This is the young entrepreneurs network podcast where serial entrepreneur public speaker. Social media expert Marcos dobrow will be interviewing some of the greatest upcoming current experts in their respective industries from artists entrepreneurs e-commerce experts emplou answers and more to help you take your passions and aspirations and create your own successful Brands and businesses. businesses now, let's get straight into the show that could possibly change your thinking and why Welcome ladies and gentlemen Marcus diver here and welcome to the first official episode of the young entrepreneurs network podcast today. Our guest is a park Rider who's an expert podcaster and public speaker. How are you doing Margo's? I'm doing great man. I'm stoked to be joining you on the podcast today. I'm absolutely thrilled that you own and we've been challenged for quite a while and I'm like really excited for my audience. Here the Great Value that you're going to bring and knowledge. So let's get straight into it. So the first kind of question and a for the people that don't know you can you give a little brief on where you're from how your childhood was growing up? Yeah, for sure. So basically growing up I grew up in the Midwest and I've always been someone who's been sort of naturally gifted at the ability to do well in school without really having to try so throughout like elementary school middle school high school. I was almost able to get pretty much Straight A's without having to devote too much time to school. So I've always had a lot of time to really invest into whatever caught my interest and for most of my early upbringing that was video games. I played a lot of video games me and my friends were always playing FIFA Was like a consistent. I mean like like just thinking about the amount of time that I have spent playing FIFA throughout my life. So far is is absolutely ridiculous and think about like if I would have known half of what I know now a tenth of what I know now when I was like 14 years old like would have been a game-changer but that being said I was really into fee for growing up didn't take school. Well, I took school pretty seriously, but I didn't really spend that much time doing it ended up starting going to college in my junior year of high school and so took my junior and Your year at college and now I'm finishing up my 4 year degree in two and a half years right now at the University of Wisconsin. So that that basically brings us up to the present there have been some some ups and downs throughout that process some good decisions and bad decisions, but we can definitely get into any of that if you want to but that's that's the gist of where I come from. Yeah, man, that's great. It sounds like you were privileged he brought up but obviously you had to work to where if you got now. But in schools actually fascinating that school was easy for you because a lot of the entrepreneurs out there these days say that they don't enjoy school. So it's interesting that you actually found School easy. I know that as an entrepreneur you you thinking out the box and you creating new things constantly. So it's great that you will also be able to you know have that ability to do well in school. Yeah, I think well, I think the draw to it for me was like I sort of saw it as a game. I'm like, I kind of just like reverse-engineered like what did I have to do to get the a and a lot of it especially in college now like a lot of it has come down to relationships. So like when I tell my friends about like how I just completely bombed a test, but then like since I'm in tight with the professor I was able to like get that grade bumped up like a lot of them were like dude, that's so scummy. But I'm like, I'm just taking advantage of my circumstances. So I'm really a people person. I'm an introvert but I'm definitely a people person and like I I really With the people around me and I don't I don't like manipulate people but like I build those relationships that I know I can leverage in the future in those scenarios. Yeah, that's good. I think I think that's why your podcast has done so well in such limited time because you just, you know, you love to listen to people in their stories and you open to know connecting with new people and I think that's a key point in business and in podcasting. Do you know if you don't like to listen to people and hear their story? You're not going to enjoy hosting podcasters every day, and I know that you post podcasts very often and I think you know, it's amazing gift that you have two networks people and help those people skills that is relevant in today's time because everyone I mean you can edit you can do this you can code but if you don't have people skills to actually connect with people it's gonna be very hard for you in the business World. Absolutely. Absolutely. And like one thing you mentioned their man is listening and that's that's so hugely important in any relationship whether that's like on a podcast interview or a professor or somebody you want to like get to know like you have two ears and one mouth like take the hint and start listening more and talking less because honestly if you want someone to really like you the best way to do that is to just let them talk about themselves. Just let them talk about what they're passionate about because Cuz they're just going to have people love. Oh my gosh, people love talking about themselves. Like if people love talking about what they're passionate about. So if you can get somebody talking about those things in a conversation with you, they're going to associate that good feeling that they got from talking about those things