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**Young Entrepreneur Lifestyle 3.0**

Get ready for a whole new era of podcasting
with mentor, speaker & serial entrepreneur Peter Voogd
– dedicated to bringing results, guidance, and excellence to entrepreneurs worldwide. Practical advice and proven strategies mixed with motivational music that will help you create YOUR ideal lifestyle. If you are serious about taking your life and business to a whole new level, this podcast is for you. Peter delivers real actionable strategies and inspiration that will help you elevate every area of your life and business. Everything has changed, and the rules you’ve been taught don’t apply anymore. The world has enough followers, it’s time to become a Game Changer. Subscribe to get a new episode every Thursday.

Latest Episodes:

How to Recession Proof Your LIFE and Business Aug 04, 2022

Show notes

In today’s YEL 3.0 episode, I’m going to share with you exactly how you can recession-proof your life & business.

Listen to it here.

There's going to be more opportunities than ever in the next 12 months.

But what you do right now matters.

Remember…

An opportunity is only an opportunity if it’s fully taken advantage of.

Which is why I’m dedicating today’s episode to helping you prepare for this upcoming recession… and giving you the tools and strategies to help you capitalize.

If you want to be in the top 1%... and come out on top in these next few months…

This episode is for YOU.

Show Highlights Include:

The TRUTH about recessions. (Despite what everyone else thinks, recessions are actually a GOOD thing. Here’s why.)
My bulletproof execution plan for dominating in the next 6-12 months. (Use these steps if you want to stay ahead of the game and thrive while most people struggle).

Listen in on today’s episode here!

Biggest Money Moves Of 2022 + Unfair Advantage Jul 28, 2022

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We’re no doubt living in the greatest transfer of wealth that’s ever existed.

There will be more opportunities in the next 12-24 months than the previous 100 years combined.

But the bad news is, most people aren’t prepared to take advantage.

They’re watching Netflix, partying, drinking, relaxing and not dealing with reality.

So understand that by investing in your mindset and sharpening your perspective and skills, you’re already ahead.

You’re already doing what 90% of people aren’t willing to do.

And if you’re an action taker, you’re going to love this week’s YEL 3.0 episode.

Show Highlights Include:

The BIGGEST money moves of 2022 to help you dominate your competition and become irreplaceable
How to navigate this recession and gain an unfair advantage in this new economy
How to develop an unstoppable mindset so you can go after your goals with no apology or pause

Listen in on today’s episode here!

Becoming Irreplaceable In The New Economy Jul 21, 2022

Show notes

“The World Economic Forum estimates that 85 million jobs will be replaced by machines with AI by 2025” — Allwork Space

“US, UK, Europe, Japan will be in recession over next 12 months” — CNBC

“Nearly 6 in 10 Americans don’t have enough savings to cover a $500 or $1,000 unplanned expense” — Bankrate

Add in the fact that 87% of people spend the majority of their lives doing what they hate and only 2% are financially free at 65.

These stats might seem scary.

But did you know there are 1,700 NEW millionaires created each day?

And 5.2 million millionaires were created during the pandemic?

The truth is, even though most of society is struggling, we are experiencing the biggest wealth transfer that’s ever existed.

This is truly a NOW or NEVER moment.

And it’s up to you to capitalize on it.

How?

Listen in on today’s episode to find out how.

Show Highlights Include:

The importance of making money online and how to generate internet money in the most efficient and effective way possible.

4 proven ways to become irreplaceable in this new economy.

What the 1% are doing differently that’s allowing them to not just survive… but THRIVE during these tough times.

A simple, but powerful tool I’ve used for years to help you simplify your business and gain absolute clarity moving forward.

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How To Reach The Top 1% Of Your Industry (Intro To New Season) Jul 14, 2022

Show notes

Today is the official launch of our brand new YEL Podcast!

We’re calling this “YEL 3.0: The New Era”.

Our goal is to give you the most relevant… the most comprehensive… and the most tactical content possible that will yield the BIGGEST results for you and your business.

I’m excited for you to listen to these episodes.

I truly believe that if you take the time to listen to the content and implement the information inside…

You’re going to walk away with more confidence and be able to achieve your goals much faster than you thought possible.

Here’s just a taste of what we’ll cover in our upcoming episodes:

Insider information from top real estate moguls on how to invest in real estate with NO money down… and how to get to 6 figures (or more) in passive income

How to leverage Web 3.0 and internet money to create generational wealth for you and your family

The most lucrative and proven side hustles you can take advantage of in this new economy

Plus a whole lot more.

