Pat Flynn

Let's give 50 million away and 100 million.

Let's give 50 million away and 100 million.

Oh my gosh, he's playing games, that's for sure. Squid games. He's a master at it, by the way. Oh, completely. Yeah. If that starts to happen, I will find the fun. That's it.

Oh my gosh, he's playing games, that's for sure. Squid games. He's a master at it, by the way. Oh, completely. Yeah. If that starts to happen, I will find the fun. That's it.

So I started my podcast in 2010. And at one point, we started inserting questions from the audience at the end of those episodes. And they were really great. We even used a tool called Speakpipe to collect those voicemail questions so people could hear other people like them at the end of the show. It was really fun.

So I started my podcast in 2010. And at one point, we started inserting questions from the audience at the end of those episodes. And they were really great. We even used a tool called Speakpipe to collect those voicemail questions so people could hear other people like them at the end of the show. It was really fun.

The problem was it was just random questions that had nothing to do with the podcast. So I wanted to start a second show to house all those questions and just have a show of me answering and essentially coaching people. And that was called Ask Pat. Yeah, that became Ask Pat. Although I said, well, it takes me forever to create one episode a week. How am I going to do five a week now?

The problem was it was just random questions that had nothing to do with the podcast. So I wanted to start a second show to house all those questions and just have a show of me answering and essentially coaching people. And that was called Ask Pat. Yeah, that became Ask Pat. Although I said, well, it takes me forever to create one episode a week. How am I going to do five a week now?

I need to go to somebody who does... like a daily show. And we know a guy named Johnny Dumas who has a daily show. And I literally took him out to coffee and I said, John, coffee's on me. Tell me how you go daily. And he literally told me he recorded them all in one day. Tuesday, I think he records an entire week's worth of episodes. So he batch processes.

I need to go to somebody who does... like a daily show. And we know a guy named Johnny Dumas who has a daily show. And I literally took him out to coffee and I said, John, coffee's on me. Tell me how you go daily. And he literally told me he recorded them all in one day. Tuesday, I think he records an entire week's worth of episodes. So he batch processes.

So he wakes up on Tuesday and he just knows he's going to grind for eight hours and get all those hour long episodes out as Pat was going to be much shorter. So I was like, OK, I think I could carve out a day. What else do you do? What else? I have an assistant who then takes those voicemails and like edits it for me. Oh, cool, tell me more about that. So I got the system.

So he wakes up on Tuesday and he just knows he's going to grind for eight hours and get all those hour long episodes out as Pat was going to be much shorter. So I was like, OK, I think I could carve out a day. What else do you do? What else? I have an assistant who then takes those voicemails and like edits it for me. Oh, cool, tell me more about that. So I got the system.

I found it from somebody who had done it before. So I didn't have to invent anything, because somebody had already done it. And that Ask Pat show turned into, I think, $2.5 million worth of sponsorships, and of course, leads coming in for the courses and memberships and such. So that is one example of a 20%. Interesting. The SwitchPod, which is a travel tripod that my videographer and I invented.

I found it from somebody who had done it before. So I didn't have to invent anything, because somebody had already done it. And that Ask Pat show turned into, I think, $2.5 million worth of sponsorships, and of course, leads coming in for the courses and memberships and such. So that is one example of a 20%. Interesting. The SwitchPod, which is a travel tripod that my videographer and I invented.

We had no business inventing something. A physical product. A physical product. We had never done that before. But we saw a problem, and I wanted to scratch that itch. I itch a lot, I guess, is what I'm realizing after.

We had no business inventing something. A physical product. A physical product. We had never done that before. But we saw a problem, and I wanted to scratch that itch. I itch a lot, I guess, is what I'm realizing after.

We did a Kickstarter. 2017, we went to VidSummit. Everybody was using those GorillaPods, you know, those things with the balls that kind of like do this. And we were like, there's got to be a better way. We didn't know where to start, but we knew that we had to figure out like a shape that people would like to hold.

We did a Kickstarter. 2017, we went to VidSummit. Everybody was using those GorillaPods, you know, those things with the balls that kind of like do this. And we were like, there's got to be a better way. We didn't know where to start, but we knew that we had to figure out like a shape that people would like to hold.

And the idea was the legs could fold together to turn into the thing that you can hold. And then you can like open it up and put it back down. But again, we didn't know how to do that. So we made it out of cardboard. And then we gave it to YouTubers. And we just said, hold this. And they're like, what is this? And I'm like, open it up, open it up. Oh, that's kind of cool.

And the idea was the legs could fold together to turn into the thing that you can hold. And then you can like open it up and put it back down. But again, we didn't know how to do that. So we made it out of cardboard. And then we gave it to YouTubers. And we just said, hold this. And they're like, what is this? And I'm like, open it up, open it up. Oh, that's kind of cool.