"I'm going to say some stuff that's going to bother some people people who are listening to this and are not making as much money as they want they have to Mr Alex Heros the100 Million Man ult preneur ..."

"episode Alex I spend several hours consuming all of your content across multiple channels what is the aim what is the mission what is the the intent if you were to try and summarize the content you're..."

"then what do I need to know about you to understand the life you've LED take me way back to your childhood in the early context both parents are IM immigrants to the US uh mother was born in France ca..."

"to leave Baltimore which is where I was from to quit that path to decide to start a business of my own was still to this day the hardest thing I've ever done by far all the things we've been through t..."

"the position and I asked that because there's a lot of people that can probably relate and and there's probably quite a consistent set of frog pads or stones that one has Walken down for whatever reas..."

"because the biggest line of reasoning I had for myself in order to convince myself to in front my father or at least disappoint my father or the version of myself that he wanted me to be was to say th..."

"and besides that I stopped caring what you thought 6 years ago which is why I left and so I had like that's like I I could have just accepted it and I and I I didn't do that um how' you feel about tha..."

"benefit me a lot in business I had someone on the podcast say a quote which I've never managed to forget they said you've got to realize that everybody you encounter everybody that does you wrong if y..."

"how did she change you she has brought out the absolute best in me like in in just about every way like didn't think we were going to go here um she just she believed in me and I think that's what mos..."

"good operator instead of turning these gyms around and walking away with just the money he's like you should just keep owning them and I'll just fill up fill them up behind you so I could I could laun..."

"so I was like okay she's like hey you know maybe we should keep doing these turnarounds instead of this weird launch and go thing you side sidelined for I was like okay we'll do that and so I was goin..."

"even though I was all over the nation and they were like this is a little irregular we're just going to hold on to this for 6 months [ __ ] right now I owe the guy $222,000 in commissions I in total n..."

"right and um she pulled my chin towards her and she was like I would sleep with you under a bridge if it came to that and it's hard to comprehend but like I had nothing you know like for have that kin..."

"50 boom boom run those and then like I got a third one or fourth one like two weeks later and I was able to like start moving things around um and at the end of February uh we had made like a $330,000..."

"going to do this I believe in you and so I'm like I'm like I can't sleep I remember because what would happen is like the more we sold the more the refund like it was a vicious cycle so I had to sell ..."

"and I was like Hey we're going another Direction you know we're going to we're going to be a weight loss company s directed consumer and he was like dude you launched my buddy's Gym like two months ag..."

"thing 12 Grand and then the next you know at the end of the day I'd sold $60,000 in in licensing packages for all of the stuff that we did to do the turnarounds is that monthly or is that just one it ..."

"was like so is this what we're going to do now and I was like I guess I was like I can call the other 30 gyms that we did the turnarounds for I was like they know we can do it cuz we just did it for t..."

"like wildfire like we went from like our first full 12 months of uh like January to January uh we did 26 million Topline 17 million in iida our first 12 month like it was it was insane like it's hard ..."

"today in terms of your business can you give me a Topline summary in terms of what's yeah I'll give you the tldr um continued to grow gym launch uh two years later we started a subl company called Pre..."

"but from that and what we had taken in dividends um during the licensing business for the five years that it was Rock still is rocking and rolling um we started acquisition. so that became kind of our..."

"now we now we buy chunks of companies usually uh usually minority Stakes 25 to 49 is percent I mean we have one that we're in the talks of that we were originally minority stake in and we're going to ..."

"I like it solving problems um for companies simplifying complex things into more digestible actionable um Solutions as well and how would you answer that question if you were answering it for yourself..."

"nature of innovation isn't it like asking the question you we so so um often in our lives just accept words and phrases and ways of doing things then there's a few people who are really good like elon..."

"it to me and then usually a lot of people it's like they're they're in this caught in this Loop you know what I mean of doing what they've always done um or like believing that this is the only way um..."

"generally like what in your view what makes a really good um entrepreneur leer I think that they have to have the power to influence and that is across lots of things just they have to be able to move..."

"point then sales one of the things I I read um in some of your work is this idea that if everybody just went and spent two years doing door-to-door sales that oh my God why is that important why why d..."

"very valuable skill and then two there's lots of like little things that you learn and just interpersonal communication that allow you that you can use with teammates later you can use in marketing be..."

"much like if you are angry use it if you are sad use it because like what else are you going to do with it like you might as well let it help you like or it uses you you know what I mean and so I alwa..."

"because I based the answer on that question on what I've done before and I think it's been it's just based on evidence now so it's it's not like a like a Charisma thing at least for me it's just like ..."

"was like what are the controllables me okay well if I do this so like I'm big on making like unreasonable like unreasonable that it doesn't work out statements just like if I do sales and I do more vo..."

"like the more problems you did on average the higher your test score was and I was like done so I bought 16 phone books of like they like these thick like test prep books and I did four hours of probl..."

"it cuz you know there's going to be people thinking well I want to be a great DJ but I just can't find the motivation to spend every day three hours practicing Alex yeah like you probably won't be a g..."

"yourself like you have to stoke the pain like if you can't get through through cuz like it would be it it would be odd that you would be motivated by some weird passion like not everyone's Mozart and ..."