And to kick off this launch, I want to share with you some secrets I’ve learned over the years on how to make money like the top 1%... and achieve virtually anything you desire.

Get all the info on our first inaugural episode of YEL 3.0 right here.

Make sure to listen until the end for a special bonus!

How BitBoy Crypto Actually Got Rich | BitBoy Crypto Gamechangers Interview Series Mar 06, 2022

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In this episode of “Y.E.L. 2.0”, your host Peter Voogd, serial Entrepreneur, Mentor, Speaker, Best-selling Author, and Husband talks with the guest Ben Armstrong, Founder of BitBoy Crypto, High Throughput Productions, & HIT Network. He shares his mission/goal behind BitBoy Crypto (YouTube Channel) and how he created his wealth out of this channel. He also discusses some of the coins.

Episode Highlights

It's hard to see the payoff at the end of the day for being consistent. But that's hard work and consistency, it works across any industry.
The government is always going to be in the background, where we don't have a true world of Crypto regulation.
It's been very humbling to see Bitcoin move in a direction that we didn't think it was going to move in.
Through BitBoy Crypto, our mission is to empower people to find financial freedom through crypto-assets.
Ben’s job is to keep the sentiment for crypto up to educate people on where crypto is heading in the long term, and to keep them as plugged into where the markets are today as possible.
We've shown multiple times our entire portfolio, everything that we own; we change stuff from time to time because we want to be super transparent.
Ben is most impressed with the project name ‘Sandbox’.
Brands are coming to ‘Sandbox’ and buying land and wanting to be involved.
Peter enquires, what are the standards that Ben always wants to check off to make sure it's a legit project?
It's okay for an individual or investor to use a project for the short term to make some money to roll that money into a project you do believe in the long term.
We learned that when it comes to sponsored content it has to be a named team.
You can use a website called messari.io and look at the portfolios of a lot of these big companies.
If you are investing in any project, you have to create your vacuum of research.
Peter enquires that in 2018 Ben built some wealth because the market was crashing so if a similar thing is happening now, or if there is a different strategy?
Ben started this channel because he wants to educate people on Crypto and wants to educate people on the opportunity that he missed so nobody else misses it.
If you want to get more involved in Crypto, there's way more upside to doing that, than to throwing money into walking away and not getting invested.
Hard work, perseverance, consistency, picking the right direction, and having someone that believes in you, are all the things that led to the recipe that got Ben to where he is right now.
Ben’s risk-reward ratio has played out. The risk was huge, and the reward was huge.
There may be a time when you do have to go get a job or you do have to change what you're doing.
It's so important to have people around you that hold you to high standards, that build you up, that force you to not be hungry but want to live the best life possible.
Our channel has probably made more millionaires than possibly any other channel in the history of YouTube.
A lot of sources of conflict on social media come down to people having vastly different ages, and you feel like you're talking to an equal.
The lesson of November 2021 is, we're not guaranteed $100,000, and we’re not guaranteed to have a blow-off top.
24 to 27 would be a place where we would be looking to move a lot of our stable coins back into Crypto.
Ben shares a little bit about his routine and his mentality on how he kind of manages everything throughout the week.
There are a lot of people in Crypto that make a lot of money, and now they're just low on motivation because they have enough money to retire.
If you want to scale and want to continue, you have to figure out a higher goal.
We call ourselves a family channel; we don't cuss on the channel.
We got to figure out where we're going to be in this new world. It doesn't have to be in Crypto, it could be NFTs.
Metaverse itself is going to be bigger than Crypto as an area, as a niche, and as an industry. Even though it's based on BlockChain and Decentralized Crypto.

Three Key Points

If you are on a very limited budget, and you are trying to have a small portfolio to grow into something where you can truly change your life, you have to do it yourself. You have to grow up, figure out the things that you look for, and create something. You may fail, and you may come up with some different criteria. You have to look at those as expensive lessons on the smaller levels; this is what keeps you from doing stupid stuff when the money is big.
Ben shares – he did not build a lot of wealth in 2018. When people hear his story, they seem to assume a couple of things. In 2018, he laid the foundation because he understood that, this was the future and he realized the way to make money in an industry is to get involved in the industry. It's a story of believing in Crypto and Online Entrepreneurship that brought him to where he’s today.
You have to figure out where you think you may be. You got to find out what you're passionate about, find something that aligns with that then go deep in it, and make a lifelong commitment that that's what you're going to pursue. You may get sidetracked, you may have to go work at McDonald's when the price of Bitcoin is down, do what you have to do to survive, but always keep that long-term vision and passion in perspective.

