Shadowing Practice: Student Testimonial: Connor From $40,000 To $250,000 In 45 days - Learn English Speaking with Video
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hey what's up how you doing jj i'm doing good how you been good doing good all right cool
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so i wanted to have another little quick interview with you
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i know we did one uh i think exactly 45 days
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ago you hit your first 40k yeah yeah all right all right
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so could we get a little status update where are you at now may 30th
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so i think i'm around 250k total lifetime payouts now
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so substantial increase right i know i'm i'm very shocked yeah the progress yeah all thanks to your help
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and guidance getting to this point yeah being able to scale um
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and entering kind of the the new phase of trading yeah
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which you've been coaching me on just having to risk more
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having to trade more accounts just a lot more training a
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lot more risk scaling up to where i am now damn so you're at $250K lifetime payouts.
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And in the last 45 days, so a month and a half, you've added $210 ,000 worth of payouts.
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That's correct.
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Wow.
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I think that might be more than me for the last 45 days.
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Yeah, because you're live on a lot of stuff.
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Okay, good.
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So I'm glad that exactly what I do is it's somewhat easy to be replicated.
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You would agree with that statement?
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Absolutely.
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I think that with your guidance and your structure that you've given me,
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I've been able to scale this far and got to this point relatively simple.
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Relatively simple.
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Perfect.
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Okay.
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Well, those are insane results.
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So could we just go a little bit more into what exactly you think working with me, like what topics I've taught you,
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what um our meetings our one -on -ones have really helped
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you get there like what specifically has helped you as opposed to another trader
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that i don't work with right now oh my god there's there's
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so many like any professional industry there's
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so many small rules like small prop firm rules um like
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rules about uh going alive rules about like how much you
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can risk like how much you know what you shouldn't shouldn't
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do how to obey proper rules how to um you know successfully get to
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um certain payouts on different sites all different risk management strategies
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because they all have different rules and regulations
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and there's there's absolutely no way
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that i would be able to know all this stuff without
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doing this help like you think you can learn yourself it's
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like something you can't like all the prop firms information is difficult to find sometimes like even myself
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if i try
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and like look something up it's often like much better to
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ask jj what what what i should do in a situation
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because the proper rules are often like very muddled and only
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when you've like dealt with them for a long period of
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time dealt with their support systems dealt with all these different
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elements of prop firm can you actually like get to this level
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and i definitely don't think i could have been there without
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jj okay perfect i guess one of the other things i'm curious about is obviously the scaling
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so we went from you hit your first 40k in like one
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or two months which is very fast
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but then from there you were able to make another like
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200k in 45 days obviously that's a very large increase like the same amount of time
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but you're five four or five xing your amount in payouts
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so i would like to get into exactly like how you were able to scale
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because I know we started on some 50k accounts
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and then now we're at the 150k accounts there is a
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little bit of a different approach could you go into sort
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of how me teaching you the 150k accounts has been a little bit different than the 50k accounts
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and like the strategy that
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that we implement how are you doing on the 150ks rather than the 50ks like in terms of our risk
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and just the the mean reversion in general
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so with an increased drawdown i'm able to realize profits from a bias
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because i have uh the larger draw enables me to take longer trades
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and actually like derive profit from my bias over time okay makes sense yeah that's sort of the approach
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that i teach people on the 150ks is less about a strategy in general it's more about having
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the increased drawdown how you're able to turn your drawdown into profit on the other hand like on a $50 ,000, if you have $1 ,000 of risk, you could turn that into $1 ,000, $2 ,000 of profit.
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But you have to somehow turn in more drawdown into like $5 ,000, $6 ,000, $7 ,000, $8 ,000 worth of profit.
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So you definitely have to make a lot more profit, but you're still limited to three contracts, which is kind of the same as the $50 ,000, just one extra.
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But you have to do a totally different sort of strategy or approach to trading them in general.
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So I'm very glad you were the first test subject for the $150 ,000 accounts in the mentorship.
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I'm very glad that it's been working out for you.
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Absolutely has been.
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All right.
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So if you were on your 50K accounts, you made 40K in your first month and a half, probably would have made another 40K, which is great.
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You're up 80K in three months.
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But instead, you're actually up 250K in three months.
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So I want to get into that difference between the 50K and the 150K, how we were able to scale you from instead of doing 40K in the last 45 days,
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you did over $200 ,000 in the last 45 days.
