REAL AF with Andy Frisella

00:00:00.000 what is up guys you're listening to the mf ceo project i'm andy i'm your host and i am the

00:00:12.620 motherfucking ceo bitches as always i'm joined by my co-host vaughn the pastor of disaster

00:00:21.720 what's up my man things are good i got to go to the loo the other loo this weekend which

00:00:28.180 lou is that louisville oh louisville louisville that's how you say i know that's how you say it

00:00:33.520 those motherfuckers can't talk down there yeah yeah yeah but it was good it was a good weekend

00:00:37.660 yeah to drive by a big statue of muhammad ali yeah that's cool i forgot that's where he's from

00:00:43.220 yeah yeah it's interesting are you i know sal's a baseball guy are you a baseball guy yeah i like

00:00:48.580 baseball louisville slugger museum pretty cool yeah that's pretty cool you ever been there uh no

00:00:53.840 no i haven't been there but the concept is cool right like go look at a bunch of fucking baseball

00:00:58.980 bats yeah well you know i have to admit i didn't have a ton of respect for baseball players until

00:01:03.340 i went there and they have this little setup to where you can stand behind a uh you know a fake

00:01:08.040 uh what do you go home plate and you can take a pitch it's just insane how fast those pitches are

00:01:14.480 it's amazing that anybody hits any pitch i'm sure it's amazing to you well it is the athlete that you

00:01:20.320 are yeah well that's true i'm more of a you know basketball guy yeah yeah you look like a basketball

00:01:25.520 guy five two fucking white didn't look like a basketball guy yeah he was in college he was like

00:01:31.620 six seven okay you're like five seven point where five ten and a half also you guys know who else is

00:01:40.660 in the room mc salmon what up what up what's going on how much it was actually warm enough to wear

00:01:46.120 these salmon shorts today but but you didn't wear them if you don't wear the salmon shorts we can't

00:01:50.580 have a good fucking show i'm just in this you know the skinny jean mode right now i could tell

00:01:54.860 fucking skinny jeans are appropriate for you you like looking at my book rainbow stickers

00:01:59.200 so guys as you know if this is your first time listening um welcome this is the mfceo podcast we

00:02:10.500 do curse we do tell off-color jokes we do offend people but what we also do is tell the reality of

00:02:16.540 entrepreneurship uh core values and values in society will help you become successful no matter

00:02:23.880 if you own your own company no matter if you're an employee in a company no matter if you're trying to

00:02:28.100 uh whatever your goal could be we are going to talk about those principles um today we have something

00:02:36.440 that is very special that we don't normally do we have a guest uh the guest that we have today

00:02:42.460 is a very very well-known social media influencer if you're not following him you need to be following

00:02:47.740 him very successful real entrepreneur not one of these fake motherfuckers that sells info products

00:02:55.360 on the internet and pretends to be some sort of fucking guru we're talking about a guy who started a

00:03:00.600 company built the company sold it for 50 million dollars and has done things in the real world

00:03:07.240 okay key point being real world all right and as you guys know i don't bring guests on very often

00:03:14.900 but this is a great opportunity to connect with somebody to talk with somebody about what it takes

00:03:21.620 to do real things in the real world uh so i'm proud to have all my good buddy gerard adams what's up

00:03:29.560 my man how you doing it's good andy thanks for having me on bro listen to that voice man he's got

00:03:33.680 a voice for audio doesn't he yeah smooth yeah he was saying he doesn't like the audio his audio isn't

00:03:38.140 his thing but i think it might be a secret superpower yeah see i have a face for audio yeah you sure do

00:03:42.680 uh gerard and i and his crew and and uh emily went out last night and we drank uh quite a few beers

00:03:51.940 um i think you had what what we have set we figure it's like seven or no you guys have 14 so it was

00:03:58.620 mostly 14 yeah i had four four or 13 or 14 stella's wow yeah but who's counting right we well we

00:04:06.700 the only reason we counted was because we're talking at lunch how shitty we felt but it was worth it

00:04:11.180 where'd you take him we went to katie's pizza and pasta over rock hill yeah great place yeah you

00:04:16.220 didn't get that invite ball yeah i never get the invite well i didn't get invited to your msco meetup

00:04:21.040 so well that's true yeah i assumed how the fuck you gonna have an msco meetup without the

00:04:26.140 fucking msco i also assumed to know on that one yeah yeah so vaughn i threw this on vaughn at the

00:04:33.560 last minute i said hey we're gonna do a podcast my boy he's in town let's let's talk about some

00:04:38.640 things i think this is a great opportunity to talk about real fundamental shit that it takes to be an

00:04:46.960 entrepreneur um you know gerard and i spoke most of the night last night about the difference between

00:04:53.260 a plan and theory and actual application um why don't you tell people a little bit about you and

00:05:00.780 about what you've done and where you come from uh before we get into some of the conversation that

00:05:05.760 that we're going to get into and let people know where they can find you too yeah thanks andy um

00:05:11.340 i gotta admit guys uh pounding beers with andy fucking frisella was a highlight of so far 2017

00:05:19.000 so thank you brother for having me out here uh me elissa and i had a great time with you and emily

00:05:24.280 um but it was really cool to really dive in with you because i feel there is a a real problem

00:05:31.940 in society right now especially with the younger generation of who they're looking at and getting

00:05:38.560 guidance from uh you know for as far as like real role models especially in the in the entrepreneurial

00:05:44.600 world you know what people are considering success you know and i feel that um i relate to you in an

00:05:52.680 aspect that like i did grow up at a time where i didn't grow up into social grow up into social media

00:05:58.600 i grew up with you know hard-working american parents that like i saw work their asses off my mom's seven

00:06:05.620 days a week at a supermarket my father worked for prudential like to provide for me and my sisters

00:06:11.140 and i owe it you know i owe it all to them but like growing up they instilled in me very early on

00:06:16.480 old school values right you know stuff that you talk about all the time right work ethic i saw it

00:06:22.240 firsthand because my you know because of them right uh you know leadership skills at a very very young

00:06:27.480 age my father pounded that in me pounded that in me non-stop to be a leader no matter what i don't

00:06:33.900 give a shit what you do you don't you don't never be a be a follower you stand up for what you believe

00:06:38.440 in in life and you don't stand down to shit and he taught me that and he used to actually leave notes

00:06:43.580 around my house you know there were famous quotes of like marcus aurelius john f kennedy martin luther

00:06:49.060 king just like big leaders you know and um you know integrity all these values uh that my parents

00:06:54.980 instilled in me so i'm blessed uh to have that kind of foundation um and i just grew up like a natural

00:07:01.640 hustler man i used to you know shovel down you know if it snowed i was getting the block to shovel all

00:07:06.180 the block you know all the houses you know then it turned into like hustling you know tees car parts

00:07:12.240 fake ids at one point like doing whatever i could yeah you know when i was younger and um i was just

00:07:18.880 naturally you know uh just like a hustler you know what i mean i think i just really blood yeah i really

00:07:24.560 yeah it definitely was in my veins and you know i was definitely motivated because i wanted to take care

00:07:30.020 of my my my parents i wanted to kind of you know i saw them what they did i was like man i want to set

00:07:35.360 go to a new level for our family and like help my my parents after everything that they've done

00:07:41.880 um you know but i actually you know i dropped out of college my first semester even though my family

00:07:48.580 really wanted me to go that and they told me that that was the way to you know to make it and now i

00:07:52.980 know it's a little more people are dropping out and you know just like now it's the cool thing to be

00:07:56.760 an entrepreneur but back then when i dropped out of college it was like i was looked at as a as a loser

00:08:01.100 fucking failure yeah you know all that shit right and it was real like it really really was real like

00:08:06.620 even my family was disappointed like everybody was like oh we knew gerard was going to be that

00:08:10.440 fuck up yeah you know we knew that you know because i was the guy who wasn't the smartest kid i'll never

00:08:15.020 forget never like all the kids that i was friends with were in like 80 classes what they used to call

00:08:20.080 the yeah you know the higher higher classes and you know even in sports i was extremely competitive

00:08:25.620 competitive but i wasn't the tall bigger bigger dude man you know but i was um but i was a leader

00:08:33.140 my father taught me to be a to be a leader so no matter what i was like i loved pressure i loved

00:08:39.360 you know i was always creative and trying to create my own opportunities i didn't wait for nothing

00:08:44.260 in life i just was like did like i was a person who just did it and uh so when i dropped out of college

00:08:50.660 it was that pressure of you know my family saying to me look you're on your own you fuck up you know

00:08:56.100 you got to figure it out and i think that kind of pressure early on in my life taught me that it's

00:09:02.080 up to me and what i do nobody is gonna give it to me no one is gonna hand it to me there was back then

00:09:07.560 there was no i don't even you know info products i guess they were maybe tony robbins back then i guess

00:09:12.340 was probably big i didn't know who he was yeah i didn't know who any of these there was no there was

00:09:16.340 no one i really looked up to the people i looked up to when i was younger was like you know i guess

00:09:20.560 maybe i was a basketball fan as well vaughn like so i was like you know patrick ewing michael jordan

00:09:24.980 um you know but i really i didn't look to books because i never read i was an add kind of guy so

00:09:31.460 but i just had to figure it out man and i had to go through a lot of people ask me now to come and

00:09:35.560 talk about that elite daily exit but it took me 14 years of straight hustle figuring it out

00:09:42.040 you know failing getting back up failing getting back up having some success making millions losing

00:09:47.680 millions getting back up continuing you know and that whole journey over 14 years you know i learned

00:09:54.600 you know what it was i feel what it was really like to truly truly be an entrepreneur you know and

00:10:00.120 and i grew into the social media i grew into all that stuff but i never gave two shits about social

00:10:06.060 media in fact just this week with my team i took a step back and i've been analyzing what's going on

00:10:12.360 with culture right now with social media because it's like it's driving me insane right there's so

00:10:18.740 much lost perception in society right now yeah and social media is this unbelievable tool that we've

00:10:25.300 been gifted with you know this generation to use so that we can authentically connect yet we are now

00:10:32.660 seeing more than ever it being used for the exact same fucked up reason why the media is it is today

00:10:37.880 right you know people using it to tell fake ass stories have a perception get the fame sell people

00:10:45.580 on bullshit yeah and you know and and there's this there's becoming a lost perception people are

00:10:50.300 throwing the word entrepreneur on everything right people are trying to you know and i can go on and

00:10:54.900 on and on about this right but i'm taking a step back i'm saying again like a leader how do i make

00:11:00.400 sure that i'm stepping up as a better leader for this generation because we need it we need leaders

00:11:04.080 more now than ever before like right now right authentic leaders that are going to share real

