April 30, 2025 • 24 mins
Ever feel like you're drowning in the entrepreneurial struggle, doubting if the dream is worth the fight?
Host Adam gets raw and real, sharing his own journey from bankruptcy to finding true fulfillment.
This isn't just another business talk; it's about the heart of the hustle.
Discover how success means more than money – it's freedom, pride, and purpose.
Adam reveals how AI is becoming the great equalizer, an empowering tool accessible even to those with nothing, offering a path to achieving your goals and finding that deep sense of accomplishment.
Hear the incredible story of how AI is helping a homeless man rewrite his future.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It almost never happens.
We anticipate something and itturns out infinitely better than
what we thought.
Here's one of them.
How many times in your life canyou actually count where things
turned out to be far sweeterthan you thought they would be
25 years of being anentrepreneur, I've learned a lot
about how things feel when yougo through highs and lows.
It's not that your entire lifeis defined by what you do, but
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it is a huge part of who you areas a person.
It doesn't define you, but itis a huge part.
Maybe you feel the same way thatstruggle, the trying to
constantly get to the next step,looking to other people,
comparing yourself.
Man, that guy must have itfigured out, that girl must have
it figured out.
Why don't I have it figured out?
What do I need to do?
What is this combination it?
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Why don't I have it figured out?
What do I need to do?
What is this combination?
It?
Can be overwhelming and, flatout, feel hopeless.
From time to time I felt that.
I felt that in my firstbusiness, getting it going all
the way through to the end,we're in it in a bankruptcy
trial or bankruptcy hearing andour federal bankruptcy system.
I understand that gauntlet ofemotions.
I'm wondering how many of youhave felt something similar or
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maybe even the exact same way,that feeling where, every day,
we've made a commitment tosomething that we don't fully
understand and we're trying toget through it.
We don't want to disappoint thepeople around us.
We don't want to have to tellthose we care about or that
we're trying to provide for thatmaybe this isn't going to work,
or maybe that we invested moneyor time that we're deeply,
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deeply feeling regretful aboutbecause we doubt the outcome is
going to be what we wanted it tobe.
We doubt the outcome is goingto be the, or rather fulfill,
the reason why we took the leapin the beginning.
There's highs and lows everyday in life.
You don't have to be anentrepreneur to understand that,
that's for sure.
But as entrepreneurs, it'sinevitable that we're going to
run into these things.
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We're going to have toexperience these emotions of
thrill, right, absolute thrill,excitement, joy, pride, defeat,
overconfidence, underconfidence,all trying to find the same
thing success.
What is success?
My definition is freedom andfulfillment.
It's easy to measure monetarily, right.
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It's easy to measure with money.
I made $10 million last year.
I made $100.
Last year.
I made a billion dollars,whatever scale it is you're
playing on.
That's easy.
There's other ways of creatingvictory, too.
We discuss that all the time.
I made a social impact, I madea sacrifice that led to making
somebody else or a group ofpeople or a lot of people's
lives better.
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Whatever that is, it doesn'thave to be financial.
I can tell you, at this stage inmy life, I have created a place
for my own self inentrepreneurialism where I
absolutely do care aboutprofitability, but I care less
about it now than I did before,and that opens up an opportunity
for me to truly share andconnect with the people that I
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want to reach out to, thatreverberate with this message,
who are in the struggle ofentrepreneurialism, who are in
the pursuit of their dreams,their goals, who want that
feeling confidence, joy,prosperity, pride feeling and I
know this especially as a manhoping that next week my wife
will come on and speak to thisfrom the feminine perspective
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but definitely as a man that Iprovided for my family today
from something that I createdfrom nothing like that sense of
absolute fulfillment.
I wish that for every person inmy life who has this pursuit.
I wish that for every personhearing this Losers want you to
lose.
Winners want you to win and Iwant everybody hearing this to
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be on the path to winning, ifyou're not there already right
now.
The reason that I want that isbecause, from bankruptcy court
to what I define as being quitesuccessful not all the way there
yet, but I have been so far inmy own life and that feeling
that you get, looking out overyour family, your loved ones,
your friends, knowing thatyou've provided something,
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whatever that is.
Maybe it's just a nice placefor them to come through, or
maybe you snuck your credit cardto the waiter and make sure
that you covered everybody at anexpensive dinner.
Whatever that looks like to you, it's very powerful and it
doesn't happen all the time andit takes a ridiculous amount of
work to get there.
Part of that work is dealingwith how we feel about things,
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our perception.
Is this good, is it bad?
Is this winning?
Is this losing?
Are we closer to our goal?
Are we further from our goal?
Why does it look like?
Everybody else has it figuredout and I don't.
If I had any way of countinghow many times I felt that way
in my life, I can't even imaginethe number.
It's what drives me to want todo this work.
It's what drives the servicesthat we provide at TSG.
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It's the whole purpose here.
I want to walk as many peopleinto that light, into that light
of victory, of success, howeverthey define it individually.
It's not up to me to tell youhow to be successful.
It's not up to me to tell youhow to feel or what it will feel
like for you.
All I know is in my own life,what those struggles have felt
like, what the failures havefelt like and what the failures
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have felt like and what thevictories have felt like.
