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Seven books? 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:27.560 All right, so can we talk about that. We haven't 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:30.880 covered the book industry yet. So what is the process 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:33.239 of writing a book? Like as far as from the 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:35.560 do you like, yeah, can you just walk me through that? 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:36.640 Do you have a ghostwriter? 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:37.360 Do you? Yeah? 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:38.360 You actually sit there? 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:40.800 Yeah, I'm gonna tell you. So. 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:43.520 When I wrote my first book ten years ago, it 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:46.280 took me about eight maybe eight nine months to put 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:49.080 the book out because I literally I had a BlackBerry 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:50.960 at the time. I literally would like sit in my 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:54.240 car and like write the book of my BlackBerry. Now 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:57.240 fast forward, I got done by the book in two months, 0:03:57.280 --> 0:04:01.480 maybe less than that, because technology is the great equalizer 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:05.440 for everything. And so for me, the way that you 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:07.040 write a book is, and this is what I would 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:09.880 suggest to anybody, is to start with the end in mind. 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:13.440 So before you even write a first chapter or anything, 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:16.279 understand what is it that you want people to get 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:18.440 out of this book. And now I need you to say, 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:20.599 this is the end, this is what I want people 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:21.080 to get. 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:22.640 And then now work your way backwards. 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:25.279 Right, So if I want people to get the financial 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:28.320 lessons that jay Z taught in four forty four, that's 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:30.320 the main thing. So when people who are finished, they're 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:32.640 going to understand how to build generational wealth. 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:34.080 And so how do I do that? So now go 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:35.240 backwards and I outline. 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:37.200 I say, all right, so I'm going to go from 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:42.360 from self sufficiency to cooperative economics to generational wealth, right, 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:44.880 and I'm going to break down each of those into chapters. 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:48.000 Now that I've broken down into chapters, I'm going to 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:49.840 go to each chapter and I'm going to bullet point 0:04:49.880 --> 0:04:52.080 everything and say these are the main things I want 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:55.880 to talk about in each different chapter and literally dictate 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:56.280 the rest. 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:58.440 Now you didn't did you go to formal school for that? 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:01.599 You study literature and this is just all all self 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:01.880 to it. 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:04.760 So here's what I realized, and this is a great 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:09.880 message as to you don't necessarily have to listen to 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:12.920 people because they've done it, or because they have a 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:14.600 master's or whatever the case may be. 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:16.640 Do what works for your audience, right. 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:19.680 And what I realized was when I wrote my first 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:21.560 book and then I started you know that one did 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:24.000 pretty well, and then I wrote my second book, which 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:26.239 is What the Fight Go Twelve Steps of Repairing Your Credit. 0:05:26.680 --> 0:05:30.719 I realized that people liked that book because I wrote 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:35.520 the way I talked, and my audience didn't care about syntax, 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:39.000 they didn't care about you know, you know, and I 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:40.920 don't want to say proper because at the end of 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:44.120 the day, my goal was to get the message out 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:46.159 to the people that I needed to get the message. 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:48.920 And so what I decided to do is like, you 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:51.960 know what if people are resonated with my writing because 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:54.240 they like it, you know, I write the way I talk, 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:57.520 then that's why I started to dictate books. After I 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:00.279 dictate the book, I then I do some to an 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:02.320 editor of it, right, because I'm you know, what dictate? 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:03.360 What does that? What does that mean? 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:06.600 So like literally I pulled my IF phone out. I 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:09.240 gotta yeah, I got an MV eighty eight and I 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:11.440 literally so now I got this outline, right, I have 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:14.440 this outline. I know each of the chapters or chapter one, 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:17.720 you know, uh you know, don't spend money on a 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:20.320 V twelve engine. And so now right, and so now 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:24.320 I'm literally speaking into my phone as if I was 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:27.640 teaching it. Right, And so as a public speaker, you know, 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:28.960 if you tell me right now I need you to 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:30.560 talk about a topic, I could get on my feet 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:33.680 and talk about the topic. And so literally I would 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:37.480 just talk into the microphone and dictate what, you know, 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:39.960 what I want people to learn from that chapter. 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:43.680 The great thing about technology is because you have you know, 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:44.080 you have. 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:48.920 Uh not as you have services like fiver Right, you 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:52.120 go to fiver and get somebody to translate, right, to 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:56.000 transcribe what you just said into the written form. And 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:59.240 so now you go to fiverr they transcribe it for you. 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:02.200 Now you have a whole ten pages that you just 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:07.280 dictated in twenty minutes, literally in twenty minutes because the 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:10.640 cost for maybe one hundred dollars, maybe two hundred dollars. 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:11.240 You know what I'm saying. 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:13.640 It depends on how you know, how much time right, 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:16.520 and so you know, you get them to to you know, 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:20.040 to to transcribe it for you and then that that way, 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:23.720 Now you have this book written all raw form of 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:26.720 how you talk. You go through it first though, right, 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:28.920 you go through it, you make sure it reads right. 