August 23, 2023 • 18 mins
Ready to take control of your financial future? This episode is a masterclass in investing that goes beyond the traditional avenues of stocks and bonds, venturing into the thrilling territories of cryptocurrency and real estate. As a serial entrepreneur with five diverse businesses under my belt, I’ll take you through the most vital investment of all: YOU.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The more you know, the more you feel empowered.
The more you feel empowered,the more you do, and the more
you do, the more you succeed.
The More you Feel Empowered,the More you Know.
Hey, what's good, everybody.
I think I'm live now, so justtrying different setups here and
(00:21):
today.
I want to talk aboutinvestments.
Right, you know, becauseeverybody talks about
investments and stocks, bonds,all that type of stuff, but just
really want to get into it,especially in 2023, where it's
going to take more than justwhat we used to make, more than
just our nine to five, more thanjust even our side hustle, that
(00:42):
type of stuff Like we're goingto.
It's where the point now weactually have to actually expand
.
We have to do things, have toinvest and get return on those
investments in order to be ableto survive Because, as people
can see, so many things aregoing on with our economy, it is
important to invest.
So, you know, I mean I wouldjust.
(01:02):
You know, just, it's allbreaking up.
What is your biggest investor?
You know, feel free to drop it.
You know in the commentswhether you watch it live or you
watch it recorded.
You watch it live.
You know hashtag live, whereyou're from and if you watch the
record and say hashtag, replay.
These are the things I'mlearning right.
So you know, because, like youknow, I've been really thinking
(01:23):
about just a lot of stuff.
You know when it comes toinvestments and so you know, let
me know what your investmentsare while I talk about this a
little bit, because, again, likeI said, I've been having to put
out content every day.
You know, sunday throughThursday, last week was a really
interesting week, you know, hadsome highs, had some lows, but
(01:46):
I still got something out everyday.
This week my goal is to stillgo live.
Again, I want to get to ahundred of these before I stop,
and then hopefully I won't stop.
I'll actually, you know, reallygood at it.
So, yeah, that being said, what?
No, I'm just going to whatinvestments are and all that
type of stuff.
So common investments thatpeople know about.
(02:07):
You know we got stocks andbonds.
You know everybody knows aboutstocks and bonds.
We've got stock market.
You know the bond market, youknow.
You know interest and all thattype of stuff.
You know stocks go up and down.
It's investing in a company ora product or something like that
.
Then, of course, it's gambling.
I got.
You know, I've noticed a hugeuptick in gambling.
Yes, that is actuallytechnically what we consider an
(02:30):
investment.
I mean, you're putting moneyand expecting a return.
It could be dangerous Again.
I've seen, I've seen statusesrecently, you know.
So, folks, they come up andthen they go down.
I wouldn't, you know.
I always tell my he didn't get10K because somebody didn't
score 10 points, like, hey, bro,you know that's what you do.
(02:51):
Then you also have acryptocurrency and if anybody, a
lot of people, got gap veryrecently by crypto for no other
reason than just how the marketwas.
It was very volatile vehicle,you know, for a while it was
really up, but then peoplestarted to, you know, just,
things happened and it didn'tquite work out the way people
wanted to.
But the one I want to talkabout in real estate, of course,
(03:14):
real estate is a has alwaysbeen a common and good
investment, you know, eventhough even in that it
fluctuates, it doesn't alwaysgive the return that people want
.
The one I really want to talkabout today is investing in
yourself, right?
Because I'm gonna tell you allgreat, no stock expert, not a
bond expert, not a gamblingexpert, not a cryptocurrency
(03:34):
expert, not a real estate expert.
While I'm dabbing every singleone of those, none of them am I
an expert in.
But I am an investment ininvesting in myself.
You know, having started fourbusinesses or five different
industries, you know I knowabout investing in myself and I
want to talk about that today.
(03:56):
So you know again and when wetalk about risk not sure why how
I put me doing this crazy stuffwe're talking risk of investing
in the market.
One of the things is you havevery, very little control over
it.
You know you're not working inthose board rooms I don't know
boards of these companies.
You can't even go out and buyenough or tell enough people
(04:17):
about something in order tocontrol that stock.
You know there's no stockmanipulation that you can do.
It's actually not even illegalfor you to do it.
And then you're really trustingsomeone else will invest in
themselves enough to make yourinvestment worth it, and so
you're essentially relying ontheir self interest to make you
money.
That's very, very risky.