with you. And once they put that good feeling on you. That's that's that's magic right there. Yeah. So I mean even with sales it's like you can make a sale if you make the person feel important. It's not about your product what you silent. It's about making them feel like it's worth buying and making them. All important and listening. Yeah, exactly. So I think you know, that's why you've done so well and know a lot of people struggle with that so to equip that skill is I congratulate you and people know that you have that because it's the way that you talk to people the way that you present yourself your body language. Just a great guy who everyone loves you. So yeah, let's go into what business means to you. And you know where you kind of started. I don't want to really go and you know the whole thing where you know started entrepreneur thing and you saw this and that but I want to go really deep into what business means to you. And what's the purpose because you know, everyone wants to make money but there has to be something behind that, you know leading that yeah, so go straight into that. Yeah for sure. So the way I think about business entrepreneur Whatever is that you're solving a problem, like a lot of people get into it to just get into other people start a podcast and I asked them. Why did you start the podcast in the like well, I just wanted to start a podcast and I'm like like why like, what's your purpose? Like? Why did you do that? Like, why are you investing all this time energy resources into this thing. If you don't even know why so you need to have you need to understand why you're doing something and it should be to solve a problem. Like if you want to create an impact in the world. If you want to get paid if you want to build a brand for yourself like you need to be solving a problem that that is how things happen. That's how the world works like people who solve problems get rewarded in the bigger the problem you solve that the bigger the reward for that that solution is. So when when I'm thinking about getting into a new business or growing my existing businesses, I'm always thinking about solving problems and I'm like, okay what first of all who who am I doing provide this solution? Like who is my target audience was my target market? What are their problems? Like, what is this group of people struggling with on a regular basis? And then what is my solution to that problem? Okay. So once you have the answer to all three of those questions, then you can really begin to build a business. But if you don't have the answers to all three of those questions in depth answers, I'm talking to you really truly understand who you're serving how you're serving them in what you're serving them with if you don't have solid answers to all those questions, you're not ready yet. You need to go back to the drawing board. You just do some serious self-reflection, which is an area that I see a lot of young people really a neglecting and I myself included like I've only really started to go deep on self-reflection recently, but it's just been an exponentiate ER to everything that I'm doing when I take the time to really reflect with myself think about where I'm at where I'm going and where I've come from. So guys whenever you're starting something new you really just got to reflect on those three questions. Who are you serving? How are you serving them in? What are you serving them with? Yeah, I definitely I mean we were talking and I remember you did say your mission is comparing a hundred thousand young people to live a fulfilled life. So did you kind of tell us about how you kind of got to that and what are the steps that you're going to take to do that? Because obviously they're saying there's one thing but doing it is another that's that's the truth and I'm glad you brought that up because like you said my mission is to empower a hundred thousand young people to pursue a life that makes them feel fulfilled and excited every single day. And the reason that I want to do that is because growing up I was somebody who like I talked a little bit earlier. Like I didn't really have a vision of what I wanted to do. I didn't really have anything that I was particularly good at. I was just kind of like existing just like floating through life playing a lot of video games hanging out with my friends doing some drugs like, you know the usual but the thing is like when I was growing up all I saw was this system of go to school get good grades. Going to college get good grades get a good job work there for 45 years like retire to Florida and die. Like that is the life that I saw as my really only option and all of my friends were in the same boat. Like we were all just this is this is just what we thought life was and we really think we had really any any say about it. So once I realized once I started to network with successful individual people who were doing things outside the Traditional School System people who were making things happen like, Like 10 figure real estate developers like Grammy award-winning rappers, like like the people that I now associate myself with in that exist in my circle once I started meeting these people and hearing their stories. I was like, there's there's a whole nother world out there. There's so much more opportunity than I realized when I was younger and and there were and then my friends realized as well. So from there, I was like, I gotta I gotta tell people about this because other people that people around me had no idea about all these opportunities. He so I felt it was my obligation then to share this with those people because if I didn't I was actively preventing them from