235: How To Meet Anyone! with Alex Banayan - A Fireside Chat At My Elite Mastermind
The Chris Harder Show
Chris Harder
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In This Episode You Will Learn About:
- What's fueling Alex the most right now
- Hacking The Price Is Right to get money to fund his book
- How Alex got an interview with Warren Buffett
- What Alex is curious to tackle next + why repetition isn't exciting
- How Alex handles expectations being different than reality
- Getting people to enroll into his vision
- The change in the demographics of highly successful people through generations
- The most enjoyable interview Alex has had + his dream interview
Resources:
- Learn more: thirddoorbook.com
- Instagram: @alexbanayan
- Read: The Third Door
- Free training videos: fortheloveofmoney.com/free
- Money Principles
Show Notes:
I'm really excited to share today's conversation with you because I sat down with Alex Banayan, speaker and the author of The Third Door, an incredible book about some of the most successful people in the world. Over the course of his unprecedented seven-year journey, Alex interviewed the most innovative leaders of the past half-century, including Bill Gates, Lady Gaga, Larry King, and SO many more. Alex is a member of my Elite Mastermind, and I couldn't be more grateful to have him, and I love the energy he brings to the group. In this episode, Alex and I talk about being resourceful, persevering, and going after the success you want.
Question Highlights:
- How did you get the money to fund your book?
- How did you finally create the third year?
- Would you use your celebrity to get access to bigger names and write a new book?
- Did you ever have an expectation going into an interview about how the person would be, and how did you handle them being different than your expectation?
- How do you get people to enroll into your vision?
- Do you see a difference in the different generations of highly successful people?
- Who is your favorite person that you've ever interviewed?
Guest Bio:
Alex Banayan is the only nationally bestselling business author under 30 in America. His book The Third Door: The Wild Quest to Uncover How the World's Most Successful People Launched Their Careers has been translated into more than a dozen languages. Over the course of his unprecedented seven-year journey, Banayan interviewed the most innovative leaders of the past half-century, including Bill Gates, Lady Gaga, Larry King, Maya Angelou, Steve Wozniak, Jane Goodall, Jessica Alba, Quincy Jones, and more.
The day before his freshman-year final exams, Banayan hacked The Price is Right, won a sailboat, sold it, and used the money to fund his larger-than-life adventure. Since then, Banayan has been named to Forbes' 30 Under 30 list, Business Insider's Most Powerful People Under 30, and been featured in major media, including The Washington Post, Fortune, CNBC, MSNBC, Fox News, and NBC News.
An acclaimed keynote speaker, Banayan has presented the Third Door framework to business conferences and corporate leadership teams around the world, including Apple, Google, Nike, IBM, Snapchat, Salesforce, and Disney.
Follow me on social media @ChrisWHarder on Instagram and check out www.ForTheLoveOfMoney.com
Earn Your Happy is a production of Crate Media
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm really grateful for this journey because while I went out to go track down you know |
| 0:05.9 | Bill Gates to learn his secret to negotiating life actually gave me the lessons I really needed to learn. Welcome everybody, this is for the love of money, where we are making you unapologetic about your pursuit of |
| 0:24.7 | success by sharing the tools, tips and stories of those who have already made it. |
| 0:30.1 | My name is Chris Harder and each week I will bring you incredible guests in order to prove that when good people make good money they do great things. Hey everybody welcome back to another mini episode of for the level of money |
| 0:48.0 | episodes that I like to call up my two cents and today I'm actually giving |
| 0:50.9 | you an inside peak into my elite level mastermind. |
| 0:55.4 | I'm sitting down with best-selling author Alex Benayan. |
| 0:58.9 | And what I do is I bring guests in and we interview the guests so we can learn about business and |
| 1:04.0 | learn about life and move our lives and our businesses to the next level as a group. |
| 1:07.8 | Now here's what's really cool to be in this mastermind, this particular one is |
| 1:11.3 | $30,000 per year. |
| 1:13.5 | So we're talking really high level people |
| 1:15.1 | and high level businesses. |
| 1:16.5 | And when I bring the guests in, we talk about real raw things. |
| 1:19.7 | And you're going to see that when I let you listen in on this conversation that we all have doing |
| 1:25.1 | Q&A with best-selling author Alex Benayan. Now if you're not familiar with this book |
| 1:29.4 | The Third Door it's one of the best hottest books on the market right now and it teaches you literally that how to find the third door in |
| 1:36.1 | When the front door is has too long of a line and when you don't have access to the secret door |
| 1:40.9 | There's always a third door. It's always a way that you can meet |
| 1:43.9 | anyone you want or accomplish anything you want so this is a conversation about |
| 1:47.5 | resourcefulness and about perseverance and it's also full of a lot of laughs as |
| 1:52.1 | well so you're to love his stories, |
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