October 22, 2025 • 5 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
There's a quote I found from you where I loved it,
and I was like, I want to start this conversation
off from that. You said, a billion dollar network equals
a multimillion dollar company, And so I want you to
talk about, like where you got that concept from and
how do you like operationalize that concept until like the
decisions you make every day.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
So my book Originate, Motivate, and Innovate Seven Steps for
building a billion dollar Network, and get it on Amazon
bars and over wherever you buy books. Also the audible
if you listening to books, and it is my voice.
So here's the thing that I learned, right. I think
when we start businesses, we focus so much on like, oh,
I need to like get the product right. I need
(00:43):
to like, you know, figure out how this product works
and customers and things like that. But when you hit
a wall or when you are just stuck in a
place where you're trying to understand like how to move,
you got to have a network.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yeah, And I think like network also means like to
diferent things like you need your business network or people
that you can go ask questions of, but you also
need to have your like wellness network because if you
want to get closer to God, become an entrepreneur.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
That's a fact. That's a fact.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
But I came up with what that brought to mind,
like coming up with that quote was I realized the
real moment that I started rocking and rolling as an
entrepreneur really really bringing in impact and things like that
is when is when I connected my network to the
work that I'm doing by thinking about how can I
leverage you you want to have It's an asset. Your
(01:35):
network is an asset. Your ability to reach out and
use a free space, your ability to think about like
our connection to TikTok means that we can connect creators
to different things we can We can also do things
like figure out how to support even the platform.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
You know.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
It's sometimes the biggest thing you can do is not
asking for the thing that's right in front of you.
It is thinking of what else do they have? What
else going to offer? What else is available? In how
you're going to grow your network. I think billion dollar,
billion dollar network means you got enough people there where
you can operate something as a multimillion dollar thing. It's
like you need that you can get all the capital,
(02:14):
but when you hit a wall.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
You need a person.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yeah, I would put this on thread a couple of
weeks ago. It's like I used to believe everybody should
start a business, and I was like, I don't understand
why anybody would go get a job. And I don't
believe that anymore because like this, doing this is like
it takes a special kind of person to wake up
to just drama every day, stress every day. You know,
(02:38):
there's no guarantee paycheck on Friday, Like you gotta go hunt,
you gotta go find that paycheck. And so like what
kind of people do you And I'm saying that you're
not saying that, but I'm sure there's some something in
that you can probably relate to. But I wonder, like
what kind of people do you think are best suited
for this? Like what is the makeup of a person
who is best suited for this journey?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Oh my goodness, it's a a good question. But to
your point around like insight on that. I think that
your people ask me all the time, when should I.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Quit my job? How do I know when to put
my job? How do I know when I should.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Just jump off, jump off the cliff and build, you know,
wile up no, absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Do not jump off anybody's cliff.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Do not try to build any wings or gain wings.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
None of that. You are not a parachute expert. Do
not of that. But what you should consider I always
tell them, I don't know how resilient you are.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
I don't know if you get down to the wire,
if you're willing to go donate blood. I don't know
if you're willing to like pawn everything in your house
for what you believe.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I don't know if you're you see what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Like have you had my journal? Like goodness gazeous like a.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I don't know what you're willing to do for this,
So I think that you know.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
And there's a lot of I've been seeing a lot
of podcasts commentary because I'm also wellness practitioner. There's a
lot of podcasts commentary out there right now around how
work life balance is BS and like we don't need
work life balance. I don't think work life balance is
purely BS. But what I'll say is the concentration has
to be on work life integration. Yeah, like how everything
(04:14):
is worth, what time it is?
Speaker 2 (04:16):
It is? Now it's time for me to be doing
something it's how do you think?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Even with my staff, when I hire people, I tell
them you can make a mistake, that's fine. But if
you're thinking it's off, you're going to constantly make the
same mistakes over and over. So I would say, just
to break that down, culchability.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Your ability to be cultable. Resilience.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
How resilient are you? What are you willing to do
for what you believe in? And I mean that by
all legal means and safety needs necessary, But what are
you willing to do for what you believe in? I
don't know that right, I can't desermine that that Your
grind is kind of like the most unpredictable factor. That's
(04:57):
a part of you building a business as part of
your entrepreneurial repertoire is going to be like I don't
know how far you're willing to go.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Some people will like sleep on couches. Some people are
like like, nah, I can't do that. So you gotta
know you. I think that's that's the thing. Who are
you exactly?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
And if you don't know, you will find it out
real quick when you try to run a business.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah,
There's a quote I found from you where I loved it,
and I was like, I want to start this conversation
off from that. You said, a billion dollar network equals
a multimillion dollar company, And so I want you to
talk about, like where you got that concept from and
how do you like operationalize that concept until like the
decisions you make every day.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
So my book Originate, Motivate, and Innovate Seven Steps for
building a billion dollar Network, and get it on Amazon
bars and over wherever you buy books. Also the audible
if you listening to books, and it is my voice.