You know I often don't like toinvest in something that I have
(04:39):
no control over and that's kindof scary.
And then often they can takeyears of your investment.
And again, I'm not saying don'tinvest, I'm just saying
understand the risk Of makingthose investments right, because
you know it is.
It can be scary and one of theworst things about it is, if you
lose, you lose everything.
You know.
(05:00):
You know, like I know, peoplehad a lot of money in crypto
stuff.
You know whether it wasdogecoin, bitcoin, sheba,
ethereum, all of those and everylast one of them has tank.
You know, if you like right now, if you invested 10,000 dollars
in crypto and Bitcoin a yearago, you've probably lost half
of it at the very least.
(05:21):
Even in stocks, you probablylost about 10%.
But you know I invest.
You know.
Yeah, like I said, I invest inmyself and I'll talk about why
my biggest investments areactually Right, might be
important, but yeah, anyway.
(05:43):
Number one, because you areyour best asset.
You have control over you, havecontrol over yourself, you have
control over what you do, howyou invest, how you move and all
that type of stuff.
So that's that's one of thethings that's very, very, very,
very important.
Then the one of the otherthings is every investment in
yourself makes you moremarketable.
(06:05):
As many of you may know, youknow I've been in photography.
That was a very marketableskill.
I'm a cyber security expert.
You see I got the the masshanging in the background.
You know I'm an ethical hacker.
You know right now do I wantbusinesses?
You know done that type ofvending politics.
Every time I've invested inmyself and learning that it's
(06:25):
only made me more market because, if nothing else, it it has
increased my knowledge ofdifferent subjects.
Also, it always increases yourearning potential.
The more that you know aboutanything means you can walk into
doors that you previouslycannot do.
For instance, even as aconsultant.
Right now you know of my hotticket clients also get
(06:48):
headshots.
You see I'm saying it makes itthat much more marker because,
hey, we're going to business,everybody wants a nice headshot.
You know Also teach my clientshow to actually protect their
businesses as they're growing,because I'm an ethical hacker.
Like I know how to set yourbusiness up, how to set your
systems up, so that you don't.
You know why you're makingmoney.
You know help you to make money.
Also, have you protected fromhackers or things like that.
(07:09):
Of course it makes you moremarketable.
You can walk into differentdoors because you can actually
say you know People that you'reconnected with will always
they'll promote you like, hey,he can do this.
Hey, she can do that, she cando this.
You always able to come up inconversations and that helps you
up as well.
Even when you lose, you gain.
You know, sometimes people have.
(07:30):
You know, there've been timesI've invested in programming
things that nature and didn'tquite turn out the way I wanted
to, but I've learned something,you know, and it's added to my
repertoire as a, as a businessperson.
So, you know, I mean, yes, Idid invest in learning some
things about, about real estate,and while I did not, you know,
make any money in it and Ididn't even attempt to I learned
(07:54):
a lot about it and that helpedme, you know, and it's made me
more marketable so I can talkknowledgeably, knowledgeably,
about it to other people.
What are the other things?
Is it actually increases yourdrive and self determination,
because the more you know, themore you feel empowered.
The more you feel empowered,the more you do, and the more
you do, the more you succeed.
(08:14):
Right, so you know, you reallywant to ensure that that, as you
invest in yourself, youinternalize the things that
you're learning and you make itbetter, and it's the only, in my
opinion, sure way to financialfreedom.
You know whether or not, and Itook it all the time.
I don't think everybody'ssupposed to be a four-time
entrepreneur like myself,because it's like you know you
(08:36):
can't just you know you reallycan't.
Just you know, slide your waythrough stuff and again you know
you never know when your job isgoing to.
You know falter.
You know we would love to.
You know it's not like it usedto be, where people know that
they've been at a job for 30years, retired with a nice
pension.
You know, even now, the thingsthat we, that they have in, like
(08:56):
401K, 403b, things like thatthey're based on the market and
you could be there for all theseyears and if you retire at the
time of a crash, it becomes aproblem.
But when you invest in yourself,you invest in skills, you
invest in talents, you invest inknowledge that makes you better
at stuff that actually can getyou financial freedom.
You know, when I take trainings, I'm always thinking about how
(09:17):
do I make money off this?
Because I want to befinancially free, be able to do
what it is that I want anddesire to do.
You know what are ways toinvest in yourself.
This becomes very, very, veryimportant because you know you
always want to know how toinvest in yourself.
You know what are ways youthink there are.
You know what ways are youinvesting in yourself.
