Gerard Adams - Leaders Create Leaders

Gerard Adams, Also known as The Millennial Mentor. An inspirational leader, serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and philanthropist, Gerard's purpose is simple: to inspire other Millennials to leverage their passions to create the successful lifestyles they dream of. Gerard has a profound ability to help others shift their mindset, towards unlocking their god given abilities. Gerard was a multi-millionaire at 24, but not without overcoming obstacles, fear, and self-doubt. Gerard followed the path that was risky and non traditional, but he's always been one to aim for living a life outside of the ordinary. Gerard is also the founder of "www. EliteDaily.com” which is a multimedia website that provides exclusive, inspiration content to its 80 million monthly users. Today, Gerard Adams is committing most of his time by giving back to the community by providing progressive education through the principles of entrepreneurship. He provides the community with the skills, strategies, and mentorship needed to align" their purpose towards a prosperous career and lifestyle. Adams helped develop “FOWDERS” which is an incubator for aspiring inner city entrepreneurs , providing mentorship and a safe haven to pursue their dreams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 0:00Ed Mylett?

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• 0:45Ed Mylett?

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• 1:01Speaker 01

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• 1:05Speaker 02

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• 1:11Speaker 02

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• 1:18Speaker 01

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• 1:22Speaker 02

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• 1:25Speaker 01

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• 1:32Speaker 03

  This podcast is for leaders with passion and guts. Nothing less than a championship is acceptable.

• 1:42Ed Mylett?

  Welcome back to Max Out. I'm Ed Mylett, and I am so fired up about today's program because I have one of the most successful human beings on the spinning earth right now that is under 35 years old. This guy to my right, right here, you all know who he is. You can tell from looking at him. But let me give him the right introduction, okay? This young man right here founded Elite Daily, sold that thing for about $50 million. He's one of the great thought leaders on social media today. He's a serial entrepreneur. Forbes magazine called you the millennial mentor, right? And above all of that stuff, having getting to know him today, I must tell you, my favorite thing about him is the caliber of man that you are. And how generous you are and your spirit and your heart and your character. So today is going to be amazing. And so this is Gerard Adams.

• 2:27Ed Mylett?

  Gerard, thanks for being here, brother.

• 2:29Speaker 04

  Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. So inspired right now. You know, it's one thing when you look through the lens of social media and you look through on the videos. It's another when you're able to actually come and feel the energy and see it. And most importantly, right back at you, brother, like there's a lot of successful people in the world. But for me, it's about character.

• 2:50Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 2:50Speaker 04

  And not only do you show up for your community, but the way that you are, you know, when I met you and how humble you are and how welcoming you were for me and our team. Really appreciate that, man.

• 3:00Ed Mylett?

  Thank you. It's my pleasure, man, to have you here. You know, I've wanted you to do this for a long time. And so the stars aligned. So let's do something great here today. I hope my billing of you was accurate because Gerard has a lot, you know, the very few people you would meet with the success that Gerard's had so young, who has kept such a humble spirit about them too. And such a generous giving person. So, but I think some of that, having got to know you a little bit, has to do with your upbringing. I always like to take people back just a little bit. And so you grew up a little bit like I did in the middle, right? In the middle class. But tell everybody, you know, just a little bit about young Gerard, even though I still think you're young, but young, young Gerard. How'd you grow up? Tell us about your background.

• 3:38Speaker 04

  Well, you know, I, I really had an unbelievable upbringing because I had a really strong, you know, group of parents. Like my mother, you know, she just really showed me a love and compassion and empathy and like the things that, you know, a lot of people I feel like don't have. That's worth more than anything in the world. And my father was. Just a strong man, you know.

• 4:03Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 4:04Speaker 04

  He really instilled that leadership in a very young age. What he would used to do is he used to write notes and leave them for me hidden throughout my house.

• 4:12Ed Mylett?

  Really?

• 4:12Speaker 04

  If I went to go get a glass of milk, there's a freaking little ripped up note in there. If I went up to bed, there's something under when I pull the blanket up. If I wanted to go to school, he's dropping something in a freaking notebook for me or something. And there were these, you know, just quotes from whether it was John F. Kennedy, Marcus Aurelius, you know, just different leaders. And for me, you don't really understand it when you're really young. You're kind of like, oh, this is kind of cool again.

• 4:33Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 4:34Speaker 04

  But I really started to appreciate it as I started to get older. So I grew up with unbelievable parents.

• 4:39Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 4:40Speaker 04

  Hardworking.

• 4:41Ed Mylett?

  Hmm.

• 4:41Speaker 04

  They really instilled the work ethic for me. But I walked to school, I took the bus, I loved BMX, I was a skater. And, you know, for me, I was just a very creative person.

• 4:53Ed Mylett?

  Hmm, even young?

• 4:54Speaker 04

  Yeah, I had charisma even when I was young. I used to make my own clothes. I used to, I loved, I begged my parents for one thing only, put me into art school.

• 5:02Ed Mylett?

  Really?

• 5:02Speaker 04

  Yeah, I wanted to go to art school.

• 5:04Ed Mylett?

  Were you an only child?

• 5:05Speaker 04

  No, I have two unbelievable sisters.

• 5:08Ed Mylett?

  Okay.

• 5:08Speaker 04

  Yeah, so.

• 5:09Ed Mylett?

  Did he do the same thing for them? Was he writing them notes too? Or was that something he did just with his son?

• 5:12Speaker 04

  You know what's funny? I've actually never asked them.

• 5:14Ed Mylett?

  Yeah, it'd be interesting to know, wouldn't it? Were you the only one getting these notes?

• 5:18Speaker 04

  You know, it was just, you know, they were, he was very protective of my sisters.

• 5:24Ed Mylett?

  Okay, yeah, I'm sure.

• 5:25Speaker 04

  You know what I mean? And, yeah, so that, and he just, you know, they were way more educated. And, of course, he nurtured, he nurtured them. With me, it was a little more tough love, for sure.

• 5:35Ed Mylett?

  And your mom, by the way, I just get this feeling your mom's a major influence just because of how hard you're working. I watched earlier when you talked about your mom. There's certainly something very special there with you and your mom too, right? What'd you learn from mom?

• 5:45Speaker 04

  Well, you know, on both sides of my family, I'm extremely grateful of my heritage.

• 5:52Ed Mylett?

  Which is what, by the way? People, I mean, I know you get asked this all the time, right?

• 5:56Speaker 04

  Well, I'm so Colombian and Italian.

• 5:58Ed Mylett?

  Good.

