WEBVTT - How Can I Become a Billionaire? 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:05.800 It's off on the side. What's up? It's Gandhi and 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:08.360 uh fun fact. You will hear the audio at some point. 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:11.240 But Diamond and I started recording this and the topic 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:14.200 got so disgusting that I actually had to stop it 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:16.360 and pause it because we're going to have a lovely, 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:19.480 very classy guest on today. Her name's on Jula Acharia. 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:24.400 She is basically like a serial entrepreneur. She has multiple businesses, 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:26.200 she invests in stuff. She has some cool stuff on 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:28.680 the way. But the conversation we were going to be 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:31.040 having leading up to it was disturbing, And now Diamond 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:32.920 feels sick. This is a tease. Now you have to 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:35.400 stick around and wait to hear it another day. I 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:37.040 will let it see the light of day at some point. 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:39.199 But how you feel in Diamond. 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:43.720 Sick to my stomach? Sick to my stomach? 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:45.959 Okay, she said, I feel like Danielle. 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:48.520 Oh, I'm trying to catch my breath. 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:51.560 I really am, because that was wild, right, what a tease. 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:53.640 This is the best tease ever. We might just have 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:55.760 to release it on its own, like, not even put 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:57.680 it with a guest, because I feel like I don't 0:00:57.680 --> 0:00:59.080 want any of the guests to go and listen to 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:02.040 their interview and then be like, why why would you 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:04.200 wrap my interview in such a conversation? 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:08.160 Oh yeah, like a mini a minisode. Yeah, Whe's just like, 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:10.280 I don't know how many minutes of us making me 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:11.600 feel like you're gonna throw up? 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:14.560 But it's okay, it's so gross. So anyway, how was 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:15.480 your weekend, Diamond? 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:17.240 It was amazing? 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:20.080 Would you do that's a very great reaction. What was 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:22.039 so amazing about your weekend? Honestly, I don't remember what 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:24.600 I did on Saturday. Uh oh, I went to a 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:26.440 pilates class, left early, blah blah blah. 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:30.000 Okay, but I found I fell down the rabbit hole 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:33.800 of the stud buds and I love like I love them. 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:36.000 Talk about the stud buds. Who are the stud buds? 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:37.720 Where do you find them? And what is the content 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:40.119 that they're bringing? The Diamond actually said them. By the way, 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:45.640 Diamond doesn't fangirl out about anybody, like maybe she showed 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:47.720 up for like beany man to like wave from the corner, 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:50.680 maybe like burna boy. It's like way from the corner. 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:54.200 Some football players, and she's a huge Jets fan. Doesn't 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:58.440 do anything but the stud studs she's obsessed. 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:01.600 Ever in this building, I probably will either do a 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:03.040 cart will which I don't know how to do, or 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:03.960 pass out. I love them. 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:05.360 Why don't you try to book them on the show? 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:09.000 Okay, okay, okay, her season is over? Oh no, what 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:12.200 I already look, they'll be here next month. What's up? Uh? Yeah? 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:12.639 Okay. 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:17.120 So they are two w NBA players, Courtney Williams and 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:23.120 Natitia Hydeman, and they are the funniest people on the planet. 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:27.560 What's a stud a lesbian who explained to people uses, 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:31.040 I don't want to say, just dresses like it's the dudes, 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:33.520 like the hardcore dude lesbians that you look at them 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:34.839 and you're like, she can probably find a guy. 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:39.600 Yep, very strong, very male, male coded, I guess. 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:42.280 But they are but women, they are ten out of ten. 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:46.320 Diamond's obsessed. She was tackling this morning. When I was 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:48.120 walking by the stude, I was like, what are you doing? 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:50.120 Said the stud buds? Oh my god, I can't get 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:50.520 enough of. 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:53.840 The stud bud. So this past weekend was the WNBA's 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:58.880 All Star Weekend and they were in Indiana and they 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:02.520 did a seven two hour live stream on their twitch. 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:04.960 First of all, insane. 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:06.400 It's insane, but it was worth it. 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:08.359 Did you watch seventy two hours of the time? 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:11.280 Now if we watched seventy two hours worth of content 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:14.640 on TikTok of them, but not necessarily like they're but 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:17.440 it was. I mean, I'm so happy because I spent 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:21.520 my weekend just laughing, laughing. And then of course we 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:24.839 have Rodney. He was mixed in there on my TikTok algorithm, 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:30.880 Rodney Rodney, the real Frank Gallagher who is in Philly. 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:33.760 Ten out of ten. He was drunk this weekend, of course, 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:34.639 and so that. 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:36.400 Was Tenddy's kind always drunk, isn't he? 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:39.440 Yes, he is this weekend. He actually had the bottle 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:42.600 in his hand, so it was like, oh okay, but yeah, 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:46.440 stud buds, Stud buds. Ten out of ten content. They 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:49.600 showed inside the parties, the all Star weekend parties, and 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:51.720 everyone was drunk, grinding on each other. And I think 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:53.600 that that's something that we don't think of when we 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:55.560 see lesbians walking down the street. 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:57.680 I certainly do you do? Okay, well you ever been 0:03:57.720 --> 0:03:58.320 to lesbian bar? 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:01.920 No, ma'am, yeah, no, that take you on my encounter 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:02.440 with a girl. 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:06.160 I'm sorry, what what do you mean your encounter with 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:06.440 a girl. 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:08.360 I like, flirted with a girl in a club once 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:11.880 and we exchanged numbers and then she just kept talking 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:15.200 to me via like text message. 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:16.000 Were you interested? 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:17.560 No? 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:18.039 Okay? 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:21.280 I just was like, oh, you're cool whatever. I like 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:24.720 the attention. And then I realized, like why men say 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:27.120 that their wives talk too much? Because she just was 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:29.200 talking way too much. I'm like, I don't even know 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:32.200 you like that. You're texting me back to back to back, relaxed. 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:33.200 She was showing interest. 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:34.640 I didn't like it. 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:37.120 She was all the way there for you. Yeah, okay, 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:38.440 good time. How long ago was that? 