Tweetable Quotes

“Pay your taxes, do the government asset, because there's nothing worse than building up a fortune, trying to hide it from the government and then losing it all later.” – Ben Armstrong
“If I was not a person that made educational content on YouTube for Crypto, then I would probably be taking vacations right now.” – Ben Armstrong
“I weigh out the thoughts and feelings of my audience, a lot more than I do about my concern when it comes to the Bitcoin.” – Ben Armstrong
“Any platform out there that's going to have a rush of users is going to have some issues.” – Ben Armstrong
“Bloktopia is got a lot of potentials, but it's still got to be realized.” – Ben Armstrong
“Sandbox is one that I look at and say even if the market does go down, this one still going to have potential to rise.” – Ben Armstrong
“One thing that people do not understand is the vast majority of these rugs pull scams, the pure pumping dumps.” - Ben Armstrong
“If the people that invested in the entities would have done a little bit of research, they would have realized the guy's a scammer.” – Peter Voogd
“You need to be educated; you need to learn what this is about, not just make decisions based on numbers.” – Ben Armstrong
“I didn't have a lot of money. I didn't have $100,000 put into Bitcoin in 2018.” – Ben Armstrong
“It has a time bias the longer you're in, the better chance you're going to have to do well.” – Ben Armstrong
“I started bringing revenue through the channel, then that is where a lot of the gains came in.” – Ben Armstrong
“I did have the money back in 2012 to put $100,000 into Bitcoin, but I didn't believe in it at that point.” – Ben Armstrong
“Not everyone has a wife that supports as I have or as supportive as I have, she is truly incredible.” - Ben Armstrong
“I think my level of risk was gigantic. The vast majority of people would not sell their house to start a YouTube Channel.” – Ben Armstrong
“There is no industry out there to tougher to be at the top app in Crypto.” – Ben Armstrong
“There's a channel bigger than us now in another country, but we have the biggest social media following by a longshot.” – Ben Armstrong
“A lot of times people judge me by my face on a thumbnail.” – Ben Armstrong
“Haters do a much better job of being uniformed in response than the good people.” – Ben Armstrong
“You'll never meet a successful hater when someone hates something is bugging them or something is wrong with their reflection.” – Peter Voogd
“I'm monitoring the price of Bitcoin right now and trying to figure out to the best of my ability.” – Ben Armstrong
“If we get to 46k and then come back down, then we're probably not making all-time highs.” – Ben Armstrong
“I don't think money changes people; it makes you more of what you already are.” – Ben Armstrong

Resources Mentioned

Peter Voogd: Facebook Instagram Twitter YouTube Snapchat LinkedIn
Ben Armstrong: Twitter Instagram YouTube LinkedIn
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Productivity Tips to Achieve MORE as an Entrepreneur Feb 22, 2022

Show notes

In this episode of “Y.E.L. 2.0”, Peter Voogd, serial Entrepreneur, Mentor, Speaker, Best-selling Author, and Founder of the prestigious ‘Game Changers Academy’ discuss with Sean Cannell about productivity tips to help achieve more as a YouTube creator with less stress while giving a game plan to finish this year strong and build massive momentum going into 2022. At the end of the episode, they’re going to have tactical and actionable steps that people can use to grow their YouTube channel and business.

Episode Highlights

There's so much content coming online every second, that people overload and are overwhelmed, and when you're overwhelmed as an entrepreneur, you subconsciously seek distraction.
People are so obsessed with consuming and learning that they forget they have to execute.
Instead of reading 100 books, why don't you just read a couple then master those and execute them and start your own business or write your book?
Are you creating more than you're consuming?
Feeling smarter and being smarter and creating something is different.
Why are you studying email marketing if you need to get your health in order?
If you don't have clarity, and you're overwhelmed, your problems are going to be there when you come back; it's going to be worse.
What is the silent killer that is killing most people's dreams? Their YouTube channels, their businesses?
Almost everyone who chooses the easy decision has a rough life later.
The 5% are at the upper level of success right now they are having success in their business and life, they're doing what they should not what they feel.
The two scariest things in life right now, especially going into next year is momentum or lack of it.
If they were to crush the last six weeks, it's first understanding what are the interruptions those have killed your momentum in the past and then creating a plan to interrupt those interruptions.
If you don't have a plan to interrupt your interruptions, your plans will always be interrupted.
You have to dig deep from your past or think about why you want to succeed and make these five results happen.
Once you have the reasons down then you figure out what's the one area that if we Master, and read about, we'll make all of these possible.
The number one reason people procrastinate is they don't sell themselves on what they're doing.
If you want to be successful, you have to think and act like people that are already at your level.
Six months to six figures is a book that helps you figure out your strengths, unique abilities, figure out exactly what industry to get in that allows you to flourish.