finding potentially a better life path for themselves. So that's that's where that really really came from. And as far as how I plan to do that or how I am doing that right now that the two primary platforms are my podcast and then public speaking. Okay. So my podcast Young Smart money I'm able to reach hundreds of thousands of young people with that show, which is is allowing. Move closer to my mission and my mission is to empower them to live a life that makes them feel fulfilled in excited and that doesn't just mean they listen to an episode of my podcast because if that was the case, I would have hit that hundred thousand person go a long time ago, but my goal is to actually have them take action. Okay, like I want people like going out there and and starting their own podcast or starting their own YouTube channel or starting like their own. I don't know like software company or like starting something on their own doesn't have to be a business like start start increasing. Part or something like something that just gets them fired up. So that's that's the podcast and then as far as public speaking goes I can reach a lot of people at the podcast but with public speaking I can really impact people on a deeper level. So that's that's why I've really been getting into that. And the thing the thing about it is neither of those two platforms are necessarily like what I want to be doing long-term. Like I see my goal as this house that I want to build like my empowering a hundred thousand young people. That's that's building a House, okay. And in order to build a house, you need tools. Okay, you need lots of different Tools in order to build a house. Like if you just took a screwdriver and you're like I'm going to build a house with this screwdriver people be like this dude's freaking crazy. Like you're not going to build a house with a screwdriver like you need some other stuff to do get that get that job done. So I just I see the podcast I see public speaking. I see these things as tools that are going to help me build the house, but once I get to a different a different stage of the project or once I find a Tool I'm not going to hesitate to move to that better tool if it's going to help me get the job done faster. Okay, like if I'm if I'm using like a like a hand saw to like to like cut this would like build this house and then somebody comes along with like like a chainsaw. I'm like, yeah, I'll use I use the chainsaw to get the job done much much faster. So that's that's sort of how I see the things that I'm doing right now is kind of just like tools to help me get this project done, but the tools are not the project like that the project is the project in the tool that the tools so that's that's kind of how I see that At yeah, definitely. I think you know, whatever it takes to get your message out there you're going to do and I think that's important for the audience to understand that whatever it takes because you can't put all your eggs in one basket and expect to get the result know if your audience like something else you're going to have to go to their you're not going to come to you and ask you to move. So I think that's great advice. So let's go into you know, what's the future looking like for you, you know finishing University. He podcasting speaking at events. What's the future looking for like a park Rider? Yeah, for sure. So basically what's on the horizon for me. I mean, I really am and I'm not somebody who plans out my life very far in advance. Obviously. I set goals and like the day before is usually when I would plan out the next day because I'm a huge. I mean huge believer in the gym around saying don't start your day until it's finished and that basically just means like don't don't Start don't let go into the day without really understanding what or like fully planning it out and understanding like what you're going to be doing that day. So don't start your day until it's finished. That's something that I live by but I haven't really finished planning out my one year five year ten years stretch because things change so quickly man. Like I'll I'll I'll I'll be exposed to something or I'll have a new business opportunity or I'll meet someone who really changes the game for me. And obviously I My visions that I'm working towards I have that goal that I'm working towards so that the shiny object syndrome is not really something that I struggle with it this point just because I have sort of found my groove that I've gotten into and I understand like I understand that you can be successful in anything but you can't be successful in everything. Okay, because the Grass Is Always Greener where you water it. Okay, the grass is not greener on the other side. The grass is greener where you water it where you give it attention where you focus on it because you can be successful with I think you can be successful dropshipping like look around you there's there's tons of people having success in that you can be successful in Amazon successful on YouTube in podcasting on Instagram. Like you can be successful with literally anything. It's just a matter of you giving it the time attention focused resources that it needs. Okay. So that being said what I see for my future is is continuing to invest in my ability to impact people. Okay, like as long as I can continue spreading the message that there are so many Ways for you to live your life outside the traditional nine and five as long as I'm able to do that like I am thriving I am enjoying my life. I am loving my life and that's really all I can ask for so I'm planning on continuing doing that through whatever whatever tools whatever mediums make the most sense. But