00:11:09.680 fucking stories real value of what it really truly takes to truly create your own you know opportunities

00:11:17.420 in life and what that means dude do you think that this is interesting i was thinking about this while

00:11:23.080 you were talking do you think that there is a lack of men and women that are successful between the

00:11:31.980 ages of let's say 30 and 40 which would be where you and i are um that are taking the role of

00:11:39.180 we're the leaders of the next generation do you think there's a lack of that abso-fucking-lutely

00:11:45.900 yeah why do you think that is huge it is like i feel like i feel like when when you know i feel like

00:11:52.940 when we were younger like teenage guys you know there was a lot of men and women between the ages of 30 and

00:12:00.700 40 that i looked up to in business right you know that were willing to like write a book or or put out

00:12:07.320 uh you know some sort of information or this or that you know like tony robbins wasn't the only guy

00:12:12.740 um i was very see you're not a reader i was a very like voracious reader and like consumer of content so

00:12:19.900 i know that there was like a lot of there was a lot of people that were willing to step up it seemed

00:12:24.860 it seems like now i feel like even though it's the obligation of people between that age to stand

00:12:31.120 up and say lead the next generation you know the guys that are freaking 18 to 30 right yeah instead

00:12:36.600 an example i feel like that example is not being set on the scale it should be what do you think i think

00:12:42.500 you're 100 right and you know what's the reason why is because we've never had in the history

00:12:47.920 you know of you know i guess you can say the united states you know because i can't you know the

00:12:53.520 world is it consumes media differently but right now there's a there's a disruption with you know

00:12:58.760 the way that people connect through social media it's you know and it's being because of disruption

00:13:03.540 opens up opportunity now that opportunity in like leveraging social media like technology can be used

00:13:10.420 in two ways for the good or the bad and a lot of people are leveraging it to take advantage of it

00:13:16.780 right to you know for for today for today for the you know for those own reasons rather than being

00:13:22.400 like really coming out the people that are you know that that should be the role models coming out

00:13:27.760 and leveraging it so that there's there's the right people to look up to right that makes yeah no

00:13:32.360 totally i think i think what we're seeing is a lot of people i think when you get any new tool right

00:13:39.100 the like this is going to be a weird analogy but you guys will know what i'm saying if you listen

00:13:44.380 to the show before i just kind of say weird shit sometimes all right like when you when you have

00:13:49.860 something new it's always like the criminals that figure out how to fucking utilize it first

00:13:54.200 you know what i mean they like take the new tool and then like run with it and they figure out all

00:13:59.800 the things about it and then it comes back to legitimate use i feel like i'm not saying that

00:14:04.740 there's fucking criminals out there right i'm saying that there is inauthentic people there are

00:14:09.440 people who are pretending to be something they aren't there are people that are making a living

00:14:14.440 selling things that they aren't qualified to sell or talk about and those people are not the real

00:14:22.660 people and i feel like those people figured out you know because like dude they're hustlers right

00:14:26.840 how i'm gonna how am i gonna make people to see that that opportunity to take advantage yeah exactly

00:14:31.420 and i feel like you know the legitimate people the people who are real entrepreneurs guys that are

00:14:36.880 really building things um they're busy building their things right you know so they haven't

00:14:42.400 the social media is so new that these the real entrepreneurs are kind of behind the quote-unquote

00:14:49.680 criminals you know cartoon characters that we see on the fucking internet right that so they're not

00:14:54.780 they're not having the millions of followers exactly right and they're and and they're not in the game

00:15:00.020 so to speak as much as some of these other dudes have learned how to manipulate the system and

00:15:04.120 manipulate the tool and you know it is uh it is kind of scary and at the same time we have this huge

00:15:10.820 younger generation right now that's right coming right up looking for you see it looking for it

00:15:15.940 they're seeing these motherfuckers and they're trying to be just like these dudes and it's like

00:15:19.700 dude i can't tell you how many 19 year old fucking life coaches i see on the internet like dude bro

00:15:25.320 calm down let's build some shit you know what i mean like it's entrepreneurship is the meaning of

00:15:32.480 entrepreneurship is getting so lost that it's almost like you know like you said when you dropped

00:15:41.680 out of college and people you say oh i'm an entrepreneur i'm gonna do something people used

00:15:44.740 to look bad at down on that now i feel like it's it got it got accepted now i almost feel embarrassed

00:15:50.040 to say that again yeah but back then i gotta say i didn't even call myself an entrepreneur yeah see

00:15:55.020 people are doing things because they want to be they want to be called entrepreneurs they want to say

00:15:58.420 they're entrepreneurs because they're looking for some kind of maybe a you know to prove themselves

00:16:02.420 right now entrepreneurship doesn't mean no job you know what i'm saying like just because you don't

00:16:06.880 have a job you don't get to call yourself an entrepreneur and be something right like what are

00:16:10.640 you creating what are you building what are you contributing what kind of value what kind of solution

00:16:15.100 you know who are you impacting those are the things that make up entrepreneurship right and it's big

00:16:20.660 it's bigger than yourself yeah it is man and like we talked about uh earlier today we were talking about

00:16:26.260 you know there's always the plan and then there is the application of the plan and those two things

00:16:33.140 are completely different and the problems that you have to bridge and overcome are really where

00:16:39.260 entrepreneurship skills you know come into play and like dude all these dudes out there are selling

00:16:44.960 these these plans and these uh books and these courses and all this shit and these kids think they're

00:16:52.640 gonna buy this fucking shit go out follow the 75 steps to this and they're gonna all of a sudden

00:17:00.300 have this business and they're not taught any of the skills that are necessary to actually execute the

00:17:06.760 plan so then they end up getting their asses fucking beat and then they think well fuck i'm stupid or i

00:17:13.160 don't have it or i don't you know and they never try anything again you know what i mean and it's

00:17:17.220 it's just very it's a very weird potentially damaging situation that is going on you know and

00:17:25.720 i feel like entrepreneurship as a as a career deserves better representation than what it's getting

00:17:35.740 before we go on since we are talking about the issue of being a real entrepreneur as opposed to a

00:17:41.580 would-be or a fake entrepreneur i think it'd be helpful people knew some of the things that you've done

00:17:46.080 i i was really impressed reading about like elite daily and sure and founders so why don't you give

00:17:51.240 us like a quick rundown of what you've got going right now so um so after i did drop out of college

00:17:56.780 the first thing i wanted to do was uh create a solution to the very first problem that i had and

00:18:03.700 i still use that exact same method today as an entrepreneur right it's that's simple and the problem

00:18:10.360 that i was facing as when i was 19 years old is i wanted to learn what made companies great i want to

00:18:14.920 learn how to invest into good companies at the time i really was interested in the stock market i wanted

00:18:19.720 to understand it you know so i could i would go online i would look at these forums and you couldn't

00:18:25.760 to learn from other people but there was no sense of credibility on any of them so i was like well i'm

00:18:29.640 going to create my own community online and i'm going to steal the same idea that amazon or ebay has of

00:18:35.080 you know color coordinated like rating systems so i would have one to five stars each member had had a

00:18:42.060 color coordinated between one to five star rating so you can click on a member's name and know okay

00:18:46.440 this guy's got four and a half gold stars that means he's ranked over a hundred times he's talking

00:18:50.340 about why he he likes apple for these fundamental reasons now you know this guy's somebody i should

00:18:54.680 listen to and for me i was just trying to create a platform so that i can find i guess you would say

00:18:59.700 like online gurus or mentors to learn from and um i basically would stay up till fucking three four in

00:19:06.360 the morning literally scouring the web going to every message board on for different companies

00:19:11.060 and saying hey come to stock spot and talk about this on my platform and little by little by little

00:19:17.160 i got it up to about 10 000 members which back then was a lot yeah and i had people communicating like

00:19:22.240 crazy and i started learning i started learning asking questions learning how to read an income

00:19:27.160 statement learning how to balance sheet i became a fundamentalist of public companies and started

00:19:31.780 studying the market and eventually a ceo calls me one day he's like you know i want to advertise on

00:19:37.500 your site and i was like oh shit i can make money doing this and uh because at the end of the day i

00:19:43.020 wasn't doing it for that i was doing it to kind of learn right bring value to bring value to this

00:19:46.660 community together and i was like all right this is great and then he was like how old are you i'm

00:19:49.660 like oh i'm 19 he's like i have a company called emphase technologies out of new jersey i want to meet you

00:19:55.380 come here i don't think you understand the value of what you've created so i met with this ceo

00:20:00.360 and he was like uh i'm gonna teach he i was kind of pioneering digital media at that time

00:20:06.940 um to tell stories and for you know the ceo was like you can leverage this platform to be able to

00:20:13.340 tell stories for companies that need exposure but and back then what was called investor relations or

00:20:19.140 public relations was done in a very traditional means you know it was done with road shows press

00:20:23.720 releases things like that so he was like i'm gonna mentor you to teach you this this business and you

00:20:29.100 help me from a digital media perspective so um he brought me on board that year i had helped the

00:20:34.340 company get i got them written up in all types of online publications did video marketing for him

00:20:39.380 new website you know started learning the social media aspect of it back then and built him to have

00:20:44.300 18 000 shareholders which was the largest shareholder base at any small cap company at the time

00:20:49.940 freaking things going crazy and uh what the company had was they had a partnership with lucent bell labs

00:20:55.920 which was then a renowned lab and they created this a nano battery and um you know i loved it because

00:21:02.180 i still to this day don't understand why we're charging our cell phones two three times a day to

00:21:05.140 keep up with battery technology so after a year goes by everything's going great i tell the ceo let's do

00:21:10.580 our first ever live demonstration of the nano battery he's like you handle everything so i got the room

00:21:15.660 set i got a huge uh venue in new york city at a steakhouse i had like a really nice uh you know open

00:21:20.960 area i did invited um investors the media got it packed about 200 people and um you know that day

00:21:28.700 i'm in the bathroom my cue cards you know never did public speaking no one's ever met me i look like a

00:21:33.440 baby you know i was freaking i look young as it is no facial hair at that time and the ceo was like

00:21:38.540 just be yourself so i went out there introduced myself hi i'm gerard adams this is why i believe in

00:21:43.700 this company i've been behind all of the you know the website which you've read the releases all these

00:21:48.940 things and then i introduced introduced the ceo the ceo comes up and he's showing how the nano

00:21:54.020 battery is not using any energy and the product was an infinite shelf life battery and it's until you

00:22:00.280 turn the device on that's when it would release energy so they went to prove that concept in front

00:22:07.000 of the everybody's waiting it's not showing no energy is being used he hits that button to prove out

