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This Changed How I Do Business

Name: This Changed How I Do Business
Uploaded: 2025-03-05T05:30:00+00:00
Duration: 44 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this personal monologue, the speaker reflects on the rapid wealth and brand success of celebrity entrepreneurs such as Kylie Jenner, Kris Jenner…

5 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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In this personal monologue, the speaker reflects on the rapid wealth and brand success of celebrity entrepreneurs such as Kylie Jenner, Kris Jenner, Conor McGregor, George Clooney, and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. Observing that these figures amassed multibillion‑dollar businesses seemingly overnight, the speaker questions why their own trajectory differs by an order of magnitude. The narrative explores the tension between wanting impact and avoiding fame, illustrated by a conversation with a well‑known friend who embraces the inconveniences of fame as the price for greater influence. The speaker concludes that accepting the downsides of fame may be necessary to achieve the level of impact they desire.

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I saw Kylie Jenner become a billionaire when she was 20 and I was 27. I was like, she is way richer than I am. And so it means that she's doing something different than I am by an order of magnitude that I don't understand. And she had a personal brand. But I was like, you know what? Kris Jenner's been building her brand since she was 5. Like, okay, I'll write that off as a fluke. But then Conor McGregor had Proper Twelve. George Clooney had Casamigos. The Rock has Teremana, multibillion-dollar things, like seemingly overnight. I was like, I'm playing this wrong. I still wasn't convinced because I didn't want to be famous. And I was sat across the table from a friend of mine who's famous. You would recognize him. And I said, like, don't you get bothered by having, like, weirdos show up at your house, like, 3 times a week? And he said, if that's the price I have to pay for the impact I want to have, I'd pay that price twice a day and 7 days a week.