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Please 26 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 1: work with the money making conversation, Ryan Leslie, How are 27 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 1: you doing, Ryan, I'm doing great. I am doing great. 28 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:33,559 Speaker 1: It's beautiful weather in New York City wherever you're listening from. 29 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:38,039 Speaker 1: I hope you're you're motivated. Read a way to give 30 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:41,320 Speaker 1: you some gems and get you on the pathway to 31 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:45,840 Speaker 1: even more accelerated success in your life. So I'm glad. 32 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 1: I'm glad you tuning them may not appreciate the opportunity 33 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 1: to beat your show. Thank you. We The great thing 34 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:53,040 Speaker 1: about it is that I'm you know, like I says. 35 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 1: I love the fact that you're saying that, Hey man, 36 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:58,400 Speaker 1: it's time for the minority to be represented and have 37 00:01:58,520 --> 00:02:02,280 Speaker 1: leadership in the tech, in the tech world, and why 38 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:04,200 Speaker 1: are we failing there? Right? I gotta ask you that 39 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:06,400 Speaker 1: before we get into the super phone talk and all that. 40 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:09,079 Speaker 1: Why are we failing in the tech world and why 41 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:12,320 Speaker 1: are we not being giving credit for participating in the 42 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:16,760 Speaker 1: tech world. Well, I think it's systemic. I think I think, 43 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:23,320 Speaker 1: I think where technology starts, it starts with uh, it 44 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:28,560 Speaker 1: starts with the dream and the ideation that comes from 45 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:32,639 Speaker 1: just knowing that you can take an idea and without 46 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:34,720 Speaker 1: you know, one of my good friends is Paul Judge 47 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 1: from from Atlanta, and he's had he's had a couple 48 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:42,080 Speaker 1: of very successful technology exits, and one of the one 49 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 1: of the greatest lessons that I've learned from him is 50 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:51,320 Speaker 1: that equal opportunity really is technology. So without land, without water, 51 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:55,560 Speaker 1: without steel, without brick and mortar, you can actually build 52 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:02,280 Speaker 1: services through technology that can create immense value. And so 53 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:06,480 Speaker 1: even for me, it you know, I'm coming from Harvard, 54 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:09,640 Speaker 1: I didn't actually have had the ability to take a 55 00:03:09,639 --> 00:03:12,920 Speaker 1: computer science class, and nor did I have the mentors 56 00:03:12,919 --> 00:03:18,920 Speaker 1: growing up that really impressed upon me the incredible opportunity 57 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:23,800 Speaker 1: that technology would empower me with in my later years. 58 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:25,919 Speaker 1: And so I think it's important now. The reason why 59 00:03:25,919 --> 00:03:28,480 Speaker 1: I'm actually doing this podcast right now is just to 60 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:31,720 Speaker 1: let folks know that there is a digital age that 61 00:03:32,040 --> 00:03:35,480 Speaker 1: is already upon us. There's an information age that's upon us, 62 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaker 1: and in order for us to flourish in this age, 63 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 1: we need to be prepared and we need to build 64 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:45,280 Speaker 1: a dream, the impossible dreams, because none of us know 65 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 1: what twenty years from now is going to look like, 66 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 1: which means we have the ability to build it. One 67 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 1: of the one of my favorite sayings, is that the 68 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 1: best way to predict the future is to invent it. 69 00:03:56,760 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 1: And so that's what we're doing that super phone. You're 70 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 1: inventing what we've the future should look like. And we 71 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:06,800 Speaker 1: are doing this based on the concept that without buildings, 72 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 1: without without locomotives and steel and railroads and all of 73 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 1: the all of the materials that were necessary to build 74 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:21,120 Speaker 1: value in the industrial age, the information age is really 75 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:27,800 Speaker 1: just about creating the most efficient way to exchange information. 76 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:30,400 Speaker 1: And we believe the superphone and success happened at the 77 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:33,560 Speaker 1: speed of communication, and so there's so much information available 78 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:38,240 Speaker 1: to us. It's about communicating information as efficiently as possible. 