again podcasting is definitely working out. Well for me, I'm really enjoying it a lot. It's crazy to see how the show is just growing over time connecting with some really really cool people. So continuing to do that continuing to speak. Eek and then and then just finding ways to provide value to people I mean, so how basically because we can we can dive into this later but like the podcast itself is not how I make money. I choose not to put sponsors on the show because like I literally just want the show to be straight value. I don't want there to be like 60-second ad spots for like I don't even know like who like zipper cruder or like I don't even know who the people are that have Ties on podcast these days but like I don't want to take those guys on my show. So I keep that I keep it very clean. So I make all my money on the back end But continuing to find ways to provide value to people and that's that's that's the plan for me. Well, that's good. It's very encouraging to hear and I think that going to go for you. Definitely Gonna Go Far. I'm so let's get in to you know, how are you making money? I'm speech you can actually have a few ideas and try to explain to them in depth of like, you know, you can do it and there's different ways. Yeah, so going to yeah, so I'm gonna explain you guys. Something that I haven't shared before on a podcast and it's the idea of using a podcast as a funnel. Okay, and when I say using a podcast of the funnel, I'm talking about sales funnels here. So a sales funnel if you're not familiar, I would highly highly recommend you guys pick up this book. I guess you guys can't see the video but I'm holding up the.com Secrets book by Russell Brunson right now and this book's been extremely impactful for me in in basically. Just just breaking down the sales funnel concept. So the sales funnel concept is essentially you have a series of offers that you Right to people and it's shaped like a funnel. So at the top of the funnel is like a freebie that you give away. So for example, say you give away like a free PDF or you got a free pdf from someone like that's the top of their funnel and you had to give them your email address. So at the top of finally given the email address to get a free pdf. The next thing is they might offer you this like twenty seven dollar product. So maybe they're offering you like a $27 like mini course or something. So then you could buy that from them and if you bought that they'd offer you this like $97. I don't like ebook or something and then it takes a step further maybe like a 997 dollar coaching program and then they just take you farther and farther down this funnel and again less people come down the funnel the farther you go, but the farther down you go the more value you provide and and the more money you make so that's the basic idea of a sales funnel. Now, how does that apply to podcasting? How does that apply to how I'm making money? So basically what I do is I use my podcast as the top of a sales funnel. Okay. So I use my podcast as that first step on the scale. But not in the way that you might think so you might be thinking that I then used that funnel to get the people who listen to my show to then buy things for me and that's not what I do right now. That's not what I do. What I do is I get my guests that I have on the show to buy from me. Okay, I get the guest that I have on the show I find ways to provide them with value because the whole point of my podcast for The Listener is straight value. I'm not trying to monetize my listeners at all. That is not the goal of my podcast the goal of my podcast. Yes is to provide as much value to them as possible completely for free not asking for anything how I make my money then is on the back end by working with the influencers that I have on my podcast through different channels. But primarily I mean I have a background in social media marketing I ran an agency before I started my podcast so I know a bit aren't they said when I first started my podcast I knew a bit about Facebook ads Instagram ads and social media marketing. So with that knowledge, I then went out learned a lot more and now what I do. I build funnels. I build email sequences. I build Facebook Messenger about sequences. I basically do all of the funnel work and the Facebook ads work for different guess that I have in the podcast for different things that they're promoting. So basically I find someone I get them on the show talking about their business get to learn about what they're struggling with what they're promoting all that good stuff and then at the end if I think we'd be a good fit. I'll be like, hey just so you know, I build up funnels I build up add sequences for for influencers like yourself. It sounds like you might be launching this product in the near future. If you're ever looking for someone to do some work for you, let me know would love to help you out. So that's that's basically how I start relationships with the influences that I have in my show because the podcast completely free it provides them values while because it gives them exposure to this entire audience of people and then from there I'm able to sort of use that law of reciprocity. So like wow this you just gave me so much exposure through this podcast that now I kind of like want to give back to him or I want to find a way to reciprocate that and then if I share with them what I do, They feel like it might be a good fit for them. Then we start working together. So that's that's my business model in a nutshell. That's nothing that I've shared on the podcast on on a podcast before so I hope you guys are taking notes there because I really do believe