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WHO IS MAKSIM ASENOV
Maksim Asenov is a best-selling author, speaker, executive coach, entrepreneur and humanitarian. He is the Senior Leader of the fastest-growing church in Bulgaria— Awakening Church.
Maksim has traveled to over 35 countries and has shared his captivating story with hundreds of thousands of people, inspiring them to live a life of peace, purpose, and prosperity. From humble beginnings, he has become Bulgaria’s most sought-after Christian speaker and celebrity life coach.
His first best-selling book that took Bulgaria by storm, “7 Decisions that Will Change Your Life NOW,” was designed to help people become the best version of themselves by awakening the leader within.
His new book “Courage In Crisis” will empower people to turn their toughest moments into their greatest advantage.
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КОЙ Е МАКСИМ АСЕНОВ?
Максим Асенов е автор, говорител, лайф-коуч и предприемач. Той е основател на най-бързорастящата протестантска общност в България – “Църква Пробуждане”.
Максим е пътувал в над 35 страни и е споделял завладяващата си история със стотици хиляди хора, вдъхновявайки ги да вярват, че няма нищо невъзможно! От момче израснало в най-голямото гето на Балканите, той се превръща в един от най-търсените говорители в България и лайф коуч на знаменитости.
Първата му книга, превърнала се в национален бестселър, “7 решения, които ще променят живота Ви СЕГА” е предназначена да помогне на хората да станат най-добрата си версия и да събудят лидера в тях. Новата му книга „Наръчник за успех в кризата“ дава възможност на хората да превърнат най-трудните си моменти в най-голямото си предимство.
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Transcript
I bleed, I cry, I have anxiety, I have bad days. I’m human. Yeah, I made my first money at 19, so… What did that change for you?
What are the battles you’re fighting? Like every day, as an entrepreneur, as a father, as a husband. What are some of the most important skills in your opinion? What would you be doing if you know you’re dying in 24 hours?
I said, so what are you telling me? He said… What would you be doing if you know you’re dying in 24 hours? Well, hello and welcome to another episode of Business Room.
My name is Maxim Azenov and I’m so excited to be bringing some of the most interesting entrepreneurs and leaders from across the world. And obviously, this is the first episode in English, because I’m having my first international guest, who is obviously English-speaking. So, he’s an entrepreneur, a father, a very, very dynamic speaker, leader.
And he just recently moved to Bulgaria or started a base in Bulgaria. It’s going to be a very, very anticipated and interesting conversation. So I’m saying, welcome to Elliot Weiss. Thank you, Maxim.
And the first thing we have to establish is that Weiss is your real name. It is my real name. We’ve had to prove it. So you’ll be expecting, you know, wisdom from the Weiss.
Why is your name Weiss? Where does it come from? It’s not a very common family name. It’s not a very common family name.
You know, I haven’t actually looked into it. I didn’t want to get a… I have some creative ideas in my head of where it came from. I didn’t want to get disappointed.
So, hopefully, it’s some tall tale that goes back to some sort of family tree that has come from some very good place. But, yeah, it works well for me.
I’ve spent a lot of time with some great people, the sun’s been shining, and I’m here with you, so I’m having a great time. So, as I said in the start of the talk that we’re going to have, you’re an entrepreneur from the UK. What part of the UK are you from?
So I’m south of London, just outside of a place called Brighton, which is on the south coast. Okay. And then you decide to, you know, you obviously travel the world, but then you decide to have a base in Eastern Europe, in Bulgaria. Why would you do that move?
And then, later on, I want to ask you so many questions about your, you’re very interesting with your family, your children, and your business, and people that you are mentoring in e-commerce and other businesses, but, you know, how did you decide to come to the UK? Okay. So, first and foremost, I always like to get this out of the way, I don’t come from money, because a lot of people just assume that I’m someone that is potentially come from a wealthy background, and I come from very humble beginnings.
I have the most amazing family, but not from a financial perspective. So I get out of the way, because people always like to make that assumption. Because you look very… Okay.
Yeah. So I make a lot of effort with the way I look, and the way I dress, and the way I talk, and that’s not come from my family, it’s come from trial and effort. I come from very humble beginnings, I have a very supportive family, but, you know, it’s quote, unquote, I don’t like the word self-made, but it’s not come from a place of being born into it.
I understand. I know that from doing a little bit of research, and you’ve come from a very difficult background. I haven’t come from a difficult background, but I’ve come from one where I’ve had to make my way off. But I’ve been blessed with the opportunities I’ve been given.
I don’t regret anything.
Yeah. I am someone that’s always been extremely competitive. I love my life. I feel very blessed every single day.
I fell in love with entrepreneurship very young. I started up a web design company at 13. Wow. So that was my first business.
I’ve been very fortunate. I’m 32, nearly 33. And you and I have both, I know you’re very similar age to me, a little bit younger, have lived through a period in which we saw the birth of the internet. We’ve seen the birth of the smartphone, the birth of social media, now AI.
We’ve had everything that you could possibly ever want handed to us. And given my background and my competitive nature, my aspirations from a very young age, I saw that there was a huge opportunity for me. And this is something I want to talk to you a little about.
Now, I see the same in Bulgaria, which is another reason why I’ve come. At the age of 11, 12, I got my computer at home. I started playing around with the internet. So you were like the geek type of guy?
I was a massive geek. I used to paint figurines. I don’t know if anyone knows here, it was something called Warhammer. But I used to paint Warhammer figures.
And I thought, well, I’m going to make a website to put my stuff on. It’s tough to do that. No way. Yeah.
You know, you are the best looking geek I’ve ever met in my life. Thank you. I promise you. A geek, you know.
That comes from a place, I think, from being a geek, being slightly chubby as a kid, that can light a big fire in you. You get bullied. You get told in a certain way. I told I wasn’t academic.
But someone like, I think you and I probably both have the same trait, that lights a massive fire. And I love that I was that kid. Because everybody that said I couldn’t do it, or that gave me a stick, motivated me more. I’m so very thankful for all the people in my life that told me I couldn’t do things.
So at 13, you were this geek.
type of guy who gets interested by computers and technology, how does that develop into then starting a business? Okay. So one thing that I do have, my father was a manufacturer in the UK. He set up his own business with a business partner.
And what that did, he wasn’t particularly financially successful, but he showed me that there was another path other than just the nine to five system, academic system. And I love that idea, that you could work for yourself and potentially make something bigger. I wasn’t surrounded by wealth and I wasn’t surrounded by other entrepreneurs, but my dad did that.
