Business Q&A + League of Legends Ep. #28 ft. @RishyCupTV

Alright everybody, welcome to another business Q&A. We're gonna play some League of Legends and answer some entrepreneurial questions. Today's been a fun morning of chaos, but we are here. The usual cast is on board. Let me accept my game here. Getting game. We have my usual co-host Rishi Cup TV. What's up, Rishi?

Good morning, TGIF, Believe Nation.

I love it. And we have J-Rize in the house with me while also in game. What's up, J-Rize?

Woo!

I have nothing in the cup right now. The bottle is empty. There's no water, no tea, no coffee, no vitamin water, no protein. It's empty. I usually have 5 things in front of me. Zero right now because I'm rushing. So, uh, I haven't drunk anything. Even when I woke up, I didn't have anything. Oh, Jerez is going to hook me up with some water. Thanks, man. Feeling the love. But Rishi, what is in your cup today? I know you got something.

I know. I always have something. Um, actually, just a shout out to my great free cup of coffee yesterday. Did you do National Coffee Day, Evan, or did you not?

Uh, Alex ran out and got us some coffee at lunch. From Starbucks. Thanks, man. But it was not, it was not a free coffee. That was— we don't really have Dunkin Donuts here. I'm not talking about Krispy Kreme.

Yeah, yeah. Well, I think Starbucks was doing like a thing where they want you to donate to one of the causes of your choice or something along those lines. But anyway, um, yeah, so feeling the love for my free cup of coffee yesterday from Krispy Kreme. Today I'm just, I'm feeling a cup of happiness that we're doing the stream today and everybody's here and yeah, taking the week out on a high note.

Yeah, I love it, I love it. I'm glad I made it back. It was a big rush. I was checking my clock and Nina was in and it's like, okay Nina, let's go, come on, come on, come on. And then she comes out like, I'm done. Like, okay, let's go. Let me message Rishi and J-Rise. Okay, I'm on my way, guys. I'm going to be there. And I walked in right at 9:00 and then like taking off my jacket in the— anyway, so chaos. J-Rise shows up just in time too. And we are here and ready to go. Before we get to the questions, do some shoutouts. Who do we have here in the live chat? I see it going. Soul Forged 24. 53. Oh, Muhaville said I got my name right. All right, I gotta remember that. Muhaville. I don't know why I want to say Mahoville. I gotta get that out of my, out of my head.

Muhaville.

Muhaville.

Muhaville. Okay, good.

Muhaville, welcome. Zeno, Rise, Jed, so much cool. I love it. Relax Sleep Station is back. Optisaurus, welcome back. Sherry, I love it. All right, well, we are getting the game set up. I've had a sip of water, I'm feeling good. Let's, let's get into some questions.

All right, and some of the people in the chat are just want to make sure you're doing okay. I know you rushed to the doctor this morning, but we just want to make sure you're okay.

Oh yeah, it was just checkups. It's not like, uh, not going in for anything serious. Serious.

I'm good. Okay guys, he's not dying, it's all good.

I, I hate going to doctors. I never go to do that, like, annual stuff. Uh, anyway, if I can avoid doctors as much as possible, I do. But, uh, anyway, I'm fine guys, no worries, everything is okay. Oh, we're getting the game on. All right, what do we got? Oh, I'm jungle and J-Rize is mid. This is looking good.

Nice.

Are you continuing?

You did—

you in the Pantheon experiment? Well, it didn't work yesterday, but I had a beast performance. You did really well. I, I was hurting. I was hurting. I wonder if my coach is coming back online to tell me all the things I'm doing wrong.

I know.

Okay, I gotta remember. I gotta remember to do a better job this time. What, what did he say last time? Pink wards and blue trinket.

Okay, yeah, pink and—

yep, exactly, pink wards and blue trinket. Okay, okay, it's on my list, guys. Guys, if you see me not buying pink wards or a blue trinket, call me out in the chat. All right, let's do it. Question: who are we going to help first?

I'm excited, I'm excited. All right, first question comes from Agnish. Agnish, and Agnish is an engineering student and "I do have a startup plan on which I'm working. I need guidance so that my risk of failure goes down. Can you help me?" All right. So, risk— minimizing risk, huge topic, I think, for entrepreneurs. And first thing I'm going to do, Agnesh, is point you to the channel, because there's some really great videos on Evan's channel for risk. In fact, one is called the Top 10 Risk Management Strategies, where you can hear from famous entrepreneurs and their different thoughts and things on minimizing risk. And one of the things that I really, what struck me was what, and I'm going to possibly kill his name, Mohnish Pabrai, is that right Evan?

