Advice to my Younger (Idiot) Self 🤔

Advice to my younger self, my younger idiot self, the 15-year-old and 25-year-old kid, me, who didn't know anything about anything. I'm actually live on a talk, the Young Entrepreneurs Summit, but it's also got old entrepreneurs and wantrepreneurs and startup entrepreneurs and scale-up entrepreneurs. But I'm going to do a little talk and a presentation for you about what I wish I knew when I started in business. I'm also going to talk to you about building a personal brand, turning your passion into profits, your passion into your profession, and also the quickest ways to $100K. All my TikTok Lives, on my Facebook Lives, when I'm out there signing breasts to the millions, the masses, you know, my fame and fortune, people always ask me Rob, what's the quickest way to start a business? What's the quickest way to make good money? What's the quickest way and the cheapest way? Now, by the way, the question I don't like is, what's the easiest way? You shouldn't be looking for the easiest way. You should be looking for the best way. So the first tip and bit of advice I would give to my younger self is, and you should write this down, don't wish it were easier, wish you were better. Or better than that, don't wish it were easier, get better. Too many people in this world are looking for shortcuts. We've got no attention span. Someone speaks for a millisecond on TikTok and we swipe away. We don't like their look within a second and we swipe left or we swipe right, or whatever direction you swipe on dating apps because I haven't been been on one for 16 years. People are just too impatient. So the next bit of advice— bloody hell, two for the price of one in the intro— the next bit of advice I would give my younger self is this. And by the way, this is advice I learned from older, smarter people than me. So we dramatically overestimate what we can achieve in a short time and dramatically underestimate what we can achieve in a lifetime or a long time. So would you agree that sometimes you're a bit impatient and you want things to happen real quick? You probably do. And you know what? That's human nature. The chimp mind wants you to find the shortcut. However, if you leverage the law of compounding, if you leverage good debt, if you keep on keeping on, you keep your main thing the main thing, in 3 years or 5 years or 10 years or 20 years or 50 years, you have unbreakable wealth and unbreakable success. Are we able to get a camera on the flip chart? Oh, look at us! I'm going to the flip chart. Exciting! I'm going to the flip chart. I'm going to do it real quick. I'm going to the flip chart. Thanks, Mum. Right, I'm going to move it like that. This is Warren Buffett's wealth curve. Warren Buffett's wealth curve. 12 years old. 85 years old. 0, 100 billion. This is Warren Buffett's wealth curve. I'm really shouting, aren't I? Yeah, I always shout. I just get like more and more excited. What I used to do is start normally and then crescendo to a shout, and now just come in and shout. All right, this is Warren Buffett's wealth curve. Are you ready? So age 12 is when he roughly got started in investing. Age 12! What advice would I give my 12-year-old self? Stop gaming and start investing. That'd be good advice. Stop gaming, start investing. Right, so zero, age 50, it's about there. Doesn't look like much. Age 85. That is literally his wealth curve. So it takes years to get your 100 grand or years to get your first million or years to get your 10th million and then bang, compounding. Think of all those social media influencers. They're grinding it out month after month, year after year. They build a following and then they get to a critical mass and then they get on Joe Rogan or they get on Love Island or they go viral. And then bang. So what do most people do? Oh, I've been doing business 3 weeks. I'm not making any money. It's a scam. And they give up here or they give up here or they give up here or they give up here just before the whoosh. So I've got 1,550 tenants across hundreds of properties. And when I was buying them in 2005 and '06 and '07, they were £40,000, £50,000, £60,000, £70,000. Fast forward to now, they're £150,000, £200,000, £250,000, and we were going from little greenhouses and now we develop 100-unit apartment blocks. So these were all the little buy-to-lets, little buy-to-lets, £50,000, £70,000, £80,000, £50,000, £70,000, and then bang, big apartment So let's go back to the main camera, back over here. We dramatically overestimate what we can achieve in a year, and we underestimate what we can achieve in a lifetime. Remember that. Can you remember what my first advice to my younger self was, other than stop gaming, start investing? That should— that's a book title, isn't it? That is a book title. Hannah, could you write that down and email it to me? Stop Gaming, Start Investing. I'm going to get all the kids rich. Okay, right. Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better. Okay then, so it's actually not that difficult to build a personal brand and turn your passion into profits. Now, is Rob contradicting himself? Rob just said that you have to take time to build wealth. Compounding takes time. Don't wish it were easier. And now Rob's just said, wait a minute, it's not that hard to profit from your personal brand. Well, when My mum was in her teens and 20s. She will remember people working in the mines, in the coal mines, and people used to go down there 12, 14 hours a day, put in a shift down in the mines, probably killing themselves with what they were inhaling into their lungs. Do you remember when the bridges and the pyramids were built before we had cranes? And automation, and hundreds of people would die building big buildings. And yet some people get really upset and outraged when they're not millionaires in 3 months. So compared to how it was, it is quicker and easier and more comfortable to make money. And back then you'd be on the factory line and you'd be building things and you'd be employed by Henry Ford or someone like that and you'd make just enough to live and you'd be on that factory line just passing things down that factory line for your 40-year career. Imagine turning to your mate on the factory line and going, got a personal brand? Doing any content repurposing? Got any viral videos on TikTok? The world has completely changed and is changed such that if you are a young entrepreneur— because I know we've got people on the event who are 8 and 11 years old— I mean, I just want to say, wow, the fact that you're on here, whoever got you here, and you, massive round of applause. That's epic. So it's quicker, easier, and actually a more relevant thing right now to turn your passion into your profession, your passion into profits, and build a personal brand. And here's how you build a personal brand. I'm not going to complicate it. It's actually really simple. You figure out what you're most passionate about, and you put that message out through social media to as many people as you can. You inspire, you educate, you entertain, you inform, and then you monetize. That's the model. I've been Rob Moore. See you later. But that, that is the model. So Dylan loves health and well-being and wellness. He loves trading and investing and entrepreneurship. I love business and entrepreneurship and creating content and educating people. I love marketing and sales. And we could even think, well, what do we love personally to do? Dylan loves travel. I imagine the whole vagabonding and Airbnbing around the world is something Dylan's beaming here. He's smiling ear to ear. So Dylan could absolutely travel the world blogging and vlogging and talking about What he's learned and what he's earned and his passion into his profession on that, for example. Ismail has said, "Sir, can you talk slowly?" It's actually impossible for me to talk slow. So unfortunately the answer is no, I can't. Alright, so here's what you do. Patrick's asked me to repeat as well. I'm clearly talking a bit fast. Peterborough is known for its drugs. Talk faster. Alright, Pete, I'll talk faster. So you, you already know what you love to do. You already know what you want to talk about. You already know what you're passionate about. And it doesn't necessarily have to be a, um, a standardized or normal business model like owning a gym or start having a restaurant or whatever. It doesn't have to be any of that. It can be what you love. You can love what you do and do what you love and turn your passion into your profession and your vocation into your vacation. And you can travel the world teaching people what it is that you love to do. Now remember, let me say this again. You can inform, you can educate, you can inspire, and you can entertain. You're going to want me to repeat that, aren't you? Yes, you are. Inform, Educate, inspire, and entertain. Write those down. They are the 4 forms of you turning passion into profession and content into cash flow. So I want to see in the comments, in what niche, on what subject would you love to inform, educate, inspire, or entertain? What could you turn into a profession that's a passion? Drawing, perfect there from Bethany. Health and wellness, maths, science, mental health, inclusion, gratitude, confidence, French language communication, gaming. Gamers are making millions. Talking about kids, computer tech, storytelling, Porsches, metaverse, Web3, diabetes education, parenting, horses, sex tech. Stop, what's that? I'm signing up. Where's your link? Health and wellness, there you go. These are all— solar energy, investing, well-being, guitar, music, anti-aging, definitely