Three Key Points

The biggest problem is people trick themselves into thinking they need more information when they need to execute the right information that's relevant to their business and their goals.
The only way to grow your confidence and business is to choose growth at the moment to choose the tough decision versus the easy decision to think about that my decision now might be tough, but it will pay me dividends later.
People just need to sell themselves on their goals and on what's most important to them. Then when they commit to it and they give themselves a little bit of a reward system that's when it gets easy to execute.

Tweetable Quotes

“You could go to the store, get a book order on Amazon, that's great. But executing what's in the book and seeing a result is the hard part.” – Peter Voogd
“People that are outcome-focused produce results like nobody else.” – Peter Voogd
“If you learn a ton without executing, I feel like it just dilutes the progress.” – Peter Voogd
“That was a year where II lowered the time, I spent consuming and I just focused on producing and it was the best year of my life.” – Peter Voogd
“I was choosing the easy decisions when I was 22 or 23 and it caused me to go broke shocker.” – Peter Voogd
“Get addicted to the result and the feeling of completing things you don't like doing that is the best feeling ever.” – Peter Voogd
“When I'm creating content, one of the biggest interruptions I used to have been the internet.” – Peter Voogd
“So, write down your top five reasons that give you the juice because reasons come first and results second.” – Peter Voogd
“Say no to everything that doesn't allow you to reach those top five goals for the end of the year.” – Peter Voogd
“You could treat this whole season different and you'd end with a wholly different result.’ – Sean Cannell
“If you give me discipline, it'd be hard to not be distracted.” – Peter Voogd

Resources Mentioned

Peter Voogd: Facebook Instagram Twitter YouTube Snapchat LinkedIn
Sean Cannell: Website Masterclass
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How To Invest In NFTs 2022 (Complete Guide) Feb 21, 2022

Show notes

In this episode of “Y.E.L. 2.0”, your host Peter Voogd, serial Entrepreneur, Mentor, Speaker, Best-selling Author, and Founder of the prestigious ‘Game Changers Academy’ shares a simple way to understand NFTs. He gives out some great points which we need to research before investing. He also explains how they sold out their first NFT project.

Episode Highlights

First, understand why you’re investing, and then it’s important to adapt and understand where the markets are going.
It's an understanding and an awareness of what's coming and how to decipher real value from hype.
The biggest key to succeeding in this industry is, understanding how to research projects so you don't get scammed.
Research the team/the founders who are involved, you should never invest in a project where the founders are anonymous.
The artwork has to be differentiated as to bring people in.
We should look for projects that give results right away.
Peter doesn't want to be involved with people that make that much money that doesn't want to improve society and get back to culture.
A lot of people value hype and quantity over quality. We want to value quality over quantity.
What is longevity look like? What is their plan to make sure the holders consistently get value delivered, and the value of the NFT goes up?
We should keep in mind while we’re looking at projects, is there a roadmap that's proven that's consistent that shows that the holders will consistently get value.
When you see a project organically growing delivering consistent value with a little bit of hype and excitement, then that's something you might want to get invested in.
Only take opinions from people who you would trade places with who have similar results that you have.
Don't trade based on emotion or FOMO trade based on due diligence, preparation, understanding, and awareness.

Three Key Points

We should be finding projects that have both utility and value attached.
The reason why 90 plus percent fail is that there is a lot of hype, a lot of promises, hidden owners, and no real-world value.
Peter shares simple five things on how they sold out their first NFT project - 1. The right people were involved. 2. They had artwork that was unique and differentiated. 3. They had real-world utility and value right away. 4. The collective intelligence of their holders. 5. Massive give back.

