Million Dollar Days

Career Advice for Gen Zers

• Robby Choucair and George Passas • Season 1 • Episode 89

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What life advice would you give to an 18-year-old who has no idea what to do after high school? In this candid, no-holds-barred conversation, we tackle this challenging question by rejecting conventional wisdom about following passions and instead focus on practical strategies for success.

The most liberating insight? Whatever you do for the next five years, even if you "completely ruin it," you'll still be fine. This perspective removes the paralyzing pressure many young adults feel to make perfect decisions right out of the gate. Instead of forced career choices, we advocate for experiential learning - working for free with successful people, building fundamental skills (especially sales), and taking calculated risks while you have minimal responsibilities.

We challenge outdated notions about traditional career paths, particularly in light of AI and automation. Many jobs that seemed secure a decade ago (accounting, aspects of law) are increasingly vulnerable to technological disruption. Instead, young people should focus on digital literacy, personal branding, and developing skills that complement rather than compete with automation.

Throughout our discussion, we emphasize that confidence isn't about eliminating self-doubt but acting despite it. This applies whether you're considering entrepreneurship, trades, professional careers, or any other path. We also dig into how background and environmental factors significantly influence which advice will resonate - what works for someone from an affluent suburb differs dramatically from what might help someone from a disadvantaged area.

Whether you're a young adult seeking direction, a parent guiding a teenager, or simply interested in how career landscapes are evolving, this episode provides refreshingly honest perspective without the motivational clichés.


Robby:

A video a week. What do they actually do?

George:

when you say a video a week.

Robby:

Yeah, they put scripting. They do a whole bunch of stuff. You heard me.

George:

Yeah, yeah, let me know That'd be sick. Yeah, yeah. Are you going to do it for your personal brand or for, like, what are you going to do it for? Or just anything?

Robby:

As in, what am I going to leverage the? Yeah, probably for a personal brand. What brand? What else am I going to do for this? I'm just going to take whatever they teach us and do it for this. Isn't that? Is that not the play? Yeah, sick Good. Is that straight? That's good. Everything's plugged in. Nothing's going to die.

George:

Put this shit on silent could be zoomed out though million dollar.

Robby:

You reckon that far out a bit more in. We will try and end the top of the sign.

George:

Yeah, that's it fucking pictures shows your face got a square on your face. That's sick.

Robby:

Focus fucking pictures it shows your face, got a square on your face. That's sick. I don't even know it's focus hopefully that lined up that's right. It's on permission. Alright, I'll see you tomorrow. See ya um. What are you doing? Haha, that's sick. See ya when are you going? That's sick. It's the fucking world we live in.

George:

Yeah, I was speaking to my mate that came in earlier about it before. Just okay, have you ever heard of AI agents? And he's like nah, I'm like fuck, blow your mind, it's all. It's all. Everyone's just using chat GBT to ask them what the fucking weather is. Do you know what I mean? Like, how do I get here? What's a good restaurant?

Robby:

Did you ask the restaurant question?

George:

Huh, no, I never have.

Robby:

Yeah, no, I reckon people are.

George:

And that shit blew me away yesterday for what I did with this, that application I was telling you about. That was complicated shit. It gave me better answers. That's not even that complicated, I know, but it's like I, a person, would have done a worse job.

Robby:

Yeah.

George:

A person would have done a worse job and it would have taken them fucking days to complete this thing, and I did it in like three hours when Using chat. Yeah.

Robby:

When, when the AI makes a mistake, it's usually the person who prompted it. Yeah, usually the person who prompted it. Yeah, it's not it's, it's really the the AI soul, hmm.

George:

But, but, but, but all right. Hey, how old are you Me?

Robby:

Yeah, how old am I, or how old do I feel, how old are you biologically, um so you know, how many times has this body been around the sun, around the?

George:

sun 34. Cool. So in 34 years of experience that you've had on this planet, I'm 40, nearly 41. Hey, it's my birthday soon. You got it in your calendar, of course.

Robby:

Yeah, good, I thought so. Every day it was George's birthday, every day.

George:

Yeah, so I was thinking about this the other day. I've got nephews and I often get young kids coming up to us at events and just anywhere. I often get it in my DMs people in uni or in TAFE or in high school and asking me for advice like what should I do? So I wanted to talk and get some feedback from you today about if an 18 year old came out of you he's fresh out of school.

Robby:

Came out of me. Came out of you came fresh out of school.

George:

Hey, you never know in these odds Jesus. You don't know in this day and age.

Robby:

Put your kids to bed.

George:

So if a 18 year old came out of school and came over to you and said Robbie, I don't know what to do with my life, what should I do? What profession should I take? What things should I know or learn, like what's going to give me the biggest level up on everything and everyone? Where would you tell me to start?

Robby:

Well, the first thing I'd say is what are you passionate about? That's a joke, I knew it.

Robby:

I knew you were talking shit. Follow your dreams. Follow your dreams. If you like painting, just go paint. And if you like that thing, yeah, the money will come. Yeah, it'll just come in because you love what you're doing and you'll never work a day in your life Wrong. Where's the sound effects now? Huh, I definitely wouldn't say that, that's for sure. It's a hard. It's a hard thing to to really like you hard. Um, it's a hard thing to to really like you know, you, you can sell what you've learned from your experience, but you can't sell your experience.

George:

Yeah, no, compression algorithm for experience.

Robby:

Compression algorithm. Not one, what a word.

George:

I heard that saying somewhere. I think I've even said it at events, but it's true. You like, there's some things you do need to experience and you can't just teach it necessarily.

Robby:

Yeah. But I would say you know what I'd say? I would say go and do like. I remember and maybe this is just me because I got off to the incorrect start. I'd say and I'd say like incorrect start as in I went down a field. I was, I thought I was going to go down at the time. Yeah, didn't end up playing in that field at all. Do I have skills from that? 100%. You know what I mean. Can I handle tools better than most people? 100%.

George:

Yeah, you've got some life lessons there. You've got some life lessons there.

Robby:

You've got some life skills there. Oh, you can fix stuff that's broken 100%.

George:

Yeah, your first thing isn't like oh, let me call someone, You'll be like all right, cool, there's logic behind this microphone. Let me figure it out and I'll fix it.

Robby:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I can generally fix most things. Most tradies listening to this. I can tools better than you. I know hard to believe this guy sits behind a computer all day. Yeah, it's reality. But if I could go back, what's the one thing I'd do? I'd probably go and work for someone for free, Like someone that I'm like. You know, if I knew I was going to go down this space, which obviously, hindsight's a beautiful thing.

Robby:

Yeah, but at the time I'd probably go and say, okay, cool, like what I do for the next few years doesn't matter.

George:

Yeah, yes, exactly, I think let's remove you from it for a second. We're giving advice to someone else, so we're going to say hey, kid, this is what I recommend.

Robby:

Can we give the kid a name?

George:

Yeah.

Robby:

Joshua, hey, joshua, doesn't matter, because you're going to die.

George:

You're going to die, yeah, memento Mori.

Robby:

Say listen, your whole, whatever you do for the next five years, you can completely ruin it and you'll still be fine.