• 5:59Speaker 04

  But, you know, my mother's side, I'm just. I'm gonna say like thirty days ago, I went visiting my grandfather. He turned ninety-nine years old. And I, you know, I said it to myself, I wrote it down, like, my grandfather's turning ninety-nine this year. I don't care what I'm doing, I don't care what interview, I don't care what, who wants to pay me for anything, what business, you know, opportunity there is, I am going to see my grandfather to help celebrate his ninety-nine and ask him these questions about immigrating to this country. And, you know, I'm second generation and I just feel like, you know, my mom's, you know, parents, my grandparents, they came here, you know, with that typical immigrant story with nothing. My grandfather came here first, then he sent

• 6:41Speaker 04

  back for my grandmother and my mother. My mother was born in Colombia and she came here. So I think that work ethic and that, you know, and just the appreciation for, for being here and like, and making and building a life is instilled in my mom. And then, um, so I'm really, I really think about that and that's what really drives me. But it was the moment that I saw my mom working seven days a week in a supermarket. And that was my first job, you know, I wanted to work, I wanted, you know, my parents weren't like, they didn't give me things, like I had to earn it. So my first job, believe it or not, was like, working at the supermarket where my mom worked, she was an employee there. And I'd never forget getting that first paycheck. And it was like maybe three hundred dollars. I look at that paycheck and I remember just seeing my mom working there and I'm just

• 7:26Speaker 04

  like, wow, like, there's no way, like, I gotta get my mom out of this. Like, this isn't real money. Like, how, you know, and at that moment, I started to really feel and think about that. I'm so proud of them. I'm so proud of what they've done.

• 7:41Ed Mylett?

  She's gone through. You go away to college, which I'm sure was like a major priority for your dad and your mom, especially for you to go, right? But you didn't last in college. And so I want people that are listening to this, because a lot of millennials are gonna watch this because you're here, they're in my audience as well. What happened with you in college?

• 7:59Speaker 04

  This is really interesting. I really didn't want to go to college. I was a bad kid right before graduating high school. In fact, I lost touch with a lot of my, you know, my good friends that I had grown up with earlier. I started hustling weed when I was in high school. Good. And I almost had a moment that really set me back. And I'll never forget the day my father caught me scaling in my bedroom. Hmm. And typically, you know, my, I was old, my dad, my dad was a little bit more of an old school Italian. So like, growing up, if I did something wrong, like he kind of like, I got the belt, like, my dad like pushed me around. It wasn't like. I know what you mean. You know what I mean? I relate. And I had a moment where I got pulled over and I thought that moment, I was about to get arrested and it was going to completely. Oh my gosh.

• 8:40Speaker 04

  Ruin, you know, my, the respect that my father would have for me and just for my community. And that story I've talked about, but someone was committing grand theft auto in front of me. And when I was doing this drop off, they ended up figuring that out, letting that person go and saying, hey kid, all right, get out of here. And when I had drove all the day, that was the day that I was like, okay, I'm going to college. Whoa. Okay, like, I got it. I gotta take this muscle mentality and I gotta learn about business. Like, I cannot be someone who ends up. Life altering moment. That was a life altering moment for me. But I ended up crying during graduation because my father wanted me to get into a good college. He wanted me to go to Princeton and I went to, I got into barely a community college.

• 9:26Speaker 04

  So I remember just completely freaking distraught being like. You crying because you thought you let your dad down? Actually, no. I was actually really more about the fact that like, the people that I had been friends with, they were, they were going to these great schools. And I was alone going to this community college and I was like, fuck, like I'm such a disappointment to, to like myself, like. And, but going to college that first semester. I instantly was like, this just isn't for me.

• 9:53Ed Mylett?

  You just knew.

• 9:54Speaker 04

  I just knew. I think it was part of the reason why I hustled. Like, I just always was this creative. I wanted to be outside the box. I didn't want to be, you know, I wanted to break the rules.

• 10:04Ed Mylett?

  That's that art thing in you, huh?

• 10:06Speaker 04

  The art thing in me, very creative to this day. And, you know, being in school, I was like, this isn't for me.

• 10:11Ed Mylett?

  Yeah, I went to college and it's one of the things that I, you know, there's more and more people I interviewed, but that wasn't their thing. And I think the consciousness about that is changing too. Because when I was in college, one of the things that I observed too is like, it just sort of brings out these cookie cutter people, the business school, you know, you kind of, and it sort of squashes from people their ambition, their creativity. I'm not knocking college at all. I have a degree.

• 10:32Speaker 04

  Me neither, and I'm projecting. If I had kids, I would sell them.

• 10:35Ed Mylett?

  It's a great debate in my family. My wife's like, they don't need to go to college. They go, absolutely, they're going to college. Well, they're going to be entrepreneurs anyway. It'll give them experience and it's an achievement. It shows work in finishing an idea. But, you know, you're a product like I am though of getting some mentors in your life and having guts. Like, you're where you are. You don't give yourself any credit. You're too humble. Your actual conditions right now, okay, your past and your present do not equal your future. Gerard's present at that time. I'm going to take you guys, we're going to flash forward. Gerard's present, if you gave you your resume, hustled a little bit of weed, mediocre student, community college, now I'm dropping out. If I said, where's he going, right? You'd say, well, the trajectory's not real good. Trajectories are BS. There's no such thing as a trajectory. You at any moment can alter the direction of your life.

• 11:19Ed Mylett?

  But one of the reasons you dropped out though, was you did have this burning desire to do something great in business, right? And you met a mentor or something at that time, right? Tell them about that story.

• 11:28Speaker 04

  Yeah, so, you know, for me, I felt at that time, the college wasn't for me, but I kept asking my classes, I'm like, does anybody know someone?

• 11:37Ed Mylett?

  Amazing you asked that.

• 11:38Speaker 04

  Like, does anybody know anybody that is like, that's made it, that's become, you know, you know, we talked about this earlier, not so much self-made, but like, for me at that moment, it was self-made. It was like, oh, you know, didn't have to go through the system, can break, beat the system and figured it out. And this internet thing is like really booming right now. Like, does anybody know anybody who's doing this? That's building online businesses, that's going out there and like becoming successful. I was really interested in the stock market at the time. No one knows about the stock market. And one person was like, yeah, I know a guy.

• 12:09Ed Mylett?

  Wow.

• 12:09Speaker 04

  And they're like, you know, after class, I'll take you over to, take you over to the house. And, um, you know, took me over to meet him and I'll never forget that day. I pull up and, you know, three car garage, basketball court, in-ground pool, just phenomenal.

• 12:24Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 12:24Speaker 04

  House. And I just remember walking in, this kid walks down the stairs. I'm like, yo, what do you do for, sorry, what do your parents do for a living?

• 12:31Ed Mylett?

  I love that, man.

• 12:32Speaker 04

  And he's just like, you know, this is actually my house. And in that moment, it was the first time in my life that I finally got to see.

• 12:40Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 12:41Speaker 04

  The success. I got to see someone who's created it. And for me, I'm an experiential learner. It's just the way I am. That's why mentorship is so important to me. It's why traveling is so important to me, embracing new cultures. It's why building these type of relationships. It's, it's, you know, for me, it's like, I need to learn hands-on.

• 12:56Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 12:56Speaker 04

  And I need to see it to believe it.

