The Hustle presents - My First Million. A podcast where Sam Parr and Shaan Puri brainstorm new business ideas based on trends & opportunities they see in the market. Sometimes they bring on famous guests and brainstorm with them.
Episode 584: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk about using the massive upside of investing in your P&L, the ballsy-ness of Nick Huber and how to turn your annual income intro your monthly income.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Shepherd gets acquired for $50M
(5:44) Invest in your P&L
(7:57) The ballsiness of Nick Huber
(13:42) The evolution of celebrity partnerships
(17:04) A large, trusted audience
(20:30) 2. Product-audience fit
(21:42) 3. That Viral Touch
(22:12) Creators who are the best at this
(29:29) $280 millions dollar tumblers
(31:10) Giving as you go: Do it early, make it uncomfortable
(37:11) The curse of familiar riches
(39:57) How to 10x your annual income
(48:32) For the same inputs, can you get more outputs
(50:08) Acting As If
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Links:
• Shepherd - https://www.supportshepherd.com/
• The Sweaty Startup - https://sweatystartup.com/
• Dr DisRespect - https://www.youtube.com/user/drdisrespect
• Truemed - https://www.truemed.com/
• SimpleModern - https://www.simplemodern.com/
• Empower - https://www.empower.com/
• Get HubSpot's Free AI-Powered Sales Hub: enhance support, retention, and revenue all in one place https://clickhubspot.com/sym
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Check Out Sam's Stuff:
• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/
• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/
• Copy That - https://copythat.com
• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth
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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd
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Episode 583: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the genius business model of Hunt Brothers Pizza, and bring you three totally different inspirational stories of people doing cool shit.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Shaan gets triggered
(3:16) $540M ARR Pizza Business
(14:02) This silly game is making $22M a year
(22:11) Shaan's white collar side hustle of the week
(26:48) "The house always has an edge"
(33:08) Nick Gray's unconventional dating experiment
(37:22) Real life Rom Com plays out on Twitter
(45:23) Scott Galloway: "I can get down but I won't stay down"
(50:11) How To Lose Weight In 4 Easy Steps
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Links:
• Jambys - https://www.jambys.com/
• Hunt Brothers Pizza - https://www.huntbrotherspizza.com/
• Geoguessr - https://www.geoguessr.com/
• The New Yorker article - https://tinyurl.com/yh95wcm8
• Nick Gray on Twitter - https://tinyurl.com/pjctk56b
• “How To Lose Weight In $ Ebay Steps” - https://tinyurl.com/yw7u4xbp
• Get HubSpot's Free AI-Powered Sales Hub: enhance support, retention, and revenue all in one place https://clickhubspot.com/sym
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Check Out Sam's Stuff:
• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/
• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/
• Copy That - https://copythat.com
• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth
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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd
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Episode 582: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the $1B idea that is basically inevitable, why stock exchanges are the smartest business model ever created and the female Pieter Levels who we’re crowning our Hustler of the Week.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Shaan's billion-dollar idea: Executive Check-ups
(2:12) Mayo Clinic’s $100M proof of concept
(12:58) $15K/mo lead gen arbitrage
(17:25) Pizza intelligence
(19:41) Shaan's Mount Rushmore of indexes
(24:54) The most profitable companies in the world
(26:32) Why stock exchanges have the best business model
(33:20) "Shoot your old idea in the head" - Eric Ries
(41:20) Hustler of the week: The Female Pieter Levels
(43:30) "Marketing is the tax you pay for an unremarkable product"
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Links:
• Prenuvo - https://www.prenuvo.com/
• Big Desk Energy playlist - https://shorturl.at/ajuG5
• Suno - http://suno.ai/
• ICE Index - https://www.ice.com/index
• Long-term Stock Exchange - https://ltse.com/
• “Startup Lessons Learned” - https://www.startuplessonslearned.com/
• Branded Fruit - https://brandedfruit.com/
• Danielle Baskins - https://daniellebaskin.com/
• Get HubSpot's Free AI-Powered Sales Hub: enhance support, retention, and revenue all in one place https://clickhubspot.com/sym
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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd
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Check Out Sam's Stuff:
• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/
• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/
• Copy That - https://copythat.com
• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth
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Episode 581: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk to Scott Galloway about his Get-Rich formula they won’t teach you in school and the hard-to-hear but essential advice every 20-year old should hear.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Don't follow your passion
