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Technology changes fast, so you need to move with speed. If you’re not riding the wave, you’ll get crushed by the wave. Windows close fast now, and the life of an entrepreneur is like a heart beat. A billion dollars isn’t what makes you a billionaire, thinking like a billionaire makes you a billionaire. Naveen Jain is a billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist driven to solve the world’s biggest challenges through innovation. He is the founder of several successful companies including Moon Express, Viome, Bluedot, TalentWise, Intelius and InfoSpace. He recently had a company evaluated at over $30 Billion. He will be speaking at my 10X Growthcon coming up this February 22-24th, 2018.
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Forbes Riley is the Queen of Infomercials having done 167 of them and generating over $2.5 billion in sales. Forbes reminds us that if you’re giving a presentation, start with the end in mind. When you sell something, you don’t sell the features, you start with the benefits. I asked how important are bonuses are in a pitch and she said to look at your pitch as a recipe, every ingredient is vital. The secret to selling is simply giving what people want! Forbes also says that in life, don’t be scared to declare what you want. What would you like permission for? Success? Look for Forbes Riley at the upcoming 10XGrowthCon!
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Chairman of WFG, Ed Mylett has built a fortune by being a closer. While his initial dream didn’t work out with playing baseball, he immediately opened his eyes to see the next opportunity. It’s not whether you get up, it’s how fast you get up. He’s now a peak performance coach and is highly interested in reaching his full potential. What’s the highest version of you? Don’t measure yourself against others! Grant and Ed discuss the idea of when’s enough, enough? How do you find massive success? Ed says there are two motivators after significance and wealth: growth and contribution. His 3 tips for reaching your potential include:
1. Monster Hunger.
2. Crazy Work Ethic.
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Economically, Donovin Darius started at the bottom. Your ability to earn is based on 3 things: the need for what you do, your ability to do it, and how difficult it is to replace you. Sports helped change Donovin’s life economically as he was drafted by the Jacksonville Jaguars and had a successful career playing in the NFL. He made sure to play at a level that he was difficult to replace. He now runs a foundation that runs football camps to help kids on leadership and life skills. He teaches to redefine yourself, get occupied, and get noticed. Although a person may have pure intentions, they lack the required mindset and action steps to capitalize upon their great potential. You must have the right mindset necessary for success and to dominate—in the NFL or in business. In life, you win and you learn—you only lose when you don’t learn a lesson or you give up.
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Grant Cardone interviews Oliver Luckett, CEO of Revilopark, on Power Players. Oliver talks about the idea that to understand social media you need to look at the inner workings of organisms. There are many parallels between social systems and biology. Cells are united with the same genetics, but each cell is different. You express yourself based on the platform you’re on. Find things that matter to you. And tell a story about it. Reverse engineer the outcome.
He offers for entrepreneurs the following advice:1. Build the content that matters.
2. Put it in front of the people it matters to.
3. Use voices that matter to themTake what people love about your brand and spread it out. Obama had hope, but then you break that message up to different channels—Colorado for Obama or Latino for Obama. The goal in business is to remove time and distance, and social media does that. Give value to a system. We are each a node in a network, and everybody is a cell in a much larger system.
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Grant Cardone interviews Power Player Laura Posada about taking control in your life and conquering your fears. She grew up in Puerto Rico and came to the US at 17 to go to college. By 24 she had finished law school and moved back to Puerto Rico where she ended up meeting her husband, famous Yankees catcher Jorge Posada. Laura says to go on a mental diet and deal with negative thoughts in your mind. Distinguish between fear that is real and what is just in your mind. You won’t get into power without being in control, and when you allow others to make decisions, things will get out of control. 40 is the new 20 and if you take care of yourself, workout, and stay positive, you can stay young. The topic of women getting treated differently than men is also discussed in this episode.
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Anthony Scaramucci comes on Power Players with Grant Cardone. Anthony is the founder of SkyBridge Capital, which has 12 billion in asset management. Everyone is a long term investor until they suffer short term losses! Anthony came from a middle class family, worked hard in college and got a job with Goldman Sachs. Don’t go to college unless you have an agenda. Soon thereafter Anthony got fired by Goldman Sachs, but then later got rehired. The lesson is if you’re fired, be a gentleman on the way out and you may have future opportunity. Anthony survived the financial crash of 2008 and says when you are hurting, don’t retreat. Don’t live with fear, go big. Successful people fail, but they persist. His new book is Hopping Over the Rabbit Hole.
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Grant Cardone interviews Marshall Terrin, owner of True Stim, to talk about how Marshall went from broke to a $10 Million Dollar Business. Marshall is an Iraqi war veteran who at one point was just struggling to survive after transitioning back to civilian life. He was selling a neurological muscle stimulator over Amazon and making just $2,000 a month when he realized he could make a superior version of the product.
