East London to $30m Under 30 Years Old

EPISODE SUMMARY:
In this episode, we dive into the inspiring journey of Shaqir Hussyin, a prominent figure in the funnel industry. Discover how Shaqir's belief in himself and his relentless pursuit of success propelled him to new heights. From his initial steps in the industry to his million-dollar days, Shaqir shares valuable insights on mentorship, resourcefulness, and the importance of never getting complacent. Get ready to be motivated as we explore the mindset and strategies behind scaling a business and creating a vision that surpasses personal aspirations.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:
1. Belief in oneself is a crucial factor for achieving success in the Internet business industry.
2. Never underestimate the power of mentorship and the guidance it can provide in your entrepreneurial journey.
3. Avoid complacency and continually leverage your success to attract more opportunities and expand your business.

BEST MOMENTS:
 "Self-belief is the key to unlocking the potential of making money on the internet." 
 "Do more than what's required; go the extra mile for your own success." 
"Money amplifies who you are; it's a magnifying glass on your character." 

SHAQIR CONTACT METHOD
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shaqirhussyin/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/awesomehussyin
https://funnels.com/
https://wealthacademy.com/

CONTACT METHOD
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/b16ree
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ree.hurakan.5/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/b16ree
Clubhouse: @b16ree
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@b16ree

Transcript

Hey guys, and welcome to the entrepreneur heroes podcast today, I've got a very, very special guest in the house. You may have seen all of the Click Funnels, you've probably heard of him as well. But you know what, to me, he is actually my mentor, and helped me have my first 30k day today. So we're here to celebrate. Let's bring the man on himself. Mr. Clickfunnel, the owner of funnels.com Mr. Shakir Hussein Sabri. Thanks, congratulations on your site. And thanks so much for having me here. It's a pleasure man, I made like that when I was looking for a mental, there was a few things I was looking for. And you know, you tick the box, and more. So for me, I always want to be one of the dumbest people. And I'm proud to say I'm probably one of the dumbest people in your inner circle, but it's the only way I'm gonna grow mine. So I'm stoked. just done the challenge. And it's just been an amazing man been amazing. Thanks for that. And how, how did you even get into the whole funnel industry? I know we're from East London. Yeah, we share that home home place. But then we're here now your momentum, but you've had an incredible journey. So what was the what was your first step into this into this field? You know, I got started when I was around 20, Gosh, 21 years old. So this goes back a long time now. And what had happened was, I was going to school, college university just like most people, I just knew there had to be something out there. And it's crazy, because I had gone to this live event in London, right? And I see this guy was 21 at the time. And there was this guy on stage, she was 27 years old. And he gets on stage. And he starts talking about how he's making up to $100,000 a day. And to me, that was just like the most amount of money I ever heard anyone talk about the most amount of money that I ever even heard or seen anyone ever make. So for me, it was just like, How is this even possible? How is this even real? How is this even doable, especially from the wall that I came through? Right? And I remember thinking to myself,

whatever this guy says, For me to do, I need to go and do it. Right. And here's the crazy thing.

At the event, they said, when you learn these, this information, don't go home and don't go and tell your friends and family because no one's going to believe you. And they're all going to laugh at you. And it's going to kill your dreams. Right? So what do you think I did. As soon as I went home, I told everyone, all the kids I grew up with in East London, I told all of them, I met this guy is making $100,000 a day, and I'm gonna learn how to become a millionaire like and I just remember like, they all said it was skeptical. They were scam, stay away from it, blah, blah, all of these things, right. And in my mind, I was like,

that's exactly what they said at the event. Don't go and tell no one because if you tell them, they're going to PTL view. And the only reason why they're going to beat the out of you is because they love you and they don't want you to get hurt. And I was like wow, like, you know what I mean? Is this making sense to you? Right? So I just learned this concept. Like the your friends and family will will hold back hold on to you because they don't want you to change. And then initially by the end of the evening, and within those few days, I experienced it. So very quickly, I realized, okay, there's two groups of people, even if they're my friends and family,

and they want what's best for me. It doesn't necessarily mean that's what's going to be right for me.

Right? And so I had to decide as to how can I love my friends and family, but I have to choose who I surround myself with. And that got me into the whole world of internet marketing, digital marketing. So I started off doing affiliate marketing, that's where I made my first million dollars. My second million dollars came from agency services. And then I did my third, third or fourth million dollars from selling courses, right. And then

I added in coaching, consulting, masterminds, and it grew grew grew. And now here we are, and I've been very fortunate to generate over $30 million before I turned 30 years old.