need that. Photography, photography, osteopathy, nursing, acts of kindness, businesses for the under-12s, love it. Energy costs. Yeah. Trading crypto. There you go. Giving back. Speaking. Poetry. Building homes in Chile. Jewelry making. These are all niches. Why did I list them all out? Just to show you that you all have them. So what is stopping you, you right now, turning that which you shared in the comments into a profession, into a business, into an income stream. You probably just don't know how. Someone was honest enough to say, "Me is stopping me." Yeah, we often need to get out of our own way. What's the third bit of advice I would give to my younger self? Get out of your own way. The biggest barrier to success is often ourselves. I used to see rich people and I used to think, greedy, corrupt, 'Power-hungry bastards.' That was a translation for, 'Why am I skint? I don't feel good about myself, and I'm jealous of your success.' That was the articulation of how I felt inside. And you know the saying— I don't know if you ever heard this saying, hopefully you're writing all these little quips and idioms down— 'Hurt people hurt people.' And that was me. I was hurt because I was unfulfilled, because I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life, but I knew I was destined for more, because I was underperforming. And so I would hurt inside because of that feeling— guilt, shame, not feeling good enough, not making my parents proud, not doing something meaningful with my life. And whilst I wouldn't go barking about it because I didn't like conflict, inside I'd get so bitter and jealous. And that was the external manifestation of an internal feeling of self-loathing. And you know what, that still sometimes pops up. I'm scrolling and I see Dylan really rich in my social media and I get jealous for about a nanosecond. And then I realise he's my friend, and I'm better looking, and everything is— I'm only joking. I realise actually if someone triggers me, it's not them, it's me. Like, why shouldn't we be happy for people that are successful? I'm now happy for people that are successful, and occasionally when that little emotion comes up, Like, for example, sometimes I see Joe Rogan and I think, "Ah, you bastard, your podcast's much bigger than mine." But he's been podcasting longer, that's what he does as his main thing. I bet he hasn't got 1,550 tenants and I bet he isn't doing 99 apartment blocks. And I'm a bit younger than him, so I've got more time to catch up if I want to. And yeah, he does jiu-jitsu and yeah, he does MMA, but Joe is Joe and Rob is Rob. And I love Joe for what he does. And I've got— I've got to love Rob for who he is too. So do you love you for who you are? So that's the next thing I would teach my younger self. You are worthy of love. Love you for who you are. And I never did. I hated my fat self, and I still sort of hated my skinny self. Because I lost the weight but not the emotional baggage. Even to this day, I kind of still find it hard to look in the mirror. I quite like my ginger bits, and I quite like my gray bits, which is a bit weird, but still every day there's things about myself that I don't really like, or things about myself that should be better, or I should be doing more, or whatever. But actually, that's— there's nothing wrong with that. There's nothing wrong with a bit of tension. You know, if you feel like you should be doing more, or you're not quite there yet, or you're frustrated with yourself, or whatever, that's— that tension is good because tension creates traction. You know, like if you have an arrow and you pull it back and you create great tension, the more tension, the more traction when you let go. So tension can create traction. So you need to turn tension into traction into action. I used to turn tension into frustration into self— I was trying to find another— no, not masturbation, Dylan. There's 8-year-olds and 12-year-olds on this. But I used to turn it inward into beating myself up. So turn the tension inward to the traction and the action outward. So you are worthy of your— you are worthy of love, and don't beat yourself up for everything. That would be more advice I'd give to my younger self. How long have I got left, Hannah? Okay, well, that's point one. Okay, what's the quickest way to 100K still wearing your clothes? OnlyFans. Do you know who Mia Khalifa is? No. Don't worry, it's another chap. But we've just got someone agreed for the podcast. She's number 5 highest earner on OnlyFans. She earns like, I think, $12.7 million a month, $150 million a year. $150 million a year. But she takes her clothes off to do that. And my mum's in the room. So I'm not going to do that. Now, if anyone drops 150 mil on PayPal in the chat, sorry, Mum, I'm doing it. Just saying. All