Brandon Bowsky
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77 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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But I was just like, yeah, sure, I'll gamble it. But for some people, they do that with their entire livelihood. I think gambling, high-risk investments, I consider them gambling, should be made with a very small amount of the money that you have to play with. And I think otherwise, you should do your research, do your due diligence, make safe investments.
I don't think real estate is the greatest investment. primarily because the market's been flat. And I think that most people are buying overvalued properties with way too high of interest rates. And it just doesn't make any financial sense because you can't even rent for the mortgage right now at a lot of places.
So if I can't rent the place out to pay the mortgage, why would I invest in that property? But people think I buy real estate, I get wealth, and it's just not how it works all the time. You have to be savvy. So my advice to people on investing is research every possible opportunity. And then find the wins. Follow the wins. Not the wins from five years ago or 10 years ago. The current wins.
See where people that you know are winning. And if you don't know where people are winning yet, don't rush to put your money anywhere. Save it. But my personal philosophy is invest in myself and invest in businesses I believe in. Because if I can partner with somebody and I trust them to do the work and they have a proven track record, I want to give that guy my money.
Just the same reason people want to do business with me because I'm good at what I do. Or business with you because you're good at what you do. That's what my advice would be. Get good at something, invest in yourself, and keep scaling that thing that you're good at until you can't anymore, and then start thinking of where to park your money.
So I used to be anti-course, anti-program, anti-mentorship, all that stuff. I'm still somewhat anti-mentorship depending on, like, you really have to know that you can extract value and you know that person's real and you know that they have knowledge that you want. But lately, I'll buy any info product just to see what people are doing. I just want to know what makes their offer tick.
Why are they structuring it the way they're structuring it? Could they have done it better? Is there an opportunity to do it better? Is the character even real? Is the program valuable? Like those are reasons that I spend money.
And I think a lot of people, when they're looking for new skills, they do the thing where they get on the phone with a high ticket salesperson and get pressured into buying something. And it wasn't even the right fit for them, the right program. And I'm not saying that there is a right program, but knowledge is important.
And the more you learn about more things, the more conversations you can have. And I've said this to people that have paid me for, I have a $50,000 program. And it teaches you how to do lead gen, soup to nuts, 50 chapters. I mean, it's an in-depth thing. And for 5% of revenue, we'll coach you through it. It's a whole thing. There are people that do nothing after paying that money.
And there are people that go balls to the wall and crush it. And there are people that I taught this to for years for free that have been really successful. But I don't tell people to give me their last 50 grand. And people have tried and they're like, oh, my back's against the wall. I'll do better.
It's like, hell no, I don't want your money because that guy's going to call me 472 times about why he's not doing the work right. And I think that people rush to invest in something because they think that they can do a thing. But they should first look internally and see what could be best for me, like my personality type, my risk tolerance.
And then what of those things do I think I would enjoy? Like I always tell people, before you make any investment in yourself or decide on any business venture, you should always think and ask five questions. The most important one is what do you do every day to someone who already does it?
And the reason is if you ask somebody what they do every day and you don't want to commit to that lifestyle, for example, if I said I make $10 million a year and I run a call center, I don't. But if I did and you said, oh, I want to travel the world and work remotely, that would be a bad fit. That's a non-starter.
Now you might say, well, I would grind away to make $10 million a year and then go do that. But the odds of you succeeding as much as the person that's teaching people is not very high. So I would say that's a mismatch. Now, if somebody told you, here's how you can make a million dollars a year traveling the world,
and it was real and you saw people doing it and you knew people that had done it, that might be a good fit because it aligns with what you want. And I think a lot of people don't do good enough vetting of what they really want and what they think they'll actually be good at.
Man, so I've never forced anybody that works with me for me to donate. I personally donate more to individual causes than I do to big charities a lot of the time because it takes a lot of due diligence to know that a charity is a good charity. Like, I know a lot of the work that you do is very good. Like, I've done the toy drive that you did, the world record-holding toy drive.
Came there, brought some toys. That was awesome. Super fun to watch. That was really cool. Great experience. Strongly recommend everybody does it. But... I was on the advisory board of a nonprofit that puts homeless people in houses. And I got to learn a lot about homeless people, why and how they become homeless, that some of them actually become accustomed to it.
It's almost like Stockholm syndrome and like it and think we're crazy for having homes, jobs, responsibilities, bills, et cetera. But I think you should always do something that you believe in. And as someone who briefly lived in my car, it's like, all right, I was one step away from that. What would have gotten me there? For me, it was a failed business.
For some people, it's a divorce or it's drugs. So that really resonated with me. Like these people just need somebody to help them, whether it was donating clothes or, you know, renting rehab beds at, you know, sober living facilities and putting them into those. There were a lot of really cool things. We did a lot of community events, a lot of speaking events, and that was really nice.
But people should always find a charity they believe in. and do the research to make sure that they're doing good things with the money. Because just donating to Goodwill and saying that you did charity, it's BS. Like when I first made my first million dollars, I had a lot of credit card points. I had like 1.8 million at the time. Later I had almost 15, but at the time I had 1.8 million.
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