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:31.040 You you know, you may have to do some research, 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:33.680 like so for me, I had to research certain stories. Right, 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:36.119 So if I'm talking about you know, owning your rights 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:38.280 and prints, I had to learn. I had to I 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:40.600 had to talk about Prince's story and you know he 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:43.040 didn't have a will, and you know what he wanted 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:44.600 to do with his things, and I needed to add 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:47.040 those things. So those pieces you add later, like the 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:49.640 research and all that stuff you add later. But the 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:52.840 main topic your knowledge, what you want people to learn. 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:56.440 You dictate that. You go through the book, and literally 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:57.080 I think you can. 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:57.360 You can. 0:07:57.480 --> 0:08:00.920 You can write and publish a book for three months tops. 0:08:01.040 --> 0:08:03.880 And that's been the process from the first second book 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:07.920 on or No. So I started this process. So I'm 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:11.840 at I'm at seven books, book four to seven. I've 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:14.240 dictated so all right, so that's how you actually write 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:17.280 the book. Now the next step of actually publishing a 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:18.520 book getting it out there? 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:20.320 What's that? Yeah? 0:08:20.480 --> 0:08:21.280 So publishing the. 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:26.000 Book is literally going through Amazon, right, and so you 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:28.360 know Amazon used to have a company called create Space, 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:31.160 but they all kind of merged it now into their 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:32.600 their kindle Kindle. 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:33.160 So if you go to. 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:36.559 Amazon dot KDP dot com, so it's like Candle Direct 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:41.120 Publishing is the name of the company. Literally, Uh, you 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:43.480 would go, So I use five her again, right, so 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:45.000 I get a book cover done? 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:46.880 So can you playing with five? I just heard that 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:47.880 company book? Can you explain? 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:48.080 Oh? 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:53.160 Yeah, So Fiver is a marketplace for any service that 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:57.240 you need. Graphic designers, uh, anything you need, you need freelance, yeah, 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:01.600 freelance people, right, and so the great thing about Fiver 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:05.480 is that Fiver has freelancers from all over the world. 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:10.480 And so in someone in Indonesia who is a graphic 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:13.240 designer is not going to charge you one thousand dollars 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:15.480 for a book cover. They're literally going to charge you 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:19.040 ten to fifteen dollars or twenty dollars or thirty dollars. 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:21.439 Something that we look at all this is nothing but 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:21.960 for them. 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:24.280 You know, they're cost of living is so low, so 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:26.679 that's a lot of money for them, right, And so 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:29.719 I use fiver to create you know, I use a 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:34.160 graphic designer on Fiver. I literally never paid more than 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:36.840 fifty dollars for a book cover after I use fiver 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:39.480 and my book cover is. If you go to Amazon 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:41.200 right now, you look at all of my book covers, 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:44.160 they all look professional. They're all done, you know, with 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:47.800 top quality. But I'm paying fifty dollars for that. You 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:50.880 also can go to fiver right. So once you are 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:53.240 you finished writing a book, you get somebody to edit 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:56.040 the book for you. There's a layout design, right, so 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:57.559 when you look at the book, the book has to 0:09:57.600 --> 0:09:58.720 be laid out somewhow. 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:02.160 I use five for that as well. I go to fiver. Wait, 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:03.480 hold on me, stop giving them plug. 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:09.120 Cut the check five cut. 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:12.880 So you can go to any but but but you know, 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:16.600 like you could, you could literally, you know, get somebody 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:19.840 to design the inside of the book for you as well. 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:22.520 And that's how you get the professional look, right. And 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:26.319 so once you have your cover, your cover file, you 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:29.920 have your your inside file. You then upload that to 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:34.120 Kindle Direct Publishing and there's a couple of things that 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:37.600 that that happens with that right number One, Once you uploaded, 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:39.760 you write, you know, you you put your title in, 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:42.679 you put the subtitle, you put your name, your bio, 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:45.000 you put all that stuff in, and that's how it's 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:48.240 going to be populated into Amazon dot com and ready 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:48.720 for sale. 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:57.920 All right, guys, So a lot of people access how 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:00.000 do they make a podcast? So I'm let you see 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:05.079 on the easiest, most productive way to start a podcast 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:06.959 and get it up and running, and that is the 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:10.439 app called Anchor is free. 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So Balkers is the company that 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:18.640 offers ISBN numbers and that's what identifies your book. If 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:21.400 you go to buy Bokers, and I think the website 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:24.480 is my identifiers dot com, you can actually buy your 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:25.840 own ISBN number. 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:27.360 Why is that important? Right? 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:33.480 It's important because for me as a speaker, as somebody 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:36.840 who you know, my books are are how I teach 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:37.280 the people. 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:40.880 But it also is a way like a resume that 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:41.840 lets me in so. 