The Money Mondays - "How I Became A Millionaire Before 20" - Dan Fleyshman 👑 E76

Episode Date: July 1, 2024

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19 years old, we'd get a licensing deal for $9.5 million. I became the youngest owner of a publicly traded company in history. And so on the 10 year anniversary, I resigned so that I could start an online poker site called Victory Poker. And then 10 months later, we're one of the top five most traffic sites. We're getting eyeballs all over the planet. April 15th, at 10, 10 in the morning, online poker in America was shut down. Seized by the FBI. So I'm gonna walk you through my real life story of the blunt, blunt, blunt truth behind the scenes. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Money Mondays.

This is a solo episode where I'm going to go through my bio And talk you through the ups and downs the roller coasters the twists the turns how things progressed in this last 25 years That's even weird to say 25 years last 25 years since I was 17 years old starting these various businesses angel investments social media agency energy drinks poker sites Acai bowl chains sports car chains and everything between. I'm going to walk you through the real life ups and downs along the way. How did I get to these different businesses, investments, what happened, why?

So this is more like story time as I like to go story time, story time. Whenever my friends are about to tell us a story, I get excited for them because I like to hear stories. So I'm going to walk you through my real life story of the blunt, blunt, blunt truths behind the scenes of everything along the journey of the last 25 years. And so whether you're at home, whether they're at the car, in the gym, I will get this episode done typically in under 40 minutes. This won't probably be even faster than that because as I go through these things, I'm going to showcase to you why, how, the thought process, et cetera, because you might be going through one of those things or you might face in the future or you might have already faced in the past and you might find things that are relatable, that are very different. You might

want to wonder why I did my version of it or why it might relate to you. And hopefully it helps you in some fashion now or in the future. All right, let me walk you through So in high school is working three jobs Working at Ruby's diner with a sailor's cap on we're gonna Qualcomm stadium selling peanuts and Cracker Jacks here Selling con candy ice cold lemonade at the stadium I was working for oldie discount stock brokers for $20 an hour cash under the table, which was crazy I only got to work three hours a day, but that was a huge amount of money, obviously, in 1999. I'm in San Diego and I'm saving up $43,000 during those three years, you know,

from 15 to 17 years old to go to San Diego State. Instead, I start my company trademarking the catchphrase, who's your daddy, for over 300 products. Now, trademarking the catchphrase, who's your daddy, for over 300 products. Now, trademarking only typically costs between 800 bucks to 1200 bucks for one class of trademarks. Here's the problem. We did it for beverages, we did it for barbecue sets,

we did it for clothing, we did it for different countries, and every time, 1200 bucks here, 900 bucks there, you can do the math when you do 16 classes of trademarks, like we did, all over the planet in a lot of different countries so that we could license out this brand name along the way. 18 years old do $1 million in sales at the Magic Clothing Convention.

19 years old, we'd get a licensing deal for $9.5 million for a three-year deal with Starter Apparel and the management team there was licensing us just for the UK for our clothing for the Hoosier Daddy trademark. Over the next couple years, build up the clothing. We're in a bunch of stores. We're in Macy's.

We're in Nordstrom's. We're in Steve Madden's shoe stores. We're licensing out overseas. We got, man, we're selling t-shirts, clothes, shoes, sweatshirts, hoodies, hats, everything of this brand. Then around 22 years old, I decided I wanted to launch an energy drink because most of the 900 energy drinks tasted like cough syrup. That same main ingredient called taurine

makes that sticky taste, that feeling when you're drinking energy drink, that aftertaste is by taurine. So, when I found a really good chemist, he gave us the brand, he gave us the feeling, he gave us the coloring for something called the cranberry pineapple and for the green tea. So we make a cranberry pineapple energy drink.

Most energy drinks are the same color, the same style, the same flavoring. So we made one of the first fruit flavored ones that was zero sugar, zero carbs, zero calories. And instead of a black can or silver can like most of the other brands, I had a bright yellow can and a bright red can. Why? Well it's cranberry pineapple. So I made a red can and a yellow can. And the crazy scientist doctor that gave us the formulation said once you hit 1 million dollars in sales I will give you the green tea and the zero sugar,

zero carb, zero calorie version of that. Well, we had a year to do it and I did in a couple months because I was obsessed with selling my energy drinks. And right away I started calling distributors, calling chain stores, going everywhere. Boom, surpassed the million dollars in sales mark. Boom, give us the green tea. Bada bing. All of a sudden we get Budweiser distributor in Orange County, California to be our first Budweiser distributor. And immediately, thank this man, he calls Tucson, Arizona, Phoenix, Dallas, Texas, Salt Lake City, and starts getting us into other Budweiser distributors around the country.

