How Iranian Refugee Patrick Bet-David is building his own American Dream an interview with Joe De Sena
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Patrick was 10 when his family fled Iran as refugees, and now owns one of the biggest privately held insurance companies there is. Patrick Bet-David and Joe De Sena talk today about the value of working hard and making your own way. After a stint in the 101 Airborne, he began his search for the right opportunity. He employed the "Blue Ocean" strategy and created PHP one of the fastest-growing companies in the financial marketplace. He has also become a powerful motivational voice with his Valuetainment YouTube channel taking complex leadership, management, and entrepreneurial ideas and converting them into simple life lessons.
Toward the end of the interview, Bet-David shares his advice for getting through the current economic turmoil.
He gives Joe a preview of the guidance in his upcoming book "Your Next 5 Moves."
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LESSONS
Don't live as a victim
Plan your next five moves
Identify not just a good idea, but the BEST ideas
Lack of movement creates overthinking
LINKS
https://yournextfivemoves.com/
https://www.patrickbetdavid.com
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CREDITS:
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Hosts: Joe De Sena & Sefra Alexandra. Johnny Waite & Colonel Nye are currently social distancing.
Synopsis – Sefra Alexandra | Seed Huntress
Production Assistant - Andrea Hagarty
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| 0:00.0 | I tell you there's nothing worse than one who is not mobile. |
| 0:05.0 | When you're immobilized and you're not moving, you sabotage yourself and |
| 0:09.9 | levels you can't do when you're in the hunt of something. You know, sitting around thinking |
| 0:18.1 | can really put you out of business. Sitting around overthinking can ruin marriages, can ruin friendships, can ruin companies, |
| 0:26.0 | because you have unnecessary time to overthink things. |
| 0:30.0 | Spartans, we are here for Spartan Up Podcast. |
| 0:33.0 | We are your accountability and resiliency partner, |
| 0:35.4 | ripping you off the couch every single week. |
| 0:38.0 | God, it's been over 300 episodes now. |
| 0:39.8 | We have learned so much, you've learned so much. |
| 0:41.8 | Unfortunately, Johnny Waiteite our co-host |
| 0:44.8 | Colonel Nye are not with us there on lockdown Separate and I are holding down the |
| 0:49.4 | fort on the farm and we interviewed an unbelievable guy yesterday, Patrick but David. |
| 0:55.0 | You like them, right? |
| 0:56.0 | Yeah, awesome. I mean, great story. |
| 0:59.0 | Went from literally rags to riches, right? |
| 1:02.0 | Iranian immigrant. I mean this guy embodies this whole idea we talk about |
| 1:07.1 | over all these years of fighting for milk. |
| 1:10.3 | He was so good, he sucked me right in,. I ended up diving into his personal story. |
| 1:14.3 | He starts giving me business advice. But stayed on the end. You got to watch this because you got to listen to it because he |
| 1:19.7 | gives me some amazing things not only for business but for the quarantine that quite |
| 1:24.0 | honestly I hadn't thought of and I don't think you thought of. |
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