Next Level Pros - #81: How Dubai is Changing the Landscape of Business in the World

Episode Date: March 4, 2024

In this episode of The Founder Podcast, Daryl Kelly is back and brings fire to your Monday. We discuss insights into the demographic makeup, taxation policies, and unique business structures that contribute to Dubai's allure for entrepreneurs. From tales of citizenship to entrepreneurial vision, this episode offers a captivating glimpse into the dynamics shaping Dubai's entrepreneurial spirit. Highlights:"My drive is changing the world through entrepreneurship... We can impact millions, if not billions." "Flying first class overseas? That's the only way to do it... You can save 50 to 60% on tickets." "Dubai quickly became my favorite city... It's like Vegas times 10, but with a religious, God-fearing people." Timestamps: 00:00 - Changing the World Through Entrepreneurship 02:00 - Tips for Luxury Travel Savings 13:38 - Insights on Government and Societal Progress 19:29 - Dubai's Modernity and Diversity 23:59 - Observations on Dubai's Labor Dynamics 25:17 - Citizenship Conundrum 27:09 - Taxation Tales: No Income Tax 31:27 - The Genesis of 'Next Level Home Pros 35:36 - Impactful Entrepreneurial Education 39:06 - Sales Strategies and Mindset Shifts Live Links:  Join my community - Founder Acceleration https://www.founderacceleration.com  Apply for our next Mastermind:https://www.thefoundermastermind.com  Golf with Chris https://www.golfwithchris.com Watch my latest Podcast Apple- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-founder-podcast/id1687030281S Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/show/1e0cL2vI1JAtQrojSOA7D2 YouTube - @thefounderspodcast

My biggest drive right now is helping change the world through entrepreneurship. I think the easiest and fastest way is to get the people that are actually making plays in society, in entrepreneurship, for them to teach and train and develop out their employees and then take care of their customers. That is the way that you can change the fabric of society. I think so long there's been corporations that have just done things the fabric of society. I think so long there's been corporations that have just done things in the wrong way. Like they viewed their employees of like, you owe this to me. You're here for a paycheck only, right? Like just trading that versus like really changing people's lives. I just think it can impact millions, if not one day billions,

which I'm stoked about. Yo, yo, yo, welcome to another episode of the Founder Podcast. Today I got Mr. Daryl Kelly in the house. Welcome to the house, baby. Thank you. Glad to be here. And for those that are joining us on Spotify and YouTube, you probably noticed a little Apple Vision Pro today. We're coming to you from the future.

And we have a much older and wiser person had your birthday recently oh man february 20th for those that want to send me birthday cards next year um yeah dude 40 years old so what'd you do for your 40th birthday anything exciting did some cool stuff let's talk about it so yeah on this episode for those who join us we're gonna give you just kind of some highlights of different things that have been going on a little behind the scenes you guys have seen all the different podcast guests uh different people that we've had we've been filming all kinds of stuff if you're not following me on social media at chrisley qb on. You can see stories and everything else that's going on.

But yeah, dude, did some pretty crazy stuff recently for the 40th. Me and my wife, we took a 13 day trip out to India and Dubai. It was pretty dope. So let's just start off with the flights out there. What did that look like? You know, let me let me just drop a little bomb for all of you guys right here. So if any of you guys, if you guys have never flown first class overseas, like that is the only way that you can do it.

