
I have a Rolls Royce.
You know what that stands for?
Rolls Royce?
Yeah.
What?
Recurring revenue.
Focus on recurring revenue.
Everything in our lives in the next 10 years, it's already shifted that way,
but everything in our lives in the next 10 years is going to be on a recurring revenue model.
So from our car wash is on recurring revenue.
There's our dog food is on recurring revenue.
Our medicine, Netflix, gym, our tanning salon, every single thing is on recurring revenue.
So focus on anything that you can make recurring revenue from.
That's where the money's at.
What was the number one book that changed your life?
The E-Myth.
With the E-Myth, it talks about acting as if you have,
you know, 500 locations, even when you have one.
So we built systems and processes in place for a long time before we ever expanded.
So whenever it came time to expand, it was like that.
Do you think somebody should start or buy a business in today's world?
I would buy a business, man.
The opportunity is there.
This thing called the Silver Tsunami, where all these baby boomers are selling their business.
Their kids either don't want it or they don't have kids that are,
you know, in a position to be able to take it.
And they want to retire.
So they want to sell their business.
There's so many businesses for sale and not enough buyers.
And a lot of these businesses are boring businesses.
So everybody wants to have a clothing brand.
Everybody wants to have a restaurant.
Those are not businesses that are going to make you real money.
There's, you know, it's maybe 1% or less than 1% actually make real money from that.
But the business, the, you know, the pest control guy, the HVAC company,
all those people are making real money and nobody wants those businesses.
So go find you a boring business from somebody who's looking to retire.
You could probably even get preferable financing through
owner's financing and things like that.
So even if you don't have money, they'll still willing to take the risk.
And that person is financing you.
So if you don't have money, how exactly would you buy that business?
I would owner's finance it.
That's how I got my first business.
I owner's financed it. I didn't have money.
How do you feel about AI?
I love AI.
I think that any person that wants to be in the workforce
in the next 10 years needs to learn how to utilize AI.
Are you using AI in all your businesses?
Absolutely.
A lot of people are scared of AI because they think that AI is going to replace the worker.
It's not going to replace the worker.
What AI is going to do is AI is going to make the worker more efficient.
So essentially, if you needed 50 people to run a certain department, you might only need 25.
So it does make it more efficient,
which therefore does make it to where you need less workers.
But having a more highly skilled and more effective workforce
is ultimately going to be better for everybody.
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Uh, no.
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It is insane.
Actually, I want one of those.
It's like a personal assistant, basically.
Yes. No, it's game changing.
AI is insane.
I agree. I agree.
You got amazing advice, my friend.
Thank you so much for your time.
I appreciate it.
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Excuse me, sir.
How did you get rich?
Hey, real quick, real quick for women.
Thank you a lot.
Real quick for the younger generation.
That's a great podcast by the way.
Yeah?
I love what you're doing.
What's your name?
Mike Jagger.
And what line of business are you in?
Real estate developer.
Developer, commercial, residential.
What are you doing?
Industrial multi-res.
Industrial.
Nobody talks about that.
Why is that such a good business to get into right now?
Give me some game.
Listen, COVID, if anything, exploded the industrial market.
What happened during COVID,
everybody's getting packages delivered to their house.
Where do these packages come from?
Warehouses, right?
Distribution centers.
So that's something that I opened up with my partner
just before COVID, September, 2019.
So were you always really good at seeing opportunities
before everybody else got into the market?
I was working for a developer
and my partner was working for my direct competitor
for about 10 years.
And we said, you know what?
Time to take a risk, go on our own.
Mortgaged everything we had, put it all into the business.
And fortunately for us, it was a great success.
So you weren't afraid of risk?
Everybody's a little bit afraid.
Yeah.
You just got to go for it.
But what's the biggest risk you took?
Was it going all in on the car?
Absolutely.
Mortgaged every last thing we had.
Our homes, credit lines, credit cards, put it all in.
Fortunately for us, it succeeded.
Did you come from a lot of money?
No, man. No.
I worked for my dad.
He was doing all right.
Went into real estate and had to sell everything I had.
Moved into one and a half.
Unfortunately for me, it was a chance we were taken.
What was the most amount of money
that you made in a single year?
So I'll tell you this.
We started the company in 2019.
Today, the company's worth a little over $4 billion.
Are you a billionaire?
I do all right.
So you're a billionaire.
I'm able to take care of my kids today.
Congratulations, man.
Thank you, man.
Really, really appreciate it.
You guys are doing a great job.
What is the secret to scaling out to a billion dollar,
never be satisfied, keep taking risk, keep going for it?
Do you think entrepreneurs, the reason why they struggle
is because they get too comfortable
and everybody comes and gasses them up?
You know, the one thing I suggest or the one opinion I have,
if you come from money, it's probably a downfall.
You got to be willing to take risks.
