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🗓️ 16 September 2019
⏱️ 64 minutes
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In this special episode of Inside Look, “Peter’s” first ever mentor, Jim Franco, stops by for a long awaited reunion. Jim tells about how he started his first couple businesses and walks us through his failures and successes. He tells us to trust the process and to never stop going after your dreams! We also get to hear the secret to being happy!
“You can either be fixed minded… or open and growth minded.”
“Trust the process.”
- Bedros Keuilian
Here’s what you’ll discover:
21:02 - How Jim lost his first customer
23:11 - What it took Jim to start making software
24:30 - Jim’s first computer costed him more than his house
29:25 - What Jim’s first side hustle was
30:33 - How Jim acquired the company he worked for.
48:10 - What life is all about
“There’s more opportunity today than ever in mankind.”
“I saw the vision.”
“It just takes dedication and hard work.”
“My employees are happy.”
- Jim Franco
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0:00.0 | You've got a very special treat today because on the Empire show we've got my mentor and my rich dad Jim Franco Hey, |
0:25.0 | welcome this is a very special episode of the Empire Podcast show and I got to tell you I haven't been nervous |
0:31.0 | interviewing some of the greatest speakers, Super Bowl |
0:33.9 | athletes, entrepreneurs on the planet but I'm a little nervous today and the reason for |
0:38.8 | that is I've got a very special guest. His name is Jim Franco. If you read my book, Man Up, then you heard me talk |
0:44.9 | about Jim Franco. He was like a mentor to me. Well, he was my first mentor. Still is, you know, |
0:52.4 | when you look back 20 years you realize he was also a father figure and he actually came down to the |
0:58.0 | FitBodaboo headquarters here in the Empire Studios and so I'd like to introduce you all to my mentor and friend Jim |
1:04.2 | Franco. |
1:05.2 | Thank you very much. Yes sir welcome to the show. Pete nobody calls you |
1:09.7 | Pete except family and me that's true. I walked in here to go, Pete, who you talking? |
1:14.0 | Yeah, wrong building. By the way, I should tell you all, everyone watching and listening to this episode, |
1:18.7 | you'll hear Jim call me Pete. So my name is Bedros and that is St Peter it's the biblical translation of |
1:25.3 | in Armenian it's the biblical translation of Peter and at the gym at the health |
1:31.2 | club where I was a personal trainer I went by Pete because no one could pronounce Pedro. |
1:36.3 | It's funny once you once you get famous then they you have a little fame then they can |
1:40.5 | pronounce your name but until then everyone was like, |
1:43.5 | Pedro? I said, no, it's not Pedro, it's Pedro's. Just just |
1:46.8 | fucking call me Pete. You know, and that's how Pete stuck. Okay. |
1:50.4 | Yeah, so Jim and a few family members still call me Pete and I think that's very nostalgic. |
1:55.4 | So you and I met in what 2001? |
1:58.4 | 2001? |
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