00:22:13.020 this concept and crickets doesn't work so in front of everybody in the room everyone's like what the

00:22:21.220 fuck you know everything and i'm sitting there like oh my god all this hard work and you're gonna tell

00:22:26.200 me you're not prepared to make sure that this thing is gonna work so i thought my career was over this

00:22:31.120 is my first experience with failure and uh i never forget a couple guys came up to me in that room was

00:22:36.660 like hey kid i'm surprised you got me in the room here's my card call me so when i left i was like

00:22:41.140 you know what i can learn something from this fuck it there's got to be other companies out there that

00:22:46.540 would love to use my expertise right so i decided to build my first company which was a digital media

00:22:52.380 marketing agency for telling stories for small cap companies and i'll never forget i started i would

00:22:58.540 print out at home in my parents basement i would print out every public company that i found that i

00:23:05.480 thought you know met these characteristics these fundamentals had a good story and i would literally

00:23:11.120 fax the ceo call the ceo mail him a letter email him everything to give me a shot give me a shot to

00:23:17.780 help me tell your story and i finally got one company to give me a shot 750 dollars for a month for

00:23:23.360 a monthly retainer and i just fucking worked my ass off to overperform for this company because i knew

00:23:29.800 if i did a good job for him this one client then it would spread and you didn't just create a logo and

00:23:35.780 then you know sell it for 50 million dollars this is uh yeah this is even pre-elite daily and um

00:23:42.280 that one client overperformed he introduces me to another guy that one client's under the three

00:23:47.520 clients i go from 750 to 1500 1500 to three grand all the way up until i was getting six so wait wait

00:23:53.800 wait my mind is blown here you mean to tell me that you put in the extra work before you were

00:24:02.760 actually getting paid for it exactly no way you don't say yeah yeah still you know and that's uh

00:24:11.680 people don't get it i mean that's that's what you got to do you know what i mean still to today it's

00:24:15.400 like it's not it's not brain sense you can go read all the books in the world you can go and get all

00:24:19.600 these info products man it's pretty simple yeah you know what i mean do more than you get fucking paid

00:24:23.820 for yeah period i'm curious about your website did you build that yourself so so what happened is like

00:24:29.680 so i built out that agency to about 10 million in revenue i was about 24 years old this is and this

00:24:34.380 is how it led to elite daily i started investing into the market i started traveling and making

00:24:38.540 documentaries on companies that were building that that i believed in and primarily into like gold

00:24:44.400 miners and stuff like that because i saw we had this national debt problem inflation so i was like

00:24:49.300 you know i kind of took the warren buffett model i would invest in these companies a little bit of

00:24:52.880 documentary on them gold mining and gold mining i used to be i used to invest in a gold mining

00:24:57.220 company yes i did really well i had like some seven figure trades and then finally i was up 20

00:25:02.060 million dollars in the market on a company mid-20s 24 and uh man at that time i was living life man i

00:25:08.980 was like traveling the whole country getting villas everywhere like top mgm grand like you know the g

00:25:15.440 suite i had you know the bentley the penthouse i thought i had it all figured out i thought i was

00:25:19.800 invincible man and it's when i finally found out about i got my ego yeah and uh the market crashed if you

00:25:25.860 remember the recession i lived through that my father got fired my mom ended up losing getting

00:25:29.620 out of work and uh around that time and i had lost everything in the market i was up 20 million

00:25:34.920 boom and i'll never forget my ego getting hit and i was like what the fuck am i gonna do now

00:25:40.480 and um i had to sell my car all this stuff and then my mother told me a story that that changed my

00:25:46.960 life at that time she basically told me how my grandparents immigrated that uh they lived in a

00:25:52.580 studio apartment that that apartment caught on fire they lost everything and at like 14 years old

00:25:57.600 my mom had to go get a job on canal street in the middle of the winter in new york just to make a

00:26:01.880 little bit of money to help my grandparents put food on the table she was like if i was able to do

00:26:05.740 that and now you got this roof over your head you better get out there and do it again so i was like

00:26:09.720 shit that's that was the only motivation i really needed so at that point i was like well i have a

00:26:15.440 passion for content i'm good at this there's a everyone in my generation is paying attention to kim

00:26:20.060 kardashian and jersey show all these reality tv shows but no one's paying attention to the economy

00:26:23.600 so i started doing documentaries on the economy economy and i did one on the student loan debt

00:26:28.240 crisis at the time because all my friends now are graduating from college and they can't fucking pay

00:26:32.600 their bills they can't pay their bills they got student loan debt they can't get a job so i i exposed

00:26:37.780 that got some coverage on tv and at that time my intern you know was uh was like hey i'm interested in

00:26:44.820 creating a millennial publication around business so he's like let's create this website

00:26:49.640 elite wall street and i was like fuck that wall street's tainted let's do something bigger

00:26:54.400 let's if we look at we started looking at the market we're like there all these publications

00:26:58.400 been handed down to us let's create a publication that's the voice of generation y for millennials

00:27:02.440 by millennials and every vertical from business to health to dating to lifestyle to luxury to

00:27:07.960 you name it and then that's when we bought elite daily for 9.99 and go daddy in my apartment

00:27:13.980 three of us there were 19 i was mentoring them i was in my mid-20s i told david you're going to be

00:27:19.240 the ceo i'm going to be the president start mentoring david and we weren't journalists people

00:27:23.780 fucking said you know you know who are these guys you know you don't you don't have a degree in

00:27:27.820 journalism but you know all this shit buzzfeeds of the world's we're raising hundreds of millions

00:27:32.060 of dollars we were bootstrapped but we didn't you know we didn't care man we were doing it for

00:27:36.420 it was bigger than anything else we were doing it because we wanted to show that like you know

00:27:41.680 that millennials should have a voice that all these publications that were being handed down to us

00:27:45.860 telling all this shit but like nobody was being authentic right so we decided that that would be

00:27:50.220 us and we figured out a way to go to go across the nation to all these universities and get these

00:27:56.060 ambassadors which then led to writers that got us 2 000 contributing writers around the country

00:28:01.460 and that's how we were able to keep up and scale to 80 to 100 articles per day and then eventually

00:28:06.820 obviously went from three of us in apartment to 200 employees culture that was ride or die they would

00:28:12.180 sleep shit in this fuck you know blood sweat and tears into this brand you know everybody knew

00:28:16.660 understood the purpose of elite daily was bigger than you know than than than like the publication

00:28:21.500 right it was like making a name like showing that this was this was the voice of generation y if you

00:28:26.220 need if you wanted to tell your story and you're a millennial you do it through elite daily and um you

00:28:31.120 know we were able to build up to 80 million unique visitors and then uh 2015 we we got john

00:28:37.460 steinberg to join our board because we saw he left buzzfeed and he made an acquisition offer when he

00:28:42.600 joined the daily mail and uh we sold the company in uh yeah in 2015 and then and then right after that

00:28:50.320 moment people asking me to go speak about this elite daily they didn't see all those years prior to get to

00:28:57.020 that and then i started seeing again what's going on with the millennial generation and i'm i'm i started

00:29:05.940 looking into thought now i've never at this point in time right 2015 this one time i don't even have

00:29:10.520 a fucking facebook i've never had my space i didn't give a shit about me right i only cared about

00:29:17.160 my team my brands my businesses right and then what happened was when i finally sold i was like

00:29:24.440 fuck man now what i sold my baby i didn't want to sell i was the blocking vote but we were looking at

00:29:29.400 the industry and how facebook was there was some uncertainty how they were changing algorithms and

00:29:33.460 so we did the deal and then afterwards i took a look back it's now i'm looking at social media

00:29:38.320 like looking at like who are the leaders that are millennials out there sharing stories as real

00:29:42.680 entrepreneurs and all i see are these guys that are fucking that are putting you know showing all

00:29:48.080 the fancy fucking cars and fucking selling people on fucking books yeah and not actually real fucking

00:29:53.900 entrepreneurs building shit so i'm like not even their shit so i'm like fuck i'm i have to step up i can't

00:29:59.260 let this happen right and then i saw i went to i got invited to a tony robbins event i went and when i

00:30:06.120 saw this guy the number one thing i took from him i was so taken back with the number one thing i took

00:30:11.080 was success without fulfillment is the ultimate failure that was my this quote that just like got

00:30:15.900 ingrained in me and i'll never forget so i flew to silicon valley i got ranked in tech and stuff like

00:30:22.220 that i'm speaking in silicon valley and i'm seeing these ecosystems that they have there to support

00:30:27.720 entrepreneurs that are starting off that i never had growing up right but i'm seeing how powerful it

00:30:33.080 was and i was like damn why aren't we building those kind of ecosystems nationwide in especially

00:30:40.200 in inner cities so that's when i started formulating this idea of founders to build a brand that when on

00:30:48.580 when people do want to become real entrepreneurs there's a place that they can go to that's not just

00:30:53.640 online shit like a place they can go to to get a part of a culture and really truly be in an

00:31:00.060 environment that's gonna fucking be like picture like an an entrepreneurial like military boot camp

00:31:05.320 right you know and i was like and i spent many months a little over six months building a curriculum

00:31:10.740 of what i if i were to go back and teach myself at 19 20 years old what i had learned through through

00:31:16.940 all those years over 14 years what would that look like so i ended up building that in a place

00:31:22.260 you know i built a building developed a building with 25 units apartments where there would be a

00:31:28.780 live live work play kind of aspect to this district in norc where my parent my grandparents were from

00:31:34.640 and i've been building this thing out man like just building out this accelerator you know building

00:31:39.680 out a whole district in norc and then um looking to master that process and then go and partner with

00:31:46.520 leaders across the nation in their respective communities and bring founders you know nationwide

00:31:52.060 replicate it out yeah if you guys want to follow founders on instagram it's at f-o-w-n-d-e-r-s

00:31:58.700 just thought i'd throw that out there yeah i got the word own in the middle of it because what we do is

00:32:02.600 we teach people to own it you know own who the fuck you are own what you've gone through in your life

00:32:06.200 own it whatever it is own it so like dude that's a good that's actually a good segue into

00:32:11.800 you know when we were talking earlier about you know what it takes to be successful and be a real

00:32:21.360 entrepreneur and you just said own it um and we talked about how many people want to be an entrepreneur

00:32:28.380 and and they so they instead of like becoming an entrepreneur they become what they think an

00:32:35.240 entrepreneur should be yeah and ruin the the authenticity of themselves which is actually

00:32:42.940 their greatest competitive advantage if they ever ask themselves the hard questions what would you say

00:32:48.320 to entrepreneurs young entrepreneurs who are struggling to figure out what their voice is and