Mohnish Pabrai, Mohnish, yeah, yeah.

Mohnish Pabrai. Yeah, he talked about how, and Evan, this goes along with what you often have said on the channel, but that entrepreneurs do everything they can to minimize risk. We think of entrepreneurship as this thing where you've got to go sell your house and your car and your mama's car and everybody's car just so you can get the money that you need.

You have to sell everybody's car to make money.

Yeah, so you think, oh gosh, you're so scared to do it because you think I got to take all these risks and You know, who wants to, like, you know, who wants to take a risk that you're going to lose everything? And then people don't go out there and do it. But he said entrepreneurs actually do everything they can to minimize risk. And really successful entrepreneurs actually take risks that are low risk, high return. So he made the example of Microsoft and how Microsoft really put pre— small amount of money, but it had such a high return. So, uh, yeah, I think definitely go check out the top 10 risk management strategies as well. But just, just also know that you don't have to go out there and sell your mama's car.

That has to be some kind of picture that you tweet out or something. Don't sell your mama's car. Don't sell your mama's car. With Rishi Kaur with like the thug life glasses on. Has to be something.

Okay, somebody create the meme.

You put that out and send it to me, I'm gonna retweet that up.

Oh gosh, great, okay.

All right, Jay, what do you think? You got some thoughts on, uh, how to minimize the, the risk of failure? I got thoughts, but no one wants to hear them. We want to hear the thoughts. Minimize the risk of Jay's coming in. Can't He couldn't cameo on the gratitude. You gotta come in close. There you go. How to minimize the risk of failure in a startup entrepreneur.

Yo, there is no risk. Risk doesn't exist. Everyone's on this planet.

We're born.

We have 24 hours a day and we die. You can't lose anything. We're all gonna die. You just do what your heart says. You trust your gut even if it seems stupid or risky and you might end up homeless or you might end up hurt or you might end up whatever.

But it doesn't matter.

It's all part of your story. Some people end up fat. Some people end up sick. But then they turn it around and it becomes the best part of their story. It's not about avoiding risk. It's about embracing the truth. Embracing what's in your heart and doing it without all this bullshit analysis.

Peace.

J-Rize is turning up today. All right, let's bring that energy into the game, man. This is exciting. What do I have to say? I have two quick thoughts. Rishi's still recovering from the J-Rise rant there.

I think— no, I was just loving it. It looks like everybody's fucked up today.

It's all true.

Yeah, well, when we're rushing to get in, we got our adrenaline on high already first thing in the morning. The two thoughts that I had are one, that you know, you're gonna fail and to embrace failure. That failure is not the enemy. That if you are going out trying to avoid failure, then you're never gonna take any kind of chance. So failure is normal. If you look at You look at the people who have had massive success, they've had massive failure as well. I think the key though is to try not to go out and make huge failures all at once. I'm a fan of doing small tests. So, you know, I have this idea that I want to build this new company, so I'm going to sell my mama's car and take out a huge mortgage and go all in. Where I'm much more of a fan of doing small tests. And so I will test 1,000 different things and 997 of them will fail, and I expect that. And then the 3 that work, work, and I keep doing it. And, you know, I, I'm constantly in testing mode. And I think— and you'll see this consistently if you look at the successful entrepreneurs and innovators and inventors and artists and athletes, you know, the more that you experiment, the more that you try, the more that you miss, the more you're also going to win. And I think most people just— like, in the time that he's taken to think about this question and to worry about it not working out and trying to make the perfect plan he could have already done 10 things to try to build his business, and 8 of them might have failed, but 2 of them could work, and he'd be already on his path. And so don't see failure as this, this final thing that is negative. It's positive in that it helps you learn what is right, what works and what doesn't, and you fail your way to success. So keep the failure small and keep the failures coming and testing and you'll find the path for you.

