Hello and welcome. My name is Gino Barbera, one of the co-founders of Jake in Gino.

And in this how to lesson, we're going to be discussing how to start a business with a partner.

More importantly, how to select the right partner for your business.

I'd like to start out with a story on how I miserably failed at selecting my first partner.

And in life coaching school, when I went to school, I learned what is called an energy block.

An energy block is anything that holds us back, whether it's internal or external. Internal is our thoughts.

And believe it or not, 95% of what holds us back are our internal thoughts. 5% are the external.

The economy, what's going outside, what other people are doing, things we can't control.

But internally, we can control them if we learn how

to and if we become aware.

Now, there were four parts to the energy blocks.

We call them Gales in life coaching school at IPEC.

Gremlin is the highest energy block.

Gremlin is those inner thoughts that you think of. I'm not good enough. I'm too

ugly. I'm fat. I'm stupid. Those really restrict you. Those are really, really challenging.

The A for Gail is assumption, which is what we're going to be talking about right now,

specifically to the story for myself. Anything that's happened to you before, it's like, wow, holy,

that's happened. I can't do it. For instance, getting into a partnership, it fails. Well,

the next partnership is going to be marred in your thinking. The same thing with getting into

real estate. Losing money. Well, that's too risky. I can't do that again the i is an interpretation how we

interpreting things in life is so truly important to the outcome if you're starting off in real

estate and you're trying to talk to brokers and you're picking up the phone or you're emailing

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