00:32:57.880 how they want to be heard and how they want to brand themselves in regards to owning it stop

00:33:04.980 following look i get it there's all these people out there that you can keep scrolling and scrolling and

00:33:12.980 scrolling and scrolling analyzing what everybody else is doing and there's got to come to a point where you

00:33:19.540 look yourself in the mirror you stop fucking scrolling dig down deep inside of yourself i always say like

00:33:27.320 most entrepreneurs the problem is that they focus on the external you know they're looking at

00:33:32.520 everything else right they got to start looking internal you you know i challenge you stop following

00:33:38.940 everybody else i'm thinking that anybody's going to give you the answers they're not everybody has

00:33:43.460 their own strategy everyone's figured out in different ways we all have a story i look at

00:33:48.200 entrepreneurship as like i i have have a passion for also art like i feel like dude it's your life

00:33:54.040 you know what i'm saying you got to fucking paint your own picture you're gonna have to learn you

00:33:57.660 have to figure this shit out there's no perfect right path so it's like i would tell you if you're

00:34:03.220 young entrepreneur out there you know stop looking at everything else around you is what you think

00:34:08.340 successes is and trying to replicate and start being authentic to who you are what you've been through

00:34:14.740 what you want in your life and and start and then just start fucking taking action it's that simple

00:34:20.840 start putting it into play stop worrying about what everyone else thinks stop looking for you know

00:34:26.600 looking for everyone else's opinions or and i mean just start doing what you want to fucking do

00:34:31.780 and and literally i would tell you also focus like we as a generation have a problem with focusing

00:34:37.780 everyone wants you know all over the place and there's procrastination because of it starve your

00:34:42.900 distractions feed your focus do one core fucking thing right and do that consistently

00:34:50.580 over and over and over and over and over again and don't fucking stop and don't fucking look back

00:34:59.040 dude i think what you said is super super important regarding the focus aspect we talked about this a couple

00:35:08.240 weeks ago vaughn on the millennial podcast that we did and i'll just bring you up to speed on what i was

00:35:13.220 saying we actually talked about this at lunch a little bit um simon sinek did a interview regarding

00:35:19.580 millennials and we kind of dissected that and did a podcast around his remarks on that uh one of the

00:35:25.580 things that that he says that i i don't agree with is that you know they have short attention spans and

00:35:37.100 they have this and they have that and and that and he was saying it in a way that it makes

00:35:41.440 millennials sound like as if there's something wrong with them but you have to think about it like this

00:35:47.960 you and i have been brought up and vaughn you too uh and tyler you too everybody in this room has been

00:35:54.280 brought up in the pre-social and post-social era we kind of grew through both of them and we know

00:36:01.420 that not everything is instant i remember having a fucking beeper i remember i remember not having

00:36:08.000 a fucking cell phone i remember when cell phones came in a fucking bag okay and then they had car phones

00:36:13.700 which were attached to your car my dad yeah dude and like we remember all this shit right like that's

00:36:20.280 the innovation of of communication like you and i and all of us can remember those things the sound

00:36:26.680 of logging onto the internet exactly like dude but these kids don't remember that dude like they've

00:36:33.140 been grown up with high speed they've grown up with every single thing they need on the touch of a

00:36:39.960 screen of a fucking six inch device that's unbelievable if you really think about it so

00:36:44.300 it's so like powerful when you think about patience and what is required for you to build patience

00:36:51.200 they have had that really kind of limited from their scope of development just by the way that the world

00:36:59.200 is so is that their fault because they have a hard time focusing or they have a hard time missing

00:37:05.880 patience i don't think so because how the fuck can you blame somebody or expect somebody to have

00:37:11.080 something when their entire environment doesn't provide that so when you say like just what you

00:37:18.520 just said about focus it's so important and this goes for older people too but it's so important to

00:37:25.460 realize that like dude it's not about trying to do 10 things or 12 things or three things or two things

00:37:31.940 it's about doing one fucking thing and it's about doing that thing better than fucking anybody and

00:37:38.720 doing that one thing long enough to where the rest of the people who are trying to do that one thing

00:37:43.420 get their fucking asses beat by you and quit and then guess what you're fucking winning but people

00:37:50.020 don't do that they think that entrepreneurship is about three ideas six ideas ten ideas oh dude i got all

00:37:57.260 these ideas bro that doesn't impress me does that impress you hell fucking no what's what impresses

00:38:03.060 you yeah man someone who's able to say i'm going all in like all fucking in 110 no matter what the

00:38:12.040 fuck it takes yeah just on this on this vision this is going to work and like dude like when i talk to

00:38:18.360 people who are successful and i talk to my friends who are successful and like him and i sat down drank a

00:38:23.840 bunch of fucking beers last night but no matter how many beers we drank did we ever think oh we're

00:38:29.460 going to do all these ideas no we continued to talk about his founders project and my fucking project

00:38:36.560 okay we talked about first form we talked about our podcast obviously and our content but everything

00:38:43.480 revolved you know we didn't try go off of these fucking wild paths like we're like dude you need to

00:38:50.080 realize and gerard's been through the fucking shit so he knows this but dude that one idea that you're

00:38:57.460 trying to like consider as an option is going to take all of your fucking effort all of your heart

00:39:04.360 all of your energy forever to make it succeed so why the fuck are you trying to do three of them

00:39:10.980 yeah because if you do three of them you're cutting your energy into thirds which means you don't have

00:39:15.380 enough to make any of them work and you're gonna get fucking beat dude there's no question because

00:39:20.480 the ones you're competing against let you know you have three things and each of those three things

00:39:25.920 have competitors those motherfuckers are going all in like it's their only way to survive and you can't

00:39:30.960 beat somebody with 30 energy who's putting 100 into it it's just the way it is there's all kinds of

00:39:37.020 other factors too dude zero option mentality like dude when you don't have any other options guess what

00:39:42.640 you'll figure out creative ways to make shit work you know it's it's that's what being entrepreneur

00:39:47.620 is being resourceful pivoting solving problems as they come yep being the fucking captain of a ship

00:39:53.660 that is in the middle of a fucking storm dude you know like captain ahab with the fucking or whatever

00:39:59.300 the gordon the fisherman fucking fish stick gordon like we're on the motherfucking boat bitch i think

00:40:04.040 that's what makes it makes it that's what makes fucking entrepreneurship so great that is that that's

00:40:09.800 we talked about this remember just fucking thriving when it's not the money it's the little bitty

00:40:15.600 victory it's it's it's seeing that fucking iceberg coming at the ship yeah and missing it by a fucking

00:40:21.140 hair and be like fuck you mr iceberg you know what i'm saying like dude you can't you can't understand

00:40:27.240 that unless you've been through it and like i think what you're saying is so cool because and i agree

00:40:33.580 with it a thousand percent which is no surprise because we've talked about this before but it's such an

00:40:38.660 internal it's internal to external process it's not external to internal process like a lot of

00:40:46.460 people say fake it till you make it so they go out and they put a fucking suit on yeah and they try to

00:40:50.900 get the nicest car they can drive and they post a picture of fucking 10 grand on the fucking internet

00:40:56.760 all the money they have and it's like dude you're not that's not what this is about dude it's not about

00:41:03.020 what you wear what you drive or how much cash you fucking show it's about who you are on the inside

00:41:08.420 letting that develop and become something yeah that resonates and using that to connect people

00:41:15.360 in a way that somehow is going to create revenue streams yeah for you and other people around you

00:41:22.460 yeah i mean we talked about it too it's like money doesn't lead it follows man and you focus on do say

00:41:26.980 that again money does never it never leads it follows and explain that because that needs to be

00:41:32.160 yeah i mean it's it's impact over money you know i'm saying it's for me it's like it's it's legacy

00:41:38.240 it's like for it's so like dude when people hear that though like when people hear like a kid who's

00:41:42.860 22 years old who wants to fucking be rolling around balling yeah you know he wants to be like you were

00:41:47.560 when you were fucking 24 yeah killing it like when they hear that term legacy or they hear that term

00:41:54.940 impact like dude dig into that because these kids need to know what that means i know exactly what

00:42:00.720 you mean but these kids they they that shit goes like this dude in one year out the other year and

00:42:07.680 then they want to say well when are we gonna talk about the money yeah so let's talk let's let's dig

00:42:11.760 into that man you know for me it's like how i look at it is like for instance with founders right

00:42:15.660 you know for me it's like a legacy play but let's go into it as from a business perspective for a second

00:42:20.080 what i do is right now what i'm focusing on is 2027 you know people are talking about new year's

00:42:26.320 resolutions 2017 i'm thinking about 2027 i'm talking about 10 years so again when you get that focus

00:42:32.300 where's where's that idea what is that vision you need to be a visionary where do you want your

00:42:37.420 business to be in 10 years and then you need to reverse engineer that back all the way down to the

00:42:43.440 to the exact values you stand for and implementing and executing on a daily basis for the next 10

00:42:49.620 fucking years and every business that i've ever built i don't even take a salary i eat shit i don't

00:42:56.080 it's it's completely everybody else around me in the business first they're like the people that i'm the

00:43:01.540 people that i'm serving okay so for founders it's the entrepreneurs right the communities that i'm in

00:43:07.480 right the city that i'm in which is newark right now and all it is is how to make sure that i could bring

00:43:13.200 the very best value to those entrepreneurs to that community that i'm in with founders

00:43:19.360 every single day and continue and look it's a process so i'm consistently the curriculum that

00:43:26.140 i built for my first cohort of entrepreneurs to the curriculum i'm now going to launch in

00:43:30.340 february 20th for the next 12 weeks is different it is improved i have new mentors coming in i have

00:43:36.880 and this cohort andy fucking versella is going to be coming and speaking like there's new people like

00:43:41.680 about that will come in and speak each time it gets better and better and better and better and

00:43:46.700 better and you continue to add and you continue to fucking execute bring better people sacrifice

00:43:51.760 for your team make sure everybody understands the values that you all standing for because it's bigger

00:43:56.640 than any one of us and it doesn't matter if you're just if you're the person that's you know doing

00:44:01.840 whatever you can be the janitor to the fucking c motherfucking ceo everyone lives and breathes

00:44:07.280 those values how are we going to bring that value in it to to impact whoever it is we're serving

00:44:13.720 and you do that consistently and you will probably start to see the real tangible results in three

00:44:19.860 years that's from my experience about five years you start to really see how you can scale to a much

00:44:25.420 bigger company and then you know what in it for for for founders our goal is we want to impact a

00:44:30.740 billion lives you know i i'm aiming 10 years well who knows maybe it's 12 maybe it's 17 like you

00:44:37.400 maybe it's fucking 30 i don't give a fuck until that happens but you know you need to have that

