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Excuse me, sir.
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Sir, sir, is this your Rolls Royce?
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No, that's not my Rolls Royce.
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That's her Rolls Royce.
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Excuse me, baby.
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Ma 'am, ma 'am, quick question for you.
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Is this your Rolls Royce?
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That is my Rolls Royce.
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And how did you get rich?
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As a business owner, entrepreneur.
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Did you come from a rich family?
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Did you come from a lot of money?
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I come from a mother that sold st.
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I come from the struggle, station 8, food stamps, foster care, st scheming, trying to figure it out.
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I come from the hustle.
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I come from nothing.
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I want you guys to just take a look at this size of the boat right here, man.
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This thing, like I said, it's a $50 million yacht, and look, it is every bit a $50 million.
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Before we get into questions and giving them the blueprint, did we see the yacht?
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Yes, come on.
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Did you end up selling your company?
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Meta technically bought 49 % of it.
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For how much money?
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Like $25, $26 billion.
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$26 billion.
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The company's doing close to a billion dollars a year.
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We're 34 years old.
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We started making $100 million in our first two years.
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Among yourself and all the billionaires that you know, what is that one thing they all have in common?
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I think that to be a billionaire, you don't have a sense of .
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Like what everybody else is procrastinating, I'm going to do before everybody else, which makes me first to the finish line.
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Massive action is the only thing I believe in.
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Everything else would be too slow.
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If you mean you died tomorrow and you had one more message to leave the younger generation, what would that be?
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I'm about to interview some of the richest women in the world.
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From an eight -figure entrepreneur pulling up in her Rolls Royce
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to a billionaire giving us a tour of her $50 million yacht
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and later in this video i'm flying to beverly hills to meet
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and interview lucy guo the world's youngest self -made female billionaire
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so today my goal is simple i want to find out how these women built their fortunes
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and what it actually takes to become financially free in today's world
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so with that being said let's go meet some billionaires
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guys we're gonna be flying to beverly hills to interview the youngest self -made female billionaire in the world
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but look we're in miami florida right now
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and this city has just about more millionaires
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and billionaires than most cities in the world okay
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so we're right now heading over to the design district
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which is the spot where a lot of the wealthiest people miami congregate
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and we're going to be cold approaching these people coming in
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and out of supercars like lamborghinis ferraris rolls royce g -wagons
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whatever we're able to find figure out exactly what they did to become wealthy
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and how you can follow in their footsteps excuse me sir
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sir sir is this your rolls royce no that's not my rolls royce this is her rolls royce excuse Ma 'am, ma 'am, quick question for you.
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Is this your Rolls Royce?
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That is my Rolls Royce.
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How did you get rich?
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As a business owner, entrepreneur.
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So you got rich working for yourself?
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Yes, working for myself, yes.
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How long have you been an entrepreneur?
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Because I was 13.
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13 years old?
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Yes, 13 years old.
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Did you come from a rich family?
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Did you come from a lot of money?
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No, I did not.
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I come from a mother that sold d*s.
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I come from the struggle, Section 8, food stamps, foster care, sh, scheming, trying to figure it out.
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All that.
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I come from the hustle.
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I come from nothing.
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But a rich family came from you?
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A rich family came from me, absolutely.
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How old were you when you became a millionaire?
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Oh, I made my first million dollars at the age of 29.
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29 years old.
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Yes, 29.
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Can I interview you for a minute?
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I go all over the world interviewing the richest people to help the younger generation.
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Come on, let's do it.
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Is that cool?
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Yes.
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What was the most amount of money you made in a single year?
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Oh, my God.
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Well, I would say 10 million.
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I'm going to challenge you.
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Take me back to the most life -changing conversation that you ever had.
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What is the greatest piece of advice that you've received throughout your career?
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There's a gentleman that's here from Miami.
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His name is E -Class.
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He owns Finger Lickings.
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I never forget I was fat, broke, and depressed.