And there's a lot of different tips and tricks out there. I know there's like credit card points and different ways that you can go that. We didn't go that route. There's actually this really cool website. It's called I only fly first class dot com. Okay. And highly recommend it. No, I don't get an affiliate commission for anybody that, uh, that goes through there. But, uh, the, the cool thing is you can save like 50 to 60% on first class tickets. So all of a sudden, like a $10,000 ticket goes down to four grand where like a coach ticket is not that much cheaper. And so yeah, me and my wife, we, uh, we flew first class both ways. It's a super long flight. Yeah. Yes,

it is. When you cross in the ocean, right. You're a nine hours minimum. Um, we actually, not only did we not cross, we actually flew over the North Pole. And so we flew from Pasco over to Seattle, Seattle to Qatar, and literally right over the top of it. And I think that was like a 14 and a half hour flight. If the earth is flat though, how is that possible, Chris? You know, if the earth is flat, then you're actually just going right over the center point. so that's but the center wouldn't be ice dude do you not know the uh the flat earth

theory no not really oh man so i'm not a flat earther but i am intrigued by flat earthers so the flat earth is actually that uh the north pole is the center of the disc and the ice wall is all the way around it and that's the uh that's antarctica and so flat earthers actually use flight patterns to justify why they're like yeah you always fly over in art over uh north pole because that's how you like that's way faster than going like this like if you're going to qatar this is faster than going here and so that's their whole argument but um yeah 14 and a half hours it was actually super bowl sunday that we flew out there and uh so i gotta enjoy like i had a first class meal watching the super bowl laying down my wife i think

slept the whole time who were you cheering for um you know it wasn't necessarily that i was cheering for anybody so i'm not i'm not a huge sports better but if i'm gonna bet on anything i always bet on what vegas is gonna take care of okay and we know that uh pfizer you know pfizer is gonna win out okay. And lo and behold, they did. That was pretty crazy. It was a good game that was close. That was, man. Overtime.

Yeah. Overtime for anybody that enjoyed that. That was crazy. So then your flight, how long was that? So four and a half hours to Qatar. And then I think we had like two or three hours layover there. And then we're another four and a half hours down to Goa India so now I remember our first flight to Qatar back what

20 years ago or whatever that was that was out of uh Chicago I think Chicago Chicago and then and that wasn't first class no we were but you know with the first time flying that long, you're just so stoked on a huge jet that you got. I mean, back in, what was that, 2013? Gosh, I couldn't remember. Yeah, it was 2013. So 2013, I don't know if it was your first time, but that was my first time flying that far. Oh, yeah, for sure. Well, I flew to Brazil, but.

Probably very similar or whatever. And 10 years ago, it was not common to have. Woo, hold on. We got alarms going off. Woo. Let's go. So it wasn't very common to have like 200 movies on your backseat. That's right.

And so I remember that being just such a cool thing 10 years ago and and so i just vegged even though i was sitting straight up didn't have the first class seat or whatever my feet were probably swelling up to the size of balloons but i had unlimited movies three movies so you got to guitar did you spend the night there or did you no no we were just there for like a couple hours. Oh, nice. So flew down to Goa, got my first Hindu wedding. That was quite the experience. So tell us about what you thought or what you initially experienced that caught your attention. Yeah, I think one of the coolest things about traveling internationally, especially like more third world countries or whatnot,

it's like just gives you a perspective on culture. And so anybody that hasn't done it, highly recommend it, that you get outside of your comfort zone, go and spend some time in the third world. India is still definitely there. Like the extreme levels of like poverty and wealth are unbelievable. Like some of my Harvard friends, I mean mean they're basically living like billionaires being worth a few million or several million or whatever else over there and then you just have like almost like this servant class that are just they're only to be seen not heard type deal it was kind of it was very it was very interesting

um but the wedding was like crazy um my friend her dad had rented out this whole beachfront resort and uh there was like uh 12 of us from harvard that were that were attending which was really cool um but yeah i had sent over the measurements of me and my wife to my friend, and she had us all custom Indian clothes. I saw that. So you had like three outfits? I had three outfits made, five outfits total. So we had like, yeah, we had to do five outfit changes or four outfit changes.

And why would you do an outfit change? Because kind of based on the ceremony of what you were doing so like they had like different things that you're supposed to dress and like the first night or you get there for lunch it was like you're supposed to wear like just kind of easy breezy clothes and then for dinner you're supposed to wear western hint uh or i forgot what it was but and then there's like this like this one part of the celebration, which you've probably seen on movies, where everybody dresses like yellow and orange.