So yeah, Evan, you just reminded me, I saw actually the video, I think you pointed me toward this video, but it was one of Chase Jarvis's Creative Live with Brené Brown. And she talks about how the whole reason she wrote the third of her New York Times bestselling books, I think it was her third, but it was at least the third of her trilogy, of books where it talks about how if you take— if you are going after, you know, your dream or what, like what Jay was saying about embracing your truth, and if you really go for it, it's not if you fall, it's when. And Rising Strong was all about, okay, what do you do when you do fall? And I think that that was an interesting interview because it really was talking about how if you're really going to do this thing, you know, it's not if you fail, it's when you fail, and you've got to learn how to get back up from there. So I thought that was a really powerful, powerful discussion.

So I love Brené Brown. She's got a lot of awesome wisdom. A very— I mean, obviously she's, she's a woman, but I like, I like the feminine approach. I like the soft approach. I think there's a lot of like, there's a lot of male, male energy kind of yelling at you to be successful out there, and I love, I love her take on it too. Yeah, big Brené Brown fan, and I think just if people go in not feeling like If people go in knowing that failure is okay and it's accepted, then it makes taking the risk a lot easier and they're much more likely to be successful. So fail more, guys. Fail more.

Fail more, fail fast, right?

Alright. The game had to remake. We have to redo it.

Why?

One of their guys didn't connect. Oh, okay. So there's a rule if you start off a game and in the first minute or two or whatever it is, if somebody doesn't connect, then you have an option to start over. So they, the enemy team, decided that because nobody, one of their people didn't connect, that Okay, we're gonna reset it. So that's okay, we're gonna get in the game again and let's get some more questions, more time to answer entrepreneur questions.

Yeah, all right, next question is coming from Samantha Davy, and Samantha has a lot to say about how much appreciation she has for your YouTube videos and your motivational videos and She says she listens to yours because they get to the nitty-gritty.

All right.

And yeah, she says, I also like the mixture of old favorites and getting introduced to new motivational speakers. So she likes that she can come to your channel and kind of see the, the older entrepreneurs and even learn about new entrepreneurs. And she says, I love that I can access all of these resources for free. And I have to stop there because I always say that your channel is NTU. NTU? It's what? Ant University. Oh, Ant University.

Ant U. Ant U, okay, okay, okay, okay. I like that.

I mean, where can you go, get all of this information, and it's free? It doesn't cost you anything. It only costs you your hustle and your time to watch, and I mean, it's just like amazing. So yes, agreed, Samantha. Access to free entrepreneur resources. Amazing. She says she recently received a doctorate, but in finishing her doctorate, she's been plunged into the world of financial uncertainty. During the doctorate, she wasn't making money. Excuse me. And now she's a single parent and she has a kid who has special needs, not receiving much support from the father of the child. And so also because her child's special needs, needs private school education, obviously super expensive. So just a lot of, lot of tough times right now. And she's feeling, she says, I started a new part-time job as a law lecturer, but I feel stuck. I feel disadvantaged because of my situation and the knowledge that I don't have a team giving personalized advice to me. I have very little support. Support in hopes— in my hopes and dreams of vastly improving my life situation. She wants to buy a house. She can't, financially struggling. And she says, can you create some videos which will help how to find mentors and how to overcome really challenging circumstances? So there's kind of two things going on right now. There's how to get through adversity, you know, how to kind of get your resilience in the midst of really hard times, and then how to find mentorship, because she feels like she needs someone to get her to that next level. So, okay. Well, I appreciate the reaching out, Samantha, and sharing your story. Always really cool how people in Believe Nation just are so vulnerable and share what they're going through. In terms of the kind of how to get through tough times, and there's a lot, I'll just say there's lots of videos I know on the channel that do deal with specifically how to kind of overcome challenges. And part of what's really inspiring is hearing from different famous entrepreneurs, because most of them, if you hear some of their stories, my goodness, Eric Thomas, started out eating out of a garbage can. Now, you know, just read or watch more about him and see where he is. So I kind of just embrace that adversity is part of the landscape for greatness. Not that you want to suffer, not that you try to go out there and suffer, you know, and I don't believe that you're supposed to stay in a place where you love to suffer. But that anyone who's great has had to pass through that dark time. And so I think part of what gets you through is just your belief system. Like, what are your— how are you going to see this time of struggle? Are you going to see it as I'm disadvantaged because of it, or I am in an opportunity to realize my full potential and realize, you know, that good is coming, that there is light at the end of the tunnel. And so, I think what really, a lot of the times, differentiates those who overcome and those who don't is how they're thinking about their situation. And how they choose to think about it. So I think you should think about your situation as even though it's really hard, I think I am hopeful for you. I'm excited for you because you're going to have a great story to tell when you get through it. And there's lots of different ways you can think about, about how you're thinking about your thoughts and how you're believing. But Evan's channel is a great place because it's all about belief. And then mentorship. Yeah, we've talked a lot about mentorship. I think the short thing, though, for— I know I've already just talked a lot, but for mentorship in terms of getting to the next level, I think there's lots of ways you can find mentorship. I mean, there might be groups, mentorship groups, Facebook groups. Entrepreneur groups that don't cost anything that you can start to just meet like-minded people who have expertise in areas that you don't. So I think it's just going to require a little bit going out there and looking for what you need.

