Don't be watching Netflix. Don't be on Instagram looking at girls. Even for example, like, I get so many DMs from guys, bro, help me out, man, help me out.
I just use it as case study sometimes, you know? I go on their page, I look at who they follow, and they're following all half-naked girls. When you feel like you want to sell, like when everyone's saying, that's when you got to buy, it's literally the opposite, and it's hard because of human psychology, right?
But just being in that space for that long, I just see, like, when you're the most Nervous when you're the most scared and you're selling that's probably the wrong point where you should buy Like I said like what the reason why I mentioned that in the hip-hop world is they didn't realize the power of social media Like but when you have a personal brand like look at look at Jake Paul For example, the dudes probably making more money in boxing then you know Probably just only Canelo and one or two of the top top people was making more money than him in boxing That's not even his lane Like you know what I mean? like he made that his lane and he's making more money than all of these other people because Welcome to another episode of the podcast. Today we've got an absolute blast.
We've got Big Sam back as a second repeat offender. He's done over nine figures online in the digital gaming space and digital products. So a big thank you to him today.
He's also a whiz when it comes to crypto. In the last podcast, he also called what was going to happen with Bitcoin. And what did you say was going to happen in the last one? Well, I said that we would find the bottom then or around the next couple months. And then I said in 2024, it's going to go up.
So, and also like throughout that whole bear market, I was just trying to sell my assets, sell my assets. Like I sold my Lamborghini and Ethereum and Bitcoin. I was just selling off stuff just to keep accumulating. So you were selling your assets then to buy more crypto, more Bitcoin, more Ethereum?
Yeah, look, the way that I always try to tell people is when you feel like you want to sell, like when everyone's saying that's when you got to buy, it's literally the opposite. And it's hard because of human psychology. psychology right but um just being in that space for that long um i just see like when when you're the most nervous when you're the most scared and you're selling that's probably the wrong point where you should buy yeah it's funny i was about to say a minute ago so what i did last january was that when i think it was january market was fucked i bought solana before at like 150 some at 250 yeah it went down to like 10 12 i was like well if i bought 150 i bought 250 like this is the least risk i'm ever gonna do to take yeah she just started piling into that and it's now back to like went to 210 there's a 150 or something today um and it's mind tricking yourself into think realizing you need to do opposite of everyone else yeah i always tell people like okay for example right i'm into fashion and everything but if you go to fendi and there's a jacket for five thousand dollars and you want to buy it and then you go back the next week and it's two thousand dollars you're gonna want to buy it right but when it comes to like um you know stocks and crypto and that people have a completely different mindset so i just kind of say it like that to people i think people don't realize that it's almost like i look at it's on sale you're getting a discount yeah yeah look uh it just shows that the majority of people and you know it's fair enough they they're just buying literally trying to get quick money but um once you do the research once you do like the proper due diligence um you just pick a few a few things and like the price action It's kind of like the, it's not the only indicator that you look at. You look at, is the space growing? Is people building on the space?
What new things are coming in? Like, for example, with the ETFs and that, that just pretty much gives Bitcoin a stamp of approval because they're not going to allow people to buy it in America if they're going to ban it. You know what I mean? But that doesn't mean that the price just jumps up the next day. You know what I'm saying?
So it's like, you can see. all these things happening and usually prices like the last or even a lagging indicator of all of that stuff happening before it um so you gotta research and stay involved in it at that point and that's that's why i'm comfortable to to do these investments when it's down when everyone's saying sell um on these type of uh you know ethereum the bitcoins and like you said solano uh contrarian mindset doing the opposite of everyone else thinking differently yeah i've always been like that so It's kind of... It comes naturally to you. Yeah, natural.
With crypto and where the space is going, do you like the bull run, whether it's even really started yet, how far do you think that will go and when do you think it will finish and what do you personally think Bitcoin can end up going to? Damn. That's a very broad question, isn't it?
Yeah. Well, when it comes to the market, I believe if you look at every other project or coin apart from Bitcoin, they haven't hit their all-time highs yet. And... And I believe that Bitcoin hit it.
Now, just because of the ETFs. So if you take Bitcoin off the table and you look at the other projects, you can see that we're not even at all-time highs on anything else. So I still believe we're early.
But in saying that, you do have to look. The price was $16,000. So it's already like a 4X from there. In terms of the price, what it could be. I don't really like to call the price because like I said, for me with Bitcoin...
it's like i don't say i don't like saving in fiat so like like for me bitcoin is the the angle so i'm not looking at it as um like one bitcoin is one bitcoin that's that's kind of how i look at it it's like a scarce asset it's literally like earning a picasso or you know what i mean so you you're essentially trying to accumulate as much bitcoin as possible and then you're diversifying into other uh cryptocurrencies at the same time oh i don't really like i like bitcoin ethereum um um you know apart from that to be honest like okay this run i believe is like ai and gaming and even i believe that gaming was going to have a big run um this cycle which is why in 2021 i set up the web3 gaming company and you know we're launching a game this year in that space so i've been building the whole um last few years in gaming in anticipation of it having to run this cycle. Now, when that will happen, I'm not too sure, but I know that there was $4 billion allocated towards gaming in the last cycle. And being in the space and the previous success that I've had in the mobile gaming industry, I know that these different projects or the more bigger games, they take years to build. So they take years. So, you know, all it takes is one game to have a bit of success this cycle.
And then the whole scene becomes like a center of attention. You look at what happened in the last run when Facebook changed their name to Meta and said that they were focusing on the metaverse, like Sand and Mana and all that went crazy up. So, yeah, it just takes one semi-successful game in Web3 for the whole space to...
you know to to blow up and you know i i know for a fact that the last cycle and the previous cycles was like crypto people trying to build a game now you're going to see gaming people building a fun game and adding the crypto element the blockchain element to it so it's a it's a completely different thing it's not going to be like gamified or people just speculation um you're actually going to see some titles that are fun to play and people just want to own the assets inside the game not for speculation I think that is going to be the point where gaming will head to. I think what's frightening is that crypto hasn't really even been practically used for much yet yeah so when it actually starts get practically used like you said there's gonna go nuclear imagine like Call of Duty or Warcraft is on crypto is like on the crypto platforms and then you're like buying to buy it and a better skins on guns and stuff that's when it will go nuclear I think. Yeah there's billions and billions of dollars spent on in-game transactions in in your normal games that like the end user doesn't have any ownership of and can't even transfer that into other into other games so you know in the future like you'll be able to take your skin from this game and transfer it into that game you know what i mean like that's all that's all going to happen and and and you'll be able to um you know you can verify who owns it also like the amount of time that you spend inside the game you know that there's a value to that and And with the NFT and the ownership aspect, you can literally build it up and it will have a dollar value to it. With crypto, is there a point where you're looking to exit and sell anything or you just purely just gonna try and keep accumulating?
