Collage drop out Caleb Jackson lets the world know that this means nothing about who he really is. After deciding to leave collage to pursue his dreams full time of being an entrepreneur. Caleb make his way up the real estate ladder day by day with an unstoppable force and drive and his results to date show for his success thus far. In this interview Caleb expound an the importance of a positive mindset, who you surround yourself with and the major keys and failures that brought him to where he is today. Check out this interview with nothing but gems of wisdom.
Interview Transcript:
- Hey what's up YouTube? This is my exclusiveinterview with Caleb Jackson.
He's killing it in real estate and Forex right now. We're here to talk about some of the challenges that he faced while pursuing the entrepreneurial path and some of the steps he took towards success.
- [Caleb] Honestly all about who you surround yourself with because in the last week alone,
the profit that we generated as a team, last week alone,
in the last four days as a team we generated 155 racks.
A lot of the time we talk about, like you know, millionaire vibes and them type of things there,
but we just talk about that shit.
You don't actually realize like, what it's gonna take or what those numbers actually have to be in
order to reach those goals in this time frame that you're looking for.
So like when you're surrounded by you know people you know who are operating
at that skillset, and you know, 200 grand, 300 grand is pocket change. Losing $50,000 in bad
transactions and shit is only one month's income.
It changes your whole perspective about money. You know what I'm saying?
Like, that's why even now like I'm so conscious about who I'm around I can't be around people
who don't have a certain energy, You know what I'm saying?
Because I just want to protect this state of mind that I'm in.
(money shuffling)
- Alright, so yeah what's up Caleb?
How's your Sunday going?
- [Caleb] It's going good man,
just here in the office
just getting really a lot of things done.
And just ready, really just
preparing for the new week.
Just ready to destroy, you know?
And just take control
of my destiny this week.
That's the view that I'm on.
- That's what's up.
What I want to do here today is just like
talk to you about how you know people from
the same country that we come from,
and similar situations like
sometimes you just can't see the way out.
You know what I mean?
- [Caleb] Right.
- What's a typical day
for you five years ago,
versus a typical day for you today?
- Well, I think to be
very honest with you,
not much has changed
in my thinking process.
I think that I was
beginning to put in the work
years ago and I'm now
seeing the results today.
So, I'm very, very proud
of my 18 year old self
because if it wasn't for the decisions
that I was making back then,
I definitely wouldn't be
enjoying I guess the benefits
that I'm really starting to see now.
And I think that's one
of the biggest things
is a lot of people,
they're too caught up in the short term
gratification of things.
You know, first of all,
it all comes down to who
you're paying attention to.
And, I've always you know had
you know very great mentors,
I've reached out, my first
mentor in Jamaica was
Shelly Anne Fraiser,
you know so it started
off with always just
looking up to great people.
You know if someone doesn't
have the insights that I want,
or if they're not necessarily
where I want to be in life,
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I would prefer to be in a
room by myself reading about
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billionaires than be
around people who are going
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to bring negative energy or you know have
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mediocre dreams of
whatever the case may be.
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Because my biggest fear in life
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is not reaching my full potential.
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You get what I'm saying?
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And I just know what I'm fully capable of,
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and I just know how far
away I am from that.
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So I'm not necessarily
gonna measure my stick
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to what everybody else is doing,
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I'm going to measure my stick according to
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what I know I'm capable of.
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And I know that that's world class,
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I know that that is just something that's
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on a different level, you know?
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If the God who created
Earth is my father too,
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it's just like you know
I have that same power
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to do what I want to
do and do what I want,
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you know what I'm saying?
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And so it's just,
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that's just the energy that I'm on.
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So I just don't put myself,
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I've never put myself in the
same box as everybody else.
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And I never wanted the same
things as everybody else either.
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I rather live a life where
you know I am struggling,
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but doing my own thing and
struggling towards my dream,
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than to you know I guess be comfortable
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but hate my goddamn life.
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You get what I'm saying?
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- Yeah I feel you.
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- [Caleb] Yeah.
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I don't know if that's
the answer you wanted but.