right, so the quickest way to 100K without taking your clothes off and going on OnlyFans— by the way, OnlyFans isn't just for the bikinis and the nudities, it's for other ways to make money. Is to leverage other assets, right? Membership site, subscription site. A membership site, a subscription site, you charging a monthly amount, a fiver, a tenner, 30 a month for your content à la Netflix. The Netflix model. There you go. That's probably the quickest way to 100K. Well, actually, the quickest way to 100K is take a million and put it into crypto. That's the quickest way to $100K. But it's like they say, if you want to become a millionaire, become a billionaire and buy an airline. So, but look, there might be quicker ways, but with no money to start or low money down and something that anyone can do in any country in the world, as long as you've got an internet connection at any age— remember, this is The Young Entrepreneurs Summit is a membership site, a subscription platform. So for example, what you shared in the comments, that your passion that you want to profit from, that you want to turn into your profession, that becomes your membership site, that becomes your subscription platform. I'm going to detail it in a moment. But I'm just gonna talk to Will, 'cause Will has said, "Advice to your younger self: don't buy that jacket." Advice to your younger self: block Will. Will! We were friends. Look, it's even badder. Even badder on the back. I am me. I love me. Costs a lot of money to look this silly. Alright. So, right, membership site. So give me a yes in the comments if you're a member of Rob.team. Let's have a yes in the comments if you're a member of Rob.team, and write sorry in the comments if you're not yet a member of Rob.team. Write yes if you're a member and sorry if you're not a member. Don't worry, I won't find you and I won't kill you if you're not a member. You don't know what you don't know. You didn't know, and now you do. So I would probably say on the Young Entrepreneurs Summit, we've got 70-odd percent, maybe 80%, are a member of Rob.team. Can see quite a few yeses coming here on my live. So Rob.team is an example of a membership site, and I'm just going to demo how you can build a membership site using my membership site as an example. So as I tell you my membership site as a case study, put your mind into my case study as a membership site and copy what I do. Simple as that. And by the way, you can join Rob.team anytime by typing in Rob.team. Rob.team into a web page. Hannah's just shared it in the chat, rob.team. Actually, don't go there yet, wait for me to explain and then go. Right, step 1, you take your passion. My passion is business, entrepreneurship, investing, teaching about money, having a bit of fun teaching about money, content and social media. These things are my passion. So Rob.team is for startup entrepreneurs, scale-up entrepreneurs, people who want to make money and make a difference, people who want to learn to invest and create multiple streams of recurring income, and people who want to make, manage, and master money. And because it's a membership subscription, it's only a few quid a month. In fact, it's less than a large coffee, and it's one-third of the price of Netflix. In fact, could you put the hyperlink up, Hannah, which is http:// in the link, and then they might be able to click it. There's no S, don't put the S in, it's not secure. Nothing of mine is secure, especially not my emotions. Right, so if you go to rob.team, R-O-B dot T-E-A-M, you too, and you, Go now, do it now. Um, I ain't trying to sell it, I'm just telling it. If you go to rob.team, for less than the cost of a large coffee a month, for one-third of the price of Netflix, you can start and scale a business with content going back 3 years. Um, hundreds of hours of content, masterclasses, Rachel Says Just Do It, masterminds, Zooms, live events, ask me anythings, tools, courses, and resources on starting a business, scaling a business, getting better financial education and knowledge, which is vital. I've just been invited to talk about entrepreneurship in a local school. Their teachers are going to wish I hadn't, because I'm going to teach the kids stuff where the kids are going to be earning more than the teachers in 6 months. The teachers are going to regret that. Um, Rachel has said Rob.team is phenomenal value. So if you want to learn how to start a business, scale a business, get better financial education and knowledge, make, manage, and master money, learn how to invest, then join Rob.team. Open up a new page on the internet and do it right now and type in Rob.team. There's no promo code, you don't need it because it's only the cost of a large coffee. It's not $100 a month, it's not $50 a month, it's not $30 a month, it's not even $10 a month. It's not even, um, Dr. Wasim has said Rob.team offers incredible value. So all of you that said sorry and all of you that aren't in, just go and type in Rob.team into a new web page, and for no contract monthly subscription Um, I.N. is in. You can start and scale a business, get better financial education and knowledge, make, manage, and master money. You can learn how to invest. No, no, no, don't go in after this session. Go in now because you'll forget after this session. Can you share the link again, please, Hannah? Do it now. I'm going to finish my content in a moment. Do it now because here's the thing: talk doesn't cook rice. That, that's— Dad should have done that one, shouldn't he? That's a dad quote. Yeah, sounds like my dad. It's actually an old Chinese proverb. If any of you are broke, get your parents to pay. It's literally a fiver a month plus your tax. But there's masterclasses going back 2, 3— no, 3 years. There's the 21 Ways to Monetize Social Media masterclass. There is the How to Start Your Business Masterclass, How to Scale Your Business Masterclass. There is the 5 Quickest Ways to $100K. There is Monetizing Your Content. There is How to Create Multiple Streams of Income. All these masterclass courses in Rob.team for less than a large coffee a month, one-third of the price of Netflix, and you can cancel anytime. But back to the initial point, and this is another reason why you should do it. When you join Rob.team, you can literally copy the template and what I do in Rob.team, and you can build your own membership site. What's yours, Dylan, called? Wealth.yoga. So Dylan's got one, Wealth.yoga. Matt Fodessa's got Matt.club. Ryan Pinnock has got his. We've all got them if we're millionaires. Someone— Karina has said, what scam coffee are you buying for over a fiver? Honestly, if you have a large Costa coffee with an extra shot and syrup on it, it's nearly £6. That's not a joke. I get you. And Karina's in, by the way, so she's not trolling me. But yeah, £6 a coffee. It's called inflation. Last week in Peterborough, you could get 3 coffees for a pound. Now you need to remortgage your house for a couple of coffees. You need to protect your money from inflation. You need to learn how to invest. You need to protect your cash from the banks and taxation. You need to do all this, and Rob.team can teach you how to do that. All right, great. So start a membership site, sign up on Patreon. I don't get any commission. Can you write it in the chat, Hannah? Because 900 people are going to say, how'd you spell Patreon? P-A-T-R-E-O-N. Sign up on Patreon. I don't make any affiliate comms. I'm not asking for your money. Patreon is a white label membership site, a content hosting site where I'm getting elegantly trolled, eloquently trolled. Your voice sounds like you drank 7 cups of coffee today. So sign up on Patreon. You will pay about 10% of your recurring revenue as a hosting fee. You can chuck all your content on there. You can do a couple of pieces of content a week on your passion, and people can sign up. And if you charge them a tenner, you're only paying a quid to Patreon. There you go. All right, so what else would I say to my younger self? Go and join Rob.team. Of course, that's what I would say to my younger self. Here's the thing though. When I was a teenager, my dad was saying, "You should get into the stock market. Have you seen this kid who makes a load of money in the stock market?" He was always trying to get me to be an entrepreneur and start a business, and I never did. I was too interested in girls. Although it's a bit more complicated now, isn't it? Because if I was a teenager now, I would definitely be non-binary. I would. I don't identify as anything. Mum, Dad, what are you gonna do about that? My dad would've just gone, "Ugh!" God, imagine Dad, Mum, if I came back and said I'm non-binary. I don't identify as a sex. My dad's from the north of England, he'd have had none of that. Anyway, I'm sort of chatting shit now and I haven't got that long left. Right. What my dad taught me about business. If you don't ask, you don't get. My dad taught me that. And there's so many things I didn't ask. I didn't ask people to buy my art when I was an artist. I didn't ask people to follow me or connect me with someone. When I was starting my business. I definitely, I mean, I'm happily married and it's all good, so it all ended out well, but as I was growing up and quite lonely, there were girls that I liked that I didn't dare go up and speak to and didn't ask them out. And subsequently, there was one or two of them that liked me too, and I didn't dare ask. I never really dared ask for anything. Why? In case I got rejected. And imagine if you didn't care about rejection. Imagine if, in a nice kind way— sorry, I'm going to do one more