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Speaker 1: Damon and I happened on the Afro Tech Live event

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Speaker 1: featured on lunch table dot com. Let's dive in. We

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Speaker 1: are back with another afro Tech Live um featuring us

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Speaker 1: in their early twenties burnout and on. The hot thing

428
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Speaker 1: at the time was Mountain Dew and I'm a Red

429
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Speaker 1: Bulls and Evocula. So I'm giving my age now. So

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Speaker 1: it's like the lay Odds and it was high life.

431
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Speaker 1: Steve Drives was still alive, like the whole thing, like

432
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Speaker 1: the old thing. You know, you go to the party,

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Speaker 1: see Steve drives there, that kind of thing. So it

434
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Speaker 1: was that lifestyle and then they'd be burned out in

435
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Speaker 1: like a month, like Crispy, like never hear from them again.

436
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Speaker 1: I'm not trying to do that and left. I didn't

437
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Speaker 1: do that with Cuddler, though I had my moments. Real

438
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Speaker 1: is tough, and so you want to create something again

439
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Speaker 1: that's sustainable if you're in a rush. If your step

440
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Speaker 1: was worthwhile, you don't need to be in a rush.

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Speaker 1: And there's a few different things where you might have

442
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Speaker 1: to get in before competitors. But even if competitors get in,

443
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Speaker 1: they might be you might be able to refine it,

444
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Speaker 1: put your spin on it. That's better. And so again

445
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Speaker 1: no focus on the Russian just like be consistent with

446
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Speaker 1: my YouTube channel. I discovered this straight up where it's

447
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Speaker 1: just like I was doing the daily YouTube for like

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Speaker 1: two months, already got like sixty episodes up there, and

449
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Speaker 1: then a couple of weeks ago, I was like, wait

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Speaker 1: a second, let me calm down. So now it's up

451
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Speaker 1: being every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, much easier pace. The

452
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Speaker 1: world is starting to open back up, so I'm starting

453
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Speaker 1: to get called up to do different things later on

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Speaker 1: in the year or next year. It's like, I want

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Speaker 1: to ask something that's sustainable. How do I keep showing

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Speaker 1: up for my audience forever? As Jay Z said in

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Speaker 1: that interview with The New York Times, forever, that's what

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Speaker 1: I want. You can't do forever and burn yourself out.

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Speaker 1: All right, two more. We can do this quick because

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Speaker 1: we are starting to get some questions coming in. Um,

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Speaker 1: I will work. I'm gonna I'll give you this acronym

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Speaker 1: for the audience in a second, but it'll make sense

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Speaker 1: in a minute. The next one is I'll work with

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Speaker 1: this Peter client one last time, and Peter stands for

465
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Speaker 1: paining ass. I'll work with this paying as client one

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Speaker 1: more time. I fired clients before, so I'm looking for

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Speaker 1: you to give us some enlightenment here. Yeah, I fire

468
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Speaker 1: them all the time, and you have to figure out

469
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Speaker 1: what your main way you're serving. Is one of the

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Speaker 1: reason why I slow down on the YouTube channel and

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Speaker 1: other things is that you some times have to give

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Speaker 1: space for whatever you're gonna build next. Because if your

473
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Speaker 1: schedule is like this, you've got a million things going on,

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Speaker 1: You've got a lot of PETA clients, and you're just

475
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Speaker 1: trying to pay the bills. There's gonna be a gap

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Speaker 1: where you're gonna cut off those clients and it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be rough. But if you don't have that gap, then

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Speaker 1: there's no room for serious clients to come in. That's

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Speaker 1: the best way I can describe it. I've gone through

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Speaker 1: that many many times in a couple of decades being independent,

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Speaker 1: and you gotta make that choice, all right. Next, the

482
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Speaker 1: last one is out of this series, is I need

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Speaker 1: to quit my job, in my relationships, etcetera, so I

484
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Speaker 1: can truly dedicate myself to my big idea. That's what

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Speaker 1: that's what hows that admit I thought I had to

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Speaker 1: give everything up in order to go do this thing. Man, No, well,

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Speaker 1: that that is the well we believe that you said earlier,

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Speaker 1: Like we believe that that's that's the bill of goods

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Speaker 1: we've been sold. It's like, oh, yeah, you have to

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Speaker 1: give up everything. Yeah, if you got to give up everything,

491
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Speaker 1: then you'll be able to you know, sell your components

492
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Speaker 1: coming to whoever and then go buy island off that

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Speaker 1: let's out Pacific like and then you can rest. And

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Speaker 1: it's like, but that's such a point zero zero zero

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Speaker 1: zero zero zero zero one percent chance of that, and

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Speaker 1: so they're selling you on that, and then you might

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Speaker 1: end up selling your soul for that. And I don't

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Speaker 1: mean anything dramatic, just like you're gonna grind yourself to

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Speaker 1: a halt that doesn't make any sense. Like I'm in

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Speaker 1: my forties. I plan on being in this game until

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Speaker 1: until the you know, the wheels follows right to the cascade,

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Speaker 1: drafts whatever. So I have no interest in burning out.

