Shadowing Practice: How to Make Rich Friends - Learn English Speaking with Video
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How does a kid from a small town in Eastern Canada who struggled in school, was in and out of jail and rehab by 17, end up getting Mark Cuban to invest in his company?
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Or spend a week with Richard Branson?
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Or have Tony Robbins invite him to speak on stage 7 times?
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One word: relationships.
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Everyone says your network is your net worth, but almost nobody actually shows you how to build your network.
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In this video, I'm going to show you why the right relationships can make you more money than anything else you'll do, the mistakes that are ruining your chances to connect with others,
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and the exact system I use to build relationships with people way out of my reach that doesn't feel cringy.
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And if you stick till the end, I'll give you the exact first step
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so you can start building your network today before you even close the tab on this video.
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Let's start with the first shift we in.
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Why is networking so important?
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I believe you should think in people, not problems.
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One conversation in my life can change everything.
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You're one person away from completely changing your life.
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One conversation with that person, one intro they make, one new relationship.
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Maybe it's a business partner.
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Maybe it's an employee.
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The average person, they ask, how do I solve this?
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The most successful people, the richest, they ask who's already solved whole book on this.
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Every problem you have, somebody else out there has already solved it.
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If you build that relationship with them, then you get to inherit the solution because you know them.
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Trial and error is super slow.
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Trying to figure it out on your own costs you years.
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The people with the blueprint will save you thousands of mistakes they've already made.
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When I was 28, I decided to move closer to people living a bigger life.
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That's why I moved to San Francisco.
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And depending on what industry you're in, you might make the same move.
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Software people move to San People are right now moving to Austin.
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Music people typically move to Nashville.
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Finance people, New York City.
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See how proximity is power and being around the right people, the right environments, those relationships can happen just by being there.
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Oftentimes the solution to problems are caught, not taught.
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So here's what we wanna do.
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It takes two minutes.
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We wanna build what I call our hit list.
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What we wanna do is write out our goals and identify our people.
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You might have five different goals you wanna get done before the end of the year.
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get your health in check, might want to get your money figured out, be very specific.
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Get in a new relationship, improve the one you're in.
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You might even want to improve your wake surfing.
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You may want to create more content, media.
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So now next to each goal, you want to write down the name of a person who has achieved that.
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So when I think health, I think of my buddy Alan Dick.
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And if you don't know these people, go on YouTube, search for folks teaching these topics and then find out who they are.
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Maybe you'll find them on Instagram or TikTok.
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Give them a follow.
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On money, maybe you want to follow my buddy Garrett Gunderson.
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For relationships, depending on the topic, maybe learning how to build your network, go follow Keith Ferrazzi.
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He's one of my mentors because he wrote a book called a guy like Austin Keene, who's a pro surfer.
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I went a step further and actually reached out to him to hire him to coach me.
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And now we're homies.
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For media, you might want to write down Sam Gaudet's name.
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Sam puts out new videos on YouTube.
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He's my creative director.
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He's one of my best buds.
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Somebody you want to get around.
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Obviously, these are people I know, but at some point, I didn't know them.
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So you might want to start with folks that are closer to you.
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Write their name down.
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The key for me is you have to find someone who's done it, who can teach it somehow, this list.
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I need you to keep it and put it to the side
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because we're going to come back to it at the end.
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Everyone is one conversation away from achieving their dreams.
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You never know who could change your life.
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So if one relationship can change everything for you, why hasn't it happened yet?
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Because you may be making one of these two mistakes that most people make.
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What mistakes could be killing your ability to network?
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I call these the invisible showstoppers.
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These are things that most people don't realize they're doing.
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That's why they're invisible.
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That stops the opportunity to even begins.
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And the worst part is nobody tells you that you blew it.
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You just, for some reason, feel like nobody gives you the same chances they give other people.
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This is the brutal part, and it might hurt your feelings, 'cause you might've already wasted it.
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You only get one first impression with somebody big.
