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Welcome to the expect success podcast, a presentation of George ballek.com with your host George Ballek. This podcast is for all things personal development. Don't expect success. Prepare for it. Please welcome your host, George balling.
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Welcome to expect success@georgeballek.com. Now, in addition to the listening to our podcast, you could also view the video format on youtube@georgetube.com. Jesse Isler is an American entrepreneur, author and rapper. He's the co-founder of Marqui jet. One of the largest private jet car companies in the world. He's a partner in Zico, coconut water, the founder of the 100 mile group and the owner of NBA's Atlanta Hawks. Now, today, Jesse shares a crazy story and a valuable lesson. It taught him, listen to Jesse.
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And I sit down, I go to this guy's apartment again, I'm 21. He's got in his apartment. He's got a swimming pool artwork. And he says to me, I will trade. This is exactly what he said to me. I will trade everything that I have. I'll trade everything I have for the one thing that you have. And I'm like, man, I'm broke. What are you talking me? And I remember, I remember when I, when I was starting out, I was 21 years old. This is a crazy story. Uh, I just got dropped from my record label. I assigned to a record label called delicious vinyl. I was a rapper, so my album doesn't get picked. I don't get picked up for a second album. And I moved to New York city. I have two things on my resume kid pool attendant, cuz I was a kid pool attendant and rapper. So I'm staying on my friend's couch, living on his couch with his roommate and he tells me on Monday, I gotta get outta the apartment. So instead of going to look for a new apartment over the weekend, I go to my friend's bachelor party on the Jersey shore. I'm at the bachelor party. I'm getting a drink at the bar and I see this girl. I start chatting with her. She asks me where I live. I told her actually, as of Monday, I have nowhere to go. She takes out a napkin. She writes her address on the napkin. I'm 21 years old and she says, if it's an emergency on Monday and you're stuck, you can come live with me. Monday comes, I get kicked outta my friend's apartment. I have nowhere to go. I'm like, this is an emergency. I take out the napkin and I live with this girl and her roommate for six months. Whoa. Turns out that her father is a big entrepreneur business. Mo he owns a piece of the Yankees, just like monster mogul. I write this song for the New York Knicks called go New York go. And it becomes a big success. It becomes a big hit. And I just realized that there's an opportunity to write theme songs for all these professional sports teams. But I don't have a penny to go in the studio to do the demos, to shop'em to the teams, right? So I need money. So I go to this music guy and he says, I'll give you$10,000 to go and do these songs for 10% of everything you make for the rest of your life. He wants to buy me like a stop
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For the rest of your
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Life. I'm 21. He's like for
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The rest of your, the rest of your life, everything you do,
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I will invest in you. You
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Own an airplane business. He owns 10%. Yes,
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Forever. Yes, but I need 10 grand. So I say I'll take it. So before I take it, I go to this girl's father for advice, this business mogul that I'm living with. Mm-hmm<affirmative> and I sit down, I go to this guy's apartment again. I'm 21. He's got in his apartment. He's got a swimming pool artwork, like fancy a swimming pool. He's MAED out, man. It's like, I've never seen anything like this. He doesn't. And I go in and I tell him the story about
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The
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10 ran. And he says to me, I will trade. This is exactly what he said to me. I will trade everything that I have. I'll trade everything I have for the one thing that you have. And I'm like, man, I'm broke. What are you talking me? I go what's that? And he said youth, because he had already gone through the journey, even though he had everything, he already had gone through the process. He wasn't that 20 year old that you're talking about that whatever he had gone through it, he had it all. He, he would, he missed the process, the journey, right. Of being you coming up at 20 and not know like, yeah, here you are. But it was the, those were the years, man.
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Right, right. The
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First fight, the first, this like that. That's what, that's what makes you like, so, and that stuck with me man, 21 years old, it stuck with me and realized that like, man, I gotta enjoy the process. And it's really never rubbed off on me from me. Wow.
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So what did you wind up doing?
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Uh, he said the sec, the second part of that conversation, he said, do you, um, will you make this work on your own? I said, I think I can. He said, I didn't ask you if you can. He said, I, I said, he said, will you make it work? I said, I will. He said, then go tell the guy to off and make it. And he goes, then go make it work.
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That's awesome. Now for more about Jesse LER, simply search YouTube and be sure to visit his website. Jesse isler.com. Jesse's famous audio book, living with a co can be found at his website and or amazon.com. And I'll be sure to leave a link at the show notes. And remember as the late great Jim Rome used to say, you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with today. You've been hanging out with Jesse Hitler, keep up the momentum, subscribe to our newsletter. So you never miss another episode. Well catch you on the next show and thanks a million for listening. See ya.
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