79 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:41,360 Speaker 1: And so I believe it starts schools, starts in our schools, 80 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:46,720 Speaker 1: it starts in it starts in our early childhood education programs, 81 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:51,600 Speaker 1: and I also believe in creativity, being the the first 82 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:56,600 Speaker 1: that planted in order to make us, to make us, 83 00:04:56,600 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 1: to really make us the kind of success to being technology. 84 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:05,240 Speaker 1: I had a meeting yesterday where someone brought to my 85 00:05:05,279 --> 00:05:08,920 Speaker 1: attention or made the comment that the job was more 86 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:11,960 Speaker 1: of an artist than he was a businessman. And when 87 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:14,800 Speaker 1: you look at the immensal set of Apple as a 88 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:19,359 Speaker 1: technology company, a hardware technology come in software technology company, 89 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:26,479 Speaker 1: the creativity that that the helm means that minorities as 90 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:31,359 Speaker 1: urban music and all the creativity and cultural influence that 91 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:34,279 Speaker 1: we have, when it's harnessed the right way and it's 92 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:37,080 Speaker 1: directed the right way, it means that you know, we 93 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:42,360 Speaker 1: already have the makings of being incredible technologists because the 94 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:46,719 Speaker 1: knowledge this requires great imagination. But that's imagination needs to 95 00:05:46,760 --> 00:05:52,320 Speaker 1: be tied to actual, real tactical skills of being able 96 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:56,160 Speaker 1: to speak the language of computers. And so that means 97 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:57,680 Speaker 1: that you have to wake up in the same way 98 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:01,320 Speaker 1: you would learn another language, like French or any other 99 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:04,960 Speaker 1: language Italians, you need to learn the language of computers 100 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:09,359 Speaker 1: so that you can two computers exactly what you would 101 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:11,760 Speaker 1: like for them to do, and once you communicated, once 102 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:14,000 Speaker 1: they will do it. Over and over and over and 103 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:16,920 Speaker 1: over again at scale and be able to serve hundreds 104 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:19,359 Speaker 1: of millions and even in the case of Facebook or 105 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:22,960 Speaker 1: or what's that literally billions of people on the planet. 106 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:25,320 Speaker 1: And so I think for us as the people, we 107 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 1: we just got a dream bigger. We've got a dream 108 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:31,360 Speaker 1: outside of the confines of whatever we believe our current 109 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 1: circumstances are. And when we dream big and we apply 110 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:39,640 Speaker 1: creativity and ingenuity, because the technical skills that we can 111 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:44,880 Speaker 1: learn for free online, we can really touch the way 112 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:47,600 Speaker 1: that we should. Because that's what you did, because your 113 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:51,719 Speaker 1: degree is in government, correct, that's right? And so but 114 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:55,039 Speaker 1: you you you went to Code Academy and you learned 115 00:06:55,440 --> 00:06:58,600 Speaker 1: online code and programming, and that that's what you're saying. 116 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:01,880 Speaker 1: That's what you're saying to us. Do allow your your 117 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:04,480 Speaker 1: direction or that where you've been pointed, or your degree 118 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:07,840 Speaker 1: or what people expect of you to stop your ambition? 119 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:11,280 Speaker 1: And so how just wrapping it around, how did you 120 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:13,400 Speaker 1: perceive that that was the right place to go there, 121 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:16,760 Speaker 1: to Code Academy, to put you in the right direction 122 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 1: for to really deliver all the technology that you're achieving 123 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:25,960 Speaker 1: right now? Correct? Yes, I don't say this in every 124 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:29,120 Speaker 1: in every sense of the word, sir, you always look 125 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:32,240 Speaker 1: for the highest value proposition for the time if you're 126 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:36,160 Speaker 1: gonna put in. So even before technology, when I was 127 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:39,920 Speaker 1: doing music, I didn't want to be searched. And I said, okay, well, 128 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:42,880 Speaker 1: how much does it cost for me to actually go 129 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:45,240 Speaker 1: get a beat from Jermaine Debris? And I think at 130 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:47,200 