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:44.959 People could book me for speaking engagements, people book me 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:47.760 for media, you know, media opportunities, things of that nature, 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:51.599 which give me more visibility to sell more books. For 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:55.560 some reason, there's still this negative taboo on self published 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:59.319 office and so if I use Amazon to to give 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:03.040 me my is number, it's gonna show that I'm independently 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:05.040 published and people are not gonna take me as serious. 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:05.520 Serious. 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:08.280 So what I do is I go to Boukers, and 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:11.360 I buy my own I VN number under my own 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:14.760 company called One Brick Publishing, right, so all of my 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:19.280 books have been distributed under One Brick Publishing. 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Terms and conditions apply. 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:22.680 Hiring Indeed is all you need. 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:25.240 I literally get people to hit me like joke. 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:28.720 Can you connect with one brick publisher back the sound 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:32.560 dope And honestly, you know what one brick publishing is 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:34.760 because back in the days, I used to move those bricks. 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:39.240 One brick publisher, one brick out of time. 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:43.160 That's where that's where, That's where I got it from. 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:45.400 Actually, I was watching a Will Smith story, and will 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:47.960 Smith was giving his example about how him and his 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:50.480 brother got you know, his pops tore down his wall 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:52.600 and told him to rebuild the wall. And they were 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:54.560 looking like, yoha, I'm gonna rebuild the wall. They said, Yo, 0:16:54.880 --> 0:16:56.640 build it one brick at a time. As you make 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:59.160 sure that this is the best brick possible, then you'll 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:01.320 have a good wall. Was like, oh, that's a dope story. 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:03.160 Then that's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna build a 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:06.080 publishing company one brick at a time. And so now 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:08.560 when you look at my books, they're all published by 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:11.600 one brick. And the reason why that's important because now 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:14.200 when people are looking for somebody, looking for experts and 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:17.080 looking for people, uh, they're gonna see everything. 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:18.520 You know, everything's professional. 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:23.760 It gives this you know, illusion that you're signed to 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:26.719 a publishing house and and people take you more serious 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:26.960 from that. 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:30.200 Now that's dope. Before I just want to see you're 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:30.960 early legion. 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:31.159 Man. 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:35.240 We give it a lot of fact game like, yo, honestly, 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:39.280 we might have to start charging myself. It's a little different. 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:40.440 It's getting crazy. 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:42.639 It's crazy. So you have you haven't done an audio 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:43.440 book yet, right. 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:45.720 Book? 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:48.040 So is it the same process? Like, so if you 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:50.560 do it through I'm not gonna say the companies yet, right, 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:51.680 you send it to an editor. 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:53.560 Now they tell you what you need to say and 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:54.520 you do it through the audio. 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:57.320 So so so when I do the audios, and that 0:17:57.440 --> 0:17:59.720 was that was another thing, right, I was like, so 0:17:59.840 --> 0:18:02.159 I make I make a living off a book, so 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:04.320 you know what I'm saying. And what I realized was 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:08.000 that you know, and it happened and I went backwards 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:09.800 because when I put out the j book, the four 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:11.720 forty four book, I had uber. 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:14.239 Drivers like yo, bro, I need this book, but I'm 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:15.159 in my uber all. 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:18.640 Day and I'm like, oh, and so I kept forgetting 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:21.840 about a market of people who either drive who don't 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:22.399 have that's. 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:25.240 Like me, or not pick up a physical book. 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:28.760 And so literally like fashot out the garage band, like 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:33.280 I literally recorded my audio books right right, I'm saying, 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:35.840 like I literally you know what I'm saying, like like 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:40.080 recording my books on garage band once to you, and 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:42.359 I like, I read the book. So I'm literally like 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:45.840 reading the book once it's done, even if I mess 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:47.400 up with whatever the case may be. To get get 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:50.280 everything right, I send it to somebody on on that 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:52.600 company again, and you can look. 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:55.040 For you know, you know, audio edit to whatever the 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:55.560 case may be. 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:58.639 They edited. They even take out the dead air, so 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:01.480 like like sometimes if that doesn't sound right and there's 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:03.840 dead air, and they take they like they edited compress it. 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:07.840 I mean you you know you listen to it. A freelance, right, yeah, 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:10.359 all freelance. So yeah, all these people are freelance. And 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:12.439 then there's a company called a c X. It's all 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:14.080 owned by Amazon. Amazon run things. 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:17.840 So yeah, they run things. So a c X right, 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:20.080 A a c X dot com. 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:24.359 Uh, if you go to them, now, you upload your file, 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:26.800 you put the title and all that stuff, and then 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:29.960 they distribute the book to audible dot com and iTunes. 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:32.480 And so now if you look look for my book 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:34.800 on audio, you'll see it on Audible, You'll see it 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:35.480 on iTunes. 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:37.000 And that's how how I do audio books. 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:37.640 They do it for free. 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:38.400 Yeah. 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:41.320