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- Yeah yeah so,
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first of all like give us
a little background like,
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you know like how old are you,
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what do you do,
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and where did you come from in Jamaica?
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- Sure so number one,
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I'm 23 years old.
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I guess there's three parts of what I do.
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Number one is real estate, investing.
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With my two friends from
middle school right now.
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The next thing is I run a non-profit
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called Operation Help the People,
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(mumbles) in Jamaica.
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And, actually that's
really the, just really it.
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(laughs)
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And the third thing as well is,
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I'm a co-founder of Care Investments,
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it's a financial literacy platform
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and to teach people how to trade for us.
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Now, I'm not actually from Jamaica,
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I'm from Baltimore, Maryland.
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But I moved to Jamaica
during high school because
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I was your typical misguided dude,
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fightin', getting in trouble all the time,
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not going to school.
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If I didn't move to Jamaica I'd probably
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be dead or in prison, to be honest.
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And my Aunt ended up taking me in,
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my Aunt is actually a dean at the
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University of Technology in Jamaica.
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But the thing is that,
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she never really cared too much about
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the academics and that kind of of stuff,
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even though she was a dean,
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because she knew that I was different
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and appreciated my strengths.
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I think the biggest thing I got in Jamaica
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was when my Aunt would
teach me and lecture me
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at length about you know the importance of
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emotional intelligence,
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and using a lot of the softer skills
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that I've really been able to hone today.
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- Wow that's real.
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- Sometimes the people who we define as
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(background noise drowns out other sounds)
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You know what I'm saying?
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That's really it.
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- Yeah that's great.
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Not a lot of people get to learn about
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that at such a young age, you know?
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- Yeah, mhm.
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- Yeah so like, you were saying that
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you always had a vision like you know,
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how did you get to that point?
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Like, were you just born like that?
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- I think I'm a very visual person,
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so I mean they put me
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on ADHD medication and whatever,
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but you know when I listen
to music I walk around
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just because the visions
that are inside of my head
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I can just see more
clearly with more detail
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than you in front of my screen right now.
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Even though a lot of the
things may not exist today,
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that's why I like for example,
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you know a lot of the things
that I'm doing right now.
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I envisioned with clarity,
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even with the emotional
aspects of it years ago.
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You know I felt the emotion,
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I could see it just so visually.
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So for the better and
for the worst, right?
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I think that's a unique
characteristic that
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I've always had,
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I don't think I have anything else that is
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quote unquote "Special,"
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You know I've been written
off most of my life
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by most teachers in the system
of school and education.
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I mean I only have two CXC's,
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I failed school.
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- Yeah.
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- [Caleb] I dropped out of university,
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couldn't get into business school because
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I couldn't pass applied
calculus, you know?
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Even (interviewer laughs)
university because
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I knew that if I took the
SAT you know that I probably
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couldn't end up you know,
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going to university.
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So then I said okay,
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I went to community college for two years,
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and then I got into university
as a transfer student,
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instead of having to
face the SATs and stuff.
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So, I think I just always
find a unique way to
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do the same things that
everybody else did.
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When I went to Jamaica I
went to Victory Academy,
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and there was a time when
the teachers took my school,
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took my phone and everything
for like a whole semester,
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I said I'm tired of it,
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and then I ended up walking,
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skipping school and
walking to Hillel Academy,
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in Jamaica.
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And talk to the principal,
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and talk to the administrator,
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and talk to the board.
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And came back to that school
twice in the same day.
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And they were just like,
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come bring your Aunt and your Uncle
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Monday morning at 8am.
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And then I had to go home
and explain to my Aunt
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that I skipped school to do this.
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And I was able to get into Hillel Academy
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without any paperwork.
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So I think, I've just
always found unique ways
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to do I guess the same thing.
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- Damn well what I wanted
to pinpoint is like
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when did you decide that you had,
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you wanted more?
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You didn't want ordinary,
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what triggered that?
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- I mean I grew up in a
pessimistic household,
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is a nice way to say it.
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And I think I just saw,
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for example,
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you know (mumbles)
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and those types of things.