I don't think there's anyone that's done that right under 30 I don't know maybe maybe a few other people showed there are people that we haven't heard of and so that's pretty much it that's that's how I got started and now I have a passion for helping others grow their businesses using funnels. Amazing amazing. So you that first conference and you come home you're telling everyone was there anyone that may be for you know what Shaq maybe he's long cycle, maybe he's right. Or

there was my best friend muscle and he's still my close for

And like 12 1314 years later, and he was the one that basically he was only one guy. So out of all the 1520 guys I used to be friends with. He was the only guy that basically said, Yes, you can do it. And he even made me some money, few 1000 pounds, or whatever it was. And I remember like taking that money going to different conferences. And that's how I started my journey. Dude. That's awesome, man. And sometimes all it takes is one bit of belief from someone because imagine if he didn't believe you, or believe in you, do you think you would have taken that next step? I mean, I was one of those very headstrong Pete people. So I think I would have just like, it was like, once I once I saw it was possible. And I was like, there's no difference between me and him. Like, whoever this guy was on stage. I was like, so I can do it. And I'm just gonna go at it. And obviously, I struggled. It was like, took me like nine months to really wrap my head around traffic conversions funnels offers, but once I got it, it was just like, it just, it just stuck to stuck. I thought, and I've been working ever since. Yeah, no, we see we see you literally everywhere. If it's not an ad, you guys are probably seeing it, you're not seeing an ad, please. You're seeing him on YouTube shorts.

Tick tock, Instagram, LinkedIn everywhere. So you can't get away from it. And he talks about multiple streams of traffic and he's practicing what he's preached a bit before we get into that was you're from East London. So traditional traditional family, brothers sisters are gonna go to like university education. And the typical Asian dream is, you know, go go to university be a doctor, accountant, one of those professions. Yeah, so basically, how it worked was almost all my sisters, my, my sister, husbands, all very well educated and stuff, they went to university got degrees and stuff. And I was in my final year of university. And I was like, I had to figure out how to crack the code to making money online. And I think I need to add this in because a lot of people

this is like one of those big, invisible things that a lot of people don't see. But self belief has to be there. Like, you have to actually believe that it's possible, right? Like, you can actually make money on the internet, I don't think a lot of people still grasp the idea. Like, even when I talk to lots of people, they just find it very hard to like, what can you make money on Facebook? Can you like they still don't get it. So like, if you're watching this,

trust me, you're still early like this, the craziest part, this is where everyone thinks, otherwise stand out. Or it's too competitive, or this is oversaturated. This is a red ocean. Go go and speak to 20 people outside like 20, people don't even know that you can set up Instagram and make money. And even if they do, no, they're not doing it. Right. So it's actually very easy to win. And kind of sounds like, yeah, what do you mean, some people aren't going to be thinking, you know, the shaman to make even 10 grand a month. If you if you really look at what is everyone doing? You know, I heard this stat the other day.

And he basically said something like, most people after three podcast episodes, they give up,

like 90% or something. And then the people that continue after like 20 episodes, they give up. So guess what, if you do 21,

you're already ahead of most people. Right? And so if you start thinking in this manner, like I always think I can go and learn anything and everything, right? And what do I need to do? I need to read three books, I need to find three mentors and three events, I need to commit at least 20 hours of focus time, compressed that boom, I'm easy, I'm done. The thing is, most people will never even spend five hours focused to learn one thing.

Now, if I tell you, three, and you're my mastermind mentoring students, or when I choose you do something you do if say, hey, go spend 20 hours and just focus on learning chat GPT AI, attend a bunch of different virtual summits and webinars, and just dive in, immerse yourself in it. Just the sheer act of you doing that will put you way ahead of everyone else. So I strongly believe it's easy to win. As long as you're taking the right action and that you

you identify what is everyone doing?

And how do I do the opposite? And how do I do more than what's required?

That's a great one too, because I remember when when I was working like even when I was in retail, I was pushing trolleys, people

It's all about overtime. And it's just literally what you're saying do more than what's required. People do overtime to make the money if I remember doing overtime on Sundays, because I work time and a half.

But ultimately, that overtime that I don't physically are put into my business. So like you said, Soon as I joined the inner circle, AI, I've probably done about 10 hours of AI already. And I commit to myself, even though

I'm about to be a dad, again, any time literally. But we've done the challenge, and the king at least an hour every day to do the work. And to be honest, if I didn't have an immense mental kick in my ass, I might not have done it, I would have done it eventually. Because that's me, but I might not have done it to the degree and people ask me like, oh, what's it like working with you? And I said, You know what, it's the most expensive investment I've done in myself and to get my ass kicked. But I said, that's what I need as a test of difference. Because there's only so much you can be held accountable for within your own circle, like people around me friends and family. I'm not necessarily going to listen to them because like, Okay, you haven't done that yet. You you're kind of not there, you it's hard to take that kind of

not even criticism, but that kind of talking apart from my wife. That's the only one that especially after we were at Tai Lopez event, with any sort of women's intuition, you know, I mean, so that's one person I listened to, but to be honest, like having a mentor and, and doing something that's scary, like people talk about, oh, it's expensive. I think the more expensive you go, the scarier it is, which means you have to do it.