00:44:43.580 vision you know 10 years out what does this company look like where is it and then it's just you know

00:44:48.260 impacting reverse engineering that through impact on a every single day every choice you make in your

00:44:56.980 business is around those values is around making that impact and that's it you do not waver around

00:45:03.660 that regardless of whatever the fuck money or whatever you know it doesn't matter so it's so i

00:45:08.580 think the interesting thing here which people need to pay attention to is that look at no point in time

00:45:15.160 did he say we're trying to make x amount of money at no point in time he say we're going to make a

00:45:19.280 billion he said we're going to impact a billion lives all right and when we talk about impact we talk

00:45:25.140 about legacy and we talk about all these things that you people who are listening put like

00:45:30.680 arbitrary value into when you think and hear and you kind of ignore those terms you have to realize

00:45:36.520 that things like impact things like solution which are the words that he used okay those when he says

00:45:44.800 the money follows he means that the money follows the impact the money follows the solution the money

00:45:51.340 follows the help the money follows the quality of whatever product you have the money always follows it's

00:45:59.480 not in front it's it back and so when we're talking about being impactful or building a legacy

00:46:07.040 realize that we're doing so with the understanding that if we do those things we are 1 million percent

00:46:16.980 certain that the money will take care of itself 100 so you kids listening and you adults listening you

00:46:23.720 know who are confused as to why you have a hard time finding yourself in an abundance of money

00:46:30.100 i'm gonna tell you why because that's not success well not only that you're thinking about the fucking

00:46:34.840 money like dude you're at fucking work i don't care what job you're at you're at work thinking about

00:46:40.900 you know if you're a salesman you're thinking about how much you sold if you're if you're uh working

00:46:45.140 in a warehouse you're thinking about how much you make an hour if you own a business you're thinking

00:46:49.240 about your numbers for the week look think about these things instead yeah think about how much

00:46:56.280 solution did i provide for my people how much extra go how far over the top did i go for them

00:47:01.960 how much of an impact did i make for them how much easier did i make my boss's job how much easier to

00:47:07.900 make my manager how you're transforming the lives of everybody that touches your brand yeah and your

00:47:13.820 brand which is you yeah you know and you guys have to stop thinking about the fucking scoreboard and

00:47:20.520 start thinking about the quality of the product that you're putting out and that product could very

00:47:25.980 easily be yourself you know we get so many people and like dude i'm guilty of it too right i show my

00:47:34.440 fucking lambos i show my fucking rolls i show when i fly around private yeah you know i floss a little bit

00:47:40.220 on the internet because you know what i fucking earned it and i like it and you know if you don't

00:47:44.020 like it i don't give a fuck but here's the thing 17 fucking years not two years not fucking 12 months

00:47:54.120 i was living in my mom's basement and all of a sudden i'm a millionaire 17 fucking years okay so when

00:48:00.340 you see the shit that i post that's not some rented shit that's not some fake shit that's my daily shit

00:48:06.780 yo also we talked about it maybe andy you should talk about it a little bit right but it's

00:48:10.440 it's more about it's not about even those things like those are things you love but people look at

00:48:15.040 it because it's a material thing but explain we talked about this yesterday it's the feeling of

00:48:19.580 accomplishment that you're treating yourself you know it's that it means it's more that's that has

00:48:25.800 more meaning than the actual car itself watch itself because i went through that when i bought my

00:48:29.820 first ferrari right you know when i bought my first ferrari and i went in there yeah you know they

00:48:35.280 thought i was a drug dealer yeah and they were like fuck this kid yeah and i was like and i should

00:48:40.740 have fucking said fuck you and walked out but i was like i'm here to buy a fucking ferrari yeah and

00:48:46.080 you're either selling to me right now or i'm never coming back and they were like well you know remember

00:48:49.940 i had to uh so so my one of my good friend's fathers said if you buy a ferrari finance it because

00:48:57.820 what happens is you can then ferrari's always updating new cars and it's like a club right and he's

00:49:02.340 like you got to join the ferrari club it's like getting accepted into that club and then you

00:49:06.400 continue to always update your ferraris or if you're blessed you can collect them right so i was

00:49:11.700 like all right i'm gonna do that so i got my first i went there and he was like well look the finance

00:49:15.300 department's closed so i was like well i'm here to buy a fucking ferrari he's like the only way that

00:49:18.800 you're buying a ferrari kid is if you fucking pay for the car all up front and he thought like that

00:49:23.820 was not happening yeah so i was like i'm buying this fucking ferrari i came here to buy a fucking

00:49:30.480 ferrari so i'm like get he's like well i have dinner with my wife i said well i'm telling you

00:49:34.620 right now you're coming with me to the bank otherwise i'm never coming back here so i took

00:49:38.180 him now in the time it was on weekend my bank was closed on the weekend in jersey so i drove him the

00:49:44.100 salesperson all the way to manhattan to the bank took out a fucking certified check for i think it was

00:49:50.760 three hundred and twenty five thousand dollars it was the best fucking feeling in the world and he

00:49:54.900 looked at me he said no in all the years i've been selling fucking cars no one has ever fucking

00:49:58.340 taken me all the way to fucking a bank in manhattan to do some shit like this you're fucking nuts

00:50:03.100 went back to that dealership it was the best feeling in the world and i left there

00:50:07.680 fucking with so much i felt so much pride like i earned this thing it was more about the fucking

00:50:13.600 car yeah i fucking worked my balls off yeah you know for fucking so i think it was probably like

00:50:18.920 10 years it was like 2010 when the it was when the 458 italia just came out yeah it was right

00:50:23.820 before i had the fucking that that that uh that stock thing happened and i but the best feeling

00:50:29.320 was driving down that fucking highway gunning it down that highway that fucking feeling of thrill and

00:50:34.700 fucking accomplishment and i earned this it was a dream that came true yeah you know i didn't give a

00:50:40.220 fuck what people thought of me or the pictures and the likes no no it was a it was more about for me

00:50:44.920 yeah you know that feeling and then i drove right to my fucking parents house you know what it felt

00:50:49.720 like to pull in the fucking driveway actually i do yeah but that's what people don't realize yeah

00:50:55.800 it's not like you're showing off man if those are fucking things you put in the fucking sweat and you

00:51:00.020 earned it right i don't care it could be anything it could be anything do whatever meaningful to you

00:51:03.920 yeah right yeah you know so and dude when i was young i was and i still am motivated by material shit

00:51:09.460 like there's nothing wrong with that like a lot of people like to shit on that idea that like there's

00:51:13.680 something wrong with wanting material things there's nothing wrong with that what what

00:51:17.440 where it becomes a problem is when you start putting those things in front of everything else

00:51:21.620 yeah you use that as like your way of showcasing what success is that's not right that's that's a

00:51:27.040 you know like we talked about right you know i find i find that uh you know the older i get the more

00:51:34.900 i start realizing that you know i really don't give a fuck about that shit like i like it but like

00:51:41.000 it doesn't it's not like it was when i first started getting into it you know it's like you get used to

00:51:45.740 everything a little bit you know what i mean except for that new that new uh that new four gt

00:51:49.640 that's coming bro sick yeah that one's gonna feel good don't tell the color on i won't i won't i won't

00:51:55.180 it's top secret you're the only person i've told the color to wait till you guys fucking see this car

00:52:00.860 i've never seen anything like it in my entire life and i'm a car guy would you lie to me when i

00:52:04.960 fucking asked i didn't no one knows the color he's only one oh that's bullshit i got that one i got i

00:52:11.400 gotta ask questions sure you've been talking a lot about it's been bothering you over there hasn't

00:52:15.440 it no no you're like he's fucking twitching well i think this is this is a huge a huge question and

00:52:24.460 you've been talking a lot about providing value leave andy you talked about leaving legacy you

00:52:31.520 know i've heard a lot of people say that money doesn't change you it just brings out the kind

00:52:34.840 of person you are what's clear to me is that prior to getting money both of you guys were quality

00:52:41.400 human beings and the money over time you realize that the money ultimately wasn't going to make

00:52:47.700 happy it's it's all the things you could do with it and yes you agree that you said that material

00:52:51.820 stuff isn't bad but you you also reference the kids that want to just be ballers what happens

00:52:58.180 if a person like that they're just not a good person i mean how do they become in your mind

00:53:04.960 how do they become a good person to therefore be motivated by the things that you guys are saying

00:53:09.420 because i feel like you guys can talk all you want as long as you want about no you got to be

00:53:14.140 motivated by legacy and you got to be motivated by value and provide you know solving people's

00:53:18.120 problems but reality is there are people out there they're just d-bags yeah i mean you know what i'm

00:53:22.920 saying like how but what if somebody here's listening and going okay so like you're familiar with

00:53:27.020 like the concept of natural selection of course okay right yeah all right so and i definitely

00:53:34.580 gerard you give your take this is my take yeah okay it's like natural selection okay when you're

00:53:43.400 a fucking douchebag and you're in it for your selfish reasons you're in it for yourself you're all about

00:53:48.000 the bling bling and that's fucking it you don't give a fuck about anybody it's very hard to build

00:53:51.960 success because to build success you can't do it on your own you have to have people who are genuinely

00:53:56.660 interested genuinely committed genuinely engaged in what it is you're doing and if you're a fucking

00:54:02.060 dickhead all the time and people are going to be even not all the time even if you're good at hiding

00:54:07.100 it people are going to eventually see you for what you are and they're not going to want to work with

00:54:12.460 you they're not going to want to help you i i have like a little analogy i use for it that like

00:54:17.140 climbing the ladder of success right you could only get so high before the people that are genuinely

00:54:23.200 belong on the ladder of success will kick you down the fucking rungs for being the wrong kind

00:54:28.620 of person and dude i've met a lot of fucking successful people and i know you have too a lot

00:54:34.080 like a lot and almost all of them understand the concepts that we're talking about of providing

00:54:41.720 a solution providing quality providing value so to speak you know and doing that not only with

00:54:49.200 their customers but with their employees i just the way they live their lives dude all the self-made

00:54:54.020 guys none i don't know anybody that is self-made that is a selfish sob because dude the problem is

00:55:02.460 well not the problem the the truth is is that back in the day because there wasn't social media and there

00:55:10.360 wasn't transparency and there wasn't all these easy ways to access people people could create this

00:55:17.380 alternative they could be dicks and still be successful because nobody saw them right but

00:55:23.340 nowadays like you posted about this a week or two ago do you think it's possible to be successful

00:55:29.720 without social media yeah i think you can but it's going to be limited right it's not going to be on a

00:55:35.440 global scale or even a national scale anymore because people want to buy from fucking people and if