(3:08) Reverse engineering $160M exit
(7:30) How to keep top talent in your company
(11:12) "I'm not your friend"
(13:41) Scott's best and worst hedge fund deals
(16:20) Losing $10M every day
(18:14) Handle triumph and disasters the same way
(20:54) If you can't fix it, you have to stand it
(24:28) Lessons about happiness from the dying
(25:51) Statute of limitations on suffering
(28:57) Where Scott steals his powerful phrases
(33:09) Shaan opens his notes app of funny phrases
(34:52) Scott's anti-excited list
(37:33) “Go live in a city”
(39:50) Opportunity in America v Europe
(42:30) The fallacy of hard work over time
(46:56) Money does buy happiness
(52:20) The Algebra of Wealth
(55:33) If you have a side hustle you need a better main hustle
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Links:
• The Algebra of Wealth - https://tinyurl.com/44yw3h6k
Get HubSpot's Free AI-Powered Sales Hub: enhance support, retention, and revenue all in one place https://clickhubspot.com/sym
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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd
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Check Out Sam's Stuff:
• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/
• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/
• Copy That - https://copythat.com
• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth
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Episode 580: Shaan Puri (https://twitter.com/ShaanVP) talks to Jenny Hoyos, the 18-year-old who has mastered the recipe of viral shorts. They break down her step-by-step process for creating content that pulls in over a 100M views.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Intro
(2:14) How to build charisma
(6:35) The 4 criteria of a great idea (jumpcut)
(8:48) Make it personal
(14:45) Mastering the hook
(17:29) Metrics
(18:52) The first frame
(21:09) Foreshadowing
(22:37) Storytelling in one word is “change”
(25:06) The But & Therefore Rule
(27:21) Building the stakes
(30:43) Craft the close
(32:14) Steal like an artist
(33:52) Figure out who's watching
(36:46) Study the channel for outliers
(39:28) Where is the puck going?
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Links:
• Jenny Hoyos YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@JennyHoyosLOL
• Charisma on Command - https://www.youtube.com/@Charismaoncommand
• Miss Excel - https://www.miss-excel.com/
• Infinite Ratatouille Glitch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tskvmb0HPDU
• Steal Like An Artist - https://austinkleon.com/steal/
• Get HubSpot's Free AI-Powered Sales Hub: enhance support, retention, and revenue all in one place https://clickhubspot.com/sym
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Check Out Sam's Stuff:
• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/
• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/
• Copy That - https://copythat.com
• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth
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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd
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Episode 579: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk about 3 niche trends they’ve found that are guaranteed to make $1M+.
Want to see Sam and Shaan’s smiling faces? Head to the MFM YouTube Channel and subscribe - http://tinyurl.com/5n7ftsy5
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Shaan gets his hotness score
(2:30) Reddit trend leads to $6M ARR beauty app for men
(10:12) Male nail care influencers
(12:42) Sam upstages Shaan's beauty score
(14:00) Spin-off businesses: Med Spas
(16:00) Aging influencers and modern male grooming products
(20:27) The story of Teflon and Dupont's billion dollar problem
(22:49) Forever chemicals are in our water
(26:14) Pfas free products
(29:12) A regulatory inflection point is here
(33:16) Trend: Assassins with water guns
(34:32) $0 - $250K MRR app
(35:22) Playground virality
(38:00) Trading expertise for social vouching
(49:10) Exporting a profitable internal tool
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Links:
• Umax - https://tinyurl.com/mezh49ac
• Acqua Pana - https://www.acquapanna.com
• MAMAVATION - https://www.mamavation.com
• Splashin - https://www.splashin.app
• Splashin TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/discover/splashin-app
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Check Out Sam's Stuff:
• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/
• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/
• Copy That - https://copythat.com
• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth
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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd
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Past guests on My First Million include Rob Dyrdek, Hasan Minhaj, Balaji Srinivasan, Jake Paul, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Gary Vee, Lance Armstrong, Sophia Amoruso, Ariel Helwani, Ramit Sethi, Stanley Druckenmiller, Peter Diamandis, Dharmesh Shah, Brian Halligan, Marc Lore, Jason Calacanis, Andrew Wilkinson, Julian Shapiro, Kat Cole, Codie Sanchez, Nader Al-Naji, Steph Smith, Trung Phan, Nick Huber, Anthony Pompliano, Ben Askren, Ramon Van Meer, Brianne Kimmel, Andrew Gazdecki, Scott Belsky, Moiz Ali, Dan Held, Elaine Zelby, Michael Saylor, Ryan Begelman, Jack Butcher, Reed Duchscher, Tai Lopez, Harley Finkelstein, Alexa von Tobel, Noah Kagan, Nick Bare, Greg Isenberg, James Altucher, Randy Hetrick and more.