Absolutely. What was like the first time you do you remember when you've done a mentorship and you're like one is this much? Yeah. So you ever understand I was 21 years old, right? Back then, like 45 grand was a lot of money, man. And I had figured out how to I had watched this video clip, he spoiled me it was from Robert Kiyosaki Rich Dad, Poor Dad, dude, right. And he basically said, there's good debt and bad debt. And I always thought that was bad. And he said, If you invest in education and growing yourself, it's actually a good debt. If you buy materialistic things, whether it's cars, clothes, fashion, all of this stuff, it's a depreciating asset most of the time, and it's basically a liability. Right? So what is an asset? What is a good investment? What is a bad investment, good debt, bad debt? And I was like, Okay, I need to get into as much good debt as possible. And, and I had found friends, family members, every single thing I could get my hands on, like random street, I remember literally asking random strangers on the internet, Hey, can I have a call with you, because I want to share with you my vision. And then I would get on a call with them, share with them my vision, and then at the end, I would ask them for money. And I would be my parents house. And I will just ask people for money. It was like, now when I look back at it, I'm like, who does that? But I did do it. Okay. And by the way, if you're watching this video and listen to this podcast, this is not an invitation for you to do that. Okay, because when people hear this story, they message, right? Don't message me asking me for money. But back then I remember there was this one guy in Australia and New Zealand. And a guy. I spent a couple of hours probably on the phone with him. And then he wired me 20 Something $1,000.

I mean, this basically, he just lent it to me. And I remember, I was like, wow, this guy should just lend me money, because he believed in me. And I paid him back. And I remember like paying him back. That was like, also another good feeling of just being able to pay him back and all the people that I borrowed 1005 1000 2000 $10,000 or pounds here and there. And so I had got into buying courses early on. And I realized this one simple fact, which was if someone has the answers to what you want, if you can pay them, if you can make friends with them, if you can be around them, then you're going to get that result much faster. And that mentality has stuck with me. So even now, right? Like I'm, I've got a call with an AI expert. This evening. I had like a two and a half hour call. Probably two days ago with someone doing like crazy stuff with AI. I mean, like two different AI masterminds already, because I want to be at the top right I want to be at the top I want to be learning I want to be producing. I want to be at the top. I'm buying stuff all the time. I'm investing in myself. So I think that hasn't gone. But that was certainly one of the best habits and

behavioral things I did in my early 20s. That's awesome. And you everyone listening now you can hear he said he borrowed money not just off

For one person or multiple people, and those of you in the space, you know, when you're in a sales call, you talked about getting resourceful. Now, if you can't get results for yourself, or you've never been resourceful, how do you expect your prospect to do it? So you have to lead by example. And for me, it's, after working with you, within the first few weeks are like, Hold on, why am I not making products and Masterminds myself, but it gives you the belief. So if you are sitting on the fence, you're worrying about that next mentor, or maybe you don't have the money yet get resourceful because I look at that behind me built on yourself is behind me for a reason. Because that's the only thing I bet on property, all of that stuff. This year, I found out what a liability can be. I've had good years. But this year, I realized, you know what, I bet on me and

get resourceful people.

100%. And I think a lot of the times what happens is when you're too comfortable, then you're not essentially focused on

getting uncomfortable, you're comfortable, right, that comfort creates complacency. And with complacency comes lack of results that you're okay with. And I see people that are in usually nine to five jobs, or their wife or their husband isn't pushing them. You know, it's the same thing because I had like, even doing COVID, right, I had like, gone from somewhat fit and handsome to like, super overweight, I didn't like 30 pounds, I'm down like 26 or 28 pounds, because I've been working out in the gym and stuff every single day. But I remember like that time, those two years, I just traveled around the world when the world was shut down. And I just ate good food. I just had the time of my life. And he I got complacent because I was like, Oh, whatever. You know, I'm making money in my business and crypto and all of this stuff. And then at the end, I'm like, dang, I put on 30 pounds, I don't even look feel good, right? Who feels good. With an extra 30 pounds, I've found that very few people, if any, right. But when you get complacent in one aspect, then it can feed into other areas of your life. And so that's been just my experience. And it's true, because it's patterns, we repeat patterns. And sometimes you get I'll go to the weight thing. Again, if anyone gets offended, Well, I'm glad to say then maybe should look in the mirror. But I was out in town yesterday and my wife, mother in law, and as a family. And first thing I saw was the kid.