And I saw that I didn’t want to go down the path of paper rounds, delivering newspapers, and potentially the path that was laid out for me. And I thought, there’s something about this internet thing and these websites that’s going to be needed by every single business out there.
At the time, I just thought it’d be a brochure for companies to show their wares. And I thought, you know what, I’m going to try and sell some to some businesses. So me being me, I decided to learn. I bought a book on C++ and CSS, which is the coding language for websites.
I started reading those. Decided to build a website for my Warhammer and then thought, right, I’m going to use that to try and sell to everyone I know, friends, parents. So you thought yourself to code. Basically, you read some books.
Some books and then tried to implement and figure it out. And so that’s how you learned to code. Played around with it. It took me a very long time.
And I struck lucky. I say lucky, you make your own luck. A friend’s parents decided they had a switch company, light switches, and they wanted to make a website for it. So I said, okay.
I managed to sell one for 300 pounds. No, that’s for a young man. For a young guy, man. I thought I was the richest man on the planet.
And it took me six months to build that thing. Six months. That’s a long time. That client is still a client today because I still have a web design company today.
Wow. And bear in mind, that was me at 13, you know, 20 years later. Wow. So yeah, it’s been a very long time.
That then transitioned very quickly into building more websites. I got an accountant, I started hiring people in my class to dedicate out certain tasks, coding, graphic design, animation, and then I’d get win-win projects and I’d pay them a fixed fee to do the project for me. So did somebody at that time, when you’re starting your business, you’re obviously very young, you get a certain skill set and then you start to develop a business.
Did somebody come along to give you an example, advice, or help you with getting people around yourself and how to develop it with, you said, an accountant and all of that? Or was it just naturally coming to you? I was gifted in that I was quite naturally inclined towards those things.
I figured a lot of stuff out for myself. However, that was a bit of a curse to me because then I believed throughout my life that I could always figure it out myself, which is a bad way to be. But initially, I was able to see things that necessarily other people were able to see, and I was able to figure stuff out quite quickly, and I thought that was my…
Yeah, you thought it was normal. I thought it was normal and I thought that was something that I was pretty good at, to be honest. I was able to do those things. More than that, I realized I was able to inspire other people around me to get involved in what I was doing.
That was the thing that I really clicked that I was pretty good at, was that I was able to sell the idea to other people to learn skills that I needed for the business so that we can make bigger and better things. That quickly transitioned into, at the age of 16, once again, it was actually a friend of my dad’s.
I know a lot to my dad. He, like I said, we’re not that close as father and son in terms of an emotional thing, but he’s always been there supporting me and he’s given me a lot of eye-opening things. But a friend of my dad’s actually asked anyone randomly to him.
It’s funny. You make your own luck and opportunities arise given the things…
you do in your life, if you knew anyone that makes websites, or my son does, okay, well I have a… He’s a lighting salesman. He sells big brands, Philips, all these other big companies. He can’t be seen to be selling direct to customers, but he’s aware of this thing called e-commerce where you can sell products online, and wanted to set up with someone that could sell online, who could sell the products at the same prices that these big companies could sell for because he was getting the buying power, but he couldn’t be seen to be selling himself.
So I had a chat with this guy at 16, suited and booted, I go and have this meeting with a guy called Mark, and he said, look, I can get these prices on this, you’ll be the most competitive guy online, you’ll set the company up in your name, we’ll sign a contract that says I own half on paper, you’ll own the face on the company, the face of it, and we’ll go into business together.
I said, yeah, why the hell not, let’s go. Next day, he turns up at my house, catalogs that big, full of products, and went, right, here’s all the catalogs, here’s a disk with product images, we need to input every single product in every one of these catalogs onto your Zen Cart platform.
I didn’t have spreadsheets and stuff to import products back then, it was manual. So I find out my school friends, this was at my age of 16 between my summer holidays, said, guys, summer holidays are over, okay, we’re implementing products. They said, what? I said, look, I’m going to pay you all for the summer, we’re going to meet up at my friend Jamie’s house, and we’re going to just sit there typing in product information and uploading images and prices to the website, and then adding attributes, which are like colors and bold bottom types and everything else, and we’ve got about $25,000 to $30,000 to do, we’ll divide it up into days and we’ll split it up.
Oh my goodness, that’s a lot. We’ve done six weeks, seven days a week, sacrificed everything. This was the summer holidays before you go up to something called sixth form in the UK, which is college, which is two years before university.
So everyone else having fun. They’ve left secondary school. We there at the parties and everything you’re working. We’re working I saw a bigger picture and to be fair to them.
They work really hard But to my dismay Mark we’re ready to go Put the site live First day goes by no sales. Okay, what’s going wrong? Week goes by no sales. He’s phoned me up because I’m telling him how great this thing is gonna be What am I doing wrong Marketing You’ve got to sell the thing I just assumed as a lot of people do you can build a product and people will come Yeah, so you could have the best product and the best service, but nobody knows no one knows about it So the most important thing and I think you are probably the third person on this podcast that I’ve interviewed who says a Version of The most important thing is marketing because you could have the best product or the best service But if you’re not getting it to the people if you’re not informing your potential customers your customers of what you have You’re not selling Because they don’t know you exist attention is the oil of the 21st century we now have this thing called the smartphone which dictates pretty much 99% of people’s attention most of the day and If you can command that you control everything It’s a very very very powerful tool now if that’s a business that you’re trying to run I use this analogy You light yourself on fire so If you’re a businessman you’re trying to sell a product light yourself on fire go in the street Set a match to yourself and put yourself on flames Everyone’s gonna look at you But no one buys from an idiot that sets himself on fire But everyone looks at an idiot that sets himself on fire, then you have to whip out a firing extinguisher Put yourself out dramatically and then sell everyone the fire extinguisher.
I love that. That’s a great analogy
And that’s that’s mark. That’s one day marketing, but that’s always been the case It’s just now we have tools to amplify that and put it out to the world. That’s powerful to many people our stories sound like Almost like a movie or a dream I’m sitting here listening to you and you know, it’s beautiful how your life has turned out and Many people just discount us as you said in the beginning Number one just for the way we look right because they would they wouldn’t imagine you Looking the way you actually looked when you started or me for that matter Or kind of building yourself up from being chubby to being in shape from being looking like a geek to looking like a model You know all these things to people.
