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Speaker 1: Bethany Frankel. So I was telling my boyfriend Paul the

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Speaker 1: the lyrics, which I happen to have here, and what

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Speaker 1: at home can hear from successful people and take things

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Speaker 1: away to use in their own business endeavors. So what

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Speaker 1: advice or takeaway do you have for someone trying to

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Speaker 1: start a business. So I think that people who want

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Speaker 1: to start their own businesses have a lot of misconceptions

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Speaker 1: about you know, what it really takes and and and

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Speaker 1: what you really have to be to uh to to

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Speaker 1: do it. I I first of all, I barely graduated

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Speaker 1: high school and I didn't go to college. But where

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Speaker 1: I was super lucky is I always knew what I

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Speaker 1: wanted to do. And I think that's half the battle.

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Speaker 1: Once you know who you are and what you want

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Speaker 1: to do, it's a lot easier to get out there

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Speaker 1: and become successful. You literally just get up every day

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Speaker 1: and work hard at it. Uh, Like you said, it's

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Speaker 1: it's all about hard work. But number two is to

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Speaker 1: run a business. Isn't like oh, this is so far

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Speaker 1: to look at. We're running our own business. This world

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Speaker 1: it's cutthroat, it's dirty. Um. You know, you run into

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Speaker 1: a lot of crazy ship with people and you literally

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Speaker 1: have to get up every day and fight. And then

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Speaker 1: even when you become super successful, people see what you

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Speaker 1: did and everybody starts trying to knock off what you did.

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Speaker 1: And they're all trying to and now you're fighting these

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Speaker 1: guys off. It just it never ends. You gotta go

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Speaker 1: harder than because they see you coming, you are nobody.

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Speaker 1: They see you coming. The stakes are higher, the money

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Speaker 1: is bigger, and it just gets more gangster. So true,

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Speaker 1: the biggest thing that stops people from going out and

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Speaker 1: trying what they want to do is fear. Fear of

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Speaker 1: oh my god, I'll lose this job and then how

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Speaker 1: will I pay my bills? And how will I do this?

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Speaker 1: And how will I do that? That's all out the

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Speaker 1: window right now. Anyway, there's no four O one K

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Speaker 1: go fin get your fucking pull the pull the ripcord

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Speaker 1: and go and the worst, the worst thing that can

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Speaker 1: happen is you fail and you go back to that job. Anyway.

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Speaker 1: You know, you can get that a job like that

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Speaker 1: back in a minute. The worst part is not trying.

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Speaker 1: The worst part is sitting on the sidelines and saying,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm too afraid to do it. Don't be afraid.

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Speaker 1: Dive in head first. There's never been a better time

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Speaker 1: than right now. There are seeds being planted right now,

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Speaker 1: and it's all going to grow, and we don't exactly

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Speaker 1: know what's growing where, you know what I mean, We

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Speaker 1: don't know the answers. So, yeah, this is gonna be

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Speaker 1: a really interesting time that just creativity and business is

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Speaker 1: going to just you know, the boys and the men,

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Speaker 1: the little girls and the women are going to be

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Speaker 1: separated at this time. So what is your title in

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Speaker 1: your home? I run a company with three hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty employees. I have six hundred and thirty six hundred

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Speaker 1: thirty five something professional Ultimate fighters that all work for

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Speaker 1: me and do what I say to do. Yeah. Not

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Speaker 1: many people listen to me at home at home the game, Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm not so badass at home? Who runs the show?

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Speaker 1: Your wife runs the show in the house. Yeah, she

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Speaker 1: does a good job of schedules and where they go

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Speaker 1: and what they gotta do and and all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: But but my kids, my boys are seventeen and eighteen,

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Speaker 1: and when they're actually they're eighteen and nineteen now they

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Speaker 1: just had their birthday eighteen and nineteen. And when you uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, when you have two young men at home,

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Speaker 1: you know, they start puffing their chest and challengeing, and

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Speaker 1: you know, they don't want to listen too much anymore.