And I can tell you, for all theenergy that we sometimes think
is lost in a failure, it comesback a hundredfold in an instant
, as soon as we make victory, assoon as we champion that next
goal and the truth is there'salways a next goal right.
There's always some other place.
We want to get to, some thingwe're striving for and we want
to never let go of that.
That's what the adventure isbased on, and I invite you to
think that way.
Not only is entrepreneurialisman adventure perhaps the
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grandest professional adventureone can take, in my opinion
anyway but also the adventure ofthis incredible technology that
we now have as entrepreneurs tosupport us.
And it's 24-7.
It's not tired, it doesn't stopthinking, it doesn't shut down,
it doesn't tell you to wait, itdoesn't remind you how
unimportant you are to it.
And that is, as you all know,is AI.
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Is AI in and of itself aromantic thing?
Is it a romantic idea?
Is it a romantic practice?
No, it's not.
It's another computer interface, right, ones and zeros and
plastic screens.
But what it represents as atool, a tool to champion our
dreams and our goals, andtherefore how it helps us to
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that feeling, to that feeling ofmastering our universe,
mastering our purpose, if onlytemporarily or only in part, it
doesn't matter.
We take the wins where we canget them and why it makes me so
passionate has nothing to dowith ones and zeros or plastic
screens.
It has everything to do withthe human experience and how it
furthers that along, how thiscan accelerate us closer to our
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goals.
How I see people who aresuffering, and suffering is it's
a huge part in my life thewitnessing of human suffering
and that longing inside to dosomething about it.
And I don't mean, you know,hand things out.
I don't believe in givingthings away necessarily.
I think sometimes that leads toenablement on certain people in
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certain situations.
What I believe in isempowerment.
I've told the story before thehomeless guy that I met outside
of Starbucks writing a bookcalled.
That he said was about actuallyI don't know the title, but it
was about United StatesConstitution as a social
contract in contemporary America.
I asked a homeless man whohappened to have a laptop,
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what's with the laptop?
And that was his response I'mwriting a book about the United
States Constitution as a socialcontract in contemporary
American society.
How many people would walk upto a homeless man on the side of
a building in downtown andanticipate that response?
Imagine, imagine his suffering,being homeless.
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Whatever led to that, I have noidea.
I know we're all a summation ofour choices, but it doesn't
make life any easier for himthan it does for me in that
situation.
And then imagine seeing himHaving God literally grab you by
the chest and drag you in frontof him, asking him what's with
the laptop, and having thatresponse.
What I took from that is thisincredible sense of purpose.
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I think that's one thing we allhave in common, whether we're
having a good day, a bad day,whether we're ahead of the curve
or getting run over by it.
It's that sense of purposethat's usually at the heart of
every one of us who areentrepreneurs.
I feel a calling, I feel that Ihave a purpose, I feel there's
something out there for me tofulfill that other people need
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or want, and it speaks to ourpurpose.
Imagine that A man with no food, no access to water, has a
broken laptop and is well on hisway to writing an epic
publication, an epic book,because of chat GPT.
What I took away from that isthis technology discriminates
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from nobody and right now it'sours, and our aim is to make
sure that it stays that wayforever.
And by ours I mean all thepeople, from the wealthiest to
the gentleman sleeping under abridge.
Tonight it's opportunity.
A gentleman told me he askedChad GPT what he can do to go
from being a homeless man to awealthy citizen in the city of
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Denver.
He said that book was stepthree.
That's an emotional story forme, because I can't describe the
irony and I can't describe howit moved me into this path, into
this work, and how myfulfillment that I'm chasing, my
joy that I'm chasing, iswanting to spread that
opportunity, spread theawareness of that opportunity to
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everybody willing to hear it.
Not for the sake of wealth, ifthat's your goal perfect.
Not judging that at all.
Not for the sake of socialimpact If that's your goal
perfect, no judgment.
But that feeling of fulfillment, of joy, of satisfaction, of
being empowered, the relief ofsuffering, the relief from
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struggle.
I can't do it for you, norwould it serve you if I could,
but with this tool, ai in anyform, whether in an application,
a creator application, a largelanguage model, interface,
however, with that now at ourfingertips, that feeling, that
sense of victory, ofaccomplishment, of fulfillment,
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that sense of being a man frommy perspective, is now
accessible by everybody,including a homeless man on the
side of Starbucks with a brokenlaptop.
Imagine going from a situationlike that, which is likely far
worse than yours if you'relistening to this today, to
being wealthy.
Go from having to scramble forevery bit of resource food,
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water, clean air to absoluteprosperity.
I don't know why God created meborn in this country, the United
States of America, but I knowone thing I know that we are
given the right to pursuehappiness in this great country.
I know the rest of the rightsthat we're given are in support
of that pursuit.
I don't know why I'm blessed tolive here.
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I don't know why God put mehere, but if that's not the
American dream and thistechnology isn't the largest
boost to our ability to not onlypursue happiness but to
champion it, I don't know whatit is.
Whether you live in the UnitedStates or elsewhere, this
technology and this opportunityto feel, to experience this kind
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of fulfillment and joy is yoursall the same.
In fact, that's one of itsbiggest resources.
The information that thistechnology represents and that
can deliver to you in yourpursuit of your dreams and your
pursuit of happiness iscollective human wisdom, and
it's done without borders.