George:

Totally fine, because you go and ask any 30, 40 year old that's like, oh well, like, what do I do now with my life? They still don't know what they're doing now, even though they're still young as fuck. They would look back and go oh man, if I wish I would give anything to be 18 and waste two years doing whatever. So I think there's always this pressure and this rush of finish school, go get a job, which is your career for the next 30 years.

Robby:

I think there is that level of pressure, and it generally comes from the parents, older generation. Whoever it is, go to uni, go do whatever you have to do. Also, the environment. I went and worked at Mercedes-Benz by manager of the department, the workshop manager at the time, Helen Vigneault, 35 years. He's like I've got to do that. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, that's the path.

Speaker 3:

I just stuck around for long enough. I've got to do that.

Robby:

Yeah, do you know what I mean? Yeah, like that's the path. I just kind of stuck around for long enough. Same.

George:

I was at Maldives I was like, yeah, the career path is okay, do this become a supervisor, become a PM, become a construction manager? Or when I'm a construction manager, that's the big bucks, you know 30, 40 years. It was that corporate mindset, because, again, that's what you get shoveled in.

Robby:

That's what you learn, that's what you see and that's what you think. That's how the world works, like that's how okay cool this is. This is the route.

George:

So definitely try shit would be the first thing. Like go and try a whole bunch of things because there to go to work now Because I think your shit's broken, then you don't want to hate it. It can be hard, that's fine and there can be purpose to it. So yeah, you could do that hard job that you know in six months is going to lead into this opportunity or contact with that person, whatever it is there is that element, isn't it?

Robby:

when you hate something, isn't it just meaning that you're attaching to it? Yeah, absolutely Unless. Every single person hates that same thing. It's like I like to look at things objectively and it's like okay, let's say, for example, person A hates their job, hates it, hates it, hates it. What's their job? They do one, two, three. Person B doesn't mind their job, they do one, two, three. And it's like how can both people go through the same thing, like do they have the exact same experience? And one, it's a complete psychological torture and they have to wake up every day and drag their feet and hate their life and be miserable. And the other person just says meh or loves one, two, three, yeah, I'll just.

Robby:

You can go complete extreme, yeah, yeah, um, yeah, definitely. Like isn't that just the meaning you're attaching to it? Yeah, that's right, you know hating your job. It's like it's almost like you feel like the only reason you ever really hate something is because you feel like it shouldn't be that way yeah, yeah, it should be different, yeah it's not fair or you know.

George:

This should be different. I suppose, before the person asks, I'd say, like, what do you want out of life as well, because I think that's important. It is important, it is hard, but it's also. There has to be a level of, well, what direction? Do you want to become a really wealthy person? Or do you want to live off the land? Because there's no point telling that person okay, go here, go do this, learn sales, learn marketing, learn branding, all that sort of shit. If you just want to live off the land and live the simple life, like there is a element of something that you want.

George:

Now, I think, from a level of let's just talk money and wealth and success and all that sort of stuff, I think if you can be good and master sales, you'll never be hungry for the rest of your life. It doesn't matter what area, what field, anything. If you can master sales and be able to sell a product or a service, you will never go hungry and you will probably make a lot of money along the way. I think sales should be a subject at school. That's what it should be. Sales should be a subject. You should be able to sell things and be able to sell a service, a product, yourself, and whatever that might look like, I would definitely tell them to go down that path and start to study sales and understand sales.

Robby:

Yeah, I think sales is um. What's the first step to business?

George:

Most people, especially in business, I think, learn sales as they go and most people probably think they're pretty good at sales. You know they go. Are you good at sales? Yeah, I can sell. Yeah, I've sold this, I sold that. Yeah, I'm really. I'm a real estate agent, I'm a builder. I just got this contract. I sold my services, I sold this product To your referrals?

George:

Yeah whoever it might be. Yeah, exactly, whoever it might be. So I think a lot of people think they're good at sales, but when you actually get into it, there's so much technical aspect to sales with language, with demeanor, with communication. Yes like qualification process understanding.

Robby:

what are the drivers, what's the motivation, what's the real pain point?

George:

The pain point. What's the underlying?

Robby:

Asking the right questions, yeah, asking the right questions, what's the underlying belief? And then taking that question and getting the answer from them and then holding it and then going through everything else and then slamming it on them saying that it and then going through everything else and then slamming it on them saying that it's going to fix their thing at the end, and then it's like, if you do that, well, dude, I had a, I had a sales call today. It's I was being sold to, yeah, and it's a great sales call. I even said to him at the end I said hey, good call man. Yeah, I said honestly, I said you spoke a level of knowledge that few people can speak.

Robby:

Yeah, you know what I mean. You referred terms to me and he obviously looked me up, like he obviously did his research and you know he was dropping Alex Hormozy lines.

George:

Yeah, and I was like good on you.

Robby:

Like obviously one, you must consume the content. But, two, if you say that stuff to someone else, they probably won't get it.

George:

No, that's right. Yeah, that's right, you picked it up, he picked it up, so that's good. At that level there it builds rapport really quickly. Because then you go okay, you've got that communication, yeah, you've got that whole thing there where you can just bounce off each other. That's vastly important. But so many people would just go into it and go Robbie's a marketing guy. I'll just have a chat with him.

Robby:

Yeah, but so I used to do that. You do like most people think like, okay, cool, go in, have a conversation and kind of try and and push it in a particular way. Yeah, but should know that it's fully structured. Yeah, but it's very structured. You should be able to get the same result with someone else. You should be able to have someone else do the exact same thing yeah, and get a very similar result. Yes, will someone be better or more charismatic? Yes, but you should be able to get something very similar.

George:

I would also encourage them to self-educate as far as reading books, consuming podcasts, getting information from people seeking out mentors or advisors. So again, you mentioned go work for someone for free, like that could be a really good thing. Go and work for someone that you admire and say it is someone in sales, say it is someone in construction or marketing or branding or whatever it might be, and really starting to put yourself out there and go. Okay, this is what I need to do. Learn to eat shit for a little bit as well, because that's what that's going to be.

Robby:

What does that?

George:

mean Well, you're probably going to put in a lot of effort without heaps of reward to begin with Not always, but initially and most likely You're not going to be very good at whatever you're going to do. You're going to have pretty low value in that space. No one wakes up in the morning as an 18-year-old out of school and is a superstar and goes out and kills it day one and makes hundreds of thousands, millions of dollars.

Robby:

Yeah, but so like, how much money do you make for going to uni?

George:

Yeah, fuck all. Yeah, exactly, it's the same thing, exactly. And look, that's the other thing we're talking about. Because again my wife would be like, oh no, I want my kids to go to uni, because she never went to uni. It's like I did go to uni and I'm like yeah depends what you want to do. Like would you go and tell an 18 year old today to become an accountant.

Robby:

Me.

George:

Yeah, knowing what you know, shout out to all the accountants out there.

Robby:

All the accountants who have no idea about business. That was one of my biggest lessons. Yeah, you think an accountant's a business person. Most of them have no idea. Yeah, they're just accountants. My fault, I'm thinking that.

George:

Made the assumption.

Robby:

Yeah, would I tell an 18-year-old to go become an accountant?

George:

No, yeah, I wouldn't now either. I'm just saying from the perspective of what's out there with AI. Now it's a profession that's going to very quickly become redundant the other day even solicitors to a degree. I had a contract the other day that I had to review and, excuse me, I put it into ChatJBT, Like normally I would send. That, Is it?

