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If I Wanted To Become A Millionaire Creator in 2025, This Is What I’d Do

BigDeal

Codie Sanchez

Business, Marketing, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.9972 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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I sat down with my friend Jon Youshaei ( @youshaei ) to get real about what it takes to build content that actually drives business. We dug into how I face down public speaking fears, deal with critics, and why showing both the grit and the glam is essential. I also shared exactly how I make money—through my holding company of “boring” businesses, my media brand, and investments—plus the systems I use to scale it all. We talked deal-making, financial literacy as a moat, and the responsibility creators have to tell the truth. If you’re serious about building wealth and not just followers, this episode is for you. 00:00 Introduction 00:02 Navigating the World of Business Content 00:23 Overcoming Fear and Criticism 01:27 The Concept of 'Show Don't Tell' 02:41 The Moment of Realization 03:01 Curiosity and Financial Literacy 03:31 Changing the Investment Landscape 06:48 The Importance of Processes and Systems 12:38 Creating High-Quality Content 14:47 Repurposing Content and Finding Viral Moments 20:08 Building a Community with Cult Sayings 22:36 Consistency in Personal and Professional Identity 23:00 Building a 21st Century Media Company 24:31 Breaking Down Income Streams 29:05 The Challenges of Brand Deals 32:55 The Value of Education and Info Products 38:59 The Importance of Deal Making 44:44 Facing Business Challenges MORE FROM BIGDEAL: 🎥 Youtube: / @podcastbigdeal 📸 Instagram: / bigdeal.podcast 📽️ TikTok: / big.deal.pod MORE FROM CODIE SANCHEZ: 🎥 Youtube: / @codiesanchezct 📸 Instagram: / codiesanchez 📽️ TikTok: / realcodiesanchez OTHER THINGS WE DO: 🌐 Our community: https://contrarianthinking.typeform.com/to/WBztXXID 📰 Free newsletter: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3XWLlZp 📚 Biz buying course: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3NhjGgN 🏠 Resibrands: https://resibrands.com/ 💰 CT Capital: https://contrarianthinking.biz/4eRyGOk 🏦 Main St Hold Co: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3YfGa8u Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

In today's day and age, you don't need more information. You need the exact right information at the

0:04.2

exact right time and nothing else. If you want to make money online and become a millionaire in 2025,

0:09.5

I'm breaking down the exact step-by-step playbook for how to do it. Every single media company that

0:15.0

has become very large has struggled financially to the point of either going under or having to be

0:19.7

bought by a billionaire. I'm going to sit down with John Yusay, who is one of the best known journalists about creators.

0:26.1

How do you approach your business as a creator so you can scale much more quickly than a lot of

0:31.5

the other folks you may see out there?

0:32.6

You don't always have to be the expert if you can borrow somebody else's 10,000 hours.

0:36.6

I want to build like a lasting

0:38.3

company. I have to build it out in a way where I am not the single point of failure. So we're

0:42.8

going to break down, not ideas about how to go viral and make money, but my actual playbook. Let's get into it.

0:51.1

Hi and welcome back to the Big Deal podcast. I'm Cody Sanchez. This show is growing at such an insane rate. Like, no seriously, it's kind of crazy. And yet, over half of our regular viewers haven't actually subscribed. It's a free way of supporting the show and it helps us to grow the show and bring you even better guests. So if you could double check that you've hit that subscribe button, I would be so grateful from the bottom of my heart. Thank you. And as my friend Andy says, don't be a ho. Share the show. You know, it's funny. As I've been doing more interviews with big creators, they've shown me a lot of stuff behind the scenes. I've seen their brainstorming documents. I've seen their notion docs or processes. And I kid you not when your team showed me your notion page and some of your

1:28.4

projects. Like I felt like a part of my brain that didn't even exist. Like started to like blow

1:33.0

open because it's the way you approach it and some of the systems, I wanted to ask you about

1:37.6

that. Because I think a lot of folks, myself included just do things and we don't have a system

1:42.6

around it. So we end up recreating

1:44.2

the wheel. How do you approach your business as a creator to make it so you can scale and

1:50.7

grow much more quickly than a lot of the other folks you may see out there? Yeah. Well, the first

1:55.4

thing overall we do before the tools and tactics is really like a mindset thing. Haven't you heard

2:00.0

a ton of creators say

2:00.8

like, well, I got burned out. So I didn't want to do it anymore. I think burnout actually happens

2:05.3

because we don't have processes. Yeah, well said. So if we had processes and systems and people

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