that you can really build a a massive and I mean I'm living proof that you can build a serious business doing that. I've only been using that real business model for honesty only a few months now, but it's already grown from from the time. I started to just that alone is bring me in anywhere between five and ten thousand dollars a month consistently. Yeah, I mean make sure to you know, if you want to re-listen to that and take notes and no actually get started do it. He's saying that you know, you guys can also do it. It's a it's a good way to bring in passive income. Whatever. Yeah, and I think again it's just about you know you offering something to the people that you've nected were and connected with and again, I think that's why it works. So well because you giving the listener and the person the influencer Speak and you know, you actually sent him I can help you. I can generate something for you. So yeah congrats on that and I think that's a great way for anyone to actually bring an income. Yeah. Thank you. Now one thing that I want to say about that just like a little caveat there is yes, it will work for anyone but what you need is you need a valuable skill in order for that to work. Okay. I see a lot of people trying to get involved with personal branding podcasting whatever and they struggle with building a business because they don't have a A valuable skill they don't have something they can provide people with and if that is you if you like Manny speaking to me right now, like I wanted to get started. I don't have a valuable skill like learn something. Okay go out there learn how to do Facebook ads learn how to do. I don't know copywriting learn how to do email marketing learn how to do Facebook Messenger about marketing like learn how to do something that can provide value to someone literally just take like like I don't like one one two, three months dedicated to learning and implementing. Much as you can about one certain thing and then after that like one, two, three to six-month span you come out on the other side and you're like, okay. I think I feel confident doing this for other people and honestly, you can just get started working for free. That's how I got started like 12-18 months ago. Just working for free finding people who I knew could benefit from my skillset working for them for free and then eventually turning out into a paid relationship. So just you got it you got to develop a skill. Okay, you guys got to develop a skill if you don't have Have one yet and you're young which I'm assuming a lot of you guys are take some time and really learn how to do something. Well because if you don't have that skill yet. You're going to have a hard time providing any value or solving any problems for anyone. So that's that's just a little caveat that I want throw in there. Yeah, definitely and there is no excuses guys. There's YouTube there's podcast they are so many free educational things that you can educate yourself and you know bring assets to your table where you can offer value. And the people so they are no excuses as you've seen, I mean offering free service a lot of people don't agree with them. But I think it's I mean, it's great if you want to work for you know, high-level guys 819 figures, you know, they're not going to just you know, start paying you a random guy. They gonna want to know what you bring to the table. So starting for free sometimes isn't the badge if you were to look at the situation. So yeah, I think that's great value to take that into account. Learn the skill Implement that At and actually just get started and you know, Don Rush the process your have to start making money after week don't give up. So yeah, that's definitely Great Value. Thank you hundred percent. So let's go into action. Wanted to ask you have like a men's own inspiration to your business. You know, like who how did it start? Did you just suddenly, you know love podcasting or did you see someone that you know made it special for you and you thought that I would be something to do it. Could go into now, you know, so I first got started on YouTube actually. So basically my progression went started a YouTube channel started a social media marketing agency and then started a podcast and starting that YouTube channel really just opened my eyes to so many different things because like that was the first like not it wasn't really a business. It was kind of something that I was doing for fun. But like the first Passion project I ever had and I started that YouTube channel because somebody who I looked up to who made YouTube videos at the time he had about 5,000 subscribers he Was giving away free Skype calls. So I was like, well she would like I look up to this guy. He's only got like 5,000 subscribers, but he's talking about personal finance and investing and building credit which are all things that I'm super passionate about. So I took him up on this free Skype call told him about my situation where I was at he was like man, you got to start a YouTube channel and I was like, okay, I'll start a YouTube channel. So that that same night. I started YouTube channel started talking about stuff that I was passionate about personal finance building credit investing all that good stuff and he has been someone who's been extremely extremely Impactful on me and somebody was really change the entire trajectory of everything for me. And at this point in time, he's grown a lot on YouTube. He's got about I believe 500,000 subscribers then he still somebody that I work very closely with because he was one of the first people I started working for free for as well. And this guy some of you guys might know him. His name