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:41.680 Probably ten years ago now? Oh wow? Yeah, okay. 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:46.760 I have a decent amount of lesbian friends and I've 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:49.320 gone to decent amount of lesbian bars, and I will 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:51.920 say the lesbians and lesbian bars are just as aggressive 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:54.599 as straight men and straight people bars. It could get 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:57.240 scary and intimidating. And I feel like there's actually a 0:04:57.279 --> 0:04:59.600 line that lesbians will cross with me that a straight 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:04.520 guy will will not cross as much. But sometimes I'm like, hey, whoa, hey, whoa, 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:07.159 what are we doing? Was I giving out the vibes? 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:09.960 I don't know, I don't know you might have been. 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:12.960 I don't think I have vibes if I'm being honest 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:15.919 what you're around me constantly? Do you ever think that 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:16.960 I'm flirting with people? 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:21.839 No, but you do give domb vibes. Yeah, like you 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:24.679 like to take control or something like that, And maybe 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:27.400 maybe that's what people read. 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:30.560 You know, they're like I just we've talked about this 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:35.800 so many times that if ever a person feels that 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:39.160 I am flirting with them, I one hundred percent can 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:42.640 promise you I am not, because if I am coming 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:46.240 off as smooth or charming or in any way likable, 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:47.600 I'm uninterested. 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:48.360 Yeah. 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:52.560 When I am interested, I am an absolute freakazoid weirdo. 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:56.839 Don't really know how to make sentences embarrassing. We'll ask 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:59.080 you about your favorite cheese, like just disgusting. I'm a 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:01.600 horrible person. I don't know what else to say. I 0:06:01.680 --> 0:06:03.920 just look at them and I'm like, they know they 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:05.960 know how I feel, which like, oh, my big age, 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:07.440 why do I care if you know? Why would I 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:09.480 care if you know? But it takes me right back 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:12.520 to like seventh grade me where they cannot know because 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:14.600 I could be rejected and feel like a big loser. 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:17.000 So I just know it's not happening. I will leave 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:19.920 a room. That's how you know I'm interested, I'm not there. 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:21.960 And then what do you do? Just stalk? 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:24.400 No, just nothing ever happens. I just remove myself from 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:26.400 the situation because I feel so weird about it. I 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:28.960 can't believe I've ever had boyfriends. They've all had to 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:31.800 approach me, like convince me and approach me to talk 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:33.839 to them, because no, absolutely. 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:35.440 Not kind of the same but not really at least 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:36.360 I stalk. 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:38.359 You stuck, like go like look at their Instagram and stuff. 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:41.320 Yeah, I watch everything. I'm like, oh, is that a 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:44.080 nail in the background be on the table behind them? 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:46.560 But and then I have guy friends who I'm like, hey, 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:49.160 I think this girl might be with my crush. Can 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:51.840 you watch her instant story? And they do it, but 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:52.640 she's like for. 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:54.920 What, you know, a lot of the people who I've 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:57.279 been around in some capacity, most of the guys I 0:06:57.279 --> 0:06:59.599 talk to somehow do not have a large online presence. 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:01.320 All Oh, I love that. 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:03.640 They're my favorite guys. Those are my favorite people who 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:07.000 just don't really give a crap about Instagram and trying 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:09.760 to impress people. I get picked out by guys who 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:13.160 take like selfies and stuff? Uh yeah, why are we 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:15.080 hypocrites about that? I'll take a selfie and I'll post 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:16.760 it and I want you to like it. Why can 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:18.440 I not let someone else do that? That is a 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:23.840 man men used to go to war. Please, They're still 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:24.800 going to war, babe. 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:29.080 And they're taking selfies? Please? Yeah, we my toxic trait 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:32.840 or my toxic opinion. What men used to go to 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:36.360 war and now we're taking selfies and like, please is 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:36.960 it toxic? 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:38.880 Also? Did you want that guy that went to war? 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:40.520 Because when those guys were going to war, they were 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:42.040 doing a lot of other stuff too. There has to 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:44.080 be a happy medium. I don't need one of the 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:46.560 guys from three hundred like from the Roman Empire. Not 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:48.560 interested in that. Also, not interested in the guy that 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:50.120 takes a gym selfie every day and licks his lips 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:52.400 while he's taking the video. I'm specifically talking about one 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:53.800 of my best friends who does it, and I'm like, 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:57.680 I hate you. I told him he's a decent looking guy, 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:01.040 works out all the time, he's fun. He I think 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:02.800 you've talked to him before because he's like, ooh, Diamond, 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:04.880 I love diamond anyway, I don't want to say his name, 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:07.920 but he was talking about how he was just not 0:08:08.040 --> 0:08:10.520 having any luck on any of the dating apps, and 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:12.600 he's like, what the fuck? Like, I linked my Instagram 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:15.000 profile to it, and I just don't understand why nobody 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:16.680 likes me. And I was like, well, that's why, because 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:20.840 your Instagram profile is atrocious. Every picture I'm gonna show you, 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:25.400 every picture is him in the mirror. Oh, there's not 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:27.360 a woman on the planet who wants something like that, 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:29.000 at least I don't think. I don't know the women 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:31.320 on the planet who wants something like that. But it 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:35.880 was atrocious. So he finally unlinked them, and guess what, 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:38.960 My dude, all of a sudden had match after match 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:42.360 after match after match, and then he linked it again because. 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:42.640 You know what he said. 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:45.680 You know, he said, I kind of respect this. I 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:48.280 got to be myself. I don't want to I don't 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:50.120 want to lure someone in being somebody else and then 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:51.760 all of a sudden they find out who I am. 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:52.439 Are you ready for this? 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:52.840 Yep? 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:53.800 What are you doing? 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:56.920 If you see that running? 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:00.680 It's all the same thing. 