Cool. Um, thank you for the love at the start of the comment. I was feeling that. And, um, we should also appreciate you and the The empathy there at the start of your comment and the thanking them for sharing their vulnerabilities, and that, that was, I was moved by that. I was feeling that everybody is fighting their own battle, and it's not to compare your situation against mine, against Eric Thomas's, against, you know, whoever else is out there. Whether we acknowledge it or not, whether it's easy to see or not, we are all fighting our own battle, whether it's health-related, finance-related, family-related. You know, there's— somebody may look totally fine, but they have their own battle that they're facing. You know, you compare yourself to this person, they're further ahead, you know, they're still fighting their own battle too. The key thing that makes successful people is that they don't let their story hold them back. You know, because I have— because I'm a single parent, I can't be successful, or because, you know, I don't speak English, I won't be successful, or my parents weren't rich, or I didn't go to school, or whatever it is. All these reasons why you can't be successful, and as long as you believe that, then you won't. Where there's been tons of stories of people who are single parents who have less than what you already have now, who don't have a university education, who didn't have as many options as you do, uh, and they found their path because they didn't let their story hold them where they are. Um, the two that I think of are, um, from The Pursuit of Happiness, Chris Gardner who was a single dad and, you know, homeless, chose to feed his son instead of having, uh, an apartment because he didn't have enough money. And there's the famous movie about him with Will Smith. It's great and worth watching. And he didn't let that hold him back from pursuing what he wanted to do and eventually becoming a self-made millionaire. Um, the other is Casey Neistat. Who is a big YouTuber. If you like YouTube, you probably love his channel. Lots of powerful messages there too. And he— I don't really know the early family situation, but he was basically a single dad. I think the mother is still alive, but he took all the responsibility of raising the child, and he had to drop out of high school to raise his child and just find a way to survive. To now the point where he's got, you know, a huge YouTube channel, made deals with tons of big companies. Just as a pause, we are in-game. We have a LeBlanc ADC? What is happening here? This is weird. Anyway, okay, I'm jungle Teemo and J-Rize is Panthéon, man. It's the same structure as before, and we're just about to start.

Okay.

Anyway, so those are the two things that come to mind immediately, and they didn't let their story hold them back. And as long as you feel like, I won't be successful because my, you know, ex is not paying, you know, his share of whatever expenses, screw him. You don't need him to be successful. You know, you don't need Trump or Clinton to be president to be successful. You know, you don't need— you have a doctorate, but you know, you don't need a university education to be successful. You need you to be successful. You need to believe in yourself. And the moment that you accept responsibility for things and stop blaming other people— and it's like, the blame is warranted, right? It's not to say that He doesn't deserve that blame, that ex of yours. If he's not doing his fair share, that's not great. Oh, Jerry's already got a kill. Wow, this is looking good. Right? But if somebody screws me over, I can't live with that. I can't let that be my story for the rest of my life, that I got screwed over by this person. I'm never gonna make it because that person screwed me over, or I had bad parents, or whatever it was. I don't have bad parents. I love my parents. Just that caveat. But taking the responsibility for where you're at in your life, because we all have these things that we're fighting, and maybe your story is worse than mine, or worse than somebody else's, but it's a lot better than a lot of people who've done way bigger things already. The people who started with nothing and built up a huge impactful career, made lots of money, had a big impact on the world, they did it because they felt like they could. And so that's, that's the biggest thing for anybody going through adversity is not being stuck there and not blaming somebody else for your situation. They may have put you there, but you're gonna get yourself out. It's not on anybody else to come and save you. In terms of mentorship and resources, I think the channel is a great start. You know, I, I've learned more from my own channel than I have from my university education. Richie called it Aunt You, I like that. I would start looking up, I would, you know, what really helped me and why I started doing this, why I started researching was the famous entrepreneur stories helped keep me motivated. And so because they were like me, that got me excited. So are there, I would look at Eric Thomas's story, I would look at Casey Neistat's story. I would look at other people that you, you know, look up to that have the same kind of situation that you're in or been through. I would look at that and try to find more of those people that you can surround yourself with to get the feeling that it's possible. Like when I read stories of these entrepreneurs who started from nothing and built big businesses, my takeaway was it's possible. Like, I can do this. You know, I'm not where I want to be yet, but these people had less than what I have and they did big things, so it's possible. And that, that became my new belief system. So if you can find those people, people that you look up to, people who've gone through the same thing, and realize how they came out of it and understand and start to feel that it's possible, that starts to spark a shift. Because yes, some of the, some of the tactics are important, like how to actually do it, what's the next step for me. But way more important is the mindset that you can. And being surrounded by those kinds of stories and people help you start to believe that. So you may find someone on my channel, you know, I have a lot of successful people who we profile. It's sort of It started as just entrepreneurs and we built it to be a lot more than just entrepreneurs. But you may want to reach out to try to figure out the stories of other people who've also gone on, who are in a similar situation as yours, so you can start creating that positive environment around you. That's what I got.