• 12:58Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 12:58Speaker 04

  And for me, that was the first moment of like, okay, boom, I'm gonna make this happen. I, I can see it now. And I was like, whatever it is that you know, and you, you, like you've learned, I'm willing to bring value to you, show up every day, work for you. You don't have to pay me.

• 13:11Ed Mylett?

  Wow.

• 13:11Speaker 04

  Just, you know, let me be a fly on the wall here. Let me serve for you and learn.

• 13:16Ed Mylett?

  And you dropped out of college to go to work with this dude.

• 13:18Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 13:18Ed Mylett?

  First thing is, everybody, that little story he told you about at graduation when he was crying, there's success leaves clues. Can I give you one little clue in there? People that win, that are successful, are incredibly self-aware. Okay? What that was, was a moment of self-awareness. Even as a young man, you're like, what did I do? What have I been doing? See, there were, there were millions of other guys at graduation who didn't do great, who were gonna go to community college. They weren't aware enough to go, this isn't who I am. I can't believe I let myself down. So that's number one. Number two is to have the guts to ask a quality question. The quality of your life is made up by the quality of the questions you ask yourself. Was this guy a traitor?

• 13:51Speaker 04

  Yeah. He was, he was actually a email marketer. He was an extremely great writer and researcher.

• 13:59Ed Mylett?

  Okay.

• 13:59Speaker 04

  And he would, he would basically do research and he, when I met him, he would teach me how to do research, how to do due diligence.

• 14:06Ed Mylett?

  Okay.

• 14:06Speaker 04

  I didn't even know what that word meant.

• 14:07Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 14:07Speaker 04

  How to actually look up companies, how to discover under-valued companies, and how to actually read their income statements, how to read their balance sheets, how to understand, you know, what their, you know, what their business plan was, where they were going, and just what the catalysts were. You know, what a PE was.

• 14:23Ed Mylett?

  So the email marketing was involving recommending buying or selling a particular stock?

• 14:27Speaker 04

  Yeah, so the, the trading aspect was one end, you know, just investing. And then he had another type of business, which was actually helping companies tell their stories.

• 14:35Ed Mylett?

  Okay, so you're young then. How did you end up doing with him? Did you end up doing well financially?

• 14:39Speaker 04

  Yeah, so I built up a, I worked with him. I started my first online business. It was called StockSpot. It was an online community. And I looked at it, I was like, well, I want to do something unique in this industry. And I want, I'm now starting to trade. I want to discover other traders. So I decided to launch a forum called StockSpot. And I looked at eBay and I was like, well, eBay has a rating system, one to five stars. What if we had a stock forum where each member has rated from one to five stars? And you would rate them based on how well they picked stocks? Because I want to find other people like this mentor that knows how to pick them and is recommending them.

• 15:11Ed Mylett?

  You created a space that didn't exist.

• 15:12Speaker 04

  I created a space for it, correct.

• 15:14Ed Mylett?

  How old were you when you did that?

• 15:15Speaker 04

  Nineteen.

• 15:16Ed Mylett?

  That's bananas. So you, look, there's something special about you, Gerard. I mean, guys don't do that at nineteen. That's not normal.

• 15:22Speaker 04

  Now they do.

• 15:23Ed Mylett?

  Yeah, now they do because they have models. But when you were doing it, there was nobody saying, this is possible, right? That's what's so.

• 15:29Speaker 04

  We didn't have Instagram. We didn't have that, like, YouTuber, you know, show. We didn't have any of that.

• 15:34Ed Mylett?

  Okay, so you, you end up, I think the deal is you ended up making a bunch of money, but then the market crashed too, right?

• 15:39Speaker 04

  Yeah, so I took that business to about ten million in revenue.

• 15:42Ed Mylett?

  Come on, that's crazy great.

• 15:44Speaker 04

  Was, I loved investing. I started doing, you know, going and visiting these companies, interviewing these CEOs, and, and telling them, hey, listen. So this is a huge win for me. I went into a mine. I went about the mining industry. And I was like, you know, the economy right now is, there's so much inflation. And I saw what was happening within the, the real estate bubble. And I was like, I want to play some, I want to understand gold, silver, miners, commodities. So I went into this mine. I learned about the whole mining industry. And then I sunk, you know, a huge amount of the money that I'd saved, and I would put it into these companies. And I would publicly disclose, I'm locked up for six months, but I believe in this. This is why I believe in this company. And I've had multimillion dollar trades because of that.

• 16:27Ed Mylett?

  Okay.

• 16:27Speaker 04

  And it's similar with like a young little Warren Buffett at the time.

• 16:30Ed Mylett?

  Really young.

• 16:31Speaker 04

  But I got, I got overly cocky, I got overly confident, you know, and I started to go all in. And I had, finally, I was up twenty million dollars in the market, playing a company that had the patents for TV everywhere. Allowing content to stream through our smartphone devices, which is now everything.

• 16:48Ed Mylett?

  Yeah, right.

• 16:49Speaker 04

  So I found the company had the patents for that, but sometimes, you know, you can be, you can be right, but you can, your timing is everything. And I just timed it wrong and the, the stock crashed, the economy had crashed at that time. And in that moment, I had gone from being this young Justin Bieber, like, oh, I got the cars and I'm traveling the world and I'm a multimillionaire. To literally having everything stripped from me. And that's when I really learned about ego, you know, and I just.

• 17:18Ed Mylett?

  What you learn about ego?

• 17:19Speaker 04

  So, you know, for me at the time, what I have really learned, and this is what happened with my mother. And it was really the, the point where, when this happened, I didn't want to tell anybody. I was like so scared. We go through this, this, we go through so much, always worrying about what everyone else thinks, you know. And for me, the only person I was able to tell was my mother. And my mom told me this, the story of when she was, when she immigrated here, they had a studio apartment. And it caught on fire and they lost everything. And she's like, when that happened, Gerard, I had to, in high school, drop out. And go get a job on Canal Street in New York City in the winter to go make a little money to help your grandparents. And I didn't want to ever tell you this.

• 18:01Speaker 04

  Here's my mother, who's been the strongest woman, seven days a week, working, always took care of us, loved us, compassionate. Here's my mom crying to me, telling me the story. And she's like, and if I was able to get through that. Then you can bounce back from this and they can, money can be stripped away from you, but they will never take this and they will never take this. So she was like, you have a skill, you know what I'm saying? If you believe in it, like believe in yourself, if you were able to do it once, you can go out there and do it again. And in that moment, I was like. You know, I don't have this, you know, I just felt in that moment that like, I need to figure out, maybe that wasn't meant for me. Like, maybe I wasn't, you know, maybe that wasn't meant for me. Maybe something bigger is meant for me. And at that time, that's when I started to make content. I was like, alright, you know what?

• 18:43Speaker 04

  I want to make content that helps to educate people on what's happening with the economy. Because I, obviously, I lost those money. But a lot of millennials are not paying attention to, and this even is to today. They're not truly paying attention to what's truly happening in our economy.