is Ryan Scribner. He makes YouTube videos and he's been a huge Mentor for me not not in that not because he has a podcast. Easy doesn't it but just in the business space, he's taught me a lot of things about really I see a lot of young people making this mistake and it's that they think that there's some kind of like secret sauce or like they're looking for like the cheat codes or like the tactics that are going to solve everything for them. And the biggest thing that this guy that this guy Ryan taught me is that there's there's no cheat codes. There's there's nothing special. There's the people you look up to are just people they don't have any Secret knowledge that you don't have okay. It's been extremely extremely eye-opening meeting these these eight nine ten figure earners and realizing that they don't have anything that the rest of us don't have. Okay these people who are making millions of dollars online. They don't have anything that you don't have. Okay, what they do have is they had persistence? Okay, they had a vision they had passion and they had persistence. Okay, they knew where they wanted to go. Okay, they had that vision. They had the persistence to just keep following through with it because they were passionate about it. Okay, and if you can combine those three things that Vision that passion that persistence like that is weird crazy stuff starts to happen and and normal everyday people can really change their lives significantly. Like I have witnessed like this dude this guy Ryan he and the last like 18 months has gone for making like $1,000 a month online to making like $60,000 a month online just Through that persistence like nothing special about him. He's just making YouTube videos. He's just doing affiliate marketing and and he's a completely normal guy, but just because he was able to keep going to have persistence have that Vision. He's now changed his life significantly. So I just want you guys to know and coming from coming from me. I mean, it might not mean a lot to some of you guys but there's nothing special about any of the people you look up to like literally it's not and I'm not trying to like be mean to Ryan. At all like I have nothing but respect for this guy but like getting to know him personally. I was just flabbergasted that he was such a normal guy like he was so just like just like a normal guy he would meet on the street and it's just it's really it's really eye-opening when you have that that real relationship with someone that you've looked up to for so long and realize that they are just a normal human being there. Nothing crazy there now Einstein they just had that persistence and they had that passion to To keep them going and moving towards their Vision. Well, that's brilliant. Well, I think you know again guys just getting started is great. And I think you know wherever it is YouTube podcasting instagramming. This guy's gonna be out there who are similar Visions to you similar characteristics and you got find where your passion about any advice in terms of you know, How to get started if you don't know where to go where to start or what your passion is just for the guys out there that you know in the school system and I'm not used to having the entrepreneurial mindset. Is there something that you could say towards them to know, you know spark that lights in their in their hearts for sure. So I'm not here to be like a motivational speaker for you guys because that's not what I do, but I think and this probably might not be a popular opinion of the people that are Into the show but like entrepreneurship isn't for everyone. Like it just isn't like frankly. It just is not like if everyone is an entrepreneur like the economy would break like that's just that's just a fact so we need we need people who are passionate about working for different companies people who are passionate about being lawyers and doctors and scientists and and all these different things. I'm passionate about working for companies that are doing social good like we need people in all in all areas of society. Like there's just the way it is. So if you are listening to this podcast you like me Man, I really I think I think I might want to be an entrepreneur but like I it sounds really like like something I wouldn't enjoy like like you could try it, but maybe it's not for you and maybe it just isn't for you and that's totally totally fine. There's so many ways to live a fulfilled life that don't revolve around like starting a business. Okay. And so I want to I want to emphasize that first, but another thing that the might answer your question more as far as like the people who really think they might want to do something entrepreneurial. My buddy Caleb Maddox told me something he said that you need to be obsessed with something. Okay, if you want to have success in business Kayla Maddox, he's an absolute Legend super honored to know this guy to be friends with him, but he told me that you need to have an obsession. Okay, and you need to have an obsession because that obsession is was going to drive you to do massive things and to take Massive Action. So in order to to have that Obsession, if you don't know that obsession is for you. Okay, you're in this place. You don't know what your obsession is. You need to obsess over finding your obsession. Okay, you need to obsess we need to spend every waking minute of your life like finding your obsession. And for me what I have seen the most effective way for people to do this who have no idea what they want to do is to work in Seasons. Okay, I wouldn't recommend what I see a lot of people doing NYC like people failing with is bouncing around between