And they take turmeric paste and they actually, it gets like spread all over the bride and the groom's face. It's supposed to like help them glow. And they're like in a bath of this stuff. And like you come in and you're like, there's actually a video of me doing where I go to Saloni and just like put it all over her face. It's pretty funny. But I mean, dude, there's like flower petals flying around. I mean, dude, bands playing.

They got all kinds of food. It was like a crazy celebration for two and a half days. And I mean, they take their wedding seriously. So what time in the morning did it start? What time at the night did it end? So, you know, breakfast started around nine o'clock and then it finished like every night around 11. I mean, you have little breaks in between or whatnot,

but it was like literally all day every day for two and a half days so you're eating most of the time you're dancing you're eating dancing sitting around talking um you know different activities that are going on um yeah it was cool like the first night they they had like all the different family uh just just like celebrating uh going uh and they had like different uh people go up and dance and they had like skits essentially of dancing and it's like it's funny uh one of our one of our friends gary uh was there and he's like dude he's like he he got some from my chat GBT. He's like, dude, go wrap this in front of everybody. Why would he ask you to wrap?

Oh, dude, I'm like, dude, I'm not going to wrap. He's like, dude, you are white. Anything you do goes. He's like, people just want to hear from you. It was funny because, yeah, me and my wife were the only white people at this event, which was cool. I loved it. One of the comments my wife made was like, man, you realize being here and being in Dubai, that like most of the world is not white.

And it's so good to come to those realizations like just get outside yourself we live in such a bubble especially here in the u.s i don't know that's that's every time i get outside of the bubble that's always a quick realization that i have like man we are so sheltered we're told one thing and it's something completely different um that's that's really why I love international travel. One of the, just talking about a bubble, I can remember when I went to Brazil, this was in 2001, December 2001. So right after 9-11. Yeah.

So leaving the United States, everyone was like, let's go to war. Like good cause. Like we need to go to war. We need to get the bad guy. I go to Brazil and it's the complete opposite. And I heard everybody. What do you mean? Like don't go to war. Don i go to brazil and it's the complete opposite and i heard everybody what do you mean like don't go don't go to war go go put they so everyone had the same sayings they were like let's go put saddam hussein george bush in a boxing match till the death and like i'd hear that from everybody and i'm like these guys are just being told what to think and i was like wait

i'm being told what to think you know know? So it is pretty fascinating how, how the propaganda is crazy. And it happens. Yeah. And it's crazy how government in the U S and everywhere else, like we're so controlled. I think I told you this the other day, but like one of the craziest things I was told while I was in India is like, so they have this president that they really love. He's right at the end of his two five-year terms or whatever. In 2015, he came out.

Not a lot of Indians had bank accounts. Most of them were living on cash and gold, right? And to force it, like this is crazy. This is straight dictator crap. He comes out and he's like, you got 48 hours to put your money into the bank. Otherwise, these certain denominations of cash are no longer worth anything. And it was similar to like if we came out in the U.S. and said, the $100 bill will no longer be able to be used in 48 hours.

Wow. And the mad rush of people taking money out from underneath their mattresses and getting and setting up a bank account for the first time, like drastically changed that country. And it's interesting because even though it was like straight dictator crap and most people would have been like pissed about it, I'd be pissed, right? Like I'd be like, oh, what government, whose government think they are or whatnot. It actually super progressed the country. It got them to a point where almost everybody had a bank account. All of a sudden, their wealth was able to be accounted for.

They were able to start leveraging for debt and be able to. And so the amount of progress that India's had in the last nine, 10 years since this thing happened is like crazy. And so it just, i don't know government government's interesting right like plays a bigger role than you realize right yeah and it's always like what's too much government what's too little government like is it is it for your good is it for your detriment i don't know i mean that's just like that's like parenting right right you think the best thing to do is control your kids where they can't make a bad decision but it's like parenting. Right. Right? You think the best thing to do is control your kids where they can't make a bad decision, but it's like.

