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🗓️ 27 June 2017
⏱️ 56 minutes
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0:00.0 | You're listening to the Impact Theory Podcast, your source of empowering ideas and actionable techniques from the world's highest achievers. |
0:08.0 | Join host Tom Billio, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of the billion dollar brand Quest Nutrition, on a journey to unlock your potential and realize your vision of success. |
0:19.0 | Welcome to Impact Theory. |
0:22.0 | Everybody, welcome to Impact Theory. |
0:26.0 | You are here, my friends, because you believe that human potential is nearly limitless. |
0:31.0 | But you know that having potential is not the same as actually doing something with it. |
0:35.0 | So our goal with this show and company is to introduce you to the people and ideas that will help you actually execute on your dreams. |
0:43.0 | Alright, today's guest is a college dropout that everyone thought was going to fail. |
0:47.0 | But against the odds, he turned himself into a self-made multi-millionaire by the time he was 24. |
0:56.0 | Starting from humble beginnings, he learned fast and built an empire through an unending amount of grit and hustle. |
1:02.0 | What he lacked in formal training he made up for in street savvy and an understanding of people. |
1:08.0 | He created a huge online community around stock trading, made some heroic stock investments himself, was up 20 million dollars just from investing. |
1:17.0 | And simultaneously also built his own marketing agency into a monster that was doing 10 million dollars in annual revenue. |
1:25.0 | He had the penthouse in the sky, the Bentley's, the Ferraris, he was traveling the world in style, and then out of nowhere, it all came crashing down. |
1:37.0 | When the great recession hit, he lost it all, everything. But he did not sit in a corner and cry about it. |
1:43.0 | He checked his ego, put his head down, and shifted back into raw hustle mode. |
1:47.0 | But this time it wasn't about ego or the money, it was about impact. |
1:51.0 | And from the ashes, he and two co-founders in the grips of the recession, began building a new media company for millennials called Elite Daily. |
2:01.0 | They were committed to giving voice to a generation that up to that point really didn't have one. |
2:05.0 | And despite a mountain of hate being thrown their way by traditional media companies, they built an amazing company and culture, outworked everyone else, and established themselves as the dominant player in their demographic. |
2:17.0 | Building a massive brand that reached over 80 million readers per month. |
2:24.0 | In 2015, they were required for nearly $50 million by the Daily Mail. |
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