Tweetable Quotes

“A lot of people right now are losing money in the NFT space but a lot of people are crushing it as well.” – Peter Voogd
“Now the best way I've learned to understand and I can describe it to you is its digital art with value attached.” - Peter Voogd
“I knew everything will be NFT's in the next five or 10 years.” – Peter Voogd
“I would never personally invest in a project where you don't know the owners.” – Peter Voogd
“Projects that have promised, hopes and dreams for, later on, I don't like investing in them because it's easy to promise it's hard to deliver real results.” – Peter Voogd
“I just personally don't want to invest in a project doesn't have given back.” – Peter Voogd
“I think too many people focus so much on hype, and I think sometimes the more hype in a project, the less real-world value it has.” – Peter Voogd
“You got to be careful and understand just because a celebrity promotes it, that doesn't mean anything.” - Peter Voogd

Resources Mentioned

Peter Voogd: Facebook Instagram Twitter YouTube Snapchat LinkedIn
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The right connections will bring MASSIVE success Jan 30, 2022

Show notes

In this episode of “Y.E.L. 2.0”, host Peter Voogd, an Entrepreneur, Mentor, Speaker, Best-selling Author, and Husband talks with Brad Lea about how to be successful you need to get around the right people.

Episode Highlights:

The first thing Peter tells everyone is that you got to understand who you are and who you're not and get around the right people that are already at that level.
Peter found a way to reach out to people; he would reach out to people every day.
It pisses Peter off that he was in school, for 15 to 20,000 hours in his life and he came out of school broke, knowing nothing.
Everyone should have their own business and try to work it, thinks Brad Lea.
Brad states that there are always people out there with excuses.
If you can't figure out how to make six figures, you got to look in the mirror and realize you're missing something, mentions Brad.
Sometimes Brad questions himself thinking that if he is an idiot because he didn't graduate high school.
Brad wants to be in meetings with these extremely powerful people to know the inside plan.

3 Key Points:

To get around the right people Peter made a target list of his growth friends, his maintenance friends who were pulling him back and a list of people who were doing things that he wanted to do in his company at the time.
Peter realized the first thing most people ask for successful people is their time, and at the same time, the number one thing people value when they're successful is their time.
People need to realize that when the economy is down money doesn't disappear. Instead, there's more money than ever, because the money just transfers hands.

Tweetable Quotes:

“My professors never ran businesses, so I dropped out.” - Peter Voogd
“Put your money where your mouth is.” - Brad Lea
“They don't teach anything that has to do with the real world.” - Brad Lea
“I like the people that share tactics and make people think and are polarizing.” - Peter Voogd
“When there was a recession, in a way I thought there was no money to be made.” - Peter Voogd
“There are a lot of weird things that make zero sense in this society.” - Peter Voogd
“Why would the people with the shot get affected if the shot worked?” - Brad Lea
“Making a million from your phone is the ultimate hack.” - Peter Voogd

Resources / Links:

Follow Peter Voogd: Facebook Instagram Twitter YouTube Snapchat LinkedIn
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MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor Bitcoin Interview: Buildings Billions with Bitcoin Jan 30, 2022

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In this episode of “Y.E.L. 2.0”, host Peter Voogd, Entrepreneur, Mentor, Speaker, Best-selling Author, and Founder of the prestigious ‘Game Changers Academy’ talks with guest Mr. Michael J. Saylor, CEO of The Business Analytic Software for MicroStrategy. He is deep-diving into Bitcoin, sharing facts, and strategies to buy it. Michael is talking about it from a political, social, economic, and legal standpoint.