Because a lot of people really struggle to actually exit out and that's just why 90% of people don't make any money. Yeah, look, I think apart from Bitcoin and Ethereum to an extent, I think everything else is like... like a buy and sell thing. You know what I mean? Like, I didn't try to time the market.
It's like time in the market. That's what I try to tell people because like I first started buying in 2015 and I made a lot of mistakes throughout that whole process. But even what I try to tell people when I tell them that I've been involved since 2015, they're like, damn, I wish I knew about it back then.
And I always try to remind them like... Well, let me tell you something, the people that bought back then, 99% of them have sold, and they wish they hadn't sold. So when I say that to them, it's like, you don't try to time the market, it's about time in the market.
And, you know, if you look over a four year period or what, whatever, no one has ever lost money on Bitcoin. There's an expression that I remember my dad's friend saying to me was really wealthy. And the very simple saying was essentially that it's expensive today, cheap tomorrow.
And I remember buying Bitcoin in 2017. It was like, I don't know, maybe three. three four thousand dollars yeah and it went down to like two thousand whatever it was i was like fuck i've lost so much money this is really expensive whatever but now you're talking it's like 65 000 whatever today yeah it's like context there's no way in a few years time it won't be worth more yeah i think that's where people need to like elongate their time horizons of the way they look at money and also investing in crypto yeah look i look at the world now um and you see there's like a division happening um between east and west you know different different superpowers um And they don't want to trade in the US dollar as the reserve currency because at the end of the day, China, Russia, all that, if they trade in the US dollar, who does that end up benefiting the most? The US.
And so I believe that Bitcoin is a way that they will do international settlements for payments. And you even see Venezuela just announced that they're doing their payments in USDT. you know what i mean so like slowly but surely like the more and more people that uh come on to it and and just see like all the use cases and the benefits for it no you saw with el salvador adopting it as a as a as a reserve reserve currency and um all the stuff that's happened there now you see other south american nations starting to see that like you have venezuela um using usdt um for oil trade and that and yeah i believe that it's gonna it's gonna happen a lot more even with you know like what happened in um 2019 2020 with all the the spending and and all the you know all the money that they just the government's printed for the um are we allowed to say it yeah exactly what do we say the the bullshit thing that happened yeah the flu um for the flu so um you know you see what happened there and you know even though a hundred dollars in 2021 it's only like 75 now you know what i mean so it's like you you can't save and you can't save in your normal um your normal savings anymore man what would you say to people who think they can save their way to wealth look uh yeah i think no that's crazy you can't you can't save your way um you need you can invest um invest in yourself but yeah in regards to saving like how can you do it when when the inflation rate is like they say it's two three percent but from all accounts it's like eight to ten percent so that means that if you if you got a hundred dollars it's only worth like 92 that next year so yeah I don't see it, man.
Something you posted on Instagram the other day I thought was a very interesting question I want to ask you. Do you think it's harder to make your first $10,000, first $100,000 or first million dollars? I like that you're asking me that question because actually a lot of the results was $1,000 to $100,000 because it's a 100X. Whereas $100,000 to $1 million is a 10X.
$1 million to $10 million is a 10X. But I've done all three, right? And I say like the...
the zero to 100k you can do that with a job you know what i mean you can do that with a salary realistically you can do that with a salary um 100 to 1 million you can do that over a period of time with just some property flips right but the 1 mil to 10 mil now you're talking risk you know what i mean like you got to risk that 1 mil to get to 10 mil and i think that in order to get that you actually need to have a business you need to be an entrepreneur you need to have your own business or a product or a service to get you to that level so that's why i say that that that is the hardest it's also the most risk and um yeah so that's why i believe that the one mil to 10 mil is is the hardest i think what's interesting about that is because when you're at that stage we've got a million or two you're comfortable you've got good lifestyle you can do whatever you want is you're also semi putting that on the line to try and go bigger and get to fucking 10 yeah and also like you know when someone has a million dollars right it's very hard to to say, you know what? I'm not going to spend it now. I'm not going to buy the watch. I'm not going to buy the Lamborghini. I'm not going to buy this, that, and the third.
I'm going to see that. I'm going to focus because even for myself, I didn't even buy my first supercar until I had over 10 million in the bank and a house paid off. You know what I mean? Like, just because I want to play that long game, like I want to keep going, keep going, keep going. I didn't care to impress people below that level.
You know what I mean? Like I was trying to get up. I didn't want to be the big fish in a little pond where I was living or anything like that. So that's why I say it's hardest because once people get a million dollars, they're probably like...
break it up in 20 different ways you got to do this for your parents you got to you know you got you want to get the watch you want to get the starter kit you know what i mean the entrepreneur starter kit i made kit yeah but it's hard to just go you know what i'm not ready yet so that's why i always say that that is the hardest do you think it's harder to go from 1 to 10 or 10 to 50 um damn Like I said, I think from 1 to 10 to 10 to 50, you need to have a business. Do you know what I mean? Like now, the only thing that I focus on is like I always just look at the ceiling because a lot of people say, yeah, I'm about the money, I'm chasing the money, but they're chasing money in a business or a lane that the ceiling is quite low. So, yeah, I definitely think I kind of think they're the same, to be honest. Yeah, I think they're probably the same.
Yeah. If you can get to 10, I think the same principles apply for both. But the ones before, it's different principles. What you just said there reminds me of one of my favorite books is 10X is Easier Than 2X by Dan Sullivan. It's basically the process in terms of if you want to get 10X results, you have to think differently.
In terms of most people don't realize the vehicle they're in in terms of they want to become a millionaire, but they physically can't do it because they're a personal trainer trading money for time. So it's physically impossible. And people still don't understand that. anyone listening to this should sit down and work out like what they actually want which most people don't do and then is that actually physically possible with what i'm doing right now yeah and what will those numbers look like exactly like or and if not you got to like work on your skills and and change your hustle up and become an expert in an industry or a field that has like a unlimited ceiling you know what i mean like you said yeah personal trainer who's trading their time for money you're never going to be a multi-multi-millionaire but what you can do is create your own training program and try to be a f45 try to be a high rocks try to be a barry's you know what i mean like i think that's the way you could do it in fitness but literally just being a personal trainer it's it's not going to happen you mentioned that it's like self-development learning my personal feeling is that like entrepreneurship is like the greatest self-development vehicle you're ever going to do yeah what do you do just like in terms of your own personal growth and to keep developing uh personally like for myself first thing is like fitness i think that is the most important you know like i i train every day like i run um i just want to feel that you know what i mean like i look back at what humans used to do to get some steak you know what i mean like you think about we had to go out and do sustenance hunting is the primitive form of hunting where you literally have to outrun and outlast the animal and um there's videos on youtube just type sustenance hunting and it's crazy like literally outrunning the the antelope or the gazelle and outlasting it so we did that all throughout history and now we're just like i mean especially living in like 2024 you don't even need to leave your house so i still want to feel that um every single day that you know just the lungs like burning and everything and then apart from that like i said i just stick to stuff that has a super high ceiling that's why that's why like Like, that's why I've been in social media and making money on social media for over 10 years. Like, before that, I used to run nightclubs and that.
