i load up a nice cup of water and i make myself a nice cup of tea
i should have heated up this water
what's up youtube this is john santos and these are my 10 essentials now as an entrepreneur it's
hard to balance out the everyday life of having to create dinner breakfast
lunch you know you're always hungry you always got to be fueled and it's
very hard to sit down and actually cook a good sized meal to be able to fulfill your energy
throughout the day and that is why the very first essential on this list is meal preps
meal preps come in a nice little container such as this you can shop them from your neighborhood
archie's thai restaurant to your neighborhood mcdonald's you can meal prep that way or
you can also get a little bit more healthy and subscribe to a meal prepping service that may be
in your area subscribing to a service is really good because of the fact that they count the
calories so you're able to like count and portion serve depending on the diet that you're going for
so for me i didn't want to you know gain a bunch of weight by eating mcdonald's every day so
i went with a meal prepping service that is able to help me kind of maintain my figure here
this meal prep here has been a lifesaver and more importantly they keep me fueled throughout the day
and now as we're going about our day we got a busy schedule as entrepreneurs there's meetings there's
all kinds of things you got to get done from ideation to planning to logistics to team building
apple products have been the way to go for me because they keep things simple now i used to
be a huge android fan i was android raver you know like i really loved that platform until i got to
apple and then i realized how much simpler life is because of it now my favorite part
about using the apple ecosystem is the fact that you're able to sync everything from your phone to
tablet to your computer you can airdrop stuff super easily you can work on all of the adobe
suites for designing as well as all of the online platforms that we use as a business are compatible
within apple products for me apple has been the way to go because it helps simplify my life and
my work which just helps you be a little bit more productive and not have to worry
about the intricacies of doing things like you would on an android device so if apple products
simplify my life the one program and software as a service that simplifies the business is monday.com
now monday.com is an amazing platform that essentially allows us to work as a
team collaboratively so as you're onboarding the team members or you have certain logistical plays
it's very hard to organize everything on a task list like asana or like other project management
software i've used a lot of them throughout the years monday has simplified everything to a very
easy to understand system so as an entrepreneur it helps us not only get people on the same
page a lot faster it also helps us become more efficient and also helps us see where we may have
bottlenecks so meaning where are things being held up in production where are things being held up in
marketing and people can communicate really easily provide updates and that's why monday is the go-to
platform for our business for what we do here at the santo studios for what we do for youtube
what we do for our audience of entrepreneurs out there so from using monday it helps us organize
all of our production and productivity as a team which allows us to get more videos on youtube
so we finally got this nice plaque in one thing i can't live without is youtube and this plaque
right here i love this plaque because every day you can come in and you can say
you did it you got the 100k and everybody else can come in and say this is awesome we did it
we got the 100k in all honesty youtube has been an amazing platform not only for our business
but also for our community for people that are out there watching that are entrepreneurs that
are looking for design tips marketing website e-commerce products anything under the sun related
to business entrepreneurship and e-commerce is what we cover on this channel so youtube
has been an amazing platform that allows us to communicate with people like you and our mission
is to continue to help bring clarity to business and impacting the world through the brands and
businesses that you guys create now the next thing i can't live without are these headphones
i just got them in yesterday but i can't live without them i couldn't put them down i had to
i had to wear them everywhere i went i wore them in the store i wore them in the bathroom
i wore them in the shower and as i put them on was really cool is that you can't hear nothing right
now i could barely hear myself there's ac running people talking in the back but these apple airpods
help you stay focused because they cancel out all the noise and uh it allows you to just be
in the moment be in tune with the present and more importantly be in tune with the ideas that
are coming through your head so you can execute a lot better i think they did an amazing job
with the way that you're able to just put your little headphones in here and now uh
they're stored away nicely and you just put them right in your pocket
and you're good to go for the day so whenever a call comes up you open it attach them and it
automatically works now the headphones help keep me focused so we can continue to make this money
and this money right here is amazing because it empowers businesses it empowers community
it empowers the world and it helps you employ people it helps you make a bigger impact but
all of this money could potentially be gone really quickly because i could drop it and then i'm like
where's my money and i walked away and now i can't pay somebody's paycheck that week which is why
hatchcard.com comes in clutch here now hatchcart is essentially an online system for you to be
able to collect the payments that you receive as an entrepreneur now the best part about it
is that they provide you with a mastercard debit card which allows you to process it at
