What's up, everyone? This is your host, as always, Brian Lubin. Today is a bit of a non-traditional

episode for the Action Academy podcast because today what I want to do is almost a documentation

episode. So think of this is a live in public open kimono journaling session for me in an audio

format. So what I'm doing today is I'm essentially documenting,

I've got 10 points here, and each point goes back and forth between a win or a positive

prediction I have for my own future. And then it's a struggle. So I'm going to alternate between

different things that I'm going through. My intention with this episode is for you guys to really get to know me at an intimate level

to where there is nothing kind of left. Like this will be me in today's episode. And also

for me listening back on this a year from now, five years from now, 10 years from now, 20

years from now, because that's

the cool thing about podcasts, is that they're evergreen. So Mr. Beast, for people that don't

know, he's the most famous YouTuber, there is the highest streamed YouTuber. And he made videos

where it was like message to future me five years, 10 years, 15 years from now. And some of those

videos are beginning to air

now. So I think that was a pretty cool concept. So this is basically me talking to the future

version of me. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to share what I'm going through right now.

My current thoughts in life at 28 years old. I turned 29 December 1st here in 2023.

So this is how I view life. Here's where I'm winning. Here's where I'm

struggling. And it'll be interesting for me to come back to this episode later on and see what I

was right on, where I was super off. And then we can all point and laugh at me if that is required.

So topic number one, business predictions. I'm recording this on the first day, October 1st of Q4,

2023. So my intention over the next six months specifically is to go all in on marketing and

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