00:55:41.520 you're a dong bag and you can't fucking you know you don't represent the right shit you don't have a

00:55:46.640 good heart you don't treat people right you're all in it on your own it doesn't take 20 years people

00:55:51.540 to find out it takes fucking 20 days okay so my follow-up question for that though is of all the

00:55:56.860 people that you know that are successful that are these quality people did any of them start out

00:56:02.020 yeah as horrible people and have that moment where their conscience was pricked and they're like

00:56:06.840 yeah oh i need i just think it's like a learning curve like i think it's what's called new money

00:56:11.460 i think if you're like that you're new money like i was like that when i made my first money

00:56:17.620 i when i was new money i was a fucking i thought i was i thought i was like this you know i was a

00:56:22.440 little schmuck you know i'm saying i thought i was too cool for fucking anything i had all this money

00:56:26.340 i wanted to buy things for the wrong reasons for showing off that happens i think when people you

00:56:30.060 see people like that to me i just look at them and i just kind of nod my head like man you're just

00:56:34.400 new money it's coming bro that's coming what i think and when i say it's i mean fucking karma

00:56:39.360 because it's going to smash your fucking face yeah we talked about that last night too yeah for

00:56:43.360 sure like and i would challenge them like why don't you for once instead of going and doing

00:56:47.060 something for yourself i challenge the person that's listening to this if you are if you're

00:56:50.880 like that kind of person you the next time you want to do something do something for somebody else

00:56:55.840 that's that that's in need like that's for me it's like see how it feels to it for a second not to

00:57:03.700 put yourself first and take somebody else that's actually that actually maybe needs that mentorship

00:57:10.460 it doesn't have to even have to do with money and actually put some effort into trying to transform

00:57:15.620 somebody's life genuinely and then if you do when you do accomplish that let me know how you feel then

00:57:21.440 and then compare the two that's what i would say you know because i think that's when you realize

00:57:27.320 holy shit again success without fulfillment is the ultimate failure and i think when you start to

00:57:32.520 actually truly impact lives and not worry about just the money like there's a sense inside of like

00:57:38.100 so many people well of real wealth that's so many people think that it's this it's it's one or the

00:57:44.080 other it's it's it's money or it's making an impact right when in reality it's impact first then money

00:57:51.340 people don't get that like it's not i think that comes from like people thinking money is morally wrong

00:57:56.800 right you know what i mean you think so absolutely yeah like like like it's not this it's not

00:58:02.500 this or that you can have both yeah and nothing is cooler than having both because when you have

00:58:08.800 the means you can fucking do some pretty badass shit for other people fuck yeah you know absolutely

00:58:14.820 no good thoughts good thoughts so i had america conversation fuck yeah i had this he loves the

00:58:21.580 4gt video oh cool best fucking video of 2016 is andy versella's 4gt video to ford the application

00:58:30.040 ford if you're listening this you need to sponsor i told her that we did that like an hour even though

00:58:35.160 like it from like a filmmaker standpoint like a lot of things bug me about it because i couldn't put

00:58:40.080 more time and effort into it but dude that was like for like an hour or two like i'm okay with

00:58:44.920 we're gonna put that in the leaders create leaders episode that we did with andy here um

00:58:49.220 uh everyone listening if we got a real um thank you again andy he let me tell people about your

00:58:55.080 tell people about how they could follow you and sure brother like your show and your social and

00:59:00.180 everything like that so i launched a uh i launched a series i wanted to differentiate myself i always

00:59:06.500 want to do that as a leader so i started looking at everybody and i was like all right everybody over

00:59:10.180 here i see is um you know vlogging and stuff like that how can i be a little bit use content a little

00:59:16.940 differently so i came up with a series it's 12 episode i did season one and now this is around season

00:59:21.960 two and it's about interviewing all the modern day leaders of our generation i traveled travel the

00:59:27.780 country meet these leaders and i deep dive into their world so i tell a whole their whole story from

00:59:33.580 you know coming from the bottom what they went through to get to where they are today but then also

00:59:37.900 show show it right like i think that there we live in this world of like thought leaders and i and then i

00:59:43.340 looked at it from the outside i was like fuck thought leaders man like we need more show leaders we need

00:59:48.140 people to see real entrepreneurship not just fucking read about it you know in theory so that's what

00:59:54.380 this show is about is showing people the true you know true entrepreneurship with true entrepreneurs

00:59:59.560 so andy is in this season it'll be coming out shortly you can follow me on instagram at gerard

01:00:05.780 adams and then the show goes on my youtube channel gerard adams tv that's awesome man nice yeah we did

01:00:12.380 we did a really cool show today that's awesome if i don't say so myself yeah so two days ago i had a

01:00:18.040 conversation with somebody in a coffee shop and i started telling them kind of about what i was

01:00:21.620 doing with andy and everything and i was telling him about andy's emphasis on hard work execution

01:00:26.660 that sort of thing and they got kind of a smirk on their face and they're like well yeah i mean you

01:00:30.180 got to give people hope and i was like well what do you mean by that and he said i would almost

01:00:34.660 guarantee that andy frisella is way way smarter than everybody else but in order to give people hope

01:00:41.120 that they can do what he did they just he just says stuff like oh work hard you know be all in

01:00:47.860 have a lot of you know you know work ethic that kind of thing wait gerard let me no no no listen

01:00:53.220 so gerard my question is this can you honestly say you're not smarter than everybody else

01:00:57.860 uh because that's what this guy was saying i don't understand what the fuck he was saying

01:01:03.100 what he was saying was that people like your you guys who are successful are actually a whole lot

01:01:09.100 smarter than anybody else but what you tell people what you tell people is just work hard

01:01:15.140 uh there's no secret uh have have a you know strong work ethic and be all in and you too can

01:01:21.360 be successful in other words if people knew how really smart both of you guys were and that's

01:01:26.400 really the secret man i'll tell you what if i'm if i'm fucking on that level of smart i sure as fuck

01:01:30.240 don't know it so so speak to that gerard because i mean can you can you say with a clear conscience

01:01:36.500 in front of god and everybody you're not smarter than everybody else a hundred percent i mean the

01:01:41.460 moment you think that that's the case you ready you look you lose man you you know it's uh i'm we're

01:01:47.820 we're all students of of the of this game entrepreneurship it's a constant evolution a

01:01:52.300 constant learning constant putting yourself today i learned a shit ton from andy it's just about that

01:01:58.440 sharing and yeah it's like that man you got to continue to build out that circle of influence

01:02:03.000 building relationships learn from others i'm a mentor to millennials but i'm the reason where i

01:02:08.140 got to where i am today is because i'm a mentee i'm a student i'm constantly looking for mentors in

01:02:12.960 my life to help guide me build long lasting relationships which is another thing that i

01:02:18.740 think that you know everyone needs to realize it's about building real relationships not just

01:02:23.180 through social that's why i try to get out and really put out impromptu meetups together or go and

01:02:28.500 meet like with andy and real entrepreneurs um and it's constant constant you know learning you know

01:02:35.120 but i could say that um at this point i do feel like i have a master's degree at least at

01:02:41.300 entrepreneurship at this point if if there was ever a degree for it but i'm constantly pushing

01:02:45.660 myself to to grow and learn it's just amazing how many people think there is some sort of secret or

01:02:50.440 that you have some that's a fucking excuse man that's an excuse that's something that people tell

01:02:55.340 themselves because they don't want to see the truth the truth is this you don't have to be the

01:03:01.600 fucking smartest guy you just have to be smart enough to not do the same things that are wrong

01:03:05.500 over and over again and then you've got to be willing to get the fuck up off the floor when you

01:03:09.340 do those things wrong and if you keep making mistakes learning from those mistakes and moving

01:03:15.060 forward eventually you figure the shit out yep it's really that simple but so many people either a

01:03:21.340 don't want to do the work or b aren't resilient enough or persistent enough to push through the

01:03:28.180 shit that sucks which is a lot of it that they just don't get there and you know what not everybody

01:03:34.000 has to be there you know what i mean but to say that you've got some shit that nobody has or i have

01:03:41.340 some shit that nobody has is inaccurate like there's lots of dudes out there i learn from everybody

01:03:47.100 and i think the difference between people who are perceived as intelligent in their i mean there

01:03:52.640 is dudes who are legitimately fucking genius like elon musk right but like guys like me i'm not

01:03:59.780 fucking like that like you're not like that no offense you know we're regular dudes and like the

01:04:04.120 thing is is that i think what separates i think what separates maybe us from this guy right is that

01:04:13.060 we are willing to always learn we are willing to always listen and as much as i fucking talk

01:04:18.940 i listen a hell of a lot more you know what i'm saying so it's being a conscious um engaged student

01:04:29.020 like gerard said all the time and figuring out you know what works what doesn't work how can i learn

01:04:38.440 from his mistakes how can i learn from her mistakes how can i avoid those mistakes and it is about being

01:04:43.420 savvy to a point you know what i mean like there's some smoothness that you need to have but that all

01:04:49.860 comes along you develop that i didn't have that shit when i started no but dude now i'm constantly

01:04:55.360 looking at what everybody else does and i'm like i make notes i'm like yeah i probably shouldn't

01:04:59.620 fucking do that yeah you know or like you know i'm saying like this guy fucking loses his whole company

01:05:04.340 i probably shouldn't have uh done what he did yeah you know i'm gonna try to avoid that like

01:05:08.420 it's it's got like to me yeah it's it's not i don't know man like i know like you build your

01:05:15.540 discipline bro i know like i'm on the other end of the spectrum right like i'm not at the end i'm

01:05:19.860 somewhere in the middle though yeah right and like to somebody who's listening from the beginning of

01:05:24.040 the spectrum and they're just trying to get started they're listening like oh bullshit you've got all

01:05:29.320 these skills i have experience yeah that's it you know and you have experience and as we gain

01:05:39.000 experience from actually doing real shit in the real world we learn things you learn new skills you

01:05:47.580 learn how to operate yeah it's like wisdom dude that's it and it's it's just you you know it's it's

01:05:54.220 no different than when you touch the hot stove when you're fucking two years old you don't touch

01:05:57.280 your motherfucker again you know what i mean like and one thing i would say too is that like

01:06:01.760 it's entrepreneurship you know from you know all around is is about testing it's about it's about

01:06:09.180 trying it's like you know you got to constantly do that you know if you want to be an entrepreneur

01:06:13.380 you you gotta get burned you gotta do you know what i mean if you haven't made i always say if

01:06:18.120 you're not making mistakes you're not moving forward no you gotta fucking make mistakes you gotta get

01:06:23.380 out and try and experiment and do like and again and again and again and some things will work and