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:03.839 Every single one, only there's a different rap lyric under 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:07.960 each photo. Nope, Oh, Oh anyway, I love him and 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:09.720 he is a really great person, but this does not 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:14.880 represent who he is as a person. It's atrocious selfies, 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:17.240 not cool. All these videos of like dudes who are 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:18.760 blowing up right now like they get ready with me 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:21.760 in the morning things. I'm disgusted. 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:24.160 We used to go to war, okay, and now you're 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:27.760 setting up a tripod and doing the same thing four 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:32.400 times in a row just to get up. Come on, man, if. 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:34.520 You think about the behind the scenes of really anything 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:38.640 that people end up posting, it's awful. The behind the 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:43.280 scenes the making of is awful, embarrassing. That's the stuff 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:44.760 they need to post because that'll make people feel a 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:47.040 lot better about their lives. Then, and we know people 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:51.320 here who have amazing Instagram pages. But when you think about, wait, 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:52.959 how long did it take you to make that? And 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:56.760 what was the actual behind the scenes it please, we're 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:58.560 gonna be those people who are like the old people 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:01.080 that they're like. Can you believe they didn't like guys 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:03.959 who are obsessed with themselves? Can you believe it? 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:05.960 Can you believe it? I could believe it. 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:07.880 Men used to go to war, they did. 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:11.320 They used to chop down trees for wood and heat. 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:15.320 They used to kill animals for us to be able 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:15.640 to eat. 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:18.120 Okay, but we don't have to do that anyway, We don't, 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:18.920 thank God do that. 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:21.719 But come on, they used to fix your tire. It 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:24.040 like how you pulled over on the road. Now they 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:28.000 just drive by recording themselves singing lyrics to a song. 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:28.920 I'm sick of it. 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:34.199 There is definitely it appears to be that there's been 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:37.120 this shift where so many men do you want to 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:39.880 be treated like the princess, and so many men are 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:42.880 of this, Like I am the prize. For sure, you 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:45.480 could be a prize. Maybe both of you are prizes 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:49.160 and you are equally prized worthy of one another. However 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:50.280 the hell you would say that, I don't even know. 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:52.439 Maybe that can be both. But the guys who come 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:54.599 in there are like, I need somebody to worship me. 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:56.280 I am a prize. I am a high value man. 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:58.840 What did we learn the other day? A top tier 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:00.839 man is just. 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:02.600 The average woman, the average woman. 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:06.960 When you go through the definition of what a top 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:10.240 tier man is, it was like, has a job, lives 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:14.360 in his own apartment, has a headboard, has conditioner in 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:17.840 the shower, likes his family, like are you kidding me? 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:20.640 That is literally every woman I know sick and they 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:22.640 take care of themselves and everybody around them, and they 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:25.080 don't call themselves top tier in high value. It's crazy. 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:27.920 But there's a whole video right now and TikTok of 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:30.000 and it's gone very viral and there are lots of 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:32.120 responses to it that a top tier man is in 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:37.040 fact just an average woman Clocket. I say this all 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:38.920 the time. I'll say it again. That is how you 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:41.520 know sexuality is not a choice. If I could not 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:45.800 be attracted to straight men, I would not be There's 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:51.199 like nothing worse. Straight men are like what why? Why 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:51.880 do I like this? 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:52.360 What you? 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:53.880 First of all, our boy Andrew. You know what I 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:56.600 learned about him over the weekend. I love him. He 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:59.480 is colorblind. He was sitting there trying to tell me 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:02.960 colors things and he was completely off and every single one, 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:06.199 but he doesn't accept or acknowledge that he doesn't know colors. 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:08.200 He just kept barreling down the path that I was wrong, 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:10.240 and I was like, hey, man, let's ask somebody else. 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:11.800 And then the person at the story we were with 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:13.920 she was like, yeah, guys can't really tell colors, So 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:16.800 they don't match. They just do weird things. Straight men 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:20.400 not really my cup of tea. However, I'm very attracted 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:22.959 to straight men. If I could be attracted to women, 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:25.920 I would love to be. I want to be. 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:28.280 Well, that's why I tried to text the girl one. 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:33.840 That's so funny. Who's outside pissing you off? Right now? 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:35.880 Everybody? Why everyone? 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:37.280 Are they staring in here and trying to get your 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:38.319 attention talk about things? 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:41.120 Yeah? And texting me even though I've responded about things, 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:43.240 and I just don't understand it. But I'm gonna try 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:43.959 to breathe through this. 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:45.559 Do you want to name names? Who's out there? 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:47.000 Danielle Delolo? 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:47.800 Oh no? 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:50.480 And now Celia just walk by. I'm almost positive is 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:56.400 because they're walking back and forth about this. 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:59.360 So on that note, because we have to go grab 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:02.760 this interview, we're going to get into Angula Acharia. I 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:05.000 explained who she was. I think you'll be interested in 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:16.600 her life story and you will enjoy this. Okay, I 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:19.360 am here with Angela Acharia? Did I pronounce it correctly? 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:19.920 Perfectly? 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:21.640 Perfectly? How do people slaughter it? 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:22.040 Well? 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:26.679 Most people try and call me Angela. Even my fiance's mother, 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:32.760 who is dacy, Indian South Asian calls me Angela. It's hilarious. Actually, 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:36.160 I've noticed that more Indians have a problem I saw it. 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:38.720 I should say South Asians to be inclusive, but I 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:40.680 find that more South Asians have a problem with my 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:42.800 name than like white people these days. 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:45.720 That is very surprising to me. That is weird, all right. 