Robby:

Yeah, why like normally?

George:

I would send. That is it? Yeah, why it's? The information isn't 100 reliable? Yeah, but it gave me enough. I know enough about contracts. I'm not a solicitor but I know enough to go. They're not really that complicated like they're not written in gibberish and it's hard like big words that I don't understand, like I know what it's trying to say. So if I get certain things out of it that I know that I can change, that I can amend that suits me, that helps me. I think that's advantageous. That just saved me $1,000, $2,000 to send it to a solicitor and probably a week in time because by the time they review it, read every word. Dot the I's cross the T's, cross this out, add it back to you, send it to you.

Robby:

I recommend this. I recommend that here's my bill, and so on and so forth, and it's only going to get better. Yeah, the best way to do things like that is to break it down.

George:

Yeah, like don't put the whole, the whole contract in? Why is that?

Robby:

It just it is more likely to make mistakes the bigger the document Okay and misfits. So, if you put too much in there, like and I know a lot of people like uploading a hundred page reports, blah, blah, blah, that's when she gets missed. Yeah Right, it most likely misses the first thing.

George:

Yep, yeah, yeah, cause I have noticed that as well. I was putting in a. I was putting in something and I knew it missed something and I'm like, hey Cause you know what to look for, that's right.

Robby:

So what happens when you don't know what to look for? You don't? Yeah, correct, it passes. Think about this. Think about how many times you've, hey, do this and then it's like blah. And then you're like, oh, and do this, and then it's like blah. And then you're like and do this and it goes blah. And then you're like and do this, and then it drops the first thing, oh, right how I think I know, yeah, yeah, and it's like all of a sudden.

Robby:

You can't. You're spiraling and you're like this thing's got local just losing its mind. It's because you've dribbled too much information all on the same task, yeah, and it can't hold onto every little bit of it. Yeah, Right.

George:

Yeah. Still got limitations for now, for now. That's what I mean. It's better, isn't it? There's another aspect of it like understanding the digital world that we live in, too, utilizing tools like that to your advantage, so AI, for example.

Robby:

That's what I'm telling them.

George:

Yeah, you have to now. You have to. It's there. Stop using chat GPT to tell which restaurant to go and eat at, start using it and learning how to use it properly and then educating yourself in all the other tools that are out there and all the other things that are out there. I think that will be vastly important in the age that we're living in.

Robby:

Yeah, I think few people capitalize on what's about to happen.

George:

Yeah, but by all means, if you turn around as an 18-year-old and say what do you want to do? I've always wanted to be a doctor, cool, you do have to go to uni for that.

Robby:

There are certain things you're going to need to get tertiary education, for if that's what you want to do, yeah, they regulate the industry.

George:

I've got a friend who's a GP and I always tell him go open a GP, go open up a practice. Why don't you do that? You're working for the man, you're working for someone else. You're capped on how much you can make.

Robby:

Why doesn't he do it?

George:

Well, it comes up with the excuse oh, do you know how much insurance is? It's fucked, it's this, it's this. I'm like, okay, but there's Jeep, this, they can't be making no money, surely not. Insurances are too hard, this is too hard, you're not making any money. I'm like, mate, it doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense, you've got to be making something. They have to. They have to, like you have to be, they have to be making money. Surely, yeah, there's no level. It wouldn't be so many GP practices around, there wouldn't be any no-transcript. And then then I really gave it to him. Like, why don't you get into cosmetic surgery? Like, go and inject botox into people. Yeah, killer, view wolf, and he's a good looking bloke. Shout out to my mate if you're listening, that's his name, give him a plug Orhan Gentleman and a scholar Over at that area. I don't know that way, that direction, good looking bloke. I said, mate, start injecting Botox into people's faces, all the women will flock to you?

Robby:

Is he a single guy?

George:

No, he doesn't't, they can still flock, he can stay away. Chicks, well, what up guardrails? Yeah, that's it. But uh, but I'm saying like I see that space like that. We know, I know of a lady that does it in the area, killing it, killing it when I say killing it, dude, like making bank and then opening up another one and opening up another one, opening up another one and it's just like, okay, man, like you're making good coin, yeah, like you're not struggling, you're a GP, you get some good money home at the end of that. He works like an animal, so why not do it for yourself? He was going down the ethical side of it, not really helping people. Then, like you know, I wanted to become a GP to help people and to make an impact and all that sort of stuff. I said, well, you're helping people become beautiful, like you're still helping, you're still contributing and doing stuff. It's just in a different space.

Robby:

But so okay, so he was referring to that, not the business.

George:

Not the business, but I still think he was getting in his own way. Like I said hey, man, like do it. And he kept challenging me too. That's me, because I'm very much entrepreneurial, I'll take the risk With some people. They're risk adverse.

Robby:

So do you think he's a good GP?

George:

I don't know. Yeah, I'd say yes, yes, I do. I haven't been to him, but yes, he's very smart, very knowledgeable and, yeah, I genuinely believe he enjoys what he does.

Robby:

Open a business.

George:

Who him With him? Yeah, I would do it. That's it then. Would you come to me for Botox when else? That's the only reason you want me to open one up.

Robby:

Yeah, I just need a new Botox. Yeah, that's it, a Botox guy.

George:

But you know that goes to show some people are also. You do have to take some risk too in life, and I think as an 18 year old you've got to tell them that as well. Like there's going to be.

Robby:

You're going to need to take a chance on things, especially yourself, like back yourself, back yourself to do these things. Yeah, yeah, there's a level of confidence you'd have now that you wouldn't have.

George:

Oh, without a doubt. But know, I love this saying confidence isn't the lack of self-doubt, it's being willing to try even though you doubt yourself. So you can still not doubt yourself in something, but have the confidence to do it.

Robby:

Is it? Yeah, I think so for sure.

George:

Is that confidence or courage? It could be both. Yeah, there's definitely an element of courage there.

George:

In order for you to be courageous, something has to be like. You have to have a level of fear to it, otherwise you're just existing. But yeah, that's how I look at confidence. My wife always says to me she's like you're arrogant or you're overconfident. I said no, no, I don't doubt I might miss. I might swing and miss, but I'm going to give it a crack. I'm still going to have a crack each and every time. I'll just get back up and swing again and swing again, and swing again. Each and every time I swing I think I'm going to hit it out of the park. I might miss, but I'm going to keep swinging. Eventually I'll hit it out of the park.

George:

I think there's a level that they need to understand that. We said this before. It's probably not going to be easy. Not everything has to be hard.

George:

There is an easy way to, in the sense of getting that information. That's where the advisors and mentors that's what a good advisor or mentor does. They give you that shortcut to a degree. Hey, don't do it like this. Don't go and spend. Don't run what's called Twitter ads. Don't spend your profession on running Twitter ads. Start looking at this platform instead, because that's going to give you better ROI or whatever it might be, if you don't know any better and you're just like I'm going to be different and run Twitter ads. But Twitter ads do fuck all for you when you could have invested that two years into Facebook and you would have been killing it. There is a level of experience that I think you need to reach out to mentors and advisors for stuff like that. If you do have a field that you want to get into, like say, yeah, I love construction, I really want to get into construction, great, get into these rooms, speak to this person, speak to that person, so you'd send them to people.