After connecting with the supplier in China, Marshall created a better over the counter neurological muscle stimulator, which relieves pain without drugs and increase muscle performance. He’s thrived as an underdog utilizing mall kiosks and using Cardone University.
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Gerard Adams, co-founder of Elite Daily and Ceo of Fownders, comes down to sunny Miami Beach, FL to visit Grant Cardone and take a tour of his offices. Elite Daily was recently sold for $50 Million, but that is not the end of the road for Gerard, simply a stepping stone for what is to come. Grant and Gerard are Obsessed. Obsessed with helping their family, employees, and their community. Are you Obsessed?
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Today on Power Players Grant Cardone interviews Steve Griggs—best landscaper in New York—who says he doesn’t just do landscaping design, he does lifestyle design. At the age of 25 Steve knew he had to make some changes in his life when he found himself completely broke. Today, he attributes his success to showing up, doing his job, not saying no, and the willingness to go the extra mile when a client wants something. These qualities are transferable across any industry and are sure to bring you success. Be obsessed or be average.
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Grant Cardone interviews Power Player Mike Rashid, owner of Iron Addicts Gym in Miami. Growing up in Brooklyn, Mike had an up and down childhood with his dad out of state and one of the biggest drug dealers in town affording him and his mom the luxuries of a mansion in Long Island, but it all came crashing down when he died and the financial struggles began. He took up boxing and found that it was actually more mental than physical, like a chess match. Mike became a successful personal trainer but lost everything with a legal incident. Homeless, he fought his way back and now uses the same skills and mental toughness in the gym to grow his businesses. One of the big takeaways from this episode is that if you tell others to do something, you must be willing to do it. Confidence can be built, and if you don’t know what you’re doing it’s ok, just fill in the walls as you go.
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Today on Power Players Grant Cardone interviews Tim Storey, an inspirational author, speaker, and life coach who works with celebrities from Oprah to Charlie Sheen. Tim says that sometimes you are just one conversation from the break you’re looking for. Power Players is about people who have achieved power, and Tim now travels the world speaking to crowds from Singapore to Nigeria. Everyone is battling something, and in different areas of life—financial, familial, health, etc.—you are in recovery zone or discovery zone. In a marathon, everyone starts running at the beginning, but when you get to mile 15 it’s just the Kenyans out front. It’s because they’ve battled and gone through some hard training. Coming from Compton, Tim knows small beginnings but working through struggle defines him. At the age of 8 he went to Disney Land and became exposed to a new world—new possibilities. There are two ways we grow: education and exposure. By choosing to think big and positive even in small places, he is who is today. Shift your satellite dish to what’s possible. Be a happy dishwasher and the real you will make a demand on the person that you’ll become.
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Grant Cardone interviews Victor Young, owner of 3 car dealerships on the west coast of Florida—including a Lamborghini one, Executive Producer at Media & Management Global and CEO of Victor Young Productions and V. Young Enterprises. He works to teach others what he knows and shows people how to experience financial freedom. Victor believes everyone is born with greatness inside of them and it’s every good leader’s job to help them maximize it.
It all started with his father working and giving him an example of a work ethic. The youngest of nine kids, he learned early on to work like a man—not a boy. He knew there was a rate that money travels at. He was in a hurry to get his landscaping projects finished to move on to the next project. Today he reverse-engineers. When he understands how something works, he looks at a deal from reverse, finding the challenges and then fixes them before diving in. What you know you own. Don’t let others discount you by bringing your value down. He’s not defined by any one job, he’s an investor.
Victor Young is also known as the Daily Life Coach and this is what he says about money:
7 figures is enough to make you worried, 8 figures is starting to get comfortable, but it’s not until you get to 9 figures that you are a player on solid footing. Get your money right! -
The legendary Frank Kern comes on Power Players with Grant Cardone. Frank knows how to automate internet marketing, sales funnels, email campaigns. There are two types of ads, the most common being “We exist” and the goal is just for general awareness. The second type is direct response which causes consumers to respond to an ad in a direct way. This second way is measurable and what Frank does. He builds systems that turn advertising into profit. Every ad dollar should measurably return profit. Your advertising isn’t getting you as much attention as you think it does. The biggest mistakes people make are as followed:
1) Not doing advertising
2) Not doing direct response
3) Not following upBottom line—you aren’t going to get into power without advertising.