But these were all physical locations. So what I realized is, like, when my Facebook page started going crazy in 2014, I'm like, damn, like, I got these physical businesses. But I got people in America that are following what I'm doing. I don't have anything.
I can't make money off them. And so, yeah, I just stick to late. stick to lanes that have a super high ceiling that's why i'm that's why i got into apps as soon as i got into mobile games the reason that it attracted me out of everything else that i was doing at the time was just reading an article saying that the gaming industry makes more money than the hollywood and the music industry combined and that was back in 2014 2015 so as soon as i read that i'm like okay i need to i need to put some energy and attention to this because like i've got a music label and all that i've got a record label in australia as well and um you know like but just seeing that and then okay so i pivot to gaming and then even with the the blockchain and and crypto and that it's the same thing like like 100 million dollars in crypto like you tell someone that you made 100 million dollars in crypto they're like that's cool you know you get a couple claps but in music or um in music like that's crazy like there's probably only like a few artists your drake your taylor swift your ed sharon's that that is like is killing it on on on like you know close to a billion dollars but you kind of hear it a lot in in crypto and that so that's why i stick to i just stick to lanes and stuff that um is going to make a lot of money and i just research every day like every single day i'm i'm like i said like I'm going on, I'm seeing the new developments. That's why I'm so comfortable, because I don't really look at the press. I look at the news articles, I see who's adopting it.
I see new companies that are focusing and building in the scene. Even when I was in the apps... I was going to Google, I was going to Apple when a lot of the times all the stuff was just focused on getting the CPMs up.
You know, it wasn't like back in the 70s or even the early 2000s. 2000s where that was like your your your crazy entrepreneurs was all in that space i i believe all the builders and and all those people that are the young steve jobs and all of that of today is all in blockchain and crypto i would get as most upside reward one of the things you mentioned there was in terms of like research what's your practical day look like doing that so say someone's like i want sam's method and research yeah where do they start look long format content man like for example right um you like solana yeah so i would just look at i would just go on youtube and who started who created solana who whatever and just look at their long format content research that even for example like we're building on social media i watch um this the instagram CEO, his long format interviews, which people wouldn't do. Like I look at stuff that I use every day and then I figure out who's the CEO.
And I try to find all the, all the articles and that on them, because they're talking about the stuff that they're implementing in year two, year three, year four, that, you know what I mean? Like people just kind of see what's the play now. Oh, this guy's doing that.
But then if you watch these long format interviews, you can see what they're going to be implementing next year. For example, like, and it makes sense. I didn't realize. that the majority of Instagram is DMs.
Like for the average user, most of their time spent on Instagram is in the DMs. And you know, like you think Instagram is just a photo, video, stories, but actually it's in the DMs where user activity is the highest. So if you know that sort of information, you can just like adapt or even pivot your business and even creating your content to, and you see it, like you see a lot. lot of um you know you see you see some videos that because it might be like a girl or like something that they don't want to like but then you see how many shares it has yeah you know what i mean you know what i'm saying they don't want to leave a trace yeah they don't want to they don't want to like it but they're sending it to like their friends you know what i mean so yeah and then obviously like um you know with instagram it's it's like the new dating service this is dating and everything i think that's where also people don't understand how these platforms are really meant to be used as well i think why a lot of people struggle in terms of content is they're trying to use them in ways they're not supposed to be used anymore yeah and uh you know i think i think a lot of people as well like they don't they're just trying to sell sell sell but you know first you gotta you gotta give value you know what i mean like you really gotta you gotta really change people's mindset and really go you know what man like this person person he's changed my life in whatever way and then they'll then they'll support you whereas everyone's just trying to add add add add add you know sell sell sell sell sell and it's it doesn't work like that i think um i don't know if you've read any of these books you like reading but uh expert secrets by russell brunson is one of the best books for anyone in terms of marketing talks about like an attractive character framework in terms of like how to sell your story in terms of who you are to get people to buy into your journey and i think that's probably one of the biggest things most people don't do is they're like blanketly copy all the other shit someone else is doing and then just trying to sell shit all the time rather than like talking about who they are where they're from and what they've done that makes them different yeah i think like there's a i tell this to every single person who has a a physical business i said man you're leaving so much money on the table by not being on social media not telling your story because there's a lot of people that's more successful than me and then you know a lot of their answers is like oh i don't have the time i'm like bro like you do all of this in your physical business but you're leaving so much money on the table by by not telling your story it doesn't matter how small your niche is if you're able to create content online it doesn't matter how small your business is or um what sort of niche it is that if you if you're able to create proper content on social media and tell your story effectively there's still a million people that will follow you and support you you know you could be like just a person who knits garments If you're able to document that on social media, I guarantee you could get a million followers.
I'll give you a really random example that just sprung to mind. It's an Irish coach who works for us, Dave Kennedy, who specializes in the farming niche in Ireland. He's making 100,000 euros a month selling weight loss programs to farmers in Ireland, which is super random, super specific. And he makes content of him literally shoveling shit and stuff that goes super viral.
And it's just an example in terms of like... If you're specific to who you are, it's different. People will buy into it and resonate.
Yeah, man. You know how it is. On a physical business, you can only attract the people in your geographical location. But online, it's a global audience. If someone is looking to set up an online business and you could be based anywhere in the world, where would you put yourself?
Look, it depends how much money you're making, right? We spoke about this before. I believe there's... different sort of uh different levels i think when you're first starting out as your digital nomad you know like you got your you got your vietnam thailand uh bali columbia um you know and then i think you go to the next level up and I think it's Dubai and I've been here since 2016 and the thing I like about Dubai is like because previously I was in Australia but no one's coming to Australia you know in Dubai I'm like everyone wants to come to Dubai and the way I try to tell people is when I was growing up in Australia The end goal was America. Wow, this person's from America.
I've got to go to LA. I'm a creator. I've got to be in LA. And it wasn't until I went to America and I told them that I live in Dubai that I got literally the same response as the people in Australia was giving to the Americans.
They're like, wow, you live in Dubai? So, and look, I look at Dubai as like, and that's what I've been saying, like New York in the early days when everyone from, you know, you had the Germans, the Europeans. and everyone coming to New York City to build that what it is today it's the same thing what's happening um in Dubai you have all these different people coming and and yeah just for networking and all that like okay of course there's a lot of distractions but you know you just got to stay laser focused and you know stick stick to your lane and I think Dubai is a beautiful place man I agree I'm laughing because I went to a mastermind in Miami I mean two three weeks ago and I'm going actually going to California Monday and everyone kept going you're Charlie from Dubai like like you're this fucking kid from the other side of the world yeah but that's actually a good thing in a usp because it makes you different yeah and i think one of the best things that you can always be is be different to stand out and i think that's where that can be part of your story you sell as well right yeah yeah man um look i've been here since 2016 like i said and uh you know i i saw all the stuff and even the stuff that they didn't implement then you know that they can just they're implementing it now like i'm sure you've seen a lot of changes That makes sense, right?