01:06:28.340 you double down and you act quick and you and you double down you keep pushing forward some things

01:06:32.940 don't work and you just say fuck it you move on try something new keep going now that's that's a good

01:06:37.140 point to bring up too now like like dude a lot of people when the things don't work instead of being

01:06:42.500 able to say fuck it and move on they get hung up on those things yeah you gotta know when to dude you

01:06:46.920 gotta have a short memory man and that's for good or bad things like dude don't toot your horn like we

01:06:52.560 just did a toot your horn fucking episode like nobody's gonna talk about you unless you talk

01:06:56.400 about yourself that's true but don't toot your horn for too long because dude you you know you

01:07:01.400 gotta keep your eye on the fucking ball and don't just just like don't brag about yourself or think

01:07:05.060 you're shit for too long when you do good stuff yeah same when you do bad stuff yeah let it go

01:07:08.780 you know dude i couldn't even i could not literally list the amount of mistakes that i've made and how

01:07:15.280 much money i've lost me too like me too millions millions and millions of dollars millions and

01:07:20.720 millions of dollars for me as well just being stupid yeah like do a dumb shit dumb shit yeah

01:07:24.600 and like people don't see that though yeah right like i'm not on the internet being like guys be

01:07:29.300 dumb as fuck and lose millions of dollars i mean it's it's about the war right i haven't lost 20

01:07:34.540 million dollars at once but i bet i've lost that cumulative yeah over a bunch of dumb fucking shit

01:07:40.100 you know and like dude but that's the cost of the education like you said you have the master's

01:07:46.020 degree you know and that costs money yeah it costs time it costs experience just like you're just not

01:07:52.100 paying it back on a back-end loan you're paying it as you go yeah you know i'm just curious andy was

01:07:56.340 most of your money lost out of ignorance or impatience impatience for sure yeah for sure

01:08:02.760 for sure i can see that yeah like it's a good mix of both it's got like peanut butter and jelly

01:08:08.920 you know what i'm saying like dude that's probably now that i would say patience probably because i

01:08:14.800 can my hardest lessons were because i was impatient and i wanted shit now and i saw opportunities i

01:08:21.060 thought i could make money quick that's the same with me yeah and then and then they never work

01:08:25.500 ever i've never had one work nope never have i had a one thing work where i thought like oh dude

01:08:31.740 this is gonna work it's gonna make it quick and i start doing the fucking you know the entrepreneur

01:08:35.120 math you know i'm talking about like you get your calculator out you're like 12 dudes times

01:08:38.840 2,000 times 50,000 times this you know and then you're like that's 50 million dollars in one

01:08:43.440 month yeah like you know what i'm talking about yeah anytime i've ever done that shit i fucking lost

01:08:48.800 like i've lost like i think it comes down to i'm not gonna pretend i've never done that we everybody

01:08:54.100 does that shit like dude i know you do it because we talk about it here you're like dude all you need

01:08:57.840 is 12 people to do this and that i'm like let's tell a friend carry the wine let's let's let's stop

01:09:02.920 that you start talking like that we fucking lose but dude you know it's it's just i think to wrap this

01:09:12.780 all up you know we could talk about this for hours and hours and hours but what would you say what do

01:09:21.900 you say to the millennial not just millennials to any entrepreneur or want to be entrepreneur

01:09:30.100 what is your number one you know and i know number one's gonna turn into number two three four

01:09:36.800 five because you and i are kind of the same guy here but what is your best piece of advice to someone

01:09:43.120 who really thinks that entrepreneurship is the route they want to go in life what would you say

01:09:52.240 look man like look bro i know you think this is the right thing for you

01:09:57.580 but let me give you a piece of advice yeah how would you fill that in i would tell them i would

01:10:04.120 say first and foremost you know prepare for absolute war um know that it is not going to be it is going

01:10:16.360 to be a long long long long journey and it is going to be the most fulfilling journey in your entire

01:10:26.000 life but go with like i would tell them like be ready to go into the storm be ready to just go

01:10:31.880 all in on on them on themselves like really really you know go all in on themselves and um i like i we

01:10:40.120 talked about i mean we talked about a couple different things um this was an amazing podcast but

01:10:44.540 you know don't focus on the money you know focus on looking deep down inside yourself before you stop

01:10:51.920 people will say you said don't focus on money how am i supposed to survive look obviously you got to

01:10:56.280 fucking survive yeah all right so so take care of survival but then after that yeah don't i mean

01:11:02.440 look as entrepreneurship is definitely business right so you have to be smart and you definitely have to

01:11:07.120 like getting into the business you do need to think about you know your strategy your business model and

01:11:12.020 all these things but if i were to give you the one main piece of advice is that what makes an

01:11:16.340 entrepreneur great is not how good you are at accounting it's not how good you are at like

01:11:22.740 get writing the best business plan it's not how good you are at you know calling yourself a ceo

01:11:28.340 it's it's how good you are at being a fucking badass leader that's it's how good you can find that leader

01:11:35.420 within yourself know that you're willing to go through a fucking brick wall no matter what stands in

01:11:40.780 front of you you're willing to fight through anything for for what you believe in in your life

01:11:48.000 and that you need to learn how to also care more about building a team you're not gonna be able to

01:11:54.080 do it alone so you need to be able to put be a good leader to the people around you empower them to be

01:12:00.120 to become the best leaders inside of your organization inside of whatever it is that you're looking to

01:12:05.000 build because you can't do it alone you need good people around you in all aspects both personally

01:12:10.540 and professionally so you need to attract good quality people around you understand what you're

01:12:16.660 great at go all in on that be the best leader that you can possibly be fight through it all

01:12:21.660 and surround yourself with other people that meet your values me and share that same fucking passion

01:12:28.880 and drive and that are gonna fucking ride or fucking die for for what you believe in and you need to

01:12:35.940 and then it's and then it's just about man taking action and that's it battling when you get knocked

01:12:40.560 down get the fuck back up i think that's great advice man i think the last sentence was the best

01:12:46.080 advice like dude just be prepared to get the shit knocked out of you and when it happens know that

01:12:51.780 there's nothing wrong with you that's part of the deal and get back up you know it really

01:12:57.980 it really doesn't get any more simple than that and i feel like people want to create problems they

01:13:11.100 want to create uh and make it harder than what it should be in their mind so that way when they fail

01:13:19.880 or when they quit it's justified you know the reality of success is that it like your friend at the

01:13:26.780 coffee shop doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about because i know the path i've been on and

01:13:32.880 you know the path that you've been on and nobody knows your path but you you could tell it all day

01:13:38.400 long but nobody was there on the fucking nights where you wanted to fucking kill yourself or the

01:13:44.280 nights where you wanted to fucking give up or you know all the bad news you've had all the bad

01:13:49.300 relationships you've had all the all the tough decisions and sacrifices yeah nobody knows that shit so

01:13:56.540 like it's real easy from the outside to point at anybody and say they have something special when

01:14:02.140 in reality the probably the biggest thing they have is the ability to just keep fucking moving

01:14:06.640 you know it's not about you know their brains or their smarts or their parents or this or that or any

01:14:15.140 other thing really it's about their fucking grit it's about their ability to fucking persevere it's about

01:14:20.900 their ability to move forward while getting punched in the fucking face four days out of the seven for

01:14:27.560 the rest of your life yeah you know and that's what entrepreneurship is so like when i hear people

01:14:32.520 say oh i want to be an entrepreneur not everybody's cut to be an entrepreneur you know and i can can people

01:14:40.660 be successful and make some money sure can people run some ads on facebook and sell some fucking products

01:14:46.000 sure but very very very few people have the grit to truly pursue that path long term yeah you know

01:14:57.240 um so while not everybody listening may be a true entrepreneur you could still take the entrepreneurial

01:15:06.380 values and lessons and skills and ideals to benefit you in your career path mainly being

01:15:13.960 focus on the quality of your product whether you're when i say product i mean whether you're

01:15:20.340 solving a problem providing a service making other people's job easier your product is you and if you

01:15:26.460 focus on the quality of your product you will not have to worry about the scoreboard and it's going

01:15:31.740 to take time it's not going to happen people don't notice you because you swept the floor extra good

01:15:37.120 one fucking time how about this how about try it for a year how about try uh you know doing

01:15:43.900 the extra shit for a year straight and see where it takes your life you know thinking like an

01:15:49.340 entrepreneur doesn't mean you have to be an entrepreneur but thinking like one is a pretty

01:15:53.520 good fucking idea yeah 100 and that's why we're teaching entrepreneurship to the local middle school

01:15:58.720 in newark to kids you know because no matter what those are skills that you need to carry that's

01:16:03.280 right throughout your whole entire life no matter what how many people i mean you have a awesome team

01:16:07.880 of people not every single person that works for you is an entrepreneur right they're they're

01:16:12.000 pieces of the puzzle that are extremely extremely extremely valuable yeah and and you know getting

01:16:18.920 them to think on their own autonomously to act and find solutions and think like an entrepreneur on their

01:16:25.560 feet makes them fucking valuable so like dude if you're listening to this and you're not the guy

01:16:30.720 you're not the ceo don't feel like this doesn't apply to you because it does like these same principles

01:16:37.540 apply to every single fucking person listening every single person no matter if your job is literally

01:16:44.040 to cook the fucking french fries cook the best motherfucking french fries that people have ever

01:16:48.980 tasted in their fucking mouth you know what one day you're gonna get recognized for it and you're

01:16:53.900 gonna get an opportunity for it you know it's life is not that hard man people just make it hard

01:16:59.700 yeah you know they try to make it like vaughn's buddy at the coffee shop they try to make this

01:17:04.520 ulterior path yeah that is more complicated than what it really needs to be you know it's the shit

01:17:11.680 our dad's taught us like dude work hard do the best you can and document it authentically don't try to

01:17:17.820 be someone you're not yeah from the inside out yeah you know be who you are in the heart and show that

01:17:22.760 as opposed to throwing all this shit on the outside and trying to paint you know a polish a turd you know

01:17:29.800 a fucking polished turd still a fucking turd man you know i'm saying like dude it doesn't matter what

01:17:36.260 car you drive what watch you wear what this that this this who no one fucking cares what what what

01:17:42.100 people are attracted to is authenticity the reality the journey the struggle the true stories

01:17:48.740 yeah you know not the fucking glory man everybody's telling the glory story yeah tell the fucking hard

01:17:54.420 story yeah and i mean even trust me we need more of that we need more leaders like that i was

01:17:59.180 going to wrap this up but i want to talk about that because dude you are very very smart and

01:18:03.480 intelligent about personal branding yeah let's talk about that for a second because we just talked

