John Wetmore rejects "you need money to make money" as bad advice. Two pieces shaped him: being asked "why do you expect my result with your work ethic?" and a mentor's words: "if you want to get paid like a professional, you better act like a professional."
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Worst advice you've ever received and the best advice you've ever had? Good question, dude. Worst advice, dude, that you need money to make money is my least favorite piece of advice on the planet. Love it. Now, I do believe money can help you make more, but I don't believe you need any to get started because I didn't have any, you know I'm saying? I think that's BS. Best advice, man. Oh God, I've received so much advice. I know it's tricky. I'm gonna give you two that are coming right to my head because they're both coming up and I'm like, which one do I share? So they're gonna get two. Um, early on in my career, someone once asked me, and I don't know if this advice, but I took it as advice, he said, why do you expect my result with your work ethic? So I took that to heart. Call it advice, call it not, but it was true, you know, when I looked at the work he was— and then in a very similar parallel, um, my closest mentor, his name is Mike Killamatt. That was from my buddy Mark Mead, who's really big in the space. My buddy Mike Killamatt once said, if you want to get paid like a professional, You better act like a professional.