Here's just a few that I do.
(09:39):
Number one is hands-on training.
And when I say invest, I'm notjust a time investment, I'm
actually talking about a moneyinvestment, because those who
pay are those who actually do.
When you actually put money to,when you actually make that a
true investment in it.
You know put the, you knowwhether it's low ticket, high
ticket, whatever it is, but youactually put your money where
your mouth is, the money whereyour mind is.
(10:00):
You're actually.
You know you're actuallyinvesting yourself and saying
that you believe in you and youbelieve what you're investing in
and that way you're actuallyable to make the progress that
is necessary for you to get areturn on your investment.
Right, that's what it is.
Also, books, e-books and audiobooks always getting that
knowledge going into your mind.
(10:22):
You know I would also addpodcasts to this.
Anyone who knows me they knowall day long I don't listen to
music.
Yes, I really listen to music.
I listen to music.
I love playing music, but Ivery rarely listen to music.
Most of the time I'm listeningto podcasts, I'm listening to
e-books and I'm learning andbringing in knowledge that is
(10:44):
investing in me.
That's actually helping me toreinforce the things that I'm
getting in my hands on.
Training, develop a new skill onyour own Just all of you know.
A lot of people don't know Ipicked up photography on my own.
I didn't take any classes oranything like that that you know
I picked up a camera.
You know I was working inDetroit and I was, you know,
going over to the rent centerand you know, just taking my
(11:04):
camera places and shooting andthat's how I started to get the
get the skill and it actuallyhelped me expand your networking
.
You know not just expand yournetwork, but your networking.
You know putting yourself inplaces where you can meet people
, putting yourself, you know,stepping outside of your comfort
(11:24):
zone, knowing people Like Iencourage people, if you want to
, to come to our businessretreat out in Vegas where
you've been able to meet otherbusiness people.
You know expanding that,strengthening promising
relationships, thoserelationships that are bringing
you, that are helping you to goto where you want to be.
You want to strengthen thoserelationships, you know, whether
(11:45):
it be business relationships orpersonal relationships, if
they're beneficial to you andwhere you're going, you want to
strengthen those, you want tonurture those, you want to make
sure that they're, that they'rebetter, and investing through
attrition you're like what doesthat even mean to me?
Investing it through attritionis making sure that you are
(12:05):
giving a negative investment tothose things that are not
helpful, whether they berelationships, whether they be
time wasters, things like that.
You know, and this isn't.
You know a lot of people Igotta cut this off, cut that off
, cut this off don't necessarilycut it off, just begin to.
As you begin to move in theseother directions of investing,
those things are slightly faroff.
(12:26):
You know you don't want to.
You know offend people, youdon't want to hurt people's
feelings, you don't want to.
Just, you know.
You know just break stuff up,like I'm kind of burn bridges
and things like that, butthrough attrition just kind of
say you know what?
This isn't quite working, so itkind of gets replaced.
You know no longer.
You know playing this videogame, now I'm reading these
books.
You know stuff like oh, my gosh, yeah, I mean, that's that's.
(12:47):
You know, through attrition,that's how you kind of invest in
yourself, because you'repulling back and you're gaining
back the time that you need tobe able to build what it is that
you want to build.
So, um, you know, tell me in2023, you know, how do you plan
on it?
How are you going to invest inyourself?
You know what, what?
What are the things that you'regonna do?
(13:07):
I would love to hear whatyou're doing, or see it.
Read it, whatever.
Uh, you know, are you, you know?
Are you taking any kind oftraining?
You know what are you doing?
You know, let me know belowwhat it is that you're doing and
I encourage you, you know, getsomebody who you can be
accountable to.
You know, a, I have a number ofprograms which we invest in, um
to in order to build your ownbusiness.
(13:29):
Of course, I'm gonna plugmyself.
That'd be smart.
But, yes, even in your children.
You know, we're doing our cyberbusiness camp, um, this year,
and I'm actually letting adultstake it as well.
Uh, because they say, hey, theysaw the results from the
children.
They want to jump in andthey're literally taking the
time off so they can learn theseskills.
So, how, how do you plan oninvesting in you?
(13:49):
Um, so, yeah, what up?
Don't you hear my man Rod?
Uh, yeah, what up, don't you?
He was out there, out there inDetroit.
Um, he's also a fellowphotographer that's gone into
the entrepreneurship, um, underthe entrepreneurship phase.
Uh, like, I have as well.
So you know he's doing a wholelot.