And then I was like, Okay, where's the mom and dad, then I saw the mom and dad. And then it made sense. Kid was really overweight. The parents were overweight, the food on their table could have fed about eight people and all three of them. So one is the people you hang around but to those habits so if they don't if if a mom and dad a parent condiment, keep their own self a partner accountable, then to me, that kid's life, that kid's gonna have a troubled time in school we got we all been there. We all know the fat kid in school is an easy target for most people. And sadly, I think its relationship with food, small little patterns that we can do in our life can really, really hit other areas of the life. So we said about diet. It's so so true happened to me as Oh, and after we had our first

kid. My wife was like, Daddy Hill. And so now I'm only joking, but I was like, good. All right. So for the next four months, I bust my ass and I'd dropped down about 10% body fat. That's a good I have to do now I've gone back up, but I'm like, Okay, I will my fitness coach. I say okay, no, I'm, I'm beating myself with like, look, you know what think of life as like a bit of a triangle. Sometimes it's gonna have to pivot on different sides. So you can't give 100% on each corner. So maybe if you're going full on in your business, another aspect needs to come off something like, okay, cool, but because my relationship with food has changed. Because my foot is off the gas for training. I'm not going to just go and binge like, if I have a mixed grill for two, I'll eat the whole thing. Now I'm like, only need to eat enough. So I'm okay. If I'm not going to go to the gym today. I don't need to eat as much. I'm going to be in the office all day. Definitely not. So it's just it's just so right. We can set about habits. And I want to I want to just go on to that. So you're on a trip. By that you've you've made multiple millions. You're still very young. So what keeps you hungry to do it? Because then you're 3424 now Yeah, yeah. So so far, you've made more money and that can retire probably some small nations. So

very small, very small places, right? They can retire already. So what keeps you hungry and like you've won so many awards? You've been successful in so many different businesses. Is there a point where you just think this is too easy?

I do feel sometimes it is too easy. But even if it is hard, I just show up and I do the work. Right, like so. One. It sounds really corny, but I heard this one thing, which is like, you know, when you love something you never work a day in your life. Like I just love doing this dude. Like, it doesn't matter if I had like $10 million liquid or $50 million. Maybe I'll do something similar why wouldn't stop working? Like I find it so boring? Like, I live in this beautiful penthouse overseeing

or, you know, River and or basically all over London, right? Like, it's like, the top spot here. Anyway, I'm very grateful.

Okay, so I've got a hammock downstairs, right? Like, dude, like, after 15 minutes on the hammock. I'm like, okay, like, I need to just get out and I need to just do something to, to produce and to create. I'm like, so from what I've seen, it's like, it's not just the money. It's the fulfillment, the purpose that gives me he drives me, it makes me energized. Even just before coming on this. I was just thinking myself, Okay, I've got, say 30 minutes, 45 minutes, maybe an hour? How do I add as much value as possible, right? Like, how do I make this interview better than my previous one? So it's like, every single day, I'm working on myself. I'm working on self growth I'm working on how do I grow the brand? And there's never really like, oh, yeah, I'll be comfortable. Sure, I'm comfortable. I've also been comfortable. Since I was like, 20 to 23 years old, I was even comfortable before I was even making any money do like, a lot of pain, because I didn't want to be poor and stuff. But still happy. still grateful. I was still still me. You know, money just amplifies who you are, I think and so I always believed in hard work. I see my dad working hard all the time. And so I strongly believe like, if you can work hard, and you can make money and you can help people, why would you stop?

And as I was actually gonna say to do, do you did you find because you're from a working class background, seeing your your parents work, and hustle is like, alright, they're hustlers. I need to hustle. Yeah, dude, it's like, it's funny, because like, some of them meet really like wealthy people. And they didn't have like a poor rags to riches story, right.

But they also they don't have that extra drive or that grit, that someone that they grew up poor that didn't have a lot of money, they have it. And so I think that has helped me a lot because I grew up. And I had to be street smart, because we grew up on in East London,

you know, and so you have a different and then

I started reading lots of books, and then, you know, became book smart. So there's that book smart street smart.

Not afraid to sell not afraid to market and offering to promote myself promote my brands. Not afraid to put my word out there. My bridges are there. You know, and all of these things have a ripple effect. Right? And so, yeah.

So, from that first time you made a video to where you are now. And obviously your whole family. They know they've seen your journey. What did they say to you know, my first video was around 13 years ago, I always say to even to my mentoring students, if you're watching this, the two big mistakes I probably made in my entire business career was not publishing enough books, and not making YouTube videos enough. Okay, I just like those two things is that if there's like, you know, you asked me like, Why do I keep going? I'm like, it's just a big game, dude. You know, show I know how to create offers show and how to build teams and how to make money and how to make 788 figures, multiple eight figures. Okay. But now, like right now, one of the challenges I'm going through is like making videos and I'm like, Dang, this is like a whole nother game I haven't tackled, right because it's like, I can make a video but then how do I make viral videos? And then how do I make videos that can impact a lot of people? So I'm like always working on that and then even writing books as well. Many years ago, I wrote

one book backpack millionaire and so now I'm like, I rotate we sold a bunch, but even stick it on Amazon.