Yeah, love it. Love it. Yeah, we got a comment from the chat from Evan Carmichael. Soulforge2453, he was saying there will be hard times and downfalls, 100%. What stops you is that feeling of why me.

Yeah, well said. I think that's, that's, uh, that's Mihoville, pretty sure.

Oh, is that okay?

I forgot to buy a pink.

Ah, oh man.

Okay, well my coach isn't watching so—

That would have saved me.

That would have saved me, great. Now Jared is making me feel guilty too for not buying a pink. Did you guys hear that?

Oh man.

I should have bought a pink too. Yeah, alright. It's true though, my teammates are dying because I didn't buy pink. Alright.

It's my bad.

Alright, next pack I'm buying a pink. Next question, what do we got?

Alrighty, next question comes from Cyril. And Cyril is, haha, he says he's a former League of Legends player, so he really enjoys your LOL Q&A segment.

Alright.

And he's 33 years old and he has, oh okay, so his fiancée, he's 33 and his fiancée's 30 years old, they live in the Philippines. And they have a business. They've been in business together the last 4 years. Anyway, they really ran into some financial hardship and they decided to close the business a few days ago. She told her relatives and they said, you know, hey, why don't you come to Japan? They're on the feldspar Philippines, and so her relatives are saying, "Hey, why don't you come to Japan? You can work out here." So now he's asking, you know, "What can I do?" He's an entrepreneur at heart. There's so much to leave in the Philippines— friends, family, opportunity— and he says Philippines is one of the fastest-growing countries, and the decision to go and live-work in Japan is just not on his plan. But like he says, I'm an entrepreneur at heart, so I'm still open for new plans and ideas. All right, so, well, this definitely is one of those life choices. You can stay in Japan, and I don't know what the results of staying in Japan would be. I don't know if that means, you know, you're fiancé would still go to. If you stay in the Philippines, does that mean she'll go to Japan anyway? Lots of personal dynamics that, you know, I think no one can really tell you what to do. But, um, I love what Evan Carmichael says about big decisions with the heart— small decisions with the head, big decisions with the heart. Because I think things like this, you you can trust in your gut what it is that you need to do, and I think things like this, it's really hard for other people to tell you. But what I kind of get from Cyril, from this question, is that you are someone who's really open, and so I don't feel like either/or will break, you know, what happens with you and your entrepreneur entrepreneurial goals because you can make it happen wherever you are. But yeah, at the end of the day, I don't know that I can say what— it's a pretty big decision.