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I have a very strong
relationship with my Mom,
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but my Father and stuff
I just saw everything
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I didn't want to be.
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And everything that I didn't
want to be was just typical.
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You know, like I guess the
people who I have the most
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negative relationships with,
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I'm just trying to find the right wording.
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We're doing the very things that everybody
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else was doing.
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Going to college,
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strong on paper,
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master's degree,
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and jobs and full resumes but,
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didn't live the lifestyle
that I wanted to have.
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Didn't you know have the
family that I wanted to have.
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And just weren't the
people who I wanted to be.
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And I realized that I just never wanted to
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be that for myself.
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Maybe also it was out of rebellion,
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just because I just wanted
to be the complete opposite
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of what I was living with.
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And I would go and seek mentors,
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and I would see you know my mentors had
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you know,
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high school educations.
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You know running million
dollar businesses.
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You know being in the room with CEOs
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I would just walk as an entrepreneur and
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just say hey,
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you know my name is Caleb Jackson,
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I'm an 18 year old entrepreneur,
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and I want to learn how
to be successful like you.
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Can I have 15 minutes of
your time to interview you?
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You know what I'm saying?
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And just realizing that I like business,
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I like you know kind of like,
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the unconventional-ness of
being a dropout entrepreneur.
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I wanted that for myself.
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Because those were all the people,
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you know who you know I look up to Diddy,
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and I look up to a lot of these people and
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all of them had the
characteristics that were
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completely opposite to the people who was
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telling me what to do like
the deans of the schools,
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the teachers,
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and you know the people who
I was living with as well.
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So I had to really decide like
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who do I want to take advice from?
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The people who are my
definition of success,
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or the people who are
telling me what to do,
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who I don't want to be anything like?
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You know and I think that was a really
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big game changer for me,
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and believing in myself enough
to make those decisions.
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I think the next thing as
well is I don't watch TV,
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I read a lot of books.
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And I'm very visual as well,
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so when I'm reading books
about Warren Buffett,
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and a lot of these big guys,
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it's like I'm visually
walking through their story
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and learning their tricks and their habits
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and instilling them in my own life.
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- Right, makes sense.
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So when you're in like a,
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let's just hypothesize you know for
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all the people out there,
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when you're in like a
not so good environment,
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and like all you're seeing around is like
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all this darkness,
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and if you know if you're
trying to be an entrepreneur,
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how easy was it for you to
just walk up to you know CEOs
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and ask for their time,
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were they always receptive?
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- Yeah I mean this is the biggest problem
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that people really mess up on is,
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see if I try to do what I'm
doing now at 30 years old,
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I think it'd be a lot harder.
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I think the mere fact that when I was 18,
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it's not everyday someone
sees a black teenager
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walk into their office with no appointment
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and say you know, hey.
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- Yeah.
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- [Caleb] If I was a 30
year old trying to do that,
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they'd probably think I'm weird.
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(laughs)
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I think I always knew from a young age
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and just understanding you know,
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like my youngness,
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my youthfulness I'm sorry,
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was my advantage.
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Because it allowed me
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to separate myself from the herd.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Because the people who you know,
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at my age were just not
concerned about the things
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that I'm concerned about.
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So it allowed me to kind of you know,
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get my foot in the door a lot deeper
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than if I waited and wasted
my time and wasted my life.
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And I also just love the
energy that it came with.
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I mean when I would go to the CEOs
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I mean the first CEO that I did that to,
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I ended up getting a job.
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Instantly on the spot.
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And I thought 10 dollars
an hour was like you know,
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the world you know?
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I was like 10 dollars an hour?!
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Thank you!
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Thank you!
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And I got to watch the CEO,
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I mean it's actually
really hilarious because,
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my drive for real estate
started all the way back then.
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You know what I'm saying?
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So it's just you know seeing
what consistency really does.
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But I think that's just the biggest thing
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is just like believing in myself,
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understanding the advantages
of the things I have today,
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and fully exploiting them to the maximum.
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As if you know,
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life will end tomorrow.
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That's how I view my time.
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- Right right right.
