Someone Paying Our Producer $100K for Advice? - Here's the Story

**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.
I think you should go hard on this. So you have 100,000 listeners a month. You're making single digit thousands of dollars.
You would make like six figures a year for sure doing this.
All right, good. So, Shaan, what's good? What's going on?

**Shaan Puri** (1:28)
What's up, what's up? You got Ben still on the line. What do you got for Ben?
Normally you're like, Ben, turn off your video. We need to focus.

**Sam Parr** (1:36)
I'm gonna tell you why. So Ben made a comment to me, maybe to you too, I think you were here, like a while ago, a month or two months ago. And I've been thinking a lot about it. And he kind of made it not a big deal, but it's kind of a big deal to me. So Ben, I haven't told you, I'm gonna bring this up. I'm only gonna like kind of mention the thing and then you could kind of explain how you want to. But basically, Ben Wilson has this podcast called How to Take Over the World. And you said that a very wealthy person, like a hundreds of millions of dollars person, has you on retainer and basically tells you the strategy that this person is going to do in business. And you tell him stories from history to let him know what you predict will happen. Is that right?
Yes. Yes. He made, is that crazy?
He didn't explain it that way, but that's exactly what happened.

**Shaan Puri** (2:31)
It's like a sugar daddy, but it's like a history daddy.
You're like a history baby, I guess. Sugar baby.

**Sam Parr** (2:41)
That's true. Did I get that act? Did I explain that?

**Ben Wilson** (2:44)
Yeah, so here's the full story. I get a lot of people who reach out to me. At this point, basically any fan who's like, hey, can I talk to you for a little bit? I'm just like, yeah, I'm not that big yet. If you're big enough that you want to, if you think I'm important enough that you want to talk to me, yeah, I'll talk to you. That's starting to change a little bit. A lot of people want my time now, but this was a while ago.
And so I said, yes, I'll talk to you. He's like, I'm thinking of starting something I want to talk to you about it. I was like, okay, this guy's probably a joker, but whatever. He reached out to me, I'll talk to him. So we hop on a Zoom and first thing, like he's got a glass wall behind him and you can tell he's in like a very, very, very high, high rise in New York City. You can see the whole skyline behind him. So immediately I was like, this is not what I thought it was going to be.
And so he was like, yeah, I'm a managing director at XYZ Bank, one of the biggest banks in the world.
And I lead their X division, very, very big financial division at this big bank. And he's like, I just randomly found your podcast and you don't know this, but I've been listening to you. You're my guru now. So I want to talk to you about like what I'm thinking of starting and I would just want to bounce it off you and see what you think about it. And so he gets to call me whenever he wants to.