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I just had my son he was about eight months old
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and i had saw him move from the music game
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and all of a sudden he's in a restaurant game
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and i'm like who does that that doesn't even make sense
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and i sat behind i remember he kept i kept saying
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to him i want to ask you a question i want to ask your question i don't know
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if he thought i was gonna have to bust the money
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because i was broke and i looked broke and i felt broke
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and i act broke
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but i just wanted to ask him like the same question you asked me
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if there's one thing you would have told your younger self
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at the time i was 33 years old he said proper planning prevents a piss poor performance
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and at the time i needed that because i wasn't planning for nothing
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but poverty i wasn't planning for nothing but for the bill to come
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and i was going to be worried about it like i was scared month one
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or month 20th of every month because i knew the first was coming again
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and so when i realized
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that you just got a plan it made me realize to stay ahead of the game always stay ready
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so you ain't got to get ready in times of peace prepare for war always be in preparation mode
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because you never know what the next play gonna be this is game right here you know
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that right you know they don't teach us in school they
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don't teach it in school that's why you got to be around the right people
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and not be afraid to get a mentor and a coach
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because they're not going to teach us in school because they can't.
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Their capacity is that of school.
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School prepares you to be a slave to somebody else instead of being an entrepreneur for yourself.
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Give me one lesson about business right here that is not taught in school.
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I will beat IQ any day.
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I have done more with the willpower of Stormy than the IQ of Stormy.
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I have a 10th grade education.
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I dropped out of school the first week of the 10th grade
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and I have lived a life that people would never see that have an IQ of almost even Einstein.
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Be around people that fortify your willpower, build your willpower, believe in the power of you and know that there's nothing that you can't do.
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I know a lot of smart, broke people and I just choose not to be one of them.
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Do you think you need a lot of money to start a business in today's world?
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No, I started my first business that made me who I am today with $300.
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Just $300?
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Just $300.
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Damn, $300.
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So you don't need a ton of capital, you just need to take action.
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I was just with a billionaire
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that I was introduced to by the grace of God
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that started his billion dollar company with $4 ,000 and he just Stole it for four billion dollars.
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There's a company that I use.
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It's called Busy and I use it to start all of my companies.
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What is it called?
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It's called Busy.
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Busy.
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And it lets people start their business overnight.
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It forms the LLC for them.
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They don't have to do all the paperwork.
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You don't have to go out there and hire a lawyer.
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And I partnered up with Busy to pretty much give everybody access to 50 companies they can start for less than $500.
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Damn.
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Should we give them the access?
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Yeah, that's amazing.
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That's amazing.
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I'm convinced that most millionaires believe in God.
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Do you believe in God?
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I believe in God.
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He's the Alpha and the Omega.
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And he had a son named Jesus that he showed us the power of sacrifice and living life after the crucifixion.
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I love that you're not afraid to say Jesus either.
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No, I'm not afraid.
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I wasn't always like that, though.
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Why not?
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I grew up with no God and no church.
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My mom went to church with me twice, once at my friend's funeral and once at her funeral.
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So I didn't grow up in Christianity.
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I figured it out along the journey.
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I read the Bible every day, and so now I know that God lives within me.
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How old are you now?
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46. If me and you died tomorrow and you had one more message to leave with the younger generation, what would that be?
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Live full, die empty.
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Nothing is permanent.
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Be okay with things changing nothing is gonna be the same all the time
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and if you could understand that nothing is permanent
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and be okay with the things that go anything
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that come you won't be so emotional when things go away
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that you probably didn't want to go away they're supposed to
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go that's the part of life life is supposed to grow
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and become and grow and become it's a cycle
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so nothing is permanent and be okay with
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that you have amazing advice oh thank you
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so much for your time i appreciate that thank you
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so much i connect with all the millionaires
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and billionaires i need you could i get your number yeah
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you want my number you gonna help me make some money
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let's make money together let's do it we just interviewed a
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self -made millionaire outside of her rolls royce out here in miami
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and that was an incredible conversation
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but i know you heard what she said she said a proper planning prevents a piss poor performance
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and that applies directly to business because i've noticed something after interviewing all these millionaires
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and billionaires look they don't just have ideas they structure their
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business properly from day one that's why i tell everyone to
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use busy busy makes it insanely simple to set up your llc
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or escort they handle all the paperwork they help protect your personal assets
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and they even help you set up the right way for taxes
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so look you don't have to overthink it you don't need
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some crazy lawyer you can literally get your business set up in minutes
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and here's the truth guys look let's go even deeper
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because most people think
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that you need a ton of money to start a business in today's world
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but you don't that's why we parted up with busy to
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give you access to something special we're giving you a list of 50 businesses
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that you can start for less than 500
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so now you've got the ideas and the structure to do it the right way
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so waste no more time guys go down click the link
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in the description this figure to set your business up with busy
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and get access to that list today and with
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that being said let's go get our next center all right
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you guys look we are walking up on this thing right now
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but i want you guys to just take a look at
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this size of the boat right here man this thing like i said it's a 50 million dollar yacht
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and look it is every bit of 50 million dollars i mean look at this thing guys i'm more
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so interested on how much money you even have to make
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to be able to afford to buy a thing like this
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so let's see what she has to say what's going on
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how are you how you doing lauren it's great to meet
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you nice to meet you how are you great doing good
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thank you for having us out come on we were just
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letting them know man i've never this is a crazy yacht right thank you
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so much growing up did you have any idea
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that this is going to be possible
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and you were going to be able to own a yacht
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like this one day i didn't envision a yacht like this
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but i did envision that anything was possible for sure people underestimate the amount of work
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that it takes to become this successful for sure i think people underestimate it i want everybody to know
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that they're possible
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but they got to put in the work well i have
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one rule for all of my interviews there's no holding back
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we're going to give them the blueprint on let's give it how to make it
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and build not just a million dollar but a billion company in today's world.