Think about tapping in to acollective intelligence, into a
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collective database of humanwisdom, without borders, without
time.
How does that speak to yourgoal?
How would that embolden you andempower you in your pursuit of
that goal?
My first business I had a mentor.
He's an amazing person, but Ihad one very successful man.
I wanted nothing more than tomake him proud of the work that
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we ended up doing.
It didn't end up going that way, and instead I learned an
incredible lesson in humility,which I later realized to be one
of the most important lessonsof my entire life.
You see, I thought it wasdisaster and failure, and the
truth was it was absolutelynecessary and without it I
wouldn't be where I am today,and for that reason I am
grateful.
But I had one.
Today we can access thecollective intelligence and
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wisdom of millions If you'recommitted to a cause, if you're
committed to your success.
What an incredible utility tohave at your fingertips.
What a thing to have in pursuitof your dreams.
What a thing to have as youpursue happiness, whether in
America or elsewhere, and, ifyou happen to be blessed to live
in this country, what a way tofulfill that guarantee.
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What a way to exercise thatfreedom that you're given as a
United States citizen to pursue.
What a time to be alive.
What a time to dream largerthan ever before.
What a time to be in pursuit ofyour happiness and your goals.
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So what are we talking abouttoday?
Confidence, joy, pride,fulfillment, basic but powerful
human emotions.
Think of a time in your ownlife, whether in your pursuits
of entrepreneurship, orprofessional pursuits, or family
pursuits, personal pursuits,whatever.
Think of a time when you feltconfidence.
Think of a time when you took arisk, you championed the
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outcome of that risk and youwalked standing tall with your
head held high.
Think how that led to joy, thejoy we feel If, for no other
reason than we relievedourselves of some stress, we've
made it through a struggle and,if nothing else, created a
little bit of breathing room, achance to reload for the next
round.
Maybe that next round is goingto last another day, a week or
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the rest of our lives.
Joy, the opportunity to feel joy, pride I don't mean being
arrogant or egotistical the kindof pride that a father feels
when he opens the door to a warm, safe house filled with
everything his children needwhen they come running in the
door.
The sense of pride whensomebody calls and needs
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something and you can providewhatever it is that that person
needs.
How proud we feel when we'vecreated that from nothing.
All these things together leadto fulfillment.
Fulfillment, feeling fulfilledas a person, even if only for a
few moments, if not the rest ofour life Fulfilled.
I started something I set outto champion, a goal fulfilled.
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I started something I set outto champion, a goal.
I made it and I am fulfilled.
I'm confident, I feel joy.
I'm proud of the work that I'vedone, the way I've served other
people, the way I'vecontributed to the human family
and I am now fulfilled Againusually only temporarily, but
fulfilled nonetheless.
There's been times in all of ourlives where these things have
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come together.
When we reflect on that, we maythink that's from chance.
Perhaps it was, but not likelyGenerally.
There's something driving us,driving those around us, driving
an opportunity into our purview, giving us the chance to jump
on board, to do something, tocreate our life in a direction
we've always wanted it to go.
My wife and I mentor severalsmall businesses and I love
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these people.
These people are our brothersand they are our sisters, and as
long as they're driving, wewill drive alongside them until
they get all the way to wherethey want to go.
And it's amazing to see, havingmentored for 25 years, how much
quicker, how fast people can gofrom a dream or a concept or a
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written intention to bring thatinto fruition.
It's amazing to see somethingthat sounds as boring, as
soulless as using AI in theseyoung people's businesses to
automate emails, but then seethe effect.
So that's the cause.
The cause is eliminateredundant tasks.
Okay, that sounds exciting.
Is there a lot of soul in that?
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It doesn't appear to until yourealize or until you witness
these people using thistechnology to automate those
emails and saving themselves 30minutes a day, an hour a day, by
Friday, at the time the whistleblows.
That's five hours in that week.
And what have they done withthat five hours?
It never changes.
It's the same thing every time.
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That five hours goes in someway towards enriching their
service to others, whetherthat's through their business or
through their social ideologiesor whatever it is that they're
working on.
That doesn't convert into naps,it doesn't convert to apathy, it
doesn't convert to silliness.
It converts to a richercontribution to others.
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You see, that's the effect.
That's the part that I cringewhen I hear these fear mongers
talking about this technology.
It's bullshit.
The truth of the matter ispeople are largely benevolent.
There's evil in the world,there's bad people.
Of course we're not naive, butfar and large, our creator has
created people for the sake oftheir benevolence.
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And so when you give thosepeople spare time, free time,
when you relieve them in thattime of suffering, of struggle,
of worry, doubt, anxiety, thethings that hold us back, how do
they respond?
They respond through richercontribution to others.
They make phone calls to peoplethey haven't seen in a long
time.
They surprise their moms withcalling home and letting them
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know that their life is goingreally, really well.
They take that time to make newfriends, forge new paths.
I'm 48 years old and there's fewthings in life that bring me
more joy at this point outsideof the success of my
entrepreneurial pursuits, but ona personal level than making
new friends.
I met a new friend lastWednesday Number one.
That's a hard thing to do.
