Does a person need them in order to successfully run their own business?
No. Colleges teach you how to work for someone
more than how to be an entrepreneur. Most of my mentors have way less education than I do.
So, speaking of college, university degrees. Do you have them? I do. Does a person
need them in order to successfully run their own business? No. It is so funny. I feel like
I've learned more from people that actually do business. My mentors that have actually
had a business, successfully run a business, I've learned more about business than I
ever learned from Baylor, Penn State or UConn. Just being really honest. When you go to college, they
don't teach you how to implement and do it. It's just very, it's just information and you leave with
all of this great information but you don't know what you're doing. You know the person that
taught you accounting for example, they're not an accountant nor are they going to teach you
how to do accounting in your own business. They really kind of teach you how to do accounting
at a job. Yeah, colleges teach you how to work for someone more than how to be an entrepreneur and so
it's not really as valuable as the education. Although I'm proud of my degrees and I tell
people I don't think it's not necessary a hundred percent. Most of my mentors
have way less education than I do and were way richer and way more successful than I was
while I was wasting my time going to school and then the student loans you know it just-
I've taken people's mentorship and the most expensive mentorship I paid for was $55,000. Okay
my MBA from Baylor was more than that. Yeah, of course and with the thing that this person.
She was making two million dollars when I met her. Okay her name was Lisa Sassovich and I bought
into her mentorship program. She's still with us? She's still alive but she doesn't mentor any more.
Kind of the past tense. Sorry. She doesn't mentor any more, obviously she was
making two million dollars five years ago. She's in Aruba, she's in Jamaica.
You're here. Correct. Okay she passed the baton to me. So, she doesn't
do that anymore and what I learned from her about business was far more valuable than what I learned.
More application than theory. Correct, which is really what a university education is there
are times when I go yeah, these are some of these business professors who've never actually worked
in business. They've got all the degrees, they've read all the books, they've written
all the dissertations and all of the doc- they've done research and they've never held a job in
Corporate America or Corporate Taiwan or anywhere. They've only been educators. Correct and I
agree that being able to take- but see the part with you is you did have a lot of theory
already in your head so I think to some degree... to some degree, it does give you the confidence that
you say well I know this. Now, I just have to learn how to do it in this circumstance. Yeah,
yeah so you've learned from the school of life, the school of hard knocks, the kindergarten of
getting the crap kicked out of you, the high school of being whatever and now just having done
it. Yeah, you've learned from mentors, you've read their books, who else has influenced you? What other
influences have you had and I don't even mean necessarily professionally but are there
other people out there just in other walks of life where you go boy, that person really is
I mean present company excluded obviously because that's come on. But I mean are there other-?
Tons. You know I like people from Will Smith to Warren Buffett. You know what I mean?
I get inspiration from pretty much everyone because I'm on YouTube
first of all in the morning, listening to different positive motivational things.
So I'll hear different people's voices and I don't even know what I'm listening to sometimes and I'll
look in the description box. You must have YouTube premium. I do. You can listen without watching,
correct, because I can listen without watching. Yeah it's only like 15 bucks so it's worth it,
no commercial for some of us. You know anyway so you're listening to all these different people. So
listen to all of these different people on YouTube again morning part of my morning routine and I've
learned new names. You know Eric Thomas and Bob Proctor and Esther Hicks and
Tony Robbins and I could just go on and on about the different people that are now influencing me
just from listening to their motivational speeches and things that they've done and I think you
can get inspiration from anyone that we feel is doing something that we want to do, that's great
because I don't think it's a gender thing. I don't think it's a cultural
thing. I think everyone's just so individual but I've always been like averse to sort of
taking other people's ideas or you know what I mean like I just want to do it myself. Yeah,
I think that's in some way that's harm to me because it sort of closed me off from
other things that could possibly help me but you know I don't know if it's my
upbringing but I've always been really independent like ah those people don't know what they're
talking about ah they're full of hot air. Oh, all those stupid things but I mean I'm sitting here
with you. I'm so gullible, I'm like tell me more and it's funny. I'm like childlike with that like
any time someone tells me they're doing something, that was one of the things I suspend you .
Believe it, skepticism. I just believe just suspend it and vlog what if what they're
saying is true. What if you can make a million dollars in a day? We literally in every way
are on absolute opposite ends of the poll. You are a beautiful black woman, I am an ugly white man
who's closed-minded. You're gullible, I'm cynical.
It could not be a better pairing. Yeah, okay. All right let's see. Wow what an amazing episode.
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