Speaker 1: that time was the heyday the music industry, you know, 131 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:51,720 Speaker 1: hundred thousand million dollars. And I looked at my make 132 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:55,120 Speaker 1: account of the pilots, you know, a hundred thousand, quarter 133 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:57,160 Speaker 1: million dollars to get one beat. I might as well 134 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:01,720 Speaker 1: teach myself how to me and and and that's and 135 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:04,080 Speaker 1: that's exactly what I did. And that is a resource 136 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:07,000 Speaker 1: that all of us you have, so in the absence 137 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:12,280 Speaker 1: of an end and when we apply time, and we 138 00:08:12,320 --> 00:08:16,680 Speaker 1: apply time and in in an intentional way to achieving 139 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:21,120 Speaker 1: processing want to achieve. It's about a either finding a 140 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:24,560 Speaker 1: mentor or a teacher that is going to invest that 141 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:29,200 Speaker 1: time for you, or finding online resources. And at the time, 142 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:32,040 Speaker 1: you know, I didn't have online resources, but you know 143 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:35,640 Speaker 1: I had digital resources and listen to domain repeats on 144 00:08:35,760 --> 00:08:38,439 Speaker 1: TVs and to sit there and do my best to 145 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:42,040 Speaker 1: replicate it. And so the beauty of the information age 146 00:08:42,120 --> 00:08:45,280 Speaker 1: is that a kid right now has more information at 147 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:47,840 Speaker 1: their fingertips than Bill Clinton had when he was the 148 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:51,240 Speaker 1: President of the United States and office. And so it's 149 00:08:51,280 --> 00:08:54,680 Speaker 1: important for us to actually take the access that we 150 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:58,320 Speaker 1: have that information and leverage it in our favor. And 151 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:01,920 Speaker 1: so that means that whether you have money or not, 152 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:04,760 Speaker 1: there are free resources online that can teach you how 153 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:08,480 Speaker 1: to basically do anything. You want to become a photoshop expert, 154 00:09:08,760 --> 00:09:11,600 Speaker 1: if you want to become an Adobe Premiere Pro expert, 155 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:13,640 Speaker 1: if you want to become a pro toose expert, if 156 00:09:13,679 --> 00:09:16,079 Speaker 1: you want to become a quoting expert, if you want 157 00:09:16,080 --> 00:09:19,120 Speaker 1: to become an expert on science, or an expert on 158 00:09:19,400 --> 00:09:25,319 Speaker 1: literally any topic. Wikipedia, YouTube and online resources can give 159 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:28,480 Speaker 1: you that education for free, and you can become an 160 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:31,880 Speaker 1: expert even without spending forty or fifty thou dollars a 161 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:34,240 Speaker 1: year for that piece of paper that gives a certificate 162 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:37,079 Speaker 1: that says you're an expert. And what you do with 163 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:40,600 Speaker 1: that knowledge is really up to you, and it's not 164 00:09:41,040 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 1: to you, but it's also about how you share the knowledge, right, 165 00:09:44,559 --> 00:09:48,720 Speaker 1: so you can amount the knowledge and all I would 166 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:51,960 Speaker 1: say that any new value that's created in the world 167 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:56,000 Speaker 1: has become someone creatively put their spin on it and 168 00:09:56,120 --> 00:10:00,959 Speaker 1: soup the phone is. You know, it's uh superphone, the 169 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:03,320 Speaker 1: novel concept, and I'm driving to New York Cities. You 170 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:05,160 Speaker 1: can hear it. You can hear the cyber wings in 171 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:10,240 Speaker 1: the background, New York Brother. Yeah, for sure, superphone is 172 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:14,720 Speaker 1: a novel concept because of the ingenuity and creativity that's 173 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:18,520 Speaker 1: being applied to an existing technology which is at the 174 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:24,040 Speaker 1: night right. So I'm interested in just enabling and empowering 175 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:28,200 Speaker 1: and encouraging that next generation of creatives to be as 176 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:33,760 Speaker 1: creative as possible and look at problems that and challenges 177 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:35,480 Speaker 1: that the human race is going to be facing in 178 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:38,520 Speaker 1: the future, and making sure that you've shock in your 179 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:41,880 Speaker 1: mind so that you can solve for challenges that we 180 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:44,559 Speaker 1: don't even know at this yet. And that's how you're 181 00:10:44,559 --> 00:10:46,480 Speaker 1: going to really create value for the world. And when 182 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:49,000 Speaker 1: you pray value for the world, the world turns around 183 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:52,480 Speaker 1: and creates value for you. We're in the phone listen 184 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:54,920 Speaker 1: to Money Making Conversation. I'm your host with Sean McConnell. 