Steph Smith: Jobs of the Future, Fractional Real Estate, Mouth Tape and More

**Shaan Puri** (0:00)
DDC Hearing Aids, I think that's actually gonna be a big deal.

**Sam Parr** (0:03)
And they were profitable?

**Shaan Puri** (0:05)
I mean, I'm just turning you on. Yeah, they were.

**Sam Parr** (0:07)
Tell me more.

**Shaan Puri** (0:09)
Do I say it again? Oh my God.

**Sam Parr** (0:16)
How far away from the coast did they live?

**Shaan Puri** (0:18)
Are they inland?

**Sam Parr** (0:34)
Steph Smith's here. Before we talk about Steph Smith and all our ideas, we have two things.
Shaan, you wanna go first?

**Shaan Puri** (0:40)
Yeah, I gotta come clean. I have a very late disclaimer I have to give. So a few episodes ago, maybe like four or five episodes ago, we had talked about a business idea that was like a children's play space. Basically you go there and you like, it's just a place to play. You pay membership fee and you go play with all these cool toys inside. Anyways, I was like, oh, it turns out, like interesting business, it's a franchise thing, blah, blah, blah.
Anyways, but-

**Sam Parr** (1:05)
And you just went there. You didn't know anything about it.

**Shaan Puri** (1:07)
I didn't even go there. Ben went there. My business partner went there and he was telling me about it. And he's like, yeah, like, you know, I was talking to the guy and here's their occupancy. Here's their, if that's true, then here's what they would be making.
Well, I went and looked at the website and before and after, and basically meetings like bookings to like inquire about a franchise got booked out for like four and a half months after the pod.
And I just want to say, I have no idea if this is a good business or not. That was a estimate.
That was a single experience. It was a, hey, this, that's kind of cool, huh? That could make money. I do not endorse this. I don't know if it's good or bad. I can't say either way. And I really hope that a bunch of people didn't go buy franchises of this thing, thinking that I was vouching for this. So I just had to say that because I saw all those meetings get booked and I got a little nervous. I was like, oh wait, this is not a, I can't co-sign this. I can't vouch for this either direction. And I just needed to say that up front. So please don't mortgage the house and go buy a franchise of this thing.

**Sam Parr** (2:05)
Did they reach out to you?

**Shaan Puri** (2:06)
No, they didn't. No, I don't think they knew what happened.

**Sam Parr** (2:11)
That MFM effect. Well, and the second thing is, so we have like these sources wherever like, I'm about to talk about something health related or like, I don't know, in your case, in that example, the franchise related or real estate related. We have like three or four buddies who will like text and be like, hey, we're thinking about talking about this. What's your opinion on X, Y, and Z? And they'll kind of give us some insight.
One of those guys, his name's Adam Bornstein. I met Adam because he was like, he basically ran a lot of Tim Ferriss' stuff.
And one time he had this conference called 212 He invited me to go and they would rent out like the four seasons and one time I checked into my room and it was so big, I called down to the front desk and I was like, hey, who do I share this room with?
And it was a 4,000 square foot, four seasons penthouse, the presidential suite that had like a 16 person dining table, a movie theater and that's how I met Adam as he invited me to come to his event. And so I've always asked him for health stuff. Well, he just had a book come out. It's called, You Can't Screw This Up. I'm trying to think of the best way to summarize it, but it's basically, so I have this thing written down. It's basically Ryan Holiday, James Clear, Tim Ferriss, like that style of writing and like that, like, I don't know, simple hacks, but that's kind of a bad word. But I don't mean it that way. But like these simple hacks on how you can create healthier diet habits. So the book is called, You Can't Screw This Up. He also worked with Arnold Schwarzenegger and that's who got, he got to write the foreword. So I just want to give a shout out to Adam. He's a friend of the pod, so I want to give him a shout out. But Steph Smith, what's good, nice to see you.