So here's the thing that I learned, right. I think
when we start businesses, we focus so much on like, oh,
I need to like get the product right. I need
(00:43):
to like, you know, figure out how this product works
and customers and things like that. But when you hit
a wall or when you are just stuck in a
place where you're trying to understand like how to move,
you got to have a network.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yeah, And I think like network also means like to
diferent things like you need your business network or people
that you can go ask questions of, but you also
need to have your like wellness network because if you
want to get closer to God, become an entrepreneur.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
That's a fact. That's a fact.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
But I came up with what that brought to mind,
like coming up with that quote was I realized the
real moment that I started rocking and rolling as an
entrepreneur really really bringing in impact and things like that
is when is when I connected my network to the
work that I'm doing by thinking about how can I
leverage you you want to have It's an asset. Your
(01:35):
network is an asset. Your ability to reach out and
use a free space, your ability to think about like
our connection to TikTok means that we can connect creators
to different things we can We can also do things
like figure out how to support even the platform.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
You know.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
It's sometimes the biggest thing you can do is not
asking for the thing that's right in front of you.
It is thinking of what else do they have? What
else going to offer? What else is available? In how
you're going to grow your network. I think billion dollar,
billion dollar network means you got enough people there where
you can operate something as a multimillion dollar thing. It's
like you need that you can get all the capital,
(02:14):
but when you hit a wall.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
You need a person.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yeah, I would put this on thread a couple of
weeks ago. It's like I used to believe everybody should
start a business, and I was like, I don't understand
why anybody would go get a job. And I don't
believe that anymore because like this, doing this is like
it takes a special kind of person to wake up
to just drama every day, stress every day. You know,
(02:38):
there's no guarantee paycheck on Friday, Like you gotta go hunt,
you gotta go find that paycheck. And so like what
kind of people do you And I'm saying that you're
not saying that, but I'm sure there's some something in
that you can probably relate to. But I wonder, like
what kind of people do you think are best suited
for this? Like what is the makeup of a person
who is best suited for this journey?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Oh my goodness, it's a a good question. But to
your point around like insight on that. I think that
your people ask me all the time, when should I.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Quit my job? How do I know when to put
my job? How do I know when I should.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Just jump off, jump off the cliff and build, you know,
wile up no, absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Do not jump off anybody's cliff.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Do not try to build any wings or gain wings.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
None of that. You are not a parachute expert. Do
not of that. But what you should consider I always
tell them, I don't know how resilient you are.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
I don't know if you get down to the wire,
if you're willing to go donate blood. I don't know
if you're willing to like pawn everything in your house
for what you believe.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I don't know if you're you see what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Like have you had my journal? Like goodness gazeous like a.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
I don't know what you're willing to do for this,
So I think that you know.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
And there's a lot of I've been seeing a lot
of podcasts commentary because I'm also wellness practitioner. There's a
lot of podcasts commentary out there right now around how
work life balance is BS and like we don't need
work life balance. I don't think work life balance is
purely BS. But what I'll say is the concentration has
to be on work life integration. Yeah, like how everything
(04:14):
is worth, what time it is?
Speaker 2 (04:16):
It is? Now it's time for me to be doing
something it's how do you think?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Even with my staff, when I hire people, I tell
them you can make a mistake, that's fine. But if
you're thinking it's off, you're going to constantly make the
same mistakes over and over. So I would say, just
to break that down, culchability.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Your ability to be cultable. Resilience.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
How resilient are you? What are you willing to do
for what you believe in? And I mean that by
all legal means and safety needs necessary, But what are
you willing to do for what you believe in? I
don't know that right, I can't desermine that that Your
grind is kind of like the most unpredictable factor. That's
(04:57):
a part of you building a business as part of
your entrepreneurial repertoire is going to be like I don't
know how far you're willing to go.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Some people will like sleep on couches. Some people are
like like, nah, I can't do that. So you gotta
know you. I think that's that's the thing. Who are
you exactly?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
And if you don't know, you will find it out
real quick when you try to run a business.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Yeah,
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