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🗓️ 10 February 2022
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0:00.0 | I know that there's going to be a lot of young entrepreneurs watching this and I know that |
0:05.0 | they typically ask me the same questions. So I want to ask you just a couple of them |
0:07.9 | before we wrap. One of them I get a lot is, you know, there'll be someone listening |
0:11.4 | to this, they've not got any money. They want to start a business. They don't have an |
0:16.2 | idea, but they want to start a business. What would you say to them? They go, I think, |
0:20.0 | you don't have an idea or money. Yeah. But they want to, they want to be an entrepreneur. |
0:23.7 | They get this a lot. So the first thing for me would be to find out what you're truly, |
0:31.4 | truly passionate about because for me, when I started Jim Shark, I made two fitness apps |
0:38.4 | beforehand. I made two fitness apps both failed miserably. I made a little fitness social |
0:42.4 | network failed miserably, a little fitness sort of forum that failed miserably. And then |
0:46.6 | Jim Shark was, it, I wanted to be involved in the industry more than anything. I wanted |
0:52.0 | to be involved in fitness because it changed my life. It was the thing that got me from |
0:55.0 | being a D student to an A student. Literally, that was the thing that changed my life. |
0:59.4 | The discipline. Yeah. The discipline that I learned, the structure, the fact that if |
1:03.2 | I was tied on a Monday, the gym doesn't care, go in and lift. It doesn't matter. And |
1:08.0 | most importantly, that if January 1, I joined the gym and I left five days a week, every |
1:13.4 | single week, by December 25, whatever, I am better than I was a year ago, that, that, |
1:20.5 | those lessons to me were massive because previously I didn't really realize that. And I do |
1:24.2 | this thing in school where I would be like, I'd work, try really hard and I get a bad |
1:27.6 | grade. And then there'd be another thing that I wouldn't try out and I'd get a really |
1:29.8 | good grade. And I just, it didn't, you know what I mean? It didn't add up to me. So |
1:33.2 | for me, I was in love with the industry and, and fitness wasn't is my passion. And that |
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