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I don't think people realize how little of an action can cause somebody else to just decide
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I'm not going to spend time with them.
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So we want to make sure that when you do have this opportunity, you make it count.
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And it starts by removing those invisible showstoppers.
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For example, guy sees my car at the gym, realizes I'm inside.
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He decides to run up.
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He's wearing his full suit and tie and he runs across the gym
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while mid workout and decides to start asking me questions, which I'm open to.
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And I love meeting people.
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So I say to him, Hey man, every Tuesday we do a founder site.
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You're invited.
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Come hang out for sure, man.
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Love to do that.
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I'll be there.
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Guess
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up since then and it's literally been three months
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that guy 98 of people
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that say i'll be there they don't show up that's why i do the hike it acts as a filter
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and most people fail at the filter
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if he would have just shown up at the height maybe the thing
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that he wanted my help on might have made sense but
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because he couldn't do something as simple as doing what he
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said he was going to do i decided to move on now
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if we ever meet again i have that first impression of him
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so it'll be hard for me to overlook it the way
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you act in general can get back to the person you want to build a shit with that you don't even know.
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And that's why it's an invisible showstopper.
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For example, there was a guy I was thinking of partnering with.
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Let's just call him Bobby.
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And then I have a buddy.
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Let's call him Mike.
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My buddy Mike found out that I was talking to Bobby.
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Mike informs me that Bobby talks about other people all the time.
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And for what it's worth, I don't know if you're going to do something with them, but I wouldn't.
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Mike, thank you.
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Enough said.
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Hang up the phone.
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Decide not to talk to Bobby.
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The scary part is that Bobby never knew.
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Bobby didn't ever treat me poorly.
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He people in front of me, but the way he acted and talked about other people got back to me.
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So to ensure you got the best chance of building the best relationships, let's make sure we don't do these four major invisible showstoppers, and I'm going to give you the fix for each one.
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We got...
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The behavior?
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And we got the fix.
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The first one flaking.
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And I'll tell you, being late, same bucket.
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If you're not somebody that can do what they say they're going to do, people won't trust you.
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And really high level folks that you want to build a relationship with, they need to surround themselves with folks that 100 % of the time can follow through.
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And I understand you can't commit to everything and things in life will happen.
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But the fix for this is only commit when 100%.
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And if you can't just text them and let them know.
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Number two is neediness.
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This one reeks of desperation.
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You almost treat the person as
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if they have some kind of magical fairy dust of success that if they just sprinkle it all over you, that you'll be successful.
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Just don't get in their personal space.
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Arm length, lean back, stand to their side.
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You have to act like a peer, not like a fanboy or girl.
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And trust me, those top people that you admire, they want you to act like that.
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Because if not, you make them feel uncomfortable.
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The third behavior, instant ask.
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Before I ever ask of anybody, I try to create value ahead of time.
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Offering to help people in their life is a great way to start.
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And the fix is we have to give first.
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And that's the key.
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Don't ask somebody like, hey, do you want me to edit a video?
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Edit the video, send it to them.
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The instant ask will get make it harder to get a yes later on.
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Number four, it sounds similar, but it's not.
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Transactional.
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If you just do things for other people because you're hoping to get from somebody, they will feel that and they will keep their distance.
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There are people out there that are very much like this.
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Do this for me, I'll do this for you.
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Those people have a hard time building relationship because it's not about keeping score.
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My favorite person that continues to do this every day at scale is Gary V.
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He looks at life like relationships and investments.
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So the fix here is to be intentional with your actions.
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These are the four most often invisible showstoppers.
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These are the behaviors that shape how the world sees you.
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But there's a second set of mistakes are internal.
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And these are the beliefs that shape how you see yourself.
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We have to drop the head trash.
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These are the things you've said about yourself.
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And that has nothing to do with what other people have said about you.
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And I call them mindset blockers.
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And these are the three lies
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that stop most people from being able to build relationships with folks that can help them solve big problems.
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The first lie is who am I to take that person's time?