Even in just three years I lived here, it's like a different place. Yeah. Even I remember the weirdest thing was like Fridays used to be like a weekend. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then it changed to normal European. I used to quite like it because it was different. Yeah. But like all those things have changed.
It just feels like Europe almost to me. Yeah. Yeah, I like it, man. I like it. And it's kind of like a neutral place as well.
It's not like east or west. It's kind of, you know, kind of like a Switzerland in a way. Neutral. It's kind of neutral and kind of friends with everyone, does business with every country.
yeah i i mean yeah i like it here man now you mentioned not getting distracted and one of the bad things to buy can get you distracted with is women yeah do you think men can be more successful if they're on their own and single or if they're in a relationship look man it it really depends um i think i think a good woman can can actually like make you more successful right because at the end of the day like your your woman should be like like i believe i believe even more in the traditional roles right um like i don't want my girl to work i don't want to have to her to worry about that um but i need her to make sure that i'm mentally able to go out there and and hunt and then when i come home um i get like i get looked after and i'm and i'm gonna look after her but you know i see a lot of people um these days like i don't know i'm just not down for that temporary fun man like if if i'm in a relationship with a with a girl i'm it wouldn't even come to a relationship unless i could see myself having kids with that person or building a family with that person so yeah i mean if you could see that then then go ahead but if it's just temporary fun or something like that i think it's just a complete waste of time have you seen many entrepreneurs fuck up and fail that type of thing because you mentioned that obviously you've been in the online space a while as well and like a lot of people come and go and i've seen that people rise and they drop off and you never hear from again yeah do you think that's one of the the the failings of men almost. Look, man, I, you know, I've been making money online since like 2013, 2014. And back then it was like people running Facebook pages or running like, and these, you know, they were making 100,000, 200,000 a month. But these kids were like 19 years old.
I was just happy that I'm a bit older. I had businesses in the real world as well. And so when the online money came, I didn't get so excited. But the main thing is, is these people were making 100,000, but they were spending 100,000.
They were renting these big mansions in LA, living that life. But the thing with online is like, you need to be able to learn how to pivot because like I said, what worked yesterday doesn't work today. And what works today probably won't work tomorrow.
So you- you got to be able to constantly pivot. And yeah, man, I've just seen too many people like have a little run and then they think it's the new normal. But you know, you got to keep switching up. You got to keep pivoting and stay on your journey, man. Like, and that's a big reason why you asked me the first thing is, and I said, it's fitness, right?
I didn't say anything else. I said fitness. Reason being is like, if you live that life where you're all about your fitness and everything and you're all about training, you're not going to go out drinking. Like, you're not going to go, going to get excited to go to a club and and party because you know that that next day you got training at seven in the morning so yeah man like if i say stick to training and and like don't worry about girls or don't worry about um women um until until you got your money man like yeah i agree 100 i think you need to build yourself into the man that then the right woman falls into your life rather than like you go chasing those people i think if you make yourself great enough and you achieve all this stuff you're gonna have no shortage of options in terms of like who you want to be the future mother of your children yeah you know it's delayed gratification because at the end of the day the things that women are interested in as a man it takes time to to build that up you know what i mean like it's it might be um you're in your 30s before you even tick the boxes of what a woman is interested in um and it's different for a woman you know like she'll get her value like what men are interested in a woman is is um it's a whole totally different thing so as a man like you should always focus on on the long term you know like i don't really get distracted on that short-term um thing i've always been about delayed gratification and it's another reason why i talk about fitness because you know like training you don't get the results straight away so it's it's a good thing that i always try to tell people like i've been training since i was 14 so i always try to tell people man get to the gym and even if someone like they ask me for something One test that I have is I said, okay, cool. Come see me when you got abs and then I'll help you.
You know what I mean? Like you're going to see if that person's serious. You're going to see if that person, because like everyone wants your help.
Everyone wants your thing. And I say, I'll help you when you get abs. And you just give them that one thing to do. And if they come back, man, you know you got someone who's really focused and who's really serious about that. So that's one thing that I try to tell people.
I think uh successfully is clues in that fact that's why I don't understand when people are really successful in terms of getting in great shape yeah but they can't be in business because it's exactly the same skill sets it's like consistency yeah discipline you do the fucking shit you don't want to do yeah yeah because it's the same thing in business it's like you don't want to fucking do this stuff yeah you just do it anyway it's so transferable it's just obviously like the principles apply it's just fine-tuning it to a different approach but yeah it's always the same principles and that's why I always tell people like about like my skill set for myself i believe is my biggest skill set is marketing and um you know it's not a specialized skill it's a broad skill in in marketing but it's transferable to any business i've had success in physical businesses and even online, like so many different aspects. Like I didn't just make my money in crypto or gaming, even though I made a big amount of money in that. I've made millions in so many other ventures as well.
Using this. the same principles you know like and to be honest with you it all started from training the delay gratification the discipline like i said like even though one of my comments on one of my videos yesterday they said oh yeah man um he used to go to the same school as us with and his little brother was there and we used to hear stories about how we would he would break into the school gym at because i went to boarding school um how he would break into the gym in the middle of the night to go and train you know what i mean like and no one else was doing that and um yeah doing stuff that no one wants to do you know what i mean like i could be chilling right now um but i prefer to work and the only time that i've ever felt like depressed or anything is when i don't when i'm not focused or i'm not working you know what i mean like that Every man needs like that purpose, you know, so. I think it's when you lose the purpose, it's when you lose the drive, and you almost lose yourself in a downward spiral at that point, right?
Yeah, it's crazy, man. Look, I say stay away from alcohol, man. Like all my most stupidest mistakes is always with alcohol.
So, you know, that's why I love training. It just takes me off that. You mentioned there about almost like you like Kobe Bryant in the gym at like 14 years old, however it was at school in the middle of the night.
What? what inspired you when you were earlier on to have that type of mindset or what gave you that type of drive um bro like uh to be honest like people just underestimated me too much man like i felt like i felt like um i was always overlooked for everything you know what i mean like i always felt overlooked Like this person was getting the recognition or this person was getting selected for this sports team or that sports team. And I knew myself that I was better than these people.
So it just like it didn't make me get depressed. It made me like more determined. It made me more focused.
And it's crazy because even like my best friend back in the days, you know, and I don't know why I thought like that. I even said to him at like 12 years old, I said, do you know your grandparents? It's like, yeah, I know their names.
I said, do you know their story? He doesn't know their story. Like, and I vaguely know my grandparents'story.
My great-grandparents, I couldn't tell you one thing about them. I don't even know their names. And that's my own blood. So it's like, I don't know why I was thinking like that when I was young.
I was thinking like that. So, yeah, like, I've just always been like that, man. I've always been the guy that, you know, like I said, I was at boarding school.
And I was in New Zealand. So, like, most of the people had, like, rugby players on their wall or, you know. you know, girls. You're all blacks, yeah.