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Speaker 1: I got another forty years in me. So it's like,

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Speaker 1: I'm not trying to kill myself for the next book

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Speaker 1: or the next pap. I'm not trying to do that.

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Speaker 1: You get that mentality, you think forty fifty years, then

507
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Speaker 1: you'll make other decisions about how you spend your time,

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Speaker 1: you know. And there's a question that came in from

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Speaker 1: Facebook says I'm interested in writing a series of books.

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Speaker 1: How can I get started or just pointed in the

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Speaker 1: best direction. I guess start with one book. Maybe that

512
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Speaker 1: could say yeah, to get to to flavor in here,

513
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Speaker 1: but yeah, just start with a sentence, UM, do a

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Speaker 1: medium piece, um with UM. I'm not gonna have you

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Speaker 1: pick up my old Ashley version of the book. The

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Speaker 1: whole tremate bit says Entrepreneur, like the original one that

517
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Speaker 1: that Will showed earlier. It started with a series of

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Speaker 1: of columns and a inc magazine to get an ink

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Speaker 1: dame around dot com like you can see, like probably

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Speaker 1: like the fourth of the of the chapters in there

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Speaker 1: actually were inspired by the columns. My columns are short,

522
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Speaker 1: so I was doing three D word columns while I

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Speaker 1: would take care of my two year old and his

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Speaker 1: little brother at came. So I'm doing these little columns

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Speaker 1: while I'm doing double baby duty. And then that grew

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Speaker 1: into a mighty yoke and suddenly that became the beginning

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Speaker 1: of my publishing game print. So I wouldn't think about

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Speaker 1: the series. You can map it out. That's cool, like

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Speaker 1: the bit says Entrepreneur in the series. My new one

530
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Speaker 1: built from now is technically the follow up to Bring

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Speaker 1: Your Earth. So that's kind of a series. So it's

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Speaker 1: okay to have that big picture. But you gotta start

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Speaker 1: with first sentence. Let's start with the first sentence. Rest figure, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's another one. I'm looking on lunch table. Um. Somebody

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Speaker 1: asked Malik asks, how would you go about and mismatch

536
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Speaker 1: and idea versus skill? Is it better to have to

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Speaker 1: get started on your idea faster if you have the

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Speaker 1: funds um learn to skill yourself, or a combination of

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Speaker 1: the two idea versus skill UM I would put the

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Speaker 1: meritenti idea yeah, because I'm as you can tell on

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Speaker 1: an octopus. So my background is journalism and then I

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Speaker 1: do public speaking and I've on coaching practice, I have

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Speaker 1: on book and print. So I like getting involved and

544
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:44,040
Speaker 1: having my hand in different pots for We can get

545
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Speaker 1: into that, but many different reasons for that. But first

546
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Speaker 1: I had to learn the ropes, so that might be

547
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Speaker 1: a good example. When I did my first built from

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Speaker 1: now it is my twenty book. My first ten books

549
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Speaker 1: were with traditional publishers in New York, so it wasn't

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Speaker 1: like I started printing book especially back in the day.

551
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Speaker 1: It wasn't like I was printing books. But first I

552
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Speaker 1: wrote my book proposal. Then I found an agent. Then

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Speaker 1: that agent I didn't work out, so I let go

554
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Speaker 1: of that agent. I got another agent, and then each

555
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Speaker 1: person I'm talking with I'm getting game from. So the

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Speaker 1: fact that I'm able to have a publishing imprint now

557
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Speaker 1: comes from me getting my idea and learned from all

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Speaker 1: these different people. If I was waiting until I had

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Speaker 1: the skill set to do all this different stuff. Then

560
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Speaker 1: my books would't have came out. I'd still be waiting.

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Speaker 1: So I'd say the idea will be paramount. You can

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Speaker 1: figure out the skills later. So I could not end

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Speaker 1: this conversation. We do have a couple of minutes left,

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Speaker 1: UM without talking about the impacts COVID has on UM,

565
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Speaker 1: the opportunity to start your old thing. A lot of

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Speaker 1: people were pushed out of their positions last year. People

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Speaker 1: who were making really really good money, UM, had the

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Speaker 1: secure jobs and found out they were not so secure. UM.

