Off the Record with Ezra Firestone: How To Create Courses & Community (and Overcome Depression)

Capitalism.com with Ryan Daniel Moran

Capitalism.com

Entrepreneur, Amazon, Lifestyledesign, Investing, Startup, Ryandanielmoran, Finance, Cashflow, Freedomfastlane, Lifestyle, Business, Passiveincome, Financialfreedom, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 793 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Guest Information

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/meetezra

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ezrafirestone

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ezrafirestone

Website: https://smartmarketer.com/

Email: [email protected]

Show Notes

This week we let you eavesdrop on Ryan Moran and Ezra Firestone talking candidly about a number of things at the recent Capitalism Conference. We wanted to share their awesome insights with you.

Provide an enticing reason for people to enroll in your newly-launched courses. If you’re trying to break out as a business mentor, you need to onboard people quickly, so that they can use word-of-mouth to let others know how much value you’re providing. Ezra does this by launching early “beta versions” as a discount, requiring attendees to provide written feedback.

This draws an early audience and lets you tailor future versions to better cater to your niche. A win-win!

There are other tactics besides medication for depression. Ezra’s read up a lot about depression, and while he’s not a psychologist, he’s learned that even getting a better night’s sleep can make a big difference.

Beyond that, he’s read about how depression is a lot like grief, except you are grieving for yourself. If you find yourself down a lot of the time, reach out to a professional for guidance.

Building connections with others is what drives us. We’ve “detribed”; we no longer live in small groups, but as individuals in massive societies. But we get so many rewards from making connections, whether it’s emotional, financial, or even neurochemical.

That’s why Ryan and Ezra are exploring the idea of buying up land and building their own communities, so they can create a space where meaningful connections are easier to grasp.

Hope you enjoy being a “fly on the wall”, listening in on Ryan and Ezra’s off-the-record talk in this episode!

Key takeaways:

Provide an enticing reason for people to enroll in your newly-launched courses.
There are other tactics besides medication for depression, and
Building connections with others is what drives us.

Connect with Ezra

Hear more from Ezra at https://smartmarketer.com/category/podcasts/

Connect with Ryan

Find more amazing podcast discussions on FreedomFastLane.com.

Transcript

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0:00.0	You get what you want from people who have it.
0:01.8	It is the apprentice model, and it is still the way the world works.
0:05.6	You're not going to get what you want from some college professor unless you want to be a brain surgeon, in which case right on.
0:10.5	But like, if you want to learn how to run an Amazon business, you find Ryan Moran who knows how to do that, and you get that from him.
0:20.1	You're listening to Freedom Fastlane presented by Capitalism.com.
0:23.6	This is the an interview.
0:41.7	We were in New York City shooting some videos for the Freedom Fast Lane YouTube channel.
0:47.8	Ryan had some big meetings with entrepreneurs in Manhattan, and we just had lunch when
0:53.2	Ryan got a mysterious call.
0:57.7	20-minute drive from me or from you?
1:02.8	20-minute drive.
1:04.9	Hold on one second.
1:06.0	Hey, Chris, would you pull out your phone?
1:07.7	So he said, come on, see money.
1:10.0	Let's go.
1:11.0	And we hopped in a cab.
1:12.7	I had no idea who we were seeing, but it was a really nice hotel.
1:18.4	We walked down the corridor, and a familiar face, Anne Man Bun, greeted us at the door.
1:24.7	The one and only Ezra Firestone.
1:28.6	They got to catching up, talking business, and I had to cut out some confidential stuff and
1:33.8	sign an NDA.
1:34.8	I might know somebody, by the way.
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