Men struggle with that,certainly 48 year old men,
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certainly people in oursituation here, where we're
largely leaders in ourcommunities.
But it happens you meet peoplethat don't give a shit what you
do, don't care what house youlive in, your money whether
that's a ton of money or nomoney they're just happy you
showed up tonight.
That's what we can do with thistime.
That's how we go from AIautomating emails, ai providing
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direction, ai writing scriptsfor podcasts, ai giving us
information on things thatotherwise we'd have to seek out
a mentor and spend hours andhours and hours trying to pursue
.
When it comes to us instantly,we take that and we turn that
empowering, really honestly,kind of a convenience right,
super big time saver intoopportunities in our life.
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Because what do we all have.
We all have the same thing.
We're either the richest man inthe world or the poorest man in
the world, the oldest man inthe world or the newborn.
You have 24 hours in a day.
The biggest decisions we makehas nothing to do with money,
has everything to do with how wespend that 24 hours.
And every day it starts again.
Every day we get an opportunityto do it better, differently or
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worse than we did yesterday.
And when we're given that time,our options expand.
It's not just a to-do list today, it's not another 500 emails
that you got from your marketingcampaign.
It's not customer service.
It's allowing this technology,in the absolute, sterilized way
that we sometimes can perceiveit, to behave and realize.
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That's the cause.
The reaction is that we havetime.
We can leverage those 24 hoursto contribute greater to others.
That's the romance, that's thehuman element in this technology
.
When the fear mongers come,tell you to be afraid, to hide,
ai is going to take your job.
We've made fun of them recentlyon some of our content.
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Think what a benevolent persondoes.
Think what your best frienddoes.
Think what you can do whenyou're given that opportunity.
Think what you can do when youno longer have to seek a single
mentor or a group of mentors andspend all that time developing
those relationships, all thatwhen you can go straight to the
largest collection of that samewisdom and experience it for
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yourself and experience italmost instantaneously how much
further you can go.
It doesn't mean you don'tpursue a connection with a
mentor.
What it means is you have moretime to pursue the right
connection to that mentor, tothe right person, to building
that network, to sharing yourconnection, your contribution,
your benevolence with as manypeople as humanly possible.
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Maybe that means you knock offearly and go home and crawl up
on the couch with your wife andhold her while she watches that
movie she's been bugging you fora year to watch that you don't
think you can stand.
But today, because you feelfulfilled, because you're proud
of yourself for creating theopportunity to come home at two
o'clock in the afternoon, atthree o'clock in the afternoon,
wrap up on the couch, hold hertight and watch the movie.
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You've created that foryourself.
You've created the opportunityto do that.
What would that feel like?
You show up at your kid'sschool, walk right in the
classroom unannounced just totell them you love them and
you're proud of them for doing agood job today.
What would that feel like?
There is not a thing on thisearth.
There is not a lack of anythingresource, time, intelligence,
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opportunity, whatever that holdsyou back from that?
Not anymore.
My friend can write a complexbook based on her social
experiment in contemporaryAmerican society while living
homeless.
What's your excuse?
What's holding you back?
The air conditioner worked toogood in your house, too many
options to choose from onstreaming services.
You'll get to that next week,tomorrow, maybe someday.
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I say you call bullshit onyourself.
I say you look in the mirrorand realize you're living in
times where things have neverbeen so easy.
We're an opportunity tochampion what you want in your
life your contribution, yourfulfillment, your pride, your
joy, your freedom.
Your pursuit of happiness hasnever been closer than it is
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right now.
Today, the question is do youhave the courage to step into it
?
Do you have the courage to takethe risk?
There's a million excuses Idon't have the money, I don't
have the time, kids are insoccer, can't miss a football
game.
Wifey's working overtime tryingto help me pay the mortgage.
Those 24 hours in a day that weeach share.
They come and they go, and whenthey go, there's no getting
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them back.
There is no way for that toreturn.
Every day that you don't takeaction, every day you don't take
that step, every day youcontinue to dream and not do, is
a day lost to history that youwill never get another chance to
regain.
The time is now, Only now.
It's too late.
Tomorrow.
It's overwhelming too.
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I know it's a lot.
What do you mean?
I just quit my job tomorrow andgo after it.
I'd put a plan together first.
I'd consult this collectivewisdom.
Frankly, the first thing Iwould do is I'd sign up for a
TST class.
Shameless as that sounds, thebottom line is it's a great
place to start.
You can sign up for some freeinformation, you can sign up for
classes.
That's what we're here to do.
That's what we're here to helpyou do.
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It's not expensive and it couldchange your life and it just
might give you the confidenceyou need to take the next step,
because this is in your future.
What I'm talking about, thatkind of prosperity, that kind of
pursuit of happiness,absolutely attainable, in fact,
more so now than it ever hasbeen before.
So I dare you to take the firststep.
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Reach out.
Sign up for your TST class.
Download those tools, put themto work.
Sign up for your TSG class.
Download those tools, put themto work, get to work and
champion your goals and I'llmeet you where joy and
confidence and pride andfulfillment live on the other
side and we can celebrate.
Thank you for joining me.
I'm Adam Fierstein.
This is the TSG Podcast.
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I invite you to join us.
Check out our website attotalsomegamecom and we invite
you along in this journey.