And I'm like, Okay, let me really redo this and now I've got like an hour I'm just like in creation mode. So I want to publish as many books as possible publish as many YouTube videos as possible. So how does my family look at it?

One I try not to involve them too much. You know in the business it's a my private life is my private life. So I keep that very separate. They know what I do.

They don't see me any different.

They don't snow like yeah, they don't seem any different. I don't think they do.

If you're gonna Yeah, you know when I'm around my family or

When

I'm around my family, I tried to be a goofball. So they don't take me seriously. I'm just like this. I'm just like this comedian, dude. Like, just act stupid. I just do whatever. It's weird. Because usually, like, if I'm with people, I'm like, always serious business, blah, blah, you know, but um, with my family, I'm just like, just always having fun. It gives me lots of joy to be around my family. And I come from a big family. So I just always like messing around with the kids. And

yeah, that's good. So with with your family, do you know feel the younger generation maybe your nephew, nieces, cousins, that kind of circle how they now want to build a team, what you're doing, and they've been inspired to think, hey, you know, maybe I want to learn from you. I want to do what you're doing.

Yeah, so I have two nieces and one nephew. And they're really small. They're like, under 10 years old doing so.

But do I have other family members? Yes. My younger brother has worked for me for like seven years was my top sales guy at one point. So he done very well. I did have few other family members. Yeah.

No, that's great, Nick. Good. Good. I tried that as well try to get some family members who's doing it, they come in and out. But yeah, so I found it to be unless someone is very self driven. You can't put the drive into people I don't, I don't really believe that. It's like, it's either they have a you're going to get to work, they're going to get results they're going to perform, or they just won't. And so I try not to involve my family members as much at all anymore, right? There comes a stage. You know, in the early days, I employed everyone in my family, it was like, everyone needs to come and work for me, I can't afford to pay you much. But once you get to a certain stage, like this is not how you build a team or build a business. So what would you say is your probably top three tips if you're scaling? And you want to find some eight players? What would you do? You know what one thing that I learned back 1230 years ago from a guy called Vishen Lakhiani, from Mindvalley, who he talked about, people will follow you if you have a vision bigger than them. Okay, so even if you're starting off, and you have a few people on your team, how do you attract more people, you have to come up with a vision that's bigger than yourself bigger than them.

And then you have to have great products and services, right? If you have great products. Then you have a flywheel have a marketing. You have referrals, you have organic customers, I had a lady just come in. And I have a call with her actually after you. If she came in, she paid about $50,000 straight wire. You know, she asked for a payment plan. She asked for anything else just shaved. 50 doesn't know why and asked her, How did you come across me and she goes, Oh, one of my friends knows you. And they've been in the industry for a while. So they said you need to go buy a Shaq's mentoring.

So like that only comes if you have a great product if you have a good reputation. And so

if you can focus on

the vision, building great products and offers. And then the last one is essentially the team. You know, if you can have a great team of people that can run your traffic, do sales to your operations, do your finance, then you can scale and then it really depends on how much do you want to scale to. So in my 20s, I scaled to around 55, staff members, who was doing seven figures a month I was in my 20s. So I made a lot of mistakes.

And now I'm in my 30s I've learned how to build leaner teams.

You know, so how do I get to a million dollars a month and beyond, but with maybe 20 people that were a third of the team and now with AI in literally just last night? Just last night, okay, just last night, I hired someone to come on my team. And he's like, I'm going to replace like, probably four to six people from your team. I'm like, and not him. He's like, I'm going to install the AI that will basically take over all of these costs. You got 30 days, let's see what happens. Awesome. You know, so it's scary, but it's true. I I've even some of my comments I'm saying I said look, AI is here. And if you're not trying to learn it, or try to leverage it, then you're gonna get left behind. I said one one thing I remember what the reason I started getting online is when I kind of lost my job the first time in banking, you know, my contractor just cut during Christmas. I go to the security gates my car didn't even work. They didn't even have the balls to come back and come downstairs and told me

one of my friends had to bring my stuff back in a year from the corner shop a blue carrier bags.

Yes, I bought all my stuff in a

bank that good I've done so much in this the bank forget. But after moping around for a few days, went on YouTube bought all this stuff called Drop Shipping ads. And that's when I started doing ads. And that's when they started to work really well. And I feel that same buzz now about 10 years later because the AI is very early space and there's so much happening. And if you're not trying to capitalize and leverage it, and like then lean teams, then you will get you will get left behind. So I found this is why I'm doing you know, we you told me to do and do that work every every night. Yeah, helps with the you mentioned mistakes. What I know you've talked about a lot of mistakes in the past what what is one mistake, then out of all of them that you feel is the biggest one you've made?

made so many mistakes, I make mistakes all the time. I'm like I make mistakes all the time. So

the mistakes in business, I would say not doubling down. Or when when things go working, right. Like if you if you

if you get complacent and think you're the man. Right? At a certain stage. It's like, for example, I gave you a proven campaign, right? I've run that campaign 15 times 16 times, it's proven, it makes millions of dollars. I'll give you because you're in my mastermind, right? You've run with it, you're gonna have your first $30,000 day today, congratulations. Now if you turn around and you're like, Man, this is the greatest thing ever. I deserve to now go and spend one week partying in Spain or Monaco or whatever, right?

