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The Dept. w/ Omar El-Takrori

Omar El-Takrori

Self-improvement, Business, Education, Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 805 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Dept. Omar talks with Jeff Fargo about the opportunity for people over 40 to start a podcast. Jeff in under 2 years is making over $200,000 with his podcast and not only his he having fun, but helping a lot of people. We talk through the basics for how to get started with your podcast!

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0:00.0	How old were you when you started the Fargo Talks podcast?
0:03.5	I just turned 55. I was 53. Right now, I'm a little over 8 million audience reach for the past 28 days on multiple channels.
0:11.0	You're saying just two years into the podcast and it's a six-figure podcast.
0:17.0	Yeah.
0:18.0	What would you advise somebody to do to get good on video?
0:21.8	The best part about being a content creator, you have more conversations.
0:25.6	You get more life experience.
0:27.0	You bring more to a conversation.
0:29.0	I love that.
0:30.1	And you can do it with just your cell phone.
0:31.9	People overthink their stuff way too much.
0:33.8	You just keep posting.
0:36.6	If I could tell the younger Jeff, content creation is just...
0:41.3	Jeff, thanks so much for being on. The department. And seeing your journey as a podcaster,
0:51.5	and don't take this the wrong way, but at age how dare you but i call it i call it
0:58.2	2.0 so how old were you when you started the fargo talks podcast oh um i just turned 55 i was 53
1:07.4	when i started so yeah what was going through your your mind on like why you wanted to start a
1:14.3	podcast? Because I know that's where people are at right now. They're just like, I think I have
1:19.1	something to offer and, you know, it really was used initially as a sales tool me to reach my clients.
1:25.8	I was a title rep here in Las Vegas and had hundreds of
1:29.4	real estate agents and brokers and teams I was working with. And at the same time, my mom got
1:34.3	sick, dementia, and she was in Tampa. So I was going there every other weekend to take care
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