My First Million

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Michael Sonnenfeldt: The Most Successful Real Estate Deal of All Time and Building a Community of Billionaires May 31, 2022

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Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) talks to Michael Sonnenfeldt, founder and chairman of Tiger 21 - a peer-to-peer network for high net-worth wealth individuals - about how to build wealth and how to preserve it.

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Links:

* Michael Sonnenfeldt

* Tiger 21

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Show Notes:

(01:40) - What is Tiger 21

(09:40) - First business

(13:45) - Levels of wealth

(33:30) - Ability to earn vs. ability to invest

(34:50) - Why real estate

(41:30) - Do you regret selling?

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Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more.

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Additional episodes you might enjoy:

• #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits

• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future

• #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto

* #169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett

• #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates

• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More

• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

One Question Friday: How To Start A Lead Gen Business May 27, 2022

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Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) answer one listener's question. On this episode, Neil Gupta, from Toronto, Ontario, Canada asks what are the first three actionable steps to starting a lead gen business and what industries should he target?

To submit your question and hear yourself on My First Million, go to MFMPod.com and click on the circle with the microphone in the lower right hand corner.

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Work Like Ocean's 11, Sam Bankman-Fried, and the Deepfake Dilemma May 26, 2022

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Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) talk about how the future of work will look like an Ocean's 11 team, height enhancing surgery, Sam Bankman-Fried, and how to solve the problem of deepfakes.

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Links:

* My Body Tutor

* SiriusXM Acquires Conan O'Brien's Team Coco podcast

* Moiz's tweet

* Surgery that makes men taller

* A.Team

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Show Notes:

(01:25) - Shaan eating healthy & MyBodyTutor

(05:20) - How much MFM is worth?

(09:15) - Drinking Cola and Genghis Khan

(14:10) - Surgery to make you 3 inches taller

(25:15) - TikTok Apartments

(39:10) - Sam Bankman-Fried

(49:10) - A.Team

(55:10) - No one reads Docusign

(61:10) - Zelensky Deep Fakes

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Additional episodes you might enjoy:

• #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits

• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future

• #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto

#169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett

• #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates

• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More

• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

"The Real Life Ted Lasso," Martin Shkreli, Liver King, and Other Cult Leaders May 24, 2022

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Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) talk about the Savannah Bananas, Martin Shkreli, Liver King, how Shaan lost more than $200K on Luna and Terra, and more. Also, want $5,000? Check out the My First Million Clips contest.

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Links:

* My First Million Clips contest

* The Savannah Bananas Instagram

* The Savannah Bananas website

* The Liver King Instagram

* The Fittest

* Heart and Soil

* Ancestral Supplements

* Martin Shkreli blog

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Show Notes:

(01:20) - My First Million Clips contest

(04:15) - Savannah Bananas

(12:20) - Breaking down Moiz interview

(19:45) - Terra & Luna crash

(42:15) - The Liver King

(49:05) - Martin Shkreli

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Additional episodes you might enjoy:

• #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits

• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future

• #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto

#169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett

• #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates

• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More

• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

Shaan's 9 Unorthodox Management Tips May 23, 2022

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Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) shares his tried and true unconventional management tips that you won't learn in business school.

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Show Notes:

(02:40) - Tip 1 Dr. House

(05:25) - Tip 2 The Holiday

(08:30) - Tip 3 Misery Love Company

(09:00) - Tip 4 Hired Too Many

(12:45) - Tip 5 Super Power

(17:40) - Tip 6 Tesla Master Plan

(20:15) - Tip 7 Calendar Audit

(21:10) - Tip 8 Peer Groups

(22:00) - Tip 9 Kickoff Document

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Additional episodes you might enjoy:

• #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits

• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future

• #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto

#169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett

• #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates

• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More

• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

From the Vault: These Are the Frameworks Every Entrepreneur Should Learn May 19, 2022

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We go deep in the vaults to find an episode of Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP), aka the King of Frameworks, sharing his favorite ten frameworks.

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Links:

* Get the PDF version with illustrations - https://www.shaanpuri.com/posts/week-7

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Show Notes:

1. Intro (1:30)

2. Your TO-Do List is Killing You (2:40)

3. How To Kickoff a Project (5:35)

4. Big Mario Marketing (9:00)

5. Getting Un-Stuck (12:00)

6. Having an Audience is Like Steroids (19:20)

7. All News is Good News (21:05)

8. Work Like a Lion (22:40)

9. Don’t Sell Saddles (24:00)

10. Cold Emailing to Close Sales (28:00)

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Additional episodes you might enjoy:

• #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits

• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future

• #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto

#169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett

• #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates

• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More

• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

Selling Deodorant for $100M and How to Find Your Best Competitive Advantage with Moiz Ali May 17, 2022

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Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) sits down with entrepreneur and former CEO of Native, Moiz Ali (@MoizAli), to talk about how to find the competitive advantage for your business, three common mistakes DTC brands make, investment tips and more.

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Links:

* Native

* Haldirams

* Manscaped

* Brumate

* Moiz's sell sheet tweet

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Show Notes:

(04:20) - Starting Native in secret

(13:50) - Figuring out your competitive advantage

(24:00) - Common mistakes in DTC brands

(35:00) - Stock tips on D2C tech companies

(38:10) - Real estate investments

One Question Friday: Hiring Your First Employee May 13, 2022

Show notes

Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) answers one listener's question. On this episode, a UK-based listener asks how to approach making their first hire at their startup.

To submit your question and hear yourself on My First Million, go to MFMPod.com and click on the circle with the microphone in the lower right hand corner.

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Links:

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The Billion Dollar Community Propelling Women To The Top - Carolyn Childers of Chief.com May 12, 2022

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Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) sits down with Carolyn Childers, co-founder and CEO of Chief, to talk about her million dollar subscription-based business that drives and supports women in corporate leadership roles.

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Links:

* Chief

* The New Rules of Business

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Show Notes:

(04:10) - What is Chief.com

(07:15) - Their billion $ valuation

(17:15) - Other opportunities with this business model

(20:50) - A vetted community

(25:45) - Why they aren't on social media

From Blogger To $100 Million Business With Neil Patel May 10, 2022

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Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) sit down with entrepreneur and online marketing guru Neil Patel to talk about his success starting as a blogger to making 9-figures in revenue.

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Links:

* Neil Patel

* Photopea

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Show Notes:

(03:00) - Neil's business history

(07:00) - Minority certification

(09:00) - Magic Johnson theory

(24:45) - Monthly burn rate

(38:35) - Neil's philanthropy

(49:05) - 9-figure revenue

(56:10) - Photopea

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Additional episodes you might enjoy:

• #224 Rob Dyrdek - How Tracking Every Second of His Life Took Rob Drydek from 0 to $405M in Exits

• #209 Gary Vaynerchuk - Why NFTS Are the Future

• #178 Balaji Srinivasan - Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Cities & Crypto

#169 - How One Man Started 5, Billion Dollar Companies, Dan Gilbert's Empire, & Talking With Warren Buffett

• #218 - Why You Should Take a Think Week Like Bill Gates

• Dave Portnoy vs The World, Extreme Body Monitoring, The Future of Apparel Retail, "How Much is Anthony Pompliano Worth?", and More

• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More

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