Why would he do that? Well, the name is fun. The color of the can is cool. It's only $2 a can retail compared to $3 and $4 of our competitors, you know, Monster, Rockstar, Red Bull, et cetera. We're selling through all these stores really well. And then BevNet Magazine, Beverage Net Magazine, it's called BevNet, is the, you know, the magazine in the space, in the category, and we win number one flavor of the year versus 900 energy drinks. Well, you can imagine what I did with that magazine. I ordered a ton of copies and I brought it with me to every distributor meeting, every retail meeting and got us into 55,000 retail stores through 43

distributors, 21 of them being Budweiser, and the other half being Coors, Miller, Pepsi, and Southern Wine and Spirits for Las Vegas. So from 23 to 27, I don't remember anything but selling energy drinks. That's what I did, that's what I loved, and I got us into these 55,000 stores. On April 1st, 2005, I became the youngest owner of a publicly

traded company in history. I'm 23 years old at the time, 23 and a half. And all of a sudden we're on CNN, Fox, everything. This is pre social media. Remember like social media existed for like my space and like the Facebook was around, right? But there was no social media. There was no Instagram No one was tweet tweeting. There was none of these things were happening really outside because this is 2005 And so I'm trying to build a brand in the YouTube days in the myspace days

To build up this beverage brand On the 10 year anniversary, so I started in 1999 on May 18th I know for sure because I had hats that said 518.99. On the 10 year anniversary, I resigned from the company so I could put another feather in my cap. I've been selling clothing, energy drinks, et cetera for a decade straight. And I wanted to do something else because I've done the same thing for a decade. And so on the 10 year anniversary, I resigned so that I could start an online poker site called Victory Poker. Victory Poker within 10 weeks of ideation was live and I was living in Malta and I have no idea where Malta is. So I had the idea I brought together Dan Bozerian, DJ Steve Aoki, Playboy

Playmates like Sarah Underwood, Jessica Perciaga all these interesting characters from models DJs Stars people that are just getting in big in social media Like bills area like Steve Aoki. They're starting to build their brand presence. You know social media is rising. It's around 2009 2010 And then ten months later, we're one of the top five most traffic sites We're getting eyeballs all over the planet From all of our content because we build this huge poker train 23 poker pros that all had good names in the categories They're all over TV I'm playing on TV and poker shows in London in America and everywhere in between Some of our poker pros are coming in first and second place in major tournaments

They're final tabling on television shows all over the world wearing the victory poker patch. Everything's amazing. Holy smokes. I'm living in Malta. I only have five employees, tens of thousands of new players coming in left and right. And then something called Black Friday happens. April 15th, 10, 10 in the morning.

I get a call from Dan Bilzerian. Where are you? I'm at the Bellagio. He's like why aren't you in Malta? I said to him, why aren't you in Malta? That's my best impersonation. And I was explaining to him that I have a really big meeting at 12 o'clock with this gentleman who had actually sold the slot machine loyalty card for 44040 million. So he was really big in the gaming space. He had owned the licenses to Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy, like the slot machines. Like he's a big player in the gaming space. And so I flew in to meet with him at 12 p.m. that day. I was going to meet with him at the Hard Rock, but I'm at the Bellagio, 10, 10 a.m.

And my life is changing because April 19th, four days later, I've already booked out the Gaia resort in Costa Rica Google it. It's a gorgeous resort. Gaia Booked out this resort. I've got again models and playmates poker pros videographers Trevor who's sitting right next to me filming this podcast We're all flying in To film and shoot this big marketing campaign because we just closed this really big deal at a large valuation a 65 million dollar valuation for victory poker For April 19th, I had the flights the whole resort booked everyone's coming in to shoot content But instead April 15th at 10 10 in the morning online poker in America was shut down. My competitors

were literally seized by the FBI. Not theoretically, but literally. If you went onto Full Tilt poker or poker stars or absolute poker onto their websites, you can Google this one and everything I say you can Google because I'm being very blunt and open with you guys because it's it's important for our society to have blunt discussions about good bad and ugly and everything between you can google it full tail poker absolute poker stars it literally said seized by the fbi and they were just like gone luckily on victor poker on my website victorpoker.net it just everything was fine i never got a letter never got in obviously, because I wasn't doing what they were doing. They were miscoding merchant transactions.