Yeah, I agree. Rishi took the words out of my mouth there, but it's true. Big decisions with the heart, small ones with the head. Figuring out what is best, what works for you, is having an honest conversation. I think what often happens, and I don't know that I'm the best relationship coach here, but what often happens is people get emotional when trying to figure out these decisions, and you get into fights. Really, it has to come from understanding the other person's perspective and explaining how important something is or isn't. So, you know, you want to stay, she wants to go. Okay, well, how important is it for both of you and why? And at what point, you know, is the other person going to say, you know, who's going to— who is it more important to? You know, as an example, look at Nina and I. And most of the small stuff I really don't care about. Nina takes care of and she's great at that stuff. Most of the bigger decisions I like to take care of. Whoa, this guy is— I just died. Wow, Fizz is strong, man. Okay. Well, Timo died. Timo died. Okay, I gotta figure that out. But then we came to things like, so for example, our wedding. I didn't want to do a wedding here. I wanted to do a wedding abroad. I wanted to do a destination wedding.

Okay.

And she really wanted to do a wedding here. My reasoning was I'm not big on, you know, formalities and those kinds of traditions, and I would rather have it be something that's fun. When I saw people getting married, it just is stress. Like, you never see the people actually having fun, both the people in the— like, when was the last really fun wedding you actually went to? Um, and all the weddings I went to, a lot of them weren't close friends. They were just, you know, not just random people, but, you know, distant relatives. Something where I felt like people weren't really— like, they didn't really care if I was there or not. Did not make a huge difference if I was there or not. And that bothers me because wherever I go, I want it— not that it's about me, but I want to feel like I care to be there and people care that I'm there. And if, if I don't feel like I care to be there and nobody cares that I'm there, then what am I doing? So this is— that's my personal vibe. And I would much rather get away with people who really want to come with us and have a small wedding with people who really care about us, and we can have fun and explore, than just do something local with a bunch of people who don't actually care. So that's my take. You know, Nina was coming from a different perspective. Family is, you know, important to her. I mean, it's important to me too, but, but how that those interactions work are different for her. And at the end of the day, we did our wedding here. At the end of the day, you know, we It's probably the most that we've ever fought was around the wedding. Of all the things to fight about, like, never fought about— well, not that we never fought, but, you know, it was the most— it was the biggest fight that we've really ever had. Um, oh, I'm gonna come and try to kill the Fizz. Can we do anything with the Fizz? Can we do anything? Oh, we got his Flash. Alright. This fizz is good. Oh, we killed him! Very exciting. All right, good, good, good. Uh, so, you know, besides telling you my personal stories here, where are we going with this? Uh, at the end of the day, by Nina, it's kind of explaining what, like, why it was so important to her And, you know, finally understanding it, I was— I said, you know what, I'm expecting— I can deal with it. You know, like, I had pretty low expectations to my own wedding, which is sad, but it was for her. Like, I was happy doing it for her. It was, you know, at the end of the day, her happiness, her need for this was greater than my need. I put hers above mine. And sometimes she puts hers above— she puts mine above hers too. That's part of a relationship. And the hard part is figuring out, okay, when do I bow out? When do I put the other person's needs means above mine. Um, and every decision is different, you know, like moving to this condo where I'm at now. I want to be at Yonge and Sheppard. It's an intersection in Toronto. I love it. Everything is around here. Uh, Nina couldn't care less. Nina wants a house. I hate houses. I hate the maintenance on a house. I don't want to have to get up and worry about mowing the lawn. And I know you can hire people. I don't want to worry about the roof, and I want to worry about things falling apart. I had it. I've had a house. I built the 5,000 square foot house from scratch. Oh wow, terrible. I'm not built for home ownership. I'm not a fan. So, you know, I want to, I want to be in a, I want to be in a condo, and I want to be around Young and Shepherd. So Nina gave some of that up for me, you know. So there's no right or wrong answer 100%. It's really gonna come from communicating, not fighting, but trying to communicate why you feel like you don't want to go and trying to understand instead of just expressing your point. Trying to understand why it is so important for her to go. And then hopefully you can agree, but you can't agree on everything. And then it's just seeing who, who cares more, right? Like, who's gonna give it up for the other person because you love them? That's, that's the world of relationships, friends, according to Evan Carmichael.

The least. But I think all the ladies can agree that you made the right choice with the wedding. When it comes to the wedding, you got to give the bride what she wants.

Uh, I don't know. I don't know.

Yes!

No.

Give her what she wants.