Yeah, I had the body, I had like Dexter Jackson and Ronnie and that on my wall. And I was printing out quotes and I was putting them on my wall. You know, like even all of my tattoos is just all affirmation. So I've always been like that.
Is there anything you do now to try and keep that type of mindset, to build your mindset in that respect? Bro, going back to why being in Dubai, right? You just see so many levels ahead of where you are, right?
You know, back in Australia, my holiday home was next to the mayor's house. You know what I mean? The mayor of that city. So I was like, where can you go from there?
You know what I mean? But then you come to Dubai and like, for example, I live on the palm. and I go for a run on the Crescent, and you see the big ships, and you know how you can, you can go on Google and type, like, the ship's name, and it tells you who owns it, how much it's worth, and, like, I'm seeing that on the daily, like, I'm running, and I see a helicopter come down, pick the guy up off the yacht to take him to the land, you know what I mean? I'm like... And I think I'm killing it, you know what I mean?
So I just see all the levels that's ahead, you know? And, you know, people play games, but I be playing game in real life, you know what I mean? I play the game of life. And I'm trying to get the high score in...
life not not just on a game but even gaming like the same principles apply like you know we spend this money on elixirs or skins or whatever but you don't want to invest that in yourself you know like so it's always self-development development um even talking to people like you chopping it up hearing what you're doing how you're doing your business bro that inspires me you know what i mean like there's inspiration everywhere man and uh it's just about how you digest it you know like i don't look at someone who's more successful than me and and hate which a lot of people do like that's a european mentality i think that's every it's crazy bro it's everywhere it's like because the way i look at it right it's like if there's a thousand things that you could say about that person that are good but you're picking out one little flaw that you really had to dig deep for to find it's like bro like that energy is off man so yeah like i i always look at success even people that aren't doing as good as me i still get tips from them man like i get tips from everyone and i don't like to be that hater man that hater mindset man i always like congratulate and and just keep moving in my own lane man what's the best piece of advice you've ever been given you mentioned tips uh damn best piece of advice Sam I wouldn't know if someone gave this to me but like I just say just keep going you know what I mean like that's my thing is just keep going and um okay one advice that I got right um and I posted this the other day is um it's to do with this you know being the um dumbest person in the room is the smartest thing you can do and then also what i like to add to that is but when you're the smartest in the room make sure you're giving game to the people you know what i mean like And then basically the summary of that is when you're in a room, you need to understand when to listen and when to talk. See, like there's some people that you know that in this room, you should just shut up and listen because this guy is more successful than you. And it's time for you to educate yourself.
But then you get the people in that same room and they want to talk about what they got going on. Like, dude, you're in the presence of this person here. Be quiet and listen.
So I think just having that personal self-awareness and thing is probably the best tip, man. having awareness and surroundings and you know when to talk when to listen how have you managed to get yourself into higher up rooms than where you're at if anyone listening to this yeah it's just always like it's just always leveling up man just always like showing that you're um showing that you're hungry like for example you know like i said like i go to all the fashion shows i go to the fashion shows and i put myself in that by um aligning myself with these brands you know like i'm already into fashion and all that so um like for example i was supposed to go to um like for example i'll go to a louis vuitton fashion show a fendi fashion show now people think like why would he want to go and look at guys walking in some clothes right and to be honest i don't like it's cool for the instagram but it's the networking that you get there right like you're a vip person in that area there's also vip people from asia there's also vip people from america there's vip people from the middle Middle East region and Europe. And you're all meeting together over a two, three day period. So you can put yourself in a room like that.
Like even for example, like if you buy a Lamborghini, right? And people say like, that's a depreciating asset, but that's only a depreciating asset if you don't know how to make money from owning that Lamborghini, right? Because you get into the Lamborghini clubs from that.
You know what I mean? So that's how you can put yourself in a room. Now it's up to you to have different skills and different skillset that these other people are interested in. Or you got to have a story to tell.
Like what you said before, you need to be able to tell your story. Because I know when I tell my story, like even someone might be a billionaire, man, they're fascinated because it's such a unique way how I've made it from nothing, man. make it so I've got a story to tell and they get interested in it and there's also I can also offer them genuine actionable advice right then and there with a proven history so yeah man like I said build your your skill set up two things i take on what you just said there one i just bought a ferrari and one of the reasons why i was like definitely get from the main dealer is you get part of the ferrari club and yes you get the network of events of that every month i was like there's no fucking way this is going to pay for itself yeah it's basically going to end up being a free car and secondly is that when you guys go to those type of events and you're also in great shape yeah you automatically stand out and you're almost seen as an authority just from like physically being a specimen in terms of like events i've been to in the us recently like business events you no one else was from a fitness background. I automatically stand out because I'm a fucking big dude.
Everyone's almost like gravitates to you from like a tribal mentality. And when you think about that and you build yourself into that, like attractive character, like I mentioned earlier, you set yourself up to win. Yeah.
Yeah, man. Like, you know, everything I do, people like, for example, like, oh, that's not an investment. I say, I know how to make that an investment. You know what I mean?
And it's investing in yourself, but you need to build the skill set up. And like you said, you need to stand out. Like if you're just fitting in, like there's so many more people that have more money than me. But like because I'm in shape, because of everything else, the way I dress and everything, it just makes life so much easier to network with people straight away because they're coming up to you. Right.
And like you said, for example, you're owning that Ferrari. You've already got that personal relationship with the people and you already have. have a similar passion for cars and ferraris and you know that someone that owns a ferrari is like they've got to be a millionaire right so you already know that you're the network's millionaires and you already have something that you can relate to them with and then they want to know what else you do it's the same thing with fashion it's the same thing with people that buy rolexes richard mills all of that the fashion thing is interesting do they invite you to those or do you buy tickets to that no you got to get invited you get invited but look um you get invited by spending money at the shops, right? But it's not just about spending money. You got to build a relationship with the people.
And then, okay, you can get invited, but you might be in the back row. You know what I mean? So there's all the other things like being in shape, knowing how to dress, having a social media following and all that, that will take you from just getting an invite and being third row, fourth row in the back to being front row.