He's out in Arizona and youknow we've done I've been on his
(14:10):
podcast a couple times.
Hey, I didn't get back on there, bro, I got some other stuff I
want to talk about.
But, yeah, I know my man, he'sout there.
I see Rose of Johnson.
She's talking about she'sbuilding her relationships in
Prince George's County, in DMV,and let's talk.
Let's see, I'm here, uh, inPrince George's County.
I'm Pete.
Prince George is proud and Iwould love to talk to you and
see how we can help and worktogether.
(14:32):
Um, also, you know, learning howto use artificial intelligence
and workflows and data analysiswow, that is uh, hey, that's
that's kind of amazing.
You know I've been doing, I'vebeen dealing in AI for a little
bit and I actually plan ontalking about it.
You know the benefits andwhether we should, whether or
not we should be afraid of it,because some people are very
afraid of artificialintelligence.
(14:52):
Um, personally, I'm not, fromwhat I've seen thus far.
Um, I do think there are somedangers to it, but I'm not
hugely afraid um of it.
But, yeah, I would definitelyum, I definitely look forward to
uh having these conversations.
So let's all um invest inourselves in 2023, primarily
because there are other peopleout there that are investing in
(15:13):
themselves.
Uh, we don't want to be leftbehind.
You know, this is the time forus to be independent and our
thinking, independent and ourmovements and moving the
direction that's going to um,that's going to help us um.
So, yes, you know, if y'allhave any questions, comments
concerns metaphysicalspeculations, I encourage you to
like, share.
You know, tag somebody belowthat you feel is, you know that
(15:37):
wants to invest in themselves,encouraging to watch this video.
You know, follow me on YouTubeat launch with Carl.
Facebook, twitter, all theseother places.
You know all those good placesInstagram, even on Twitch a
great matter.
So I was actually at launchwith Carl, so you know, I would
love to continue theseconversations.
This week's gonna be great.
(15:57):
I got a number of things comingup.
We're going to be doing aperfect customer challenge,
which we teach people how toactually find the perfect
customers, you know, not justyour target market, but those
who you enjoy working with.
It, gives you the best returnand gives them the best results.
So it's going to be a reallygood month of March.
I'm really looking forward toit.
If y'all have any questions,comments concerns metaphysical
(16:17):
speculations, if you want tojust talk, holler, you know,
find out how to grow yourbusiness from the ground up.
Hopefully you've got my bookSeven Day Business Plan.
You know best out on Amazon allthat stuff going on.
So let's talk, let's make ithappen.
I wish everybody here muchsuccess because it's very, very
important that we all succeed.
You know, I don't.
(16:38):
It's not a competition.
Even if we're competing, youknow we can lift as we climb and
do all this type of stuff thatis necessary.
So, um, that's that.
And if I got anything else, Iappreciate the hug.
I'm getting hearts on it, notjust like some hearts.
Yeah, that meant, brother, feelgood.
Like a brother feel good.
(16:58):
But all right, that's about it.
How much on it?
Peace, I want you to haveprofit.
My program, profit before pain,helps you to put money in your
pocket so that you can actuallyhave that motivation to keep
going.
So many times we quit and westop our businesses because we
haven't experienced the profitthat we want.
I'm the type of person.
(17:18):
I've been through it.
This is what I've used tolaunch both of my businesses.
I had a photography business Iuse the same program made $3,000
the first week.
I launched, where I'm also anethical hacker and I I launched
my ethical hacking classes whereI teach people how to protect
themselves online, and I made$5,000 my first time.
One live with it and itcontinues to be made in May
(17:41):
$20,000 the first month.
So I'm telling you, this works.
That is my solution.
And in my four-day to launchprogram, you work with myself.
You work with my team.
We use our templates, ourmethodologies to get you off the
ground.
You're in the room with otherentrepreneurs who want to help
you.
Now I'm telling you you may behesitant, but I don't want you
to be in the same position nextyear when you haven't started
(18:02):
fulfilling your dreams, youhaven't started doing what you
want to do.
You haven't started doing whatyou want.
We don't want you to experiencethis pain again.
Let's get you making this money.
Let's be real.
That's what it's about.
You want to be able to make anhonest living.
So click the link below sign up,let's get the work, and come to
my webinar.
Let's see how this work.
We can work together and, asI've said before, I will be your
(18:25):
seventh customer.
You go through my program andwe get you a viable offer that I
hope you develop.
I'll be a seventh customer.