It'll take a long time to explain, but the main idea is, let's say Trevor wants to deposit 500 bucks on PokerStars, it would say like PS3. I want to deposit the same 500 bucks, it would say like mattresses.biz on our credit card statements. That's not cool, that's not kosher. And so they got in big trouble because they were doing that to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. Full Tilt was

doing like four million dollars a day in revenue and PokerStars were doing like eight million dollars a day in revenue. Like a lot. I was a little engine that could. I started my whole company with 2.6 million. Sorry, 2.4 million versus all these guys. That's what they were doing a day. Right? Like I was like a rounding error to them and we were able to build up one of the top five poker sites on the planet. So I go to this meeting it's 12 o'clock and it was very intense you know because I just I don't know what to do you know. Social media is not again that big then that we're like there's Twitter you know there's YouTube but YouTube is not really social media to me. It's media

It's not social and so I'm interacting with people calling everybody to try to figure things out and fun story I Walk in to meet this multi-billionaire and right when I walk into this room with the hard rock I'm there with a guy named Steve Sear very famous casino host. He wrote a book called whale hunt in the desert So he's taking me over there to meet this guy. I walk in the guys like man. You look like somebody died And he hasn't shaken my hand yet, right? Like he just this is our first time meeting and I was like, yeah I mean my I think my whole industry just died and turned on the TV so he puts on ESPN right away there it is and so

He puts on speakerphone some guy named Steve Wynn. That owns some casinos. And Steve's very upset because just recently, right before this, April 15, he had done a mega deal with one of those poker sites very publicly for this huge thing that they're doing together. And he was very upset that he wasn't aware of what they were doing.

And you know, it's not his fault. How could he know what they were doing? It's not his lawyer's fault either. But he was very upset because publicly he just did this huge deal with one of the top three poker sites on the planet, top two poker sites on the planet. And everyone was talking about it. It was a great, you know, Conception was a great deal. And all of a sudden he has egg on his face because he's associated or attached to poker sites that just got seized by the FBI. Yikes.

So now I have a decision to make. I mean, I didn't get in trouble. I didn't get a letter and nothing was wrong with I wasn't doing what they were doing. I had Wells Fargo and KPMG accounting and I was on a big network, like a poker network that was handling all the backend. So I had no chance of getting in trouble because I wasn't doing anything like what they were doing. And I was very clean cut, very basic. And I just had Wells Fargo and KPMG accounting, watching everything very

big, a firm and a huge poker network behind me. My decision was, do I keep going? And now I have way less competition because those three sites accounted for more than half the whole poker world. Or do I do what I did and take the safe route and just pay everyone back? And so we put out all these notices and emails and social media blasts. You know, again, social media wasn't that huge back then. We were getting like five, six million views on YouTube videos,

but that's not social media. That's media. It's more like a television. So we're telling everybody withdraw, withdraw, withdraw, and then we manually, manually helped withdraw 41,000 refunds, manually. That's hard to do nowadays with technology. Imagine back then over a decade ago. And so that part of the process and why I'm telling you the in-depth part of the storyline is I paid everyone back on April 19th, you know, those four days. I mainly paid everyone back instead of being in Costa Rica with models and poker pros and

photo shoots and campaigns, you know, announcing this new big deal we were doing. Instead, we closed down, mainly paid everybody back so that I could sleep at night, that it was safe. So I didn't trust what was going to happen if the government would pay people back. I knew that they had seized the funds and it took them two to four years to pay people back and most people didn't get paid back. Again, I'm not anti-government, I'm anti-slow.

And I know how slow they can be because there's a lot of red tape and a lot of bureaucracy behind it. And there's so much paperwork involved and millions of players involved. And so I just took the safe route, pay everybody back so I could be the good guy in the space and I could sleep at night.

And thank God that I did, because it took them years to pay people back and only a portion. And it was really because poker stars later stepped in and decided to put the money up for Full Tail Poker to pay people back when they didn't have to, which was very nice of them and very good for the whole poker community.