185 00:10:55,080 --> 00:10:57,640 Speaker 1: On the phone with Ryan leslie Um, the creative of 186 00:10:57,679 --> 00:11:01,640 Speaker 1: the Superphone, and then incredible and uh, I said young 187 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:03,679 Speaker 1: and he's younger than me, and he's doing some things 188 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:06,800 Speaker 1: that in the creative world of tech. That is uh, 189 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:09,880 Speaker 1: flipping the strip, flipping the script. We're gonna be back 190 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:11,720 Speaker 1: with more. And when we come back, Ryan, I want 191 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:14,560 Speaker 1: to talk about superphone, how that idea really came out. 192 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:17,120 Speaker 1: I also want to talk about that Stevie wanted to 193 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:19,760 Speaker 1: see D. That then, but what Stevie wanted to see 194 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:21,800 Speaker 1: They see your bio. It just says Stevie wanted to 195 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:24,200 Speaker 1: see D and they say nothing about the actual CD. 196 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:27,400 Speaker 1: I wouldn't know what songs really really when you sit 197 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:29,040 Speaker 1: you on the next level. We'll be right back with 198 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:32,160 Speaker 1: both Ryan Leslie bringing Man, Brian young Man. I know 199 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:33,880 Speaker 1: I didn't do sixteen hundred on my s A T. 200 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:35,960 Speaker 1: I can tell you that I will not telling what 201 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:40,480 Speaker 1: I did because six hundred is perfect and he was fourteen. 202 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:45,480 Speaker 1: I just was Sean McDonald on the line. Is uh incredible, 203 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:49,079 Speaker 1: Brian Leslie, Um, Brian, I want before we get into superphone. 204 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:52,280 Speaker 1: But and my degree is in mathematics minor and computer 205 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:58,120 Speaker 1: science sociology and in high school, UM, I was kind 206 00:11:58,120 --> 00:12:00,920 Speaker 1: of like one of those chosen few they said I 207 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:04,760 Speaker 1: was smarter than everybody, and I resisted that. I resisted that, 208 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 1: I resisted the fact that I was in that fans classes. 209 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:10,240 Speaker 1: I resisted I was in this group of seven that 210 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:13,199 Speaker 1: they said was smarter than everybody in school, and and 211 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:15,640 Speaker 1: and and the reason I wanted to bring it up 212 00:12:15,679 --> 00:12:18,960 Speaker 1: because it's important, I think, to admit your talents and 213 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:21,760 Speaker 1: don't shy away from the opportunity. That's what you just 214 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:25,160 Speaker 1: said in the first break is that their knowledge is 215 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 1: so much, it's so available, and it's free of free 216 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:30,360 Speaker 1: that you should take advantage of that. Being a young 217 00:12:30,400 --> 00:12:33,160 Speaker 1: man at the age of fourteen who made a perfect 218 00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:36,520 Speaker 1: score on the s A T, how did you deal 219 00:12:36,559 --> 00:12:38,680 Speaker 1: with that? How did you deal being ahead of the curve? 220 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:42,120 Speaker 1: With with with students? Because I I'll admit that that 221 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:44,439 Speaker 1: I shied away from it. I didn't want to be 222 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:47,920 Speaker 1: special and you were you are special, and you were special? Then, 223 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:50,720 Speaker 1: so how did you deal with that? Before we move forward? 224 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:54,640 Speaker 1: I agree with you, my brother. I believe that you 225 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:57,120 Speaker 1: just have to embrace it. And I believe that we're 226 00:12:57,160 --> 00:13:00,480 Speaker 1: all unique. And in the same ways that we're all unique, 227 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:05,400 Speaker 1: we actually are every day engaging in the exact same activities. 228 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:09,720 Speaker 1: We gotta we gotta eat, we gotta take care of ourselves, 229 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:12,480 Speaker 1: have some high giene, and the rest of the day 230 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:15,880 Speaker 1: is how you actually feed your mind and body so 231 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:19,800 Speaker 1: that you can you can deliver the most value to 232 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:23,160 Speaker 1: the world. And like I said, helping the most people 233 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:25,640 Speaker 1: in life is exactly how you're going to help yourself 234 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:30,200 Speaker 1: the best. Because you feel just as good helping people, 235 00:13:30,800 --> 00:13:36,440 Speaker 1: or better helping people, then you set right. And so 236 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:40,880 Speaker 1: I believe that you we all can find what our 237 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:43,960 Speaker 1: special gift is and we and I think the way 238 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:47,599 Speaker 1: that we find what our special gift is is understanding 239 00:13:47,640 --> 00:13:51,400 Speaker 1: how we impact people and how we impact our families, 240 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:54,240 Speaker 1: how we impact our friends, how we impact the people 241 00:13:54,280 --> 00:13:56,880 Speaker 1: who matter the most to us. That is a gift 242 00:13:57,360 --> 00:14:01,319 Speaker 1: that is very very unique, right because there is no 243 00:14:01,559 --> 00:14:06,160 Speaker 1: one person on this planet who can actually personally help 244 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:10,760 Speaker 1: six thousand and sixty thousand, six million, six billion people. 