You know what I mean? So there's always ways that you can, it's not just about getting in. invited it's about like capitalizing as much as possible on the opportunity positioning yeah positioning man do you think young men listening to this should go and buy supercars and expensive watches and jewelry look like i didn't do it until i didn't do it until i first of all i'm into this stuff already right it's like you love all of this stuff but i think it depends on how you make your money and i think if if it suits you it suits you like if you can rock it if you feel comfortable wearing it do it like don't let anyone else tell you what you should do but also like like don't just do something because you see the next person doing it you know what i mean like you can you because at the end of the day like you got to be authentic and you got to be authentically you like i've always been into fashion i've always like like to look good i've always trained it's not something that i'm like oh man this person's training so i've got to train you know what i mean it's your own personal it's my own personal like like i'm not sitting there smoking cigars because i see all these other influences and i only just seen these influencers started doing it since uh like andrew tayton that started doing it now everyone's be smoking a cigar um but i don't do that because it's it's not really my thing you know what i mean so i just i just say just do what is authentically you um yeah and if you're into it you're into it man like just do it i think even like we're talking about the ferrari thing there like the reason i probably from a childhood ferraris my dad had two okay and then that's been something in my head of like a milestone to fucking tick off yeah like i think everyone's uh you see you're smiling as well you probably see where i'm going with this it's like everyone uh as a man your goal is to almost beat your father i see so it's like for me it's like getting past that point okay okay so i think for me that was always like a childhood thing that i wanted i think it's the story you tell yourself which is why those things become important and it's not about the car it's who you become to buy the car yeah yeah man like uh you know You can say like even when it comes to the like that's that's what I literally believe is like what's the goal in life right it's for your kids to to it's for you to beat what the previous generation did because if you don't that's a disservice to the sacrifice that they put in to raise you. If you don't take it to the next level.
And then you need to set it up in a way that your kids are going to beat you. Because like, even now I'd be hanging around with like third generation, fourth generation billionaires and you know, the old money. So I can.
learn about how to position myself my finances my assets for that longevity you know what i mean like for that next generation i'm not just trying to make money and and you know and i always see those quotes you know you see those quotes saying oh man it doesn't matter um how much money you get because when you go you go with nothing right but you're not gonna have kids do you know what i mean like like that's just the stupidest thing that i think is a cop-out you know like you see all these cop-out quotes that's like come on man that doesn't even make sense like you're telling me that it doesn't matter how much money you get or how much success you have because when you die you're buried in the same casket as the next person but hey man you're gonna you're gonna have kids they're gonna have kids like you know what i mean like you gotta set that up what does legacy mean to you it's just literally that man like uh like basically for me all i want is like my grandkids to be like damn like granddad was boiling like that or he was doing this and that like everyone else man they're gonna have their own opinion whatever like i just want my grandkids or my great-grandkids to see a photo of me in a hundred years time and be like wow you know what i mean because like when i see photos of um like my my um like for example like my granddad uh my grandparents like i'll be getting inspired like um one of my grandpa uh granddad was from wales and he was like in the um he was in the the air force so like seeing him in that like you know that that suit and i'm like damn that's cool and then even my other on my other side like man my i'm from a little village in fiji in the islands man and he had to educate himself in the mainland but he had to like travel and like like so so much to just to educate himself so yeah man i just i just want to inspire my my my my future generation man to be like damn like if my granddad was living like that and that's why even like some of my chains man i spent like some of my chains is like it's my culture with my like last name on it and everything and you know i look at it as like a family heirloom type of thing i want them to have that and just just get inspired by it man just literally just want to inspire my my future kids man and i think this is the beauty of like long form content like this is that when we're both dead our children can still watch this yeah which is a fucking the same thing to watch for when one of them watches this yeah and i think that's where people are doing themselves a disservice in particular have a business not making longer form content yeah um one of the questions i asked you but you brought up change what's the most expensive piece of jewelry you've bought most expensive piece of jewelry well like this watch has like I paid oh wait this ring here is like 250 cuz like it's like a GIA certified diamond. I've spent a lot. I've spent probably like, I probably got like three or four different things that cost like 300 each. So yeah, I probably got like three, three, four million jewelry.
You probably couldn't carry that any other place other than Dubai. Yeah. That's why I like, that's why literally I love the safety here because I'll be rocking out. Like I got diamonds here, here, here.
I got about 20 different piercings. Like, yeah. in terms of like one of the things you mentioned earlier is in terms of like pivoting as times change you've been in the online space a while and in the time that i've been running online coaching businesses six seven years even from what i see a lot of people teaching bullshit from like 2020 that you used to work doesn't work anymore yeah what do you think is going to happen in terms of the platforms and things changing the next two three years in terms of online space uh in terms of the online space look i haven't really seen anything stick out that is going to change but like for example with ai this is why i tell people man like you need to be serious like sales calls assistance all of that's going to get replaced like you even see now at wendy's they're using ai in the drive through service it's not a person talking anymore it's just it's ai so all of these jobs are going to get replaced and um you know you just need to keep um updating your skill set and keep learning because yeah if i don't know what's going to happen next next year and i'm in the space you know i feel sorry for people that aren't even in the space who don't have a clue so you just gotta you just gotta keep staying focused and just keep like watching out for for trends and everything but i think um um well one thing i do think and i see it growing is like and even what i've started with the the mentorship stuff i think teaching people how to make like online money wi-fi money um you know like i think the end goal now is to get paid in us dollars or bitcoin right and then live in a geographical location where that dollar is is is last longer that's why we mentioned all these other countries um yeah i think like that wi-fi money is like online money is is still the trend trend man and i think um one of the things you've touched on there is ai and i think the leverage this has given people when they think ahead to use the right approaches as wild so i give an example we've built like an ai chatbot system yeah that's replaced five calls like dmva setters on our fitness business that runs like 24 7 around the clock and have 100 conversations per minute from paid ads infinitely scalable yeah and we built that we're now selling to other trainers as well because it's solving a big problem exactly but i also know the other things that that are coming it's like we do maybe 2 000 outbound sales calls a day there's probably there's ai software that's already coming for outbound sales the same for closing like the whole game is shifting and i think that's where those people who are ahead of the curve you're going to get a competitive advantage like first to market with these things yeah yeah man look the ai the ai plays crazy and um and you see how fast this is this is what i say like i've been in the online space and technology and crypto since 2000 13 with the online stuff and the social media stuff it's the fastest growing it's the fastest changing industry it changes so fast it changes rapidly and um yeah it keeps you on your toes but yeah as i alluded to what you said like that's why building your personal brand is super important because ai can't take over that you know what i mean like ai can't could never be um uh your personal brand it can't it can't replace that but all the other stuff that that is aligned with the business of your personal brand, like you said, the closes, sales, all of that is... it's replaceable like even last year that wasn't even a thing right and now it's like wendy's have it you know what i mean like it's it's just going to be everywhere i also think with the personal brand is that the one thing people always want to buy from is other people who inspire them yeah so if you become the inspirational person that people want to be like or look up to yeah you're never going to run out of people who want to give you money and work with you yeah and uh and it's not a new thing you know what i mean like uh you know back in like the the stuff that i used to educate educate myself on like i love hip-hop so i used to that's why i even i love hip-hop but the interviews that you would catch me watching is like um the master p interviews the jay-z interviews um you know like the the birdman interviews more the business the business people and um you know like they were making they they realized the power of um of their brand.
And, you know, like a corporate America in that, they didn't realize how big it was because... They weren't giving endorsement deals or doing brand deals with the hip-hop people. And then when they started giving them like, they started doing alcohol, they started doing clothing, they started doing all these different verticals that aligns with personal brand. And they realized like, this is how you make so much money.