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Most people that you admire, two and you're comparing yourself and because they're further along you think
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that you're not worthy of their time or their attention
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that is not true as long as you're doing the work
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then you're just them a few years prior what you might
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be doing is tying your value to your achievements who you are
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and what you've done are two completely separate things
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so don't play yourself small
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because you think you're not worth it i have 12 million followers today who cares there was a time
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impressive to me and inspires me is other people's challenges.
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The second lie is that you have no value to add.
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This one will stop people.
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I've got nothing to offer.
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I've got nothing I can help them with.
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I'm pretty sure every person in the world has something they've done.
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They've spent a lot of time on, they've learned that they've gotten great at it.
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It could be anything.
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My favorite that takes nothing is being somebody else's biggest cheerleader.
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I will tell you my best success I got, he was the person I could turn to, to celebrate those wins with me.
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When you start winning, one of the worst things that happens is a lot of people stop celebrating because they're like, oh, they don't need to hear it.
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And it's not that big of a deal.
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They do this all the time.
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Without adding any value, just your ability to celebrate other people is valuable.
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And the third one is they're different.
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Guess what?
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Everybody uses the toilet the exact same way.
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Think about that next time.
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I heard Joe Rogan say this once, talking about Kim Kardashian and all these celebrities that everybody admires, and he goes, they all go to the bathroom.
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They're human.
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They're normal people.
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There's nothing different about them.
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Be kind, be interesting, be curious, but stop putting them up on a pedestal.
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They just done things for a longer period than you have.
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They've made different decisions in life, but they're just like you.
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I find this so funny.
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I consider myself humanity's biggest love people.
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I love seeing people win.
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Some people literally say to themselves, oh, I don't want to be somebody else's fan.
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And it's like, they're too cool.
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That's just weird to me.
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Be somebody's fan, celebrate them.
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Book comes out, be the first person to buy.
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They post, especially your friends, be the first person to leave a comment, share their post.
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That's what friends do.
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And guess what?
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The energy you put out in the world comes back to you.
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Now, before we get into actually how to activate your network, here's a quick hack.
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Get in the right room.
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And we'll talk more about this events all the time, all year long, all over the place.
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And yes, all the top people that follow my videos, they come to my events.
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These are the people that are looking to unlock their life through relationships
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because they understand the who is more powerful than the how.
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So if you want the chance to be invited to one of those rooms, just find me on Instagram and DM me the words YouTube events
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so we can chat to see if what I've got coming up might work for you as well.
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All right, so we fix how the world sees us.
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We fix how we see ourselves.
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That's the foundation.
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Now we need to talk about how to build a world -class network.
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We have to build our tribe.
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This framework is behind every relationship in my life.
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We're talking Cuban, Branson, Tony, Maxwell, etc. They all came from this.
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I wasn't born good at networking.
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Honestly, I was freaking awkward.
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More introverted.
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I learned how to code.
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I thought coding was great because I don't have to talk to anybody.
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Then I realized that business was about people.
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Life was Now I wanna teach it to you.
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The framework is called tribe.
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The first T is target.
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We have to have a list of people.
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Now the key is don't be transactional, be intentional.
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This isn't about trying to say, what can they give me?
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It's about how do I show up for them?
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How do I build a real meaningful relationship?
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Good news, we already started with this with the list we started with at the beginning.
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So this is where we pull out the list of goals
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and make a list of the names of people that we can connect with.
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Again, you don't go for the people that are at the top of their game because they're hard to get to.
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Just make a list of anybody who's achieved the results that you know.
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That's a great place to start because we're just trying to get some reps.
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The next, we got to talk about that mindset again.
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We got to realize you don't need any one person.
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And those are two words.
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Any one, not anyone, any one person.
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It's very dangerous when you say, I need this person to invest in my company.
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I need this person to respond to my email.
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I need this person on my podcast.
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No, you don't.
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You don't need any one person to be successful.
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Make a list of a dozen of them.
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100 of them and go wide.
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And it's true with personal people.