"pain then one maybe that's fine and you're a dreamer and that's okay but I will tell you that a word that I can I read in my like six-month Journey between when I wanted to quit and when I actually qu..."

"none because the things that I was actually caught up with were the opinions of other people opinions of my father and the opinions of the people that I went to school with who I thought would judge m..."

"the game for sure um but I love playing the game and the tokens are there um but for me it was it was it was it was beating my dad you know what I mean I didn't want him to be right like that's what i..."

"was like I will do anything but go back to that and for me that was my I I would do anything and so whatever that maybe you need to agitate some pain in your life you know to get out of your current c..."

"themselves by thinking that what they do for some reason is not honorable and I think a lot of it is like the internal versus external scorecard of like I was saying what I said earlier about like I b..."

"people for what they've achieved and if someone wants to be admired they think well I need to be like Alex right um and that I could be working in a shop actually objectively like subjectively having ..."

"modern religion every Buddhist monk will tell you that all of that's from the inside not the outside um but these are words and words that me and you yeah can say don't follow yeah because I'm sure th..."

"business to what to what end or just just for the play to play yeah I'm I'm sure you know more about this than I do but like just Game Theory like the finite and infinite games Simon sonck has a great..."

"forget who I am I saw your post about the queen yeah was that a stab no no no it wasn't it wasn't for me if I'm being honest um but uh but it's an interesting what did the post say remember well she a..."

"these fears about other people but like most of them won't even show up to your funeral because they're going to be busy and so like I I think about death all the time and that's that's what I think f..."

"because they don't even want to confront the concept of it which is people are afraid of it just because they don't understand it it's kind of like the Hate Thing how do you feel about death I'm good ..."

"today had you really like given it everything had you lived the life you you feel like you were really destined to live me absolutely an interesting Mind Trick around the same topic is so when when Be..."

"him for two years I was like awesome and so I think like for for me for us whatever um if we were to change our expectation like people think they should live until everyone thinks they're going to li..."

"gentlemen I am so delighted to finally be able to announce that one of my alltime favorite Brands and now sponsoring this podcast and that is whoop all of you know that I've been on a bit of a journey..."

"their childhood too often um so often maybe not too often but so often um that when they lead people who don't have that same insecurity shape whatever that predisposition to you know workaholism what..."

"just about expectation setting and being very truthful and as transparent as humanly possible about like this is what we expect if you don't like that or if your worldview is contrary to this then you..."

"like a core concept that we do in every bu in every business that we have which is like how can we make this offer better how can we make it more valuable and that was why defining value was such a ke..."

"uh effort and sacrifice which is two sides of the same coin so effort are the things that you have to start doing that you don't want to do as a result of this purchase waking up early getting sore li..."

"are the core things that we look at in terms of when we're trying to make an offer uh for a business and so that becomes very relevant when we're trying to increase price uh for a business that we tak..."

"or value in a business and the concept there is incredibly transferable when you were going through the equation sounded in some parts similar to an equation we used to have for competitions when we w..."

"have a higher likelihood of success doing I like the game of business I've played lots of different games in terms of Industries like I like the game overall I don't feel like I have a particular are ..."

"so he still needed to learn how to know how to promote the other artists if he didn't know how to promote at all he wouldn't have been able to do it but once he had the label he got significantly more..."

"media and Entrepreneurship and I was thinking you have to not just have the skill but know what Market to apply it to and what ended up happening I've never told this story before but um I looked I lo..."

"right nine months work yeah basically freelance yeah you know same skill stack but apply to an industry that would would pay me more for the same skills um and so I thought a lot about that and that's..."

"year and it was a crazy concept he was using it to close the audience but I like the most expensive thing that all of us are paying for is the information that we don't know and that's like both frigh..."

"better lot of controversy around that um but it's true and so find the people and a different way of saying it is find the people who value what you have the most and I'm sure you've heard this have y..."

"to go Hook Fish go to go where the whales are um it takes a same work but a lot of it's just belief people don't think it's possible and so a lot of times you have to just keep leveling up and you sel..."

"the jump I'm charging I don't know I remember my first we found our first day from 2014 charging I remember the package we did gold silver and bronze it was like you know like $200 package for like su..."

"code once in theory obviously you continue to improve the code but theoretically you build the thing once and then a million people can use it and so you want to Stack as many types of Leverage as you..."

"Capital there's degrees of capital right like you first you can get friends and family to give you money then you can get you know institutional money and then you can get public money right which you..."

"contentedness as I was last year um but I find engagement in what I do and that that's that's I'll give you my definition of Happiness which is doing what you like to do with people you like and doing..."

"what I call it Mya guy if I find if I'm in that state and it's a state um I think I'm happy we have a closing tradition on this podcast where the last guest asks a question for the next guest oh witho..."

"cherish the most I'm going to give two I am very grateful that I hated the job that I had because I think that I am the type of person because of how hard it was for me to quit that if I had liked a j..."

"with Leila I cherish those times because a lot of people live worst case scenario years into their marriage years into their relationship and then they kind of like see what the other person is made o..."

"was crumbling around me and she like made it happen and I knew that wherever I wanted to go I needed someone like that with me and so I cherish the failures that of that entire season because there we..."

"time I've done this podcast and every time we've asked the kind of questions we ask here I feel a tremendous sense of affinity to the guest and our aim with these cards is that you can create that sen..."