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Obviously, with the power of 150K accounts, could you talk a little bit more about our approach working together on the 150ks absolutely
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so the biggest difference between 50 and 150 is always the drawdown but then also the payout cap
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so limited to just like x number of funded accounts per site
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if you only have the 50k accounts you're you're pretty much hard capped at the 2k payout
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or whatever payout max they're allowing
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so the 150ks allow you to withdraw a lot more
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and having and training with these funded with jj
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if you're making money in 50ks like you'll make money in the 150ks i guarantee you like i'm proof
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so i would highly recommend that you kind of upgrade from 50ks
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and scale to 150ks as soon as you can
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because that's where you can start uh really scaling this
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and you know once eventually you go live he'll help you with live accounts how to maximize those
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and you'll help you like every single step of the way
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you are really just scaling from where you are at just
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50k is like 40k with up to where i am now okay cool
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and then one last thought to here to end it off
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i'm just curious what you would say to other traders
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that might be in either your position like they made their first 30 40k
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or some traders who haven't started trading yet some traders are
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unprofitable there's obviously a huge spectrum what would you say about
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because you've been through all phases obviously started zero got to
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40k got to 250 almost 250k now in just literally like
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90 days you've been through all the aspects could you just tell us
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or tell the traders uh what it felt like to be
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at all of those stages how i was able to help
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you from one stage to the next to the next oh yeah
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so you know basically starting from scratch with jj
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and working with them through this entire process has been like
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one of the best experiences of my entire life honestly just
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just being able to you know just not even understanding how how how what a problem is how this works
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and introducing it to me like building me up from literally
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nothing like i i genuinely owe all my success at jsl you know it's been huge
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and every single step of the way like he's supporting me
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and like giving me advice
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and whenever he's there like he's always a little line like
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you can reach out to him through the mentorship program he
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responds quickly he always has the answer to whatever is like the situation even
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if the proper rules change even
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if there's like any sort of issues like he always has a workaround there's always a way to move forward
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so i think it's it's been a phenomenal experience like i
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could not recommend this enough like it's it's honestly been like a huge opportunity
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that he's given me to not only be like one of the first people to do this with him
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but also just to be able to have him like in my life
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and be able to do this kind of stuff with him
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it's been it's been great yeah i'm glad it's worked out
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for you i know you were the first one to to advance to the 150ks out of all my students
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but i'm glad that the program was was simply laid out
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and then you were able to execute like exactly what what i do
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so you even did more than me in the the past the past 45 days
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and then one last thing
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if you could just i know you worked a job i
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know you're a student just talk about like the life change
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that you were able to to see with trading and that it is actually possible like making money is difficult like
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anything and not
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that this is like super duper easy you know there is
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like you have to commit to you you have to be consistent unlike anything
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but comparatively you know I've like um working in like as
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a service industry for a brief stint of time earning like
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21 dollars an hour you know it's just like it there's no there's no contest between the kind of life
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that you can live with trading and the kind of life
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that you would live in like any other career position even
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um at a like regular at five in a larger business you're very constrained with
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you're you're working for someone else you're working on their time
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you know like there's this kind of feeling where I feel like I'm making someone else richer
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when I'm working
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and this is very much like a individualized journey you know Jay's gonna help you through it
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but it makes you feel like you're really like financially free I guess the term
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that I talked to Jay a lot was like you've given me like financial freedom
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which is unreal you know how many people can say
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that they know someone or they have a program that they can join that will give you financial freedom
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right that's what everyone wants that's what everyone wants to feel and then being able to
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trade in the morning
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and then go have a nice lunch like talk to friends
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talk to family you know being able to have my own schedule my own routine
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and to be able to scale as much as I want you know the the sky's the limit here
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and I feel like you know you're very much capped by even if you work hard as you can, you count it by your salary, your job, here you're not, you know, it's very rewarding to see that the more time you put in,
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the more work that you do with JJ, you know, the more insights he gives you, it only benefits you more. So, yeah.
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Yeah, I agree.
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That's why I did trading in the first place, because the amount of money
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that I can make is solely based on how intelligent I am and then how much money effort I put into it.
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So I'm really glad to see that it's paying off for you.
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And I hope to see you in a few months, we can do another little check in.
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Oh, absolutely.
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Absolutely.
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All right.
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Perfect.
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Well, thank you for the quick interview today, and I'll see you in a few months. Of course.
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Thank you so much, JJ.
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Appreciate you.
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All right.
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Have a good one.
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You too.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Student Testimonial: Connor From $40,000 To $250,000 In 45 days”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: accounts, payout, rules. This video has 173 sentences and 2064 words to shadow. The speech runs for 10:25. The speaker talks fast, about 198 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 87% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| trader noun | /ˈtɹeɪdɚ/ | One who earns a living by trading goods or securities. |
| prop noun | /pɹɑp/ | An object placed against or under another, to support it; anything that supports. |
| curious adjective | /ˈkjʊɹ.i.əs/ | Tending to ask questions, or to want to explore or investigate; inquisitive; (with a negative connotation) nosy, prying. |
| lifetime noun | /ˈlaɪf.taɪm/ | The duration of the life of someone or something. |
| guidance noun | /ˈɡaɪdəns/ | The act or process of guiding. |
| bias noun | /ˈbaɪ.əs/ | Inclination towards something. |
| topic noun | /ˈtɑpɪk/ | A subject; a theme; a category or general area of interest. |
| consistent adjective | /kənˈsɪs.tənt/ | Of a regularly occurring, dependable nature. |
| earn verb | /ɝn/ | To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work. |
| element noun | /ˈɛləmənt/ | One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based. |
| shock noun | /ʃɔk/ | A sudden, heavy impact. |
| successfully adverb | /səkˈsɛs.fə.li/ | In a successful manner; with success; without failing. |
| guarantee noun | /ˌɡæɹ.ənˈtiː/ | Anything that assures a certain outcome. |
| aspect noun | /ˈæspɛkt/ | Any specific feature, part, or element of something. |
| insane adjective | /ɪnˈseɪn/ | Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; utterly mad. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| lay out verb | /ˌleɪ ˈaʊt/ | To expend or contribute money to an expense or purchase. |
| move forward verb | To cause to make progress. | |
| work out verb | /ˌwɝk ˈaʊt/ | To calculate. |
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | you've been coaching · it's been working |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | you've added · you've given · I've been |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | be replicated · was simply laid |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | months which is · contracts, which is |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 57 contractions and reduced forms, such as you're, I'm, you've. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: shock /ʃɔk/, regulation /ˌɹɛɡjʊˈleɪʃən/, substantial /səbˈstænʃəl/, reversion /ɹɪˈvɚʒən/
- Long words — get the stress right: successfully /səkˈsɛs.fə.li/, regulation /ˌɹɛɡjʊˈleɪʃən/, intelligent /ɪnˈtɛlɪd͡ʒənt/, genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/, phenomenal /fɪˈnɒmɪnəl/
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 trader, prop, curious.
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.