Even something that I wouldnever use in my life, I will
still purchase it and give it tosomebody else.
So let's go for days tolaunchcom.
Let's make it.
Are you the person who's beenthinking about starting their
business forever?
You know you have an idea.
You have something on your onyour mind or your heart that
(18:46):
you've been wanting to do for solong.
You just haven't got it off theground.
Well, I'm Carl Gray and I'm abusiness law specialist.
The more you know, the more you feel empowered.
The more you feel empowered,the more you do, and the more
you do, the more you succeed.
The More you Feel Empowered,the More you Know.
Hey, what's good, everybody.
I think I'm live now, so justtrying different setups here and
(00:21):
today.
I want to talk aboutinvestments.
Right, you know, becauseeverybody talks about
investments and stocks, bonds,all that type of stuff, but just
really want to get into it,especially in 2023, where it's
going to take more than justwhat we used to make, more than
just our nine to five, more thanjust even our side hustle, that
(00:42):
type of stuff Like we're goingto.
It's where the point now weactually have to actually expand
.
We have to do things, have toinvest and get return on those
investments in order to be ableto survive Because, as people
can see, so many things aregoing on with our economy, it is
important to invest.
So, you know, I mean I wouldjust.
(01:02):
You know, just, it's allbreaking up.
What is your biggest investor?
You know, feel free to drop it.
You know in the commentswhether you watch it live or you
watch it recorded.
You watch it live.
You know hashtag live, whereyou're from and if you watch the
record and say hashtag, replay.
These are the things I'mlearning right.
So you know, because, like youknow, I've been really thinking
(01:23):
about just a lot of stuff.
You know when it comes toinvestments and so you know, let
me know what your investmentsare while I talk about this a
little bit, because, again, likeI said, I've been having to put
out content every day.
You know, sunday throughThursday, last week was a really
interesting week, you know, hadsome highs, had some lows, but
(01:46):
I still got something out everyday.
This week my goal is to stillgo live.
Again, I want to get to ahundred of these before I stop,
and then hopefully I won't stop.
I'll actually, you know, reallygood at it.
So, yeah, that being said, what?
No, I'm just going to whatinvestments are and all that
type of stuff.
So common investments thatpeople know about.
(02:07):
You know we got stocks andbonds.
You know everybody knows aboutstocks and bonds.
We've got stock market.
You know the bond market, youknow.
You know interest and all thattype of stuff.
You know stocks go up and down.
It's investing in a company ora product or something like that
.
Then, of course, it's gambling.
I got.
You know, I've noticed a hugeuptick in gambling.
Yes, that is actuallytechnically what we consider an
(02:30):
investment.
I mean, you're putting moneyand expecting a return.
It could be dangerous Again.
I've seen, I've seen statusesrecently, you know.
So, folks, they come up andthen they go down.
I wouldn't, you know.
I always tell my he didn't get10K because somebody didn't
score 10 points, like, hey, bro,you know that's what you do.
(02:51):
Then you also have acryptocurrency and if anybody, a
lot of people, got gap veryrecently by crypto for no other
reason than just how the marketwas.
It was very volatile vehicle,you know, for a while it was
really up, but then peoplestarted to, you know, just,
things happened and it didn'tquite work out the way people
wanted to.
But the one I want to talkabout in real estate, of course,
(03:14):
real estate is a has alwaysbeen a common and good
investment, you know, eventhough even in that it
fluctuates, it doesn't alwaysgive the return that people want
.
The one I really want to talkabout today is investing in
yourself, right?
Because I'm gonna tell you allgreat, no stock expert, not a
bond expert, not a gamblingexpert, not a cryptocurrency
(03:34):
expert, not a real estate expert.
While I'm dabbing every singleone of those, none of them am I
an expert in.
But I am an investment ininvesting in myself.
You know, having started fourbusinesses or five different
industries, you know I knowabout investing in myself and I
want to talk about that today.
(03:56):
So you know again and when wetalk about risk not sure why how
I put me doing this crazy stuffwe're talking risk of investing
in the market.
One of the things is you havevery, very little control over
it.
You know you're not working inthose board rooms I don't know
boards of these companies.
You can't even go out and buyenough or tell enough people
(04:17):
about something in order tocontrol that stock.
You know there's no stockmanipulation that you can do.
It's actually not even illegalfor you to do it.
And then you're really trustingsomeone else will invest in
themselves enough to make yourinvestment worth it, and so
you're essentially relying ontheir self interest to make you
money.
