David Shans, welcome back to the Think Media podcast. In episode one, we talked all about uncommon ways to make money in the crater economy. But in this episode, we're going to be breaking down how you built a studio for $750,000, which is the biggest sticker price, good for the YouTube thumbnail and for the podcast title. But that's not just an opulent studio.

That's a studio that you can rent out that you can use to monetize, generate revenue.

There's tax benefits.

Even if someone's listening to this and they're a beginner, this will change their thinking.

This is about elevating their thinking, going to a whole other level.

And we're going to talk about some of the details, but I want to take it back. You did not get here overnight. In fact, you, I'm sure started

super early, but let's pick up the story at the cheesecake factory. What were you doing at the

cheesecake factory? Serving. I was a server at the cheesecake factory. Dude, so was I. I was a Red

Robin server. Really? Yeah. So there's something about tips. Come on, man. People skills.

Oh, people skills are 100%. You know what the cool. The coolest thing is, when I stopped getting so frustrated with my job and I started to like really try to think of why I'm there.

Yeah. The job became a lot more enjoyable and I made more money. So I would come to work complaining, oh my gosh,

I'm on beer. Is my shift going to be over? People are stiffing me on tips. But once I realized

that I would one day speak around the world and I wanted to be a communicator and I wanted to

learn how to sell a product, right? So I would start selling the dishes.

And I would be unsatisfied with myself if the person didn't get cheesecake at the end of the meal

because I'm trying to acquire this skill.

Even if they gave me a great tip, but they didn't order cheesecake at the end, I was pissed.

Because why couldn't I sell?

They came to a cheesecake factory.

Why couldn't I sell them a slice to a cheesecake fact, why couldn't I sell

them a slice of cheesecake?

And once I adopted that, my job became a lot more fun.

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