Virtual Study Halls, Absurd $ For Speeches, And Pushing the Boulder Uphill artwork

Virtual Study Halls, Absurd $ For Speeches, And Pushing the Boulder Uphill

My First Million

August 11, 2022

Sam Parr (@TheSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) talk about virtual study halls, the absurd amount of money Scott Galloway makes per speech, and what it means to push the boulder uphill when starting a business.
Speakers: Sam Parr, Shaan Puri
**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. 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'm a 25 year old. I used to work in banking and M&A. I made like low six figures and it was a cool job, but I recently quit after listening to you guys. And now I own a bunch of vending machines and it's allowed me to make 10 grand a month and do a bunch of running. And he said, quote, do memorable things, which is what you guys talked about at the end of the pod. This is pretty amazing.
All right, I think we're good. Dude, Shaan, thanks for dressing up. You look nice.

**Shaan Puri** (1:32)
All right, so for those who can't see the YouTube video right now, Sam is in some kind of, I don't even know where he's at. He's in some kind of LA, some kind of Playboy Mansion, podcast studio. I don't even know what's going on.
Not a single wall is normal. One of them's a 3D texture, one of them's got a plant from the Amazon jungle, and he's got like five people there. He's got like a movie crew. Somebody just came and powdered his nose. I don't know what's going on. I'm still in my bedroom, and I recently woke up. So, you know, we got a little yin and yang going.

**Sam Parr** (2:10)
Why don't you explain what you're wearing, Sean? I'll say a sleeveless hoodie.

**Shaan Puri** (2:17)
No, what Sam calls shirtless. If Sam sees a shoulder, he has like a minor panic attack.

**Sam Parr** (2:26)
It just, you know, I've it's something we can't all dress like Arthur.
I was hoping that if I came here, so I came here the other day to record a podcast with this guy named Danny. And I came here, I go, I called Ben, like right when I was there, I FaceTime, I go, Ben, book this for like in three days. This is where we're going to record from now on. And I was like, if if we do this here, maybe it would inspire Sean to like record with more than just one air pod in his iPhone and a plant in the background. And maybe we can make something happen. So hopefully I'm going to wear off on you and you'll do it right on your end because I think we'll get more views on YouTube finally.

**Shaan Puri** (3:08)
Yeah, the last time I felt this much peer pressure, I ended up on shrooms. And so hopefully this just ends better.
But I do feel the pressure now. I will find, you know, I don't even know what is this place that you're at. You give him a shout out.

**Sam Parr** (3:22)
What is the name of a place called WTF Media?
WTF Media. That guy, you know, that guy, Danny, you were on his thing too. He's been emailing me forever for me. Oh, really? OK, cool. Well, I came on his thing and I came here and it was awesome. I think we paid a couple hundred bucks. I don't remember to be here. And I think this is actually the same studio that Andrew Schultz and Charlamagne, I think, record their thing, right?
Yeah. And it's like pretty easy. So I just took, you know, rode my scooter here and did it.

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