That's very, very risky.
You know I often don't like toinvest in something that I have
(04:39):
no control over and that's kindof scary.
And then often they can takeyears of your investment.
And again, I'm not saying don'tinvest, I'm just saying
understand the risk Of makingthose investments right, because
you know it is.
It can be scary and one of theworst things about it is, if you
lose, you lose everything.
You know.
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You know, like I know, peoplehad a lot of money in crypto
stuff.
You know whether it wasdogecoin, bitcoin, sheba,
ethereum, all of those and everylast one of them has tank.
You know, if you like right now, if you invested 10,000 dollars
in crypto and Bitcoin a yearago, you've probably lost half
of it at the very least.
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Even in stocks, you probablylost about 10%.
But you know I invest.
You know.
Yeah, like I said, I invest inmyself and I'll talk about why
my biggest investments areactually Right, might be
important, but yeah, anyway.
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Number one, because you areyour best asset.
You have control over you, havecontrol over yourself, you have
control over what you do, howyou invest, how you move and all
that type of stuff.
So that's that's one of thethings that's very, very, very,
very important.
Then the one of the otherthings is every investment in
yourself makes you moremarketable.
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As many of you may know, youknow I've been in photography.
That was a very marketableskill.
I'm a cyber security expert.
You see I got the the masshanging in the background.
You know I'm an ethical hacker.
You know right now do I wantbusinesses?
You know done that type ofvending politics.
Every time I've invested inmyself and learning that it's
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only made me more market because, if nothing else, it it has
increased my knowledge ofdifferent subjects.
Also, it always increases yourearning potential.
The more that you know aboutanything means you can walk into
doors that you previouslycannot do.
For instance, even as aconsultant.
Right now you know of my hotticket clients also get
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headshots.
You see I'm saying it makes itthat much more marker because,
hey, we're going to business,everybody wants a nice headshot.
You know Also teach my clientshow to actually protect their
businesses as they're growing,because I'm an ethical hacker.
Like I know how to set yourbusiness up, how to set your
systems up, so that you don't.
You know why you're makingmoney.
You know help you to make money.
Also, have you protected fromhackers or things like that.
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Of course it makes you moremarketable.
You can walk into differentdoors because you can actually
say you know People that you'reconnected with will always
they'll promote you like, hey,he can do this.
Hey, she can do that, she cando this.
You always able to come up inconversations and that helps you
up as well.
Even when you lose, you gain.
You know, sometimes people have.
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You know, there've been timesI've invested in programming
things that nature and didn'tquite turn out the way I wanted
to, but I've learned something,you know, and it's added to my
repertoire as a, as a businessperson.
So, you know, I mean, yes, Idid invest in learning some
things about, about real estate,and while I did not, you know,
make any money in it and Ididn't even attempt to I learned
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a lot about it and that helpedme, you know, and it's made me
more marketable so I can talkknowledgeably, knowledgeably,
about it to other people.
What are the other things?
Is it actually increases yourdrive and self determination,
because the more you know, themore you feel empowered.
The more you feel empowered,the more you do, and the more
you do, the more you succeed.
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Right, so you know, you reallywant to ensure that that, as you
invest in yourself, youinternalize the things that
you're learning and you make itbetter, and it's the only, in my
opinion, sure way to financialfreedom.
You know whether or not, and Itook it all the time.
I don't think everybody'ssupposed to be a four-time
entrepreneur like myself,because it's like you know you
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can't just you know you reallycan't.
Just you know, slide your waythrough stuff and again you know
you never know when your job isgoing to.
You know falter.
You know we would love to.
You know it's not like it usedto be, where people know that
they've been at a job for 30years, retired with a nice
pension.
You know, even now, the thingsthat we, that they have in, like
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401K, 403b, things like thatthey're based on the market and
you could be there for all theseyears and if you retire at the
time of a crash, it becomes aproblem.
But when you invest in yourself,you invest in skills, you
invest in talents, you invest inknowledge that makes you better
at stuff that actually can getyou financial freedom.
You know, when I take trainings, I'm always thinking about how
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do I make money off this?
Because I want to befinancially free, be able to do
what it is that I want anddesire to do.
You know what are ways toinvest in yourself.
This becomes very, very, veryimportant because you know you
always want to know how toinvest in yourself.
You know what are ways youthink there are.
You know what ways are youinvesting in yourself.
Here's just a few that I do.
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Number one is hands-on training.