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You don't need your brother, your best friend, your partner in life to do anything for you to win.
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My whole philosophy in life is nobody has to change.
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Nobody has to pick me for me to win.
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I don't want to make anybody a gatekeeper of my dreams.
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The third is we have to invest.
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The best way to invest in a relationship is to just show up.
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When my book came out and I held my first book event ever at my local bookstore.
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And my buddy, Jason Gaynard surprised me.
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He lives 2000 miles away and he got on a plane, stood in line to wait to get a book.
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And when I saw him, I was like, dude, what are you doing here?
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He's like, I wanted to come and support the book.
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His book community made is the book you should buy as soon as you're done watching this video.
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Why do I love him so much?
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He just shows up.
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Number four. is build
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and build for me is a platform a platform is a
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place where you can invite people to collaborate with you this
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is where you've created a way to add value to them
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which gets their message their story out to the world by building
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that platform it's a way to ask them to get involved with you
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but also add value so for example you could build a newsletter like an email list you dinners with local entrepreneurs.
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I tried to invite, you know, three other people other than myself that were like complimentary.
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They might not have known each other.
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And we just sit around, do intros, and then talk about the exciting projects in their life.
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That simple concept started to build my relationships, my network.
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So if I knew when I started, I didn't know much about law, I'd invite the guy that owned the law firm.
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If I didn't know much about finance, the person who owned the accounting firm.
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And that way I'm the person that brings them together.
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The cool part is if I'm shy and I don't want to talk a lot, those people will talk to each other.
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they come together and then they think I'm the master networker and all I did was send the email.
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Another example is my hike.
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I've had thousands of people come on my hike.
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It's open to everyone.
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They come, they fly in from all over the world.
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You're invited in case I've never formally invited you.
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It literally cost me nothing.
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I get my workout in and I get to meet some new people.
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And the last one is edit.
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You need to put things down before you can pick them up and that works for relationship as well.
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Some of the most important move in building your network is we our feed.
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And our feed could be where we spend our time.
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Our feed is what we give attention to.
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And the best place to start is your social media feed.
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And I put it into two categories.
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There's people we have to follow.
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These are the folks that we put next to our goals.
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These are people we might've found on YouTube.
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We might've found on Instagram.
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There are folks in our community that might also create content and we start to follow them.
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But the most important is who we forget.
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This might feel a little crazy to like decide to move on from somebody that you follow, them if they're really negative,
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but clearing up your feed so that you can edit what you pay attention to
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so that if somebody you want to build a relationship with posts or having a baby, you see that post.
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Can you imagine you don't see the thing you wanted to see
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because you're following a bunch of ding -dongs that keep posting about some stuff you have no interest whatsoever?
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My rule is this.
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If I ran into them at the mall and I would pretend like I didn't know them, I don't care if I sat next to them in grade eight English,
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I'm not going to follow them when they build their network, it's kind of by accident.
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When we do it this way, following the tribe structure, we do it with intention.
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We put effort into it because we know the upside is huge.
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And my philosophy is that it's all about creating goodwill.
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The more you give to the world, the more you get.
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And goodwill is only created when you give more than what you take off the table.
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So that's the full system.
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But remember that list that we started writing down at the beginning?
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Now it's time to actually use it.
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What we have to do is take the list and action it.
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Information without action is just entertainment.
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And I'm sure you're here because you know that one relationship will change your life.
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So I want to give you some very tactical strategies on how to reach out to those people
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and connect with them and do it in a way that's really genuine and easy.
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What I need you to do first off is do your homework.
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Read their stuff.
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Get in their world.
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Watch their videos.
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Read their this.
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There's nothing more insulting than when somebody asks them a question that it is the most public available fact about their life.
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And honestly, nuanced things that you might find the uncommon commonalities, as my buddy Jason calls it.
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The thing about like my dad's a pilot, your dad's a pilot.
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Those are the really smart things to write down.
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The next thing you want to do is you want to follow them on social media.
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Just show up in their world.