Episode Highlights

Michael says, when you evaluate economics, you have to be able to think from first principles, what does currency mean? What is a bond/stock/property? How do you value property/stock/ bond/currency?
When you think about inflation, you realize there isn't one inflation rate; a million inflation rates are changing everywhere all the time for every product.
Peter enquires why don't more people think for themselves and try to get the first principle.
If you had the right teachers, and they poked you the right way, then that's helpful. So not everyone has the benefits of the best education.
If we simply just wiped the deck clean you could be anywhere and do anything you wanted. That would allow you to move very aggressively.
We need more independent thinkers to push this culture forward.
We need to find a Crypto Asset that looks like gold on a big tech network that you can move at the speed of light.
If you look at the experience of Bitcoin from 2018 to 2020, the entire asset class hardens institutionalize and stabilize. It was pretty clear that Bitcoin was going to be the dominant winner proof of work, not Bitcoin cash, and not Bitcoin Satoshi vision.
It's challenging to develop the gold or generate yield on gold.
They're all forms of property but they're all 20th-century property that's expensive to maintain, slow to move, and hard to develop.
Bitcoins are a 21st-century property, we can move to the speed of light.
If you want 8 billion people to do business with each other and 100 million companies at the speed of light with no friction across 20 or 30 or 40 billion mobile devices across every political domain.
Bitcoin fixes everything because it's pure energy.
A lot of times people that are promoting gold own gold miners.
If you move too fast, you generate sparks and friction.
If we fixed all this tomorrow Bitcoin would be trading at $10 million a coin and you wouldn't be able to afford it as it is right now.
Peter says you're still not sure if it takes you 30 years to notice something which is a dominant network, and then your career is over.
Michael has been pleasantly surprised by the support coming from regulators and politicians.
The one thing that's certain in the crypto sphere is Bitcoin is digital property. It's not security, and it’s okay to own it.
The debate was, is it a currency or is it an asset, and so, people have established it is an asset it's not a currency.
The world is waiting for clarity from the regulators on what is the security, and what is property, says Michael
The Safe Harbor is a digital property on the Bitcoin network as a store of value.
If you're an individual, you can't carry more than $50,000 worth of capital outside of China, it's a capital control thing.
It'll be a problem to own Bitcoin in a country where you have no property rights; you're not allowed to own any property.
When you understand it as property then you figure out what kind of property you want to own, what jurisdiction you're in, then you can kind of figure it out.
If you're a saver, and you have pesos, convert them to dollars, that's a stronger asset and if you have dollars, convert that to Bitcoin, that's a stronger asset
If your choice is starved to death, or own something in the gray market or the black market, you've got to do the right thing for your family.
Some are trying to crack down on Bitcoin mining was a scare but Bitcoins come back roaring better than ever.
Peter asks, what is that strategy of borrowing against the assets?
Michael points out, as long as the appreciation rate is greater than your expense ratio, you can borrow forever.
You need an asset that's going to appreciate, what will appreciate scarce desirable assets.
There is competition and Bitcoin banks are coming online, there'll be more competition.
If Bitcoins go up 100% a year it cost you 5% to borrow the money. Borrow $1,000,000 of 5%, loan it out to Bitcoin for 100% scrape the 95% arbitrage you make $950,000 a year off of a million-dollar loan.
You should raise capital as cheaply as you can and invest in a business that's growing that is going to appreciate.
Peter says when I first watched that it did open my eyes to a different way to build wealth, and I feel like that's the right way in this new economy.
The opportunity would be different if the money supply was inflating at 0% a year and the interest rate was 6%.
When the rates go low, and when the money supply expands faster in an inflationary environment, it's very important.
You would get a 200% return if all you did was borrow a million pesos and buy dollars because the peso went from one to the dollar to 200 to the dollar. So, if you understand that frame of reference, then you realize that certain things make a lot more sense.
How do you think we could best deliver that to include people in the process?
Michael mentions a lot of education is to be done. One thing you can do is you can create specific education for certain constituencies.
Bitcoin uses real energy and real technology because that gives it thermodynamics substance and political substance in the real world.
Bitcoin turns out to use maybe $4 or $5 billion worth of energy a year to create something that's got a $1.1 trillion value.
If you look at Bitcoin, you say that we can upgrade analog energy to digital energy.
You need to keep the proof of work on energy to be politically and thermodynamically sound and unique.
What is the most efficient strategy to convert payroll for a large company into paying them in Bitcoin?
If I paid you in Bitcoin that I had acquired a year earlier, I would have capital gains tax on it. So, I would be accelerating the tax bill. But if I pay you in US dollars, there's no tax bill.
As the governments expand the currency supply, there is inflation.
If you have a billion dollars of Bitcoin, you can move down at the speed of light anywhere in cyberspace.
Peter asks, is there anything you can share what you predict the end of year Bitcoin and then two-year Bitcoin and maybe 10 or 15 years down the road?
Michael says, it flips gold, and then it replaces real estate, and eventually there's no reason why it can't become a multi 100 trillion-dollar asset.
Bitcoins are going to appreciate because of a. inflation, b. adaption, c. utility, and d. productivity. And by that he means in your frame of reference, states Michael.
If you want to get rich and stay rich, you have to own high-quality property forever.