• 18:59Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 18:59Speaker 04

  You know, they'll pay attention to everything on social media on a daily basis. They'll probably spend, you know, 12 hours out of the 24 hours a day checking what everybody else and what everyone else is doing. But they're not paying attention to their own finances, not paying attention to what's happening with the economy. They're not paying attention to planning for themselves, getting down their vision. So for me, I started doing documentaries on the economy. And then that's what led to then saying, I want to start a publication. And then that was the birth of buying elitedaily.com for $9.99.

• 19:26Ed Mylett?

  He bought daddy. $9.99, by the way, what a magic moment with your mom. And for all of you listening to this that are in that down cycle of your career, they can't take away what you know, they can't take away your heart, they can't take away your work ethic, they can't take away your ingenuity, right? Stick with it, chase the next thing, right? Maybe you gotta innovate, maybe you need to course correct in the business you're in and change strategy. But, so you lead to Elite Daily, right?

• 19:48Speaker 04

  And I also learned, like, you know, I was, at that time, spending money on bottles. I was buying freaking, I had two Bentleys. I was over, you know, going, just spending, spending, and spending on things, you know?

• 19:58Ed Mylett?

  Talk about that from your perspective too. So there's all these millennials watching this, and I have this theory where I say, if you can't save money when you're broke,

• 20:05Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 20:06Ed Mylett?

  you can't save money when you're rich. If you're either, you either have the habit of saving or the habit of spending. And it's the hardest thing in the world, but if you could even save $10 a month. See, habits matter in personal development, and fitness, and in faith, and they matter in money too. You got to find a way, even paycheck to paycheck, save your 10 bucks a month. But to say that, all these young pups out there that are, you know, male or female, that are out there spending money in these different places, what advice would you give them?

• 20:29Speaker 04

  You hit the nail on the head with having an investor's mindset and creating the habit of saving and investing. You know, you hit. The nail on the head. But I would also say for me, one of the biggest lessons was, and this comes from a personal development side, when thinking about wealth creation for yourself. It's, you know, talent can help you achieve success, but character will help you sustain success. When I first made my millions of dollars, I didn't have the character to sustain it. So that's why it was taken from me. My ego was big. I thought what made me successful was having all of these materialistic things. And it doesn't, you know, and I love, I love having nice things.

• 21:08Ed Mylett?

  Sure, me too.

• 21:08Speaker 04

  For me, buying this watch after I sold my company, it has a meaning. A lot of these things have, like if it has a meaning behind it, but God bless, go and, go and, you know, you know, create that life for, but you have to realize that ultimately it's about your character. And at that time, I was being very selfish.

• 21:26Ed Mylett?

  Okay.

• 21:27Speaker 04

  And I realized that like I needed to, you know, start thinking about how am I showing up in the world? How am I actually being a leader? How am I actually helping the people around me, serving the people that, that my team, like community? And I just, I really, at the time, I just didn't have this, this character of, of wealth or, you know, of actually being a leader.

• 21:48Ed Mylett?

  I love that. And you know, by the way, we both want you to have a Lamborghini. We both want you to have a Ferrari, we both want you to have a jet, we just want you to have it in the right time, right? For the right reasons, but so you find a lead daily, guys, 80 million unique visitors, right?

• 22:01Speaker 04

  Yeah, 80 to 100 articles per day. It went from the three of us to 200 employees. It was one of the best journeys of my life.

• 22:08Ed Mylett?

  And how old were you when you sold it? When it was sold?

• 22:11Speaker 04

  So I was 30 years old.

• 22:12Ed Mylett?

  30 years old, everybody, whatever you take from it, but it's about a $50 million sale, right? So bam, you're back. Now you're really, really back.

• 22:21Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 22:22Ed Mylett?

  What was, what did it, I'll take everyone through it, I'm just curious. I ask people this in my private life, I've never asked somebody on camera. What was that day like? What was it like to go, oh my gosh? Like, what's that feel like to have a day like that or a moment like that when my life just friggin changed?

• 22:38Speaker 04

  Yeah, I mean, so it's interesting because the, the initial feeling.

• 22:44Speaker 04

  Was a little uneasy. I actually was a little bit, a lot of what ifs clicked in for me in the very beginning. It wasn't like, oh, I hate it. It was like, you know, you have partners, you have investors. I felt very much like I didn't want to sell the company. This wasn't like something I wanted. You know, we had long board meetings and, you know, we saw Facebook changing their algorithms. And Elite Daily for me was like this brand that I wanted to really continue to take to become the biggest millennial media company in the United States. So afterwards, and for real, it was like, man, I feel like my baby just got taken away from me.

• 23:20Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 23:21Speaker 04

  And it was until I called some of my closest friends and told them, and they were like, gee, you always want to jump out without a parachute, man. And, you know, listen, man, for once in your life, let this soak in what you just did.

• 23:37Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 23:38Speaker 04

  Let this soak in. And that was the moment, like, hearing it from one of my good friends. That was like, oh, shit, wow. And then it was, you know, for me, where really hit for me was when I was able to really go and talk to my father first and tell him, I want to pay off all the family's debt. I want to pay off all the mortgages. And then I took my mom, after I paid that off, I took my mom. She wanted this Jaguar. I took my mom and got her her Jaguar. I took my dad, got him a Mercedes Benz convertible, which he loved and picked. Surprised my younger sister with the car of her dreams and just...

• 24:20Ed Mylett?

  And by the way, by the way, you guys, he still, because I know the story, he still hasn't listed anything he did for himself. Have you noticed? Finally, what is the big thing you did for yourself?

• 24:26Speaker 04

  Yeah, I mean, the two biggest things, the first was I bought myself this watch.

• 24:33Speaker 04

  You know, I just wanted to basically have something on my wrist that just reminded me of it. But the truth is, and this is what comes, when it comes to having that character and having that wealth mindset. You know, it's like a billionaire's mindset, really.

• 24:45Speaker 04

  You know, for me, I put it, after that, paying the debt, you know, I got to watch, I put it in a trust.

• 24:50Ed Mylett?

  I know.

• 24:50Speaker 04

  You know, I didn't think about buying the next fancy exotic car or anything materialistic. I said, okay, take a step back.

• 24:58Ed Mylett?

  Yes.

• 24:59Speaker 04

  What is, how do you want to, forget about the money. How do you now want to leverage this to show up in the world as a better role model? Millennials need role models right now of what it really truly means to be successful, more than just money, but actually showing up as a leader in the world and serving your community. So for me, that was when I was like, you know what? I want to go back to Newark, New Jersey, where my grandparents immigrated from, you know, immigrated to. And really give back to that community because I want to show that that's success. You can, when you, when you have all the money in the world, yeah, it would have been easy for me to go and just, you know, get three Lamborghinis and like leverage just trying to show that lifestyle. I love, of course, I still love a lifestyle. But for me, I wanted to show that aspect of, for the past three years, I dedicated myself to go to the hood.

• 25:44Ed Mylett?

  Yep.

• 25:45Speaker 04

  You know, and I built an incubator in the middle of the worst projects in Newark.