We invite you to join us.
Check out our website attotalsomegamecom and we invite
you along in this journey.
We invite you to click thebuttons, go through the funnel,
attain the knowledge andchampion your goals and share it
with us.
When you do, we'll be here,thank you.
It almost never happens.
We anticipate something and itturns out infinitely better than
what we thought.
Here's one of them.
How many times in your life canyou actually count where things
turned out to be far sweeterthan you thought they would be
25 years of being anentrepreneur, I've learned a lot
about how things feel when yougo through highs and lows.
It's not that your entire lifeis defined by what you do, but
(00:23):
it is a huge part of who you areas a person.
It doesn't define you, but itis a huge part.
Maybe you feel the same way thatstruggle, the trying to
constantly get to the next step,looking to other people,
comparing yourself.
Man, that guy must have itfigured out, that girl must have
it figured out.
Why don't I have it figured out?
What do I need to do?
What is this combination it?
(00:44):
Why don't I have it figured out?
What do I need to do?
What is this combination?
It?
Can be overwhelming and, flatout, feel hopeless.
From time to time I felt that.
I felt that in my firstbusiness, getting it going all
the way through to the end,we're in it in a bankruptcy
trial or bankruptcy hearing andour federal bankruptcy system.
I understand that gauntlet ofemotions.
I'm wondering how many of youhave felt something similar or
(01:06):
maybe even the exact same way,that feeling where, every day,
we've made a commitment tosomething that we don't fully
understand and we're trying toget through it.
We don't want to disappoint thepeople around us.
We don't want to have to tellthose we care about or that
we're trying to provide for thatmaybe this isn't going to work,
or maybe that we invested moneyor time that we're deeply,
(01:28):
deeply feeling regretful aboutbecause we doubt the outcome is
going to be what we wanted it tobe.
We doubt the outcome is goingto be the, or rather fulfill,
the reason why we took the leapin the beginning.
There's highs and lows everyday in life.
You don't have to be anentrepreneur to understand that,
that's for sure.
But as entrepreneurs, it'sinevitable that we're going to
run into these things.
(01:48):
We're going to have toexperience these emotions of
thrill, right, absolute thrill,excitement, joy, pride, defeat,
overconfidence, underconfidence,all trying to find the same
thing success.
What is success?
My definition is freedom andfulfillment.
It's easy to measure monetarily, right.
(02:10):
It's easy to measure with money.
I made $10 million last year.
I made $100.
Last year.
I made a billion dollars,whatever scale it is you're
playing on.
That's easy.
There's other ways of creatingvictory, too.
We discuss that all the time.
I made a social impact, I madea sacrifice that led to making
somebody else or a group ofpeople or a lot of people's
lives better.
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Whatever that is, it doesn'thave to be financial.
I can tell you, at this stage inmy life, I have created a place
for my own self inentrepreneurialism where I
absolutely do care aboutprofitability, but I care less
about it now than I did before,and that opens up an opportunity
for me to truly share andconnect with the people that I
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want to reach out to, thatreverberate with this message,
who are in the struggle ofentrepreneurialism, who are in
the pursuit of their dreams,their goals, who want that
feeling confidence, joy,prosperity, pride feeling and I
know this especially as a manhoping that next week my wife
will come on and speak to thisfrom the feminine perspective
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but definitely as a man that Iprovided for my family today
from something that I createdfrom nothing like that sense of
absolute fulfillment.
I wish that for every person inmy life who has this pursuit.
I wish that for every personhearing this Losers want you to
lose.
Winners want you to win and Iwant everybody hearing this to
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be on the path to winning, ifyou're not there already right
now.
The reason that I want that isbecause, from bankruptcy court
to what I define as being quitesuccessful not all the way there
yet, but I have been so far inmy own life and that feeling
that you get, looking out overyour family, your loved ones,
your friends, knowing thatyou've provided something,
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whatever that is.
Maybe it's just a nice placefor them to come through, or
maybe you snuck your credit cardto the waiter and make sure
that you covered everybody at anexpensive dinner.
Whatever that looks like to you, it's very powerful and it
doesn't happen all the time andit takes a ridiculous amount of
work to get there.
Part of that work is dealingwith how we feel about things,
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our perception.
Is this good, is it bad?
Is this winning?
Is this losing?
Are we closer to our goal?
Are we further from our goal?
Why does it look like?
Everybody else has it figuredout and I don't.
If I had any way of countinghow many times I felt that way
in my life, I can't even imaginethe number.
It's what drives me to want todo this work.
It's what drives the servicesthat we provide at TSG.
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It's the whole purpose here.
I want to walk as many peopleinto that light, into that light
of victory, of success, howeverthey define it individually.
It's not up to me to tell youhow to be successful.
It's not up to me to tell youhow to feel or what it will feel
like for you.
All I know is in my own life,what those struggles have felt
like, what the failures havefelt like and what the failures
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have felt like and what thevictories have felt like.
And I can tell you, for all theenergy that we sometimes think
is lost in a failure, it comesback a hundredfold in an instant
, as soon as we make victory, assoon as we champion that next
goal and the truth is there'salways a next goal right.
There's always some other place.
We want to get to, some thingwe're striving for and we want
to never let go of that.