It’s like they don’t believe it is that easy and it’s not easy I want to say that it’s not easy, but It’s achievable with the right steps and the right sacrifices What are we saying to people who are? Looking at this Interview, they’re watching this talk right now.
They’re thinking okay, but Luck or destiny didn’t smile on me I didn’t have this opportunity like him to start coding at 13 or Start a business at 16 or like Maxine to start speaking at 15 years old like who doesn’t who allows you to to to stand in front of a Group of people and tell them anything when you’re 15 So I understand people that are doubting the stories and asking the questions, but what would you tell these people?
How are we to? Approach them and try and help them to believe in themselves and in their Luck success the ability to take advantage of opportunity I love that say it again luck is the ability to take advantage of opportunity wonderful And we now live in a world where there is more opportunity than there ever has been since the beginning of time
And because of that, there is absolutely zero excuses that anyone can make that they can’t make something of themselves anymore with all of the resources and assets they have available. So anyone that is saying that luck is the reason that they are not where they want to be or someone else is, is lying to themselves.
And it’s a discussion they have with themselves which is… It breaks my heart when I hear that because I see so much potential in everyone and I see an abundance of wealth and opportunity for everyone and everyone can feast. Everyone can have access to this, especially with the tools we have available.
But it’s their mindset that’s stopping them. And quite often that’s cultural, that’s come from their parents, it’s come from their friends and it’s a limiting belief. So belief systems for me are the most powerful thing on this earth. I agree.
Because belief systems are not factual. Belief systems are constructs that we create in our mind for positive or negative. And we have complete control over those things if we know how to engineer them. And introspectively thinking allows us to be mindful of those belief systems.
So when I say something about myself, I’ll always ask myself, Elliot, is this factual or is this a belief? Because if it’s a belief, I can change it. And that’s really powerful because a belief system can also assist you. I believe I’m lucky.
I believe I make good network connections. I believe I make good decisions. I believe I’m a good businessman. I believe I’m a good husband.
I believe I’m a good father. Or I believe things never go my way. I believe that I don’t have the ability to do this. I believe I’m not an intellectual person.
I believe that I was born in the wrong time. Where do they come from? Ask yourself that. And if you can deconstruct why you’re telling yourself you don’t have those opportunities and you actually sit there and ask yourself, is it that person that’s actually got the
y cyfle, neu yw’r ffaith bod rydw i’n gwneud cyfeiriad, ac un o’r pethau y byddwn i’n hoffi i’w gynhyrchu yw ein bod ni i gyd yn ddifferent, ac i sefyll yno a ymdrech ar unrhyw un eraill yw’n gweithgaredd mawr, oherwydd, iawn, mae rhai o’n i’n cael rhai pethau yn llwyr na’r rhai eraill, ond dim pob peth.
Mae rhai o’n i’n fwy, mae rhai o’n i’n hyfryd, mae rhai o’n i’n ymdrech ar unrhyw un eraill, mae rhai o’n i’n mynd i’r Gymraeg, mae rhai o’n i’n cyfrifoldeb, mae rhai o’n i’n cael yr ymdrech ar y Gymraeg, mae rhywun yn cyfrifoldeb. Felly, mae’r pethau yma, mae’n dweud y gwirionedd, mae’n ymdrech ar y Gymraeg, mae’n ymdrech ar yr lle, mae’r pethau yma, mae’n ymdrech ar yr Ysgol, mae’r pethau yma, maes cymaint o’r tatwydd ym mhob le, fel ddifferent iawn o edrych i mi.
Beth yw’r gwahaniaeth, gwahaniaeth oedran? Ddau blynedd, mae’n ddau blynedd yn ôl. Y person mwyaf ddiddorol a hyfryd ar y plan. Dwi’n ei fwynhau i’r dyf.
Joe, ei enw.
And I’ve always been more of his carer, he came to me. And one thing that’s always been a very odd dynamic for me is that he put his trust in me over our parents. Now imagine this, you’re a 13-year-old boy, I say boy because you don’t add all that point.
And your 10-year-old brother comes to you and he’s involved in some pretty dodgy things. He had some bad friends even at that age. And he tells you something… When you were growing up, where were you growing up?
What’s your neighborhood? Is it like a middle class? Is it like a dangerous place? Is it like a ghetto type?
Is it like, give me a vibe of this? So it’s a council house. It’s poor people. Council house?
Council house. So that’s basically government owned. I live with my mom. So it’s funded by the government.
My dad lived in another city, I live with my mom. And it was a pretty crappy house, but it was okay. It was warm. I understand.
No, living in a council house, and then your parents are separated. And then your brother is looking at you almost like a father figure in his life. And then he gets involved into some dodgy things. You want to say a little more about it?
What direction was it going? Was it going to drugs? Or was it going to… It was down to people that were trying to push him onto drugs, women that were bad influences on him.
I was worried about him getting a woman pregnant at that age. That’s the kind of… Thing that happens. Yeah.
Petrified. He ended up getting beaten up often. I was going to pick him up from wherever he was. I was having fights on his behalf.
This was at school, when we were out and about. And yeah, that was quite a big thing to swallow. And also, he would come to you with something like that, in confidence, and would say, please don’t tell our parents. So I had to make a decision at that point.
As a 13-year-old kid, do I betray his trust and tell my parents because I feel like they should probably help me with this situation? But then he would never tell me.
me about any of these things again. And I was met with those decisions at that age, which matures you pretty bloody quickly. You get humbling when you have those decisions in front of you. Those decisions, most people make them when they become parents at the age of 30 or 25, whatever.
So you’re a 13-year-old that has to make these choices. So what was your, like, how are you battling this? How are you dealing with that? I was able to fix it most of the time, myself.
And I was always mindful of the whole dynamic. Okay. So when your brother had a problem, you were the guy that he went to. Yeah.
Who was the guy that you would, did you have a guy that you go to when you needed help or anything? What would you do? I’ve never had anyone. Yeah.
Still, to this day, I don’t really feel like I have anyone. And that’s something that fuels me in a big way. I like the fact that I am the safety net of last resort, because that means that I can’t fail. If you can’t fail, you don’t, simply.
There is no option but to succeed, because if you don’t, you let everybody down. And I’ll hire a lot of people. I feed a lot of mouths through the work that I do. I care for my family, a lot of them.
I would say that that’s one of the biggest differences that I’ve seen between people who are successful in the long run and people who are successful just for a season. Most people who are successful just for an episode of their life or have a little success are usually people that have options.