Right. There's got to be a balance where there's control and there's just agency. But sometimes forcing a buck, even though, you know, everyone thinks like being forced is terrible. Sometimes it's good. Yeah. Right? Like you just don't know. So going back to India.

So three days at this wedding ceremony three days the wedding then went and spent uh four days up in a place called udai pur uh it's in uh the state of rajasthan okay so why did you go this is real close or is it no no it was like uh you know three four hour flight type deal so you flew so it there? So it was kind of like, yeah, flying across the country or whatever. I just asked people like where a good spot was. This is kind of like the Venice of India, if you will. Okay. And we just thought it would be a really good spot. We'd heard there's really good service and cool hotels and different things like that. So we decided to go. But the crazy thing was like all of a sudden you know I let the people my Harvard people down at the wedding know and one guy's like dude I got a brother-in-law up there he's like he's gonna take care of you and uh before you

knew it like he had set up where I had a driver and a guide for four days up in Udaipur like through this guy's brother-in-law. And it was like totally taken care of. Like, you know, the one thing, and this is key for anybody like that's on here as an entrepreneur that you realize, like networking, when you serve people in a non-transactional way like that's the power of real networking right like when like these people totally served me with no expectation of of a transaction no money no i scratch your back you scratch mine type deal and i was just like i was just so blown away like how these guys like this brother-in-law he didn't even know who i was and he paid for a a freaking you know a tour guide and and a driver for me just like dude what like that that that is

so so cool and like that's just like the the type of person that i want to be in my network is just like serve and so i thought that was that was really cool so you spent how much time up there i spent four days and what was cool about that place or what did you witness you know they had man-made lakes that have been there for like 400 years where they like built the cities and then they canaled in these water and they're like so basically the water goes right up to these buildings and they had like this castle that was like looks like it was floating out in the middle of the lake that they've now converted to a hotel. But the crazy thing is you're in these luxury five-star resorts. You go two blocks, and all of a sudden there's cows and elephants in the street

and garbage and people living in lean-to's and everything it's just like man it it really makes you appreciate where we live yeah you know like the worst part of the united states is not worse than any of these places you know that's the crazy thing it's like we we've got it so good. Have you been to LA lately? Dude, I'm telling you. I'm telling you. I'm sure LA looks terrible, but you go. I mean, dude, and probably the most baffling thing, I mean, you experienced this in Nepal. But these people are trained, crazy drivers. Yeah.

Like, dude, and we're asking my, like, we're talking like, you know, one lane becomes seven, right? Like, I mean, and it's just like people navigating, you know, and you've got these cross streets with no lights and everybody's just kind of squeezing their way in. And there's scooters and there's tuk-tuks and there's cars and you've got garbage cars and you've got Ferraris. I mean, literally, so many different levels of income of vehicles and stuff like that all going through. And I'm asking them, how often are you seeing wrecks or deaths or whatnot? And they're like, never. I'm just like, dude, how is that possible? Because this is like, it's pure insanity but they're like trained on it like

they've they've just learned to survive in this like insane and they're used to it and they know no difference so four days there what um what would you guys what'd you like most about that area um just uh i mean the the hotels and stuff were were super dope like we stayed in a converted castle an old castle uh and you know we went and we toured some of the different places going to the shops i love being amongst the people and kind of down on the street buying the fruit on the street on the stands uh we found an elephant that was like walking down a main street and we went got you know fed him bananas and stuff, which was pretty dope. The other crazy thing is in India, the cow is sacred.

