#90: Live Your Best Life with Zach Benson
JAYSON WALLER UNLEASHED
Jayson Waller
4.4 • 649 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode of the True Underdog Podcast, Jayson Waller is joined by Founder and CEO of Assistagram, Zach Benson - A network of 220 million Instagram followers to drive brand awareness, leads, and sales!
You’ll hear about his come-up story of being adopted and moving to the States from Korea when he was only 4 months old for greener pastures onto his journey of becoming an Entrepreneur, Social Media Guru, Dancer, and Traveller Influencer!
Highlights:
- Adopted at an early age for a better life and life in Iowa
- Growing up and being a misfit
- Diagnosed with ADHD and speech impediment
- Being a successful dancer - “Teaching is my Passion”
- A life-changing injury that prevented him from dancing
- Finding and re-discovering his roots
- How he built up a successful business in social media
- Assistagram’s focus on guerilla marketing tactics and strategies to help the biggest brands monetize their products and services
- Setbacks and persevering through the hardships
- Being content and living with less - Life-changing social experiences
- Work Ethic - grinding without complaining by putting your mind into it to make it happen
- Legacy Mission, and much more!
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Timestamps:
00:00:28 - Introduction to Zach Benson
00:01:21 - Younger Years / Being Adopted
00:02:30 - Being Bullied as a Youngster
00:03:26 - Turning bad grades in 6-figures
00:04:49 - Meeting Birth Mother back in Korea
00:08:00 - Moving to LA to pursue a career in Dancing
00:09:55 - SIZZ COMMERCIAL
00:10:58 - Career Cut Short / Side Hustle
00:12:07 - Brand Building on Instagram
00:13:01 - Brand Portfolio / Working with Entrepreneurs and Tourism Boards
00:14:18 - Assistagram Empire and Services
00:15:59 - 'Being Real’ Philosophy
00:17:10 - The Future
00:18:18 - Legacy / Final Words
00:19:30 - Stay Connected…...
Guest Social Handles / Links In The Episode:
Website: www.zachbenson.life/
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/zach-benson-368483119/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/zachvacay
Twitter: www.twitter.com/zachtbenson
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/zachtbenson/
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| 0:00.0 | Jason Waller here, True Underdog podcast and YouTube channel. |
| 0:04.8 | Listen, make sure you subscribe today. |
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| 0:10.4 | You can go to our YouTube channel, True Underdog, |
| 0:12.4 | or you can visit trueunderdog.com and subscribe to all of it. |
| 0:16.1 | Damn, bam, true underdog. |
| 0:19.3 | Bam, bam, unleash the power with him. |
| 0:22.3 | Damn. |
| 0:23.3 | Damn. |
| 0:23.6 | Jason Waller here. |
| 0:30.1 | True underdog podcast. |
| 0:32.1 | Underdogs, I have got an amazing show for you today. |
| 0:36.2 | This gentleman here with us is an entrepreneur. He's a social |
| 0:39.7 | media strategist. He is a media and travel influencer, and he's a dance instructor. He once |
| 0:46.0 | appeared on season 10 of Foxes, so you think you can dance. Now, I know I can't dance, but he was on |
| 0:52.2 | there so you think you can dance. And he is the founder and CEO of a Cystagram. My man, Zach Benson, how you doing, man? Oh, Jason. Good to be here. Thanks for having me. Hopefully the intro was good. I come in, bam, bring it energy every time I can get on the show. Yeah, yeah, yeah, perfect. It's 5 a.m. here in Korea, but yeah, ready to go. |
| 0:55.8 | Well, I'm glad that here in Korea, but yeah, |
| 1:12.0 | ready to go. Well, I'm glad that you're up, but we can make this happen. So welcome to the show, excited to get into your story and how you became, you know, you found one of the largest marketing platforms on the web. But let me go back a bit when you were born in South Korea, and at four months old, you were adopted by a family in Iowa. |
| 1:10.1 | What can you remember of those younger years? a bit when you were born in South Korea and at four months old, you were adopted by a family in Iowa. |
| 1:28.6 | What can you remember of those younger years? |
| 1:31.8 | Yeah, so I was just a baby, but I mean, I remember, like, I'd have to say I'm, like, |
| 1:36.3 | grateful, one, because, like, my mom sacrificed and gave me up so that I could have a better life. |
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