So they have a person to call to, they have somebody to help them. And the people that are warriors, warrior types like yourself and myself, if you have a problem, you don’t have a person that you could call. At some point you can even have a network of powerful people that could help you, but still it’s your instinct that you’re going to deal with that.
Is that a blessing or a curse? It’s a blessing. Why?
I don’t trust anyone more than I trust myself. I inspire a lot of confidence internally because I’ve never let myself down. Every promise I’ve made to myself, whether that be I’m gonna go for the run at 4 a.m. in the morning, I will never let myself down on, because inner confidence comes from never, ever letting yourself down.
So you have to be very careful what promises you make to yourself, because if you make a pattern of letting yourself down subconsciously, you don’t trust yourself. And if you can’t trust yourself, you can’t trust anyone, and I’ll always trust myself above anyone else, because I will always, always, always do what’s required to make sure that those that I love are okay, period.
And I like it that way because I know that if I’m the safety net of last resort, I never have that option to rely on someone else and will never be weakened to that. It’s a very uncomfortable place to be, but discomfort often is what’s required to do great things.
No, I agree with you, and I feel the same way in many ways. Yet, at the same time, I’m thinking, are you battling with, like, any fear? And what would the fear that you’re fighting with sound like? Maxim, I wake up petrified every day.
People ask me like this, are you scared by things? I’m scared. What scares you? Well, it’s good to know because, you know, when people listen to guys like us, they begin to think either he’s a lunatic or he’s too into himself or he believes himself too much.
You know, I think a vulnerability from us really helps people to understand that, yes, we do fight all kinds of crazy battles on the inside. What are the battles you’re fighting? Like, every day, he’s an entrepreneur, he’s a father, he’s a husband. I bleed, I cry, I have anxiety, I have battles.
bad days, I’m human. Everybody’s the same. No matter how successful the person, no matter how stoic, no matter how much they hide it, we’re all the same. And if you’re not, you’re crazy, and you should probably check yourself into a mental asylum.
There’s narcissism that’s probably the only thing that I would imagine that goes past that. However, I’m scared of letting people down. I’m scared of promising to my team that I can make something happen and me falling short. I’m fearful of not having the skills that I thought I had.
I’m fearful of things changing that I can’t control. I’m fearful of not being the best role model to my family, not being present enough for my kids. But every single one of those things makes me check those things every single day. That fear, that introspective thought, that anxiety is what makes me analyze those things to make sure they don’t happen.
If that wasn’t there, you become complacent. You might become slack on those things, and those things are much more likely to happen. So I use them as positive pressure. Stress is not a negative construct.
Stress is only what we perceive it to be. Everything is a belief system. I love that stress. I love that anxiety.
I love that pressure. Do I also fear it? Yes. Is it uncomfortable?
Yes. Is it for everyone? No. Living a life and falling short of what I know I’m capable of.
I understand. That’s an easy one. I had a dream once. In that dream, I was like maybe 55.
At that time, I thought 55 is very old. Now I don’t think that way. But at that time, that’s what I thought because I was young. In that dream, I was like 55 or maybe even going to 60, whatever.
I was just at a random place, and somebody was asking me, could we take a photo?
But they actually wanted me to take their photo. And I realized that I’m just some, you know, normal Joe on the street. I was taking a picture of these people. And in the dream, I realized I am now 60 years old, or 50, 51 years old.
And I’m taking pictures for people. Like, this was my job. I was crying. I mean, I woke up from the dream.
I was literally crying in my sleep. So when you’re saying falling short of my God-given potential, living under the standards that I set for myself, is a fear, I completely, completely understand that. So let’s get back to your story a little bit. You get to the point where you realize, Let’s get back to your story a little bit.
You get into this bigger contract. You understand that marketing is very important. You start developing a marketing team. How did you approach marketing at 16 years old?
So I decided that I needed to learn marketing. There was this new thing that came out called Google AdWords. Once again, I was blessed with timing. Wow, this was new, new, new at the time.
I knew I was one of the first, man. I was very, very blessed with that. And I decided to buy a book called Google AdWords for Dummies. Stop it.
I booked a holiday with my girlfriend at the time. I said, we’re going to Egypt. I said, you’re not going to see me for a week. You’re going to sit by the pool and do whatever you need to do, but I’m just going to read a book.
She was like, you’re mad. I said, I just need to learn this book. So I sat there, I made notes. I grasped the concept of buying keywords for a price.
Now, this is like 16 years ago? Yeah. Man, this was new at that time. Always new.
It was new. So would you say that one of the most important things is to catch a trend or to catch what’s new and start leveraging that? I mean, because now, first you said coding. This was new.
Google Ads, this was new. So skills that have to do with the future or with something that is like the current trend, would that be important for people who want to develop a business? An entrepreneur who creates great things is an entrepreneur that catches trends. A great entrepreneur is someone that is talented with entrepreneurship but doesn’t get great trends.
So a lot of entrepreneurs mistake their success egotistically through the fact that they actually rode a big wave. Have you been there? Yeah. In what way?
Google AdWords. So you caught it? I caught it with the website. It exploded?
But I was able to see it and I was able to jump on it. I took the risk. But a lot of entrepreneurs will tell you where they’re at because of their God-given talent. Or actually, it was their God-given talent combined with the right vehicle at the right time.
I agree. Whereas someone with an equal entrepreneurial talent might be nowhere near as successful because they’re just getting the right vehicle at the right time. You can still be very successful, but you can swim upstream. I agree.
You can swim downstream if you catch a great product at a great time. Bulgaria is that right now, by the way. Why would you say that? So you’re saying now that Bulgaria is a trend?
I obviously lived through the UK in a time where things exploded. I moved to Bulgaria. I bought a penthouse in Boyana about seven months ago. I started coming here about two years ago.
And it was purely for staffing and tax purposes for one of my businesses. I felt I was using it. I had an outsource company at the time. We were training staff in Philippines and Bulgaria to do customer service.
I was really inspired by the way Bulgarians worked and actually preferred them over Filipino staff. Why? Work ethic, English ability, opportunity, gratefulness for opportunity.
I just felt their… Yvan Prkachinskiy Bulgarians are very grateful. Would you say that? Especially the younger guys.
Roy Bhandari Very. The people I’ve met, very grateful. Very grateful for an opportunity, very driven. And they speak very loudly with their actions.