Three Key Points

You need to think from the first principle; it is that philosophy that has allowed you to understand Bitcoin when you first started consuming that and studying it.
Bitcoins are digital energy; it's the basis of 21st-century civilization. You just got to think hard about it and once you start thinking hard about it what you realize is, that this is just the profound opportunity of the century.
The first thing you want is a scarce desirable asset. The second thing you want is a bit of monetary inflation. The third thing you want is a low-interest rate, and the fourth thing you want is a bank that you trust.

Tweetable Quotes

“People need to adapt to conceptualize that idea first principle because that was eye-opening to me.’ – Peter Voogd
“I think that the United States traditionally has encouraged more independent thinking than certain other cultures around the world.” – Michael J. Saylor
“You're oscillating; you're vibrating at different frequencies. Right and that way there's some balance to the way that society adjust to new ideas.” – Michael J. Saylor
“I think the war on COVID was accompanied by a war on the currency.” – Michael J. Saylor
“The goals were $10 trillion. And if I take a billion dollars and I buy gold, I have a 30,000-pound lump of gold sitting in a vault in the basement of JP Morgan in New York City.” – Michael J. Saylor
“I can take 1000 room hotel I can decompose it into 1000 virtual rooms.” - Michael J. Saylor
“I can use Bitcoin over the Lightning Network to provide Cyber Security to everybody on Twitter and Facebook and WhatsApp and YouTube.” – Michael J. Saylor
“I can't find a single person that it's that supports gold that has more than 50% of their portfolio invested in it.” – Michael J. Saylor
“You don't want everybody to move too fast, right because Bitcoins going up 170% a year for a decade.” – Michael J. Saylor
“If everybody understood it, you wouldn't have any opportunity.” – Peter Voogd
“If I had a million dollars in Argentina, I couldn't just wire it out of the country tomorrow.” – Michael J. Saylor
“If it's illegal to own Bitcoin in a country, but it's legal to own the dollar and I'm holding the Bolivar I'm swapping to the dollar right.” – Michael J. Saylor
“What's the worst thing? China crackdown on Bitcoin mining. What was the result? Hundreds of billions of dollars of capital flow to the US and Bitcoin became embraced by the Western world.” - Michael J. Saylor
“Find long term loans at low rates, invest in something intelligent and wait, why to wait, this is the basic principle of all businesses everywhere.”- Michael J. Saylor
“If you have all these books, and they're written in English, and then you go to Brazil, and they're not in Portuguese, right, you're not going to reach a lot of the people.’ – Michael J. Saylor
“If you're going to stop the burning of oil or coal, then 99.9% of all of that energy usage is something other than Bitcoin.’ - Michael J. Saylor
“When you have excess cash flows or Treasury balances, you immediately sweep that into a treasury asset and convert it to Bitcoin.” - Michael J. Saylor
“If you have a billion-dollar building in New York, you can't move it. If you have a billion-dollar company, you can't move the either.’ - Michael J. Saylor
“I expect it to go up by a factor of 100 to 200 or more.” - Michael J. Saylor
“It's an appreciating asset. That will be progressively less volatile, progressively slower growth, but it'll be high growth an entire decade.” - Michael J. Saylor

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The Youngest and Highest Paid MOB boss | Michael Franzese shares Truth about Business and Life Jan 24, 2022

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In this episode of “Y.E.L. 2.0”, host Peter Voogd, Founder of the prestigious ‘Game Changers Academy’ talks with guest Mr. Michael Franzese, one of the only high ranking officials of a major crime family to walk away publicly from the mob and survive. Peter dives deep into Michael’s life, who he was, and how he is an inspiration to a lot of young entrepreneurs, young CEOs, businessmen and women.

Episode Highlights:

