Michael Gelfgot: The Immigrant Edge - 133

Bedros Keuilian Podcast Show

Bedros Keuilian

Self-improvement, Education

5 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Inside Look, Bedros sits down with fellow immigrant and entrepreneur, Michael Gelfgot. Michael tells us about his upbringing in Uzbekistan and how he was able to overcome his poverty and make a killing in the fitness industry! After selling his 21 clubs, he could have easily retired. Listen to find out what he does now!

“I believe that successful people need to have a set of disciplines.”

“There is no such thing as I may or may not do this.”

“When there is no purpose, you die.”

“We all know, inherently, what we need to do.”

- Michael Gelfgot

Here’s what you’ll discover:

06:30 - How Michael and Bedros met

19:17 - When Michael decided he wanted to go all in on his business

22:39 - Do you have non negotiables throughout your day?

27:14 - Why Michael didn’t retire

33:29 - Michael’s journey from Uzbekistan to America

38:03 - Get leverage

39:22 - Michael’s morning routine

“You must learn how to ruthlessly manage your people and your profits.”

- Bedros Keuilian

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Transcript

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0:00.0	The thing is as long as there's some sort of a way that you have for yourself to get back into the swing of things.
0:05.0	So for me it's weekly.
0:06.5	For me it's every single week I take about 60 minutes and I take a look at what the hell did I do last week?
0:12.4	What did I do this week? What did I do this week?
0:13.0	Am I moving the needle forward?
0:15.0	And if I acknowledge and I noticed the fact that I'm not
0:17.0	moving whatever needle I want to move forward,
0:19.0	that's my sense of checks and balances
0:22.0	sort of to say, okay, I need to get my of the Empire show I'm
0:44.1	Beatros Koolian and this is an inside look and today we are looking inside of the
0:50.0	life of an entrepreneur who I've known since 2007. That's golly over 12 years. And I know he's
0:57.4	amazing in sales. He's amazing in human performance where the mind is concerned. He is
1:02.1	one of the most optimistic
1:03.4	dudes I've ever met ladies and gentlemen mr. Mike
1:07.8	gelf gough. Wait tell me your life it's all right it's it's uh it's it's gelf got that's goth. That's right because for years
1:16.7	I've been pronouncing it incorrectly and I was never corrected. Gelf got. Mike
1:20.4	welcome aboard. Thanks for having and this is the Empire Show and on the show we really do a deep dive into someone who has been successful.
1:28.0	We, and guys and gals if you're watching and listening to this, just know that literally every week week in fact just four days ago I got
1:34.2	another DM from someone asking me hey man how much would it cost for me to get on
1:38.6	your show because there are some big shows out there who will charge someone to get on the show to give them
1:43.9	some airtime and give them some exposure and we never do that. So most of the
1:47.8	time the Empire show is either just me or just me and Craig.
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