But that's not why. No, I don't know. Why did he just use zanyas? That's weird. Uh, and you know what, luckily at the end of the day, the reason why we stayed ultimately was because, because of her family. Sorry, Jay, I took a bunch of your farm there. I was chatting. Um, like, her family was giving her a hard time for going because of tradition, and that stuff drives me nuts. Like, to do something just because of tradition I— it's not a reason. It's not enough of a reason for me. But I understand that this is one day, and so I can deal with it. And I still like— even going to the weddings, like going— she has a big family— going to her weddings, like all the cousins and everybody in the family, it's important for her. So I like— so I always go. Even though I know nobody would miss me if I wasn't there. Nobody really feels the presence of me being there. It's more if I wasn't there, then people would talk. And I don't care if people talk, but Nina does. And so I do that for her.

Yeah. Aww.

So, you know, but if that was happening, you know, like every week, That would— that we'd have to find another solution. So, you know, in every relationship you have those— like, luckily the day in and day out of our relationship is really awesome. So there's not, not too many of these things that we have to deal with, but everybody has them. And just, I understand that it's super important for her, and I will, you know, swallow my frustration at being there, and just, I'm there for her. That's it. That's why I go. Entrepreneur. Now, this doesn't mean you give in all the time. Like, maybe it's more important for you. I win on other stuff, you know. So having the conversation and trying to deeply understand where they're coming from is important. That's what I got.

Nice. Thanks for the question, Daryl, and we look forward to hearing what happens. Okay. And just a shout out to some new viewers in the chat. We got C. Ruther T. and someone else, Xylrath. So got some new folks in the live chat going.

I still did not buy the pink, guys. I just realized, or the blue chain. Oh my God, nothing that he's asked me to do. Oh man, okay, sorry, sorry, I'm working on it. I will try to be better. Come in, now!

Nice.

Okay, what else? Let's get to questions.

Okay, so the next question is coming from Thomas, and Thomas is from Germany, and he says, do you think your— and I know Jay Rise will like this question too— do you think your story is enough to touch people's souls? I know so many storytellers. They tell us great stories. They hit our hearts. But after a certain time, we feel that there's something missing. What has to follow a good story? Belief? Passion? Hard work? Trust? All right, that was it.

Okay, interesting.

So Yeah, it is an interesting question, and it sounds like, you know, Thomas has had experiences where he gets impacted by hearing someone's story, and then you get to the place where you're on fire, but then perhaps, you know, you can't execute fully on whatever it is that you were inspired to take action on. Again, going back to Eric Thomas, amazing story, incredible story. You listen to him, you're ready to just like kill Goliath, you know? You're pumped up and you're ready to just take it on. And so I have, you know, you've heard that also that expression of how inspiration is like, I don't know, inspiration is like a shower, you gotta have it every day. It doesn't last more than a day, you know, you gotta keep listening to stories and keep hearing how people have overcome. But going back to Eric Thomas too, like, he isn't just a story. He put himself through a lot of education and training, and not to say that, you know, everybody has to go get their PhD, but he put a lot in place so that when he tells his story, he has tools and skills and abilities to be more than just a storyteller. Same thing with Brené Brown. I think she's an incredible storyteller, but she has all of this experience and research and tools and practical steps so that she can actually help people beyond just the inspirational aspect. And I really respect, I really respect that. And that's, something that I'm aspiring to do is like, I feel like it's irresponsible for me to just go out there and just, you know, inspire people, but then if I can't give them anything practical to then go execute what I inspired them to do, I feel like I would be doing them a disservice. So I feel like I have to continue to grow and gain as much knowledge and keep learning and keep being a student myself so that, you know, the story in and of itself isn't all that I'm giving them. And I don't know if that helps, but I think that there is something to be said about equipping yourself with more than the story if you really want to help people.

Yeah, people love telling stories, people love learning through stories. Jerry's actually sent me a cool article from Google of how they're trying to train to become an entire company of storytellers where they realize that in the sales and marketing process, just talking about features and benefits isn't enough. You have to move people. And they start every meeting with what they call an out-of-sight. So instead of an insight, which is something that people know and doesn't really move people, they want to start every conversation with an out-of-sight, which is they want to get people— I think they said they want to get people leaning forward in their chair within the first 3 minutes of of having a conversation. So storytelling is super powerful. It's part of being a human being. It's, you know, it's how we have traditionally learned. Uh-oh, I'm in a dangerous spot here. Let's see if I can do something. Um, I think, I think a good story, something I'm working with my team at Toronto Dance House and Alex on doing this stuff is having a teachable lesson with the story. So great, it's a good story, but what am I going to learn from it? Right? What's my takeaway from it? How am I going to get better? And sometimes people can learn just from the story. Sometimes people are aware enough to be able to— well, they're letting me do damage here, Jay. I'm in their base, like tearing things up. I love it, bro. This is— they're ignoring me and they're making big mistakes here, the enemy team. So I'm excited. Oh wow, I got there and hit. Wow. That's pretty good. Alright, Teemo's showing up. Teemo is showing up. We were talking about Star. I got distracted. I just made a big play. I'm pretty excited.

