Hello friends, welcome back. This week my guest is Alexander Cortez. He's a personal trainer, a writer and a speaker.

And he's a pretty interesting guy. I didn't have an agenda going into this conversation.

I just wanted to talk to him about whatever was on his mind. And we ended up discussing strategies for success in the 21st century.

What skills and knowledge he would give to a 18 year old human being if he was going to design one right now and send it out into the world.

Then we moved on to the fire festival documentary, which both of us absolutely fell in love with when we watched it.

If you haven't seen it yet, I urge you to go on to Netflix and give it a watch.

But we had a look into that and and derived some really interesting conclusions about how seduced society is with success and the potential for Billio McFarlane,

the guy behind fire festival to have Gary Vaynerchuk pressing on his amigdler throughout the entirety of his life.

So if you want to find out what that means, continue listening.

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And it helps support the podcast. Now please welcome Alexander Cortez.

Alex, how are you today? Welcome to Modern Wisdom.

I'm very good. How about yourself, my man?

Yeah, I'm fantastic. Thanks. It looks an awful lot nicer wherever you are. I can see there's a reflection of some good sunlight outside, which we haven't seen in the UK for a long time.

I live right in the beach in Venice, so I'm in a pretty opportune spot for weather.

I'm a jealousy inducing to say the least.

So we haven't got an agenda today. We're just going to talk about whatever is on our mind.

So what have you been learning about or reading about or thinking about recently?

Recently, so I got a few things I'm working on. I don't have any real structure to my day at all. I mean, like I do, but I don't.

I basically just write an email every day and then tweet a lot and then just talk about stuff.

Sort of like this personal brand influencer, strange position.

Yeah. You can't really qualify what you do yet people pay attention to you all the time.

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