A lot of people will give you lip service and tell you that they’re this, that, and the other. They just worked. My team now is growing and I’m only really hiring Bulgarians where I can. Animals.
I love them to death. They’re my family now. So I started coming here and I came here a couple of times. And instantly, it reminded me of what England had lost.
I saw family units. I saw traditional values. I saw people respecting their culture. I saw young guys telling me about their history.
One of my staff now, he bought me a picture of Zaleski. I had another guy buy me a book about Bulgarian history. These are young guys. I’m sitting here thinking, most of the people my age in the UK couldn’t tell me what happened in England 50 years ago.
I was inspired by that. You should be patriotic. You should love where you were born. Why not?
I miss that so much in the UK because I was that guy. I used to sing England’s praises. Now I’m embarrassed when people go there. What changed?
Obviously, politics. I think initially, there was a disincentive to provide or stimulate good family units. There became a massive issue with almost celebrating divorce, celebrating non-single families without children, inspiring people to get into business but not actually cultivating a family unit. My wife is a doctor in the UK.
She works for the NHS. The NHS is a great place.
great service, but it has so many flaws. We live together, we have two boys. She’s currently working in a hospital, and she has to do certain rotations where they move her into different hospitals. They’re trying to move her three hours away.
She phoned them up and said, I have a business, I have a husband who has a business, I have two young boys, and we have a house that we live in. They said, move, and if you don’t like it, quit. I was disgusted. So basically, they don’t give a rip about family.
That is a woman- It’s not a priority. Family is not a priority. That is a woman with a wife, with two kids, and if someone was not in that situation, they didn’t have those families, would be disincentivized to build a family because of the pressure they’re putting on them to move around, because it doesn’t make any sense.
So I’ve told her to quit if they won’t facilitate, and it looks like she might have to. And I came here, and I was inspired again by what I felt we had lost, and I started coming more and more. And I hadn’t brought my wife at this point, because I was coming purely for business.
I said, my wife’s Iranian, and we spent a lot of time in Iran before some of the government issues they have at the moment. And Sofia is absolutely stunning, the Tosha Mountain, I came here, and I was honestly gobsmacked because I’d heard nothing really about Bulgaria, nothing nearly negative or nothing particularly positive.
You don’t have marketing. You’re missing Google AdWords. Maybe we need to run a campaign, Maxim, you and I, we can get Bulgaria up there, right? And honestly, I started spending more time here, and I had a friend of mine reach out to me, who’s a friend of mine now, and he saw that I was here, I was doing quite a lot on social media.
And he reached out to me, said, look, I’ve got a podcast, it’s brand new, I’ve had one person on it, and normally I would say no to something like that. And I thought, you know what, I’m here in Bulgaria, he seems like a nice guy, I want to build a bit of a network here, I know nobody, seems to like the place, let’s go.
That podcast just started blowing up, but what it did was…
is it created a few people to drive interest to who I am. And I started getting a few messages. And what I thought, based off of that and the positive welcome that I’d had, I’ll start meeting a few more people here just to see if it was luck.
Every person I’ve met here has been overwhelmingly caring, welcoming, supportive. Everyone brings you a gift, which is something that I’ve lost. One thing my mom has drilled into me from a very early age is, when you go to someone, someone’s house, someone’s meeting, you bring them a gift.
You say, thank you for this opportunity. And I realized that’s been completely lost in the UK. And like I said, I saw these things and I thought, do you know what? I feel more at home in a country I’ve spent a couple of weeks in than I do in my own country I’ve spent my entire life in.
And like I said, it started with the family unit deconstruction. There then has been a massive change in politics. There’s been a disincentive for business owners. There seems to be a massive move to create a very weak populace of men.
COVID showed us that when I was absolutely mortified that we were told to do certain things and no one at least questioned things. Like, I’m not adverse to doing things that are healthy for people, but it’s very unhealthy not to question. And I saw Bulgarian men on the whole, so I said, you know what?
We’re not gonna stay indoors 24 seven and get fined, this, that, and the other. And I assumed that that would be the case with English people. It wasn’t. So I’m now a father.
Because it was around that time, so you could compare the response. I could compare the response. I’m now a father. I never thought I’d worry about these things as much as I did until I had two boys.
Because you’re impregnable yourself. You suddenly realize just how impressionable your children are to their influences. I thought, oh, that’s a massive oversight on my part. I never thought about how my kids might be influenced by these things.
I thought I was safe.
Now, I’m not gonna bow down to it. S2 You know, schools now in the UK, what they teach. S3 So, it’s very difficult to move my family here full-time, so I thought a better solution would be exposing my children to cultures that I feel are in line with my morals and ethics, i.e.
Bulgaria, so that they for themselves can see just how moronic the messaging and the way the UK itself is starting to go. S2 So, how are traditional values connected to business success and entrepreneurship, in your opinion? S3 Traditional values create… S2 Because you’re talking about traditional values, in a way.
S3 Traditional values have defined roles within a family, you have defined roles within a business. There is a level of sacrifice that partners make when they become married. You promise yourself to one another, undoubtedly, you do that in business. When I commit to a business idea and I commit to my staff, that’s unwavering.
I’m there for them, they’re there for me. You have people that depend on you and you don’t let them down, you become good role models. It’s the same in a business, that’s good leadership. There’s so many similarities between the two that I’ve seldom found very successful business people that also didn’t appreciate and pull from things that they had from seeing good core family values.
And quite often, they haven’t necessarily had that themselves growing up, but that’s what they’ve used because they knew that’s what they were missing. S2 It’s very interesting because the biggest study ever done, probably in human history on self-made millionaires, one of the statistics that came was that most of them had a healthy marriage or a healthy relationship with their spouse, and they were not…
Of course, some of them were divorced, but the majority of them had a good marriage. So that’s an interesting metric right there, because in a way, the world is now testing new ways of trying things. And I’m not necessarily against that. I’m open to that.
But I think that before you start testing something new, make sure that you really understand what you have, and you understand how much it took for what you have to even exist. And maybe it is the best, because sometimes, as humans, we always think the best thing is around the corner.
But maybe some of the best things, we already have them. And experimenting with some of the foundational things of society as a whole, in my opinion, is very dangerous, and it could produce a very, very high level of anarchy. Because it kind of gives you all the privilege without the responsibility.
And that’s not a good business advice, right? We don’t want people to come and work for us and only want to get their money and don’t give value, right? It’s a dance between a promise that you make and also a duty that you fulfill. Part of human progression is experimenting and trying new things.