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I love it.
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Let's give it to them right now.
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I'm ready.
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Let's do it.
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Let's go.
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I'm glad we got to do this, Jamie.
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You too.
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Likewise.
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All right.
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Before we get into questions and giving them the blueprint on how to become millionaires and billionaires in today's world, can we see the yacht?
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Yes.
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Come on.
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Welcome.
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So what year did you buy this thing?
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Oh my God.
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It was in 2018.
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Yeah, times a blur.
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Is it safe to say that you sometimes make more money
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when you're on this thing because of the frequency that you step into?
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How did you know that?
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Yes.
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This is a great way to make money and what a great environment.
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I think people love to come to a boat and enjoy it
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and you know i've been doing this for a long time
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i've had all the utopias this is number four oh
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so this is your fourth boat yes this is my fourth
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one let's check it out this is of course the the downstairs salon
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which we love a little pool outside yeah this is the
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dining room have you done some negotiating on here oh my
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god do you know how many deals i've closed on this
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are you a good negotiator i'm a great negotiator that's one
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of my superpowers what is your best negotiation advice well i
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would tell you my best negotiation advice is never act desperate never act like you want what you want
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and you weren't afraid to walk away i'm sure i've walked away
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so many times and came back a year later
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when they called me
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and said we can give it to you at the price
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you want it that's why you cannot act desperate you can't
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break frame you can't break frame this is amazing it's beautiful
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it's very safe to say you could easily live on this thing i i've lived on it
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when i've had to when i've been under construction at different places
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but yeah this is my room
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and i love it it's beautiful this is where it all happens in here rose voice engines look at
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that right here she's not lying the rose royce steering right
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there that's amazing what did you do what was your business
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I am one of the largest commerce online marketplaces in the
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world market america actually yes actually how did you get into this business my husband
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and i started you know in 1992 before the internet really existed you know it was dial up back then
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and there was the big macintosh computers and nobody really had internet
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but we really believed that one day people would shop online
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and we banked on it let me ask you this do
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you think everybody's built for entrepreneurship oh i think everybody has
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what it takes not everybody's want to do the work now
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why do most business owners fail in today's world eight out
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of ten companies don't make it past five years it's crazy
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i think they quit before they hit success you know it gets tough
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and then they throw in the towel rather than tying a knot at the end of the rope
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and holding on and just saying you know what I'm gonna keep going
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because success generally is right around the corner when people are getting ready to throw in the towel.
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Did you almost quit?
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Oh you know so many times it got tough I just wouldn't quit.
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I just knew
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that there was this was gonna happen I knew the internet was gonna come to life I knew
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that people would eventually be done with dial -up get computers and we'd be this would be the way of shopping.
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How many employees do you have?
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Oh my god I I have over 950 employees across the world, actually, across the globe.
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Almost like 1 ,000 employees.
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Yeah.
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What's your best leadership advice to anybody running a company in today's world?
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Oh, I think that when you don't know what to do, do nothing.
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So many people react to situations, and my rule is if I don't know what to do, I take my time, and I'll let you know when I'm ready.