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So, how do you know,
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like when you were on,
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first with something that
people say is so crazy,
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you know, people say going out
on your own is always crazy.
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So how do you know when you
were on the right track?
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- [Caleb] I was in university
and this was really when
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I dropped out of school,
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and I was just sitting
there and they spent a whole
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hour of class going
through what an independent
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(mumbles) variable is.
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(laughs)
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I literally just looked in
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am I allowed to use profanity?
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I don't know, just be real?
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- Sure.
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- In keeping with the
realness I was just you know,
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sitting in class and I was
just thinking to myself,
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why the fuck am I here?
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- Yeah, feel you there.
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- I walked out of Douglas,
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and I just stood there,
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and I just observed everybody,
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and I just literally didn't move.
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And I realized I just
didn't have an answer
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to why I'm here.
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And I was just like you know,
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I went out and I printed
out the finance syllabus
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at Howard University,
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and took a look at it,
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and I said,
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I'm here for four years and
accumulative classes that
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I'm going to be taking is 40 credits,
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that is like actually
relevant to my major,
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this is you know,
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it just didn't make sense.
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And people were just like,
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you know it's only four years,
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it's only this and that,
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and I'm like that's
actually really expensive.
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- Yeah.
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- You know, you're in your twenties,
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twenty years old,
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twenty years of your life is already gone.
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Then you work until quote
unquote you're 70 years old,
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so like you have a very
actually relatively small
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window of actually working
in productive years.
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And when you're creating a business,
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it's about investible hours,
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and it literally made no sense to me,
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to continue what everybody else was doing.
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I believe that even firmly
now because if I wanted
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to go back to university,
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that will forever eternity be there.
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You catch what I'm saying?
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If I was to go back to university now,
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I would have more
entrepreneurial experience,
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and then if I went to
go to apply for a job
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with the degree I would
even be a stronger candidate
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because I can prove what
I've done without a boss.
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You know, but the opportunities of today
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and the opportunities that
I've already seized on,
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those opportunities are already gone.
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You know had I waited anymore.
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So I think the biggest thing was just
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having a very clear
understanding of who I want to be
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and where I want to go
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and then just removing all the fluff
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to getting to that goal.
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Because it's not like I
was trying to be a lawyer
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or a doctor,
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I'm trying to be a real
estate entrepreneur.
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You know and that does
not require a degree.
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- Yeah that's real.
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Yeah definitely had a lot of
those moments going through it.
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But I didn't get that kind of
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insight that I needed
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so I was just was like you
know I guess I'll just finish
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and see what happens.
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- [Caleb] Right.
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But you've been (mumbles)
so it's all good.
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- Yeah it's all good.
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So here's the main question,
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why do you think that anyone out there can
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achieve what you did?
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Because some people really
believe that they can't.
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- That's the problem.
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I mean that people don't really envision
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better for themselves so
that's where it starts.
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I've always envisioned better for myself.
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So it's not even necessarily you know,
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(mumbles) I think, I mean,
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I can't achieve what other
people want to achieve,
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I'm on my own journey and my own path.
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And I think anybody can
do what I want to do.
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It's just simply because I'm consistent.
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You know it's literally like this,
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someone may have a master's
degree and all the relationships
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and all the connections and everything,
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and be in the same field as me,
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but they're not going to work 15 hours,
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20 hours a day seven days a week.
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They're not going to you know,
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I'm willing to go forever.
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(laughs)
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You know what I'm saying?
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I'm not looking at this
like okay if this is in
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the next year or whatever
I'm going to give up.
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As long as I can pay my
bills and live on minimums,
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and cover my bottom line,
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I am willing to go and do what
I'm doing right now forever.
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And that's just simply
because I love what I do.
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I love Operation Help the People,
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I love real estate,
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I love real estate so much.
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You know if everybody was being paid
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the same amount of money,
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and could never you
know earn a dollar more
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throughout their entire lives,
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I would still do real estate.
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You know I would still,
you know what I'm saying?
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So I think that's the
biggest thing is that
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people are in situations where they hate
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what they're doing in the first place,
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so then leveling up in
the thing that they hate
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you know, isn't necessarily
an ingredient for success.