And when I say invest, I'm notjust a time investment, I'm
actually talking about a moneyinvestment, because those who
pay are those who actually do.
When you actually put money to,when you actually make that a
true investment in it.
You know put the, you knowwhether it's low ticket, high
ticket, whatever it is, but youactually put your money where
your mouth is, the money whereyour mind is.
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You're actually.
You know you're actuallyinvesting yourself and saying
that you believe in you and youbelieve what you're investing in
and that way you're actuallyable to make the progress that
is necessary for you to get areturn on your investment.
Right, that's what it is.
Also, books, e-books and audiobooks always getting that
knowledge going into your mind.
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You know I would also addpodcasts to this.
Anyone who knows me they knowall day long I don't listen to
music.
Yes, I really listen to music.
I listen to music.
I love playing music, but Ivery rarely listen to music.
Most of the time I'm listeningto podcasts, I'm listening to
e-books and I'm learning andbringing in knowledge that is
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investing in me.
That's actually helping me toreinforce the things that I'm
getting in my hands on.
Training, develop a new skill onyour own Just all of you know.
A lot of people don't know Ipicked up photography on my own.
I didn't take any classes oranything like that that you know
I picked up a camera.
You know I was working inDetroit and I was, you know,
going over to the rent centerand you know, just taking my
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camera places and shooting andthat's how I started to get the
get the skill and it actuallyhelped me expand your networking
.
You know not just expand yournetwork, but your networking.
You know putting yourself inplaces where you can meet people
, putting yourself, you know,stepping outside of your comfort
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zone, knowing people Like Iencourage people, if you want to
, to come to our businessretreat out in Vegas where
you've been able to meet otherbusiness people.
You know expanding that,strengthening promising
relationships, thoserelationships that are bringing
you, that are helping you to goto where you want to be.
You want to strengthen thoserelationships, you know, whether
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it be business relationships orpersonal relationships, if
they're beneficial to you andwhere you're going, you want to
strengthen those, you want tonurture those, you want to make
sure that they're, that they'rebetter, and investing through
attrition you're like what doesthat even mean to me?
Investing it through attritionis making sure that you are
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giving a negative investment tothose things that are not
helpful, whether they berelationships, whether they be
time wasters, things like that.
You know, and this isn't.
You know a lot of people Igotta cut this off, cut that off
, cut this off don't necessarilycut it off, just begin to.
As you begin to move in theseother directions of investing,
those things are slightly faroff.
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You know you don't want to.
You know offend people, youdon't want to hurt people's
feelings, you don't want to.
Just, you know.
You know just break stuff up,like I'm kind of burn bridges
and things like that, butthrough attrition just kind of
say you know what?
This isn't quite working, so itkind of gets replaced.
You know no longer.
You know playing this videogame, now I'm reading these
books.
You know stuff like oh, my gosh, yeah, I mean, that's that's.
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You know, through attrition,that's how you kind of invest in
yourself, because you'repulling back and you're gaining
back the time that you need tobe able to build what it is that
you want to build.
So, um, you know, tell me in2023, you know, how do you plan
on it?
How are you going to invest inyourself?
You know what, what?
What are the things that you'regonna do?
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I would love to hear whatyou're doing, or see it.
Read it, whatever.
Uh, you know, are you, you know?
Are you taking any kind oftraining?
You know what are you doing?
You know, let me know belowwhat it is that you're doing and
I encourage you, you know, getsomebody who you can be
accountable to.
You know, a, I have a number ofprograms which we invest in, um
to in order to build your ownbusiness.
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Of course, I'm gonna plugmyself.
That'd be smart.
But, yes, even in your children.
You know, we're doing our cyberbusiness camp, um, this year,
and I'm actually letting adultstake it as well.
Uh, because they say, hey, theysaw the results from the
children.
They want to jump in andthey're literally taking the
time off so they can learn theseskills.
So, how, how do you plan oninvesting in you?
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Um, so, yeah, what up?
Don't you hear my man Rod?
Uh, yeah, what up, don't you?
He was out there, out there inDetroit.
Um, he's also a fellowphotographer that's gone into
the entrepreneurship, um, underthe entrepreneurship phase.
Uh, like, I have as well.
So you know he's doing a wholelot.
He's out in Arizona and youknow we've done I've been on his
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podcast a couple times.
Hey, I didn't get back on there, bro, I got some other stuff I
want to talk about.
But, yeah, I know my man, he'sout there.
I see Rose of Johnson.