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:48.400 And when she says dacy, I asked, we were talking 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:52.240 before the actual recording started, and you use the word 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:53.960 dacy a lot. I asked, Diamond, do you know what 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:55.640 the word dacy means, just in case because it will 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:58.520 probably be dropped a lot right now. And she said no, 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:01.960 which that makes me assume most people listening are probably 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:04.400 also going to say no. So will you explain what 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:05.040 they s means? 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:08.040 I will. So the word actually derives from the word dish, 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:13.120 which means the land, and someone who's dacy is of 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:16.880 the land, So it's basically replies to anyone who's South Asian, 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:20.440 and eventually at some point came from the land of 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:25.480 South Asia, so India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka. And yeah, 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:29.560 so we've been using the word really for the diaspora 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:33.080 and non resident Indians and our rise for a long 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:34.600 time to describe who we. 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:36.800 Are there you go. So when you hear that word, 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:39.000 we are talking about our country folk. 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:41.080 Yes, people from South Asia essentially. 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:44.600 So you may not recognize the name Aula Alcharia, but 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:46.680 that is what we are here to change, because you 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:48.960 will recognize a lot of the projects that she has 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:50.600 been part of. And one of the things that I 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:53.320 like to do with this podcast is either leave people 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:56.680 with something to think about, hopefully, teach them something, or 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:59.040 give them an actionable item. And I think you're gonna 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:00.440 be able to help us with all three of those things. 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:01.320 I will definitely try. 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:03.880 Okay, So when I say that you are the name 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:07.080 behind a lot of really massive projects and people, your 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:09.800 bio here, this is quite quite a lot. Oh, I'm 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:12.640 gonna read what it says here, okay, okay. Anjula Acharia 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:17.360 is a trailblazing entrepreneur, talent strategist, investor, and cultural catalyst 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:21.240 known for building global platforms and cross cultural careers. Her 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:24.120 unique work sets at the intersection of celebrity, technology and culture, 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:26.400 shaping who and what we pay attention to on a 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:29.960 global stage. In regular words, what does that mean to you? 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:33.680 That's quite a mouthful. Yeah. 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:36.440 You know, I've had this super varied career and I 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:39.680 believe in just like finding the opportunity. And I believe 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:43.400 that every single day there is like a million opportunities, 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:45.120 but because they don't fit in with our plan, we 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:48.000 don't pursue them. So I decided to live my life 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:50.360 not like that. I decided to live my life with 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:53.520 just looking at opportunities every single day and seeing what 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:56.080 feels good in that moment. That is not the Dacy way, 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:57.720 by the way, It's definitely not the Dacy way. But 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:01.280 I've never been a true day see from that perspective. 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:05.760 So you know, because of that, amazing opportunities have come 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:08.479 to me and my career has just like literally catapulted 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:12.000 into different areas. So I've been an investor for many, 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:16.400 many years. I've invested in companies like Bumble, Bulletproof, class Pass. 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:18.760 I was actually the first investor in class Past, which 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:21.440 is a fitness platform. Now I think everybody knows what 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:25.400 class Okay people don't still, but yeah, it's sold for 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:28.600 over a billion. Obviously people know the dating app. And 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:31.680 then I've done a lot of work in CpG, which 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:34.520 is consumer packaged goods. I worked for a venture fund 0:16:34.560 --> 0:16:39.560 for many, many years, and then you know, I also 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:42.080 became an entrepreneur because I knew the investor community and 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:45.080 was able to raise money quite easily. So I raised 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:47.320 money for a startup called dacy Hits, and through that 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:50.800 it was a platform for cross cultural content from Hollywood 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:53.880 to Bollywood. I did everything like take Lady Gaga to India, 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:57.040 launched Britney Spears in India, took emy kand Glaziers, worked 0:16:57.040 --> 0:17:00.880 with Rihanna and really sort of gave them a global 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:05.280 gateway to the South Asian diaspora, which you know is 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:07.200 one fifth of the world's population, so it's a really 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:10.360 staggering number. There's one point two billion people in India. 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:13.399 Touring is really like blowing up there. But I was 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:15.840 really at the start of the journey kind of. I 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:17.360 would say, fifteen years. 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:20.160 Ago, you founded a company called a series. It's investment 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:22.960 in management, right, But where does one even begin with 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:25.200 something like that, to say I would like to be 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:26.840 an investor. Where do I get the money and how 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:28.560 do I figure out what I want to invest in? 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:33.320 That's such a brilliant question because it's brilliant because I 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:38.800 founded a company called Dacy Hits, which I fell into founding. 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:42.120 So basically, me and my ex husband built a podcast 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:44.920 back in the day when really no one was podcasting 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:50.040 way before you yeah you were in your diapers not oh, 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:52.760 I think you probably were. And we put this podcast 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:55.520 out of like they see music mashed up with hip 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:59.159 hop and bunger and Bollywood with R and B and 0:17:59.200 --> 0:17:59.840 it just went vi. 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:01.359 So that was at the time. To Beware of the 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:04.760 Boys was like everywhere you go and you're Indian, you 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:06.199 walk in, people are like, I have a song for you. 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:09.120 Oh my god, seriously. So it was just after that, 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:12.080 and it's so interesting you brought that up because when 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:15.600 I founded Dacy Hits, I got an investment from a 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:17.840 guy called Jimmy Iveen who was the founder of Beats 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:21.359 by Dre and Interscope Records, and he introduced me to 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:24.439 Jay Z and was like, Jay, do you know what 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:27.640 the impact of your song had on on the South 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:30.239 Asian community, on the DACY community. And Jay was like, 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:33.520 I just love the beat. I was like, Jay, do 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:36.240 you understand like this was a cultural movement, a moment. 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:39.080 And I was like, this guy's too cool man, but 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:39.440 how do. 