Sam Parr Reveals How He Grew The Hustle And Why You Shouldn’t Take Outside Funding | #Marketing - Ep. 58

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What's up everybody? This is Russell. Welcome back to the show. Excited to have someone who I've been watching for a long time over the last couple of years. Do a lot of really cool businesses, a lot of things. But this is actually the first time I've had a chance to meet him in person and talk to him. His name is Sam Parr. He's the founder of The Hustle, which a lot of you guys know. He's got a great podcast called My First Million, another business called The Hampton. I'm excited to talk about all those things with him. But Sam, thanks for jumping on and finally excited to get to know you and actually meet you in person for the first time.

**Sam Parr** (1:48)
Hey, I'm excited to be doing this. You can check my account. I've used ClickFunnels and I think I've got my Two Comma Club record.
I think I've made over a million on using ClickFunnels.

**Russell Brunson** (2:01)
Have you submitted the award yet? We need to get it to you.

**Sam Parr** (2:03)
No, I did not. But I definitely have achieved a few things on ClickFunnels, and so I'm happy you made that and I'm happy to be here.

**Russell Brunson** (2:12)
Well, that's awesome. Thank you. I know it's funny on our side. I think we've awarded over 3,000 Two Comma Club Awards now, which is exciting, but the number of people who've never submit is probably double that, which drives me crazy because I like bragging about the number. So I'm going to add it to now at 3,001. I'm counting years as officially in there now.

**Sam Parr** (2:28)
So we've done, I've done over a million across a couple of accounts, but I for sure did sit like I used to use ClickFunnels. I still do as like my MVP and and I've done six figures a couple of times.

**Russell Brunson** (2:40)
Oh, that's so cool. Well, thank you for being for using the platform. I appreciate that.
So I first got it familiar with you guys with you specifically with your newsletter The Hustle, but I'm curious like before that, I don't know your history prior to that. Like how did you get into entrepreneurship and get into this whole world back at the very beginning? Where did your path start?

**Sam Parr** (3:00)
I'm from Missouri and in Missouri, all of my family were small business owners. They didn't call it entrepreneurs. They just, my parents actually started a fruit stand. That was their kind of their first business and parlayed that into something a little bit bigger. But I grew up in Missouri. I was a Division I athlete or I wanted in college or in high school, I wanted to be a Division I athlete and I became one. And so that's why I moved to Tennessee. I went to a small, I ran the 400 meter dash. So I used to be fairly fast, not anymore, but I used to be. And in college, I was studying accounting and music business. And I knew I was going to start a business. I thought it was going to be a blue collar lawn care company. I wasn't sure, but my first business was a hot dog stand. And so I had eventually a bunch of hot dog stands. I think, did you write a book on how to like...