• 25:49Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 25:49Speaker 04

  And for me, that was.

• 25:51Ed Mylett?

  We're going to talk about that.

• 25:52Speaker 04

  That was a reward.

• 25:52Ed Mylett?

  Yeah, guys, that's character, by the way, showing up. This is why I endorse this man, that you millennials out there, you guys that are 80 years old out there that are watching this. That's what you do when you win. That's, that's how you handle yourself. By the way, I want you to have 11 Lamborghinis if you choose to do that, as long as you can do those other things. Then you start founders, right? That's basically what you did. You guys are going to love what this guy did with this and this model is brilliant. What you've accomplished, this is we're sitting here in 33 years, bro, is so amazing. I'm just, I'm so blown away by you and you deliver it in such a way like it's really not that big of a deal. But you're talking about a guy who, you know, let's be honest, hawking a little weed, community college, drops out,

• 26:33Ed Mylett?

  20 million, loses it, comes back, sells his deal for 50 large and then takes that and goes, nope, that's just the very beginning. Now I'm going to contribute. So what's founders, you're going to, you guys, you're going to love this.

• 26:47Speaker 04

  Well, I just started thinking about social impact and I, I just, I had this moment where I said, okay.

• 26:55Speaker 04

  Lee Daley was this brand. It was the voice of Generation Y. That's gone, but I am still, you know, I'm still a voice like I and I finally felt like, you know, it's time for me to start coming out and telling a lot of my life lessons. Start being, I've seeked mentors my entire life, but now it's like it's time for me to start being a better mentor, a better role model. And I just had this moment where I was on the balcony in Miami. I was buying this penthouse. I just getting a sale. My accountant's like, you gotta go to Florida because of tax purposes. And I'm on that balcony and I just had this moment where

• 27:31Speaker 04

  I had this moment with God, you know, and it just was like this lightning struck my heart of like, this is not where you're supposed to be right now. You got time to do that. Right now, you're like, right now, you have this ability at such a young age, you are like to go back to where your family's roots are from and like, and start something and get back to a place that like, never actually, like they don't teach entrepreneurship in schools. Like I looked back at my life and I was like, man, like God, thank the Lord, thank you, God, that I've been able to somehow ask that question and find that mentor and like, you know, and slowly take action in my life to create that, to create this, the success. But like, there's so many people out there that lack the belief system that are, or that live in fear

• 28:16Speaker 04

  and don't even know about true, like, don't even know what, how to become an entrepreneur, what entrepreneurship really is. And then it was like, there were certain things that got me here. So it's like my EQ, like I was never the smart kid, but my EQ was something that I really started to master over the years. You know, the way that I learned how to communicate, the way that I was able to really truly build relationships, the empathy that I really had to build a team, you know, these are things that like, again, I never learned in school. And, um, and then financial literacy, again, the things we're talking about, about financial wellness and saving. Like, again, no one teaches you that when you're in high school, you know? And I was like, I want to go back and just start to be a voice and start to actually work with the youth

• 28:58Speaker 04

  and, and actually teach them these skills within entrepreneurship, EQ, financial literacy.

• 29:05Speaker 04

  And you know, and I just felt that's where my heart was. How do you execute? So I started a social enterprise. Yeah. So what I did was I, I partnered up with a real estate developer. And I said, okay, well, let's take an area. That's, that's, that's a really kind of bad area at the time. Um, but we saw the future of Newark. Newark right now has got so many amazing things happening, right? It's, it's got billions of dollars of investment. You have all these unbelievable corporations there. We're right now top 10 for Amazon moving there. So there's a lot there. It's one of the first like tech, real technology cities. It has fiber optic running right through the ground. So there's a lot of infrastructure there. It used to be, you know, it's one of the wealthiest, it's the biggest and one of the, was one of the wealthiest cities in all of New Jersey. It just through the industrial revolution. Yeah. It lost all those jobs.

• 29:48Speaker 04

  Then there was riots and then it just, you know, it self-destructed. So I know the infrastructure's there. It just needed, it needed someone to go in there and be part of that revitalization. So I partnered with a real estate developer. I invested into the building. We built a high-rise of 20, uh, about 20 units. And I said, on the bottom floor, I'm going to create something for the community. So I launched an incubator. And then I was like, I'm going to build something where I run a program for 12 weeks at a time. I'm going to pick 12 entrepreneurs, uh, I'm sorry, 12, uh, companies that have about two co-founders. Typically one, two, two co-founders. And I'm going to bring them in here for 12 weeks. I'm going to coach them. And I'm going to bring in some of the top and the best mentors out there to fly into Newark, New Jersey and work with these, and work with these young entrepreneurs.

• 30:33Speaker 04

  So I did that and, um. Wow. And then during that, what I'm going to do is I'm going to bring the youth, middle school and high school students. We're going to go and teach them in class because you got to go where they are. If you want to really truly disrupt the education system, the first thing you need to do is you have to actually go into the education system. Understand how it works. Yeah. You know, so I was like, I need to study the education system again. So I went, I, you know, I got some unbelievable, I got an unbelievable team. And we just started going and building relationships with the teachers in the middle school and high schools there. And you started going in there and then, you know, we taught those, we taught these classes and semesters of entrepreneurship, EQ, financial literacy. And then after school, we allowed those youth to come to the incubator. Oh my gosh. And work under the entrepreneurs building companies. And then I would bring people like Eric Thomas, who would come in and host. Yeah.

• 31:18Speaker 04

  Not only working with entrepreneurs, but then actually speaking to all of these young kids from that community. And then we built an art gallery down the street and we just started revitalizing this whole area. And now it's completely transformed. Um, my gosh.

• 31:31Ed Mylett?

  Are you hearing you? That's amazing, brother. That is brilliant and amazing. Oh my God, I want to know how I can help with that.

• 31:39Speaker 04

  Oh, thank you, brother. I would love you to come and work with some of these kids. I mean, one of the biggest moments of my life was,

• 31:45Ed Mylett?

  Wow.

• 31:46Speaker 04

  You know, I'm starting this thing and I remember when we opened the doors, I was like, okay, how is this gonna work now?

• 31:55Ed Mylett?

  Right, right.

• 31:56Speaker 04

  Now I'm in this incubator, I'm in this space. And I'm just like, okay, how am I gonna find entrepreneurs to move to North New Jersey? How am I gonna find local entrepreneurs that wanna actually be in this incubator and build a company? Like, how am I gonna be able to do this? And I'll never forget, I'm outside, on the phone, handling one of my other companies. And this young man, this young black man, this young black kid, he's walking by. He's like, hey, man, yo, what is this place? And I'm like, well, this is a, this is an incubator. What's an incubator? I'm like, okay, well, this is a place where we teach business. We're able to teach you how to create things in the world, how to solve problems. He's like, oh, I like business, man. I wanna know about that. I'm gonna want you to come inside for a second.

