Heyo! Welcome to the $100 R. B. Show, the only business podcast that's crazy enough to give you exactly what you need

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I'm your host, your coach, your teacher

Omar Zenholm. I'm also the co-founder of the $100 MBA, a complete business

training and community online. And in today's episode you will learn what Michael Jackson can

teach you about business. I must confess I'm a huge Michael Jackson fan, but not for

the conventional reasons fans love him. Yes, his music is

timeless and he's probably one of the best performers of all time, but that's not why I've

been fascinated with Michael Jackson practically all my life. Let me explain.

One of my earliest memories is when I was three years old,

walking with my sisters to the school bus.

I was too young to go to school, but I would walk with them with my mom,

pretending I was going to school with them. Remember my sister standing

by the bus stop with their friends. There's about seven or eight young kids

ranging from five to nine years old and Michael Jackson's thriller had just

come out,

and every kid on that bus stop, including my sisters,

had a Michael Jackson button pinned on their jacket.

Remember those little metal pins that we used to put on?

I'm aging myself here, but some of them had Michael Jackson notebooks and bags, and one could actually had a red beaded jacket on.

I remember my sister who was six at the time asking one girl that had a Michael Jackson button on saying,

oh, you like Michael Jackson too? And the girl replied, only crazy people don't like

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