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Other episodes you might enjoy:
Episode 578: Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) sits down with Joe Lonsdale ( https://twitter.com/JTLonsdale ) to talk about how he leveraged one internship at PayPal into one billion dollar success after another. Today Joe is Managing Partner of 8VC and an early investor in Anduril.
Want to see Sam and Shaan’s smiling faces? Head to the MFM YouTube Channel and subscribe - http://tinyurl.com/5n7ftsy5
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Show Notes:
(0:00) The One Reason strategy
(3:18) Learning Global Macro Finance from Peter Thiel
(5:35) Taking multi-million dollar bets at 4:30am
(8:43) Hire for raw IQ over expertise
(10:33) Nurturing employees into unicorn founders
(12:24) Solving hard problems with Addepar
(13:53) Always “Being on”
(15:32) How to spot opportunities for new businesses
(21:10) How Epirus landed a military defense contract
(27:09) Getting hits in hard domains
(28:24) Business Idea: AI-powered Estate Planning
(29:19) Business Idea: Business Process Outsourcing for local government
(30:58) Big swings vs. base hits
(31:49) Idea vs. execution
(32:38) Focus vs. diversity of thought/attention
(33:33) Insights from Elon’s inner circle
(35:36) Joe Lonsdale’s unfair advantages
(38:48) How to invest your time to make your first $1M
(40:40) Working on an A+ problem as an intern at PayPal
(43:15) Be within 2 standard deviations of top talent
(44:14) Early days at Palantir
(46:56) Building a top engineering culture
(48:31) Borrowing trust as 21-year old defense contractor
(52:22) Peter Thiel’s biggest contrarian bet
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Links:
• Joe's Twitter - https://twitter.com/JTLonsdale
• Joe's blog - https://blog.joelonsdale.com/
• Joe's podcast - https://www.americanoptimist.com/
• 8VC - https://www.8vc.com/
• Addepar - https://addepar.com/
• Palantir - https://www.palantir.com/
• Epirus- https://www.epirusinc.com/
• OpenGov - https://opengov.com/
• Prologis - https://www.prologis.com/
• Lessons from Peter Thiel - https://joelonsdale.com/lessons-peter-thiel/
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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd
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Check Out Sam's Stuff:
• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/
• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/
• Copy That - https://copythat.com
• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth
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• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More
Episode 577: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk about mysterious billionaire Thomas Tull.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Blue Collar Billy of The Week: Thomas Tull
(2:29) Moneyball strategy for movies
(5:20) Formula for box office hits: Bigger is better
(7:25) International appeal (specifically China)
(8:22) Data analytics for movie marketing
(13:15) Flywheels at the highest level
(24:31) Moneyball for X
(26:42) Business lessons from the UFC
(31:03) We give Zuck PR advice
(33:02) What Dana White taught me about marketing
(34:06) Level 1: Sell a product
(34:46) Level 2: Sell a solution not a product
(35:20) Level 3: Sell a Lifestyle
(36:55) Level 4: Sell a feeling
(39:18) Level 5: Identity in a box
(46:49) Why Sam's new project will fail
(52:38) Shaan workshops Sam's idea
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Links:
• The Information article - https://tinyurl.com/4csvs9ab
• Legendary - https://www.legendary.com/
• “We Don’t Sell Saddles Here” - https://tinyurl.com/2s39sjzf
• SmartAsset - https://smartasset.com/
• Sam’s List - https://samslist.co/
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Check Out Sam's Stuff:
• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/
• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/
• Copy That - https://copythat.com
• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth
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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd
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• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More
Episode 576: Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) sits down with Tim Ferriss ( https://twitter.com/tferriss ) to talk about his latest lifestyle experiments and how to spend a perfect 24-hours.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Tim’s "What's next?" framework
(7:22) Creativity gyms + why money doesn't buy happiness
(12:11) Book Recommendation: The New Toughness Training for Sports
(15:51) Tim Ferriss's perfectly optimized day
(23:06) The art of podcasting
(32:03) From selling supplements to published author
(38:42) Law of Category
(42:23) Barbell strategy for Youtube
(54:12) What would it look like if it was easy?