You got to be willing to go forward.
You got to be willing to see opportunities.
And when you don't have anything, you have drive.
Did you ever have anybody that doubted you
when you were coming up?
Everybody, even family.
Leaving a stable job to risk it all
and to move into one and a half.
I just got married.
My daughter was a month old.
Thought I was crazy.
So I think the biggest people doubt you
are the ones that are closest to you.
It's crazy how that works.
Absolutely.
And everybody wants you to succeed, but never more than them.
That's what I see.
That's what I hear.
And then it's true.
Do you need a lot of money to get into real estate today?
No.
You need to have people that believe in you.
You need to be able to take risks.
You have to have people with the same vision as you do.
We found investors that understood what we're aiming for
and they believed in us.
You always got to think what you can do for them.
You consider them like your own kids, your own family.
Make them a lot of money and then they'll be behind you.
Now I need you to give me a secret right here.
What's the best city to buy real estate in today's world
that nobody talks about?
So I'm from Canada, I'm from Montreal, but I love Miami.
You like Miami?
We're looking for opportunities in Miami.
We're looking for opportunities.
Is it growing or what?
Population, right?
And with the multi-res business, we see huge opportunities
where people are going to be frightened away from condos,
from owning to renting just because of liquidity.
People don't have that much of it.
So you got to rent.
You've got amazing advice, sir.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you so much.
This is a beautiful-
Congrats, man.
I really, really appreciate what you do.
I appreciate you, man.
Thank you so much.
Real quick, sir.
Is it possible?
Could I get your contact?
Is that okay?
Awesome.
Guys, the time has now come.
We're about to go link up with one of the richest
self-made women in the entire world, Ann Malam,
who sold her company and made $90 million in a single day to herself.
Not the business.
That's what she made in a single day.
We're about to be figuring out the secrets to what it takes
to build a multi-nine-figure business
and how you can get rich just like her in today's world.
Let's go link up with the business legend and go see what she has to say.
All right, you guys, we just got to Ann Malam's house
out here in Miami, Florida,
and it's safe to say that she lives out an absolute compound out here.
This is one of the craziest hopes I've ever seen in my entire life,
but I'm going to be getting the exact secrets from her
on what it takes to really get rich in today's world
and build a company that's able to sell for hundreds of millions of dollars.
So let's go meet up with her right now.
Ann, how's it going?
It's great to see you.
Good to see you.
This is Ruby.
What's up, Ruby?
How are you?
He has to check you out.
Good to see you.
So great to see you.
Great to see you.
Thank you for having us back out here.
Yeah, thanks for coming out.
We had to do it again, right?
That last interview, I was telling them,
got over 30 million views online.
That's amazing.
They loved it.
They loved you.
I mean, you made $90 million in one day.
It's true.
I mean, as you say, you get a wire one day,
but that was nine and a half years in the making.
Take us back to that day before we get into the game right here.
What was that day like when you sold your company?
They exited for hundreds of millions,
and you being the founder of it,
you made $100 million in a day off of that.
You know, it honestly didn't feel fake.
It felt real.
I knew that day was coming, and I knew the value that I created.
And so it felt like, yeah, this is my moment,
and I did what I said I was going to do.
So it felt really awesome.
I love it.
I have one rule for this interview.
Yeah.
No holding back.
We're going to give them the secrets
on what it takes to become wealthy in today's world.
Can we make that happen?
Yeah, we can do that.
I'll tell you everything I know.
I want everybody to be rich.
I always tell my friends I need them to make more money
so they can pay for ----.
Let's get right into it.
Who am I here with today?
Hi, I'm Anne Mallum.
Nice to see you again, James.
And for those that don't know, what was your business?
My business was SolidCore.
Talk to me about, you were a pioneer in the fitness boutique industry.
Where did that concept originate from?
How did you ultimately come up with this idea?
I feel like both SolidCore and Back of My Feet, the nonprofit I started,
I felt like my ability as an entrepreneur to be successful
was finding the things before people found them.
I'm not crazy book smart.
I also need to be really passionate about something.
So when I tried a Pilates class, I was like,
oh my god, nobody knows about this.
Nobody's built a big brand around this.
Nobody's built community.
That's what I know how to do.
So I felt like that's a game I can win.
And so getting in super early, there was pros and cons, right?
The pros were I was in super early.
And the cons were nobody knew how to explain this thing.
It wasn't really Pilates.
It wasn't strength training.
And so our tagline became, this is the hardest workout you never heard of.
So that got people interest.
They started coming in.
You were so sore the next day.
And so you had to go tell all your friends.
And we never spent a dime on marketing for the first four years of SolidCore
because people just had to tell everybody that they knew about the business.
Were you ever afraid of competition?
No.
Everybody should be afraid of me if I come in your space.
But I like to win, right?
So if I'm going to do something.