George:

Yeah, yeah for sure. Or research this person, work for this company. Go and work for that, get experience in that, like I often get. People ask me, builder, why You're not going to get your license as a residential builder? Working for a commercial builder? It's like, oh, what advice are you giving me? Go and work for a residential builder. Go and get experience. Take a pay cut. You're not going to get the commercial money, you will get the residential money. That's fine. You're getting experience. You're getting an opportunity to sacrifice now to get the gains tomorrow. What do you want to do?

Robby:

Why do you think people always want to do the resi stuff? I think Because I've heard that a lot.

George:

Yeah, it's because they think it's a cash cow. Without a doubt, man, without a doubt. Do you know how many people I know they want to become a builder because they think they're going to crush it and make hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars and become this hotshot developer? Most of those people are the ones that go broke. Most of them are I guarantee it, I know it, I see it. They think they fucking know things about building and they know nothing and also running a business, but they want to get into that space because that's what they see. They see a successful builder or a successful developer or that 1% of the 1% and they go, yeah, I'm going to go do that, I'm going to go crush it. And then really, they get into it and fail miserably. Not all of them, but the vast majority.

Robby:

History shows yeah, because I've heard that a lot. Yeah it is. I've heard a few different things.

George:

I see it.

Robby:

I see it now. I don't want to do this, but I'm working it.

George:

It's like I see it. I see people that shouldn't be builders. I've seen them. There's not that many out there that will come to say at events. I don't really see them there because I find the people that come to events are trying to learn and become better and be better, whereas people that don't will never step foot in an event like that.

Robby:

I that don't will never step foot in an event like that. I'm not going to waste my time there. I'm not going to spend a hundred bucks to go here. I'm not going to go there for free. Don't be saying that you'd be getting scammed if you go to those places. I used to think that so much Did you, I never thought that I never thought that I never thought that scam.

Robby:

It's the environmental. You know your beliefs as you grow up. Yeah, absolutely yeah. There's things I look at now and I think to myself that's another thing, dude. I'm questioning what this 18 year old like. What are you like? What's their background? How I would talk to someone who grew up where I grew up and how I would talk to someone who grew up in Albert Park would be very different. Yeah, right, yeah, chalk and cheese. Dude, you would not have the same conversation. Even if you said the exact same words. You wouldn't get the same message across, you wouldn't? It's just the truth. Um, there is no way. Yeah, like, there is no way. If you told me when I was 18, to go and sit at a computer and do all that jazz.

Robby:

Yeah, you know what I'm telling you I can't sit at a computer and do all that jazz. Yeah, you know what I'm telling you. I can't sit at a desk all day. That's what I would have told you. That would have been my exact response. I'm like I can't sit at a desk all day. I hate, I hated school.

George:

Yeah, I can't do that I need to be up and about. Yeah, Working using my, it's the new smoking. Yeah, not the new smoking, it's been. It's been like that for a while. You know, just sitting, not moving around much Not good for you.

Robby:

Yeah, but yeah, I would question their beliefs. Where do they grow up? You know what?

George:

I mean.

Robby:

Get some background information. It'd be interesting to say what I actually say. Sorry, see what I actually say, Like it actually happened, Knowing where they were from? Yeah, just like, because you can speculate and say you know, I would tell them to read this book and I would tell them to do this and study sales and blah, blah blah. But it's like what do you actually say when it happens? Hmm. When the kid comes and says hey man blah, blah blah.

George:

Never liked school, hated school. Never read any. Never read a book in my life.

Robby:

Why am I going to read now yeah, I do. That was me To a T Never read a book. Read my first book when I was 26.

George:

Yeah, I was I. Yeah, I was quite late in the process as well.

Robby:

Yeah, never read a book, never did any of that jazz. Thought it was like, why would I read? That's for nerds? Yeah, that's so funny. But yeah, to be 18 again, man, I would encourage if I had a kid, that's how I'm going to put it. Yeah, if I had a kid. When I have a kid, good, and he's 18 or she's 18, I would encourage, risk, like just fuck, give it a crack, even if you fall apart by the time you're 25 and everything you're going to be so good on the other side. Yeah, so true, give it a crack. That's the part I wish I took and I did. I tried a few different things, but I wish I just had the freedom I didn't have the freedom to like get it wrong.

Robby:

Even though I got it wrong, I just didn't have the freedom to know I could.

George:

When you say that, what do you mean? The freedom Like elaborate. Like the A go and Like the permission. Yeah, no, not permission from someone, but you know what I mean. Like from yourself. Like it's not the be all and end all, and I think too many you're right, I think like too many 18 year olds probably have that level of oh, if I fuck this up like a whole year, a whole year, and then I'm 19 and I still don't have a career, I don't have a job.

Robby:

I'll tell you how I used to think about it. You know, when I was 15, I used to think I'm going to drop out of school. This was my plan. I'm going to drop out of school. I'm going to go get an apprenticeship at Holden. This is a true story. I'm going to earn $250 a year. Sorry, $250 a week. That was the wage, around $250 a week, Good, and I did this. Three years later I earned $280 a week. Anyway, $250 a week. I'm going to take $50 from my pocket and I'm going to put aside $200 every week. At the end of the year I'll have $40,000 saved up from the pay rises.

Robby:

I will put $30,000 as a down payment on a house and I'll buy my WRX for 10 grand. That was my mentality. I was like cool, I can do this, I can do that, and that's it. I'll have a house deposit, you'd still don't have a WRX.

George:

Never got the WRX shit.

Robby:

Um used to love WRX. Did ya loved them? That was like my dream car.

George:

I was always a HS. I was the HSV aspect of it. I always wanted a VT club sport 1999 to 2000, that was my car. Yeah, I was like 8.

Robby:

No, I'm Jesus, there was my car, yeah I was like eight okay, I was um 16, but yeah, back to the thing.

Robby:

So, like I had my whole thing planned, like I had to do stuff to get rich, succeed, you know what I mean. And I always had it mapped out in my head. And I had it mapped out so much that I all, by the way, nothing has gone to plan from everything I've ever mapped out. But I had it mapped out so much that I was always like cool, like I must do, like I need to get this right. I need to get this right. Do you know what I mean? And the element of like hey, man, go and like go and work for free. Do you know what I mean?

George:

like the money you make from 18 to 24 is going to be not even going to matter. Yeah, and chances are you're working for free. Your boss or the person you're working for or with is probably going to pay you at some stage. Yeah, do you know what I mean? He's going to be like alright, this kid's alright. If you show some level of hunger, let me get, let me get, let me get, let me get lunch for him today. You know he hasn't eaten in four weeks. Yeah, let me get some lunch for the kid yeah, and then it'd be like, okay, cool, yeah, come here, all right.

George:

And that, look, that happened with someone that works for me. He did an internship because he had to do it as part of his work experience for uni. So he did it with me, an internship. He had to do x amount of hours a week, my cool.