• 32:40Speaker 04

  He comes inside and I sit with him and I talk to him. And as I'm guiding him, you know, I start to see, he's like, listen, everyone's lied to me my entire life. I've seen my uncle get killed on the porch steps, you know? Like, how am I gonna be able to do anything? Like, who are you, man? Like, where's the fine print, man? You know what I mean? He's talking like that and he's like, listen, all I know is I gotta hustle out here in these streets. You know, and I just started to see that. Now, remember the early part of my story?

• 33:07Ed Mylett?

  Yes.

• 33:07Speaker 04

  I hustled.

• 33:08Ed Mylett?

  Yes, yes.

• 33:09Speaker 04

  So I knew I had the ability to finally, I feared telling anybody on a camera ever before that I ever hustled, we even I was young. You know, you just don't wanna tell that kinda stuff.

• 33:17Ed Mylett?

  Something you're proud of.

• 33:18Speaker 04

  And I'm proud of that. But I knew God made me go through that moment, for this very moment, looking at that kid in the eyes. His name is Shaqoy. And I looked Shaqoy in the eyes and I said, listen, man, I've hustled too. And if I was able to realize that that was not what I was meant for in this world. You're meant for so much more, you're meant for so much bigger, bro. And like, I'm here to tell you that you have such a greater gift for this world. And if you come here every day and dedicate, I promise you, I will be here right next to you. And I will guide you and mentor you so that you can find that gift inside you and realize what you're really meant for in this world. The next day, he shows up with a tie on. I'm like, bro, you don't gotta wear a tie around here. But what was interesting was,

• 34:00Speaker 04

  About, I would say probably about a month after that, some of Shaqoy's friends from school come by. Like, hey, man, whatever Shaqoy's on, I want to be on that. And apparently, he had unconventionally gotten the school to go to the auditorium and gave a motivational speech unconventionally to the students there. And this, that, that one moment of shifting his mindset and seeing the change in him, that's when I was like, okay, thank you. Now I know why we're doing, like, I really know why I followed my heart and that, that was the reason why we were supposed to do this. And it's still a battle and it's not easy.

• 34:35Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 34:35Speaker 04

  You know, it's definitely not easy continuing to be there.

• 34:40Ed Mylett?

  I love you, brother. I love you. I'm so proud of you. I'm so proud of you. Like, that, that's one of my favorite stories I've ever heard. I mean, and I want to be able to help with you. And I, there's so many, what you're doing is wonderful and is brilliant. And, and I know you're finding the way, too. There's so many lessons in the things you talk about, Gerard. It's like, there's these things you do so naturally that are just such lessons for people. But, did you hear what he said? He said, "Now I gotta figure out how we're gonna do this." A lot of people out there think, no, but, but it's brilliant because a lot of people, and you didn't even know all that with the lead daily. And you didn't know that before when you were trading. And I didn't know it in my business. People think, well, you have to know every single step before you start. You will never start.

• 35:17Speaker 04

  No.

• 35:17Ed Mylett?

  There's gonna be so many adjustments and course corrections that you have to do is know why. And find the mentor and just start.

• 35:24Speaker 04

  And have a vision. You know, for me, I've, I've had a vision. I had a why, I had a vision. Then it was like, alright, let's, let's figure it out. Let's go.

• 35:32Ed Mylett?

  I love this. I love what you're doing.

• 35:34Speaker 04

  That's been my model and similar to you, faith.

• 35:37Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 35:37Speaker 04

  You know, like, faith is my business model, for sure.

• 35:39Ed Mylett?

  Talk about that for a second, because it, everything with you, it sort of comes back to that with you, with your faith, doesn't it? So, and how, how important is that to your life? And just speak to that a little bit.

• 35:49Speaker 04

  It's, it's just part of, you know, we talk about habits. We talk about routines. We talk about mental toughness. Like, for me, it all starts with that faith. I mean, every single day, every single morning, you know, we, we talked about this, you know, on Leaders Create Leaders. When I, you know, we both take that, we both do something with cold water. I don't know if you do the dunking in the cold water.

• 36:09Ed Mylett?

  I do.

• 36:10Speaker 04

  We do the dunking. I need, I can't, I gotta get it done.

• 36:11Ed Mylett?

  I dunk in the ocean or dunk here.

• 36:12Speaker 04

  That's so cool. You know, for me, it's simple. I just, you know, I, I turn it on ice cold in the shower.

• 36:17Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 36:17Speaker 04

  And I pray. I say, "My Our Father in the cold shower."

• 36:20Ed Mylett?

  Every day.

• 36:21Speaker 04

  Every day. Every single, today. Our Father. And then I speak out, I speak out what I'm feeling. Some days I speak out, God, please help me, give me the courage, give me the strength, give me the ability to fight through today. You know, maybe because I woke up a little bit depressed, maybe I woke up a little bit sad, maybe I went through something, you know, it happens to me a lot. You know, it can be lonely, a lonely game sometimes, you know, going out and serving and showing up in the world. So sometimes, you know, I feel that, I feel lonely, you know, sometimes I have anxiety. So I'll pray to get me through that and to show up as, you know, as God's son. And then I'll pray for my family, I'll pray for my team, I'll pray for my community.

• 37:04Speaker 04

  And then for me, when I turn that cold shower off, it's like it hits me, bro. I'm like, let's go, the inner warrior comes out.

• 37:10Ed Mylett?

  Thirty-three years old, bunch of money saved, you could just play it cool all the time. You're taking your time to serve, to change the world, and then to admit your frailties and some of the things that you struggle with, I think is just beautiful. Because there's this thing in the world, like masculine men aren't supposed to share things that they're afraid of or that they struggle with, right? And real masculinity is actually sharing those things and then showing people that you can still overcome them.

• 37:35Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 37:35Ed Mylett?

  Which is what you do, but let's talk about you a little bit.

• 37:38Speaker 04

  And you know, I learned that from a Navy SEAL. You know, I never was like that. Again, I hid a lot of that insecurity in my life. Because I always thought a leader had to be that, had to be the one who's like showing up for the team, has to be the strongest. You know, I always ate last, but I always showed up first. And, you know, for me, that was, that was how I showed up as a leader. And it was until, this is, I don't know if you have enough time, you have, bro. But, you know, I really believe in the universe and just like when you're putting, I believe in energy and this is like the energy that you put in to the world and just into just who you are, how you show up, like it just, it's unbelievable what comes back to you. And it was Memorial Day weekend, long, short, I'm at this bar and I see this guy walk in,

• 38:23Speaker 04

  he's got this hat on with the army flag and he's huge and this other guy who's jacked and I'm like, excuse me, sir, have you served? He's like, yes, I have actually. And the woman's like, oh, yeah, 30 years. He just got out from, you know, relief. And I was like, would you mind if I bought you a beer? He's like, well, you know, thank you. She's, no one ever does that. Thank you so much. And buy this guy beers, we're hanging out. But the other guy, he starts telling me stories, everything. The other guy who looks like Sylvester Stallone from Ran by Not Your Boy. I'm like, man, who is this guy? He finally tells, I'm a Navy SEAL. I can't tell you too many stories. I'm on duty. We're in San Diego. And had an amazing time. I leave, I feel like I've met the real celebrities. They are the real celebrities.

