Dean Graziosi talks about finding real mentors in an age where social media makes it hard to tell who's actually credible. He focuses on spotting authenticity and avoiding fake experts online.
I just want to say too, man, it's like an honor to have you here because, like, I. I remember watching you on TV when I was literally struggling in business and broke and like, seeing your commercials and your infomercials and the things, dude, it just inspired me, man. Like I told you before we got on, you know, you and Tony have made a big difference in my life, dude. I just. It's really cool.
And, you know, it's an honor to be here, too. I watch how you serve and how you serve from your heart and give back. I mean, you watch, you watch. You know, there's. The Internet is. And Facebook and social media has given such an amazing platform that people have a voice. So people have a voice. You know, when I first started 20 years ago, the only outlet was I did infomercials. Right. It cost million bucks to get going and momentum and it had a. Had a really high entry point. Right, right. But the Internet has given people a voice. The good thing is it gives a voice like yours. And what you guys do here to the world. Bad news is there's a lot of shit out there.
Yeah, dude.
Right. But it's okay. But you know what? I've watched it for years and been here so long. The people that are fake, the people that don't live authentically and share because they actually. I'm in your office right now. It's badass and huge. You got an amazing company that you run. This is what you share on these podcasts. What you guys share is from experience and wisdom. That's something you read for five minutes and trash other people. So the reason I'm here, I appreciate you saying it's not, but I'm here because I watch your stuff and I admire it. And, you know, this is what we do. Like, the bigger. The more people we help, the more we make, the bigger our company grows. But we leave a legacy. We leave an imprint on what we've done.
Yeah, dude. And what's funny. What's funny about. You said two things. First of all, dude, I. Your legacy, you've already. You could do nothing and still leave a legacy, which is cool at 49 years old, which is amazing. I hope I'm at that spot. But one thing that I. You know, what's interesting about this whole space right now is you have credible guys, right? You have guys who are. Who run real companies, but there's no barrier to entry anymore. And so when you started, you know, you. Like you said, it costs a ton of money, so you had to go out and be successful at other things before. So there was always like a. Yeah, my car business. Proof.
My car business, my real estate business funded my TV business. Like, I was literally painting cars during the day, fixing houses at night, right. And taking that money and dumping it to be on tv.
So being on TV at that time, like, you, you were credible because you had a money to be on tv. And now it's like, you don't have to do anything to post. You don't do anything to go stand in front of somebody's jet and be like, oh, yeah, DM me for success. Like, dude, we need to clean out. Like, there's. There's like a dozen guys that are good and there's a. There's a million that are suck. It's it. I feel bad because, like, when I was younger, it made. I could easily identify who was credible, right? Like, I could say, okay, this dude's on tv. He's incredible. Now you can't do that anymore. So, like, how do these. You know, I feel bad for the younger guys because they're trying to figure out who the listen to.
No, I get that. I mean, especially because TV's been my focus for 20 years. Yeah, right. So we just decided to really obsess on social media in the last six months. Right? So a lot of times I'll do a post. People like it, but, like, you know, who the f. Are you? Or are you the new, like, new guy on the block? I've been doing this before you were born. Right, but and that's all right because here's what I know. I watch it on tv. People will copycat. People who aren't authentic will pop up and be your competitors for a little while. But think about your, your foundational business. How many competitors have come up? You got nervous for five minutes, but you did the right thing. You have the right success habits, the success criteria, the rituals, right? You stay steadfast. You build wisdom. They have, you know, they might have a little energy to start, but you have the stamina through, you know, inner self wisdom.
Right.
And they just fade away.
Yeah, right.
Or it's healthy competition.
I like competition. I really do. Because I'm the kind of guy like, dude, if I feel somebody running up, I run faster. You know what I mean? It's like when you're. When you're a little kid and you got to take the trash out at night and you got to walk to the end of the driveway and it's dark and then you leave the can you turn around and run as fast absolutely you know like that's how I am when when when somebody's chasing me.
I run faster yeah same exactly healthy competition is needed and I I think just like TV you the crap will self select yeah you can go only go so long preaching that you can help people but if you don't have the substance behind it they become yesterday's.
News I see if people would just take a minute to to to vet people like hey what ask people what businesses did you run before you did this you know what I mean how did you you'll you'll save yourself a lot because you're going to figure out real quick that people who have run a business are full of shit what's.
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