eighteen different businesses are doing Shopify Amazon YouTube Instagram. They're starting a social media marketing agency they're doing Eighteen different things and they're doing none of them. Well, they're doing a half-assed job 18 different things and they're going nowhere. Okay, that's not what I would recommend you do at all. If you have no idea what you want to do. Don't do everything. That's that's not gonna get you anywhere. What you should do is you should work in Seasons. So when I say Seasons, I mentioned a little bit earlier but like working in like one two, three month chalks. Okay. So say you think you might be interested in podcasting. Okay, take the next one to three months. Okay, 30 to 90 days and Is entirely on podcasting? Okay, learn everything you need to know to get started then get started then if you hit another roadblock learn again and take action and learn and take action and learn and take action and just keep doing that for 30 to 90 days at the end of that period look back at the things that you've done the things that you've learned and how you felt about it. Okay, how do you do at the end of this period like do you feel like you could keep doing this like if so keep doing it. Do you feel like this is For you? Okay. That's great. Think about what are the things that you learned about yourself from this experience? Did you learn that you really like talking to people or maybe you learn that you really don't like talking to people if you learn that you do like talking to people maybe for this next season. You could try social media marketing. Okay, because that involves a lot of client interaction and then talking with people so you could try social media marketing for the next season for the next 30 to 90 days. You learn what you need to learn to get started with social media marketing. Okay. Only learn what you need to learn in order to get started. Today, okay, you learn enough to get started and then you get started. Okay, and then once your started you if you hit another roadblock, then you learn to get past that roadblock. But then you just keep executing execute execute if you hit a roadblock, then learn a little bit then execute execute execute. Okay. So in that 30 90 days again, you're executing a lot. Okay, you're not just spending 30 to 90 days watching eight hours of YouTube videos a day and in learning all this Theory like no you need to put stuff into practice. Okay need to start executing. So move into your next. In okay take what you learned from social media marketing. Did you like that? Did you not if you didn't why didn't you like it? What things didn't you like about it? Then pivot move into the next thing and just go through these different seasons all the while learning about yourself learning about different businesses and learning what you might be passionate about and that's that's what I found to be the most effective. I've got friends that have done that and it really honed in on what they want to do in a relatively short amount of time. I'm talking like within six months, they found something that they really excel at that they are very very strong and and they've been able to really like change. Change their lives in and find a lot of fulfillment satisfaction and really just hone in on that Obsession. So again guys, if you don't have that Obsession yet obsess over finding your obsession and the best way that I found to do that is to take Seasons. Okay, 30 to 90 days go all in on one thing. Okay. I'm not talking like split your energy of 10 different things like one thing for 30 to 90 days go all in on that for that entire period because if you quit 14 days in your you're not gonna learn anything about about the business you are trying about Like you need to give it a genuine like college try like go in there with an open mind and really commit yourself to that thing for a full 30 90 day season and and learn what you can learn about yourself about the business and take that knowledge with you moving forward. Yeah, I think that's you know, that's great advice. I don't want to access rephrase it because it's very powerful. If you don't know your obsession then obsessed to find your obsession guys. I think that's really powerful and a lot of the big guys do that because Cuz you know not everyone knows their Obsession, you know, when they're 15 when they team but finding it because everyone has that if one loves something so I think finding that is key to success and you know, I think the finding success is another thing because I think for some people success is money and I know for Caleb it's definitely not that and for myself it's not either you know Success is Not money for me bringing changing people's lives and impacting people. No, so that you feel like your purpose is being fulfilled money doesn't fulfill my purpose. I know that but, you know bringing value and no symptoms lasting change. That's what really brings purpose and I hope you guys really enjoyed these things apples and crazy advice and I want to say thanks again for coming at you. I know your time is limited. It's been incredible talking to you and I'm sure my audience has got some massive value from today's podcast. All of apples links will be in the description below go check them out guys. It was about you for listening. So send me a DM if you would like and tell me who you want next on the podcast. Remember guys keep learning keep growing and definitely keep innovating subscribe. If you join the podcast would be much appreciate if you would rather powerful review. And again, thanks Apple for coming on. It's been a pleasure Marco. guy
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