Ariel Helwani Is Building His Own ESPN. He Already Has 1m+ Followers. He Tells Us How.

**Sam Parr** (0:00)
All right, there's this amazing book called Getting Everything You Can Out of All You've Got. I read it a few years ago and it changed my life.
And the reason I loved it was because it basically talks about how to get and make more money using things that you already have.
Coincidentally, today's podcast is brought to you by Business Made Simple. It's a podcast by Donald Miller, who I'm gonna tell you about in a second, but he has this amazing episode that's all related to this book and the things that I learned in this book. It's called How to Make Money with What You Already Have. It's an incredible episode. It talks about all the stuff that I learned in this book. The host is Donald Miller. I didn't know who Donald Miller was up until recently, but over the last 12 months, this is totally by coincidence. It was all separate people. They said, you have to check out Donald Miller. He's amazing. So I'm happy that he's part of HubSpot's Podcast Network. You can check it out, Business Made Simple Podcast. It's where he coaches you on how to build your business like an airplane, where the cockpit is your leadership, the body is your overhead, the right engine is your marketing, the left engine is your sales.
You have to check it out. This guy's amazing. It's called Business Made Simple with Donald Miller.

**Ariel Helwani** (1:02)
I knew he wanted me out. He wanted me out from before I even got there. Like from the moment the news came out that I was signing, he was trying to get me to not even have day one at ESPN. And so just being 100% honest, I'm a petty guy. There was a part of me that almost wanted to stay in spite of him.

**Sam Parr** (1:30)
We're live now, so we always hit recording right away.

**Ariel Helwani** (1:32)
Jeez. So getting me with the blindsided live. I like it.

**Sam Parr** (1:37)
Well, it's sad.

**Shaan Puri** (1:38)
That's how the real pros do it, Ariel. I don't know how you guys do it on TV, but the real pros just go live abruptly in mid-senates.

**Sam Parr** (1:44)
I love it.

**Ariel Helwani** (1:45)
I love it. I'm always ready.

**Sam Parr** (1:46)
So we got introduced through a friend, our buddy John, who's apparently your closest buddy. And I don't know what you know about us and we could tell you about it in a minute, but basically we're pretty popular in the business world.

**Shaan Puri** (2:01)
Let's start with that.
Yeah. Pretty big deal is what's happening.

**Ariel Helwani** (2:05)
Anthony Pettis is a fan. I know that.

**Sam Parr** (2:07)
Yes. We're not nearly as big of a deal as you are in your world, but we're on the cusp of being pretty big.
And we've talked to a bunch of amazing people. We've talked to titans of industry. We've talked to billionaires. We've talked to people who have tens of thousands of employees, people who products you use, whatever. I have never been as starstruck or as nervous to talk to someone else. Yeah, this is such nonsense. No, I swear to God, Ariel, I've been listening to you for maybe 10 years.
I've never been this nervous.

**Ariel Helwani** (2:35)
Okay, and so for the audience at home, the only reason why Sam is saying this right now is because I think you recorded this after the explanation of what happened last time. We were supposed to actually do this a month ago, and he stood me up. So he's trying to butter me up because he still feels bad. He was in some villa in Hawaii.
I'm on the East Coast, freezing my butt off here, and he didn't wake up in time, and now he's trying to tell me that he is starstruck in front of me. Get out of here with this.

**Sam Parr** (3:03)
No, I... This is Cap.

**Ariel Helwani** (3:04)
As the kids say, this is full Cap right here, all right? There's no Cap in this Cap.

**Shaan Puri** (3:08)
Sam doesn't know... He doesn't know Cap. He doesn't know this sort of modern lingo.

**Sam Parr** (3:13)
Well, I've been dead honest. Like we've talked to a lot of wonderful, amazing people. I've never been this nervous because you don't take a lot of shit. You call people out. The whole thing with Brendan Schaab is amazing.
The whole Helwani, the whole Thug Nose, I know about it all, CEO PF. Chang's.

**Ariel Helwani** (3:35)
That's amazing. That is incredible.

**Sam Parr** (3:37)
Well, like every one of your guests takes their interviews from the phone while driving. I'm shocked you're not doing that.