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If you leave comments on their stuff, that's really smart.
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You just got to make sure that your social media is done well is literally like some random name, one, two, three, four, that's not a good look.
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Now, when I do finally reach out to somebody, I usually mention something very specific.
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Right off the bat, you say, hey, person's name, you reference something very specific that means that you researched it, something that a bot could never write, just real quick, short and sweet,
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maybe there's a mutual connection, mention that.
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The key is there's no pitch.
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You're not pitching your company, you're not pitching anything.
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The best way to get a relationship started is to ask for advice, and that's step three.
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simple, but it's not simple as in like they write about this online.
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Like if you ask me how to start an AI company and you haven't Googled how to start an AI company, Dan Martell, and find the 13 videos that I've done, that just is a bad look.
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But to ask something specific, as an example, "Hey Dan, I watch your videos and I went down the rabbit hole and I'm debating, should I use Grok build or...
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Codex.
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That's a question I have an opinion on that I could possibly answer that is short and sweet.
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And anything that sounds like, can we collab?
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Can you promote my thing?
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Can you invest in my company?
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Those things get filtered out.
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That's the asking first before you create any more value.
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The key is to just show effort.
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And also put your cell number in the email.
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That's one of my go -to moves.
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I literally send my followers.
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If I know somebody notable follows me, I just send them my cell number.
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And I just say, "Text me, and we'll connect over cell numbers." If you send me an email and I'm driving, and I wanna talk to you, and I wanna answer your question, and you make it really easy for me to find you,
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I'm just gonna click your number and I'm gonna call you.
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Now, when they reply, immediately thank them and tell them that you did something with it
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so that they know that time that reply was well used.
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So, for example, Grok build this AI thing or codex.
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Hey, I never thought of Grok build.
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I tried it out.
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I built this new app.
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Thank you so much for that advice.
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It lets me know that I was helpful, which feels good.
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Now I'm building a relationship.
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Now you have a chance to reply and maybe offer some help.
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So if you notice that my book's launching soon, and maybe there's an opportunity for you to volunteer to help support some online community to get the word out, that would be a great way to offer value.
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When I first moved to San Francisco and I didn't know anybody, I reached out to this woman named Cassie who ran the largest events business in the city.
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And I just offered to volunteer.
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This was after I had sold my company.
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I was a multimillionaire.
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I still knew the best and the easiest and fastest way to do that was to volunteer.
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So what did I tell Cassie?
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I was like, hey, do you need somebody to recruit and reach out to other speakers for your events?
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She's like, yeah.
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I go, cool, give me your hit list.
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Well, now I could reach out to all these people, asking them if they wanted to speak on her event, not even mine, and then they thought I was associated with the event,
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but I just asked for permission to reach out to those people on her behalf.
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She said, cool.
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And then I started building relationships with the top entrepreneurs in
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the city by adding value to people before I ever asked for anything.
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is don't let the relationship die.
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Like my friend Jen's, a million follower goal, she achieved it.
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Or Natalie, a million on YouTube, she achieved it.
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I was the first one to be in there, comment their screenshot, send them a text message and let them know just how cool it was.
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And that takes nothing, but it means everything to people.
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Don't put the heavy lifting on them.
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See what they're working on and think about problems that might be coming up.
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You don't just offer them help, you offer to help their team.
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When somebody reaches out to me and says, hey, I saw Sam or I saw Arturo, or I saw Todd talk about this, Does he want an introduction to this person and they're like a top person?
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That's perfect for me because then they're helping my team.
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I like that just as much.
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Remember, be short, concise and say something that a bot could never say.
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Do not use AI to do these outreaches.
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You can use it for inspiration, but you need to actually do it yourself.
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If you do that, you will start to build a relationship with incredible people that can solve your biggest problems.
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And the best part is they will pull you up when you're feeling down.
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relationships, and I don't mean money.
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I mean the quality of those relationships.
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That's probably more valuable than anything they could ever do for you.