George:

Then he came on. He's like, oh, look. He's like, oh, look, I finished uni. Do you have anything? I said, look, not at the moment. I don't have anything paid at the moment, but you can come in however many times a week you want. I'm going to come in once a week or twice a week or every day this week, like whatever you want to do. So he would just come in and just work'll get you a part-time job. He's like, yeah, sweet. And then we went on another big job. I'm like, oi, full-time. He's like, yep, sweet. And then came on full-time and has been with me for seven years, been with me now my longest serving employee and gone like superstar. And that's all because he gave it a crack and just goes yeah, I was willing to eat shit, I didn't need to have that high paying job of whatever it might be, and so on and so forth, and I think that served him really well and I can think that will serve others really well too. But again, people aren't willing to eat shit.

Robby:

That's what I would do. Yeah, I would go and work for him I also. That's what I would. Um, that's what I would do. Yeah, I would go and work for free, I also think it's it is.

George:

I think there's a level of difficulty for someone that's 18 years old these days as well. Why. From the perspective of having that direction and going well, what am I going to do? I think it's. It's not as hard to make money these days. Do you agree with that?

Robby:

Some level, some level of money Elaborate. That's like if you were 18, is it easier now to make money? Is it easier to make money as an 18-year-old now than it was as an 18-year-old?

George:

30 years ago. Yeah, is that what you're asking? Yeah, I think it is. Why I think the internet's the biggest leveler in that space.

Robby:

Yeah, but it also makes you compete.

George:

With other people?

Robby:

Yeah, I love how everyone's like an 18-year-old can go and make money on TikTok. And it's like go make money on TikTok, you mad dog. Go show us. Yeah, exactly. And it's like no, you can't.

George:

It's hard, it's not easy, yeah, and you pump out like credit to you. You pump out a lot of content, especially over the last three months. You've really hit your content game hard and it's sick. Like I love all the shit that you're putting out and even then like, okay, how much money have you made as a result? Like, how much money did TikTok pay you this week Exactly? Or YouTube or this or this You're paying him, if anything. Yeah, yeah, that's exactly right. We were saying it the other day. How many videos we put out on Million Dollar Days? Over 800?, yeah, something like that. Over 800 videos have gone out on this podcast, guys, yeah.

Robby:

Every episode gets sliced up into 10 videos.

George:

Yeah, that's fine, but that's still a video that gets uploaded and onto there, and most videos will get a small amount of views. We've had a couple that have a few thousand and 10,000 or whatever it might be, but again, youtube haven't sent us any money yet. They haven't sent us any money. So, yes, you're right in that regard.

Robby:

It's not that easy to do so it's that easy, and I think it's not that easy. You're just being exposed to it more. Yeah, that more. Yeah, that's all. We're just more interconnected and you're seeing, you're seeing that, whereas that 18 year old was probably around, you just didn't see it. Yeah, you know what I mean? He probably was somewhere. Uh, whether it's obviously not in the same way that the platforms didn't exist, but they might. It might be that genius you know, because you hear about, like that genius who's finished uni at 13 oh, yeah, yeah yeah, like it rings bell.

Robby:

Yeah, you don't hear about that anymore. Yeah, when was the last time you had that?

George:

Last week.

Robby:

Yeah, like you're like me, but do you know what I mean? Like I believe that stuff is always happening. I don't think it's, I don't know, I don't know I could be wrong, but I don't do it. Is it easier? It's. It's also more easier to be distracted.

George:

Oh, massively, massively, and that's some good advice too. You've got to cancel out some of the noise, but that's the thing.

Robby:

Does it make it easier? I don't know. Can I make money now better than I could when I was 18? Of course, but that's with 16 years of experience. It's like can, yeah, I don't know. It's like a MJ versus don't know, it's a, it's a, it's like a mj vs lebron type question yeah, I also think let's go down.

George:

We're giving advice, so we've been giving advice. Now we're saying, all right, kid, we're gonna get into sales, you're gonna. They want to, assuming they don't want to live countryside for the rest of their life and off the land, we are going down the path of you becoming educated, going into a field, learning sales, sales, learning the game, probably going down that business route. I reckon they should also be serious about building a personal brand too Early days, whether it's with your company that you're working for or for yourself, whatever it might be. But building a personal brand from a very early stage will be advantageous to you, because if I started building a brand even in my mid-20s, I reckon I'd have same with you. Imagine you were putting out that type of that much content back then, 10, 20, 15 years ago. Say, 15 years ago. You're putting out a decent amount of content. I reckon that would have an astronomical effect to where you are today, regardless now 15 years ago it was 2010. Yeah.

Robby:

It's when Collingwood and St Kilda drawed in the granny Think about that. Yeah, that's sick, Like that's how long ago it was. Most people had you gone to them at the time and said, hey, go make a video, be business, or go make a video about yourself. They'd be like, yeah, that's weird on my Nokia 7210.

George:

Nah, there was iPhones. No, no, that was iPhone 3.

Robby:

That was out by then 2010 iPhone 4 was it yeah there you go, became an apprentice, I remember. Yeah, there you go at the iPhone 4, no WRX though you know how you just remember no, wrx, ever, never got it. Do you know how you remember vivid, like just the stuff that you just remember? Yeah, I remember that vividly. I was a first year apprentice and I was in the lift with a sales guy and he was holding an on the phone on an iPhone 4.

Robby:

I remember looking at it, thinking, oh, it's on the iPhone.

George:

I remember the first one came out and one of the guys in the office got one and he's like, oh, check this out, and it had a screen and it was tiny. It was like this big yeah, it was like it had a screen on it. He's like I'm like what's just stupid. Why would you do that? You're like, oh, you're getting that beer thing and it's like you know, have you ever seen that app where it's like a beer, it pretends it's like a take my money. But yeah, I think building a personal brand today is very important. I think you need to be known and putting yourself out there and connecting with people. I think that's a very powerful thing and I would recommend it if you want to be in that space. You don't think so?

Robby:

I'm just trying to think is that the thing I'd do as an 18 year old?

George:

You can still document the journey. I think, yeah, I think starting because you're probably going to suck as well at the beginning as far as how you talk.

Robby:

Yeah, it is 18-year-old me Couldn't never do that.

George:

Yeah, the same man. I was doing stupid shit at that age as in, I was immature. I was very immature. There'd have to be a level of immaturity. Would you tell them to go have a gap year? And what? Travel? Yeah, just go do sick shit, just do whatever the hell you want. Do whatever the hell you want. I've got a couple of nephews now, both very young. One's currently in Europe, 18 years old, living his life. So, yeah, that's good. The grandparents are like, oh, he's got to get a job, he's got to go do this. He's not doing anything, relax, he's 18. It's his first year out. He'll get a job. He's got plenty of time to make money. He was saying, oh, I should come get an apprenticeship with me. I said, well, if he wants to, he hasn't asked, I'm not going to ask him. Like he's 18? Yeah.

Robby:

What did you say? Your cousin, nephew, nephew.

George:

Nephew, but go out there, experience the world, go do what you want to do, that's fine, as long as that 18 doesn't turn to 28. Do you know what I mean? As in 28 and you've done nothing. So that's where I would want to. Okay, so it's coming back to my son. Now, let's say, or my daughter. I'm like cool, you want to have your gap year, go have your gap year. But there's a level of you've got to start standing up. You're not living home forever, and I'm European, I'm Greek. You might want my kids to stay with me forever. You can be the 30-year-old, but you're only if you're not home-paying. Playstation all day right, all day right. Just half a day, that's right. Just a half a day, yeah. Or working three, four hours just to sustain your petrol or your car or whatever. It is. No, no, you've got to be working out there hard, and I think that'll.