She's talking about she'sbuilding her relationships in
Prince George's County, in DMV,and let's talk.
Let's see, I'm here, uh, inPrince George's County.
I'm Pete.
Prince George is proud and Iwould love to talk to you and
see how we can help and worktogether.
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Um, also, you know, learning howto use artificial intelligence
and workflows and data analysiswow, that is uh, hey, that's
that's kind of amazing.
You know I've been doing, I'vebeen dealing in AI for a little
bit and I actually plan ontalking about it.
You know the benefits andwhether we should, whether or
not we should be afraid of it,because some people are very
afraid of artificialintelligence.
(14:52):
Um, personally, I'm not, fromwhat I've seen thus far.
Um, I do think there are somedangers to it, but I'm not
hugely afraid um of it.
But, yeah, I would definitelyum, I definitely look forward to
uh having these conversations.
So let's all um invest inourselves in 2023, primarily
because there are other peopleout there that are investing in
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themselves.
Uh, we don't want to be leftbehind.
You know, this is the time forus to be independent and our
thinking, independent and ourmovements and moving the
direction that's going to um,that's going to help us um.
So, yes, you know, if y'allhave any questions, comments
concerns metaphysicalspeculations, I encourage you to
like, share.
You know, tag somebody belowthat you feel is, you know that
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wants to invest in themselves,encouraging to watch this video.
You know, follow me on YouTubeat launch with Carl.
Facebook, twitter, all theseother places.
You know all those good placesInstagram, even on Twitch a
great matter.
So I was actually at launchwith Carl, so you know, I would
love to continue theseconversations.
This week's gonna be great.
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I got a number of things comingup.
We're going to be doing aperfect customer challenge,
which we teach people how toactually find the perfect
customers, you know, not justyour target market, but those
who you enjoy working with.
It, gives you the best returnand gives them the best results.
So it's going to be a reallygood month of March.
I'm really looking forward toit.
If y'all have any questions,comments concerns metaphysical
(16:17):
speculations, if you want tojust talk, holler, you know,
find out how to grow yourbusiness from the ground up.
Hopefully you've got my bookSeven Day Business Plan.
You know best out on Amazon allthat stuff going on.
So let's talk, let's make ithappen.
I wish everybody here muchsuccess because it's very, very
important that we all succeed.
You know, I don't.
(16:38):
It's not a competition.
Even if we're competing, youknow we can lift as we climb and
do all this type of stuff thatis necessary.
So, um, that's that.
And if I got anything else, Iappreciate the hug.
I'm getting hearts on it, notjust like some hearts.
Yeah, that meant, brother, feelgood.
Like a brother feel good.
(16:58):
But all right, that's about it.
How much on it?
Peace, I want you to haveprofit.
My program, profit before pain,helps you to put money in your
pocket so that you can actuallyhave that motivation to keep
going.
So many times we quit and westop our businesses because we
haven't experienced the profitthat we want.
I'm the type of person.
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I've been through it.
This is what I've used tolaunch both of my businesses.
I had a photography business Iuse the same program made $3,000
the first week.
I launched, where I'm also anethical hacker and I I launched
my ethical hacking classes whereI teach people how to protect
themselves online, and I made$5,000 my first time.
One live with it and itcontinues to be made in May
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$20,000 the first month.
So I'm telling you, this works.
That is my solution.
And in my four-day to launchprogram, you work with myself.
You work with my team.
We use our templates, ourmethodologies to get you off the
ground.
You're in the room with otherentrepreneurs who want to help
you.
Now I'm telling you you may behesitant, but I don't want you
to be in the same position nextyear when you haven't started
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fulfilling your dreams, youhaven't started doing what you
want to do.
You haven't started doing whatyou want.
We don't want you to experiencethis pain again.
Let's get you making this money.
Let's be real.
That's what it's about.
You want to be able to make anhonest living.
So click the link below sign up,let's get the work, and come to
my webinar.
Let's see how this work.
We can work together and, asI've said before, I will be your
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seventh customer.
You go through my program andwe get you a viable offer that I
hope you develop.
I'll be a seventh customer.
Even something that I wouldnever use in my life, I will
still purchase it and give it tosomebody else.
So let's go for days tolaunchcom.
Let's make it.
Are you the person who's beenthinking about starting their
business forever?
You know you have an idea.
You have something on your onyour mind or your heart that
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you've been wanting to do for solong.
You just haven't got it off theground.
Well, I'm Carl Gray and I'm abusiness law specialist.
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