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So you don't make desperate decisions?
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I don't make desperate decisions.
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I really think them through, and I do the hardest things first.
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I think that's what a great leader does.
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What everybody else is procrastinating, I'm going to do before everybody else, which makes me first to the finish line.
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So you take massive action?
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Massive action.
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That's the only thing I believe in.
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Everything else would be too slow.
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So ideas are cheap, but execution is everything.
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Execution is everything.
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And ideas are great, but you've got to execute.
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What was the most amount of money you made in a single year?
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The company's doing close to a billion dollars a year.
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We're 34 years old.
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We started making $100 million in our first two years.
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It's pretty crazy when we started in 1992.
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How did you get to $100 million?
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It's so crazy.
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We knocked on doors.
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We talked about products.
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We started creating products when we didn't even have the money to have products.
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We have our own products, plus we sell other people's products.
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So we actually have over 300 brands of our own
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and we started knocking on doors selling our products and telling people one day you'll be able to buy them online.
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As a billion dollar founder, what's the best financial advice you'd give to the younger generation?
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Save money.
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Save money and invest in yourself.
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Nobody talks about saving money anymore.
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Save money.
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Stop wasting money on the fancy shoes.
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I didn't buy all the fancy shoes.
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I didn't buy the cars.
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I didn't have all the stuff.
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We did not ever even buy a house.
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I didn't even have a ring from my husband at the time until we could afford to have
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that same amount of money in the bank.
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So we saved.
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But you can't save your way to wealth though.
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No, but you know what?
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You can save and invest in yourself.
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Invest in yourself.
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Invest in your dreams.
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If you have a dream, go for it.
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But you got to put blood, sweat, and equity into that.
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You know what I mean?
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It's got to be blood, sweat, and tears.
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So how much money do you think people should be making before they buy a yacht like this?
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Oh my god, they got to be making a lot of money before you buy.
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This is a headache sometimes, so you want to make sure you're making a lot of money before you do this.
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And I always tell people, like, this is a huge investment.
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Don't buy something that you can't afford to pay for.
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It's going to cause you to sweat.
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There's no reason to go house broke.
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How old do you now?
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How old am I?
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Oh my god.
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They never ask a woman how old I am.
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How old do you think I am?
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40. That's great.
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We'll stick with that.
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Let me ask you this right here.
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If me and you died tomorrow and you had one more message to leave with the younger generation, what would that be?
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Oh my god.
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Live your best life.
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Life is short.
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It is precious.
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It's later than you think.
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Most people are alive, but they don't really live.
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I don't start living until it's too late.
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We know how much money we have in our bank, but we don't know how much time we have left.
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You have amazing advice.
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Thank you.
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Thank you so much for your time.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Guys, we just finished interviewing a billionaire on her yacht
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and she just gave us an incredible interview from start to finish
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and we got a little tour of the yacht
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while we were there
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but look as you can see I got a different outfit on right now
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because I'm getting ready to head to the airport to fly out to Beverly Hills
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and interview the youngest self -made billionaire in the entire world Lucy Guo.
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Lucy became a billionaire after selling part of her AI company to Meta for billions of dollars you guys
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and I'm about to get the blueprint from her on how she built a billion dollar company
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and how you can become wealthy in today's world.
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All right guys we're about to interview Lucy out here in Beverly Hills
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and she is the 52nd billionaire that I have ever interviewed
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but what's even crazier is that she's only the fifth female billionaire
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that I've interviewed so this one's about to be crazy you guys
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and she built her wealth like I said through artificial intelligence most people don't even know how to use AI
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or what AI actually is
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so this is about to be a fascinating interview let's go
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meet Lucy right now the youngest self -made female billionaire all
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right guys we just got to our destination where we're going
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to be meeting Lucy for the interview we're at the Mayborn out here in Beverly Hills.
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This is where a lot of the billionaires in the city actually congregate to do business, whether they're from Beverly Hills or they're not.
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So this is about to be an insane link up and an incredible interview, you guys.
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Come on.
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Awesome.
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Good to see you.
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How are you?
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Good to see you.
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Good to see you.
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Yeah, I'm super happy we were able to make it happen.
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Yeah, same here.
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It's super inspiring what you've done.
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Yeah, thank you.
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I think it's super cool.
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Sweet.
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You know, I've interviewed now my 52nd billionaire.
