132: From Living On $2 a Day For Food To Traveling The World For Free | Zach Benson
Millionaire Mindcast
Matt Aitchison
4.8 • 721 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2018
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Zach is an award-winning dancer who travels around the world teaching dance clinics. Zach has been a round 4 finalist on FOX TV's popular show "So You Think You Can Dance" and most recently he worked with Quest Crew on LMFAO's new music video "Poppin' bottles".
Benson is himself an Instagram connoisseur, the CEO and founder of the Instagram management agency Assistagram, which has served high-end clients like The Ritz Carlton and The Four Seasons.
What you will learn:
- When did Zach recognize he could utilize Instagram as a business? (13:26)
- Who are some of Zach’s mentors? (18:57)
- Why did Zach volunteer to live on $2 a day for food for one full year? (19:56)
- What were some of the main lessons Zach learned from working with the less fortunate? (22:23)
- How did Assistagram come to be? (31:07)
- What is Zach most proud of what Assistagram has created? (33:03)
- What have been some of Zach’s biggest challenges in growing Assistagram? (35:22)
- What does Zach want to accomplish in 2018? (39:24)
Quotes:
- “Life is about people.”
- “The overall attitude was I am going in to create value, I’m going in to make these people better, I’m going in to give as much as I can.”
- “I always thought I can learn something from anybody, it doesn’t matter if they go to Oxford, Harvard, are a millionaire or are homeless.”
- “Everybody is important as a human being and everyone have value to offer to others.”
- “Everybody has something to teach you, but it’s your job to figure out what that is.”
- “I’m a student of life and I’m always looking for my next teacher.”
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Connect with Zach:
Zach’s Instagram: @Tribeinfluencer
Zach’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/zach.benson.33
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Millionaire Mindcast, where we broadcast weekly interviews with millionaire minds from across the globe to empower you on your journey of unlocking a rich and fulfilling life. |
| 0:17.1 | It's time to unleash your millionaire within. Now, here's your host, Maddie A. |
| 0:25.2 | What's going on, guys? |
| 0:27.0 | Welcome back to another episode of The Millionaire Mindcast, |
| 0:29.6 | the show that focuses on all things, mindset, money, and motivation |
| 0:33.2 | to help you increase your income, impact, and influence. |
| 0:37.4 | As always, I'm your host, Maddie A. |
| 0:39.3 | I'm fired up to be back with another episode |
| 0:42.1 | in an awesome millionaire interview with my boy, Zach Benson. |
| 0:47.4 | And, you know, I don't know about you guys, but I'm fired up. |
| 0:50.1 | You know, this year I have committed to taking my life, |
| 0:53.2 | my business to that next level. |
| 0:55.1 | And I've been having a lot of conversations with community members from podcast listeners, |
| 1:00.3 | you know, people inside our Facebook group, my mentorship and coaching clients. |
| 1:04.9 | And a lot of people are, you know, fired up as well to take their life and their business to that next level. |
| 1:10.4 | And the one thing that I'm constantly trying to remind myself of and remind other people of |
| 1:14.2 | is, you know, order to get new results in order to take your life, your business, your relationship, |
| 1:20.3 | your health, whatever it may be to that next level, you're going to be required to do some |
| 1:24.4 | things that you've never done before. You're going to have to stretch yourself. |
| 1:33.4 | You're going to have to go through some, you know, painful progression in order to normalize the new level of consistency and discipline and relationships and habits that will make what you're |
| 1:40.2 | striving for your new normal. If you think about it, right, like what you're doing right now |
| 1:45.0 | today was once a stretch for you, whether it was waking up and going to the gym, whether it was |
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