So now April 20th, I got a decision to make. I am unemployed. I just lost my huge poker company. I'm living in a place called Malta, like in the middle of nowhere, underneath the boot of Italy, right? Underneath Sicily. And like, now what? And so I had a decision to make. Do I want to sit on the floor and cry about it and throw a pity party? Or do what I did, shake it off, start going consulting for land-based casinos and for some financial businesses, some other online brands and teach them about what I went through and how I scaled it. How did I get so famous so quickly?

How did I get us on television? How did I think about the poker market? How did I deal with affiliates and ads and everything to get you know more and more players and get Tens of thousands of players to be coming into the site versus all these major poker sites How did I work with the magazines how to work with the TV shows? How did I do all the things? Consulting helped a lot and It led to my next company which is still around 13 years later called elevator studio at first It was a different name

and then we changed it to Elevator Studio. So get into social media and I'm literally like driving to the Kardashians house to drop off Fit Tea and Fashion Nova dresses and like, you know, writing their caption for them on how they should post on Instagram or Twitter, et cetera. That changed and changed me and my mindset of I never wanted to be all in on any one company again.

I never wanna have all my eggs in one basket because I went all in on this poker site and on the day after that, it was called April 20th. Now what? I was all in on this one thing. I didn't have a bunch of investments out there. I didn't have a bunch of deals going on. I was in it.

And so that changed my life. That terrible business moment led me to change how I operate to this day and forever, forever, forever for the rest of my life. I'm an angel investor in 43 companies and spread out my risk because of that situation. And I think about it all the time. And I always think about it. I love poker and I love the the game. I love the market but Again, i'm not anti-government. I'm anti-slow Here we are 13 years later and there's still only three or four states that are legally regulated for poker Meanwhile, you can go to most any state in the country and there's casinos Every state has the lottery

bingo horse racing. I can go in and bet my entire net worth on lottery tickets. Let's say I make $200 a week and I don't have much money. I could spend all $200 buying lottery tickets, but I can't play a skill game like poker and I can't angel vest into a company because that's illegal too.

That's crazy. So I'm not anti-government, I'm anti-slow. And so we have only have three or four states that are regulated, so we are a long way from federal regulation on poker. Even though poker is the only one of those that's a skill game, that's right, like Phil Ivey, Daniel DiGranu, Phil Hellmuth, these household name players, there's a reason that they have five, 10, 15, 20 bracelets of World Series poker bracelets because they have skills, not luck. Is there some luck in math involved? Of course there is, but over the course of time the skilled players

have proven that they will win over and over and over. Phil Ivey just won another bracelet a week or two weeks ago depending on when you're listening to this episode. Phil Ivey is the legend of poker. And so that moment made me decide that I'm gonna start a social media agency, start Elevator Studio. And to this day, the butterfly effect of that is I've done over 110,000 paid posts, spent over $60 million with influencers, and I've W9'd, you know, get the tax forms from 3,500 influencers just in the past year. So I'm really helping as much as I can in the social media influencer space

for brands, products, and mobile apps. That all stems from the day I could have been on the floor crying about losing my victory poker. Okay, social media agency is going on still to this day. We do campaigns for brands, products, mobile apps, a lot of fashion companies, fitness brands, supplement companies, beverage companies, food and beverage brands, et cetera. And a lot of the companies I invest into, it allows me to help them scale because I

can do social media work for them. So then, now what? For the first six, seven years, I just wanted to do everything by myself. I was doing the, literally writing the captions. I would drive over to Tyga and Amber Rose and Scott Disick and Kylie and whoever I had to to drop off products. I thought I had to do everything for the first five, six, seven years. Then I had a wake up call.

It's around 2018, 2019. I decided I'm going to bring on a CEO. One of my main executives at the company named Dan Raff introduced me to a guy named Joey Carson. Joey Carson had a very big pedigree. He was original CEO of Buna Marie. You've seen him. He was on an episode the last month.

Joey Carson was the original CEO for Buna Marie for eight years that created shows like World Rules, Real World, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Simple Life with Paris Hilton, et cetera. He did like eight or nine years with Fox Kardashians, simple life with Paris Hilton, et cetera. He did like eight or nine years with Fox, eight or nine years with Sony, worked with Dr. Phil. He has this 30 year career of like big TV stuff. And so it was a big decision to try to convince him to come work for me.

