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Bedros Keuilian Podcast Show

011. Pay Your Dues, Succeed In Life!

Bedros Keuilian Podcast Show

Bedros Keuilian

Self-improvement, Education

52.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Most people think the road to success is similar to the yellow brick road, paved with hope and dreams.

The truth is the road won't always be paved and when starting off in your journey you're going to experience a lot of obstacles and challenges.

In today's episode, we discuss my journey and the obstacles I had to endure during my first couple of years of entrepreneurship.

Transcript

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0:00.0

If you're trying to build a business, during the come-up, you are going to experience a lot of shit.

0:08.0

Welcome to the Bedro's Cooling Show.

0:10.5

I'm going to tell you that story right now and I'm going to exercise humility because she

0:40.0

messed me up man. She messed me up hard. So the year was 1997 and I was 21 years old and 22 years old and I worked at

0:56.6

Disneyland at the time. So imagine this. I'm 22 years old. I had maybe a couple years earlier gotten

1:03.1

certified as a personal trainer and I'm working as a personal trainer in a big box gym but I'm also

1:10.9

working at Disneyland as a fry cook and a dinner cook to make ends meet. And the reason was it was because

1:20.0

while I was a good personal trainer I really didn't know how to sell personal training and so I found

1:26.2

myself lacking clients and so to me it kind of boiled down to I need money and since I'm not good at

1:33.9

selling common sense would have told you that I should have just gotten better at selling but I

1:39.0

didn't realize I was good I wasn't good at selling and so instead I was like well all I got

1:44.1

as four personal training clients right now I need more money so I better go get another job and

1:49.9

so that's how I ended up working at Disneyland as well and so imagine that I'm working at Disneyland

1:55.7

I'm working at the LA Fitness in the Habra California. I was actually going back and forth between

2:02.6

the Habra California and Fountain Valley California. Fountain Valley is right by Huntington Beach

2:07.8

man you know Mike Botticelli would get stoned on the rooftop of the Fountain Valley LA Fitness

2:14.8

up there on a Friday after our last training session with our clients and then we would drive to

2:21.0

the beach Huntington Beach because it's just one city away and we just chill out on the sand and

2:25.0

shoot the shit and Mike Botticelli man shout out to my friend he's from Buffalo New York here's

2:30.6

a funny joke that Mike Botticelli would tell me he says it's a hey beat what time is it right now

2:36.4

here in Southern California I'm like well Mikey it's 3.30 pm and he goes you know what time it is in

2:43.1

Buffalo New York like no he goes 1984 because the whole joke was that like nobody

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