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:40.840 You even get your foot in the door to meet 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:43.240 Jimmy Iovine and to start investing in these companies. 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:44.879 Yeah. So it was such a crazy story. So I 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:48.800 was working in venture capital more on the recooning side, 0:18:48.880 --> 0:18:49.880 working for Vcason. 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:52.280 So that's a good start, Yeah, working venture capital. 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:55.399 But I wasn't in venture capital. I was basically a 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:59.840 headhunter for venture capitalists to find like CEOs for early stage. 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:03.440 And this podcast that me and my ex husband Ranch 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:07.760 Bath went viral on its own. It was called dacy 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:10.840 Heads Okay, and it just went super viral. Anyway, I 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:12.439 called my dad and I was like, oh, this went 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:15.760 really viral. My dad goes, you're abusing the rights of 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:18.240 the rights holders for this music. You better build a 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:20.439 company because otherwise they're going to take your house. And 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:21.639 he was freaking out. 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:24.840 That's such a daisy dad, all the way that is 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:26.520 going to get taked, right. 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:29.040 And like I just was like my second house, right. 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:31.399 He was like, don't let anyone take that house. So 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:35.000 I panicked and I said to my ex, I was like, hey, 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:38.040 we we need to build a company an LLC around this. 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:41.200 Our house doesn't get taken. So we did it, and 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:43.840 I was with these vcs and I'd mentioned that this 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:47.000 podcast has gone viral, and the next day I received 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:49.919 a twenty four hour exploding term sheet for one million 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:52.359 dollars to fund the company. Now I didn't really have 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:54.840 a company, but I did because I had an LLC 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:57.240 because I didn't want them to take my house. But 0:19:57.280 --> 0:19:59.040 I didn't really see it as a company. So when 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:00.679 they were like, oh, we want in in your company, 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:03.439 I was like, this is insane. Anyway, So we ended 0:20:03.520 --> 0:20:06.359 up taking that million dollars and building it into a 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:10.200 platform which is called dacy Hits. And then a year later, 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:13.240 we're now raising five million dollars to build the platform 0:20:13.240 --> 0:20:15.760 out more. And everybody's on this whole India trip, like 0:20:15.840 --> 0:20:18.199 all the vcs are like India's like crushing it, one 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:23.359 fifth world's population, like digital you know, proliferation. So we 0:20:23.359 --> 0:20:26.200 were kind of on that wave. So I'm now raising 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:28.560 five million dollars. And one of the VCS, his name 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:31.560 is Drew Lipsha. He said to me, I want you 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:33.440 to do some due diligence with Jimmy IVY and I 0:20:33.520 --> 0:20:35.760 used to work for him, and if anyone knows pop culture, 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:39.120 it's him. Anyway, my first meeting with Jimmy's hilarious, because 0:20:39.119 --> 0:20:42.920 he counsels on me. I fly to La, I get land, 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:46.399 and he counsels a meeting because Gwen Stefani has some 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:48.399 emergency that he has to deal with. So I was like, 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:51.880 screw that. I fly back to Silicon Valley. I end 0:20:51.960 --> 0:20:54.639 up not taking that term sheet and I went to 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:57.119 d SHAW, which was a hedge fund, and they founded 0:20:57.119 --> 0:20:59.880 my Series B at five million dollars. So I moved 0:20:59.880 --> 0:21:02.280 to New York and randomly I'm having lunch with that 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:06.400 VC that great craft Drew and he says, you never 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:08.520 met Jimmy, did you? And I go no, he canceled 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:10.199 it on me, and I was like so full of 0:21:10.280 --> 0:21:12.800 attitude and like, but I don't need him anyway. I 0:21:12.920 --> 0:21:15.439 raised five million without him, and he was like, no, 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:18.240 you should just really like you should. You should meet him, 0:21:18.280 --> 0:21:21.200 like he's going to change your life. So then randomly 0:21:21.320 --> 0:21:24.919 I'm in LA and Jimmy has fifteen minutes to meet me, 0:21:25.640 --> 0:21:28.800 and he's like, take the fifteen minutes because if he 0:21:28.960 --> 0:21:31.240 likes you, you'll be in there for four hours. He 0:21:31.440 --> 0:21:34.080 likes me, and he gave me like the fourth pair 0:21:34.119 --> 0:21:38.159 of Beats headphones, and we like just riffed about everything 0:21:38.200 --> 0:21:42.199 about brands, about marketing, about global strategy, and next thing 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:44.600 I know, he's shoving like millions of dollars in my pocket. 0:21:44.880 --> 0:21:46.639 And you just say this so casually like that happens 0:21:46.640 --> 0:21:48.760 to everybody. It does not, you know, I feel like 0:21:48.800 --> 0:21:51.320 it now three times you got the first million, then 0:21:51.359 --> 0:21:53.280 you got five million, then you got millions from him. 0:21:53.400 --> 0:21:55.760 Yes, but I don't like it can happen to anyone 0:21:55.760 --> 0:21:58.280 if you're not selling, if you're inspiring, this is this 0:21:58.400 --> 0:22:00.760 is like Okay, I didn't realize I was doing this 0:22:00.800 --> 0:22:03.320 at the time. I didn't realize that I was inspiring 0:22:03.400 --> 0:22:05.159 Jimmy to go on this journey with me. I was 0:22:05.200 --> 0:22:07.560 just talking about my journey so passionately and he wanted 0:22:07.600 --> 0:22:09.840 to come on it with me. But now I realized, 0:22:09.880 --> 0:22:12.600 and I can dissect that and say to people, don't sell, 0:22:13.040 --> 0:22:15.080 talk about what you're really passionate about, and the right 0:22:15.119 --> 0:22:17.879 people will find their way on your journey with you. 0:22:18.240 --> 0:22:20.840 And that's kind of what happened. Like Jimmy was, you know, 0:22:20.880 --> 0:22:24.080 he'd done everything built, he was building beats by dre, 0:22:24.520 --> 0:22:27.680 He'd already had all these global successes with fifty cent 0:22:27.800 --> 0:22:30.520 eminem like you know jay Z, like you name it, 0:22:30.560 --> 0:22:33.560 he'd done it all, and you know, most of these 0:22:33.600 --> 0:22:37.160 people are looking for something different and unique that they've 0:22:37.200 --> 0:22:40.960 not done before. So I also was very open to 0:22:41.040 --> 0:22:42.760 everything that was going on around me. So when I 0:22:42.760 --> 0:22:45.240 saw he was interested in something, I doubled down on that. 0:22:45.240 --> 0:22:48.720 That actually brings me to a question. You are probably 0:22:48.720 --> 0:22:51.879 pretty well versed in pr and building brands and all 0:22:51.880 --> 0:22:54.120 that kind of stuff, and what we see now everywhere 0:22:54.200 --> 0:22:56.000 you look is somebody trying to sell you something. The 0:22:56.119 --> 0:22:59.399 rise of the influencer has really taken over. I actually 0:22:59.400 --> 0:23:01.400 get very when people try to call me an influencer 0:23:01.400 --> 0:23:03.280 because I'm not trying to sell you anything. I promise 0:23:03.359 --> 0:23:05.240 you that's not my goal. I want people to do 0:23:05.280 --> 0:23:08.199 what they want to do. But to these baby influencers 0:23:08.280 --> 0:23:10.280 or people who are trying to build their brand, if 0:23:10.280 --> 0:23:13.000 you're telling them don't try to sell, how do they 0:23:13.040 --> 0:23:15.480 build their brand? What are they trying to do instead? 0:23:15.560 --> 0:23:16.520 Where can you point them? 0:23:16.920 --> 0:23:18.600 You know, look, I'm going to tell you what worked 0:23:18.600 --> 0:23:20.520 for me, and what worked for me was to be 0:23:20.640 --> 0:23:25.240 truly authentically passionate about what I'm doing and talk about 0:23:25.240 --> 0:23:29.720 that from that place of sincerity. People that align with 0:23:29.840 --> 0:23:30.960 that will come along with you. 0:23:31.480 --> 0:23:33.040 So it's what we like to say all the time. 0:23:33.119 --> 0:23:36.159 Authenticity is actually what's winning at the moment when you 0:23:36.240 --> 0:23:39.080 truly care about something, follow that thing you truly care about, 0:23:39.119 --> 0:23:41.679 don't try to follow the crowd much to your own 0:23:41.720 --> 0:23:43.359 own beat, of your own drummer. 0:23:43.160 --> 0:23:44.600 Right, I mean, I just think you have to be 0:23:44.720 --> 0:23:48.720 super truthful. Like you know, I always cite Pyle Kadakia 0:23:48.840 --> 0:23:50.560 like she had no fitness. 0:23:50.160 --> 0:23:50.960 She's from class past. 0:23:51.119 --> 0:23:54.040 Correct, Okay, she had no fitness background at all. She 0:23:54.040 --> 0:23:56.560 didn't know anything about Finnis. She was a very passionate 0:23:56.680 --> 0:23:59.160 dancer who had a problem trying to find a dance 0:23:59.400 --> 0:24:02.760 space to have a class. But she just came at 0:24:02.800 --> 0:24:05.480 the problem in a completely different way to how everybody 0:24:05.520 --> 0:24:07.879 else was trying to solve it because she was just 0:24:07.960 --> 0:24:11.480 really passionate and truthful in her journey. Right. So that's 0:24:11.520 --> 0:24:13.719 the thing I think, Like I say, I feel like 0:24:13.760 --> 0:24:15.520 a lot of entrepreneurs are just trying to find this 0:24:15.640 --> 0:24:17.199 problem to solve because they think they want to make 0:24:17.240 --> 0:24:20.440 a billion dollars, right, and that just doesn't generally work. 0:24:20.760 --> 0:24:22.440 Authentically, I would like to make a billion dollars. 