When I started SolidCore, I never set out to do just one studio.
Like the first day I opened, I'm like, I'm going to build an empire.
And even when COVID hit, it was like, I'm here for it.
Like, I don't mind this challenge.
I don't know what this is.
But this pandemic virus isn't going to take this from me.
It was just figuring out what I needed to focus on during that time to come out on the other side.
What was the one thing you did differently from 99% of other entrepreneurs?
Well, I think I'll tell you two things.
One, I created a North Star.
So from the very beginning, I knew what my end game was.
I was going to open 100 studios.
So when opportunities were coming up along the way to franchise,
someone wanted to buy my business when I had 10 studios,
I was very clear on what I was going out to do.
And so having that clear sight of path, I never got distracted.
So that's one thing.
Two, I wanted it bad enough.
Like a lot of people want it, but they don't want it bad enough.
And three, everybody always says, oh my god, Ann, you must have sacrificed so much.
And I really didn't feel like I sacrificed anything.
I loved building that company.
I loved creating a company that was making people's lives happier and healthier.
So I was getting this positive feedback loop on a consistent basis.
So if you're going to go into business and be an entrepreneur,
you have to find something that fills you up,
that you feel authentically connected to,
that you're going to want to work on it even through a two-year pandemic.
Do you think everybody's built for entrepreneurship?
No, I don't.
I'm sorry, that may be controversial, but I don't.
I think all of the great entrepreneurs who really make it, right?
And you can start a business and maybe, you know, have that for a few years.
I mean, the real entrepreneurs, I think that they have something to prove.
I think they want to win worse than anybody else out there.
And I think they have found something that they feel is their footprint on the world.
Like building SolidCore and even building Back on My Feet, the non-profit,
I felt like I was enhancing people's lives and that was really motivating for me.
Like if I was making desks or furniture or something like that,
I just wouldn't have been a great entrepreneur.
Like it wasn't about the money for me.
It was always about the impact,
knowing if I did a really good job and created value for people,
the payday would be there.
Was there somebody close to you that ever doubted you when you were coming up?
I mean, so many people, of course.
And I think people doubt you because they love you and they want to protect you.
You know, they don't want to see you fail.
They want you to take a secure path.
Like when I started my non-profit, right, this wasn't to make money at all.
But I didn't, I had a negative net worth and I had to negotiate with my landlord.
I got my landlord to give me two months free rent
because I wanted to start this non-profit to help the homeless.
My dad was concerned for my safety.
Everybody was just like, this is not going to work.
You know, like it's admirable that you want to help people through this running club.
And even SolidCore, it's like 90% of gyms fail.
Like, what are you doing?
You're making the wrong move.
So I do think people try to do it out of protection,
but it lands as like, you're doubting me.
And like I said, I didn't pick things that weren't relevant to my skill sets.
It was lining the skill sets up with the business
that I felt I had the special sauce to really make a big business out of it.
So, you know, choosing something where you can play a game that you can win,
I think is really a key component of being successful in entrepreneurship.
Now, you're worth over $100 million.
Where do you invest your money?
Where do the wealthiest people put their money?
Yeah, I mean, listen, I'm in wealth preservation mode,
not too much wealth creation mode, but I still have a decent risk tolerance.
So I would say I have about 50% of my money in public equities
and I am an individual stock picker.
Yes, I have ETFs, but I think I have over $10 million of NVIDIA.
Like I am in the AI game.
I need a secret right here.
What's the number one most underrated thing nobody's talking about to get into right now?
I mean, listen, I still think the AI game is early.
I think Palantir is early.
I still think NVIDIA is early.
I mean, some of these bulls have 20, 30 for NVIDIA being a stock price of $800.
It's $152 today.
Like I still think if you're not investing in AI,
you're going to look back and kick yourself.
So I like public equities.
What do you mean by public equities?
Is that just like in the stock market?
Yeah, public company, right?
Public companies, right?
Anybody who has any money can go get an account on a brokerage account like Fidelity.
I use UBS as my, as advisors.
So I use their platform to buy and sell stocks,
although I don't sell very many of them.
So the thing about being wealthy that I'll also share is once you have money, James,
you start to borrow and use leverage for anything else, right?
So if I sell my stocks, I'm paying 20% if I kept them for over a year.
And that's better than any kind of labor work from a tax perspective,
but I don't want to pay 20%.
So because I'm worth $100 million, UBS says,
hey, Anne, you know, you can have a $50 million line of credit with us.
You can pull on it whenever you want.
Well, I also negotiated my margin rate because I used to have my accounts with Goldman
and I left Goldman to go to UBS.
And I said, but I want my margin rates to be lower than any other client that you have.
And so I get to borrow money at like 5% right now, which is amazing.
So I would rather pay 5% than sell my stocks and pay 20%.
I don't have to pay any taxes on the money that I borrow.
