This is the labor.

Every once in a while, it's good to feel old, and this next guest makes me feel very old

because I've known him.

Of him since he was 16, he's been mentee from a close and a far over the years.

He's been honored by the president, entrepreneur Forbes.

He's the top of all-top entrepreneurs.

Neil Patel, welcome to office hours.

Thanks for having me.

Well, you know, I always say I bet on the jockey, and you and another mentee of mine now are all grown up.

And there's probably no better feeling in the world to know that not only have you planted seeds,

and usually we plant seeds on the trees we never get to sit under.

But it's so nice to be able to sit under the shade and the shadow of such great people like Neil Patel.

I knew you were going to be successful the first time I met you.

I know the first thing we did was with the pro football fame.

Here in Las Vegas, I'm not sure you could even drink at the time.

You weren't old enough.

And yet, as a New York Times bestselling author, speaker, consultant to the biggest and brightest,

you are paving the way for so many people.

What do you think it was about your personality at such a young age that attracted not just me,

but all of the genre of entrepreneurs that I surrounded myself with,

what I considered to be the spirit of excellence from Hall of Famers,

billionaires, and entrepreneurs who the minute they met Neil Patel would tell me,

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