0:24:22.520 --> 0:24:23.880 Yeah, authentically I would too. 0:24:24.600 --> 0:24:27.800 That would be great. So you when you say people 0:24:27.840 --> 0:24:29.680 are trying to pitch you. So most people know, hey, 0:24:29.840 --> 0:24:31.920 she is an investor. Let me go to her with something. 0:24:31.920 --> 0:24:34.000 Because I'm saying this for a reason, I should say 0:24:34.000 --> 0:24:35.760 asking this for a reason. I have a billion dollar 0:24:35.840 --> 0:24:37.560 idea in my head. Yeah, and I don't know where 0:24:37.600 --> 0:24:37.920 to start. 0:24:38.000 --> 0:24:38.399 Let's go. 0:24:38.480 --> 0:24:39.560 I'm not going to tell you right now in the 0:24:39.560 --> 0:24:41.520 air because I don't want people to steal it until 0:24:41.520 --> 0:24:44.080 it's completed and I've done the first thing with it 0:24:44.119 --> 0:24:45.679 that I want to do. But I'm very excited. I 0:24:45.680 --> 0:24:47.600 do think it's going to be something awesome. I keep 0:24:47.600 --> 0:24:50.320 telling Diamond my five year plan is that that is 0:24:50.320 --> 0:24:51.720 what I want to do. So fingers crossed it. 0:24:52.080 --> 0:24:55.240 So you seem very authentically passionate about it. I had 0:24:55.240 --> 0:24:58.639 my company, I'd raised money. So pyle Kadakia found me 0:24:59.480 --> 0:25:01.720 and ca to me with this idea and I kicked 0:25:01.760 --> 0:25:04.760 the tires on it with her, and I thought she 0:25:04.880 --> 0:25:06.760 was brilliant from the moment I met her, and I 0:25:06.800 --> 0:25:09.119 knew she was going to be someone. I said to her, 0:25:09.240 --> 0:25:11.639 I will help you try and raise money. And I 0:25:11.680 --> 0:25:13.440 was introducing her to people and saying, oh, you should 0:25:13.440 --> 0:25:14.960 fund this company. It's really good, and they were like, 0:25:15.080 --> 0:25:18.480 have you invested And I was like no, because I'm 0:25:18.480 --> 0:25:20.760 not an investor and I don't invest in stuff. And 0:25:20.840 --> 0:25:24.479 people just didn't really go along with it. So then 0:25:24.520 --> 0:25:25.720 I go back to part and I go, I think 0:25:25.720 --> 0:25:27.879 I need to invest something into your company, but I'm 0:25:27.880 --> 0:25:30.239 an entrepreneur myself and her very much, but I can 0:25:30.280 --> 0:25:32.760 give you your first ten K. So she was like amazing, 0:25:32.800 --> 0:25:35.119 thank you. And I was like, and I can also 0:25:35.119 --> 0:25:36.879 incubate you into my company and I can give you 0:25:37.000 --> 0:25:40.040 free office space. And people started coming along on the journey, 0:25:40.080 --> 0:25:42.239 and then Pyle just went out telling everyone what an 0:25:42.280 --> 0:25:44.960 amazing investor I was because I've given her space, i 0:25:45.000 --> 0:25:48.720 was helping her out, i was mentoring her, and suddenly 0:25:48.880 --> 0:25:51.200 all these women were coming at me to invest in them. 0:25:51.600 --> 0:25:54.280 And that's how I fell into it. So I say 0:25:54.320 --> 0:25:56.000 all the time to people, I was like, you don't 0:25:56.040 --> 0:25:59.240 actually have to invest money. Sometimes you can just invest 0:25:59.359 --> 0:26:03.360 in your time is where equity and your knowledge could 0:26:03.400 --> 0:26:05.560 really help someone, and if they give you small piece 0:26:05.560 --> 0:26:09.040 of equity for that, you can really start building from there. Okay. 0:26:09.240 --> 0:26:10.679 So one of the things that we like to talk 0:26:10.720 --> 0:26:12.159 about on the Big Show all the time that's the 0:26:12.280 --> 0:26:15.760 Elvis Ram Morning Show is that the path to success 0:26:16.000 --> 0:26:18.720 is not a straight line that just continues to climb up. 0:26:18.800 --> 0:26:20.680 The way you're talking right now, it seems like your 0:26:20.720 --> 0:26:23.520 path to success has in fact been a straight line 0:26:23.560 --> 0:26:25.840 climbing up. So tell me about some things that were 0:26:25.880 --> 0:26:29.119 not necessarily as clean and easy. Yeah, what's a failure 0:26:29.160 --> 0:26:30.879 that you've had? Make people feel good about themselves? 0:26:30.920 --> 0:26:33.960 Yeah, I will, Well, they sy Hits was my biggest failure. Okay, 0:26:34.000 --> 0:26:36.560 it sounds like a great success, and in many ways 0:26:36.560 --> 0:26:38.240 it was. I always compare it to Napster, and I 0:26:38.280 --> 0:26:41.200 say Napster was a big failure, but Napster built the 0:26:41.240 --> 0:26:45.320 way for Spotify, and they see Hits failed like it failed, 0:26:45.359 --> 0:26:47.280 like I didn't make any money out of it. I 0:26:47.320 --> 0:26:51.080 didn't return the money to my investors. And by the way, Jimmy, 0:26:51.119 --> 0:26:53.600 I been on my second meeting with him after him 0:26:53.600 --> 0:26:55.520 giving me millions of dollars, told me it was going 0:26:55.560 --> 0:26:59.199 to fail. And I was like, by the way, at 0:26:59.280 --> 0:27:01.960 lunch with jay Z, like said, don't be offended. 0:27:02.119 --> 0:27:03.439 Why you got to embarrass me in front of him? 0:27:03.520 --> 0:27:06.720 Right he did. He goes, don't be upset, it's going 0:27:06.760 --> 0:27:09.919 to fail. Why because I was wait early and he 0:27:09.960 --> 0:27:12.200 told me I was fifteen years too early. He goes, 0:27:12.560 --> 0:27:15.439 I know pop culture, you are so way ahead of 0:27:15.440 --> 0:27:18.840 the curb, and you know basically it's going to fail now, 0:27:18.880 --> 0:27:20.800 but it will be ready in about fifteen years. And 0:27:20.840 --> 0:27:22.840 I said, but Jimmy, you just gave me all this money. 0:27:22.840 --> 0:27:24.760 Why did you give me this money? And I was like, 0:27:24.760 --> 0:27:27.000 I thought he was joking with me, actually, and he said, 0:27:27.240 --> 0:27:29.680 because you're an album, not a single, and I want 0:27:29.680 --> 0:27:32.240 to go on this journey with you. And it's crazy 0:27:32.280 --> 0:27:36.639 because we signed Piankatropra Jonas together and she popped and 0:27:36.680 --> 0:27:38.800 we had a success with her and we. 0:27:38.680 --> 0:27:41.320 Had more her manager at the correct yea yeah, and I. 0:27:41.200 --> 0:27:43.320 Have been for the last fifteen years. And I went 0:27:43.359 --> 0:27:46.359 to India to go and seek her out and convince 0:27:46.400 --> 0:27:48.120 her to come back here with me because I knew 0:27:48.119 --> 0:27:50.320 that I could, you know, make the star that she 0:27:50.480 --> 0:27:53.159 is today. And by the way, I was so depressed 0:27:53.200 --> 0:27:57.240 for like six months to a year, where she knows 0:27:57.280 --> 0:27:59.560 because she was hit I need a chalatengy over there, 0:27:59.800 --> 0:28:02.200 she knows I was. I was really depressed for about 0:28:02.200 --> 0:28:04.640 a year and I thought I was so embarrassed at 0:28:04.640 --> 0:28:08.480 my failure. And then I remember having lunch with Jimmy 0:28:08.520 --> 0:28:11.679 on his veranda at his old house and he was like, 0:28:11.760 --> 0:28:13.080 I told you this was gonna happen. 0:28:13.160 --> 0:28:15.200 He was kind of like, it never helps. The idea 0:28:15.400 --> 0:28:17.440 so never helps, Like why you upset? 0:28:17.640 --> 0:28:19.920 Like I told she was gonna happen, But you're could 0:28:19.920 --> 0:28:22.240 have go on to do great things. But that moment 0:28:22.280 --> 0:28:23.960 you couldn't see it. I couldn't see it. Like he 0:28:24.000 --> 0:28:25.640 asked me to come and work for beats with him, 0:28:25.880 --> 0:28:29.040 I had too much ego. You know, definitely had way 0:28:29.080 --> 0:28:30.720 too much ego. I should go and work for beats 0:28:30.720 --> 0:28:34.000 and made billions of dollars. Yeah. So, and I've had 0:28:34.000 --> 0:28:36.320 so many failures, Like I mean. 0:28:36.240 --> 0:28:38.720 It's all part of getting to your success. But you 0:28:38.800 --> 0:28:41.000 learn from it. That's that's okay. So that's the thing 0:28:41.000 --> 0:28:42.320 that I would like people to chew on for a 0:28:42.360 --> 0:28:45.360 little bit. Failure is part of success. Absolutely happens all 0:28:45.400 --> 0:28:48.720 the time to learn exactly right, And we see so 0:28:48.720 --> 0:28:50.480 many people you get knocked down once and you're like, 0:28:50.480 --> 0:28:52.160 that's it. I failed. I'm not gonna get back up. No, 0:28:52.160 --> 0:28:53.560 you have to get back up and you have to 0:28:53.560 --> 0:28:56.680 try again with better knowledge because you've learned from that 0:28:56.760 --> 0:28:59.640 last experience. So if you are listening and you're working 0:28:59.640 --> 0:29:02.800 on something you failed, it's okay. All of us have 0:29:02.960 --> 0:29:05.280 and we probably will again at some point because. 0:29:05.080 --> 0:29:07.360 I mean, my other thing is like, if you're disrupting, 0:29:07.880 --> 0:29:10.120 you have to fail, like because you're disrupting something and 0:29:10.120 --> 0:29:13.080 no one's disrupted before. Like, actually, I will say, the 0:29:13.120 --> 0:29:15.760 best lesson I ever got was, you know, if something's 0:29:15.800 --> 0:29:18.800 not working, that's okay. Like I had this view with 0:29:18.920 --> 0:29:20.680 Dacy Hits where if you just keep going and you 0:29:20.760 --> 0:29:22.360 keep going, and you keep going, you don't give up me, 0:29:22.360 --> 0:29:24.560 you don't give up a venturely you'll succeed. That's not true. 0:29:25.000 --> 0:29:27.480 Like you have to pivot, you have to change your course. 0:29:27.600 --> 0:29:28.800 You have to be flexible. 0:29:29.400 --> 0:29:31.880 And coming from the Dacy family that you come from, 0:29:32.520 --> 0:29:34.360 was it expected that you were going to be a doctor, 0:29:34.440 --> 0:29:36.840 an engineer or something like that, or did your parents 0:29:36.920 --> 0:29:38.480 know this one's gone off the rails and going to 0:29:38.520 --> 0:29:40.200 do something completely different from the jump. 0:29:40.520 --> 0:29:43.320 Can I tell you something, I just I just wasn't 0:29:43.400 --> 0:29:46.240 very good at school. I had dyslexia. I went to 0:29:46.240 --> 0:29:48.800 school with dyslexia when no one really knew what it was, 0:29:49.360 --> 0:29:52.000 and my parents didn't think I was very clever at all, 0:29:52.440 --> 0:29:54.600 so they really didn't have much hope for me. And 0:29:54.760 --> 0:29:57.240 you know, the only person that did really believe me 0:29:57.400 --> 0:30:00.240 was my sister. She passed breast cancer a couple of years, 0:30:01.400 --> 0:30:04.600 but thank you. But yeah, I don't think my parents 0:30:04.640 --> 0:30:07.280 really had much much belief thought I was going to 0:30:07.280 --> 0:30:08.000 really be anything. 