So if I can see an investment that I feel pretty confident that I'm going to make more
than 5%, if I'm going to make double digits, I will borrow off the margin line and go make
an investment in a startup or a private company or loan somebody money at a 12 to 15% interest rate.
So it's safe to say that wealthy people, they play a different game than everybody else.
Yeah.
And frankly, it's a game that, you know, I had negative net worth when I was 26, 27.
And I hate when people say things like, I just don't understand money or I never was
taught that stuff.
Listen, man, either was I and a lot of other people.
And I think it's, you know, the only person who loses when you decide not to learn about
money is you.
Like read a book, listen to a podcast.
These things are available to absolutely everybody.
My nieces and nephews who are, you know, 20, 19 and 23, they have like 50 grand in the
stock market already.
And they're constantly asking questions and learning and trying to figure out like how
they can understand this game better because they don't want to work their whole life either.
If you can instill one money lesson into everybody around the world right now,
what would that be?
Stop putting your money into a bank.
All the bank does is takes your money and goes invest it in the stock market.
They love when people think that it's so secure to keep your money in a savings account when
you're making less than, I don't know, a half a point of interest on that.
The bank says, thank you for the free money.
And now we're going to go invest this in the stock market.
So like you should have very little in a bank.
You should be putting it into the stock market, whether it's index funds.
Again, if you don't know what that means, just please read and educate yourself because
everybody can learn this stuff and you have a much wealthy future in front of you.
And you know, they don't teach that in school, right?
I know.
Yeah.
And listen, capitalism doesn't work without a bottom.
Wow.
That's a real game right there.
Yeah.
Do you want to be in the bottom?
I don't want to be in the bottom.
No, I don't.
So give me another lesson that the wealthy people do differently from everybody else.
Like what separates rich from wealthy?
I mean, listen, I feel like at this point, like last week, for example, was a crazy week
in the market, you know, since April 7th, when my account was at my low, I don't mind
sharing like what my account was.
My account was like a $49 million April 7th.
My account is now back up to $64 million in public equities alone.
And that's because the market is going to work its way back up.
And so sometimes I look at my account and I'll be like, I just made like $1.2 million
today.
And I played volleyball most of the day.
Like when your money makes money for you, like it wants to compound.
It wants to procreate.
And even like the best text when I get from my nephew, like I made $2,400 in the market
today.
Like that takes them two weeks to make that if they're lucky at their age.
So it's realizing that you have to stack your assets and you need to just let them continue
to compound.
And I do.
I feel like I'm cheating.
One of my values is generosity.
Like when I have a great month, like I'm giving away money.
I'm making donations.
I'm taking my friends places.
And I think most importantly, I'm also just trying to educate as many of my friends as
possible that like, I shouldn't have to pay for everything.
You should learn this game also.
And it doesn't matter if you're starting with $10,000, $1,000, you got to start somewhere.
And that's whether, you know, losing weight, getting in shape.
Like everybody has to have a day one.
Are you a good negotiator?
Yes, I'm a very good negotiator.
Give me your best negotiation advice as a $100 million entrepreneur.
One, you have to make, I mean, read the book, How to Win Friends and Influence People.
I mentioned that on the last one, right?
But you have to make people like you and you make people like you for a few reasons.
One, you say your name over and over again.
I'm going to give you great eye contact.
I'm going to make some jokes and I'm going to make you really excited about backing me.
Because again, I'm not like trying to get one by you.
I believe in myself more than anybody.
And it's my job to make you see that.
So if you're a landlord and I'm trying to get you to say like, hey, let me like have
first six months of free rent, even though I've only been around business for, you know,
a year, I would talk about my experience on back of my feet.
I would get you to come try a workout.
Again, I wanted to meet you in person so that you could look me in the eye and you could
see my passion.
So it's really getting someone to like you and believe in you.
And that comes with a lot of confidence.
So I would just walk into any one of these meetings and be able to articulate my vision
and what I was doing and why I was the right person to do it.
And your last message to the younger generation.
How can somebody become wealthy in today's world?
How can somebody get F you money in today's world?
What does it take?
You got to be an entrepreneur.
So I'm going to say it again.
You have to figure out what your special thing is that you know how to do better than like
95% of the population, right?
And then you've got to figure out how do I apply that to a business that needs these
skill sets and talents in order for it to be successful.
And lastly, I do think you need to be super passionate about whatever that business is,
because there are days that get long and boring.
But like if you're excited about what you're building, you're not going to want to quit.
And you have to enjoy the process.
It's not just about, I mean, like I said, James, that day when I got that wire, that
was exciting.
But what made it all worth it is I felt like I made my money with pride and with integrity.
And I loved like the whole journey.
It was really rewarding.
You got amazing advice.
Thank you so much for allowing us to come out.
Thanks.
Good to see you.
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