#73 Jesse Itzler on How to Stop Being Realistic and Shoot for the Moon
Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Impact Theory
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🗓️ 22 May 2018
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Everybody, welcome to Impact Theory. |
| 0:05.4 | Our goal with the show and company is to introduce you to the people and ideas that will |
| 0:09.4 | help you actually execute on your dreams. |
| 0:12.2 | Alright, today's guest is a wildly successful entrepreneur with a net worth measured in the |
| 0:16.7 | hundreds of millions of dollars, but trying to understand him by his financial success |
| 0:21.7 | would be to entirely miss the mark. |
| 0:23.9 | What makes him fascinating isn't just that he managed to turn a 900 on his SATs and |
| 0:28.4 | no formal business training into a business empire that spans travel, food and beverage, |
| 0:33.8 | music, and even sports. |
| 0:35.6 | It said he has one of the most fascinating life resumes on the planet. |
| 0:40.7 | Here are just a few of his highlights. |
| 0:42.6 | He's a former MTV rapper who used to be label mates with 80s hip-hop icons, tone-lok, |
| 0:48.3 | and young MC, and despite being white, he convinced said record label to listen to his |
| 0:52.7 | demo by first pretending to be a well-known black rapper. |
| 0:56.1 | He co-founded and built the world's largest private jet card company, Marquis Jet, with |
| 1:00.3 | no previous experience in aviation, and when he launched it, he got sales by hoarding muffins. |
| 1:05.6 | I'm not kidding. |
| 1:07.1 | He's rented an entire mountain, hired a Navy SEAL the tough and him up, turned his failed |
| 1:10.8 | career as a rapper into a successful company writing theme songs for sports franchises, |
| 1:16.0 | and now he's actually a co-owner of an NBA franchise himself. |
| 1:19.6 | He helped launch the coconut water craze with Zika, which later he sold the Coca-Cola, |
| 1:24.0 | and he's run 100 miles in a single day. |
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