0:30:08.360 --> 0:30:11.720 So that makes me feel good in some ways because 0:30:12.440 --> 0:30:14.360 the only person who I think ever had faith in 0:30:14.400 --> 0:30:17.240 me from the very very beginning was my sister, and 0:30:17.320 --> 0:30:19.200 she's my favorite person in the world. When I first 0:30:19.240 --> 0:30:21.880 started working in radio, there was zero money. They used 0:30:21.880 --> 0:30:24.120 to pay me in gift certificates, so I lived with 0:30:24.160 --> 0:30:26.080 her for free. She paid my rent, she paid for everything. 0:30:26.840 --> 0:30:29.160 She's older, so she's. 0:30:31.000 --> 0:30:31.440 To shout out. 0:30:32.120 --> 0:30:34.479 She's the greatest. She is the theacy child who went 0:30:34.520 --> 0:30:36.000 on to get the white coat in the stethoscope. 0:30:36.080 --> 0:30:36.480 Good for her. 0:30:36.600 --> 0:30:38.560 But she always said, I just know that you're going 0:30:38.640 --> 0:30:40.440 to do something different, and she always supported me and 0:30:40.480 --> 0:30:43.760 my parents when I first got this job, and sometimes 0:30:43.800 --> 0:30:45.400 to this day they will ask me what I'm going 0:30:45.480 --> 0:30:48.120 to get a real job? Really still now it's it's 0:30:48.200 --> 0:30:51.400 lessened now, but it still happens every now and then. Like, Okay, 0:30:51.440 --> 0:30:52.840 you know what's the plan. B. I'm like, yeah, I 0:30:52.880 --> 0:30:53.560 don't have a plan B. 0:30:53.760 --> 0:30:54.400 This is it. 0:30:54.640 --> 0:30:57.240 So this is either sink or swim. Hopefully we're swimming. 0:30:57.280 --> 0:30:58.320 So far we've been all right. 0:30:58.680 --> 0:31:03.760 But they being great without armbands without it. 0:31:03.760 --> 0:31:05.880 It's an interesting thing and I think, especially coming from 0:31:05.920 --> 0:31:08.480 the culture that we come from, to try and branch out, 0:31:08.520 --> 0:31:10.160 step out and do something different. But I love to 0:31:10.160 --> 0:31:12.720 see so many people doing it. And I ask you, 0:31:13.040 --> 0:31:15.960 when you say you've introduced so many people from this 0:31:16.040 --> 0:31:19.200 part of the world to South Asia and the culture there, 0:31:19.520 --> 0:31:22.280 what do you think it is that makes a successful crossover. 0:31:22.680 --> 0:31:22.920 Yeah? 0:31:23.000 --> 0:31:26.280 You know, I learned this amazing story from Lady Gaga. 0:31:26.560 --> 0:31:29.560 So when I took Lady Gaga to India, everyone was like, 0:31:29.560 --> 0:31:32.600 you're gonna change her. You're gonna change her. And everyone 0:31:32.640 --> 0:31:34.640 in India was telling me like, do not bring Lady 0:31:34.680 --> 0:31:37.160 Gaga here. She is a vegetarian country and she wears 0:31:37.240 --> 0:31:40.120 meat dresses. This is true. Like they were like, this 0:31:40.160 --> 0:31:43.040 is not going to resonate. And I believe that anything 0:31:43.080 --> 0:31:46.760 can resonate. I really do. And you know, I sat 0:31:46.840 --> 0:31:50.760 with Gaga and I said, tell me what's really important 0:31:50.760 --> 0:31:53.120 to you and The two things that came up were like, 0:31:53.280 --> 0:31:56.960 she said a bunch of things, but was food and God. 0:31:57.120 --> 0:31:58.520 And I said, when you come to India, just talk 0:31:58.520 --> 0:32:00.000 about food and God. Oh and she loves to tea 0:32:00.160 --> 0:32:03.600 as well, So I was like talking about God and 0:32:03.760 --> 0:32:06.040 tea and she came and that's what she talked about. 0:32:06.080 --> 0:32:08.320 And she also, you know, India was going through kind 0:32:08.360 --> 0:32:11.400 of this kind of LGBT crisis where you know, it 0:32:11.480 --> 0:32:14.080 was illegal to be gay and all this kind of stuff, 0:32:14.120 --> 0:32:16.480 and she really reached out to that community in a 0:32:16.520 --> 0:32:20.080 really meaningful way. And yeah, I mean, I think it's 0:32:20.120 --> 0:32:23.640 just a case of thinking about what's truly important to 0:32:23.680 --> 0:32:27.200 you and what resonates with that new market that you're 0:32:27.680 --> 0:32:30.760 you're trying to expand to. So you know, I learned 0:32:30.760 --> 0:32:32.320 that from her because she kept saying like, oh, you're 0:32:32.320 --> 0:32:34.280 going to try and change me, and I was like, no, 0:32:34.360 --> 0:32:37.400 I'm really not. Everyone was like, don't talk about this, 0:32:37.440 --> 0:32:39.840 don't talk about that. She's too you know whatever, like 0:32:39.880 --> 0:32:43.520 she's too groundbreaking for Indians, and I was like, don't 0:32:43.600 --> 0:32:44.760 underestimate our people. 0:32:45.560 --> 0:32:47.920 I've noticed quite an interesting divide when it comes to 0:32:47.960 --> 0:32:51.640 Indians and the way that they respond to me. It 0:32:51.720 --> 0:32:54.960 is because because Dandhi is my great great grandfather. 0:32:55.160 --> 0:33:00.920 Oh no way, oh yeah, oh wow, yeah wow so world, No, 0:33:01.000 --> 0:33:01.480 not at all. 0:33:01.560 --> 0:33:03.400 I was just born into a family. I'm just as 0:33:03.400 --> 0:33:06.600 impressed by it as other people are. But because of that, 0:33:06.880 --> 0:33:07.160 he was. 0:33:07.200 --> 0:33:08.920 Your great great Graham Vosa. 0:33:09.520 --> 0:33:12.840 The pictures of my uncle with him in the ashrooms 0:33:12.840 --> 0:33:14.920 and all kinds of obviously the last name stuck. 0:33:15.400 --> 0:33:17.520 By the way, just so you know, there's a memorial 0:33:17.760 --> 0:33:20.840 of Gandhi in Union Square. You know that I do. Yeah, 0:33:20.920 --> 0:33:21.920 so everyone want. 0:33:21.960 --> 0:33:24.160 Everyone go look. But because of that, there are certain 0:33:24.240 --> 0:33:27.520 expectations of what they would expect me to be like, 0:33:27.880 --> 0:33:30.480 and I am not meeting those expectations. So a lot 0:33:30.520 --> 0:33:32.880 of people have a lot of shit to say, none 0:33:32.880 --> 0:33:35.120 of which is nice. But then they expect me to 0:33:35.200 --> 0:33:37.680 be walking in his footsteps, which is a crazy thing 0:33:38.040 --> 0:33:38.520 to expect. 0:33:38.600 --> 0:33:40.400 Can I just stop me for one second, because you 0:33:40.440 --> 0:33:43.200 are walking into footsteps? Can I tell you why? Because 0:33:43.240 --> 0:33:45.120 he was a disruptor and he didn't do things the 0:33:45.160 --> 0:33:46.880 way everybody thought he should do it. He went to 0:33:47.320 --> 0:33:50.680 law school I think it was in Oxford and decided 0:33:50.880 --> 0:33:52.920 one day that he wasn't gonna wear those clothes, you know, 0:33:52.960 --> 0:33:55.600 what I mean, Like, he was a disruptor. He decided 0:33:55.960 --> 0:34:01.000 for a non violent demonstration when everybody was. You know, 0:34:01.160 --> 0:34:03.360 he was a disruptor, and you are a disruptor. So 0:34:03.640 --> 0:34:05.480 I think you are absolutely following in his foot. 0:34:05.520 --> 0:34:07.280 Well, well thanks. I like to think the same thing. 0:34:07.280 --> 0:34:08.840 But I always say I am a descendant. I'm not 0:34:08.880 --> 0:34:11.080 a disciple. There are people out there who will call 0:34:11.120 --> 0:34:13.320 themselves disciples, and you can hold them to that standard, 0:34:13.320 --> 0:34:14.879 but that is not me, and I think you would 0:34:14.920 --> 0:34:16.640 very much support it. So we have this one group 0:34:16.680 --> 0:34:18.760 of people who like to say you are an embarrassment 0:34:18.800 --> 0:34:21.040 to your family, shameful, this is awful, how dare you 0:34:21.480 --> 0:34:23.640 change your last name? Get out of here? And then 0:34:23.680 --> 0:34:26.560 there is another demographic of people, and it is often 0:34:26.600 --> 0:34:31.120 split among age groups who are incredibly supportive and say 0:34:31.320 --> 0:34:33.439 I love to see this. I love to see something new, 0:34:33.520 --> 0:34:35.879 something that's not in the vein of what everybody else 0:34:35.960 --> 0:34:39.080 is doing. And it's just a fascinating dance with the 0:34:39.120 --> 0:34:41.160 two sides of India, and I like to see it. 0:34:41.160 --> 0:34:43.359 That's why I'm asking, like, what actually works over there 0:34:43.440 --> 0:34:43.920 at the moment. 0:34:44.120 --> 0:34:47.880 I say, India is one point two or three billion people. 0:34:48.640 --> 0:34:51.319 Everyone's different one size does not fit all. 0:34:51.640 --> 0:34:53.439 It's tough to explain India to a lot of people 0:34:53.440 --> 0:34:55.719 who have not been there, because I say all the time, 0:34:55.719 --> 0:34:57.560 it's not like the United States, where you could go 0:34:57.640 --> 0:35:00.239 from Florida to Tennessee and you can have a general 0:35:00.320 --> 0:35:01.480 idea of what the culture is going to be. 0:35:01.560 --> 0:35:03.279 Like I mean, think about the foods. Yeah, foods are 0:35:03.320 --> 0:35:04.320 like completely different. 0:35:04.440 --> 0:35:07.360 Like the Lessard did a different the people, which is different. Correct, 0:35:07.400 --> 0:35:11.080 different states were colonized by different countries of Goa, which 0:35:11.120 --> 0:35:14.640 is very heavily Portuguese. People look different and it's a 0:35:14.680 --> 0:35:16.799 totally different thing. It was a bunch of kingdoms that 0:35:16.840 --> 0:35:19.279 all came together as one. So it is tough as 0:35:19.280 --> 0:35:20.839 diamond and I will always talk about to look at 0:35:20.840 --> 0:35:23.360 them as a monolith because everyone is so different, and 0:35:23.440 --> 0:35:26.600 India's the biggest population in the world, so why would 0:35:26.640 --> 0:35:28.799 you think we're all the same? Correct, it's odd. But 0:35:29.239 --> 0:35:31.759 I'm glad to see what you're doing and how you're 0:35:31.880 --> 0:35:34.480 merging the two cultures because that's important to me as 0:35:34.480 --> 0:35:36.840 somebody who straddles the line on both. Are you feeling 0:35:36.840 --> 0:35:37.440 good about it? 0:35:37.600 --> 0:35:38.799 I'm feeling great about it. 0:35:38.960 --> 0:35:40.919 Yeah, So what's up next for you? 0:35:41.360 --> 0:35:44.239 So right now, my thing is I just launched this 0:35:44.320 --> 0:35:48.520 label with Warner Music Group, with Warner Records. Just give 0:35:48.560 --> 0:35:51.920 a shout out to my guys there, Aaron and Tom. 0:35:52.280 --> 0:35:54.759 I started this journey, like you know, fifteen years ago 0:35:54.800 --> 0:35:58.840 with Jimmy Iveen. We did everything from like Jehu to 0:35:58.920 --> 0:36:04.560 launching Priyanka, but still the platform itself, the label was failed. 0:36:04.719 --> 0:36:07.400 And here I am back here fifteen years later with 0:36:07.520 --> 0:36:10.400 a different group of people starting this journey again. So 0:36:10.480 --> 0:36:12.879 I'm like at the beginning, and then I was realized, Yeah, 0:36:12.920 --> 0:36:14.960 accomplished all these failures. They were pretty good. 0:36:15.719 --> 0:36:18.120 It seems like some pretty big wins within the last Yeah. 0:36:18.120 --> 0:36:20.239 No, no, there were some winds along the way. Now 0:36:20.280 --> 0:36:21.640 you got me focused on failures. 