hey guys welcome to Silicon Valley Girl
episode 3 I've recently checked my DMS
on Instagram and I realized that the
most popular question that you asked me
is marina how to find this thing that I
should do in my life and because I think
I figured that out when I was 15 or 14 I
want to talk about that in this video so
continue watching
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the problem is there are so many things
happening around us right now
people are doing so much stuff one of my
friends started a gaming channel on
YouTube he's making $40,000 a month and
I'm like maybe I should started a gaming
channel and then another friend is
selling iPhones he's from Russia he
brings iPhones from the stage sells them
double price in Russia makes a lot of
money and then you like maybe I should
do the same because that brings so much
money but the thing is you have to
listen to yourself like if you try to
copy somebody this is not gonna last
maybe you will be successful for a
couple months and then you're gonna be
fed up with what's going on in my case I
think I started in an industry that is
not really big a study abroad industry
in America people don't understand study
abroad industry when I talk to our first
investors when it when they talk to our
first investors they were like do people
even learn languages until like yes they
do yes we do the thing is because I'm so
passionate about what I do and if you
guys are new to this channel I started a
company called lingua tribe calm it's a
study abroad booking platform because
study brought changed my life and I knew
what kind of impact it had on me and I
wanted to spread that among thousands of
students and millions of students all
over the world and the thing is when you
realize what you want to do everything
is so natural I also had a problem
figuring out what I want to do because I
started learning English and I was like
wow English is such a big fashion maybe
I should become a translator and I'm so
grateful my parents stepped in when I
was 17 because I was determined to go to
university and said it English is a main
subject and then my mom stepped in and
she's like okay Marina if you see
yourself in America later what why would
you study English you should learn
another skill and English would be a
medium and this is kind of how I came to
study abroad because I realized I want
to help people study languages quick
tips on how to find out what is really
yours first what really works me with
all of the channels that I've started in
youtube I was trying to figure out what
people ask me the most like you sit down
with your friends what do they ask you I
was constantly asked about how to
migrate to the state how do right now
mass like all the time
you start a YouTube channel how do you
build your influence and this is why I
started Silicon Valley girl when you
have to determine is what people ask you
all the time and sometimes you just get
tired of answering all of those
questions and what you want to do is
just want to record a video and answer
all of those questions or maybe start a
business because you realize hey they're
always asking me about it how do I
decorate my apartment maybe you don't
even have to be a designer by education
you just have to have fashion maybe this
is something what you want to do another
thing if you think that what you love to
do so stupid like gaming or doing stupid
stuff and videos again remember that
example from the beginning of this video
my friend check is out is America TV
let's play channel he has more than a
million subscribers makes 40,000 dollars
every month and lives a beautiful life
in Florida another friend who was really
fond of gaming he started a gaming
company and sold it to Microsoft we came
to see Matt Matt is an entrepreneur who
already sold his company to Microsoft
I'm not I'm 18 years old and I'm the CEO
of beam this is all about following your
passion these guys don't even have
higher education but the coolest thing
about them is they found out what they
really really love and this is what I
encourage you to do like sit down and
create this day when you just think of
what's happening to you like what would
make you the happiest person in the
world what would that be try to think of
activities that you would do for free
for the next two years because why when
I started my company I couldn't make
money in the first year we were renting
a table for $100 and I was making like a
hundred dollars a month myself but I was
eager to work for free because I
realized this is my passion this is what
I want to do this is how I want to help
people so your task is to sit down and
think what your friends ask you what you
love to do and what you would be able to
do for at least the next two years of
your life for free and then you're done
you know if you realize you want to
start your business you can serve right
now you don't have to wait till you quit
your job till you graduate from the
University I started when I was 21 I was
in the fourth year of my studies in
Russia was studied for five years so I
would run
out of the lectures that had my phone
like my office phone with me I would run
out of the lecture pretend that I'm in
the office because people paid us
thousands of dollars so I had to pretend
a more professional so I was there in
the cart of my universities in hello
this is marina MP education how can I
help you and then I would go back to the
lecture this is how it all started like
you don't have to have a fancy office
you just have to have fashion and
understanding that this is exactly what
you want to do in your life they're
always asking me about it how do i
decorate my apartment maybe you don't
even have to be a designer by education
you just have to have fashion maybe this
is something what you want to do test
number one for you in comments below
write down that particular thing that
you would be able to do for free in your
life it doesn't matter how ridiculous it
sounds if it's playing games write it
down if that's you know making ice cream
write that down if that's eating five
times a day write that down
I will pick up three weirdest things
that you guys come up with in comments
below and tell you how you can make
business out of it so comment below I'm
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