George:

I was having this conversation today. I think, subconsciously, I've already done that with my kids, because they see me getting up nice and early, 5.30, 6 o'clock, getting up, getting ready, going to the gym, going to work, wherever I am, I'm up and I'm moving. Come home, it's always dark during winter. Leave at night. Come home at night it's been a big day. They see me work, so I think subconsciously there is a level of that that he will see, because I saw it in my parents too. But yeah, I would want them not to be. I want them to be go-getters. Do you know what I mean? Have that ambition about them.

Robby:

Like a level of hunger.

George:

Yeah, I think there has to be a level of hunger in that person that's that Like you've got to be hungry, you've got to want it because no one's going to give you shit, no one's going to give you anything in this life.

Robby:

I don't care who it is. Yeah, I think, yeah, I think um, yeah, I think like mindset's, everything man oh, so true, and it's hard. It's hard in an 18. It's hard in a young kid yeah, you just reminded me of someone when you said 18, okay, not 28. And then you think about, like I know, some people who like you, at a certain age where they probably should have. More.

Robby:

Anything More, like they should have something going for them. You know, yeah, and you're like, hey, like you'll start adulting, like you know what I mean. You're still acting like you're 18 and you're not. Yeah, it's not cool anymore.

George:

Yeah, it was cool. It was cool for the first year.

Robby:

Yeah, but it's just like I don't know, you see, with libos a lot. Mm-hmm, I'm going to say every lego is going to hate this. But you see, the youngest child is always like it's like they almost never grow up.

George:

Did you straighten your mullet?

Robby:

When I was a kid? Yeah, it as a kid. Yeah, when you're 18, of course, every lebo does it's, it's your part. What is it? Right of passage? Yeah, I had to. Yeah, mom made me. But uh, yeah, you find like the youngest child, if it's in my experience. I can be wrong, this may not be relevant to any family, but I've just found that some people that I know tends, in terms of the youngest boy, tends to be like I said if the boy is the youngest in the family, they tend to get so nurtured, so babied, that they never grow up yeah, you know what I mean and they never become their own man slash adult.

George:

I think that's relevant with a lot of AFL footballers and hear me out. So you often see not often, but you'll see footballers acting out, getting in trouble outside of the club. It's because I reckon I've got a theory around it because when you get drafted into AFL, most of the time it's in your pretty early years, 18 to 20 years old. Okay, so you've got a good if you're playing AFL. You've got skills right At some capacity. You've got some skills. So you would have been playing a good level of football in your junior years, whether it was representative or country or whatever it might be, and in that club environment, like it's a team. So you're in a team, you're often playing with friends and it's like a boys boys and we're mucking around and you go from that environment into the sporting environment and it is a professional sport, an AFL sport.

George:

I still think that level of being part of the boys club is there and they continue that on until their late 20s, early 30s and you still see that with some of these players. That's why when they get to that age they're not necessarily that mature. They haven't ever been punched in the face. They've. You know they're having fun like they're getting paid to play sport at the highest level. Yes, and I'm sure there is pressure with it. Isn't that the greatest thing though? Yeah, that would be cool. I mean, man, when I was 16 to 18, like I wanted to play footy, like I wanted to play run on the MCG. That'd be the greatest thing ever.

Robby:

Yeah, it's like. I don't know what it is about this, but most guys can relate in the sense of like guys can relate in the sense of like boy goal after the sirens win the game, like come on, like that's fucking boyhood dream shit. And it's like almost everyone says like yeah except the gays? I don't know, they play sport.

George:

No, no, I didn't think so.

Robby:

No, I don't know why would you not want that? Yeah, like it's like yeah, I don't know, or anything. Basketball like buzzer beater.

George:

Yeah, yeah. So I think that's important. But again, advisors, mentors, like if you've got a mentor, they're not going to tell you to go home early. Play PlayStation today, you'll be all right, that'd be sick. Clock FIFA there's going to be. Yeah, I think it's definitely important having someone in your corner to push you, and sometimes it's not your parents, it's not those nearest and dearest to you.

Robby:

Especially if they're not doing what you want. Yeah, exactly right. Parents might be academics and you're like I want to go be an entrepreneur.

George:

Yeah, A business person? White collar. What's a professional? Is it white collar? What's a professional? Is it white collar? Yeah, and blue collar is like a trade type thing. Yeah, they were speaking to a friend as well the other day. So I'm like man, I'm white collar, my wife's white collar, because my kids are going to be white collar, I'd like them to be blue collar, but they're just not going to be. And what?

George:

you never know he's like no, I know, I know, um, but yeah, there's that pressure too, like if you're a lawyer or a doctor or an accountant, you often get pushed in that direction too. See, I wouldn't necessarily tell my kids to be or my son or anyone like that, to become a builder.

Robby:

Is there anything you'd want him to not do? That's a good question Drugs Like as a profession.

George:

Yeah, yes, yeah, I'm going to fucking tee off now. If he grew up and became a parking inspector, I'd fucking lock the door. I'd change the locks on the house. Why.

George:

I got done last three nights ago. Out here on Vic Ave, it's fucking ropeable. You're setting my cars there. Last three nights ago, out here on Vic Ave, it's fucking ropeable. My car's there right now. I was ropeable because I stopped for two seconds to get some food out. I was picking up food from the chicken shop down here for dinner. What time I was like seven.

Robby:

How do you get done at seven Exactly?

George:

I nearly said it. I nearly dropped the C-bomb. He was watching me. It wasn dropped, the C-bomb he was. It wasn't the parking. Fine, that shit me. I guess I was parked in the wrong spot. What was it? A loading zone? Yeah, what pissed me off was he was camping. He was there because he knew he was going to get five to ten people that night stopping there to pick up food. There's your ticket. There's your ticket. There's your ticket. That's what pissed me off. So if you're a parking inspector, you are the lowest of the low. The lowest of the low. I do not like you. You suffer off other people's misery. My wife was like are they just feeding their families? And it's just a job? Like you, parked in the wrong spot. I'm like no, fuck that guy or girl?

Robby:

Wouldn't she get upset if she got the phone? Who?

George:

Yeah, probably 100%. She would 100%. She'd come home cursing. I'd be like relax. It's going to feed the family.

Robby:

They don't pay comms. Huh, they don't pay comms, they pay hourly rates.

George:

Who's working at that bloody 7 o'clock at night issuing tickets? 100%, they're paid comms Better. Yeah, 100% it is. It's City of Port Phillip, those fuckers. 7 pm. I'm throwing my wrapper on the floor next time when I go outside. This guy. Fuck the council. Yeah, clean it up. Pay someone to clean it up. I'm surprised that you pay your fines, please, is there a way? Not, please, zero away, not to, you're just Lebanese again. Just don't do it. Just never take me to court, really that's exciting.

Robby:

unless it was in my mum's name, she'd make me pay because she thinks they're going to take her to jail. What are they going to do? Nothing? What are they going to do? They'll send you a couple of notices like it's serious, and then the last notice is red and you're like I don't know, and then nothing. Nothing. I'm excited, yeah.