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Speaker 1: How do you what would you say to follow who

570
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Speaker 1: need to get shaken to see, okay, what this moment

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Speaker 1: is opportunity wise, this is something that won't be here

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Speaker 1: five years from now. Correct? Correct? I think that's the

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Speaker 1: case for a lot of things. And you know, I

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Speaker 1: mean we can talk about this for like another hour. Yea.

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Speaker 1: The biggest insight I've learned over the last year or

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Speaker 1: two and trying to share with my people that I support,

577
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 1: is that you have to own the land versus being

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Speaker 1: a renter. So that doesn't mean to start your own business.

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Speaker 1: That means if Facebook, no disrespect to them, but it's

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Speaker 1: Facebook or whomever wherever you're starting to plant your seeds

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Speaker 1: decides to kick you off the platform or change your algorithm.

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Speaker 1: You're not gonna lose everything. That tech metaphor fits a

583
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Speaker 1: lot of people who have lost your jobs too. I

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Speaker 1: know people who I care about who had a side

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Speaker 1: hustle in the back of their mind and they're like,

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Speaker 1: that's not gonna make enough money, and I got my

587
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Speaker 1: main job. Suddenly that main job is gone. And then,

588
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:01,960
Speaker 1: as we say in Silicon Valid, you have to spin up.

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00:30:02,360 --> 00:30:04,320
Speaker 1: They have to spin up this thing. They're trying to

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Speaker 1: hustle and make it work, but they didn't build their

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Speaker 1: community yet. You said. It circles back to being into

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Speaker 1: our conversation, building your community before you have to Right,

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Speaker 1: there's um Um. I think of like um Russ. I

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Speaker 1: think of a few other folks who have had conversations

595
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Speaker 1: about about the music industry, and they'll say, my company,

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Speaker 1: my business is recession proof, and that means that they

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Speaker 1: you know, and you know a music business way more

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Speaker 1: than I do. People people are used to get that

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Speaker 1: money on the road and suddenly they're like, okay, I

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Speaker 1: have to be at home. But if you own your catalog.

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Speaker 1: If you're connected with your fans directly, you're not waiting

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Speaker 1: for universe or whomever's to give you a cosign to

603
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Speaker 1: give you more money or whatever. Because you're not on

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Speaker 1: the road, then you're able to control that path. That's

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Speaker 1: not saying that you have to quit your job or

606
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Speaker 1: that if you get laid off, that you know everything's fine.

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Speaker 1: It's saying always have these multiple streams going, not just

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Speaker 1: in case, but because that's the way to go, because

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Speaker 1: you're actually able to own that. My newsletteralists and joined

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Speaker 1: Damon dot me. I own that, and so when I

611
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Speaker 1: had my new book coming out, they got the pre orders.

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Speaker 1: They were going, we have our conversations that can be

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Speaker 1: can be taken away by a pandemic or whatever, and

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00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:17,760
Speaker 1: so finding ways to create your own community independent of

615
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:21,360
Speaker 1: some third parties, including your day job. If you do that,

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Speaker 1: then I think that creates true security, even though that

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00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:26,120
Speaker 1: might take a little bit more time than you're used to.

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Speaker 1: You know, all right, So we have two more questions

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Speaker 1: I'll get to and then we gotta close because I

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Speaker 1: want to give you an opportunity to talk about where

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Speaker 1: they can get the book and all that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 1: So two more. I'm gonna give you both of these

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Speaker 1: and you can take them however you want. One thing

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00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:40,400
Speaker 1: came from Facebook says, what would be a good way

625
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:42,920
Speaker 1: to get into coaching? They want to start coaching? How

626
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 1: to get in? The other one came from lunch table

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Speaker 1: is how do you manage being a parent slash entrepreneurs.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you both those. That's the biggest comption

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Speaker 1: of the second one. Let's say you know what the

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Speaker 1: deal out. I'll do the second one first. Um, you

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Speaker 1: don't manage, you go up the flow and so my

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Speaker 1: kids could come in here and scream about something in

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Speaker 1: the middle of our conversation. You have to adapt to that.

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Speaker 1: I talked about that and um and built from now.

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Speaker 1: As far as adapting to different things, we can talk

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Speaker 1: about that after the questions. Um, but yeah, usually adapt

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Speaker 1: to it. There's no there's no golden key. I talked

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Speaker 1: about that a lot in the ultimate bites as the entrepreneurs,

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Speaker 1: So you might want to grab that one. That's one

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Speaker 1: And it took me like five six times for that

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Speaker 1: And so it's a very organic process. Everything that I've

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Speaker 1: I've learned to not force things, and so I didn't

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Speaker 1: say I was going to be a coach. It's like, no,

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Speaker 1: I think that's a really subtle difference. So not trying

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Speaker 1: to scourge you from that. Just figure out what signals

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Speaker 1: coaching isn't a narrow thing. You figure out how you

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