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My parents ended up being divorced when I was like, I don't remember, eight or nine.
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And so I essentially had to raise myself until I was 15.
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So funny to say, he's like, I love my dad so much now and he's,
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we're really close, but I didn't know him super well back then.
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I don't know if I would have learned how to lead myself, learned how to manage myself, learned how to manage my emotions,
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had I not been exposed to it young.
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I was always overweight as a kid.
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I let myself go.
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My upper teens, it was bad.
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I just drank a ton and then would eat out.
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And I went from having some weight to like, I was fat
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and i was like screw this i never wanted to be a victim of circumstance
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i'm gonna use this i'm gonna make my life awesome started getting into fitness
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i pursued figuring out food working out i started going to the gym
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and like lifting by myself i ended up losing like 85 pounds
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i think going through a fitness transformation is really similar to becoming someone who's successful in business and
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so then i went to college for exercise science two years in i realized
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this is not going to do anything for me i didn't take it serious i wasn't like a bad student
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but i also wasn't like super good.
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I just thought it was useless.
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And I was like, I can learn more on my own.
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It was in that moment that I was like, I want to invest in myself.
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And I started looking at Tony Robbins and Monroe and all that stuff.
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I lived in Michigan at that point in time.
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It wasn't a lot of opportunity.
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So I packed up my Prius.
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It was two days after I graduated college.
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I just drove out to California and got some disgusting apartment as cheap as I could find.
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Oh, this is in the ghetto.
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Great.
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This is good for a single like 21 year old girl.
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I moved there.
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And then I was like, okay, I need to get a job within walking distance because I don't want to pay for gas too much.
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So I went and I applied at every gym nearby.
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And I was like, I'll just start working at a gym at first.
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I'll learn sales for the gym.
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And then eventually I'll learn more about business and have my own business.
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I ended up getting a job at all the places I applied.
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And I ended up staying with 24 hour fitness.
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I really liked the manager there.
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He was really encouraging.
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And he was like, dude, I can train you so much.
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There's 20 other people that they hired around the same time.
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They're like, you need to go out and get referrals.
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And I had no idea at the time that it was even hard to do that.
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I just moved there.
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I was like, I have nothing to lose.
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These people don't know me i have no reputation here what am i gonna do fail
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and that's there were two girls
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that were like crying outside the building
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i was like i went up to them like why are you crying
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they're like i don't want to go talk to strangers i'm just gonna go up
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and i'm just gonna be like hey my name's leila i'm new here i'm curious
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if you have any friends that are interested in joining the gym
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work to learn not to make money when you're young and
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so i was like okay i have learned enough here
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i get how this works i don't want to move up the corporate ladder
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i heard about this guy who had this really great gym he's like a fantastic leader
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and he really knows how to run a business i want to go learn from that guy.
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And so I went and worked at his gym.
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What it allowed me to see was that the same effort it takes to build a small business,
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it's the same effort to take a big business.
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It's almost harder to have small business even because there's less opportunity for people.
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If people have a big vision for themselves, they don't want to work at a small business.
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I'd been dating when I was in Michigan.
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When I went to California, I was like, I just want to build up my career.
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Like I want to be successful.
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And that was all I really cared about.
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I always knew I was like, I want someone that's equally as powerful.
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In every relationship before I met Alex, I was always like the dominant one in the relationship.
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And I realized I was like, I don't really want that.
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I want someone who's almost more dominant than me or at least could be equally powerful.
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I swiped on Alex.
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I messaged him because it was Bumble and so the girl else messaged the guy first.
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He called me and we talked for like 20 minutes and he was like, I consider this to be like our first date.
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So then we went for Froyo the next day, which I tried to get out of and he was like,
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no. I said I was sick or something.
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I think I was hungover.
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We didn't talk about like relationships at all.
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We actually just talked about business the whole time.
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So we like walked for four hours.
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Basically on the first date, he's like, we should work together.
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I want to start this new business.
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You seem like you can sell and you understand business and you like all this you should do it with me.
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And I was like, we just met.
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I just feel like, like we both didn't have a ton of friends at that point in time.
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So it was like, and we'd gone on three dates and might as well.
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Basically we started gym launch six weeks into us knowing each other.
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18 months in, we changed the model and then it just took off.
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We realized that we have really great complimentary skill sets.
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We wrote everything on a whiteboard that happens with the business.