George:

I'm going to do it. I'm going to come to the office, I'm going to take it away in handcuffs, I'm going to go Robbie said that he didn't get anything.

Robby:

What am I here for? Well, I'll be with him. I'll be the one Get him many times.

George:

So yeah, if he became a parking inspector, I'd be very disappointed, very disappointed.

Robby:

What if, um, no, um, honestly, what if he said, like I'm going to be a Solicitor?

George:

No, absolutely Go for it. Like, if you want to, if it's something you want to do, like, go for it. You got my support what he says. I'm just going to go work for a charity Again, if it's giving him purpose. Not everything has to be a monetary gain. I think, though, cool, you want to do that, you want to give back Very noble. But every decision has a consequence, and this is the conversation I would have with him. Okay, do you want to get married one day? So yes, okay, cool, do you want to have family?

Robby:

yes, so you're pretty much going to talk about it.

George:

I'm going to tell him the facts. Yeah, I'm going to tell him the facts because you think he shouldn't. He needs to know. No, he needs to know. Like, there's consequences to know that you think he should. You want to be a painter? Like as a painter artist, and do pretty things like great, that's totally fine, man, like whatever you want to do, but the 1% of the 1% will ever sell that painting for $50 million. Yeah, like, let's be real, what do you? There's consequences with everything, good and bad. But you're going to need to understand that money is going to be an important aspect of your life and you need to create that If you're going to want to have a family, if you're going to want to have the house, the cars, the life, if you don't want any of that and you just want to live your own life and do whatever you want to do, like what? Do I mean it's?

George:

like do it. As long as it makes you happy and you feel fulfillment, go for it. Go for it. But then don't also say, hey, I'm going to stay at home and live off mum and dad until I'm 55 years old. Like no Consequences. You want to work at a charity? Cool. Ask them if they're going to donate a house for you or your next meal. Like there's consequences. What are you doing?

Robby:

But is there? Okay, that's a very because there's no money. Is there any professions apart from parking inspector?

George:

Yeah, parking inspector. Yeah, don't do OnlyFans.

Robby:

Do you understand? Do you understand like?

George:

Yeah, no, I know, I'm just trying to think of what profession would be Like. Would you like to go to the army Again? I know, I'm just trying to think of what profession would be Like. Would you like to go to the army Again? I'd prefer him not to, it's okay.

George:

My dad, when I was 22, almost bought a motorbike. No, not 22, 25. I was mid-20s, almost bought a motorbike Hi-U song, you know the ones, the big ones, the 250. Yeah, it was a big one, but it was a 250, so it wasn't very quick. Uh, met all my friends. Actually we all booked.

George:

We booked to go get our motorbike license on a saturday or whatever it was. Do you have a motorbike license? No, I don't. Oh, I don't. I've ridden him a couple times, a few times. Can ride one, but not not good, it's like a jet ski. Yeah, anyway, well, I, well, I'm funny, you mentioned that. So we booked to go get our motorbike license. I got called into work at Maldi's. I had to go and work on the Saturday, so I didn't go, I had to cancel. They all went, got their license Next weekend. They all bought motorbikes, all of them.

George:

I'm like fuck, I didn't get one. I had to re bikes, all of them. I'm like, fuck, I didn't get one, that's a free book. I didn't want to go by myself. I ended up buying a jet ski instead.

George:

Now, anyway, during that time my dad was like, all right, cool, I was telling him I'm going to go buy a motorbike. They're sick, they're sick. I could see myself really enjoying riding a motorbike. I know I would. He's like look, you can go get one. Go, go for it. He goes. I'm not going to stop you. You're a grown-ass man, Do what you want. He goes, but he goes. I don't think you should do it. There's consequences. That's going to come with that If you have an accident. It's a matter of when, not if. When you do it can be life-changing, serious injury, injury for the rest of your life or death, because that's just the facts, anyway. So reverse psychology did make me go. Okay, I don't think that's for me, and I ended up buying a jet ski instead.

George:

But same thing with the army. I guess I would have that similar conversation. I'd say, yeah, cool, that's what you want to do. You have my support. Just understand there are consequences with everything you do. Would I want him to, but it's not my life too. Yeah, he could have a career in the army that spans 50 to 80 years and retire a general or whatever the highest rank is and do sick shit, go all over the world and never even fire a bullet. Do you know what I mean? That's someone. He could have that level of life in the army. But again, everything comes with its consequences, good and bad.

George:

I think, ultimately, the decision has to be that person's. I think that's what it comes down to. You're coming to me for advice and say, hey, george, what should I do with the rest of my life? I'm not going to make the decision for you. I will just give you the information and the information that you get from me. You do what you want with it, because I never want you to come back and say you told me to do this and I did it and it failed, and now my life is miserable and it's your fault. No, this is what you get, this is what I've told you. Take responsibility. So I think there's a huge level of responsibility on the individual.

Robby:

Even at 18. Has to be, has to be.

George:

Has to be Old enough to smoke, drink, vote drive has to be, has to be a level of responsibility there. How lucky are those that know exactly what they want to do.

Robby:

You know how many people do you reckon know what they want to do? Do it and say you know how many people do you reckon know what they want to do? Do it and say you know when someone says it's going to sound silly, but I feel like when someone says I've always wanted to do this since I was young and I did it, and now I do it and I'm that thing and it's like something that's like Firefighter. No, that's kind of cool, but it's something like uh, like, uh, let's make this handful I can give you like an audiologist or like a optometrist yeah, I've always, and then you're like I love eyes.

Robby:

You're like man, like you know, and they're like I've always wanted to do this, yeah, I'm passionate. And then you're like I love eyes. You're like man, like you know, and then, like I've always wanted to do this, yeah, I'm passionate. And then you're like how much are you free thinking here? Like, how much of these thoughts are actually your thoughts not?

George:

someone else's been planted into you, yeah and I think that's what one of my friends was getting out a while ago when he said you know, my kids are going to be white collar workers, because maybe that's what they implant into them as well.

Robby:

Yeah, or the kids just see the parents yeah, and kids will do yeah, that's right. What you do, that's right. That's right, not what you say yeah without a doubt.

George:

Without a doubt, what else?

Robby:

What would you do to be 18 again? So much I would.

George:

You know, I like that question, I like thinking about it, Like what would you do differently? Like do it now, Like make some of those changes now.

George:

Take a risk, maybe Go work for free. You say go work for free. We're making good coin now, we're doing what we're doing in our life. Go work for free. Elon knocks on the door. There's an opportunity. You get an email tonight from Elon Say hey, come work with me, come chill out. Not paid, just come chill out. Why wouldn't you go do it? If that's again something that you had an interest in doing, why wouldn't you go down there? Hormozy, messages you hey, just come down. I've seen your shit, I love it. Come down, let's just hang out for a week. Just, I need you to just shadow me. Do you reckon it'd be fun to work with him? I don't know. I mean, I think it'd be very interesting. I think it would be quite full on.

Robby:

Yeah.

George:

I don't think it would stop. Yeah, Speaking to his team when we were there. Like they're working Saturday, Sundays. Yeah, it's like it's the norm Like oh yeah, we work Saturday, sundays here. There's no bitching, there's no moaning, it's just what we do. This is what we want. We want this level of life and we know what it takes to get it.