• 39:05Speaker 04

  Okay, not us influencers, not us, you know, these people on TV, all these people we follow. They are our heroes. They are the real celebrities. So for me, I was so excited. I finally met this Navy SEAL. I finally met these people. I got to, you know, show them gratitude. Two weeks later, I get a call early in the morning from someone from the incubator. He's like, hey, G, there's a guy named Paul here in Rainfield. He looks like he's ready to kill someone. I'm like, Paul? I drive over. It's the Navy SEAL from San Diego. I'm like, what are you doing here? He's like, I don't know what it was, Gerard. There was something about you. And I'm not supposed to be here, but I had to come out here because I think I could help you. And I sit in the incubator. And that day, he asked me, so how are you?

• 39:50Speaker 04

  And it was that day, I was like, okay. He made me feel like, this is a Navy SEAL. Like, I could be insecure with this Navy SEAL. So I'm like, I'm gonna be honest with you, bro. I am stressed. I am not myself. Like, I just got through a really bad breakup. Four years, I love her to death. And just, I also just was going through things internally. And he was like, and I was like, but I gotta show up every day, man. And I'm putting on this, this, this like, you know, this, this Superman suit for my team. Because they're struggling. They're coming to me and struggling. Because we're still, you know, it's bodegas. You can't, it's hard to get healthy food. It's hard to live over there. We're changing it all and it's exciting, but it's still a hard way of life.

• 40:25Ed Mylett?

  Sure.

• 40:26Speaker 04

  And so he was the one who expressed to me, Gerard, a real leader has to show vulnerability. As a SEAL, if I don't let my team know when I'm hurting down, how are they supposed to know when to pick me up?

• 40:38Ed Mylett?

  Oh, my gosh, that's awesome. What is special about you? What is unique? What did you do to win? I mean, something special happens when you've done this much. You've lived a lot of life in 33 years. So why?

• 40:54Speaker 04

  I mean, I really genuinely believe that it's within all of us. You know, I really genuinely believe that it's just a matter of just shifting from fear to faith. I used to be someone who was so fearful. Like, I cared so much of what people thought of me. I felt I had to prove everything to my father. You know, I just was, I always felt like I would never, you know, this is a big one for me. One of my first mentors, when I started to break out and become more successful, they said, "You'll never be more suc- you'll never be successful without me." I actually had a moment with my mentor who said that to me.

• 41:36Speaker 04

  And, you know, so I've had these like struggles, you know, when I was, you know, when I was younger of feeling I had to prove myself, being a little bit fearful. And there was a moment in my life where I just recognized that like, nobody else is in control. Just nobody else is in control externally. And I completely can take ownership of my life. I am in control of my destiny. And, you know, I really genuinely believe that one of the biggest things about me is I'm just present, bro. I am extremely present. You know, I'm a visionary, but I am every day present to what the gift is today

• 42:19Speaker 04

  and what I need to do today to be 1% better that day. And I just show up every day and I'm every day, for me, it's 24/7/365. Of course, I have balance and things, but for me, it's just who I am. I think when you live as your authentic character, you know, this is who I am. Whether you're a business partner of mine, whether you're the doorman opening up the door for me, you know what I'm saying? To my family, to my friends, to my team, you know, whether you're looking at me on Instagram or you're meeting me in person, I am the same kid that I always was growing up. In a sense of like, I'll always, I'm always someone who is full of love. I think, you know, for me, it's like, I just genuinely believe that.

• 43:03Speaker 04

  The number one thing that will end all suffering on you if for humanity is love. It's plain and simple. And I think when you embody that love and you embody that fully for yourself. Like I find out to a point where like I just love me for who I am. And I want to share that energy with the entire world. I want them to love themselves. I want them to want to give love to everybody regardless of skin color, where you're from. We can all understand struggle. And I just for me, I've just recognized like, listen, we all, we all have, we all gone through things. We've all struggled. We've all had these moments. We can all, we all have a story. We're all writing it and we have such a short period of time. The universe is vast, billions and billions and billions of years.

• 43:47Speaker 04

  And we're lucky if we make it a hundred of them. Like what are we gonna, you know what I mean? So it's like, why worry about what, you know, why, why live in fear? Why worry about trying to prove yourself to anyone? Why not just step into your greatness? Step into who you are? Step into fully loving yourself and the fact that you have an opportunity today to be present and to take control and take ownership of your destiny. And for me, that's it. I just, I'm so grateful and every single day I'm just like, I, I want to just fully be present. I want to be present to the fact that I'm here. I'm so blessed to be here with you. I want to take, be present in my businesses. I want to be present in my relationships. And I just think that in this, in, you know, we can all get caught up with how, with the fast pace of technology and doing and going and hustling and grinding.

• 44:33Speaker 04

  But I think that your real strength in life, if you, you said this as an observer, if you can be poised. I don't care what storm you go through in life, because we're all going to go through storms. More money, more problems. It's life. You have to be willing to adapt constantly, constantly adapt, constantly shift your mindset. So number one thing is you have to build your character. You have to find that leader within yourself, because when you do and you become poised, no matter what happens externally, tornadoes, hurricanes, you know, you're going to lose, death is part of life. You're going to lose people that you love. Your businesses are going to fail. You're going to, you know, things are going to happen and it's just, it's part of it.

• 45:16Speaker 04

  Who would have thought that, you know, the President of the United States would have gone, went through bankruptcy, right? Would have went through the amount of, you know, there's a lot of things he's gone through. You know, it's just, you know, you look at everyone out there that we admire, they have gone through struggle, but they take ownership of their life. Nobody else does it for them. They're taking ownership of it.

• 45:37Ed Mylett?

  Isn't that amazing? Brother, I, I've done a lot, a lot, a lot of conversations I've had in my life that affect me like this one has. Our former president, by the way, didn't even really get raised by his own father, right? Didn't come from a perfect family, wasn't even raised all the time by his mother, and he becomes a leader of the free world, right? And so, when you say things like this, man, I'm just so moved by that. You have a massive spirit.

• 46:00Speaker 04

  You know, I, I really think that I'm ready to start sharing a lot more. I've done, you know, I launched my show, Leaders Create Leaders, and for me, I'm a storyteller. I love shining light on others. I know, because I'm a student, just like you. I'm a student, and I think that's how you, you grow in life. I'm constantly seeking these relationships and mentors and, and, and learning through experience, so, but I, I recognize that I don't do enough of opening up myself. And I want to start doing that a lot more, and I really appreciate you.

• 46:30Ed Mylett?

  I think you've done a lot of that today, brother.

• 46:32Speaker 04

  Thank you so much.

• 46:33Ed Mylett?

  Before I ask you the last question, like, I find myself wanting to know more about you. I'm guaranteeing you, people that are watching or listening, it's like they want more. And so, where can they get more of you? So, the first, social media wise, web wise, whatever, tell them everywhere they can find you.