That's being complacent, say my 20s. I know there was parts. There was a lot of times where I did do that I didn't go potty. But let's just say I did. I did take the foot off the pedal. So it's very important. When you find something that works. Ask yourself, how do I double down on it? How do I do it as much as possible until it stops working?

Right. And so I think it's not one big mistake, but it's a mentality, never get complacent. Doesn't matter what happens doesn't matter how you feel. You need to show up you need to perform, the show must go on.

That's very true. And I would always have this mantra, in my mind, I would always tell myself, no matter what happens, the show must always go on, you know, and it's just, you know, turning into having fun. So okay, did this challenge I made 30k.

What do I have to do? Who do I have to become to make 300k? In the next challenge? Yeah, it forces you to think differently, forces you to behave and acts differently. It forces you to get creative entrepreneurs get get paid based on the value that they create. rich and wealthy people, they get paid based on their creative efforts.

Poor people, poor people, middle class people, they get paid usually, based on time exchange, I spent this much time now I got paid this much. An entrepreneur says, hey, if I spend this much time with my creative output, right? What am I getting? This is how you want to start thinking it's like, this is how I think what I want when I want something, grow my business, I want to buy a new car.

I just say hey, what kind of offer can I create? I just saw Russell Brunson launch an offer Brian for his movie, sorry for his museum. And basically said he went to the he went to the bank. The bank said, No, dude, we're not going to give you $20 million. He came back and said, I'm thinking, How do I raise the money?

I need to make an offer. So he creates an offer. And he raises like $14 million.

Now just think about it out of nowhere. He's like, hey, I want to build a museum. He's going like, I think,

five or $10 million bank owned books, right? And so it's like he wants to build this museum. I was with him in Boise, Idaho. And he showed me his books and all of his other ways building this museum.

He gets a no from the bank. It goes home gets creative. But he's not like, oh, yeah, how many hours do I need to work? Is that not what's the offer I need to create? creates one offer raises $14 million. And I'm sure he's going to raise the full $20 million.

And so you have to when you when you think of a story like that, if you ask yourself what has to go on in his mind.

He's thinking okay, bank said no.

That he doesn't take it personally.

You get it. He doesn't. He doesn't get affected with his self esteem and his self worth is not crying. It doesn't get emotional. It just says okay.

They said no

Who's gonna say yes?

Does that make sense. And a lot of the times, the reason why people don't put themselves out there, they don't take care of action, they're afraid of failure is because they take every single thing to personally make your video, that video doesn't get

10 views, or 100 views or whatever they now take it too personally as if people don't like them.

This is the complete wrong mindset switch to have. If you come from a place of I'm going to do create videos, I'm going to create content, I'm going to create value in the marketplace, I'm going to make offers. Even if people don't buy, I'm still going to be doing the process. Right? Kind of like you. You're taking massive action, why do you think I spend more time with you? In the mastermind program? And I'm answering a lot more of your question because I see, hey, I tell you to do five things. You do those five things, you do something extra, then you're like, Okay, check. I've done those. What can you help you achieve? And I'm like, that's the kind of students a mentor once. No, no, exactly is it is that fulfillment part when you see not just they're doing but doing more? It's it's different feeling. And that's something that money money aside, that's that's kind of a lot of people in this industry there. Why? And then it's as hard and blow not my own trumpet. But it's hard to sometimes get those students it's like fishing, you got to capture them, and you need to have the right hunger and desire. Now, we're talking about Mr. Brunton. So two questions now. You've, he's handed you loads and loads of awards. So what what was the feeling when you got that first plaque? And then you've got the other plaque? I think was it last year? The one with a four? Yeah. Whatever. 20 $25 million award? Yeah. I mean, what's your feeling? Well, you got the first one, and then you get that massive one, like either of those words some people can't even do in a lifetime. So how did it feel for you?

To that major, mother, Audible books? No, I mean,

I feel when I vote grateful nude, like these emotions, they run off. You know, everyone thinks all about when I make $1 million. If I had $10 million, I would just sit on a beach and never work. Okay, go try making $10 million. And then see the responsibilities that also come with the money is just a byproduct of what people see. But behind, there's teams, there's offers, there's traffic, there's issues, there's legal trouble, there's so many different things that happens, right? And I'm not saying that everyone's gonna go through this, but depending on what industry you're in, but today, I woke up. And it's like, I saw this chargeback from like, three, three years ago. And I was like, that's interesting. I didn't even like I didn't, I didn't notice, but I was like, like 6000 or $4,000, or whatever, for one of the visual courses, right? And so every day you, you're faced with different issues and challenges. The winds, as great as they are. It's like, as soon as that gets here, you're on to the next one on to the next one. Every single time. I've won these awards, there's a few on the top they go.