(56:14) What is Tim's unfair advantage?
(59:47) What silly story are we telling ourselves?
(1:02:23) Stories about Naval
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Links:
• Tim’s blog - https://tim.blog/
• Tim’s books - https://tim.blog/tim-ferriss-books/
• “The New Toughness Training for Sports” - https://tinyurl.com/nhh6m4px
• “The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing” - https://tinyurl.com/2bmz43ve
• 1,000 True Fans - https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/
• Blue Ocean Strategy - https://tinyurl.com/5739vvry
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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd
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Check Out Sam's Stuff:
• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/
• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/
• Copy That - https://copythat.com
• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth
My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano
• How Mr Beast Got 100M Views in Less Than 4 Days, The $25M Chrome Extension, and More
Episode 575: Sam Parr ( https://twitter.com/theSamParr ) and Shaan Puri ( https://twitter.com/ShaanVP ) talk about the weirdest things they’ve seen this week in business.
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Show Notes:
(0:00) Kid Rock, our honorary Billy of the Week
(8:13) Shaan's *new* rules for content (Partial list)
(9:05) Rule 1: Older is better
(13:07) Rule 5: Early. Arbitrage. Exploit
(17:58) Rule 4: Pay for learning
(19:45) Sam's cheat code for better alpha
(23:57) How Kirk Kerkorian Became the Greatest Deal Maker in Capitalist History
(29:48) Three rules of wealth. Compounding rate, length of runway, and…
(34:11) Must Listen: Business Untitled
(36:28) LeBron James is now a podcaster?
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Links:
• Kid Rock on Theo Von - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nReTPXtTDDc
• Kid Rock’s Rodeo - https://kidrock.com/blogs/news/kid-rocks-rock-roll-rodeo
• Kid Rock’s Honky Tonk - https://www.kidrockshonkytonkandsteakhouse.com/
• Nick Sleep Letters - https://tinyurl.com/2thhv6cy
• AirChat - https://www.air.chat/
• GLG Insights - https://glginsights.com/
• The Gambler - https://tinyurl.com/4d4e62m2
• Business Untitled - https://tinyurl.com/26zkw9pr
• LeBron’s new podcast - https://tinyurl.com/2kuvsv5v
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Check Out Shaan's Stuff:
Need to hire? You should use the same service Shaan uses to hire developers, designers, & Virtual Assistants → it’s called Shepherd (tell ‘em Shaan sent you): https://bit.ly/SupportShepherd
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Check Out Sam's Stuff:
• Hampton - https://www.joinhampton.com/
• Ideation Bootcamp - https://www.ideationbootcamp.co/
• Copy That - https://copythat.com
• Hampton Wealth Survey - https://joinhampton.com/wealth
My First Million is a HubSpot Original Podcast // Brought to you by The HubSpot Podcast Network // Production by Arie Desormeaux // Editing by Ezra Bakker Trupiano
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