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- Yeah yeah.
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- You know I've had to go
through so much failure,
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like this is the first
month where I'll probably
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make 80 grand this month, right?
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And,
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but I've been grinding for two years
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of failure of losing businesses,
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deals going bad,
00:20:06:25 00:20:09:19
not being paid for months at a time,
00:20:11:12 00:20:12:19
you know suffering,
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not having relationships,
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pivoting from one failed
partnership to the next,
00:20:18:20 00:20:22:14
you know I'm actually
still grossly underpaid
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when you consider the amount of hours
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and sleepless nights that have been put in
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to get to this point.
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You know what I'm saying?
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You know,
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so I think that's the biggest thing.
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That's really the biggest thing.
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I hope that answered the question.
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- Definitely that was a handful.
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So like how would you deal with,
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or what did you consider as failure,
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and how did you deal with that?
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Like how did you manage?
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- I think failure,
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(phone dings)
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I don't think even think
00:21:00:21 00:21:01:21
I'm sorry,
00:21:01:21 00:21:06:21
I have people sending
me properties and stuff.
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I don't really consider anything failure
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except quitting.
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I did have a business where
I took in investor money,
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lost it in the markets,
00:21:17:10 00:21:21:09
and now you know I had to
pay all my investors back.
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But that's still,
00:21:23:20 00:21:27:03
you know that would be like my
first true business failure.
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I've had projects that don't
go well and things like that.
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But just because I failed or
didn't have a successful month
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or didn't have a successful idea,
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I mean,
00:21:37:13 00:21:40:15
I'm not quitting the industries I'm in.
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You know, for example,
00:21:41:19 00:21:43:14
even though the business failed,
00:21:43:14 00:21:45:07
no investor lost money,
00:21:45:07 00:21:46:18
they're paid back,
00:21:46:18 00:21:48:10
and then I'm just going
to continue and take all
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those lessons and move forward.
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So it's not actually really a failure,
00:21:52:03 00:21:54:05
it's just more so I stumbled.
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And went through all the emotional
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pains that that came with.
00:22:01:06 00:22:02:05
I don't even really think,
00:22:02:05 00:22:03:17
I don't really think anything is failure.
00:22:03:17 00:22:06:21
I think failure is when you give up.
00:22:06:21 00:22:08:22
- But the thing is like,
00:22:08:22 00:22:11:14
when you have bills to
pay and you're hungry,
00:22:11:14 00:22:14:21
and people are just
continually beating you down,
00:22:14:21 00:22:17:16
like you know what the hell are you doing,
00:22:17:16 00:22:20:03
how did you like keep
going through all of that?
00:22:21:01 00:22:24:10
- [Caleb] Just something deep
within me just said that like
00:22:24:10 00:22:26:20
I literally would walk
off the bus pissed off,
00:22:26:20 00:22:27:16
I've lost,
00:22:27:16 00:22:29:06
actually no I have failed before,
00:22:29:06 00:22:32:03
I had an online web
application development company
00:22:32:03 00:22:33:10
that was doing really good,
00:22:33:10 00:22:35:03
built the company from nothing,
00:22:35:03 00:22:36:22
from scratch,
00:22:36:22 00:22:38:15
and right around the time we were getting
00:22:38:15 00:22:40:08
our first twenty grand clients or so
00:22:40:08 00:22:43:04
I realized my partner
was siphoning off money,
00:22:43:04 00:22:44:23
that was a failure.
00:22:44:23 00:22:46:09
But even when I was pissed off,
00:22:46:09 00:22:48:05
I was so angry on the bus,
00:22:48:05 00:22:52:18
I think the more negative that I felt,
00:22:52:18 00:22:54:14
I just remembered in my brain,
00:22:54:14 00:22:56:04
just saying keep going,
00:22:56:04 00:22:57:09
keep going,
00:22:57:09 00:23:00:03
keep fucking going, keep fucking going.
00:23:00:03 00:23:01:16
Don't stop.