Right. And every single time I've won these awards, I'm just like, Okay, what's next?

And I always have this mentality, Okay, what's next? And having this mentality allows me to never get complacent. Right, because I've seen the price you have to pay when you get complacent. I've seen what happens, right? And so I'm just like, always, like, I don't want to be comfortable. You know, I spent a day with Grant Cardone.

And he's like, this was like a private event for like, eight nine figure earners one day, like it was just like, the who's who of of everyone. I was like, looking around. I was like, I'm definitely the poorest here like, under porous and maybe the least smartest or educated here like these were like super superstars. And at that event, he even said like how he looks at things is always looks as if he's starting from zero. You probably seen the videos where he's always talking about how he goes broke. So that that fire and the hunger is there. Right? So it's like if he gets new money is always pushing it out, investigate putting it to do things. So he there, he's always

Yeah, he's always hungry. So I tried to maintain a specific amount of money in the business bank account. So when I look at it, I'm like, it's exciting that I can go out and, and build 123 campaigns, but it's also scary because I'm like, am I better make sure that this, you know, if I'm going to spend 100 grand, I want to make sure I make 500k or $2 million from that. And that's what I'll focus on. What's amazing is that mindset and sometimes people think when you spend like this

All About time with someone, but just just that quality is worth worth the value alone. Right.

And 100%

Another story you mentioned about

a lot actually will go back to Russell Brunson right. So obviously, you've got these awards. You just told us that how you feel about it. But there was a particular offer that you end up doing for him. Right. And he gave you, you had a very special day. So why don't we talk a little bit about that?

I'm guessing you're talking about the million dollar day, right? The million dollar day? It's funny, because, yeah, again, that was my biggest payday was $1.3 million martial law or praise to God, right. So it was like, he paid me for a single domain name. I basically sold him and I didn't sell him. Everyone always says, Did you sell him? funnels.com? No, it was another one of my domains. I sold that to him for $1.3 million cash. And how I got good today was about five, six years ago, I had seen the rise of funnels of specific marketing services and,

and whatnot. And I said to myself, hey, if I can get these domains, then I'll have a moat. Right? I'll have a moat around XYZ domains. And I read this article, the article basically said,

the last 20 years the best investment.

Let's just say he didn't talk about Bitcoin and crypto apart from crypto, the best investment was buying domain names.

And I could remember reading the entire article, I thought, wow, like I had owned this domain shaquille.com. I still own it, right? So it's like Sha tyr.com. There's one of the first ever domains I bought. I found that Shaquille O'Neal. Check. Everyone knows check. Shaquille O'Neal son is called Shakira. And he spelled in the way that my name is. And I thought, Wow, maybe one day, that kid is going to come to me, I sent him the domain.

And then I also realized, no matter what happens, no one else could ever buy this domain, because I got it is the same thing with buying private number copyrights. Again, that was actually one of my business ideas when I was younger. When I was like, 1617 years old. I wanted to get into the high ticket business. I was like, How do I get into the high ticket business, and I had an uncle called select Mahwah. oncocytic, right. And he had told me that he spent $5,000 or 5000 pounds on a number plate called Salic. You can give me away s a l 1k. Salic. It was literally his name. And he was someone followed me for like an hour, drove up to me, and then offered me 50,000 pounds for this number plate.

You have to understand, like 1617 years old, I'm like, this is a huge amount of money I like that's the business I need to get into.

And so when I came online, I just transferred that mentality of domain names. And so I've been a domain connector ever since then. I have quite a few premium domains.

The recent one I got was closes door AI. Okay, so one word closes door AI, because I'm building a software platform based around AI and selling. And, you know, Bronson Kim, came to me offered me a bunch of money, and I sold him one of the domains for $1.3 million.

Was it easy, fairly evident?

He was he was I mean, I followed up with him because I know the fortune is in the follow up. So I must have sent him at least 1050 messages reminding him every day. Hey, if you don't buy this domain, I'm gonna sell it to someone else. I will send him articles. I sent him other people that spent a million dollars on domains I followed up you know, if you want to get a deal, you have to follow up so I followed up and then he paid me 1.3 million. So it was a no deal but I got given you a full extended he gives you a life motto for incredible. That was that was an incredible feeling that one for sure. Now, one thing they've picked up first year like the other question connected to that, so every level adds another level. Right? So when you're making your first 100k, your first million your first 10 million, what would you say then? Is one of those things that have been consistent for you throughout the whole process?

Some people suck a lot of money, the first million then their mindsets gonna change because now I need to think of having more tech, more people, maybe some legal cover all that kind of stuff. So from when you were doing your you upped your levels. What was one consistent thing you said, You know what, this is a theme that I need throughout my whole system.