245 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:13,720 Speaker 1: You know the people, And that's why I think friendship 246 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:17,560 Speaker 1: and close relationships are so important. And so even if 247 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:22,480 Speaker 1: you feel like your talent made made, there may be 248 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:24,680 Speaker 1: many folks who have the same talent that you have. 249 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:29,000 Speaker 1: The way, the way I really think about it is 250 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:31,600 Speaker 1: that when my mother would sing to me as a 251 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:34,760 Speaker 1: young as a young as a young man, it was 252 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:37,720 Speaker 1: a lot different than listening to somebody seeing to me 253 00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:41,440 Speaker 1: on a radio. And that that personal connection, that personal 254 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:45,640 Speaker 1: uh equity that was being built in that relationship by 255 00:14:45,720 --> 00:14:48,000 Speaker 1: her just sharing her gifts and talent of playing the 256 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:51,760 Speaker 1: piano at night before I would sleep, That was so 257 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:56,440 Speaker 1: profoundly valuable to me, and it made her life extremely 258 00:14:56,520 --> 00:14:58,560 Speaker 1: valuable as well, knowing that she had that kind of 259 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:02,080 Speaker 1: impact on her young son. And so I think for 260 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:05,640 Speaker 1: anyone that that's struggling or thinking, hey, what is my talent? 261 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:08,040 Speaker 1: What is my gifts? You just need to look around 262 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:10,280 Speaker 1: you and look at the people that you're actually affecting, 263 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:13,680 Speaker 1: and the people that you're affecting that is the gift. 264 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:16,240 Speaker 1: That is the value of your gift. And the more 265 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:19,520 Speaker 1: you can temple you have an idea or you have 266 00:15:19,560 --> 00:15:22,360 Speaker 1: a product or a service that can help more people, 267 00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:25,000 Speaker 1: and you can start to scale it with technologies, you 268 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:27,600 Speaker 1: scale it by a building a business or an enterprise 269 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:30,640 Speaker 1: around it, then you start to see your value. That's 270 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:35,760 Speaker 1: what you do with superphone. Correct, Right, So, how how 271 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:38,440 Speaker 1: did the thought process initiate itself into your mind? And 272 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:42,280 Speaker 1: then how did you move it forward? Yeah, so I 273 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:45,680 Speaker 1: just understood very early on that communication in general is 274 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:49,560 Speaker 1: wildly inefficient. And what I mean by that is the 275 00:15:49,680 --> 00:15:52,360 Speaker 1: number of young people are listening right now to this 276 00:15:52,440 --> 00:15:56,200 Speaker 1: podcast who have great ideas and just feel like they 277 00:15:56,280 --> 00:15:58,360 Speaker 1: just don't know the right people, or they don't have 278 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:00,920 Speaker 1: the money to start their idea yet. They probably don't 279 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:03,240 Speaker 1: even know a loan officer at a bank, or they 280 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:05,800 Speaker 1: don't even know the first thing about even being in 281 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:07,840 Speaker 1: touch with a bank to get a loan to start 282 00:16:07,880 --> 00:16:09,880 Speaker 1: their ideas and get it off the ground, or or 283 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:12,440 Speaker 1: they feel like they don't have mentors, or they feel 284 00:16:12,440 --> 00:16:14,720 Speaker 1: like they don't have a great sounding board that they 285 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:17,360 Speaker 1: can talk to them around their idea so that they 286 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:21,360 Speaker 1: can have examples or or or have lessons that other 287 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:24,479 Speaker 1: people have learned who have have gone down this pathway 288 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:28,200 Speaker 1: in the past. I think that, uh, I think that 289 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:34,320 Speaker 1: my my initial goal was always to make communication more efficient. 