#267 – The Path to $3M in 3 Years as a Solopreneur with Justin Welsh

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Courtland Allen and Channing Allen

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4.9 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Justin Welsh (@thejustinwelsh) talks setting a high bar for yourself, releasing products without knowing how to code, growing on social media (esp. LinkedIn), selling courses, dealing with burnout, and growing his solopreneur empire to $3M in 3 years with Courtland (@csallen) and Channing (@ChanningAllen).

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0:00.0	What's with you?
0:08.0	I got this gigantic, omni-directional treadmill for my meta-quest, like this virtual reality
0:16.5	treadmill, like, super early adopter or shit.
0:20.5	Yeah.
0:22.5	So you, like, walk on it, and then you walk in whatever game you're playing too yeah yeah you basically people should look it up it's called
0:27.5	it's called catwalk c2 plus i mean it's like um what's that ready player one movie i've never actually
0:34.2	seen it but apparently people say that it's like the Ready Player 1. Hey, what's up, Justin?
0:39.3	Hey, guys.
0:40.3	Channing is just telling me about his omnidirectional VR treadmill that he just bought.
0:46.3	It takes up half of my room.
0:48.3	I have a gym and it like basically I can't use anything in my gym.
0:51.3	You put it down.
0:52.3	It's like this 360 degree tiny little bowl.
0:56.9	And it's got these shoes that you wear, these special shoes that are effectively mouse pads
1:01.7	on your shoes. And it connects to your meta quest like the VR headset in a way where when you
1:09.3	walk on it, it's basically like moving the joystick forward and
1:12.8	back. So when you're in games, the whole idea is if you want to do VR is like to be in this
1:18.8	immersive situation. But it's obviously not very immersive. If you know, you have like the glasses
1:24.3	on, you have the visuals around you have the sound. But you're just standing there. And yet to like move, you have to move your thumb up and down, right? So how is it? Like how does it feel? Like what's your review of this treadmill thing? I've done it like twice. All the reviews say like your brain has to adjust to it. So for me, it's, it's extremely difficult. You instantly start sweating. Like everyone's like, you gotta have like three big fans pointing at you. Uh, it's extremely difficult. You instantly start sweating.
1:47.6	Like, everyone's like, you've got to have like three big fans pointing at you.
1:50.8	It sucks, but it's also crazy and interesting and good.
1:56.1	But the one interesting thing I'll say about VR and, like, part of the reason why I would buy some crazy shit like this is for the most part, people that get virtual reality headsets get them to play games. Like, it's like this is for the most part people that get virtual reality headsets get them
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