Robby:

So we work Saturdays.

George:

Sundays? Yeah, it would be a A lot of people think of that and they're fuck Saturdays, sundays who do they think they are? Take my time Cool, then get the results everyone else is getting. That's his mindset with it, because you can work every single day, because that's who I want to work here. I want to. I want people to work here that want to work saturday, sundays and monday to friday yeah, I don't know if I'd want to do that for someone else I'm saying for a short time as an experience I'm not saying to do it for the rest of your life.

George:

You know, to work for free for someone, there would a level. I think there would be things that you would see spending a month with him. Oh, for sure that you'd be like, all right, that's cool, 100% yeah, it would definitely add a lot of value to you.

Robby:

Yeah, I reckon I've consumed a month of his content.

George:

He spent 120 grand to sit down for four hours with Grant Cardone. He said that a few times, and so he's actually spent money to sit with someone and go, yeah, tell me what you want, what I need to know. And he took a lot of that advice to heart and blew up his brand, arguably as a result of that conversation with him. So, yeah, I think there's definitely a level of, even when you're at this level, to go and imagine you could a millionaire, could shadow a billionaire for a while. Hey, come on my jet, come on here, let's go do this, let's go do that. Let me show you this. Let me show you how to leverage your millions and turn it into billions, if that's what you want to do.

Robby:

If that's what you want to do.

George:

I suppose this is where books are really cool too. Though You're getting all that knowledge in 200 pages, you can be mentored and guided by someone that you've never met. That's why it's so powerful. I know people. There's a little hack for people that don't like reading, and I got this from Alex Hormozy. It's listen to the audio book and read along at the same time. You can shoo them up. I got this from Alex Hormozy. It's listen to the audio book and read along at the same time. You consume up.

George:

They say roughly I don't know if it's to the point, but 60% of the content you're consuming. You consume that much more of it than just doing one or the other. So if you find it difficult to read and sit down and just spend some time, I think that's a good little cheat code for you to do Listen and read at the same time, and then eventually, if you want to do one or the other, go for it. That's totally fine, but at least to get started. If you're the type of person that doesn't consume content, I think that's a good little hack. Do you like doing that? Yeah, I actually enjoy it. I actually enjoy it.

Robby:

It's the slowest way to consume content. It would be. Yeah, yeah, I get that. Because listening has the advantage of you can do it when you're doing something else, but reading is the fastest.

George:

Yeah, but I also. The only reason I do it like that is again to consume the content more, because I find sometimes when I read I'll be reading, but I don't take in the page.

Robby:

That's because you're not reading fast enough.

George:

Or I just get distracted, or whatever it might be. Read quicker, read quicker, yeah. What if I? Then I might even miss more.

Robby:

No, it's actually much the opposite. Yeah, you're forced to pay attention, like you know when you're playing a game and you've got to pay attention, oh yeah. Yeah, it's like if I get distracted for a moment, I'm going to miss. And how focused are you read? Otherwise, if you're going too slow, your brain starts to say what's going on there, what's happening here? Blah, blah, blah, and then you know what I mean. Yeah, absolutely Same thing with audiobooks. Don't you ever find like you're listening and then you're thinking about something, and then you listen and then you're like I don't know.

George:

What did I just say? What did I just say I did, because you're like wait, what are they?

Robby:

saying yeah, what are they talking about here? It sounds interesting. Go back, it's because it's too slow, go faster. Yeah, true, it's a real thing, I believe it. Dude for whole speed reading course. Yeah, who's that through. Jim.

George:

Quick. Oh yeah, I did that. I read his book.

Robby:

Yeah, what do you?

George:

thinkitless book. Yeah, it was alright.

Robby:

Yeah, it was okay. He's got like some hacks and things like that. Yeah, nice guy, yeah, it's cool. I like him, it's very cool.

George:

But yeah, I think readings Do you know what else I would tell an 18-year-old? What would you tell them? I'd tell them to subscribe to this podcast. That would probably be the first thing I told them, straight off the bat. What should I do? Million dollar days.

Robby:

Follow your passions.

George:

Which is on million dollar days, which is no matter what it is. It'll be here, we will cover it at some stage. Get onto it.

Robby:

That's what I would tell them. You gotta change the way we ask people to subscribe.

George:

I didn't ask people to subscribe. I didn't ask people to subscribe. I was asking the 18,. I was telling the 18, I was demanding the 18 year old. If you subscribe, I won't pay my parking, fine, and then I'll document how many subscriptions. I will document how many subscriptions I want. At least 30. Huh, need at least 30. 30 subscriptions. At least 30. Huh, need at least 30. 30 subscriptions. Yeah, at least Are you serious? 30 subscriptions.

Robby:

I'm not going to pay my parking fine and I'll document my journey to jail 30 subscriptions. 30 subscriptions. Okay, you heard it here first, guys 30 subscriptions. George Wayne paid parking ticket. We're going to monitor it from this moment, right now, so as soon as this episode airs within 50 minutes or however long we've been going of this thing launching we're going to monitor the subscription rate and if we hit 30 subscriptions, it's easy, easy work for you guys. Will not pay his fine. I won't pay it.

George:

And he'll have to post every follow-up.

Robby:

fine, he gets on his story, I'll even respond and tell him to fuck off on one of them. You know you can what's it called? When you want to fight it, dispute it. Yeah, the chicken shop lady took ages.

George:

There was a lady in front of me. She was taking ages to take her order and the funny thing is, I thought in my head. I thought in my head, I'm like hey, hurry up yeah, I was gonna pick my food up. Dude like hurry up or do you just get the gravy? It's not a fucking life-changing decision, just get the gravy or or so she was.

Robby:

Oh, she was doing something stupid, um, or we'll set it up again tonight. And then, as soon as he comes out to us, he calls out of the bush.

George:

Hey, get him. Yeah, gotcha, yeah, okay, good stuff, all right, well, watch this space 30 subscriptions. Guys Watch this space. Get on that subscription train If this works man, I'm going to jail.

Robby:

I'm guys, watch this space, get on that subscription train. If this works, man, I got a jail. I'm going to display all my fines. We're going to get a platinum plaque, yeah, by the end of that. It's going to be great. It's going to be great you can hang that in your jail cell. That'd be good.

George:

How good's that? Thank you very much, guys listening tuning in again for another week. Hey, ivan, I hope you're having a million dollar day, I hope you subscribe and George is forced have to To not pay.

Robby:

Have to, he's fine.

George:

And then I can even put it as a reason when I go to the judge he's like I said, judge, I got 30 subscriptions.

Robby:

He's like ah, throw it out. Throw it out, what's?

George:

the podcast, let me subscribe. That's it All, right, guys. Thank you so much All right, thanks, chat soon.

Robby:

Bye. I've got a very good um in the middle of that. Yeah, it would be a debate.

George:

Oh hell, owner builders, oh yeah, so you'll be pro and I'll be con, or I'm not pro, but I'll do it. Oh yeah, I couldn't give a fuck. Yeah, yeah, but I'll do it. Yeah, that's a good idea. Yeah, yeah, actually, yeah, because we want those controversial topics.

Robby:

Yeah, I think it would be a solid yeah. Um, you know what I mean Builder.

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