That's what the adventure isbased on, and I invite you to
think that way.
Not only is entrepreneurialisman adventure perhaps the
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grandest professional adventureone can take, in my opinion
anyway but also the adventure ofthis incredible technology that
we now have as entrepreneurs tosupport us.
And it's 24-7.
It's not tired, it doesn't stopthinking, it doesn't shut down,
it doesn't tell you to wait, itdoesn't remind you how
unimportant you are to it.
And that is, as you all know,is AI.
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Is AI in and of itself aromantic thing?
Is it a romantic idea?
Is it a romantic practice?
No, it's not.
It's another computer interface, right, ones and zeros and
plastic screens.
But what it represents as atool, a tool to champion our
dreams and our goals, andtherefore how it helps us to
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that feeling, to that feeling ofmastering our universe,
mastering our purpose, if onlytemporarily or only in part, it
doesn't matter.
We take the wins where we canget them and why it makes me so
passionate has nothing to dowith ones and zeros or plastic
screens.
It has everything to do withthe human experience and how it
furthers that along, how thiscan accelerate us closer to our
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goals.
How I see people who aresuffering, and suffering is it's
a huge part in my life thewitnessing of human suffering
and that longing inside to dosomething about it.
And I don't mean, you know,hand things out.
I don't believe in givingthings away necessarily.
I think sometimes that leads toenablement on certain people in
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certain situations.
What I believe in isempowerment.
I've told the story before thehomeless guy that I met outside
of Starbucks writing a bookcalled.
That he said was about actuallyI don't know the title, but it
was about United StatesConstitution as a social
contract in contemporary America.
I asked a homeless man whohappened to have a laptop,
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what's with the laptop?
And that was his response I'mwriting a book about the United
States Constitution as a socialcontract in contemporary
American society.
How many people would walk upto a homeless man on the side of
a building in downtown andanticipate that response?
Imagine, imagine his suffering,being homeless.
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Whatever led to that, I have noidea.
I know we're all a summation ofour choices, but it doesn't
make life any easier for himthan it does for me in that
situation.
And then imagine seeing himHaving God literally grab you by
the chest and drag you in frontof him, asking him what's with
the laptop, and having thatresponse.
What I took from that is thisincredible sense of purpose.
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I think that's one thing we allhave in common, whether we're
having a good day, a bad day,whether we're ahead of the curve
or getting run over by it.
It's that sense of purposethat's usually at the heart of
every one of us who areentrepreneurs.
I feel a calling, I feel that Ihave a purpose, I feel there's
something out there for me tofulfill that other people need
(08:31):
or want, and it speaks to ourpurpose.
Imagine that A man with no food, no access to water, has a
broken laptop and is well on hisway to writing an epic
publication, an epic book,because of chat GPT.
What I took away from that isthis technology discriminates
(08:53):
from nobody and right now it'sours, and our aim is to make
sure that it stays that wayforever.
And by ours I mean all thepeople, from the wealthiest to
the gentleman sleeping under abridge.
Tonight it's opportunity.
A gentleman told me he askedChad GPT what he can do to go
from being a homeless man to awealthy citizen in the city of
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Denver.
He said that book was stepthree.
That's an emotional story forme, because I can't describe the
irony and I can't describe howit moved me into this path, into
this work, and how myfulfillment that I'm chasing, my
joy that I'm chasing, iswanting to spread that
opportunity, spread theawareness of that opportunity to
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everybody willing to hear it.
Not for the sake of wealth, ifthat's your goal perfect.
Not judging that at all.
Not for the sake of socialimpact If that's your goal
perfect, no judgment.
But that feeling of fulfillment, of joy, of satisfaction, of
being empowered, the relief ofsuffering, the relief from
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struggle.
I can't do it for you, norwould it serve you if I could,
but with this tool, ai in anyform, whether in an application,
a creator application, a largelanguage model, interface,
however, with that now at ourfingertips, that feeling, that
sense of victory, ofaccomplishment, of fulfillment,
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that sense of being a man frommy perspective, is now
accessible by everybody,including a homeless man on the
side of Starbucks with a brokenlaptop.
Imagine going from a situationlike that, which is likely far
worse than yours if you'relistening to this today, to
being wealthy.
Go from having to scramble forevery bit of resource food,
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water, clean air to absoluteprosperity.
I don't know why God created meborn in this country, the United
States of America, but I knowone thing I know that we are
given the right to pursuehappiness in this great country.
I know the rest of the rightsthat we're given are in support
of that pursuit.
I don't know why I'm blessed tolive here.
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I don't know why God put mehere, but if that's not the
American dream and thistechnology isn't the largest
boost to our ability to not onlypursue happiness but to
champion it, I don't know whatit is.
Whether you live in the UnitedStates or elsewhere, this
technology and this opportunityto feel, to experience this kind
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of fulfillment and joy is yoursall the same.
In fact, that's one of itsbiggest resources.
The information that thistechnology represents and that
can deliver to you in yourpursuit of your dreams and your
pursuit of happiness iscollective human wisdom, and
it's done without borders.
Think about tapping in to acollective intelligence, into a
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collective database of humanwisdom, without borders, without
time.
How does that speak to yourgoal?
How would that embolden you andempower you in your pursuit of
that goal?