I'd say it's you

You have to have an email list. Right? Like, no matter what, for example, I'm hosting a three day virtual summit right? At the end of the month. The first thing I'm doing is once I got the offer up, I'm going to my email list, the email list I've built over the last 10 plus years, every single person that you've seen online, whether it's their videos, their funnels, their offers the products, every single thing, and I'm talking about the people that make 789 figures and beyond, they all have an email list. So I've always made it a priority, a high priority, to build an email list

to communicate with them regularly. So I'll send three to five, sometimes even seven emails a week, non stop, I add value, I'll send them videos, PDFs, you know, I'll send them this interview, and email my whole list and I'll say, hey, go watch this interview. Right.

And then I'll make offers a lot of people that send emails, but they don't make offers. So I build email lists, right? So I'll give away stuff, hey, obtain register.

On a day to day basis, I can get maybe 100 to 300 leads, I've got leads as much as you know, 10,000 20,000 leads in a day. So one of the ways I did that was through different solo ads and partnerships. My biggest Dean's are when I bought two different companies. One of them came with an 80,000 subscriber list. One of them came with a 200,000 subscriber list. So it's like, almost overnight, my entire subscribers doubled. Yeah. So yeah, imagine I spent like five years getting to 200k subs. And then in one fell swoop, I added an extra 200 case, subscribers. So I would recommend everyone that's listening to this show, have an offer, have a funnel, which is the process where people come and find you, they want to do business with you. But always be focused on building your list. And this is the highest ROI activity I've ever seen. I mean, I will still have literally people buying my products and services that join my email list 510 years ago, it's the closest thing to having a push button money making system, but you want to send an email, you want to make 1020 $30,000 in a day, nothing comes close to the power of an email list.

And it's also great, because in this day and age where people are getting deep platformed turned off social media. If everything that you bank on is your followers, then you have to take them out of their system and keep them in somewhere. They can't take it away. So yeah, very, very, very powerful message. So I know I haven't got much time. So I wanted to ask just two more questions. So how do you think your work ethic has changed before you were married? And now you're married? Because obviously, there's a lady in your life now and you have to allocate time for how have you found that transition?

Yeah, I mean, I just embrace everything that comes the good, the bad. Most of it's been good.

You know, most it's been good in terms of like, it's encouraged me, obviously, I have to give time, because that's the that's their duty. And I have to as a Muslim man, I have to also take care to handle all the financial needs, pay for everything. So I'm not going to be looking at it as an added expense.

But extra responsibilities is what I want to say, extra responsibilities is given me, my wife specifically, she's helped me become a lot more focused in terms of like, what really matters, you know, my religion and my family. You know, the money comes and goes, Man, anyone that if you split the smoke into anyone that's made a lot of money, like few million dollars, or 10s of millions of dollars, that one day you make the next day, you know, just like the winds are big, the losses are big, you know, and he's just another day, just like how you know, you live your life. It's just another day. So it is like, you don't want to put anyone on a pedestal. Have I? My wife has helped me definitely become much more healthy as well. That's that's for sure. And grounded. That's brilliant. So look, are you single bachelors out there? You need to get married. That's it. Love hormones these days. Look, find your Leila. Find someone that's going to support you in your corner because I'm a married man. I've been married for a few years now. And it's been one of the biggest things for me. And I said focus. So the last thing is what I often have that alarm on, none of my podcasts are scripted out. But well this question is what would you say is the one most important thing for your success?

Yeah, that's the first one

I'd say the first one is prayer. Secondly, I would say, having grit, man, it's just like,

when something doesn't go, right. I'm like, that's fine. I'm just gonna get back up and I'm gonna continue.

And sometimes I'll

talk to other people. And I'm like, What is your gray? Like, you don't have any resilience? No, I haven't, you know, I can get punched 10 times, and then just jump back up. I'm like, Okay, fine. You know, like, lose a few million dollars in a deal. Okay, cool. What's next? Like, okay, how do I make $10 million here, I lost $2 million here. And I want to go make $20 million from this new offer. So it's just like, creating a vision and a future bigger than your past and your current reality. It forces you to think it forces you to change your identity. That's what I would say, I have become really good at. I can reinvent my identity, I can reinvent my habits, I can reinvent my thinking patterns, I can reinvent my daily routines. So for example, probably the last see 12 months I've been going working out in the gym. I don't even touch my laptop on to the gym. Yeah, that's an identity shift I had to make. So that's where that's where we're gonna end this podcast with.

Appreciate your time. So everyone you want to find out how you can work via social media all these links are Bonanza Khan academy.com scale.com. Every website social media link will be below this video podcasts wherever you're watching. So once again, thanks a lot for being on a podcast. Thank you for having me. So we do can do another one at some point. Absolutely.

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