So there's like cows walking everywhere and the community just takes care of them. Like they're literally just sitting in the middle of the street. And like if you kill a cow, you're like terrible human being. Like they're basically like a god and so that that was interesting um i was also vegetarian most of the trip because there weren't any meat options like uh because a lot of hinduism most of them uh believe in being vegetarians which was interesting so then you spent four days there. Then where'd you go? What'd you do? Then we headed over to Dubai. Oh,

that's right. Dubai. Dubai. For those who haven't, those haven't experienced Dubai, like Dubai quickly became my favorite city in the world. Tell us more. Uh, man,

I mean, it's just so advanced. Everything's been built in the last 20 years. You guys have all seen either pictures, videos, or been there. but it have all seen either pictures, videos, or have been there. But it's like you can experience Hawaii and the best parts of New York and everything all in one. That's a good way to put it. You go out to the Palm Island, and it's literally like you're in the tropics.

Great sun, great water, great beaches, great service, great hotels, real vacation vibe. You go downtown, you're down at the Burj Khalifa, you know, tallest building in the world. Literally, I looked it up. It's twice the height of the Empire State Building. Wow. I mean, the Empire State Building was the tallest building in the world until, what, 1960, 1970. This thing's twice that height and so you know you're down there and just like everything's so picturesque i think the thing

i love most about dubai it's like vegas times 10 on like architecture and just like just just straight like craziness but dude no sin right? Or very little. You got a very religious, God-fearing people there. Wearing religious clothing versus not wearing. There's actually more people wearing robes and stuff than there aren't. Obviously, I'm not of the Muslim or the Hindu faith or anything like that, but I think I just have such a mad respect for anybody that's able to be that disciplined, pray five times a day, wherever they're at, they pull out their prayer mat, or you're walking through the public airport and they have prayer rooms and everything. I think that's just like, they are where the U.S. used to be. The U.S. was founded on one nation under God and all this stuff,

and God was definitely a part of society. We've tried removing that so much. There it's still woven into the fabric of who they are, which I just think is so cool. Whether or not I agree with their beliefs just just the fact that they're able to not separate it so much and it's and it's part of their everyday life so what'd you do in dubai what was some of the highlights dude so many cool things we uh for my birthday on the 20th we we had dinner at the highest restaurant in the world,

123rd floor of the Burj Khalifa. My buddy, Otto, hooked it up. He got us this real nice spot. Also went swimming on the 43rd floor of the Burj. They have like a swimming pool for residences. My buddy put us up. He's got a condo that he just hooks up like his good friends with to stay in. So he put us up for a couple nights there. That was super highlight.

We went to the gold market. They have this like blocks and blocks of stores that only sell gold. And they have like these security guards coming in and out with like gold bars where they're making stuff dude it was so cool so what are they really selling just like gold chains gold dude like anything gold chains rings bars like anything so this is actually white gold I had I had it done there we had my wife they sell diamonds down there we had a a ring designed for my wife uh which which was really cool had it made in like two days how are prices higher lower um the crazy thing is they're doing it almost at like the cost of gold right like there's like

almost no making cost which and and so i don't i don't know exactly how they're like there's a lot of like buying and selling and different things like that. So obviously they're making their margin, but interesting place. They also had like the spice market that was right next to it. And we bought like frankincense and myrrh, kind of some cool stuff for Christmas. But that was fun, kind of just being amongst the people. Dubai is interesting because you have such an advanced city, but they also have like a very low minimum wage. And so you have like this third world element of labor that are coming in. You know, yeah, sure, they're making like three times as much as they would in India, but they're only making like 350 bucks a month there.

But, you know, one of the things my buddy pointed out he's like yeah but you know we're also taking care of their housing and their food and so they're sending all that money back to india where they would have only been making like 100 bucks a month and so it's a it's a it's a very interesting cool i mean dude more ferraris and lamborghinis and rolls royces than you can imagine. And then yeah, we spent a couple of days out at the Palm, the Palm Island. But probably the craziest thing about Dubai is like how much building's going on. Like there's literally a crane,

like probably a thousand cranes with him view. Like, I mean, and it's just like skyscraper, skyscraper, skyscraper going up, being built. And like, dude, they're occupying these things and selling them like hotcakes. It's crazy. Wow. So who's all moving? Do you know, did he talk about who's moving into Dubai?