290 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:38,840 Speaker 1: And I think that when we when we leave ourselves 291 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:42,520 Speaker 1: to allow our relationships to be managed by third party's 292 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:45,840 Speaker 1: social platforms like basic work or Twitter or LinkedIn or 293 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:48,840 Speaker 1: whatever it is, it's a very very lazy way to 294 00:16:48,880 --> 00:16:52,200 Speaker 1: approach life. And I think that when you're more proactive 295 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:55,400 Speaker 1: in life, you're gonna move the ball down the field 296 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:59,360 Speaker 1: a lot faster because you're calling plays as opposed to reacting. 297 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:04,520 Speaker 1: And so when you think about your social graph, and 298 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:07,040 Speaker 1: I'm talking to everybody's listing right now, you think about 299 00:17:08,840 --> 00:17:10,600 Speaker 1: and when you think about, hey, I got this many 300 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:14,119 Speaker 1: followers on Instagram, or hey I've got this many friends 301 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:16,520 Speaker 1: on Facebook, or I have this many connections on LinkedIn, 302 00:17:17,119 --> 00:17:22,280 Speaker 1: those connections, those followers, they're only as valuable as the 303 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:26,760 Speaker 1: conversations you're actually having with them. They're only as valuable 304 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:29,119 Speaker 1: as the competitions you are actually having with them and 305 00:17:29,240 --> 00:17:32,080 Speaker 1: the ways that you're transacting your time and the ways 306 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:36,399 Speaker 1: you're transacting money with them. Right, And so it's very 307 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:39,720 Speaker 1: very important to have a direct line of communication on 308 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:43,200 Speaker 1: all the people you're connected to, because that's would be 309 00:17:43,280 --> 00:17:47,040 Speaker 1: the most efficient way that you can communicate your ideas 310 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:50,200 Speaker 1: that you can build and you can achieve success in 311 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:54,560 Speaker 1: the most efficient manners possible. So you are to create 312 00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:56,560 Speaker 1: the one on one, you're creating the one on one. 313 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:03,560 Speaker 1: I'm helping you. I'm helping everyone to to create that 314 00:18:03,760 --> 00:18:07,480 Speaker 1: one on one. Same I'm at every single you mention 315 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:11,480 Speaker 1: you have on social media, those mentions are extremely weak 316 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:13,960 Speaker 1: unless you have a cell phone number on every single 317 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:15,679 Speaker 1: one of them. And in order to have a cellphone 318 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:19,119 Speaker 1: number and every single one of your followers connections, Facebook friends, 319 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:23,680 Speaker 1: YouTube subscribers, whatever you're building, you need a platform that 320 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:26,480 Speaker 1: is going to help you to manage those connections at 321 00:18:26,520 --> 00:18:29,919 Speaker 1: scale so that you always have them at your fingertips 322 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:33,600 Speaker 1: and you can achieve success at the speed of communication. 323 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:38,760 Speaker 1: And that's pieces of superb Wow. And so when you 324 00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:40,760 Speaker 1: when you pitched that idea, who who told you you 325 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:45,800 Speaker 1: were crazy? Ryan? Who told you? Anybody seeing that? I 326 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:49,720 Speaker 1: think I actually just I think I didn't bust the 327 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:54,320 Speaker 1: search online because I had reached the stage in my 328 00:18:54,440 --> 00:18:56,600 Speaker 1: life and career where I had the means, I had 329 00:18:56,640 --> 00:18:59,840 Speaker 1: the financial re step out the way, step out the way, 330 00:18:59,880 --> 00:19:03,120 Speaker 1: my to get out the way money, that's right, Yeah, 331 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:05,760 Speaker 1: and I ad ability to just say like, Okay, well, 332 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:08,240 Speaker 1: if this already exists, I just paid for it. And 333 00:19:08,400 --> 00:19:12,480 Speaker 1: I think that the real moment for me, the Eureka 334 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:15,960 Speaker 1: moment for me, was that hey, this concept in the 335 00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:20,280 Speaker 1: way that I imagined and envisioned it, it just didn't exist. 336 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:24,520 Speaker 1: So I message didn't allow me to say, Okay, just 337 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:27,240 Speaker 1: show me all the conversations I'm having with the Talcoper 338 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:30,240 Speaker 1: because I needed to Talcoper right now, or just showing 339 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:32,200 Speaker 1: you all the conversations I've had. There were people that 340 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:34,760 Speaker 1: work at Delta Airline because I'm going later for my play. 341 00:19:35,119 --> 00:19:39,400 Speaker 1: My message that didn't work like that, my text messages 342 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:41,399 Speaker 1: that didn't work like that, and I said, well, hey, 343 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:44,520 Speaker 1: we're living in century. My phone should just be able 344 00:19:44,520 --> 00:19:46,840 Speaker 1: to do that. And so I thought it was more 345 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:49,440 Speaker 1: instead of someone telling me that I was crazy, I 346 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:53,080 Speaker 1: was looking at the world say as of this technology 347 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:59,440 Speaker 1: is crazy and the opportunity that this absence creates a 348 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:05,080 Speaker 1: an ability for me to actually create this value in 349 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:09,000 Speaker 1: this in the absence of the technology for which I 350 00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:12,080 Speaker 1: was searching. Yeah, so this app, this is an app 351 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:14,760 Speaker 1: you can go to Apple Store and download the super 352 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:17,639 Speaker 1: phone app has been created by you. Now I want 353 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:19,240 Speaker 1: to go back for I know I'd said it earlier. 354 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:21,040 Speaker 1: If I don't bring up the fact that Stevie want 355 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:24,560 Speaker 1: to See d that you heard that friend heard Major Player. 356 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:28,679 Speaker 1: What was the Stevie want the song A C D Well, 357 00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:32,840 Speaker 1: I would say, uh, st step Wonders CD that really 358 00:20:33,400 --> 00:20:36,320 Speaker 1: change everything, that really to change the whole course of 359 00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:40,159 Speaker 1: my life and career in life. Tast what songs in 360 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:42,600 Speaker 1: the key of life? Now you go? You go? What 361 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:45,240 Speaker 1: song though? What song though? That's a brilliant That's a 362 00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:48,840 Speaker 1: brilliant c D. That's a brilliant c D. Which song do? Yeah? 363 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:51,840 Speaker 1: Really your brilliant body of work? And this all with 364 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:55,240 Speaker 1: love and need of love today? And I really believe 365 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:59,520 Speaker 1: that you know that's what we do. We are we 366 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:02,879 Speaker 1: are at creating the ability for people to have closer 367 00:21:03,200 --> 00:21:06,600 Speaker 1: relationships and get to what we all crave in life, 368 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:09,200 Speaker 1: which is more love. And if you have more love 369 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:13,560 Speaker 1: around your ideas, if you have more love around the 370 00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:15,800 Speaker 1: questions that you are asking to help, that you are 371 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:18,960 Speaker 1: asking for is so much more powerful to ask for 372 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:22,320 Speaker 1: help from someone that loves you as opposed to someone 373 00:21:22,359 --> 00:21:24,280 Speaker 1: that doesn't know you. And you know what, I think 374 00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:26,639 Speaker 1: there is a I think there's a there. I believe 375 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:29,000 Speaker 1: in the inherent good of humanity. And I believe, like 376 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:33,639 Speaker 1: I said, people feel better helping, even better helping than 377 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:37,800 Speaker 1: being helped. And so the ability for you to actually 378 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:41,920 Speaker 1: find empathy and find real death in your relationships is 379 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:44,440 Speaker 1: just gonna make your life that much more enriched and better. 380 00:21:45,080 --> 00:21:48,160 Speaker 1: And that's that's that's the goal. That's that's the aim 381 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:51,080 Speaker 1: of superphone and so, and that means that whether that's 382 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:54,040 Speaker 1: that's your customers, because you want your customers to feel 383 00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:55,800 Speaker 1: like you love them, you know, and that's why you're 384 00:21:55,800 --> 00:21:59,160 Speaker 1: building a product to help them, uh, to have better lives. 385 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:02,800 Speaker 1: Whether that's your fans, whether that's your meends and family, 386 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:06,760 Speaker 1: or your colleagues. I feel like deeper relationships are really 387 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:09,280 Speaker 1: I'm going to extend your life. And only will they 388 00:22:09,359 --> 00:22:12,399 Speaker 1: extend your life, they'll make your life that much more enriched. 389 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:15,440 Speaker 1: And so as we go into SO, I want you 390 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:17,840 Speaker 1: to think about your iPhone today and I want you 391 00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:20,240 Speaker 1: to think about how much better your life to be, 392 00:22:20,800 --> 00:22:23,560 Speaker 1: like having better organization and having a little bit of 393 00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:29,520 Speaker 1: automation and having intelligence on your messaging that actually allows 394 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:34,880 Speaker 1: for you. Yeah, Hey, my man, we know we're gonna 395 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:37,760 Speaker 1: take this show to TV. I've already been notified. Can 396 00:22:37,800 --> 00:22:42,720 Speaker 1: you be my first test? 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