My first business I had a mentor.
He's an amazing person, but Ihad one very successful man.
I wanted nothing more than tomake him proud of the work that
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we ended up doing.
It didn't end up going that way, and instead I learned an
incredible lesson in humility,which I later realized to be one
of the most important lessonsof my entire life.
You see, I thought it wasdisaster and failure, and the
truth was it was absolutelynecessary and without it I
wouldn't be where I am today,and for that reason I am
grateful.
But I had one.
Today we can access thecollective intelligence and
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wisdom of millions If you'recommitted to a cause, if you're
committed to your success.
What an incredible utility tohave at your fingertips.
What a thing to have in pursuitof your dreams.
What a thing to have as youpursue happiness, whether in
America or elsewhere, and, ifyou happen to be blessed to live
in this country, what a way tofulfill that guarantee.
(12:56):
What a way to exercise thatfreedom that you're given as a
United States citizen to pursue.
What a time to be alive.
What a time to dream largerthan ever before.
What a time to be in pursuit ofyour happiness and your goals.
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So what are we talking abouttoday?
Confidence, joy, pride,fulfillment, basic but powerful
human emotions.
Think of a time in your ownlife, whether in your pursuits
of entrepreneurship, orprofessional pursuits, or family
pursuits, personal pursuits,whatever.
Think of a time when you feltconfidence.
Think of a time when you took arisk, you championed the
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outcome of that risk and youwalked standing tall with your
head held high.
Think how that led to joy, thejoy we feel If, for no other
reason than we relievedourselves of some stress, we've
made it through a struggle and,if nothing else, created a
little bit of breathing room, achance to reload for the next
round.
Maybe that next round is goingto last another day, a week or
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the rest of our lives.
Joy, the opportunity to feel joy, pride I don't mean being
arrogant or egotistical the kindof pride that a father feels
when he opens the door to a warm, safe house filled with
everything his children needwhen they come running in the
door.
The sense of pride whensomebody calls and needs
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something and you can providewhatever it is that that person
needs.
How proud we feel when we'vecreated that from nothing.
All these things together leadto fulfillment.
Fulfillment, feeling fulfilledas a person, even if only for a
few moments, if not the rest ofour life Fulfilled.
I started something I set outto champion, a goal fulfilled.
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I started something I set outto champion, a goal.
I made it and I am fulfilled.
I'm confident, I feel joy.
I'm proud of the work that I'vedone, the way I've served other
people, the way I'vecontributed to the human family
and I am now fulfilled Againusually only temporarily, but
fulfilled nonetheless.
There's been times in all of ourlives where these things have
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come together.
When we reflect on that, we maythink that's from chance.
Perhaps it was, but not likelyGenerally.
There's something driving us,driving those around us, driving
an opportunity into our purview, giving us the chance to jump
on board, to do something, tocreate our life in a direction
we've always wanted it to go.
My wife and I mentor severalsmall businesses and I love
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these people.
These people are our brothersand they are our sisters, and as
long as they're driving, wewill drive alongside them until
they get all the way to wherethey want to go.
And it's amazing to see, havingmentored for 25 years, how much
quicker, how fast people can gofrom a dream or a concept or a
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written intention to bring thatinto fruition.
It's amazing to see somethingthat sounds as boring, as
soulless as using AI in theseyoung people's businesses to
automate emails, but then seethe effect.
So that's the cause.
The cause is eliminateredundant tasks.
Okay, that sounds exciting.
Is there a lot of soul in that?
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It doesn't appear to until yourealize or until you witness
these people using thistechnology to automate those
emails and saving themselves 30minutes a day, an hour a day, by
Friday, at the time the whistleblows.
That's five hours in that week.
And what have they done withthat five hours?
It never changes.
It's the same thing every time.
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That five hours goes in someway towards enriching their
service to others, whetherthat's through their business or
through their social ideologiesor whatever it is that they're
working on.
That doesn't convert into naps,it doesn't convert to apathy, it
doesn't convert to silliness.
It converts to a richercontribution to others.
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You see, that's the effect.
That's the part that I cringewhen I hear these fear mongers
talking about this technology.
It's bullshit.
The truth of the matter ispeople are largely benevolent.
There's evil in the world,there's bad people.
Of course we're not naive, butfar and large, our creator has
created people for the sake oftheir benevolence.
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And so when you give thosepeople spare time, free time,
when you relieve them in thattime of suffering, of struggle,
of worry, doubt, anxiety, thethings that hold us back, how do
they respond?
They respond through richercontribution to others.
They make phone calls to peoplethey haven't seen in a long
time.
They surprise their moms withcalling home and letting them
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know that their life is goingreally, really well.
They take that time to make newfriends, forge new paths.
I'm 48 years old and there's fewthings in life that bring me
more joy at this point outsideof the success of my
entrepreneurial pursuits, but ona personal level than making
new friends.
I met a new friend lastWednesday Number one.
That's a hard thing to do.
Men struggle with that,certainly 48 year old men,
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certainly people in oursituation here, where we're
largely leaders in ourcommunities.
But it happens you meet peoplethat don't give a shit what you
do, don't care what house youlive in, your money whether
that's a ton of money or nomoney they're just happy you
showed up tonight.
