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#78 Dear Gen Z:

BigDeal

Codie Sanchez

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship, Marketing

4.8681 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Want help scaling your business to $1M in monthly revenue? Click here to connect with my consulting team: https://contrarianthinking.biz/SMBBRAPP-YT On this solo episode of BigDeal, host Codie Sanchez shares her advice for Gen Z'ers hoping to build a life of meaning and means. She shares her winding personal journey to entrepreneurship, and the role that adventure and chance played in shaping it. From reporting on human trafficking in Mexico to building a billion-dollar business, she talks about the risks she took, the mistakes she made, and the lessons that shaped her path. CHAPTERS 00:00 Intro 00:39 Move Fast, But Take More Detours 07:20 Is This All That Life Is? 9:08 Sam The Bananaman 10:12 Misfits Market 13:27 Ignore The Haters 17:29 Closing Thoughts MORE FROM BIG DEAL: 🎥 YouTube: youtube.com/@podcastbigdeal 📸 Instagram: instagram.com/bigdeal.podcast 📽️ TikTok: tiktok.com/@big.deal.pod ⸻ MORE FROM CODIE SANCHEZ: 🎥 YouTube: youtube.com/@codiesanchezct 📸 Instagram: instagram.com/codiesanchez 📽️ TikTok: tiktok.com/@realcodiesanchez ⸻ OTHER THINGS WE DO: Our community: https://contrarianthinking.typeform.com/to/WBztXXID Free newsletter: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3XWLlZp Biz buying course: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3NhjGgN Resibrands: https://resibrands.com/ CT Capital: https://contrarianthinking.biz/4eRyGOk Main St Hold Co: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3YfGa8u Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Oh, that's my prime delivery.

0:01.6

What, already?

0:02.7

Only one thing can match the buzz of Prime's fast delivery.

0:06.2

And that's the buzz of Prime's entertainment.

0:09.0

What are we watching?

0:09.7

Heads of state, that new action comedy with Idris Elbert as the Prime Minister,

0:13.3

John Sina as the president, and Prianka Chopra Jonas,

0:15.9

as their only hope.

0:17.0

It looks like a blast.

0:18.3

From fast delivery to explosive entertainment, it's on Prime. For only 899 a month, join now. Content includes limited ads, subscription, or two news. For more information, go to amazon.com.ukuk. U.K. slash prime. Hi, I'm Cody Sanchez. Welcome back to the Big Deal podcast. When I first started out in finance, I was like maybe a lot of you guys, I was working on stop. I kind of made some

0:38.0

pretty good money, but I was spending too much of it. It's really expensive just to live once you get out of college. You're like, wait a second, I'm making all this money, but then I've got rent, that I've got a car, that I've got to eat. What I realized is that most people make really big mistakes early on in their career. And I did that too. So I thought I'd tell you what they were

0:38.1

and how I would change them career. And I did that too. So I thought I'd tell you what they were

0:56.0

and how I would change them now.

0:57.0

If I was going to make myself rich,

1:00.0

have a ton of fun,

1:01.0

and make myself really set up for my 30s,

1:04.0

my first rule would be,

1:09.0

move fast, but take more detours.

1:11.6

So my senior year of college, I took the second half of the year, and I spent most of it down in Mexico.

1:16.6

I was a human trafficking journalist along the U.S.-Mexico border, and I would cover something called

1:22.6

Las Disappares, the disappeared women in Juarez, which is right across the border from El Paso. And I saw things

1:29.5

that I'll never be able to unsee. I saw bodies swinging from overpasses, because at that time,

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