Next Level Pros
#136: Title: "I've spent over $1M on my education" - My Advice to the Youth - Chris Lee Unplugged
30 Jan 2025
Welcome to a new episode of Next Level Pros! In this special episode, the roles are reversed! Today, Cameron interviews Chris Lee, a successful entrepreneur, family man, and host of the Next Level Pros podcast. Chris shares his extensive entrepreneurial journey, from his early days of door-to-door sales to building and scaling a multi-million dollar solar power business. He discusses the lessons he's learned from both his failures and successes, the importance of continuous learning and personal development, and his insights on the impact of AI and technology on the business landscape. Apply to be on the show: https://forms.gle/hwDijQPFyKCEtHNs8 Highlights: "Go and fail as much as possible. If you're living at home, this is the perfect time to fail, right? Your safety net is pretty strong, right? You don't have to worry about food on the table. You don't have to be worrying about a roof over your head, but you can go out and you can fail." "Transparency is one of the biggest things that I learned from my mentor Todd at Vivint. A lot of business owners operate in the dark, meaning that they only allow a certain amount of information to go to their employees, and they treat them, probably like they're dumb." "For me, that's what I took from the education system, and I've been able to apply, and that's where I would say most of my success has come from, is being constantly hungry for learning." "You will not lose your job to AI. You will lose your job to somebody that knows how to use AI, and that person will be more and more efficient because of it." Timestamps: 00:00 - Introduction 11:13 - Lessons learned from business failures and successes 20:50 - Transparency and culture in business 27:07 - Advice for aspiring entrepreneurs 34:00 - The importance of personal education and continuous learning 44:00 - Chris Lee's views on AI and its impact on business 48:36 - Chris Lee's political views and support for Donald Trump 54:00 - The role of AI in education and the need for adaptation 59:16 - The most valuable skill in public speaking and sales Want me to teach you how to grow your business? Text me! 509-374-7554 Want access to more of my content? Click the link below for all of our latest updates and events! https://linktr.ee/nextlevelpros Want to be a guest on our show? Apply here!https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1YlkVBSluEKMTg4gehyUOHYvBratcxHV5rt3kiWTXNC4/viewform?edit_requested=true Watch my latest Podcast Apple - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/next-level-pros/id1687030281 Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/show/1e0cL2vI1JAtQrojSOA7D2?si=95980cd4e55a437a YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/@NextLevelPros
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My teacher had a specific question for you. Cool. She wants to know how education underneath the American school system has benefited you on your entrepreneurial journey.
Ooh, good question. So, big fan of education, but not traditional education. Sorry, teacher. My buddy, he goes, I have a business idea and I'd like to get started.
If he has an idea to go start and learn a business, just try something new, where would you recommend he start or when?
If you're still in high school and still under mom and dad's roof, like that's an incredible time to be able to take risk. Your 20s should be the time that you take the most risk. So like the best advice I could give to any person is go and fail as much as possible.
Today, I have someone quite special on this interview. Not someone, you know, like your friends or your parents, like everyone else is doing. I have someone quite a little bit more important, at least in my eyes. Today, I'll have Chris Lee on our interview. He's a family man, businessman, man of God, and in my eyes, a very, very successful businessman. Chris, real quick, run it down for my class.
What has been your past?
My whole past. Your whole past, in a nutshell. So I've been involved in entrepreneurship for nearly 20 years. And so, I mean, there's a lot that goes into my past. Started off knocking doors, very similar to you. which I think is the foundation for any great entrepreneur.
They've got to learn how to sell, and knocking doors is probably the easiest way to, well, easiest meaning the fastest way to be able to develop up that skill. Not indoors for many years, selling different products. Anywhere from when I was 17, well actually just after my 18th birthday, I started selling Cutco. Did that in a... cold calling type fashion.
I served a mission for my church which required a lot of door knocking for two years and then ever since then been involved in different sales industries, sold pest control, sold cars, sold alarm systems and automation systems and ultimately solar systems. And so all those products besides cars I sold door to door in some facet. and had initially started out doing it to pay for college.
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