That's what we can do with thistime.
That's how we go from AIautomating emails, ai providing
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direction, ai writing scriptsfor podcasts, ai giving us
information on things thatotherwise we'd have to seek out
a mentor and spend hours andhours and hours trying to pursue
.
When it comes to us instantly,we take that and we turn that
empowering, really honestly,kind of a convenience right,
super big time saver intoopportunities in our life.
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Because what do we all have.
We all have the same thing.
We're either the richest man inthe world or the poorest man in
the world, the oldest man inthe world or the newborn.
You have 24 hours in a day.
The biggest decisions we makehas nothing to do with money,
has everything to do with how wespend that 24 hours.
And every day it starts again.
Every day we get an opportunityto do it better, differently or
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worse than we did yesterday.
And when we're given that time,our options expand.
It's not just a to-do list today, it's not another 500 emails
that you got from your marketingcampaign.
It's not customer service.
It's allowing this technology,in the absolute, sterilized way
that we sometimes can perceiveit, to behave and realize.
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That's the cause.
The reaction is that we havetime.
We can leverage those 24 hoursto contribute greater to others.
That's the romance, that's thehuman element in this technology
.
When the fear mongers come,tell you to be afraid, to hide,
ai is going to take your job.
We've made fun of them recentlyon some of our content.
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Think what a benevolent persondoes.
Think what your best frienddoes.
Think what you can do whenyou're given that opportunity.
Think what you can do when youno longer have to seek a single
mentor or a group of mentors andspend all that time developing
those relationships, all thatwhen you can go straight to the
largest collection of that samewisdom and experience it for
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yourself and experience italmost instantaneously how much
further you can go.
It doesn't mean you don'tpursue a connection with a
mentor.
What it means is you have moretime to pursue the right
connection to that mentor, tothe right person, to building
that network, to sharing yourconnection, your contribution,
your benevolence with as manypeople as humanly possible.
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Maybe that means you knock offearly and go home and crawl up
on the couch with your wife andhold her while she watches that
movie she's been bugging you fora year to watch that you don't
think you can stand.
But today, because you feelfulfilled, because you're proud
of yourself for creating theopportunity to come home at two
o'clock in the afternoon, atthree o'clock in the afternoon,
wrap up on the couch, hold hertight and watch the movie.
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You've created that foryourself.
You've created the opportunityto do that.
What would that feel like?
You show up at your kid'sschool, walk right in the
classroom unannounced just totell them you love them and
you're proud of them for doing agood job today.
What would that feel like?
There is not a thing on thisearth.
There is not a lack of anythingresource, time, intelligence,
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opportunity, whatever that holdsyou back from that?
Not anymore.
My friend can write a complexbook based on her social
experiment in contemporaryAmerican society while living
homeless.
What's your excuse?
What's holding you back?
The air conditioner worked toogood in your house, too many
options to choose from onstreaming services.
You'll get to that next week,tomorrow, maybe someday.
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I say you call bullshit onyourself.
I say you look in the mirrorand realize you're living in
times where things have neverbeen so easy.
We're an opportunity tochampion what you want in your
life your contribution, yourfulfillment, your pride, your
joy, your freedom.
Your pursuit of happiness hasnever been closer than it is
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right now.
Today, the question is do youhave the courage to step into it
?
Do you have the courage to takethe risk?
There's a million excuses Idon't have the money, I don't
have the time, kids are insoccer, can't miss a football
game.
Wifey's working overtime tryingto help me pay the mortgage.
Those 24 hours in a day that weeach share.
They come and they go, and whenthey go, there's no getting
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them back.
There is no way for that toreturn.
Every day that you don't takeaction, every day you don't take
that step, every day youcontinue to dream and not do, is
a day lost to history that youwill never get another chance to
regain.
The time is now, Only now.
It's too late.
Tomorrow.
It's overwhelming too.
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I know it's a lot.
What do you mean?
I just quit my job tomorrow andgo after it.
I'd put a plan together first.
I'd consult this collectivewisdom.
Frankly, the first thing Iwould do is I'd sign up for a
TST class.
Shameless as that sounds, thebottom line is it's a great
place to start.
You can sign up for some freeinformation, you can sign up for
classes.
That's what we're here to do.
That's what we're here to helpyou do.
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It's not expensive and it couldchange your life and it just
might give you the confidenceyou need to take the next step,
because this is in your future.
What I'm talking about, thatkind of prosperity, that kind of
pursuit of happiness,absolutely attainable, in fact,
more so now than it ever hasbeen before.
So I dare you to take the firststep.
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Reach out.
Sign up for your TST class.
Download those tools, put themto work.
Sign up for your TSG class.
Download those tools, put themto work, get to work and
champion your goals and I'llmeet you where joy and
confidence and pride andfulfillment live on the other
side and we can celebrate.
Thank you for joining me.
I'm Adam Fierstein.
This is the TSG Podcast.
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I invite you to join us.
Check out our website attotalsomegamecom and we invite
you along in this journey.
We invite you to join us.
Check out our website attotalsomegamecom and we invite
you along in this journey.
We invite you to click thebuttons, go through the funnel,
attain the knowledge andchampion your goals and share it
with us.
When you do, we'll be here,thank you.
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