• 46:48Speaker 04

  Yeah, sure. I mean, my number one platform is Instagram. I love it creatively, so @GerardAdams. And then our, my show, Leaders Create Leaders, is under Gerard Adams TV. You can just search Leaders Create Leaders on YouTube. Ed is on season four. I cannot wait for that episode. It was definitely by far the greatest episode we've ever done. And I want to just say that.

• 47:09Ed Mylett?

  Thank you, brother.

• 47:10Speaker 04

  You just smashed it.

• 47:11Ed Mylett?

  Thank you, you did.

• 47:12Speaker 04

  So, I can't wait for you guys to see that. And, other than that, you know, I, I think that's where, that's typically where you can find me, is, is Instagram, YouTube, and...

• 47:23Speaker 04

  You know, yeah, shoot me a DM, you know, comment, you know, I just try to engage with that. Engage with that audience.

• 47:28Ed Mylett?

  Your content's magnificent. You're so good, though. It's hard to contain you in a minute. And your Instagram is awesome, but this is, this longer format is better because we get to see the real you.

• 47:38Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 47:39Ed Mylett?

  I enjoyed today. I want you to give everybody a gift, though, because I feel like that I don't want to have somebody sit next to me that's accomplished all that you've accomplished without asking everything I could possibly get in a little window. So if you were, if someone's watching this, they got a chance to have lunch with you. You know, your legacy, you're too young for legacy right now. Okay? So they get, they get access to you right now. They get, which would be expensive, but they got access to a lunch with you, right? And they could ask you things about their life or being an entrepreneur, getting their life going. They're at a stage right now where they go, you know what? You've inspired me, Gerard. I, I do need to change my life. I do need to make some shifts. I need to be gutsy enough like you were to maybe make a decision like you did out of college. Gutsy enough to get off the mat when I lose the $20 million. Gutsy enough after I sell my business to go find founders now, right?

• 48:23Ed Mylett?

  Like, these are all gutsy calls that took vision, right?

• 48:26Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 48:26Ed Mylett?

  And I feel like I'm ready to do that, but now I gotta go. I gotta start. What would you say to me? What would your advice be to someone who's now ready to go? They're gonna start their business. They're gonna transform their body. They're gonna transform their family or their spiritual life. What advice would you give them?

• 48:40Speaker 04

  Well, I mean, I would tell them they gotta inherit what I call being world class. This has took me a long time to even come to this term of what it means to be world class. Similar to max, maxing out. And for me, the definition of world class is being, it's very simple. It's being amongst the best. I'm right now, you know why, why we're world class? I'm amongst the best, bro. Like, I'm, like, I'm sitting next to Ed Mylett and his unbelievable, one of his unbelievable matches on Laguna Beach. Like, this didn't just happen. I created this reality. And how did I create this reality? How can you create this reality? It's by becoming world class. It's becoming amongst the best.

• 49:20Speaker 04

  It's by setting the, a highest standard for yourself, being of the highest caliber in all aspects of your life. So what I would tell you is you need to sit back and reflect. Are you really ready to be world class in all aspects of your life? You know, are you really step up to become that world-class leader? And it starts with having a world-class mindset. And that comes from, you know, how do you have that world-class mindset? Well, you gotta like completely change your habits, your routine, the way that you actually see yourself, the vision that you have for yourself and the way that you see the world. And you have to really live that way and believe that. And then I would work with them on creating a world-class brand. You know, and for me, I think that there's never been a better time for people to really take ownership of of their brand.

• 50:03Speaker 04

  I think that one of the biggest reasons why I'm successful, and if they want that, is is relationships, man. It's the impression that you make on the world, how people see you, the relationships that you get. Listen, your life can change within one moment, one opportunity, one decision, one impression. I have one, when Ed met me today, I had one shot, one, one moment, one impression to make on Ed.

• 50:35Speaker 04

  For him to feel my spirit, for him to see in my eyes and understand how the humility that I have, the humbleness that I have.

• 50:45Speaker 04

  You know, the honor and the respect that I had for him. And life comes down to those one, that one moment. So for me, it's how are you becoming that world-class brand? How are you showing up?

• 50:58Speaker 04

  To create those opportunities, to create those moments, to create these relationships. You want, you want to, you want to inspire the world, you want to impact. We all have that purpose, we all have that gift, but are you living world-class? And last but not least, are you living as a world-class leader? As a father, as a husband, as a wife, as a daughter, as a teacher, as a fireman, as a cop?

• 51:24Speaker 04

  As an entrepreneur, as a CEO, how are you showing up as a leader in the world? And that comes down to your character. So for me, I would really dive into those three aspects. And that's it. Once you inherit that, living as, living world class. I want you to, I want you to comment right now that you are, I am world class. I want you to write it. I am world class. And that's what it's about.

• 51:50Ed Mylett?

  Gerard, the profound nature of the things you say is just, like that clip right there is gonna be played millions of times somewhere, brother.

• 52:02Speaker 04

  Hey, listen, one person, that's all I hope.

• 52:05Ed Mylett?

  Bro, millions of people are gonna play this, that last part back over and over and over again. The great thing about this interview is, I'm not kidding you. When you do an interview like this, you know this, at the end, you go, okay, guys, we gotta cut a one-minute clip for Instagram, right? It's like, I got 90 clips in this interview.

• 52:20Speaker 04

  You too, man.

• 52:21Ed Mylett?

  True, Mike's like, my gosh, like, you can't cut one clip from this interview, there's too much of it. So, it is so good. It was so wonderful to have you here today. I just love you, brother.

• 52:30Speaker 04

  I love you too, I love you too, thank you so much.

• 52:32Ed Mylett?

  It's just magnificent. I'm so proud of you, and we're just knowing each other and I'm proud of you. So, I hope you're proud of him, I hope you enjoyed today. I'm just sitting here blown away.

• 52:41Speaker 04

  I can't wait. Hey, listen, Ed, anytime you wanna, you know, just wanna let me stay, no problem, bro.

• 52:46Ed Mylett?

  I got the Gerard, I got the G-Suite sitting upstairs waiting on you. Hey, everybody, listen, I hope you enjoyed today's program. You have a couple things here. I'd love if you would write a review of this on iTunes, so we continue with the rings. Right now, we're number one in the United States, number one in Australia and the UK, number four in Canada. Canada, get your act together. Let's get to number one. You do that by writing a review. Give it a like or a comment on YouTube. And every day on Instagram, I run the two-minute drill, which means this. When I make a post on my main feed, everybody who makes a comment for the first two minutes with a hashtag max out, we select a daily winner that gets gear from me, coaching calls. Every guest does a 15-minute call with you. You get one guest, so you get a chance to win that. Or if you miss the first two minutes, just post every day and we pick a winner from the week too. So, I hope you do that. Focus on the two-minute drill.

• 53:32Ed Mylett?

  If you enjoyed today, write some comments here. God bless you and max out.