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🗓️ 19 September 2018
⏱️ 22 minutes
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In this episode, Bedros Keuilian and Craig Ballantyne share some gems of wisdom that just missed making it into Bedros’s new book, Man Up. They discuss topics like hanging around honest friends, bringing on the wrong investors, and selling hard offers. Watch or listen now to also learn why real entrepreneurs work and vacation when they want to, not when the world tells them to.
“I’m obsessed with the outcome and I’m in love with the process. Those are the two things you need to be an empire builder.” - Bedros Keuilian
Here’s what you’ll discover:
0:50 - How to live by your own rules and create your own holidays
8:00 - Why evolution is mandatory in today’s business world
9:02 - Why you can never assume success before you achieve it
11:43 - What are hard offers, and why are they so powerful?
16:08 - Why your business partners can actually limit your potential as an entrepreneur
“You need to be constantly evolving or looking for the next thing.” - Craig Ballantyne
Grab Man Up today: https://manup.com/
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0:00.0 | When you're hanging out with your friends, are you talking about |
0:03.3 | growing the money? Are you talking about using the money for impact and meaning and |
0:07.2 | significance? Are you asking them how you can help them or how they can help you? |
0:10.8 | If that's not the conversation, if the conversation is about the |
0:13.8 | fucking baseball game or soccer game or football game that took place, you don't own that basketball |
0:18.4 | team. So, I am here with Beydros Cooley and the author of Man Up, How to Cut The B.S. and kick |
0:40.9 | butt in business and in life. Do you like the PG version? I do like the |
0:44.0 | PG version. Thank you. My name is Craig Valensine. Welcome back to another episode of the |
0:47.7 | Empire Podcast. Baidros, I know what happens when you write a book. You come up with a lot of great ideas after that you have to write 2.0. |
0:55.6 | So let's talk about new Man Up lessons. |
0:58.0 | Oh, sure. |
0:59.0 | From the book. |
1:00.0 | What would you call them? Well, one of the big things I've been talking about recently is entrepreneurial obsession. |
1:03.2 | Like if I could go back and rewrite the book right now, it would really have a chapter dedicated to |
1:08.6 | entrepreneurial obsession, but since I can't rewrite it, we'll talk about it here, right? |
1:12.1 | All right, yeah. |
1:12.6 | So the other weekend, it's Labor Day weekend, |
1:15.0 | I'm watching you Galavanting across the country |
1:17.7 | as you would like to do, Galavanting. |
1:19.7 | And you're in Miami, then you're in LAX in St. Louis in three days on a long weekend while everybody else |
1:26.3 | and one of my friends sent me a message and said, hey enjoy the long weekend. |
1:31.0 | I didn't even know it was a long weekend. So man you're out there |
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