Yeah, tons of Indians. 40% of Dubai is from India. Okay. And so, yeah, tons of that going on. Tons of, yeah, just a lot of foreign investment coming in. Only 10% are native from Dubai. And, oh, dude, here's a crazy, crazy fun fact about Dubai. Unless you're a native, you cannot become a citizen.

Unless you're a native. Like, for example, I'll give you an example. My buddy, Otto, his dad's from India. Otto was born in Dubai. He's not a citizen of Dubai, even though he was born in Dubai. Because his parents aren't. Because his parents aren't. Wow.

And so, like, out of the Indian families, 40% of the 4 million population, right, is Indian. So what is that? 1.6 million there's only four people that they've granted a dubai passport otto's dad is one of them so he's not a citizen but he has a passport so i think as a passport you're granted citizenship but your kids aren't and so the crazy thing is otto has to renew his visa he's got a he lives there on a visa every 10 years he has to renew it or they'd kick him out to where to india

which she's not even from it's the craziest thing uh but but the thing is is like the indian population everybody else is so woven into the fabric. They couldn't like just not renew their. Yeah. Right. Like otherwise it would shut down their economy. Yeah. And so, but it's, it's pretty, pretty wild, wild from, from that standpoint. The other crazy thing, no income tax.

And the, I think as a business business you only pay something like six oh no it's nine percent but that's recent right that's all recent previously there was no business tax and so you know basically everything you made got poured right back into the economy because it wasn't going um and so but there's also government-owned companies which i think is an interesting thing well i think there could be a lot of good things from government-owned companies that are ran the right way right and so they they have it structured the government-owned companies are ran like private businesses right they have like shared ownership interests and different things like that um and there's like you know board of directors and everything

else they're running these companies so like there's a there's a developer actually the one that built the burj khalifa it's called mr they own like all that, that's all government owned and leased out. And so it and this is the way that I mean, instead of taxing the people, they're actually providing real value and running like a capitalistic structure so that they don't have to tax the people to death. Yeah. Interesting. Which is, I just thought, super unique. And it's interesting because they have kings and princes and everything else there. So the UAE, United Arab Emirates, is seven different kingdoms, right? And each is ran kind of on its own. So you have Dubai, Abu Dhabi.

I don't know what the other five are, but each has their own prince. And the difference, so Abu Dhabi and Dubai are about an hour apart. Dubai, all of its thriving over the last 20 years has been under the same prince. And he's made all, or the sheik is what they call him. This sheik, he actually has a few books written on him he's like very forward thinking and everything else and he's taken all of his philosophy on capitalism and everything and just made this place explode meanwhile over in Abu Dhabi it's interesting it all new development is from the government so like if they want to develop this land the

government's developing it and then selling it off to to homeowners or whatever else so they're doing the building but they're beginning to shift over to more of like dubai's type structure gotcha because they've seen how well it's worked for them yeah and so you're there in february so weather was pretty good amazing so yeah high of mid 70 you know 75 to 80 degrees which their summer it's yeah i've heard it's terrible it's like 120 or something that's crazy yeah so if you're gonna go definitely go in the winter but yeah i i think just for me as a business owner, like looking at like the capitalistic, like how they run everything like that, that's got me intrigued. In a different life, I would live in Dubai. Yeah.

Yeah. But it's such a such a cool spot. So gone for 13 days. Come home. How was the flight home? Dude, amazing. Once again, dude, when you're when you're when you're flying laying down you can't argue with that and then uh now what do you what what were some of

the so being gone that long right when you came back what was where was the fire in your belly pointing you towards what was the what are you what are you focusing on right now what's going on well i mean of course you know so we've, if you guys haven't been following on social media, we spent the last couple months recording a course. And essentially, you know, I know there's a lot of courses and gurus and crap like that out there. But basically what we've taken is everything that we've learned over the last 20 years of running businesses. And we've recorded it and consolidated it into this course that outlines culture, offer, accountability, and leadership. And within that is your sales, your marketing, your structure, the way you recruit, the way they do everything. So I actually finished recording that right before I went on that trip,

about 14 hours worth of content, 140 plus videos. And so we're rolling this out, which I'm super excited. It's targeted towards home service businesses, as you know, but it's something that every business, every industry could even get behind and be a part of because it's the same principles that govern any industry. For sure. Yeah, it's been interesting, right? Because we do masterminds.

