Drunk Ideas:  Only Fans For Therapy, A Secret Bookcase for your Phone, and More artwork

Drunk Ideas: Only Fans For Therapy, A Secret Bookcase for your Phone, and More

My First Million

August 23, 2022

Episode 351: Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) and Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) talk drunk business ideas... some good and some bad. ----- Links: * Photo Vault app * Santa's Club * /r/popping * SlideShare * Shaan's tweet about Slideshare * Opal Camera * Do you love MFM and want to see Sam and Shaan's smiling faces?
Speakers: Sam Parr, Shaan Puri, Ben
**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.

**Shaan Puri** (1:02)
This business I'm calling Only Problems because forget about crime. The biggest battle is what's inside. So people in life have basically the same five problems, health, wealth, relationships, happiness, purpose in life.
Everybody's got the same five problems, right? That's the dirty secret. I saw Tony Robbins once. He goes, I've helped 4 million people in these seminars, 22 years, and guess what? People have five problems.
And he goes, if you think, the woe is me, if you think it's a big burden on you, guess what? In this room right now, there's probably 500 other people who have, you know, this can have the same problem as you, whether it's with their husband or their kids or their parents or their health or whatever. And so a lot of people need therapy, but guess what? A lot of people aren't going to therapy. It's too taboo, it's too expensive, it's too vulnerable. They don't wanna do it. People would rather sit on Netflix and just watch reality TV for distraction and entertainment.
Wait a minute, is that a great idea? Is that a great idea I just heard? Yes, it is. You turn therapy into entertainment. So it's called Only Problems, it's Only Fans for Therapy. And here's how it works.
You are going to, you pay a monthly subscription and you get to sit in, fly on the wall style to somebody going through an actual therapy session with the problem that you have, with the area of your life that you're most curious about. You can go listen to somebody vent about their relationships, about their health problems, about their career problems, whatever it is, they're getting real therapy, but they get it subsidized. So they get cheap therapy, maybe free therapy, because there's 25 people, anonymous people who don't know their identity, you don't know the listener's identity, that get to listen in and they get to back channel, talk a little shit in the chat, you don't get to see that.
And they get to sit in on a therapy session. Therapists get more clients, people get more help, and other people get kind of secondhand smoke help by being in the crowd and getting to listen to it. And they get the entertainment and they get help.
All right, so we're here, we're gonna do a fan favorite, the Drunk Ideas episode. This episode started when I had some business ideas that, I'll admit it, I knew they were bad, but they weren't all bad, they were bad good. And bad good is a separate thing altogether. Bad good, how do you explain bad good? You know what I mean when I say that, right?

**Sam Parr** (3:34)
Yeah, it's like the lady who sells farts in a jar. Like when you're telling someone about it, you're like, that's the stupidest shit I've ever heard. And then she makes $500,000. Have you seen that lady?

**Shaan Puri** (3:44)
Yeah, yeah, this idea is like the beefy five burrito at Taco Bell, it's bad good. And so basically these are ideas that I know are not great, but there's some nugget of gold in them. There's some truth to them.
And so they need to be said. And so I think being drunk is like air cover to saying some silly, stupid things.

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