And I was very excited. It took me months to do it and that changed everything. So now go to 2019. I've got the CEO, Joey Carson, taking on Elevator Studio, taking on Elevator Syndicate, my investment group. You guys can check that out at elevatorsyndicate.com. I have 846 accredited investors in that group. It's free to join, by the way,

but you have to be a credit investor. So he's helping me with Elevator Syndicate, elevatorsyndicate.com, helping me raise capital for companies. I've since then raised $44 million and growing for food and beverage brands and consumer products through the Elevator Syndicate. He's helping me with elevator nights to throw these events. I've thrown 54 elevator nights. So these free events are 300 to 1,000 people. All these things have stemmed from losing my company, losing the poker site. Who knows? I might be still running a big huge poker site to this day.

13 years later, who knows what would happen if it would have just kept going. But instead, I don't have all my eggs in one basket. I've started to invest in companies, throw live events, etc. So when the CEO, Joey Carson, comes in, it's now 2019, I start a mastermind. I've been speaking at a bunch of masterminds. I've been throwing elevator nights for free. I've thrown a few dozen elevator nights by this time, 2019. And I decide I've had this idea to make the most expensive, coolest, experience-focused

mastermind in the world. $100,000 per person, and everyone's going to have at least a five million dollar sized company, preferably ten million dollars or higher to be able to even apply to join the 100 million mastermind experience. You can look at that one at 100mme.com. 100mme.com. So we sold out every year since 2019. I sold out that very first one within ten weeks, which is crazy thinking back about that. People paying $100,000 to join this group. So we had 100 people, 100 grand each for the 100 million mastermind. That only would have happened if I brought on the CEO to let me fly because I felt like

I was chained and shackled inside the office because I had to do everything. And once I brought on a high level CEO to work with the team, I was able to fly. My angel investments start to become much more often. I started to bring in way more clients for the business, because now I'm out there speaking at events. I'm socializing a lot more. I'm throwing a lot more events.

And everything happened because of the CEO, Joey, coming in. It allowed me to skill as a personal brand. I started to grow my following. I started to grow my following. I started to grow my network. I'm going out to as many events as I can. I'm speaking over 100 times a year, almost 200 times a year for a couple of those years. Boom, I'm just going out everywhere

because the CEO helped me take over the business and I could start scaling. And by doing that, I'm bringing in clients, I'm bringing in investments, I'm bringing in DealFlow because I'm out there being able to fly. I'm not shackled to the office. And so a couple of investments I'll just go over with with you real quick,

and then we'll wrap up this episode about the bio. So investing in companies, I invested obviously in Everbowl, which I talk about pretty often. I put in 500K in Everbowl, 2018, 2019, raised them five million bucks. They go on to go from like 17 18 stores at the time so now having 95 or 96 locations opening one new one every six

days I invest into cars and coffee my sports card chain you can check that out the coffee breakers comm we've done over 32 million dollars in sales selling sports cars and Pokemon I raised money for icon meals I raised money for BLK water I raised money for its skinny pastaals, I raise money for BLK Water, I raise money for It's Skinny Pasta, a bunch of these different type of brands, Creatures of Habit Oatmeal, whole bunch of brands, three million, four million, five million,

six million dollars at a time, Joyride Candy, all these food and beverage brands, I've been raising three million, four million, five million, six million bucks for each of these brands, which creates a lot of jobs, which is why I love it. I'm able to create a lot of jobs investing into these food and beverage and consumer product brands, and a lot of cool stuff which is why I love it. I'm able to create a lot of jobs, investing into these food and beverages

and consumer product brands, and a lot of cool stuff happens when those guys scale, right? Ever Bowl goes on to hire hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of employees, and probably over a thousand by now, and way more coming, because there's 96, 97, 98, 99, 102, 110, 120, 130 locations, boom, boom, boom. They're just gonna keep opening locations left and right,

because they've already sold over 430 locations of Ever Bowl. So I like investing in companies and I like the altruistic part of it is I really like the employees that get hired because of these investments. I'm gonna keep doing three to $6 million per month into these brands that go on to hire people.