swear word. So if you're between the age of 3 and 9, put your fingers in your ears now. If you're parents, do this because I have to use this word in this context. You absolutely should not give a fuck what anyone thinks about you. Absolutely not. Do you want to be kind? Yes. Do you want to be a good person? Yes. But should you worry about what people think about you? Who don't even know you and don't even care about you. Ian has said, "I get rejected all the time." I don't know if he means you singular or you plural, but he's right. I mean, check out my social media. I was at Jake Wood's 50th birthday yesterday. Jake Wood, he was the baddie on EastEnders forever, Max Branning, and he's a dear friend of mine. And I was talking to some of his friends there at this 50th birthday, and a lot of them follow me on social media and watch my videos every day. And one of the chaps, who's a really successful entrepreneur himself, said, 'Oh Rob, I watch your videos every day. I get up at 8:30 to watch you shout about the government and inflation. What are you doing tomorrow? Recession?' And I went, 'Yep.' And he said, 'God, you get a lot of criticism though. There's a few haters on there.' And I went, 'Yeah, I love it. I don't know them. They're brilliant for the algorithm. They're great for the comments and the engagement. Sometimes there's something to learn from them. They don't know me.' So you can't have all the upside without any of the downside. You can't have all the love without the hate. You can't have all the adulation without the criticism. So my dad isn't here, he's at home, but my dad definitely didn't care what anyone thought about him. And I really have always admired that about my dad. He would— it's actually sometimes embarrassing because he'd sit in a restaurant and when he's— you know when someone complains, but they're really freaking rude and they treat the waiter or waitress like shit, and that's my dad, and he just doesn't care. And I'd be all apologetic about the food that wasn't very good, and it was almost my fault that the food wasn't very good. My dad would be like, what the fuck is this? Mum, am I right or am I right? He'd yank his trousers up to his nipples and he'd be like, "What is that?" And my mum and my sister and me are sitting there so embarrassed. But I so— yeah, Gordon Ramsay, that is my dad. That absolute— but I so admire the fact that he didn't worry about what people thought about him. Now, should you worry about what your mum, your dad, your friends and family, your loved ones think about you? To a certain degree, yeah. But actually, you should give zero— sorry, your finger's in your ear again— give zero fucks about what most people think about you who don't care about you, don't love you, don't like you, don't give you any attention, don't give you any time. Life is so freeing if you ask, because if you don't ask, you don't get. Life is so freeing if you be yourself and you don't worry about what other people think about you. And I'm going to add one of my own. I'm going to end on this, and then I'm going to bring up my mum and Dylan. I would say to my younger self, if you don't risk anything, you risk everything. And you do not get what you want unless you take risks. You do not get what you want unless you face failure in the face. You do not get what you want unless you make mistake after mistake after mistake. And if you don't put yourself out there, no one's going to know you're there. So if you don't risk anything, you risk everything. So those of you on the live, I did a little bit of content repurposing as a demo for you on the Young Entrepreneur Summit. The social media's not really as hard as you think. Get a couple of cheap phones, go live on Facebook, go live on TikTok. All right, so if you're watching on the Facebook Live, if you want to start and scale a business, get better financial education and knowledge, make, manage, and master money, if you want hundreds of hours of content on being an entrepreneur and reducing tax and increasing your earnings and your income, go and join rob.team. It costs you less than a large coffee, one-third of the price of Netflix, and you can cancel at any time. Can you put the, um, in the chat? Rob.team. Go and join Rob.team. Just open a new window, all of you. Just do it now if you haven't done it. And type in R-O-B dot T-E-A-M. I can see a lot of people in the chat there joining. Go do it now. Do it for you, don't do it for me. It's just a few quid a month for you. It's not going to make any difference in my life. Could make a huge difference in your life. Exactly one coffee a month, you'll be able to buy all the coffees you want soon enough. Tiffany's already in. Let me know when you're in and you've joined. I'll see you on the other side when you're all millionaires.