00:23:01:16 00:23:06:09
And I think that like the
more the pain I was feeling
00:23:06:09 00:23:09:15
only made me dig my teeth
into it even further.
00:23:09:15 00:23:12:14
Because it's like damn you
done paid for all this.
00:23:12:14 00:23:14:13
I've had anxiety attacks and everything,
00:23:14:13 00:23:15:19
I just remember myself,
00:23:15:19 00:23:17:04
it all depends on what you tell yourself
00:23:17:04 00:23:18:01
in the back of your head.
00:23:18:01 00:23:21:04
I have this little speaker
box inside of my brain,
00:23:21:04 00:23:23:13
just yelling keep fucking going!
00:23:23:13 00:23:28:05
That's just like the energy in
the voice within me talking.
00:23:30:24 00:23:32:14
And I just think that's really it.
00:23:32:14 00:23:36:07
You know I think like
I've had so many examples
00:23:36:07 00:23:38:20
through mentors and books,
00:23:38:20 00:23:43:07
that they all went through
the same exact thing
00:23:43:07 00:23:44:03
that I'm going through,
00:23:44:03 00:23:45:13
so the main fact that I'm going through it
00:23:45:13 00:23:48:01
is just validation that I'm on that path.
00:23:48:01 00:23:49:11
And I think that just understanding that
00:23:49:11 00:23:52:03
and continuing that is
really the energy I'm on.
00:23:53:05 00:23:54:09
- Right.
00:23:54:09 00:23:58:02
So you say you love real estate,
00:23:58:02 00:24:00:01
so why do you do,
00:24:00:01 00:24:01:23
like why is Forex apart of your life,
00:24:01:23 00:24:04:20
why is OHTP apart of your life,
00:24:04:20 00:24:06:19
why is so many things.
00:24:06:19 00:24:09:14
- (Caleb) I love OHTP because it's my
00:24:09:14 00:24:11:20
first successful endeavor,
00:24:11:20 00:24:13:15
the happiness you come from making
00:24:13:15 00:24:15:21
a difference in society,
00:24:15:21 00:24:17:16
is something that's
unparalleled to any money
00:24:17:16 00:24:18:20
that can be made.
00:24:18:20 00:24:20:24
And I don't believe that
God put me on this Earth
00:24:20:24 00:24:23:17
to accumulate Benjamins,
00:24:23:17 00:24:25:15
you know I think that
he put me on this Earth
00:24:25:15 00:24:27:18
to make a difference in people's lives.
00:24:27:18 00:24:32:01
I think that that will always
be the number one priority
00:24:32:01 00:24:34:20
because I'm not going to
stand before God and say hey,
00:24:34:20 00:24:36:04
you know I made a billion dollars,
00:24:36:04 00:24:38:23
it's just more so you
created me for a purpose.
00:24:38:23 00:24:41:11
And I use that purpose
and I build a mission
00:24:41:11 00:24:42:06
(mumbles)
00:24:42:06 00:24:44:02
So that's number one.
00:24:44:02 00:24:49:02
Forex and trading is a
means to garner more funds.
00:24:49:05 00:24:52:07
You know if you look at
where wealthy people,
00:24:52:07 00:24:53:08
where a majority of them come from,
00:24:53:08 00:24:54:03
it's real estate,
00:24:54:03 00:24:56:08
owning a business with
the financial markets.
00:24:56:08 00:25:00:05
And that's really where I
concentrate a lot of my time in.
00:25:00:05 00:25:02:15
I'm not into equities as
a long term value investor
00:25:02:15 00:25:05:12
right now because where I feel
we are in the marketplace,
00:25:05:12 00:25:08:17
but the best place to actively
trade I feel is either
00:25:08:17 00:25:11:12
Options, or the Forex market.
00:25:11:12 00:25:14:14
And the Forex market is I
guess my weapon of choice,
00:25:14:14 00:25:17:07
that funds the things that
I love like real estate,
00:25:17:07 00:25:18:11
traveling,
00:25:18:11 00:25:21:10
and also just paying bills
and things like that.
00:25:21:10 00:25:24:06
Real estate is where I'm going
to be long term investing.