The issue I find that we’re having is censorship and removing a side of an argument that allows an open discussion on something. If you have a populace of people that can sit around a table and actually discuss whether or not something was actually a net benefit, and we can all move forward on that thing in agreement that that thing was right, then okay, I’m all open.
I’ve never been someone that will sit in a room and be completely closed to an idea. You could sit here and pose any question to me, and if you give me a good argument, I’m more than willing to change my side. But if you completely remove my argument from the table, that’s a problem.
And that’s what I’m saying. It’s a form of control. Of course it is. It’s like a dictatorship, because in a way, we’re saying we live in a democracy or in a free world.
But again, how free?
How free is the world if you are removing the other side of the argument? How free is the world if they flag this talk and remove it because it has an opinion on it that they don’t agree with? Okay, I might be jumping a little bit here. So my solution to this argument is I can’t control the way the government censor things and I can’t control what people think and do.
But what I’m really hoping to achieve here, and this is a massive aspiration of mine since I’ve come here, is like with my kids, if I can create a great following here and I can inspire a lot of young Bulgarians to take action and improve themselves and actually expose just how amazing this country is, I want to take that back and show that to my country.
Because I found myself becoming very negative, and a friend of mine sat me down and said, Elliot, you do know why Bulgarians seem to be attracted to you? He said, why? I said, why? He said, because all you do is talk about positive things, and I went, oh, it’s marketing, right?
If you say nice things about people, they tend to like you. I’ve sat there talking about all the things I dislike about the UK rather than all the things I miss about the UK and I would love to see come back. So I’ve had to change my attitude completely.
I thought, best thing to do, inspire a load of people here, get them to show everyone and the rest of the world just how crazy everything’s become, and put that out there. And we now have this tool called marketing and a social media platform, and great guys like yourself that give us this platform to do this with, where I think I might be able to just crack it.
And like my kids, they can make that decision for themselves, because I almost forgot just how good it tasted to have these things until I came back here. And it’s not that I want to run away from it, because I realise that’s not the solution either. You can’t keep running, you can’t keep running.
You have to stand and fight at some point, so what is the solution? It’s exposing people and giving the other side of the argument. And if that loses, so be it, I was wrong. But at least I’ve showed the other side of the argument and I’ve reminded people what they’ve lost.
That’s powerful. So before we move towards the conclusion, time is flying, but I want to ask you about the stages. So 13, 16, you’re going from coding, Google Ads, what’s next? So lighting business kicks off, we’re flying, I’m 17, 18 years old.
So when are you making your first million? 19. At 19? 19.
You become a millionaire at 19? 19. Congratulations. Yeah, I made my first million at 19, so.
What did that change for you? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. More of a drive, if anything.
I always ask rich people the same question, especially when there is an audience, because I like the audience to hear the word nothing, because it’s always that, the answer is always the same. I’ve never heard somebody say, oh, it changed everything. No. The prerequisite to be successful, I think, to have that inner drive, is to be someone that is constantly discontented with the success that they’ve had, because they know they’ve always got more potential.
And building a business, as you said earlier. How do you balance that with gratitude? That’s the question that I like to pose in my conversations with people like yourself, because almost every successful person that ever sat in the chair you’re sitting in, and almost every successful person I ever talked to in my whole entire life, says it’s very important that you don’t stop.
It’s very important that you don’t feel like, okay, it’s enough, it’s settled. How do you then balance that with gratitude? Because to me, it’s very important. Acceptance.
Acceptance. Explain acceptance. I accept the fact that I am built this way, and it’s a prerequisite to become great at something. You have to be able to wake up every day fearful, you have to wake up every day with anxiety, push through levels of sacrifice that are not rational, that anyone else with a rational brain would quit at, because you’re so discontented with where you’re at.
You know you’ve got so much more potential. Yeah. And it’s completely okay for the people who are not that way. Completely okay.
As well. Because that’s important. I often say to people, most people on the planet wouldn’t want my life. From an outside perspective, they might see my social media, might see the way I live my life, think that it’s amazing.
Very few people would trade theirs for mine. I agree. They’d walk a mile in my shoes and give them back very quickly. But having that acceptance- My opinion?
They wouldn’t last like 50 meters. No. No, no. I’m serious.
Because people think, oh, this is like, this is so easy. But it’s not. Nothing is easy. Nothing that ever meant something is easy.
Acceptance is extremely powerful. When you accept you’re a certain way, it takes away the opportunity. Because as you said earlier, opportunity is a very, very dangerous thing. Because it enables you to become confused and discontented or unhappy with something that you may be doing.
When you accept something, that is the only way. So that is the way I am. I’m grateful for that because it’s enabling me to achieve positive things. With that, that is my long-term vision.
I accept that for the rest of my life, that is the way I’m going to be. But that doesn’t mean that I’m not going to be happy or proud of what I’m achieving. That’s very different. I can be proud of what I’m achieving knowing that I’ve still got a lot more to give.
Now, the question I ask is, if I were to die today, would I be unhappy with the decisions I’ve made, the ethics and morals that I’ve pursued, and who I am as a person? And if the answer is no, I wouldn’t be unhappy. I’m living my life in accordance with my morals and the way I want to be.
YBK So the question I wrote when I was going to sit here for the interview, I wrote only one question. And it was, if you only had 24 hours to live. This is the only thing I wrote up there, and I didn’t ask you. But now you’re saying, if I’m dying, what would you be doing if you know you’re dying in 24 hours?
I’d spend it with my family. I wouldn’t do anything different. I’d spend it with my loved ones. I’d be happy with the person I am today because I’ve done everything that I possibly can to get to where I’m trying to go.
And I know the journey’s gonna be one of discontentment in that I’m not necessarily satisfied with the goal because I know there’s more, but I’m proud of how far I’ve come and what I’ve achieved. And I look at everything in terms of what I can achieve in terms of my life, but I also wake up every single day enjoying the journey.
I had a really, really, really enlightening moment in that this was not long ago, and I wish it was earlier. About two years ago, I was in the gym, and I was doing some business deals, and something came through my phone, and it was very positive. And I instantly thought about what was the next deal that we were gonna strike, and I just sat there, and I had this moment when all of a sudden I realized that it’s about now.
I ran outside, I phoned one of my staff who we’re doing the work with, I said, James is younger than me, he’s about seven years younger than me. I said, mate, I’ve gotta tell you something, and you’re gonna think I’m crazy, I’ve just come outside the gym, but you need to learn this piece of advice.