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Grant Cardone interviews Peter Dunn on Power Players. Known as Pete the Planner, he’s written 10 books and is also a columnist. In 1975 88% of people had a pension. Today it’s less than 10%. He warns people that they must save and become millionaires. Money is behavior, it’s not math. Money is like toilet paper, when there’s a bigger roll available you use more of it. You need to be on the offensive and earn more income but you also should be on the defensive. If there is a hole in your boat it won’t matter how much income you make, you will still sink. There are 3 areas of money you need to concern yourself with:
1.Past—debt
2.Present—spending now
3.Future—setting yourself upIf you have money going to the past that is going to hurt your present and future. To become a millionaire you have to understand time. Many people don’t understand compounding interest. In order to retire you will have to break your dependency on your earned income. There’s also a difference between being a millionaire and living a millionaire lifestyle. He bottom line is that In order to ever become a millionaire, you must be putting aside some income.
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Grant Cardone interviews chiropractor Jason Worrall on Power Players. Jason graduated high school at 16, doing his junior and senior year in one year by going to administration and seeing how he could finish school early. His first child was at 18, he became a doctor at 21, started a practice at 22, and now he’s been at it over 10 years building up his brand and business. At first he did a lot of cold calling, knocking on doors to drum up business. Now he focuses more on teaching and speaking by going out and educating people. The goal of speaking is to invoke questions—then people want to know him better. That give, that charitable offer feeds his business. He focuses on 3 things
1. Saving people.
2. Serving people
3. Rewarding people
You have to know as a business why you are really there. Dr. Jason wants you to experience the transformative power of chiropractic, just like he did.
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Grant Cardone interviews Richard Lorenzen on Power Players. Richard was making 6 figures at 15 years-old. At 24 years old and he got offices in Rockefeller center as CEO of 5th Avenue Brands with a payroll of 350K. If you don’t know PR, you don’t know business. Thanks to the internet the playing field has never been more level—if you can bring value. While advertising is limited to a certain reach, PR is more upside because when you get on a CNN Insider or Huffington Post the potential return can be higher with a larger audience reach. Richard explains that PR should be before advertising on your budget because you need people to know who you are. Be warned though that PR can’t do everything for you, there needs to be content in order to get to the right people. An Independent learner, Richard went to the library and studied up on marketing and how to build websites as a young teenager because schools don’t teach things like internet marketing. Everyone must take the same initiative if they want to change their lot in life. Richard advises to work hard to create a brand that really captures what you believe in.
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This week on Power Players Grant Cardone interviews Richard Wilson, CEO of Family Offices—a wealth management company. He takes care of families that have a net worth of over $100 million dollars. He has over 50 families with a net worth of over $1 billion.
Richard tells the story of when he was young he got paid a penny a page to read books. If you read books, your brain will be worth millions of dollars. Read 3-5 books in your space each week and in a year or two you’ll be a global expert. Treat every book like it’s worth $30,000 so you can build your million-dollar mind. Richard gives tons of great business advice in this episode, including the strategy of giving away a lot of content in order to get exposure and get known in your space. Identify a problem and let your audience come to you. Rather than trying to spear a fish in a lake, be the grizzly bear standing in the stream waiting for the fish to jump into his mouth. Become an authority in your sandbox and aggressively give value to people.
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This episode of Power Players features Lee Haight, a door-to-door salesman who has sky-rocketed from 80K a year to 80K a month and now has his own show on GCTV called Sky Diamonds. His company has done over $100 million in sales over the past 10 years in the roofing industry. When the hail storm comes, Lee chases it. He knows now that knocking on doors is not enough—he seeks to become omnipresent by being active and present on social media and to be known as the #1 roofing professional in the world. He already has the largest network of storm restoration contractors and constantly is seeking to hire new professionals for his growing company. Lee knows that the more he helps and trains others the more opportunities he’ll have to grow his business. While most people hate sales because of the rejection and the idea of not having a guaranteed paycheck, Lee loves the game and the opportunity. Learn from him about how he grew his business in this edition of Power Players!
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On this edition of Power Players Grant Cardone interviews The Hip Hop Preacher—Eric Thomas. He had a difficult childhood and eventually ended up homeless eating out of trash can. He had a victim mentality that so many struggle with in poverty and in fatherless homes. Now Eric produces massive success for himself and others speaking at churches, schools, and wherever else there is life—he goes to motivate and inspire.
American success is real but you have to go out and get it. Eric Thomas grinds to the grind. He says you must have Intrinsic motivation. Don’t grind for the wrong reason. Don’t make excuses. Outwork and out hustle people. Excuse are everywhere and people complain about not having enough support. Most people want the reward, but not grind. They want the lottery.
Shoot for the Nobel Prize. It is about changing people’s lives. Eric says the problem with education is that for many students there is no clear purpose, you go to school because you have to. Eric had to be rich because he decided he couldn’t be stuck at a job—he wants to own his time. It’s not just about having a nice house and nice cars, being rich allows Eric be able to buy his wife the expensive medication she needs.
TGIM is better than TGIF—keep grinding!
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