It was the same with social media. 2013, 2014, my Facebook page was like literally the biggest in the world at the time. And, but it was crazy. Like... people used to be like oh man uh if only you could make a dollar from every follower you know what i mean like it was kind of like a like they used to laugh at people having online followers people saying that you don't get paid for likes yeah you don't get paid for likes that that that was literally it right and um it's the same thing and like i said like what the reason why i mentioned that um in the hip-hop world is they didn't realize the power of of social media like but when you have a personal brand like look at look at jake paul for example the dude's probably making more money in boxing than you know probably just only canelo and one or two of the top top people was making more money than him in boxing that's not even his lane like you know what i mean like he made that his lane And he's making more money than all of these other people because at the end of the day, man, it's entertainment, right?
It's entertainment and it's being a business person, monetizing your personal brand. So yeah, man, personal brand is like super important. If you have a physical business and even if you're starting a business, you should always be, I believe you should always document your journey because then even when you get the success and you can post that early days up, it's just even more powerful.
It's even more conviction. Some of my biggest videos, is reformatting content that I did 13 years ago on YouTube, just talking about like, hey, I'm on the grind. I want to make it.
I'm doing this and that. And then I show where I am now. And it just makes the story so much more stronger. So yeah, I always tell everyone, man, like social media and just document your journey, man. And you see a lot of people, they'll be like, oh, I don't have the time for that.
And you know what I mean? Like you're just leaving a lot of money on the table and a lot of opportunities on the table. on the table because it's not even about the money from um marketing to your fans but it's also about the networking and that that you'll get from other people who also have a following as well i think people say they don't have time and they can enjoy being poor because it's the same thing you're gonna you're gonna not have any time you can have a nine to five job then yeah freedom yeah like pick pick your poison but i look at it like this right people's like there's only 24 hours in a day but for example right um you can do three things at once that makes 24 hours turn into 72 for example like i love watching um i have this one team called the warriors nrl team that i watch i have to watch every week it's my team but i can't sit there at home just watching them in the cinema room i'm at the gym sprinting while i'm watching the game you know what i mean so i'm doing i'm doing the two things at once um so just stuff like that um you can do two multiple things in once that will make 24 hours seem like 48. then that's form of leverage right and i think leverage is the most important thing for anyone who wants to be successful because you're not going to the thing i said earlier about like trading time for money yeah yeah man like i think trading time for money look it's good to a certain extent and and everyone's got to start from doing that right but then you also think like what else can i do what else can i do um and i would never tell someone just quit your job or nothing like that like you need to have that solid foundation first and then you can start um but then yeah apart from like as soon as you finish you clock off from your job don't be watching Netflix don't don't be on Instagram looking at girls even for example like I get so many DMs from guys bro help me out man help me out I just use it as case study sometimes you know I go on their page I look at who they follow and they're following all half naked girls like bro like you you want me to help you out but all everything that you're consuming is like thirst traps you know what I mean like you don't even help yourself you want me to help you out when you're not even helping yourself like you should be following only motivational people only like that's the only content that you should be consuming i think this is one of the biggest things people don't understand that their own conscious thoughts aren't their own thoughts they're what's been put in front of them like on the phone or like the environment around them yeah and if people learn to control that the easier life becomes man it's so true like yeah and i've caught myself in that position too you know what i mean like time No one's perfect, but it's about having that, literally that awareness and being outside of your own body. Because like, I feel like we give advice to someone else that we don't take ourselves, right? But that's also, I think, the benefit when you coach people, because I'll say something, someone that's really fucking smart.
I'm like, why do I do that? And then I start doing it. Yeah. So, yeah. And that's why I love doing the mentorship as well.
You know, like, you just, you're constantly plotting. I feel like that should be the main thing is like. This person's telling you their age, their story, their financial situation, what their interests are, what their passion is, and then you like formulate a plan for them to get better, but that just sharpens your mind as well. You know, like I come out of these like mentorship calls. my brain's going crazy because it's like an overload but that's how you get better that's how you get sharper like you're not only solving your problems you're like fine-tuning um other people's things and then that by definition helps you out as well on your on your own journey so yeah i just see this stuff as like a crazy positive loop you know what i mean like and i look at myself as like an athlete right now like i'm getting paid to train i'm getting paid to stay in shape and i'm getting paid to plot like i feel like a coach and the player at the same time like dr evil that's the good yeah that's what almost my like one of my favorite sayings is like rich people don't work as they think okay and it's like the more time you can like spend thinking yeah like provided you do some doing or you have a team who could do the yeah that gives you leverage yeah the farther ahead you'll get and too many people get stuck like this in their phone and they fucking doom scrolling cat videos whatever they're doing or like staring at fucking chicks that they don't actually like lift their head up and like look at the four walls around them what's going on true man like even if you even okay even if your interest is girls right like figure out how to make a play from that you know what i mean like like what's the what's the business from that well actually i just thought of a business straight away so i i this i'm not doing this i'm in a relationship but i've heard this happens that um you can hire a VA to go on like dating apps for you, do the outbound messaging and then basically arrange like dates for you.
Right. Okay. You could set up an agency that has these people you could hire who can book you in for dates for these specific women.
That's a good business. I just came up with on the spot. You know what? But you know what I do?
Right. It's like, it's like it's like you've heard the saying right why um run down and like what did the kettle say to the young the old bull say to the young right and um basically what it means by that is like If you just make yourself as best as you can be and you focus on yourself, then they're going to come to you. Like you're going to attract them.
Stop chasing and build yourself up and attract. You know what I mean? I don't know why it made me think of that, but that's what I'm saying. like is like success is the best revenge yeah because like i mean when i first started online people like who the fuck just try to think he is why is he doing that because i had a a nine to five job as an estate agent and then from then i went on and sold over 10 million dollars fitness programs and um i remember seeing one of the people who said that like and we both looked at each other and he didn't fucking say anything i didn't say anything but i like i looked at him i was like you you fucking know motherfucker yeah and it's one of those things this is after the fact yeah after the fact and it's like no one said anything but he looked sheepish and i just fucking knew yeah and that for me was so much fulfillment in terms of like proving a point i think for me in my own head that i often try and create competitions because i'm very competitive yeah great games yeah i'm the same and a great book you'd like is uh choose your enemies wisely by patrick bett david okay and he also says you need to set bigger fucking enemies because then it's like it makes you take bigger actions and like level up more to push yourself to another level yeah Yeah, that's true, man.
Like, I've had some beefs with, like, some people, man. And, like, it just, like, it just made me focus. You know what I mean? It's like, damn, you really think you're competing with me? You know what I mean?
I'm like, bro, like, you got things twisted because... Like, and that's what I love about business, right? Is we make money till the day we die. And if we're smart, we continue to make money even after we're gone.
We're not an athlete where like our money, our earning potential was in a limited timeframe or like a music artist where like you're hot now, you're not hot tomorrow. Like you really need to have the business. And you know what I mean? It's the sports business. It's the music business.