Be happy with the journey now because I said, one day, you’re gonna be an 80-year-old man, and you’re gonna be sat around the table with all of your friends that you’ve shared this journey with, and all the spools of war that you’ve created, and you know what you’ll be chatting about?
Not the things that are on the table, the things that you’ve achieved, the things we’re doing today. And we’ll give anything at that point to go back to that moment, and we squander that every single day because we don’t sit there and live it in the moment because we’re so fixated on the future.
And I always believed you couldn’t do both, and in that moment, I realized you could. I just had to accept that the journey is one of struggle and strife, but every single day is something that I can be proud of and that I can achieve things with.
And I was completely changed at that moment, and I’ve shared that with everyone. I possibly could ever since That’s a very powerful powerful lesson. I I had a very strong Encounter with that lesson in a in a different way once I was looking at a property maybe like five years or four years ago a Great deal, and I was looking for that just to say like a business center Type of thing for myself, you know to have my offices and operations there So the gentleman who was selling it it was it was wonderful.
It was like four floors Nice view towards Sofia just amazing and at some point. I’m talking to this gentleman I’m like why are you even selling it? And why are you selling it at such great price? I didn’t end up buying it but I Think I was there just for this he said well every single floor We did with my best friends.
It was three of us We worked hard our whole life business people. We build this one floor was for me One floor was for my other friend. The other floor was for third so we were planning that we are coming back to Bulgaria because they used to live and work overseas and we are going to All be together work together and we made it kind of like our dream place and we’re going to spend our money and At least enjoy our life and our hard work He says one of my friend died two years ago.
The other died nine months ago he says my son had an accident and now he’s Mentally ill So he says I have nothing to do with this place My wife passed away He says so I’m selling it I was stunned looking at him and listening just to this story
I said, so what are you telling me? He said, live your life now. He said, don’t say tomorrow. He said, because tomorrow is not promised.
I find it a great shame that we have to quite often experience catastrophes to awaken us to things that we could have had years ago. And hopefully that message that you just said there actually hits people. It won’t for a lot of people, and it will take something bad happening to them for them to realize.
But I do truly hope that a lot of people can actually realize that living in today, every second that you’re given is an amazing opportunity. That’s why if anyone asks me how my day is, every day is a good day. Every day is a good day. It doesn’t matter what’s happening.
You can’t have good without bad, you can’t have light without dark. It’s just part of the journey. So, because we have so many young people who are looking to either start a business or they already started, what are some things that you would do different if you were going back or some business advice that you would like to leave them with?
What are important skills or things that they should focus? What are some trends that they should catch now? Is it AI? Is it like, what’s the thing that you would direct their attention towards?
First and foremost, if you’re Bulgarian, stop trying to leave the country to go and make money in another country. Thank you for saying that. I can live anywhere else on the planet. I’ve looked at Dubai, I’ve looked at Greece.
I have very wealthy friends. I have the means to go wherever I want. I’m situating here. There’s a reason for that.
So, a person who’s been in how many countries? I’ve been in lots, and I’ve also looked at them from an economic standpoint, from a tax standpoint, from a business standpoint. Yeah, and became a millionaire at 19. You’re telling all the young people of Bulgaria, make your life and work, make your base here, at least.
Well, for one, I think…
You kind of owe your country to a certain degree. I agree. And if you can, support it. By leaving the country, quite often what you’re doing is supporting another country.
So if we can, by any means necessary, try and create commerce and build things within your own country, because then it’s a snowball effect. The more money that’s spent here, the more money people spend on other services, the more that you guys can grow when you launch your services and things flourish.
The more escapism we have, the more leakage we have from an economy, the weaker it becomes. Okay, I agree. Give me some of the problems of Bulgaria, because now you’re the most liked foreigner in Bulgaria. What are some things that we need to work on to fix?
One is, you obviously said, stop trying to leave and be successful somewhere else, be successful here. What are some things that we need to work on? And what are some extra advice, like skill-wise, that people need, young entrepreneurs, we want them to develop those skills? First and foremost, there’s a belief system here that you guys weren’t necessarily blessed with the same opportunity as other people.
You aren’t necessarily as intelligent as other people. That’s normally coming from a place that’s parents, friends, society. Scrap that right now. You are just as intellectual, if not more intellectual.
So the fact that you feel that you don’t have the opportunity, you’re not capable, or someone that’s able to take advantage of that, is number one problem. Number two problem is, a lot of people are quite skeptical of the digital space. You’re dealing with an older populace here that’s still scared to put their car details into the internet.
They’re not quite a fay with digital things. We’ve got a system here that’s still very cash-based. That’s not necessarily a problem. I see it as a big opportunity.
However, what I am seeing is there’s more people in coffee shops, there’s more people in malls. I’m seeing Sophia prices, property prices increasing. There’s lots of money here. There’s nicer cars driving around here than there is in London.
Like, the thing is, I’m seeing here is very positive in terms of the way the economy’s moving, which means there’s more disposable income. I’m seeing more PTs emerging. I’m seeing more people spending on…
luxury items, that means people have excess money. Now with that, because people are now starting to become more aware of the fact that digital services are actually a real thing and they’re not scams, COVID actually did people a lot of favours because it actually forced people to move online and try.
They had no choice. Food wasn’t arriving, they had to buy things online, they had to sign up for an Amazon account or whatever it may be. So we now have a whole populace of people that are more able to accept this as a digital service. So e-commerce is a fantastic tool.
You have social media here that everyone is using. Like I said, if you can light yourself on fire on that thing and you redirect that attention, you told me a story before we came on, you’re working with a client that managed to sell tens of thousands of energy drinks based on attention, fitness drinks.
That was purely obviously a great product and service, but without the attention it would never have actually sold. It’s a fact. That’s an amazing skill which you could all acquire. Now a piece of advice, if you want to actually acquire those skills and you can’t afford it, that would be my second point, find people that have them, find networks that you can get involved in and build something and learn on your own time where you can bring value to someone that has access to those skills.
Don’t try and network with someone by asking them for something before you’ve asked or you’ve given them something first. The best piece of networking advice has always got me at tables that I should never really be sitting at, is that when I find someone I want to be around, I want to learn from, I figure out what I can give them first and don’t ask them what they want.
Produce it and give it to them. If you want to be a content editor for someone, don’t ask them and say, look, I’ll do this for free. We’re busy guys. You and I don’t have time to sit there and actually tell them.
