I'm going to share with you the blueprint to make your first million dollars.

These 10 steps are what the top 1% used to build businesses that generate millions.

They're the same steps that I used to go from a broke 24 year old to building a $100 million empire.

So without further explaining it, these are the 10 steps to make your first million.

Welcome to the Martel method.

I went from rehab at 17 to building a hundred million

dollar empire and being a Wall Street Journal bestselling author. In this podcast, I'll show you

exactly how to build a life and business you don't grow to hate. My best selling book, Buy Back

Your Time is out now. Grab a copy at buybackyourtime.com or at any of your preferred online retailers.

Which brings us to step number one, build a six figure skill.

See, I've watched people try to make money for years, and I've learned that interested people

watch obsess people change the world. Obsessed people make money. Obsessed people develop skills,

and those skills will get them paid. So I spent the last six months

researching, analyzing the most in-demand skills that are going to get you paid that are the

easiest to learn right now in 2025, starting with number one AI prompt engineering. What you do

is you go learn how to communicate with AI. And that's why the best companies are going to pay you top dollar to help them develop prompts that are going to improve their business. Number two, coding. This is actually what I went deep on back when I was 17. And back then, it took me literally two years to get any good at coding. Whereas today with the new technology, you can figure this out in the next few months. So go on YouTube and

study programming languages. These are ways that you can get paid money to build them applications.

They're going to improve their companies. Number three, video editing. This one's my favorite

because it's the most creative. We hire video editors, many of them who taught themselves how to edit.

We pay them top dollars because they take the content that I put out and clip it in a way that creates engagement, which gets me views, which I will pay a lot of money for and people will pay you. Number four, ghostwriting. Most people don't know this because it's kind of this skill set that's behind the scenes. But when I wrote my book, I had a ghost writer and I paid him six figures to help me work on my book because it was that

important. And there are people and entrepreneurs out there that will pay you top dollar to help

them work on their creative projects. Number five, chat sales. This is a fun one because we've

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