00:25:25:20 00:25:28:15
It's where you know I see myself you know
00:25:28:15 00:25:30:10
owning you know,
00:25:30:10 00:25:32:18
billions of dollars worth of real estate
00:25:32:18 00:25:35:12
and really just moving the
ball forward in that regard.
00:25:36:24 00:25:40:06
And it's I guess the passion
engine that just never stops.
00:25:40:06 00:25:43:07
And then OHTP is just like you know,
00:25:43:07 00:25:44:18
where we're going to make an impact
00:25:44:18 00:25:46:06
and what I'm really passionate about,
00:25:46:06 00:25:47:20
which is youth development.
00:25:49:05 00:25:52:17
Because that's just I guess you know,
00:25:52:17 00:25:55:19
the more giving back aspect of it.
00:25:56:15 00:25:58:21
So I feel like in order
for me to live the life
00:25:58:21 00:26:00:20
that I wanted to do,
00:26:00:20 00:26:02:22
I need to operate you know,
00:26:02:22 00:26:05:23
a business that I really
love and that's real estate,
00:26:05:23 00:26:07:12
I can generate money quick,
00:26:07:12 00:26:09:08
and you have to have
a skill that can print
00:26:09:08 00:26:10:15
and make you liquid quickly,
00:26:10:15 00:26:12:10
and that's Forex.
00:26:12:10 00:26:14:18
And then also I think that
life is pointless if you're
00:26:14:18 00:26:17:01
not making a difference
in other people's lives.
00:26:17:01 00:26:19:14
And that's Operation Help the People.
00:26:19:14 00:26:20:14
- Yeah that's real.
00:26:20:14 00:26:24:03
I also think we forget
that part, you know.
00:26:25:09 00:26:28:14
Yeah that was really
helpful and that was a lot.
00:26:28:14 00:26:30:09
The last question I want to ask is,
00:26:31:18 00:26:35:03
(mumbles) went to the same college,
00:26:35:03 00:26:36:25
that's where we met originally,
00:26:38:20 00:26:40:24
But honestly I didn't
really get to know you
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up until since I joined Care.
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- [Caleb] Appreciate it.
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- And it's been great you know,
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just joining Care has taught me a lot,
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so I want you to talk
about like what Care is
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and like what do they offer.
00:26:57:11 00:26:59:13
- [Caleb] I appreciate that.
00:26:59:13 00:27:02:19
So I guess I'll give a
really quick backdrop
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into why Care started.
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So while I was in university,
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just getting my real education,
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and the real education came from reading
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Rich Dad, Poor Dad,
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and what's outside of the institution,
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I just realized that okay
real estate is the way to go,
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but I started to how can I
make as much money as possible?
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So I would you know do school,
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do OHTP and work all night.
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And you know different retail shops,
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and things like that.
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But I hated my life.
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So I took all the money
that I had and made
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my first investment in a stock.
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And I got lucky,
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but made like a whole month or more income
00:27:40:02 00:27:41:21
in less than a week.
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(laughs)
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And I said okay, am I gonna
continue busting my tail
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at these jobs that I hate
00:27:47:16 00:27:50:04
and feeling exhausted all the time,
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or am I gonna put all my
effort and all my energy into
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you know the financial markets which
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has produced way more
result with less effort.
00:27:59:16 00:28:00:11
Right?
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The 20/80 rule, right?
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So I really started to
go in on the market,
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seeing more success,
00:28:06:11 00:28:08:01
seeing more consistency,
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and I realized that this
is where financial freedom
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is going to come from.
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But then obviously you go
through your periods of failure,
00:28:16:05 00:28:17:19
traveled the world trying to get
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the best mentorship as possible,
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and my partner Abraham Robertson and I
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realized that we wanted to start teaching.
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Because financial freedom
and financial independence
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and financial literacy
in the financial markets
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like I thought by getting
a degree in finance that
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I would learn about investing,
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but then when I looked at
the syllabus I realized
00:28:38:22 00:28:40:19
that this really wasn't the case.