That was amazing.

That was pretty big. So some people, when they watch— this is an example that I use. There's a channel called— there's a YouTube channel called Charisma on Command, which is a good channel where there's a YouTuber who breaks down what is great about a lot of people's communication skills and how they have charisma. So how to tell a story, Kevin Hart, how to make people laugh like Kevin Hart, or the secret to Ellen DeGeneres' communication style, or whatever it is. Why it's so great is that he explains it for us with teachable lessons. He shows you what they're doing and then breaks it down to say, if you want to be a better communicator, you need to do this. So what he's really good at is finding the teachable lessons from someone's behavior.

That's great.

Right? And why it's so great is that most people can't do that dissection well. Because if you just watch Kevin Hart, you're gonna laugh and you'll have a good time, but you don't understand the subtle things that he's doing that make you laugh. And so why Charisma on Command's channel is so popular is that he breaks it down easily for people where we don't have great observation skills in general. And so that's where the importance of the storytelling comes in to give me the teachable lesson. What am I going to learn from this? What's my takeaway? How do I get better after learning this thing that you just taught me? And so we could all just watch Kevin Hart. If it was as simple as just watching Kevin Hart, we'll all become better storytellers or having more charisma, then we would all have great charisma. But most people can't watch and pick up the teachable lessons. We need the guide very often to give us the teachable lesson. Now you can train yourself to be better at it, but most people don't. Most people want it spoon-fed. Spoon-fed to them. And so your job as a storyteller is to engage them emotionally in something and then teach them the lesson. What do I do after I watch this? So that's probably what's missing from his presentation. One, the story itself may not be good enough. Like, you could turn up, you could be more dramatic, more emotional, you could touch more heartstrings. Strings. But once you have me crying, great, you touch me with a moving story. What's my to-do? What am I going to learn from this? What do I have to go home and take action on now because of this message? And I think that's what is— that's what really turns up a good storyteller, where I see your thing, I listen to you, and then I want to go home and take some action because you've made it easy easier for me.

Yeah.

Oh, we won! They surrendered! They surrender! Yeah, Teemo showed up. I had a— I still didn't buy pink. Oh my gosh, I still didn't buy pink or the blue trinket. He's not watching, but, but we won. Uh, I, I like that last, that last There, I got my S back. See, I got my S. I didn't get an S last game, it really upset me. So anyway, um, cool. Well, I love the questions. Thank you guys for, uh, for asking. I like that little— I feel like I kind of went on a rant there at the end, but, uh, storytelling is something I believe in. We haven't— I would look— we've touched on that before yet on the stream, so answering a new question always fires me up.

What was that channel again that you mentioned? I would want to actually check that out.

Yeah, Charisma on Command. He does two types of videos. One where he's sharing his own opinions on something, and two where he's deconstructing somebody else's success. I don't really like his own opinions on stuff, but watch it and see, but the ones I like are the deconstructions where he's showing how Kevin Hart does something, or Ellen, or Trump, or Game of Thrones, or, you know, whatever it is. So worth checking out. I'd look at those videos first, but more recently he's been doing the, the personal ones that I'm not as big a fan of. So anyway, check it out, Charisma on Command. It's got 400,000-something sub, 500,000, something like that. So it's getting up there. Awesome. Well, thank you guys for the fun today. Rishi, what is our message that you're going to leave us on today? I like this new tradition.

Well, my message for today is show some empathy to those around you because we're all, as you said, Evan, every day fighting something. And, you know, the more that we can be aware of that in the people around us, the more I think we can give people a little bit more, I don't know, just mercy. So that's it.

I love it. Empathy and awareness, understanding. It's also part of good storytelling. So cool. Well, thank you guys for watching. It's been an awesome week. We had some wins, we had some losses, but it's good to end on a high. I hope you have an amazing rest of today. Go and crush it. Continue to believe and rise and cup, or whatever your one word is.

And we'll see you soon.