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That's crazy.
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How many are there?
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Probably like 3 ,000 something like that.
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But only the fifth actual female billionaire
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that i've done it's super exciting to me
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that we're able to make it happen yeah i have one
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rule for all the interviews though there's no holding back we
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got to give them the blueprint on how to on how
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to build a billion dollar company in today's world can we make
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that happen we can try what was that first big company
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that you started yeah so we were the picks
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and shovels the ai industry
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so we really help label data other ai companies to help train their models
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so self -driving cars are one of our first customers
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and they sent us like all their images lighter data videos etc
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and we would help them label what was a car pedestrian
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stops i went on the road this obviously evolved into other tasks
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that we did but that was what helped
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that company reach unicorn status did you come from a lot
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of money no i didn't my parents were asian immigrants
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so what was your turning point to financial freedom what did you see early on
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that made you want to go out there
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and build a billion dollar company honestly i started pretty young i was a kid
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when i started trying to make money on the playground
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because in kindergarten i started making money on the playground
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and then when i was like in second grade I started making money on internet
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because I wanted to buy certain things my parents wouldn't let me have
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or like just didn't want to buy I guess like a skateboard like I love skateboarding
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but I wasn't allowed to have a skateboard
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so I was figuring out how to make money on internet to buy things like that
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so you went to college though where did you go to
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school Carnegie Mellon did college help you become a billionaire in some ways yeah
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so I actually dropped out I got the teal fellowship
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so you know got paid a hundred thousand dollars to
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but I would say that like in college I met my future hires right
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and I do think that it's something
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that like every single person should do it's a difference between I think becoming a billionaire
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or not is your network is really your net worth
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and um in college I met like you the smartest computer scientists out there aka like future engineers
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that i was going to hire
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that helped me build my company from the ground up did
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you end up selling your company meta technically bought 49 of
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it how much money like 25 26 billion 26 billion dollars
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actually how long did it take the business to really start
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making money becoming profitable i mean we started getting small contracts very early on
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but i would say like two years before it started like you know getting massive what was
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that rocket field like let me ask you this right now it was doubling down on what works
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so you should always double down on what works i think a lot of people you know like they're like, okay, cool.
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Like this kind of works.
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Let's move on to the next thing.
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But time is best spent adding fuel to the fire.
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So when we realized that like self -driving cars and automobiles was a huge market, we added fuel to that fire and we started going after every single automobile company.
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Among yourself and all the billionaires that you know, what is that one thing they all have in common?
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I think that to be a billionaire, you have to have this like, I don't want to say arrogance, but you don't have a sense of reality.
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Like you have to be arrogant enough to believe you can become a billionaire
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because it doesn't make sense to take risks, right?
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Like why would leave your high paying job to go start a company
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that has a 99 .9 % chance of failure
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but in order to be a billionaire you have to go do
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that and like take that risk that people aren't willing to take
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and have this like relentless belief that you can do it
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so do you have to be a little crazy to become
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a billionaire you have to be absolutely crazy yes would you consider yourself to be crazy i think
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so i'd also say like don't spend too many resources okay
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we'll back up right here we got you come here right
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here you can't finish up against the wall right here okay
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as a billionaire are you happy i am probably one of
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the happiest people on this planet are you actually yes why are there
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so many depressed billionaires though i think a lot of billionaires
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try to find happiness through material possessions i think what happens with especially a lot of men is
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that once they become a billionaire they try to use money to like attract women
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but that's not really like fulfilling as a life right i'm just vibing
