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All right guys, super excited to dive into this past week's episode and help me with this. I have my co-host Brad here with me today. How you doing buddy?

Hey Jonathan, I am doing quite well. Yeah, we're getting ready to go to camp 5 minute Lanark this weekend. That should be fun. I'm hoping as always to hold on to my voice here. But other than that, you know, doing well.

I have something that I just have to like almost interrupt you to tell you. So I just can't believe this came in my radar. What an opportunity.

I got an email from an old colleague that I had worked with back in the day and the email basically said, hey, I saw you get your doing something online.

And I was wondering if you're open into additional business venture opportunities. My like red alert radar system was like going off and just spelt like that.

Yeah, that's a spidey sense thing, right?

When you get like this vague super super vague email actually Brad that same day I message you and I said, Brad, I think I just got pitched on a

an MLM type program, one of these kind of multi level marketing type programs. I'm not sure it was super vague. And there is context for just going to hang out and catching up. But I'm pretty sure I just got invited to a MLM lunch and just with our particular situation is

podcasters in the personal finance space who talk about stories in her own personal lives. It almost felt too good to be true. But I messaged you if you remember and to which your response was no, no, I'm sure it's I'm sure it's just a catch up.

But my spidey sense was like it was tingling, man. So I go to lunch, I go get coffee and sure enough within five minutes the binder has been broken out in its amway.

Now, when I was 18 years old, I was quite literally this is story that spans a decade, right? When I was 18 years old, I was walking around in a best by looking for a Sony Walkman or something of some such maybe was a CD player this particular point time and I had a similar person kind of solicit me in the aisle, ask me if I would said I look like a very entrepreneurial type of person, ask me if I was interested in a business opportunity.

I don't know why that's always the opening line, but at the age of 18, it was just yeah, of course I'm interested. You tell me there's a guaranteed path to wealth and I can I can work my own hours. I can have this creative lifestyle. I can design my own future and all I need to do is come with you to this to the seminar. Why not? Well, I did not end up pursuing it there mostly because just I don't know what it was even at that point at the age of 18 that just felt like something didn't quite connect.

But now at the age in my 30s, I'm presented with this exact same opportunity and I'm sitting down from lunch and I don't know if this guy exactly knows what he's getting into when he's sitting down with me, but it was a much different conversation and I think I think I want to share parts of it with you.

So you you pushed back you didn't just sit idly by and listen to this feel right like you actually push back on it. I did push back yes, yes, I push back so I'm listening to pitch and I said all right, well hang on.

Just a second. Let's just pause for a second here. I don't particularly want to be selling these types of products like nothing in the amway lineup looks that appealing to me like energy drinks. I can get energy drinks somewhere else. He's like, well, no, that's not the point.

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