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And it was like marketing, sales, finance, HR, op, success.
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And then one of our friends just circled marketing and like, this is Alex.
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And then all the rest is Layla.
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It's building the team, doing that and aligning it with the strategy of the business is something
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that i feel really good at doing most people
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that have very big businesses are just people of like elite character
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i don't need to be the smartest person in the room
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but i need to be competent enough
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that the smartest person in the room wants to work for me
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and that i've created a big enough vision
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that their vision can fit within mine
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and the culture is really just the mission and the vision
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and the values of the founder nobody will work for you
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that has better values than you they will go find somebody else has better values.
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With acquisition .com, it's sincere candor, unimpeachable character, and then competitive greatness.
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These are the principles that we use to make decisions for the company.
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I want to be the CEO of acquisition .com when it hits a billion.
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I have to become a different person in order to hit a billion or to hit 10 billion.
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What propels me now is more of a desire to honestly just meet my future self and see what's possible.
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I could do anything that anyone else's worth has done.
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And I think that's really freaking cool.
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Now it's more of a desire to see what that looks like
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and to meet the person I have to become
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when I put myself in situations where there's more pressure to become that kind of person.
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Setting a goal so big that I am forced to change
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and evolve in a positive way as a human in order to get there.
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And that other people within it also have to do the same because that's what keeps people excited.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “How I Built My Dream Life”. Questo video contiene 118 frasi e 1363 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 4:53. Il 83% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese; conviene studiare le altre prima di iniziare.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| equally avverbio | /ˈiːkwəli/ | altrettanto, parimenti |
| acquisition sostantivo | /ˌæk.wɪˈzɪʃ.ən/ | acquisizione |
| dominant aggettivo | /ˈdɑmənənt/ | dominante |
| reputation sostantivo | /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/ | reputazione, rumore |
| founder sostantivo | /ˈfaʊ̯n.dəː/ | fondatore, creatore |
| curious aggettivo | /ˈkjʊɹ.i.əs/ | curioso, interessato |
| encourage verbo | /ɪnˈkʌɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/ | incoraggiare, raccomandare |
| essentially avverbio | /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/ | in essenza |
| skill sostantivo | /skɪl/ | abilità, capacità |
| elite sostantivo | /ɪˈlit/ | élite |
| hire verbo | /ˈhaɪɹ/ | assoldare, noleggiare |
| divorce sostantivo | /dɪˈvɔːs/ | divorzio |
| principle sostantivo | /ˈpɹɪn.sɪ.pəl/ | principio |
| invest verbo | /ɪnˈvɛst/ | investire |
| stranger sostantivo | /ˈstɹeɪnd͡ʒɚ/ | sconosciuto, straniero |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Significato |
|---|---|
| end up verbo | andare a finire, finire |
| build up verbo | accumulare |
| figure out verbo | scoprire, rendersi conto |
| go out verbo | uscire, andare fuori |
| go through verbo | attraversare |
| go up verbo | salire |
| take off verbo | togliere |
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | have learned · i've created · has done |
| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | being divorced · been exposed |
| Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa | friends that are · guy who had |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
Chi parla usa 37 contrazioni e forme ridotte, come don't, I'm, gonna. Pronunciale nella forma breve, così come le senti.
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: acquisition /ˌæk.wɪˈzɪʃ.ən/, reputation /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, transformation /ˌtɹæns.fɔɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: acquisition /ˌæk.wɪˈzɪʃ.ən/, reputation /ˌɹɛpjʊˈteɪʃən/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/, transformation /ˌtɹæns.fɔɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/, complimentary /ˌkɑmplɪˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: hire /ˈhaɪɹ/, hungover /hʌŋˈoʊvɚ/
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: fitness /ˈfɪt.nəs/, dominant /ˈdɑmənənt/, curious /ˈkjʊɹ.i.əs/, encourage /ɪnˈkʌɹ.ɪd͡ʒ/, elite /ɪˈlit/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: acquisition /ˌæk.wɪˈzɪʃ.ən/, transformation /ˌtɹæns.fɔɹˈmeɪ.ʃən/, ladder /ˈlæd.ɚ/, circumstance /ˈsɝ.kəmˌstæns/, candor /ˈkæn.də(ɹ)/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Fai shadowing frase per frase a velocità normale, ripetendo ognuna finché il tuo ritmo coincide con quello di chi parla.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come equally, acquisition, dominant.
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.