locations anywhere in the world with benefits like airport concierge to identity theft protection
to simplified pricing throughout all of their systems one of the best parts about this banking
service is that they have no overdraft fees so sometimes as you're doing business your balance
could sometimes go to zero so in order to prevent you from being charged additional money and being
in the negative in the red they have removed any kind of transaction fees which is really cool
because this is designed for entrepreneurs and as an entrepreneur sometimes it's difficult to
project the cash flow that you'll have next month and you might you know over expense some things
so hatch is here to protect your business as well as to help you collect on your payments
and help you pay out vendors simply and easily through the mobile application that's included
and the next thing i can't live without is a man caesar dude whose money is this oh yeah
so this man right here everybody needs a guy like this on their team now caesar is a guy
that you can bring into the hood to compton and he could be filming and he's like are you scared
i'm never scared i go to church and then he could also go into like a super professional location
and just put on his super professional face or he can get into the studio and spit some bars
you know this guy right here everything that he does he touches turns to gold and from the setups
to new inventions to mobile live streams something that probably hasn't been ever done in the history
of youtube the way that we're doing it shout outs to this guy somebody i can't live without
and more importantly i can't live without my wife and baby you know they're also super important to
me they're the love of my lives and they helped me really maintain a balanced life overall so
appreciate you guys and as entrepreneurs that balance a work-life balance in the office to build
in your brands we all know that energy is the one thing that gets depleted whenever you go anywhere
so you always got to stay loaded up i stay loaded up on energy through this nice green tea
this is bigelow tea now i love bigelow tea because you could buy this at sam's club for like three
bucks and it comes with 160 individually wrapped tees here so i love this because all i got to do
i heat up a nice cup of water i go in the back in the morning every morning at 8 00 a.m sharp
as well as at 1 30 2 p.m sharp i load up a nice cup of water and i make myself a nice cup of tea
i should have heated up this water remember guys you always got to have a nice heated cup of water
but this you can see i use it all the time this is awesome and now with all this newfound energy
that i got with my nice big low tea the next item i can't live without is this nice watch
now this watch had a little glowing light right here and you're probably wondering what why is
it glowing it's glowing because it's reading my energy levels and green means money and it means
that i'm ready to get it but this also tells me how ready i am to get it every morning when i
wake up in the morning it tracks every step that i take but it also tracks my performance levels in
the gym to the everyday walking to the respiratory to the heartbeats like literally this garmin watch
tracks everything that i do in my life which is amazing because if you're not tracking
everything that you're doing you're not getting the results that you need to get so for me it's
a daily inspiration to walk more to work out more to track my calories because it connects to
fitness apps like the under armour fitness app so i'm literally tracking everything that i'm
doing on a performance basis from my personal life to help me improve on the month-to-month
because like they say in order to get results you need to be able to track those efforts and then
you can continue to improve on a month-to-month and this watch right here helps me progress in
my personal life and as you track your life and business another important aspect that i cannot
live without is a from the ground up ecosystem from the ground up systems that we've created here
whether that means apparel merge that we're designing that's coming real soon in order to
help you guys live out your everyday lifestyle you see we got tomorrow's never guaranteed
to the you get what you focus on you know these are some of the samples of the products that
we're launching very soon on this channel in this community what from the ground up really
means is obviously people are building their their businesses and brands from the ground up but what
this means on a personal level is how are you building your entire business life your career
from the ground up so we've created planners to courses to videos on youtube to really help
you build out your entire life and business from the ground up and what that means for us is your
everyday habits what you're doing on the everyday whether it's the things that you're accomplishing
your business or your personal life on an everyday basis that compound and create those effects
that you're then building brick by brick from the ground up this product line that we're releasing
to the planners and to the online tools that we're launching is all dedicated and designed to really
help you as an entrepreneur or as a creative to really help build your life and business from the
ground up and we hope that you guys take a look at this merch as it's dropping we're going to
be launching a pre-ordered link down below as we design and launch that website you'll also have a
couple of special videos that we release alongside that that shows the making of this product line
as well as the making of everything that we just discussed so those are the 10 things i cannot live
without all of these things are super important to my life i use them on an everyday basis
i'm excited to see the 10 things that you guys can't live without let's leave them
in the comments so we can discuss those and make sure you guys hit the subscribe button
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