Just do it and show it. Just do it and show me. Blow my socks off, I’ll give you a seat at my table. All the Bulgarian guys that are working for me now went out of their way to produce things for me, bent over backwards, came to try and meet me, move heaven and earth to try and provide something for me, and I gave them a seat at the table.
I’ve been so blessed to work with some amazing Bulgarians and all it takes is a bit of, well, rolling your sleeves up, getting stuck in, and actually giving value first, and you’ll be surprised just how many doors start to open for you when you think about it the other way around.
And if you do have the money, pay for some advice. Man, my arrogance and ego got in the way. I was stuck at an income level for so long until I realized that I didn’t have to be the best at everything anymore, Elliot. I had a story.
I trained at a gym in the UK where I was surrounded by professional bodybuilders. Eddie Hall there is the world’s strongest man at the time. He was training for the year that he won. I was training with multiple professional bodybuilders.
You were in the same room. I was in the same gym every single day, training at the same time. That’s why you look the way you look. I was training professional bodybuilders.
First thing that happened to me was I was sat in the gym and I saw Eddie Hall rock up to the squat bar, and he put nine 20-kilo plates on either side of this thing. The whole gym stopped, right? I’m trying to calculate. Right?
Tried to stop. The whole gym stopped to stare at this guy. He got this thing off his back. He sat down up on it three times and put it back on.
It was a warm-up set. No. And I sat there and looked at him and thought, I’m probably one of the strongest people I know, right? I can lift a lot of weight.
I could train my entire life and I’ll never be able to do that. The first time in my life I realized that there were certain things in my life that were unattainable for me no matter how I worked them because there was an element of talent that was required.
And then I was training with another guy called Sassan Arati, he’s a very good friend of mine. He’s an Iranian bodybuilder. Incredible. He was competing at one of the top shows in America and I was training with him every day.
And I know for a fact because I have very good friends with him, he ate worse than me, he wasn’t as strong as me, and he didn’t have to do what I did to grow. He just got into his underpants and was posing ready for … That’s what bodybuilders do, by the way.
He got in his underpants, he was in the mirror. And I just sat there and looked at him and thought, no matter what I do, I will never be able to be.
as big and conditioned as this guy, this God-given talent, and I had this moment of relief because I had this pent-up thing inside of me where I felt that I always had to be the best because I could. And when I accepted the fact that I wasn’t always gonna be the best, I was actually opening up myself then to get advice from people.
That’s what it took to realise that actually these people just destroyed me in every area of their talent. When I opened up and thought, it’s okay, you don’t have to be the best at everything, start asking for advice. Now, I probably asked for too much advice. I hire mentors for this.
If I get into a business deal or I wanna know something I know nothing about, the first thing I do is I’ll find someone that’s been there doing it, can tell me exactly all the potholes to avoid, all of the spears and booby traps to avoid, and I’ll pay that person to get me there right now.
How much would you pay? Depending on the value of the thing. And quite often. Do you have like a cap?
No. No limits. No limits. Depends on the upside.
So, as you progress as well, you’ll find that you need less from someone, but one thing that they can tell you can open a multitude of doors. One realisation can uncap an entrepreneur’s mindset to turn them great. It can be the difference between a seven and eight figure businessman or an eight or nine figure businessman just hearing one thing at the right time, and how much is that worth to someone?
And I’ve seen that in coaching, in my coaching practice and being coached by mentors myself, that one session could be three, four, five years of your life, just within a few sentences and a few… It could be something that you’ll never figure out on your own. I agree.
That’s happened to me a fair few times. So, get mentored. Be action-oriented. Very.
Look at the right skills. What are some of the most important skills in your opinion? It’s so interesting. I’m just continuing, but it’s good for me.
people to hear that. I understand the fundamentals of psychology. Okay. Psychology.
Psychology. I love that. Human beings, pretty much since the beginning of time, act in a certain way. So people respond, and as much as I hate it, people will respond to the way you look.
They’ll respond to the things that you say, how you say them, the watch that you wear, the car that you drive. Now everyone takes the mick out of people online that still promote flashy cars and nice watches or pretty females to promote their products and service. There’s a reason they still work, because psychology and human psychology hasn’t caught up with the technology that we’re using.
So even if you can’t keep up with the latest trends, because AI is a huge thing, which by the way, everyone should get on. Social media is changing at a rate of knots. The algorithm changes left, right, and center. There’s a multitude of things that you’re being told to learn.
If you master the one thing that never changes, which is how people think and act and how to influence them, all you need to do is just understand the tool at the time to be able to get that same result. So that’s a timeless way to make sure that you always succeed in business, is to understand the fundamental psychology of human beings and how they act, how to catch fire in any technology.
And that’s the skill. And that way, when you understand that, you can just look at that platform and say, okay, how do I get that response, knowing that this is how someone reacts using this tool, and how do I amplify that? So it doesn’t matter what social… That’s why I’m not scared of new social media.
I’m not adverse to new technologies coming out, because I know that humans aren’t changing anytime soon. The technology will, and I’ll just adapt to that. That’s very powerful. We have a closing tradition in this context where I give you one word.
It’s kind of a game of associations. So I say a word, and you say the first word that comes to mind. I say one word, and then you say the first word that comes to your mind. You ready?
I’m ready. So for example, if I say joy.
Pain. That’s interesting. I think you got it. Pain.
Happiness. Friendship. Failure. Business.
Fun. Success. Life. Money.
Tool. Mentor. Needed. Purpose.
Family. Everything. Children. Speechless.
So, in one sentence, what is success for you? To get to the age of 80, sit with my team, and know that we did everything together, and we never would have done anything different, and we acted in line with what we know to be right, and be proud of what we’ve achieved.
What’s your favorite thing about your life? That’s the question that I have from my last podcast, and you’re going to ask a question for my next guest. The favorite thing about my life is the same thing that petrifies me about my life. The fact that I know that it is so valuable.
That it’s the most precious thing that I’ve been gifted, and nothing can beat that. Elliot, I want to say a big thank you for this talk. I believe there’s many people who are inspired and touched. And if you’re watching this conversation, I want you to like, share, subscribe, comment.
Tell me who to invite next, and please, follow Elliot Weiss on all social media, and express your gratitude for
conversation. We’re doing this to add value and serve people and if possible to make your journey more pleasant and your right to success better. Again it was a privilege to serve you and I’m looking forward to see you in the next business room. Thank you.