At one point, Michael was making 6 to 8 million per week, which a lot of people can't get over that, reveals Peter. In 1986, Forbes magazine ranked him as number 18, on the list of the 50 most wealthy and powerful mob bosses.
Michael says he was very driven when he was 22 or 23 years old. Not so much to have the greatest of everything but just to be able to survive and have money and do what he wants.
Michael reveals that his dad was a very high profile figure and he was convicted of a crime that he never did. He was allegedly masterminded a series of nationwide bank robberies, and it was a frame up.
What was it that drove you to become one of the most powerful people in that life at that time? Asks Peter.
Peter asks what was it that made someone gain Michael’s respect back when he was 35 or 36?
If you ever had a challenge of confrontation with John, you had to know that he would never settle for anyone thinking that he lost an argument.
Michael states that even though his father was a famous personality, and had a lot of respect, it didn't matter. Michael was at the same level as any other guy.
There were times when Michael would give in a little bit, but not to a point where he had to compromise his position.
Peter enquires, is there any tactics that Michael can give on how to be successful at a young age?
Kevin Eastman says one of the best things he ever learned that he teaches athletes is big eyes, big ears, and small mouth.
Michael gives some of his insights, and tactics in terms of negotiation. He says we are negotiating every day in our life about something.
I gained a lot of experience in these negotiations and I never lost my pool, says Michael.
Michael says a lot of things that they did were as a result of their political connections as far as law enforcement. He had political connections to get them otherwise he couldn't get licensed.
We were bringing in at one point time $6 to $8 million a week in tax money and it just grew. We ran an operation for over seven year.
Michael tells that he was the youngest guy at one point in time and now he’s the oldest guy but we shouldn't be worried about that.
A lot of young people today are soft; they don't know what it is to come up the hard way. They don't know what it is to really work hard and value.
Michael feels so blessed right now that to change anything that went I would say I'm snubbing my nose at the blessings that I have because I'm comfortable in my life.
Peter questions, is there any strategies or tools you've used to help people acquire emotional intelligence to not be triggered by one newscast or by one statement?
One of the most attractive qualities that I find in people is humility, especially with people who have power, money, and control and they are being humble.
Networking really changed my life as well being from a small town, says Peter.
Peter asks Michael, did you never have fear because of how you were brought up.
There was an article that came out in the newspaper that said that I was becoming powerful enough to bring away from the Colombo family and start my own family.
In any organization, when you have a number of people working under you, you got to know how to manage them properly.
Peter asks Michael about his favorite and most accurate movie?
I think a lot of people are going to be watching Gaudi or Casino or Villas after this, says Peter.
Peter mentions that there were some interviews where it was straight mob stuff, but in his head he thinks why he didn’t ask questions that could actually inspire the audience.
By writing the book Michael just wants to make people aware of what's going on, so that they understand and they make up their minds in the voting booths the right way.
Peter thinks that right now, in the current landscape, the world needs more people like Michael.

3 Key Points:

Michael says if you're not a risk taker in life, you're not going anywhere. But you should be taking calculated risks. When you figure things out, and you know you’re going to take a calculated risk, the chance of your success is good.
One thing that Michael is really focusing on helping young entrepreneurs with is the auto negotiation. He learned the ability to negotiate early on, and it's something that he shares quite a bit with people. When you keep your mouth shut, and you listen until the appropriate time, then talk, it's a powerful tool.
I believe that young people today, especially the young men, they should all serve in the military. So many of them have become so soft, and softness is not good for society. Maybe the military will toughen them up, show them what it means to be disciplined to respect authority to accept authority. You can't accept authority in life; you're not going to have a good life.

Tweetable Quotes:

“Today is the he's the only man right now on that list that's not currently deceased, or in jail.” - Peter Voogd
“It was just something inside of me, I saw it, it clicked, and I said let's go for it.” - Michael Franzese
“I love my dad respected him very much, went all out to please him as often as I could.” - Michael Franzese
“It wasn't about proving me because I was my father's son. It was just about being successful.” - Michael Franzese
“If there was one guy that I would say he's the model guy, it would be, Castello. - Michael Franzese
“What can you share with young entrepreneurs that are doing well, at a young age?” - Peter Voogd
“So staying mentally unshakeable, that is a decision you have to make.” - Peter Voogd
“In a legitimate world, I just draw my own line.” - Michael Franzese
“There's a lot that goes into having that confidence in yourself to make you move forward.” - Michael Franzese
“Again, going back to my former life, you weren't allowed to lose your composure.” - Michael Franzese
“Talk about what that scheme was, how it came about, and how it ended.” - Peter Voogd
“Are there any lessons that you learned that could help businesses legally from that operation?” - Peter Voogd
“I am so frustrated and disappointed with the way our government is managing the economy at this point in time.” - Michael Franzese
“Keeping your composure I think is such a powerful key that you all should understand.” - Peter Voogd
“Because when you're humble you really know yourself.” - Michael Franzese
“Networking has been a powerful tool in my life.” - Michael Franzese
“Valuing your goals and what you want over the fear is a huge tip right there.” - Peter Voogd
“For the last 25 years it's been all about encouragement to me, sharing my experience in a way that could have a positive impact on people.” - Michael Franzese
“People have massive respect for you.” - Peter Voogd

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