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My First Million

From Navy SEAL To Viral Content Creator - MrBallen’s Insane Story

My First Million

Hubspot

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Episode 632: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to John Allen ( https://x.com/MrBallen ) and Nick Witters ( https://x.com/themrwitters ), the minds behind MrBallen and Ballen Studios.  — Show Notes:  (0:00) Being a creator on hard mode (7:19) Slow is smooth and smooth is fast (8:44) Being hit by a grenade in combat (17:03) Elite Meet (18:29) John's TikTok ideas bank (21:42) The SEALs turn on John (25:02) How telling 1 story launched MrBallen (28:18) Getting unstuck (35:02) Be rich or be a king? (40:44) The North Star for Ballen (44:00) 1 thing to be a better storyteller — Links: • MrBallen on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/MrBallen • MrBallen on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@mrballen • Ballen Studios - https://ballenstudios.com/ • Elite Meet - https://elitemeetus.org/ • Dyaltov Pass TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@mrballen/video/6799049964937809157 — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

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0:00.0

I watched this grenade come over the wall and it's like I can see it for a second it

0:04.4

disappeared I can see it for a second and it was like time absolutely stood still and

0:10.0

when I was in this blackness of not seeing and not hearing, I knew absolutely that this is done.

0:17.0

I had mental issues, I had emotional issues, I had real physical issues, I was a complete psychopath and when I got

0:24.4

out I thought social media and content creation was just kind of fascinating.

0:28.6

How did you decide that was a worthy way to spend your life? If you create the right thing at the right time it's like a lottery

0:34.3

ticket and it goes viral and then it's your chance at that point to capitalize in whatever way you want to.

0:39.5

I was obsessed with it so despite the many failures over the course of

0:43.1

probably six months or so maybe a year of just like awful cringe videos that went

0:48.0

nowhere on a whim I was like you know what I'm just gonna shoot a quick video

0:51.3

and I leave my phone in the room for a couple hours, come back,

0:54.8

and I couldn't even open my phone, and it had over 5 million views in a matter of a few hours.

0:59.2

So you built this empire quickly?

1:01.8

I went into this feverish like constantly telling

1:04.8

stories on Tik-talk three a day for 30 days and then went up to like seven

1:09.2

million subscribers on Tik-talk and then shipped it to YouTube and here we are.

1:14.0

What's one thing you teach me to make me a better story telling?

1:16.4

It's something that people love and hate.

1:18.8

If you're going to tell a story.

1:21.4

I feel like I can rule the world. I know I could be what I want to.

1:25.6

I put my all in it like no days off.

1:28.6

On the road, have you ever seen the Mr. Ballin channel before I asked you if you should come on?

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