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My First Million

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Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

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🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Episode 703: Sam Parr ( https://x.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://x.com/ShaanVP ) talk to George Mack ( https://x.com/george__mack ) about high agency. — Links: • Steal Sam's guide to turn ChatGPT into your Executive Coach: https://clickhubspot.com/wec • High Agency - https://www.highagency.com/ • Nick Mowbray episode - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pHcxoZ0j9A — Check Out Shaan's Stuff: Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd — Check Out Sam's Stuff: • Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/ • Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/ • Copy That - https://copythat.com • Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth • Sam’s List - http://samslist.co/ My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by HubSpot Media // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano

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0:00.0	I love to show Ted Lasso because it's like an example of, I call it getting Ted
0:04.7	lassoed now, which is when a Brit has twice the intelligence or knowledge, but the American
0:10.4	has 10x the agency or confidence, and as a result, they achieve five times more.
0:16.2	That was brilliant. I put be what I want to.
0:23.5	I put my all in it like no days off.
0:25.6	On a road, let's travel, never look at that. George, you got an interesting career because you were at social chain early on.
0:30.4	So if people know, Steve Bartlett from Divers here, he was there early.
0:33.9	He then, so now he has, he then created a successful marketing agency.
0:37.8	And then a couple weeks ago, you came out with this thing.
0:41.5	It was called highagency.com.
0:44.3	Let me give the background here.
0:46.1	George got obsessed with the way that Nicola Tesla fell in love with a pigeon,
0:50.5	George fell in love with this idea of high agency.
0:52.8	He started tweeting about it, started blogging about it.
0:54.9	He's like, I'm going to write a handbook on this thing.
0:57.5	He started making it like his sole focus for at least what, six months, George?
1:02.6	Well, I'd say five years.
1:04.5	Five years is when I first started thinking about the idea when Eric Weinstein mentioned it.
1:10.0	And then I started writing about it. I got advice that it
1:13.4	would never take off as an idea. Interestingly, since we did our podcast last time when we discussed it,
1:17.6	the idea or the meme as a whole has become bigger and bigger and bigger. I think...
1:21.9	By the way, it's not five years. When I googled your name, I googled George Mack High Agency.
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