We have this course. We do weekly calls. There's a lot of it's interesting thinking back of like if we had different resources or insights when we were growing our business, what we would do differently. Right. And I think that's what this is, this is all about, right? I had a phone call with a, with a friend who's running a business and he was just asking me like, what, what, what would you do differently? What would you do if you were me? And, you know, it's just interesting the way you think when you're doing something for the first time versus after experiencing it and looking back and learning,

there's just so much more that you can share and understand. Yeah. Like we had success later on, like both, both you and I started several businesses prior to running SoulGen. And, you know, first one was a big, massive failure. And, you know, you can learn one of two ways. You can either learn through experience, which is a bunch of time, effort, and money that goes into it, or you can learn by paying for education, essentially. And so the cost of our education, or at least my education was bankruptcy multiple failed businesses multiple like just plateaus small businesses a lot of time a lot of energy spending a million bucks on

personal education and going to harvard and all this stuff like that was that was the cost that we put in yeah um where like things like this course you have the ability to fast track everything that I've gone through, that you've gone through, that our team has gone through and be able to learn and work directly with our team, which is what I'm really excited about. So I'm like super excited that we're launching this course. It's called Next Level Home Pros. There's probably like a link in the, in the bio of this video, but, uh, but yeah, just, I'm passionate about it because, you know, everything that we've, that we've gone through over the last 20 years is put into this. And then the fact that we're going to be helping implement this course, right?

So people will watch the videos, do it at their own pace. And then there'll be weekly calls with you, with me, with our team to be able to answer questions and see like real time implementing it. And so like that's the thing I'm super, super stoked about because for me, it's all about like, how can I leverage my impact? And a course allows us to do that because people can learn from me and you and the rest of our team without us physically being there. Right. Like I think that's the power of technology. I mean, here I am wearing the Apple vision pros, right? Like

there's, there's so much power in technology and that's what this course is, is like amplifying technology. We can be in everybody's, everybody's smartphone, everybody's living room, everyone's office right there answering questions, you know, the learning and sharing, sharing our knowledge. And so, you know, my biggest drive right now is, is helping change the world through entrepreneurship. I think the easiest and fastest way is to get the people that are actually making plays in society in entrepreneurship for them to teach and train and develop out their employees and then take care of their customers. That is the way that you can like change the fabric of society.

I think so long there's been corporations that have just done things in the wrong way. Like they viewed their employees of like, as just like, you owe this to me. You're here for a paycheck only, right? Like just trading that versus like really changing people's lives and whatnot. And so that's what I'm excited about this course

is because we teach people how to build culture, how to develop people out. And I just think it can impact millions, if not one day billions, which I'm stoked about. Which, you know, if you think about it, our education system, right? It does not build entrepreneurs. There's even entrepreneur classes.

I remember taking an entrepreneur class in college. And I even remember like hearing people say, I want to be, I'm going to be a business owner. I grew up and I'm thinking like, what does that even mean? Right. And,

uh, you know, having experienced what I've experienced now and in looking back, I'm like, every time I hear someone like, yeah, I want to, I want to start a business.