But some of these other people, they only do music or they only do sports. sports, but there's a second word to both of those categories, right? It's business. So if you understand about business and everything and you stay focused, like, and yeah, man, don't worry about who's ahead of you right now.
Like just stay on your own journey, stay on your own goal and yeah, like create these competitions in your own head. Like for example, I always tell everyone when I train with them, Like, you know, they might be doing, they might be doing, um, bench press and then they just rack it. I'm like, bro, like you can do 20 more. They're like, nah, man. I'm like, dude, you haven't even gone to positive failure.
Then you got negatives. Then you got statics. Then you got drop sets.
Nah, man, I can't do anymore. Hold up, hold up, hold up. If I put a gun to your head right now and said, I'm literally going to shoot you if you don't do four more, you'll do it. You know what I mean?
So like, oh, they say I'm going to die, but you didn't die. Like, all I know is that I'm going to be in bed tonight and I'm going to be sleeping in my bed and it's going to, and the sleep's going to feel so good. That's why I go crazy, bro.
I do like 10 kilometers every day running and bro, like it's pretty hard. And People are like, yeah, man, my body's sore. I'm like, dude, my body's been sore since 14. Like every day my body is sore.
Like there's not one part of my body that's not sore every single day. But that's the only way that your body grows. You know what I mean?
It's the same. thing i think an interesting thing for people to think about from a physical perspective is if you didn't die you physically quit yeah like you meant to you meant to quit so if you didn't die you mentally quit true true true because like you have the capability to do more and i think i see the same thing from an entrepreneurship point of view people don't do enough yeah or they make five posts on instagram no one signed up for the program yeah yeah i talk to people man and um like oh yeah i tried this or i tried that you show me the link show me you got four posts man you didn't try that you know what i mean um yeah so like even even for myself like i don't take days off on anything i don't like for business i work on the weekends like business or that it always comes first but it's only because i love what i do right so people got it twisted they're like oh man like you gotta rest you gotta you gotta have family time with us but i love what i do like why would i want to take days off this is what i love to do and i just figured out how to monetize it and um you know working on the weekends it gives you nearly 15 weeks in one year ahead of everyone else do you know what i mean so it's like 15 week advantage by just working on saturday and sunday it's crazy and that's also why i see a lot of people's businesses fail and i speak to them it's because they've got no one working saturday and sunday and i was like well if my whole team works saturday sunday to some degree yeah then we've got an extra three months a year on you that we're going to beat you yeah you even when i was building my facebook page it was me and my other friend mark and um we worked 24 hours a day i was on the day shift he was on the night shift we were posting every 30 minutes every 30 minutes it's like where's the sleep it's like bro like there's no resting man this it's online um yeah i just i've just always been like that man like i i don't i don't stop do you think that type of mentality also helps you when you go back to say things like crypto investing and looking longer term as well because you have that mentality that like shit can go wrong but you have the ability to stay resilient and keep going yeah i think i think the i think a lot of the thing is is um people they they fire all their shots in the one thing right like um if any of my investments went to zero it's not gonna break me any single investment i mean they put they go all in they go all in and um you know they do bro like people when it comes to money man people people be doing silly things um i'll say like never go never do something that's gonna burn you like just imagine if it goes to zero yeah you know because at the end of the day bro like there can be black swan events the only thing that you can fucking like disappeared basically sorry was it luna the one that tanked yeah exactly like you know uh luna ust yeah bro like when we did our first interview man like bro like companies and projects were dropping like flies man sam beckman freed ftx to be fair yeah all of them man like they were just dropping like flies and everyone was scared but i sold my lamborghini and put it in ethereum you know what i mean um but at the end of the day like there can be a black swan event that just ruins everything um i've done i've done enough research to sleep at night so even when my portfolio goes up a million dollars i don't get too excited when it drops a million dollars i don't get too depressed you know what i mean i just stay on my goal i stay focused and i just keep finding um a business that is going to keep generating money so that it's not going to affect me and i can't just i can't think long term do you still continuously buy crypto now you dollar cost averaging into it or you're just buying in chunks with them uh look um i do i do i would say i dollar cost average it's not uh per week or per month or anything like that but you know like uh I prefer to get paid in in in bitcoin than than something else and then I will just keep it in there makes sense I think that's one of the things I think has helped me it's just having a regular cadence of constantly buying in yeah just to like keep like you mentioned earlier like time exposure in the market yeah and you don't almost realize how much you've accumulated over a period of time and how that then grows yeah like that's what i always give advice to to people i never tell them to focus on meme coins or meme projects um i say look start with bitcoin and just dollar cost average like every week every month every few days whatever it is you just buy buy a hundred dollars buy a hundred dollars buy a hundred dollars buy a hundred dollars you because that when you put skin in the game that's when you start to research like don't do something just because i said it well you got emotional pain then if you're feeling it you you then pay attention yeah you pay attention and you want to research about it right and hopefully you should have done that even before you invested but um yeah it's like And then you can move on to other stuff, but understand that you're moving up the risk by going into other projects. Because at the end of the day, you're betting on like companies, you know? It's just the risk thing you just made. I had a wallet hacked.
buying some like degenerate like super small caps it's only like it was like 15k yeah and uh they were like like 15 million market cap like tiny yeah yeah so i was like i could go to the moon and uh i had my wallet hacked i had to end up rebuying the same coins again because like these 100x yeah i'm not gonna be able to i'll be so pissed yeah um but it's also like with everything like that the greater the reward the bigger the risk always is and i think it's important for people to understand that what would you say um if anyone listening to this in terms of like if you want financial freedom time freedom location freedom and you you don't you want to be risk adverse yeah how do you approach investing overall just not put all your eggs in one basket or uh look i would say until you're fully invested in yourself you know what i mean like if you need to get get your body right you need to get your mind right you need to get your skill set up and your knowledge up you should so i would say that is the main thing that you should be worrying about investing in first like like i said like what is your passion what are you going to spend 18 hours a day focused on? Right? It could be anything.
And then you just need to figure out like, okay, what is the goal from this? But yeah, I feel like people just be jumping from back and forth to different like industries or they hop on the latest trend. They hop on. It's never going to work like that. You know what I mean?
Like it's not about riding the wave that everyone else is already riding when it's already about to crash to the shore. You know what I mean? Like go out there, learn how to surf. surf and then wait for the next wave because there's always a new opportunity stop trying to chase opportunities when you don't really understand about it and um get your knowledge up that is the best way to you know mitigate risk is by just having knowledge and being an expert on something see like if you bought something because someone else said well then you're going to sell because someone some other person told you to sell so you just need to have conviction and really do your research and due diligence on on everything man awesome that's a really strong point to finish up on uh where's best place for people finding more about you sam just type just on uh on on instagram man just type sam brought to my tavuki long last name um yeah man and uh yeah wi-fi money i'll drop the links below this so big thank you for your time for everyone who enjoyed this make sure you share it with friends smash like button comment below any questions subscribe to the channel and we'll see you next podcast soon