00:28:41:17 00:28:43:13
So we realized that this
is something that needs
00:28:43:13 00:28:44:17
to be taught at scale,
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and we started to take students in,
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but then the students
started making money too.
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(laughs)
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And making it way faster
than when we were going
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through the pain of starting it.
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- Right.
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- So Care Education is
we just tried to build
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a company we wish we had when
we first started trading.
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And that is just an all inclusive I guess
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trading incubator.
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Where it's a five week
course where we teach you
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our strategies,
00:29:14:17 00:29:15:19
but then on top of that,
00:29:15:19 00:29:18:06
you get access to our
website which has all
00:29:18:06 00:29:19:14
our videos recorded,
00:29:19:14 00:29:21:02
24/7 access,
00:29:21:02 00:29:23:15
and in addition to that
you've got a community,
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because the thing is we also study the
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15 principals of success,
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one of which is to have a mastermind,
00:29:28:16 00:29:30:14
and be around like minded people,
00:29:30:14 00:29:34:00
so by building a community
we can set our students
00:29:34:00 00:29:36:01
up for success because
they are around people
00:29:36:01 00:29:37:17
doing the same thing.
00:29:37:17 00:29:38:19
- Right.
00:29:38:19 00:29:41:06
- On top of that during the week we also
00:29:41:06 00:29:43:08
(phone rings)
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on top of that during the week,
00:29:46:06 00:29:47:17
we show our weekly analysis,
00:29:47:17 00:29:49:18
and we even have a telegram that
00:29:49:18 00:29:53:13
shows the trades that we're
looking at in real time.
00:29:53:13 00:29:55:17
And lastly, we run a book club.
00:29:55:17 00:29:58:20
Because if you don't develop
yourself and if you don't
00:30:00:15 00:30:04:08
you know, elevate your mindset
and elevate who you are.
00:30:04:08 00:30:06:03
No matter how much money is thrown at you,
00:30:06:03 00:30:08:15
you will never really be able
to reach your full potential.
00:30:08:15 00:30:10:17
So you go in all on that.
00:30:10:17 00:30:12:23
And all that's for just a one time fee.
00:30:12:23 00:30:14:25
And we are starting classes again 2019,
00:30:14:25 00:30:18:06
so if you do want to join appreciate it.
00:30:18:06 00:30:20:00
- Yeah that's real.
00:30:20:00 00:30:21:02
That's real.
00:30:21:02 00:30:24:10
Well I appreciate you taking
the time today, for real.
00:30:24:10 00:30:27:18
- [Caleb] I really hope
these questions made sense,
00:30:27:18 00:30:28:22
I mean these answers made sense.
00:30:28:22 00:30:30:20
- Ha yeah yeah.
00:30:30:20 00:30:33:22
- [Caleb] I hope that they're impactful.
00:30:33:22 00:30:34:17
- Yeah somewhere out there somebody
00:30:34:17 00:30:35:18
wanna hear what you read.
00:30:35:18 00:30:38:02
- [Caleb] I appreciate
it man, I appreciate it.
00:30:38:02 00:30:39:21
So you have a good one.
00:30:39:21 00:30:42:02
- Alright bro, until next time.
00:30:42:02 00:30:43:05
Appreciate ya again
00:30:43:05 00:30:44:01
and peace.
00:30:45:00 00:30:46:09
- [Caleb] Peace.
00:30:46:09 00:30:47:18
- Alright thanks for watching guys,
00:30:47:18 00:30:49:21
hope this was helpful to
someone in their journey,
00:30:49:21 00:30:51:14
I know it was kind of long.
00:30:51:14 00:30:54:06
If it did, please comment down below
00:30:54:06 00:30:55:10
or shoot me a message,
00:30:55:10 00:30:57:03
I'll put my email in the description.
00:30:57:03 00:30:57:24
And stay tuned,
00:30:57:24 00:31:00:03
I have such a variety of content coming.
00:31:00:03 00:31:01:11
I know you guys will appreciate.
00:31:01:11 00:31:05:00
And also some background
information on me and where I'm at.
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But until then, stay in motion.