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You want to get to a place where you have a problem with money?
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You got a guy.
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You got a problem with people?
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You got a guy.
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You need to hire somebody?
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You got a person.
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Especially if you're a content creator.
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Understand that building that brand or building those relationships, when you know you can reach out to the world's best person in the world on a topic or a problem,
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you start to feel invincible.
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That's why I do what I I want to do.
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I would love for you to leave a problem below in the comments.
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What's that one problem that you know you need a person to help you solve?
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In the comments below, let me know what the problem is.
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If I know somebody, maybe I'll reply with a name.
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And everybody else, read the comments.
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And if you know somebody, tag them in the comments.
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This is where I'm giving you a chance, all of you, to build a relationship below with each other.
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And remember, if you want to get into a room of world -class people, people that understand how I live my life, how I execute in my business,
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Find me on Instagram and message me the word YouTube events, and we'll see if what I've got coming up is a fit for you.
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And if you want my full course on how to learn how to build a business from absolute scratch
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and scale to millions a year, just click the link and I'll see you on the other side.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 428 sentences and 4799 words to shadow. The speech runs for 22:35. The speaker talks fast, about 212 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 89% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is easy to follow.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| invite verb | /ɪnˈvaɪt/ | To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something. |
| folk noun | /foʊk/ | People, persons. |
| solve verb | /sɒlv/ | To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out. |
| buddy | /ˈbʌdi/ | A person far removed from the conversation. |
| invisible adjective | /ɪnˈvɪzəb(ə)l/ | Unable to be seen; out of sight; not visible. |
| invest verb | /ɪnˈvɛst/ | To spend money, time, or energy on something, especially for some benefit or purpose; used with in. |
| connect verb | /kəˈnɛkt/ | To join (to another object): to attach, or to be intended to attach or capable of attaching, to another object. |
| edit verb | /ˈɛdɪt/ | To change a text, or a document. |
| topic noun | /ˈtɑpɪk/ | A subject; a theme; a category or general area of interest. |
| pitch noun | /pɪt͡ʃ/ | A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand. |
| filter noun | /ˈfɪltɚ/ | A device which separates a suspended, dissolved, or particulate matter from a fluid, solution, or other substance; any device that separates one substance from… |
| volunteer noun | /ˌvɑlənˈtɪɹ/ | One who enters into, or offers themselves for, any service of their own free will, especially when done without pay. |
| admire verb | /ədˈmaɪɹ/ | To regard with wonder and delight. |
| hike noun | /haɪk/ | A long walk, usually for pleasure or exercise. |
| follower noun | /ˈfɒləʊə(ɹ)/ | One who follows, comes after another. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| come up verb | To emerge or become known, especially unexpectedly. | |
| show up verb | To appear, arrive, or attend, especially suddenly or erratically. | |
| write down verb | To produce or set (something) down in writing; to record something. | |
| come out verb | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | To be discovered; to be revealed. |
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. | |
| get back to verb | Return to (an activity) | |
| clear up verb | /klɪəˈɹʌp/ | To clarify, to correct a misconception. |
| come together verb | /ˈkʌm tʊˈɡɛðɚ/ | To assemble; to congregate; to combine. |
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | if you stick till the end, I'll give · If you do that, you will start · If I know somebody, maybe I'll reply |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | has already solved · they've already made · has achieved |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | are caught · be invited · wasn't born |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | person who has · person who owned |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 142 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, you're, I'm. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: impression /ɪmˈpɹɛʃn̩/, intentional /ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/, trash /tɹæʃ/, inspiration /ˌɪn.spɪˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, intention /ɪnˈtɛnʃn̩/
- Long words — get the stress right: invisible /ɪnˈvɪzəb(ə)l/, entrepreneur /ˌɑn.tɹə.pɹəˈnɝ/, intentional /ɪnˈtɛnʃənəl/, inspiration /ˌɪn.spɪˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, celebrity /səˈlɛb.ɹɪ.ɾi/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like invite, folk, solve.
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.