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and i think one example is like i spent a massive amount of money at coachella
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and i think i'm the only billionaire who would have done
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that without like trying to get laid i'm just vibing with people yeah
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if you lost everything tomorrow could you make it all back i think
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so yeah you would yeah
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and what would you do i just build another ai company is
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that the greatest opportunity in our lifetime right now i think it's the greatest opportunity in our lifetime right now
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because it's the first time also that like anyone can build a tech company right
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because i think a lot of people are like ideas people
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but they can't build tech companies because they don't have the technical skills
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and before we used to make fun of these people
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but now it's like if you have product sense
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if you have marketing etc like you're actually at an advantage
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because we have all these tools to help you build tech companies
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but i think ai right now because it's so new
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and there's so many untouched industries
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that can be made a thousand times more efficient with ai
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and when you can change the p
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and l of a business you have a unicorn how do you today i am 31 today
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if being you died tomorrow
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and you had one more message to leave with the younger generation what would
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that be well
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if you're in college there's nowhere else on earth like in
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your lifetime where you're going to be around a dense population of people of a similar intelligence level
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that all want to make friends like you know you're a freshman in college everyone wants to make friends like
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if you're at like especially
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if you're at an ivy league like go make as many friends as you can especially with the smartest people
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because those are going be your future co -founders your future investors your future hires etc
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because again like who you hire is really how you build
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a unicorn company you have amazing advice thank you thank you
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so much for your time i appreciate
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that guys that's a wrap on today's video we just interviewed the youngest self -made female billionaire alive
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but i need you all to stop right now like
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and subscribe for incredible content coming every week with the billionaires
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from all over the world to the school of hard knocks
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well let's go a step further i want to give you direct access to the eight nine
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and ten figure entrepreneurs
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that i interview on this channel every single week i host live calls with the millionaires
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and billionaires that you see me interview
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if you want access go down click the link in the
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and i'll see you on the inside the number one entrepreneur community in the world
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that being said i'll see in the next video.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 522 sentences and 5183 words to shadow. The speech runs for 19:23. 86% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| billionaire noun | /ˌbɪl.jəˈnɛɚ/ | Somebody whose wealth is at least one billion (10⁹) currency units (usually understood to exclude holders of hyperinflated currencies). |
| yacht noun | /jɑt/ | A slick and light ship for making pleasure trips or racing on water, having sails but often motor-powered. At times used as a residence offshore on a dock. |
| millionaire noun | /ˌmɪl.i.əˈnɛə(ɹ)/ | Somebody whose wealth is at least one million (10⁶) currency units (usually understood to exclude holders of hyperinflated currencies). |
| entrepreneur noun | /ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ/ | A person who sets up a business; generally, a person who owns and manages a business and assumes its financial risks. |
| hire verb | /ˈhaɪɹ/ | To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment. |
| youngest adjective | /ˈjʌŋ.ɡɪst/ | Most recently begun or formed. |
| desperate adjective | /ˈdɛs.p(ə.)ɹɪt/ | In dire need (of something); having a dire need or desire. |
| invest verb | /ɪnˈvɛst/ | To spend money, time, or energy on something, especially for some benefit or purpose; used with in. |
| lifetime noun | /ˈlaɪf.taɪm/ | The duration of the life of someone or something. |
| knock verb | /nɑk/ | To rap one's knuckles against something, especially wood. |
| wealthy adjective | /ˈwɛl.θi/ | Possessing financial wealth; rich. |
| sweat verb | /swɛt/ | To emit sweat. |
| meta adjective | /ˈmɛtə/ | Self-referential; structured analogously (structured by relationships), but at a higher level. |
| unicorn noun | /ˈju.nɪ.kɔɹn/ | A mythical, horselike creature with a horn on its forehead, supposed to be very rare and to be drawn to virgins and other chaste maidens. |
| founder noun | /ˈfaʊ̯n.dəː/ | One who founds or establishes (a company, project, organisation, state, etc.). |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| end up verb | To bring to a conclusion. | |
| figure out verb | To come to understand; to discover or find a solution; to deduce. | |
| go away verb | To depart or leave a place. | |
| go down verb | To descend; to move from a higher place to a lower one. | |
| go out verb | To leave, especially a building. | |
| have over verb | To host (a visiting guest) at one's house. | |
| hold back verb | To act with reserve; to contain one's full measure or power. | |
| set up verb | /ˌsɛt ˈʌp/ | To make ready for use. |
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have you been · you've received · have done |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | being said · is not taught · was introduced |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | else, which makes |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 137 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: execution /ˌɛk.sɪˈkjuː.ʃən/, shoe /ˈʃu/, negotiation /nɪˌɡəʊ.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/, efficient /ɪˈfɪʃənt/, possession /pəˈzɛʃn̩/
- Long words — get the stress right: millionaire /ˌmɪl.i.əˈnɛə(ɹ)/, entrepreneur /ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ/, execution /ˌɛk.sɪˈkjuː.ʃən/, technically /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/, automobile /ˈɔː.tə.məˌbil/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like billionaire, yacht, millionaire.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.