Brendan Schaub: From UFC Fighter To Comedian & Podcaster

My First Million

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Business, Entrepreneurship, Investing

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Episode 442: Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) talk to former football player, UFC fighter, comedian and podcaster, Brendan Schaub (@BrendanSchaub) about building his podcast network, how to deal with the haters, and how fighting is like entrepreneurship. Click here to sign up for our event in Austin, TX on Saturday April 29th: mfmpod.com/atx Vote for MFM to win a Webby: mfmpod.com/webby Want to see more MFM? Subscribe to the MFM YouTube channel here. Check Out Sam's Stuff: * Hampton * Ideation Bootcamp * Copy That Check Out Shaan's Stuff: * Power Writing Course * Daily Newsletter ----- Links: *The Fighter & The Kid *Thiccc Boy *Thiccc Boy (YouTube) * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces? Subscribe to our Youtube channel. ------ Show Notes: (02:50) - Introduction to Brendan (14:00) - How Brendan manages his businesses (18:25) - The size of his shows (22:20) - What's your goal for the business? (33:05) - The Kool-Aid Point and Dealing With Haters (42:15) - How does the comedy rat pack work? (01:01:40) - The similarities between entrepreneurship and fighting ----- Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more. ----- Additional episodes you might enjoy: • #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits • #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future • #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto * #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett • #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates • Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More • How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

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0:00.0	Back to the point of getting tossed a deep,
0:02.6	and I'm doing stand up for about two years.
0:06.3	I think I'm the fastest comic to ever get
0:08.2	a network special at showtime.
0:10.7	So I was like, no, for the most part,
0:12.6	people were like, oh, this guy's in the middle of two years.
0:14.1	This is good for him.
0:15.8	No, man, when you do that, what happens is
0:18.7	it actually pushes you further away from them.
0:22.4	We're live now.
0:23.6	Bird and Sharp, what's going on?
0:24.8	I'm Sam. This is Sean.
0:26.6	We just get right into things, but we, uh,
0:28.6	Sean and I have been huge fans of you for a long time.
0:31.6	You were both huge UFC fans.
0:32.6	We go to a bunch of those shows.
0:34.6	They're watching you and fire the kid for a while.
0:36.6	Uh, then the show with Theo Vaughn.
0:39.6	Yeah.
0:40.6	That was awesome.
0:41.6	So we've been fans forever.
0:42.6	I think, uh, I think, uh,
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