#27 - 10 Million Reasons Why He Plays Poker

My First Million

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Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Faraz Jaka (@FarazJaka) is a Poker pro who’s made $10M on the felt... What started out as a fun game during his spare time in college turned into big money FAST. Turning a few hundred dollars into $180k in 6 months as a 19 year-old. He was on top of the world appearing in articles, throwing massive parties, flying to Vegas every other weekend and ambitious plans to make millions a year… until it all came crashing down, went into debt and battled depression. Obviously, he rose from the dead and became hugely successful, so join this roller coaster story on My First Million, and also listen to how he uses the “+EV” method for all decision making, why you shouldn’t be results orientated, meditation exercises to overcome stress and tackling depression by confronting your issues like ‘folding a rug’. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0	All right, there's this amazing book called Getting Everything You Can Out Of All You've Got.
0:04.9	I read it a few years ago and it changed my life.
0:07.8	And the reason I loved it was because it basically talks about how to get and make more money
0:12.7	using things that you already have.
0:15.1	Coincidentally, today's podcast is brought to you by Business Made Simple.
0:19.6	It's a podcast by Donald Miller, who I'm going to tell you about in a second, but he has
0:23.3	this amazing episode that's all related to this book and the things that I learned in this
0:26.9	book.
0:27.9	It's called How to Make Money With What You Already Have.
0:29.4	It's an incredible episode.
0:30.9	It talks about all the stuff that I learned in this book.
0:33.2	The host is Donald Miller.
0:34.7	I didn't know who Donald Miller was up until recently, but over the last 12 months, this
0:37.9	is totally by coincidence.
0:38.9	There was all separate people.
0:40.2	They said you have to check out Donald Miller.
0:42.0	He's amazing.
0:43.0	So I'm happy that he's part of Howspot's Podcast Network.
0:45.5	You can check it out.
0:46.5	Business Made Simple Podcast.
0:47.9	It's where he coaches you on how to build your business like an airplane where the cockpit
0:52.1	is your leadership, the body is your overhead, the right engine is your marketing, the left
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