Along the way, I do a lot of charity things because I want to inspire and showcase how you can do charity wherever you are in the world. So I started my charity, Model Citizen Fund, where we make backpacks for the homeless with 150 emergency supply items inside. Half of it's food and drinks. The other half is poncho, watch, cleaning supplies,

sleeping bag, duct tape, socks, all these things that people need. So Model Citizen Fund started in 2010, 14 years ago. And that's my charity that I'm gonna be doing forever. We also started what's called the Trinus Kids Foundation to do toy drives, back to school drives, report card day, Thanksgiving food drive, four events a year

for around 300 Latin families in downtown LA for Trinus Kids at Hubble Studio with the founder Vince Ritchie. Now that led to, two years ago, breaking the Guinness Book of World Records for the world's largest toy drive. We brought over 118,000 toys to SoFi Stadium and covered the whole football field. Last year, we went even crazier. We did 10 city toy drive in a 15 day period and then did an extra 11 city as well, just to be extra cuckoo.

So charity became a huge component to me. Again, this stems back to, if you think about it, my charity started the year I lost and closed down Victory Poker. My social media agency started the year I lost and closed down Victory Poker. My social media agency started the year I lost and closed down Victory Poker. My life started and everything about my brand, my speaking, my events, my consulting, all the things, my network, the butterfly effect of losing the Victory Poker site, which should be me sitting on the floor crying about it, led to everything that you see in the bio and the career that we just talked about.

Because that hard day led to this interesting life of situations from realizing and learning from the moment instead of sitting on the floor and crying about it and being resentful for it. Which often times happen. You're going to go through business struggles. You're going to have business situations. You're going to get sued. You do over a million dollars in sales, I promise you're going to go through business struggles. You're going to have business situations You're going to get sued you do over a million dollars in sales. I promise you're gonna get sued you become a millionaire

I can pinky swear you're gonna get sued It's a part of business in life. It's gonna happen left and right no matter how pure you are how good you are. I Can't explain how many lawsuits I'm going to be in in the course of my life I just know it's part of the game. I've been in 17 lawsuits and I've won 17 lawsuits. 17 for 17 for a very specific purpose. Very specific reason. I go in with good intentions and I stay that way throughout the process of it.

I keep all my emails, text messages, contracts, and agreements and I always do my part very clearly in every single part of it from before, during, and after. And if you do those things, yes, do you need good lawyers? That is part of it. But really to be blunt, it's because of my intention, my clarity, my paperwork. That's it.

The lawyer helps explain all those things, but I have to be the one to live and breathe those things. And so I say that because you're gonna go through struggles in your career. You're gonna have setbacks. You're gonna have breakups with partnerships and people are gonna change on you. People are gonna get jealous of you

as you build your businesses and career. You might grow as a social media influencer. You might grow as a business person. You might grow in your, you know, your actual just career as a job. Whatever the thing is that you're doing, things change around you. And so I say this, if you know going in that things are hard, if you know going

in that lawsuits can happen, businesses can fail, breakups can happen from friends and partnerships, you can think about a different light and not be so shocked when it happens. I stay calm in the chaos because I expect the chaos. I know that it's coming. I know every day that I look at my phone people are going to be complaining, changing things, customer returns, cancellations, refunds, shipping problems every single day. This employee did this, they got into a fight, they're dating, what should we do? What happens with that employee does this with that person? Like, oh, this client doesn't like this they do love this they want to

scale they want to cancel every day is gonna happen and so I just stay calm people like oh my god the light bulbs just fell and smashed on the floor you didn't even react well that I know that's it's gonna happen I'm not saying I knew the light bulb was gonna come down I knew that something was gonna smash meaning something's gonna happen in the event or something's going to happen right here in this RV. That light can fall over right here in this RV. This table could something could happen or the speaker could or this podcast mic could catch on fire. And I would stay so calm because I expect things to happen. I don't want my podcast mic to start on fire. I don't want that light to fall over. I'm using the real life

examples that things are going to happen and they're gonna happen all the time, especially as you grow in your career, especially as you grow in your business. And so as you listen to this bio version of, you know, there's a lot of other twists and turns that happened along the way in the career. There's a lot of other things that I invested into and people I invested into, et cetera.

But I don't wanna take up too much of your time because I like to keep these episodes to under 40 minutes because the average workout is 45 minutes. The average commute to this work is 45 minutes. So I want to try to keep this episode to under 45 minutes. What I do want to ask you to do is make sure to check out the money mondays dot com. That is our weekly live calls where every Monday at 4 p.m. PST I do this in-depth discussion with the guests, with the members, and then for about 40 minutes and then 20 minutes I open up to live Q&A sessions and we're all chatting and talking

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