I want to get into business. I'm like, how are you going to do that? And, uh, usually it's, it's not a, they usually don't have a good plan. Right. And, uh, you know, I think what we're trying to do is not get people to become entrepreneurs as much as accelerate those who have started the process and need to jump up a little bit faster, get through the, the hurdles and the learning curves and, and identify the up a little bit faster, get through the hurdles and the learning curves and identify the opportunities a little bit faster. Because I mean, that's what took us quite a while, right? We were like, let's try everything. Let's do it. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. No shortage of passion and effort, but just a lot of misdirected energy. And it's funny too,

because when you sit down and talk to people, it's not, they're not big changes that people need to make. They're small, tiny changes. And if you look at it, everything in life is that way. If you look at your health, a couple of fine tunes, fine tunes, look at your relationships, look at your business, your finances, your children, you fine tune things a little bit. Or just even a little mentality shift, right? Like a lot of it's just like a mentality, the way that you look at things, right? Like people's relationships with money and people's relations. Let me bring up something because this has been interesting work. You know, we've been partners

for, what's the number you say? I don't even know how long it's been. 19 years or something. 19 years. It's been a while. Yep. So one of the biggest mentality shifts I think that I've had to make is I grew up, I was thinking about this actually this morning, but when I grew up, right, it was like, your word is your bond, right? You've heard that.

Yep. But like, you cannot bond the future. Or in other words, you cannot say, cannot say hey like this is how it's all going to play out and so a lot of times people shoot short because there's no security in saying hey i'm going to build something that doesn't exist right and so it's like the mentality shift that mentality shift which is you know because if you look at like like my dad right he's an honest guy he's gonna do exactly what he says he's never gonna deviate he's never going to like you can you can always count on right his word is his bond what he says he's gonna do

and so he thinks very small because he knows he can control it well i think in general right it's not that he thinks small he he knows what he can do and that's what he does. Right. But as an entrepreneur, you have to operate in this like unknown. Right. Right. And so it's like, yeah, we're going to do this, but half of what this is, is unknown. Half of what you're going to accomplish. And so this mentality shift of, I have to guarantee the unknown. Yep. Right. And figure out how to get through all that. I think that's probably one of the scariest, hardest things I think for people to, to the mentality shift that has to happen in a, in a real entrepreneur to like take it to the next level. Does that make sense? Oh yeah. Oh yeah, dude. There's, there's just, I mean, and, and there's, there's lots of different

shifts. That's, you know, that's even just one piece of the pie yeah right like yeah it's crazy i think i think of like uh you know i i do consider you phenomenal at cells and i think what's what's interesting is um your personality you do not hear people you only hear your vision right so when you're when you're selling someone a product you're not hearing their objectives as as loud as you're hearing the opportunity and the benefit that this person gets and i think you know what what i had to learn as a sales guy was to quiet down that voice of like every concern someone says is valid concern because most of them aren't. They're smoke screens or they're based off of something that's not true. Right.

And so, yeah, it's just fascinating to think of like what we've experienced, but also what we're trying to allow others to experience and how to make those shifts. Absolutely. So for those that are watching, if you're wanting to make that shift, we'd love to have you be a part of our Next Level Home program, that course. So we've now launched it. There's access. You can just go ahead and click on the links or whatnot, or you can head on over to nextlevelhomepros.com. You'll be able to figure out how to be a part of it. With that, the way it's going to be set up, like I said, there's going to be weekly phone calls with, with Q and A's.

You're going to be a part of a community. A lot of you guys have seen Alex Ramosi. Uh, he's been promoting his new platform school, S K O O L.com. Uh, next level home pros is actually going to be hosted on that. So that's going to be the platform indexed 140 videos that you can learn through at your own pace. Just super stoked about it. But yeah, we've got a lot of a lot of exciting things coming up. You know, so far, 2024 has been absolutely amazing on the day that we're filming this. We're February 29th, which only happens every four years. Super dope. First two months have been like

absolutely bangers. And yeah, just super excited for 2024 and everything that has to offer. Yeah, I think it's fascinating. Things are always happening faster and faster. And it's fun to be a part of it and fun to see how life unfolds. Nice. So if you want to unfold with us, come on, baby. Join the community. Appreciate you. Until next time.