01:18:07.120 about this on my fucking fuck what about it's unbelievable how powerful i mean since i started

01:18:11.660 about 18 months ago because i did it because i really genuinely thought you know we really need

01:18:17.500 better role models mentors out there that are real entrepreneurs but holy shit the power of what i call

01:18:24.500 social currency had trademarked this term because i'm like this is a real this is a real tool a real

01:18:31.100 what i call social currency i mean i've been able to you know it has opened up unbelievable things

01:18:36.700 leaders create leaders for instance right got me to meet you andy build a relate i build relationships

01:18:41.200 with some of the greatest real entrepreneurs because of my social currency now right you know and

01:18:45.760 things have opened up you know like i couldn't even tell you i mean shit i've it's it's helped me build

01:18:50.480 even my business like i think that when you build a lot of people are building social currency for the

01:18:54.600 wrong reasons for the fame to be cool to be liked whatever the whatever the fuck the case is you

01:19:00.200 know for me it's for making impact making real relationships being human and like for my for a

01:19:06.180 big something bigger than me which is founders and it's allowed me to get entrepreneur aspiring

01:19:11.260 entrepreneurs from 13 countries this last court we had over 400 people trying to get into this last

01:19:16.560 core it's it's it's it's helped my business thrive and you know and um you know i think it's it's

01:19:22.640 extremely powerful i mean i've been able to go across the i have been able to you know travel with the

01:19:27.820 social currency speak in different places because of it you know and meet great amazing people and i

01:19:33.120 have been able to leverage that to impact more people so you know i think it's important um i just

01:19:37.660 think you got to leverage it for the right reasons not for you can't do again you need to not just be

01:19:42.820 use it for something selfish see how you can build that social currency to build a real community

01:19:48.580 you know or real business or brand something that's bigger than you and leverage it so that

01:19:54.360 it's another tool to communicate and impact you know and that's and uh and that's what i've been

01:20:00.040 working on and i've been basically using the same strategy that i've used for all my brands that i've

01:20:04.800 built you know with content and i just started implementing that strategy on my own personal brand

01:20:09.760 and it's been one of the most powerful things i've done for me for building relationships and

01:20:14.800 you know and now building you know founders and allowing it to be you know impactful yeah i mean

01:20:19.760 it's a real thing man you know uh a lot of people turn their nose up at social media and they think

01:20:25.680 especially like guys who have been successful before social media dude this this you've heard this

01:20:30.420 before too i'm sure like dudes who have been ultra successful and then they don't take their social

01:20:34.640 seriously yeah they're like oh i don't i don't fucking need that well you know what you may not have

01:20:38.400 needed it 10 years ago when you were fucking doing your work that has made you the money you make now

01:20:42.860 but don't fucking confuse that if you don't do it for the next 10 years you won't be making the money

01:20:47.760 that you're making now no fucking shot no no people are now consuming we like you as an individual you

01:20:53.660 are the media platform trust me trust me you take it from someone who's built a real you know

01:20:58.920 publication people don't want to read the like the news is filled with fucking shit people don't even

01:21:04.240 want to watch the news anymore people want to get you know they want to be they want to uh you know

01:21:09.600 get the information from people they're building you know they're it's it really is it's it's amazing

01:21:15.220 the influence peer-to-peer i mean look at think about your community right now listening to this

01:21:19.580 you know what i'm saying how powerful has it been for you andy with with mfceo it's exponentially

01:21:24.520 powerful period i mean it's it's opened up doors for me that i wouldn't have even thought were like

01:21:34.180 even open it's crazy it's even hard to put in yeah it's unbelievable it's totally life-changing

01:21:40.180 shit and for your business too not even just for your relationships we're fucking in la i walk out

01:21:44.800 of the hotel you've got fucking 10 dudes standing there and they're all like motherfucking cdo and i'm

01:21:49.940 like who the fuck are these kids like you know it's it's weird dude like it's like and you know

01:21:57.380 people say oh these insta famous no motherfucker it ain't insta famous no more it's fucking famous

01:22:02.480 yeah you know i'm saying it's people you've got to start taking your brand serious yeah it's not

01:22:09.360 this is a tool it's it's yeah it's a way to truly have leverage yes man it's a way to communicate

01:22:15.920 on an exponential level that never existed before and this is just the beginning yeah like say you

01:22:22.880 only have 500 friends on instagram right now that's okay we all started at zero yeah dude and we're in

01:22:28.060 the beginning stages like don't think because you only have a couple thousand or a thousand or less

01:22:33.540 than a thousand followers that you're somehow left behind dude no we're we're this is the fucking

01:22:38.500 first two or three years of tv we're still in the first round of radio yep you know imagine if the

01:22:43.660 rock didn't have social media would he have the career that he has now right no there's no fucking

01:22:48.020 way no fucking way yeah if the rock didn't have social media i just don't think social media would

01:22:52.700 exist no no yeah exactly so dude if the rocket have social media he'd be still be doing uh he'd be

01:22:58.160 still be doing that movies like uh walking tall you know like the one he wants to forget you know

01:23:04.180 right but you can't help but watch it when i love walking tall i love it dude i mean i'm just saying

01:23:08.900 it wasn't the best movie yeah like it was just okay while we're on that while we're on that topic

01:23:13.940 we do have people who listen to the podcast that inexplicably are unaware that you actually do short

01:23:19.100 videos on your ig so why don't you once again share your uh yeah your connection guys i do if you guys

01:23:24.740 aren't follow me on uh instagram i do like little mini podcasts they're almost every day so uh it's at

01:23:31.180 andy frisella on instagram that's where i do most of my content um and you know if you're if you're

01:23:37.800 liking the podcast you know you need if you don't have an instagram fucking create one and follow

01:23:42.000 me and i guarantee you get content out of it so um so yeah man uh what i mean what what else do you

01:23:52.800 have going on man like what else what else you want to talk about fuck man i'm focused dude yeah

01:23:57.220 like i'm focused man this is it for me so it's just like building out my community i think it's

01:24:03.680 interesting how focused and all in you are on one project when there's all these dudes who have

01:24:07.720 never built fucking anything yeah you know like dude doesn't it like it's it does kind of it really

01:24:14.320 does fucking hurt me it does because it's almost arrogant it's like bro who do you think you are

01:24:18.160 you could do five things yeah you know when it takes all of me and i built shit to do one thing

01:24:23.800 so it's like part of me gets pulled in a direction where it's like fucking like i'm concerned

01:24:29.540 yeah like again i'm concerned about you know the influence in in which the next this gen our

01:24:34.020 generation this next generation is coming up and who they're who they're being influenced by

01:24:38.360 and then on the other side it's like okay you know like i always said pressure you know pressure is a

01:24:43.100 privilege you know so it's like that puts more pressure on guys like us you know and all the all the

01:24:48.740 all the men and women out there that have actually really truly built something it's like you have a

01:24:53.540 responsibility at this point to to step up you know to start start building that social

01:24:58.820 currency start getting out there and spreading your story talking about it spreading those lessons

01:25:02.500 we need better leaders out there we need better role models out there you know so uh and shit hit

01:25:08.260 hit me i'll help you i mean i'll i will help you you know if you're a real entrepreneur out there

01:25:13.640 and you're like fucking oh man i don't know and you know you're questioning listen i'll help you

01:25:18.940 you know um hit me up but you know we we uh it it fucking irks me that there's so many people out

01:25:24.740 there that are leveraging social media for the you know for for selfish reasons for the wrong reasons

01:25:29.200 um but at the same time it's like it's opportunity and it's a it's a it's a privilege that we have the

01:25:35.740 opportunity to go out there and and and actually represent what real entrepreneurship what real if

01:25:42.340 you want to call it success you know what that really means you know everything from the way you

01:25:47.500 live your life i mean shit i talk about my i get asked a lot about my relationship being you know you

01:25:52.460 you know still you know you know a young hustler out there and having an amazing girlfriend who

01:25:58.320 you know supports me and what's that like to have a real relationship you know andy we were so inspired

01:26:03.740 by you and emily and your wife and how yous hold each other down last night it was just like to us we

01:26:09.440 we man we love that dude like that needs to be shown more man like success is it's business but man it's

01:26:16.020 like you need to have that support system you need to have that that person that's in your life that's

01:26:20.740 gonna help you support you love you fucking like want to build an empire with you family all that

01:26:27.480 shit you know that matters we need to see more of that shit you know what i mean so i don't know

01:26:33.120 i'm i'm excited for for the opportunity to to help be a better role model man and and and i'm blessed

01:26:39.760 to have relationships like you bro well dude likewise man loved having you on the show for sure

01:26:45.620 loves energy man it's got good energy yeah i gotta ask one content question what's that i saw so

01:26:51.540 gerard you're putting out content that's very very high production value so i'm curious is that

01:26:59.120 something that people absolutely have to work toward in your in your opinion or tell me tell me your

01:27:04.460 approach to no absolutely not i mean i take a you know obviously i take a lot of private look this take

01:27:11.620 this this has taken me i think i did my first documentary i've been writing since i started my

01:27:16.660 career but i did my first videos and documentaries back in like 08 you know what i'm saying like close

01:27:23.420 to close to 10 years you know what i'm saying so it's taken me a long time and um and like being

01:27:31.160 getting to the ability of having a good team that can put out that kind of production value but

01:27:35.220 no you don't need that you know you for now man i mean with the iphone today you can literally that

01:27:41.480 that thing this thing like if i had this thing when i started like when i was fucking 19 years old

01:27:46.340 18 years old if i had this smartphone and fuck are you kidding me like man i'm excited to see what

01:27:52.100 this gen z is gonna fucking create i mean they have the fucking everything in their fingertips

01:27:56.660 like it's a powerful thing you don't need to have you know the best fucking camera anymore

01:28:03.060 you know all this crazy equipment you know just authentic content yeah it's gotta be fucking real

01:28:08.840 which is really easy to do it's just taking the courage to be yourself yeah you know

01:28:13.660 cool well guys make sure you're following gerard hit up with the instagrams gerard adams

01:28:20.380 okay at gerard adams um g-e-r-a-r-d-a-d-a-m-s he's putting out quality content dude travels the world

01:28:28.120 he's always doing cool shit like i always tell you guys if you want cool social media go be fucking cool

01:28:33.480 in real life and this motherfucker's as cool as it gets so thanks for being on the show brother

01:28:38.000 thank you brother yeah thank you really appreciate you coming on all of you thanks gerard thanks for

01:28:42.420 having me and uh we'll catch up with you guys next time

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Entrepreneur： Are You Or Aren't You？ ft. Gerard Adams, with Andy Frisella - MFCEO124

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