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Speaker 1: So I don't really I don't really lean on them

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Speaker 1: as much as I used to when they were younger.

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Speaker 1: And now my daughter's fourteen, so we're going into a

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Speaker 1: whole another world with her that I'm gonna have to

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Speaker 1: learn about. Yes, you are real quick, and yeah, are

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Speaker 1: she too old for TikTok? Are she right in the TikTok? Wrong?

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Speaker 1: Oh no, she's TikTok? And yeah, she tried to get

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Speaker 1: me to She tried to get me to TikTok with her,

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Speaker 1: and uh and she's like all the other dads to it.

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Speaker 1: I said, yeah, this dad ain't dancing with you on

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Speaker 1: on frigging social media, but I think it'd be I mean, listen,

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Speaker 1: everyone loves to see like a big burly guy doing

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Speaker 1: a dance sitting at a tea party. So but I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, it seems like you're doing a right without

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Speaker 1: the fucking talk. And if you if you ever see

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Speaker 1: me dancing, call me a cab. I'm drunk as hell,

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Speaker 1: send me home. I don't I don't dance. All right, Well,

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Speaker 1: I know we're running out of time, and I so

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Speaker 1: appreciate your time. And the last thing I wanted to

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Speaker 1: talk to you about is weather throughout your journey to

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Speaker 1: where you are now. If you have any mottos that

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Speaker 1: you live by like mine has come from a place

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Speaker 1: of yes. Doesn't mean being a good mood, doesn't mean

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Speaker 1: be positive all the time. It means figure it out,

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Speaker 1: get it done, do what other people won't do. So

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Speaker 1: what's your sort of mantra, like your place of yes mantra? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: mine is don't tell me no. I don't like to

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Speaker 1: hear no. I don't like to hear that something isn't possible.

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Speaker 1: Everything is possible, you just have to figure out how

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Speaker 1: to make it happen. Well, this was awesome, like really

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Speaker 1: interesting and really good stuff for people to just meet,

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Speaker 1: a good take away for them. And I really appreciate

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Speaker 1: you taking the time. It's my pleasure. You're dead on

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Speaker 1: with everything you say. You and I are are very

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Speaker 1: aligned and very much alike absolute pleasures. It's funny that

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Speaker 1: you your mantras, you don't take no and mancho as

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Speaker 1: a place of yes, so we are aligned. That was intense,

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Speaker 1: Unlike someone who's opinionated. I like someone who doesn't give

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Speaker 1: a ship what people think. I had never heard of

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Speaker 1: Dana White, and Dana White had never heard of me

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Speaker 1: before I had this podcast. And now I'm talking to

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Speaker 1: someone who took a company that he bought for two

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Speaker 1: million dollars and in I think it was two decades

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Speaker 1: sold it for four billion dollars. So that's a person

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Speaker 1: who didn't graduate from college who just loved what he did,

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Speaker 1: was passionate about it. Saw a boy saw something that

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Speaker 1: he loved so much that he believed everyone else would love.

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Speaker 1: And the truth of the matter is I remember thinking,

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Speaker 1: how was it low calorie margharita? Like how has no

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Speaker 1: one ever thought of a skinny margharita before? And it's

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Speaker 1: the highest calorie drink and a world I love it.

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Speaker 1: I want to be drink margaretit seven days a week.

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Speaker 1: And why wouldn't everybody else want to do it? If

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Speaker 1: they wouldn't feel guilty about it? And it was just

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Speaker 1: something I just started, I'm going all the way with this.

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Speaker 1: Everyone said it wasn't gonna happen. People said I was crazy.

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Speaker 1: It was a man's business, a man's world, and I

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Speaker 1: just went kept going and it's exactly what he did.

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Speaker 1: So we don't even know which we didn't even know

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Speaker 1: who each other were, but we're having these paralleled life paths.

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Speaker 1: He's two years older than I and I find it fascinating.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening. Please make sure to

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Speaker 1: rate and review what you think, and please subscribe. I'm

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Speaker 1: so excited to be talking to you. So that's a wrap, folks.

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