0:36:22.719 --> 0:36:24.000 Excellent, the lay way. 0:36:24.160 --> 0:36:25.920 Exactly focus on your failures. 0:36:25.960 --> 0:36:28.319 And just quickly you mentioned the project that you're working 0:36:28.400 --> 0:36:30.279 on now, which is new, but you didn't mention the 0:36:30.360 --> 0:36:30.759 name of it. 0:36:30.920 --> 0:36:34.279 Yes, it's five Junction Records. It's in partnership with Warner 0:36:34.360 --> 0:36:38.080 Music Group and Warner Records, and you can find us 0:36:38.120 --> 0:36:38.960 on Instagram. 0:36:39.120 --> 0:36:40.680 Five Junction. Is it the number five? 0:36:41.040 --> 0:36:41.320 Yes? 0:36:41.480 --> 0:36:42.759 Okay, easy enough. 0:36:42.840 --> 0:36:45.759 But yeah, so now I'm on this journey again to 0:36:45.920 --> 0:36:49.360 really sort of you know, lift the voices of South 0:36:49.400 --> 0:36:53.080 Asian people everywhere here in America. And I really believe 0:36:53.160 --> 0:36:56.440 that America is I know people hate me saying this, 0:36:56.520 --> 0:36:59.960 but I do believe that American pop culture influences the wor. 0:37:00.760 --> 0:37:02.920 I think it's our biggest export. Correct If you ever 0:37:02.960 --> 0:37:05.760 think about what is America exporting, we are exporting pop culture. 0:37:05.800 --> 0:37:08.400 And you see that when you travel the world and 0:37:08.440 --> 0:37:11.000 you see the sneakers that they're wearing, the hoodies, whatever 0:37:11.040 --> 0:37:13.160 it is. So I understand people having a problem with it, 0:37:13.200 --> 0:37:13.960 but it is a fact. 0:37:14.120 --> 0:37:16.239 Yes, So people say eighty million America is not the 0:37:16.239 --> 0:37:17.799 center of the world, like blah blah blah, and I 0:37:17.960 --> 0:37:20.040 was like, it's not the center of the world. Actually, 0:37:20.120 --> 0:37:22.960 But if I'm in the pop culture game, and I'm 0:37:22.960 --> 0:37:26.120 in the culture game, then it does start here. 0:37:26.800 --> 0:37:29.560 So what are you excited about pop culture wise that 0:37:29.640 --> 0:37:30.560 you see coming up? 0:37:30.920 --> 0:37:33.359 You know, I think we're in this really fascinating time 0:37:33.520 --> 0:37:37.880 like today that Journey's evolved so much that Pharrell is 0:37:38.000 --> 0:37:41.160 using Indian music and Indian culture and Indian clothes at 0:37:41.320 --> 0:37:45.719 the Elvie Men's fashion fashion show in Paris, and I 0:37:45.800 --> 0:37:47.640 just feel like we've really come a long way. 0:37:47.640 --> 0:37:49.279 So you're happy to see it. You don't feel like 0:37:49.320 --> 0:37:51.399 it's appropriation that pisses a lot of people off. 0:37:51.360 --> 0:37:53.239 You know, it's funny. No, we love that people are 0:37:53.280 --> 0:37:57.400 embracing our culture. We love that it's proliferating. And no, 0:37:57.600 --> 0:37:59.600 I'm cool with it. I don't have these hang ups 0:37:59.640 --> 0:38:01.480 about what's. 0:38:01.320 --> 0:38:02.600 It called appropriation? 0:38:02.760 --> 0:38:07.239 Appropriation in general, I'm all about sharing culture. I'm all 0:38:07.239 --> 0:38:11.400 about people embracing everybody else's culture and doing it without fear. 0:38:11.520 --> 0:38:14.839 Like I have this the Valley Party every year that 0:38:14.920 --> 0:38:17.400 I throw and like people say to me, like I 0:38:17.440 --> 0:38:20.160 have like what you know, non Indian celebrities that come, 0:38:20.160 --> 0:38:22.720 and they'll be like, I would love to wear a lenger, 0:38:22.880 --> 0:38:24.839 which is like the shoe, you know what that is, 0:38:24.880 --> 0:38:26.839 But it's like a big skirt and a little top. 0:38:27.040 --> 0:38:29.120 Sometimes it's a bigger top. Or I'd love to wear 0:38:29.160 --> 0:38:30.759 a sari, or I'd love to wear this. But I 0:38:30.760 --> 0:38:34.439 don't want to be you know, appropriate, Like I don't 0:38:34.480 --> 0:38:38.719 want to culturally appropriate. And I'm like, no, just go 0:38:38.800 --> 0:38:41.080 for it, like you know, I mean, it's like I'm 0:38:41.120 --> 0:38:43.000 sitting here in a dress in a jacket. I don't 0:38:43.000 --> 0:38:46.359 feel like I'm appropriating Western culture because like I'm from India, right, 0:38:46.400 --> 0:38:48.040 you know what I mean? And I'll make my own 0:38:48.120 --> 0:38:51.919 version of anything I want. So yeah, I'm all for it. 0:38:52.080 --> 0:38:55.080 So there's something to think about, is failure as part 0:38:55.120 --> 0:38:57.680 of success. There's something to learn how to invest and 0:38:57.719 --> 0:39:00.320 ways to invest outside of just money. Now, if you 0:39:00.360 --> 0:39:02.560 want to leave us with actionable items. If you are 0:39:02.600 --> 0:39:04.680 somebody who's trying to build a business or trying to 0:39:04.719 --> 0:39:06.520 build your brand, what do you think are the most 0:39:06.520 --> 0:39:07.680 important steps to doing that? 0:39:08.239 --> 0:39:10.359 Well, one thing I would say is like you've always 0:39:10.440 --> 0:39:12.799 just got to think really big. And I always say 0:39:12.800 --> 0:39:14.879 if you dreams don't scare you, they're not big enough. 0:39:14.920 --> 0:39:16.560 I'm always in a constant state of fear. 0:39:16.840 --> 0:39:20.000 I'm always doing things that I'm like, right now, you're scared, right, 0:39:20.160 --> 0:39:21.239 I'm Petria. 0:39:21.520 --> 0:39:24.440 Okay, Yeah, I'm always making the phone call that nobody 0:39:24.440 --> 0:39:27.880 wants to make. I'm always just like kind of in 0:39:27.920 --> 0:39:29.920 a state of fear. Like I'm always doing things that 0:39:29.960 --> 0:39:32.480 scare me. And that's okay, Like I've kind of got 0:39:32.560 --> 0:39:35.520 used to that now, that adrenaline. Maybe it's funny. My 0:39:35.560 --> 0:39:38.799 fiance is a firefighter in New York City. Shout out 0:39:38.840 --> 0:39:42.160 to him, and I feel like, you know, we both 0:39:42.400 --> 0:39:46.160 thrill seekers in totally different ways. Like he goes into 0:39:46.200 --> 0:39:48.800 burning buildings and he doesn't know if he's coming out alive. 0:39:49.480 --> 0:39:51.799 I go into phone calls or meetings and I don't 0:39:51.800 --> 0:39:54.560 know if I'm coming out alive. Not in an obviously 0:39:54.600 --> 0:39:56.680 physical way, but in an I mean, I might come 0:39:56.760 --> 0:39:58.880 up with some crazy idea that people think of is 0:39:58.960 --> 0:40:03.320 absolutely stupid, and counsel me, like you know who knows. 0:40:03.480 --> 0:40:06.800 Don't be afraid to feel scared. Like there's this quote 0:40:06.800 --> 0:40:10.080 that I live by, which is minds are like parachutes. 0:40:10.120 --> 0:40:13.360 They only operate when they're open. Your mind has to 0:40:13.400 --> 0:40:16.439 be open all the time, you know, and it might 0:40:16.520 --> 0:40:19.080 change your journey, and maybe that's exactly what you need. 0:40:19.480 --> 0:40:21.359 I think that is a great note on which to end. 0:40:21.640 --> 0:40:23.640 If people want to find you online, they want to 0:40:23.760 --> 0:40:25.320 get you to invest, or maybe they just want to 0:40:25.320 --> 0:40:26.840 follow you, how can they get ahold of you? Or 0:40:26.840 --> 0:40:28.160 do you even want them to get a hold of you? 0:40:29.200 --> 0:40:33.640 Well, honestly, I take most find someone that knows me, 0:40:34.239 --> 0:40:35.600 and I take most. 0:40:35.440 --> 0:40:37.480 Like, well, now they're all going to come find me, 0:40:38.080 --> 0:40:38.640 Yeah they will. 0:40:39.760 --> 0:40:43.040 I take most things by referral, Like at this point, 0:40:43.120 --> 0:40:46.359 there's so many people like approaching. So if find someone 0:40:46.440 --> 0:40:48.160 that knows me that can vouch for you and tell 0:40:48.160 --> 0:40:50.600 me that your idea is worth listening to. Otherwise I'd 0:40:50.600 --> 0:40:53.280 be literally every day just listening to ideas. 0:40:53.480 --> 0:40:55.359 Please do not approach me. I don't know a lot 0:40:55.400 --> 0:40:57.719 of people and I'm not vouching for them. Okay, find 0:40:57.760 --> 0:40:58.200 someone else. 0:40:58.480 --> 0:41:00.400 I find someone that can vouch for you. And I 0:41:00.400 --> 0:41:02.440 think that's right for anyone. Right if you're trying to 0:41:02.480 --> 0:41:05.240 contact anyone, find someone that is a common link between 0:41:05.239 --> 0:41:07.080 you and that person and get that person to vouch 0:41:07.120 --> 0:41:11.280 for you, because then they'll take you seriously. But otherwise, 0:41:11.320 --> 0:41:14.839 you can find me on Instagram and ju La Charia. 0:41:14.960 --> 0:41:18.520 I think it's Aeula Underscore Charia. Yeah, I think that's 0:41:18.560 --> 0:41:19.560 the way to find me. 0:41:19.760 --> 0:41:21.320 Okay, well, I'm sure you're going to be getting a 0:41:21.360 --> 0:41:22.960 lot of people coming to find you at this point. 0:41:23.040 --> 0:41:25.160 Those dms are going to be blown up with lots 0:41:25.200 --> 0:41:26.120 of ideas and requests. 0:41:26.120 --> 0:41:27.600 But the best thing is that you're going to come 0:41:27.600 --> 0:41:29.520 to me with your idea. I will that's going to 0:41:29.560 --> 0:41:30.640 make you a billion dollars. 0:41:30.680 --> 0:41:33.640 I'm so close, as you said, I am hoping by 0:41:33.640 --> 0:41:35.840 the end of next year when I get fired. This 0:41:35.920 --> 0:41:37.800 is going to be the way that I still survive. 0:41:37.960 --> 0:41:40.040 Yeah, but you know what, if an opportunity comes before, 0:41:40.120 --> 0:41:41.200 then take it. 0:41:41.320 --> 0:41:43.160 Oh no, I will every day of my life. I 0:41:43.160 --> 0:41:45.239 am one step closer to being fired, and I'm ready 0:41:45.280 --> 0:41:46.800 for it. They say no, it's never going to happen. 0:41:46.960 --> 0:41:49.040 I know it will, so I'm counting down. 0:41:49.520 --> 0:41:50.000 We'll see. 0:41:50.200 --> 0:41:57.320 Thank you so much for coming by. I appreciate fun. 0:42:02.800 --> 0:42:05.560 All right. Diamond found a lot out about somebody today. 0:42:05.640 --> 0:42:06.360 I had no idea. 0:42:06.719 --> 0:42:08.000 Loved it, loved her. 0:42:08.320 --> 0:42:10.439 She's very nice. I like the accent and I need one. 0:42:10.600 --> 0:42:12.440 And she met jay Z, which means that she kind 0:42:12.440 --> 0:42:13.680 of met Beyonce. You know what I mean? 0:42:13.800 --> 0:42:16.200 Oh, I bet we should have asked her, do you 0:42:16.360 --> 0:42:20.040 have access to Beyonce like you do with jay Z. Also, 0:42:20.320 --> 0:42:23.000 every time she said Jimmy Iveen, I thought about Eminem 0:42:23.320 --> 0:42:26.319 because those two are buddies, like hello, sun it up. 0:42:26.520 --> 0:42:28.640 I love them either way, I love it. I love 0:42:28.680 --> 0:42:31.680 to see Indian people doing big things with Western culture. 0:42:32.120 --> 0:42:34.520 And now we have to scoop because people are waving 0:42:34.560 --> 0:42:37.640 at us. 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