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Allen Walton

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  1. “So I found that to be incredibly helpful and mostly just reaffirming what building on what FAR work we had laid the foundation for, just kind of believing that I had this in me to carve a path. So that was one of them. The other one was a book called The Millionaire Fast Lane by MJMAMAMAMAMA. And it's really funny because all of the best books have the worst names.”

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  2. “I sold it Right, but he had really humble beginnings as well. He just started as a really super small. Credit card process”

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  3. “It was really fascinating to hear some of the case studies that were in there because that book came out, I don't know, I want to say maybe like five or six years after four hour work week did. And in choose herself, he also gives a lot of case studies. And I remember one of them being, I think the guy's name is Brian from Braintree.”

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  4. “Sure Our work week is what got the ball rolling, and then there were a couple of other books that I found super helpful that I read around the same time. Choose yourself by James Alticher, I found really super helpful.”

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  5. “By this time I was really familiar with Google AdWords and Google product listings. Had just come out, which made it really known as Google Shopping now, but it made it really easy for you to get in front of people like instantly. So I knew that if I were going to start a website, then people don't just magically show up. They kind of make it seem like that's going to happen. If you build it, they will come type of scenario, and that's not true at all. It actually takes a lot of work to build up traffic. And so with Google Ads, I could pay to have people who are highly targeted like they were actually searching for a GPS tracker in Google. And then my website would come up and I'd have to pay if they click on that link. But I just purchased several books and I read a lot of blog posts on Google AdWords. It's still part of our traffic strategy this day.”

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  6. “It was a huge relief, and it was really funny because about two minutes after I hit send, one of the guys that I work with. He got a phone call. From my boss, and then asked if he wanted to run the company since I was leaving. And then my boss didn't actually respond to me.”

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  7. “I did it by email, and that was only because. My boss, he lived a distance away. So I was kind of working remotely for him.”

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  8. “It's an e commerce platform that makes it really easy for you to. Oh, this isn't not a pitch. Basically, Shopify just allows me to have a website where I can sell my stuff.”

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  9. “Well, I guess the next thing I did was just quit my job. Yeah. I really wasn't even thinking about it. Most people say to have a backup plan just something to fall back on and then start your business on the side. I decided to just jump right into it. I was so sick and tired of working that job that I was at that I gave my two weeks notice and then after two weeks were up, I was like, wow, okay, my I'm not getting checks anymore. I need to actually get to work. And so I think that I think that I had actually gone to some of the resources that are mentioned. I specifically remember seeing Shopify on there, which is what I started my store on and I'm still on that to this day.”

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  10. “Sure. So I said neither scenario is permanent, and I could definitely recover from either of them. The pain would be a three to a four on a scale of one to ten if either of these happened. I don't think the odds of them are very strong if I were sued I would presumably have enough money for a good lawyer to win the suit. So, I mean, this is just absolute worst case scenario, and even then it really didn't even seem that bad.”

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  11. “Yeah, I was worried that my employer was going to sue me and then I was going to have to spend a lot of money in court. And probably lose a lot more money if I lost or something like that. I don't know why I thought I would get sued, but it's just.”

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  12. “Oh yeah, it looks like I just basically wrote this entire book on my legal pad So yeah, define your nightmare. What's the absolute worst that could happen if you did what you're considering? And I guess I was considering leaving my job, which was paying well, and then taking substantially less income, but being my own boss. And so I wrote down what the possible outcomes were, which were I lose at most ten thousand dollars in the time it took to make the company. And that's only if I fail, right? Have some other particularly far fetched scenarios”

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  13. “I'm not sure what it is about the notepads. Yeah, every book I read, I take notes like this. For our work week, I wrote down some of the quotes that you open each chapter with, and then other things that speak out to me. And so talking about deal.”

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  14. “So I actually have my notes. I don't know that you want me to get up and grab them right now, but I actually have the original notes that I took of each chapter. And then the fear setting exercises and everything.”

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  15. “Remember loading up Amazon and then clicking on your name and then seeing the four hour work week and I'm like, hey, now that sounds interesting. And so I remember getting a copy of the book. And I remember seeing page 90. Like I was on page 90 and I'm like, wow, this is like unlike any other book I've read before. This is blowing my mind. So that's how I stumbled into the world, I guess”

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  16. “So my dad had cancer and he was trying to research things that would make him feel better, recover from that. And I remember coming down the stairs, my parents' house, and I hear my dad on the phone. And he's like, yeah, this guy, he raises motorcycles and kickboxes and tango dances. It's crazy. He's like, And it just kind of perks my interest. I'm like, wait, there's one guy that does all of these things. I'm just playing video games in my spare time. This guy's living an amazing life. This sounds really interesting. And so I wait for my dad to get off the phone and I'm like, what are you talking about? And he goes, oh, I just found out about this book called The Far Our Body. It was mentioned on a website called Instapundit.”

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  17. “I remember it pretty vividly actually. I was living with my parents at the time, and I guess this was in twenty eleven when the forward body came out, right? Yeah.”

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  18. “And they wanted to sell hidden cameras, GPS trackers, covert audio, phone monitoring software, all sorts of surveillance equipment. And so I created that store for them, and that lasted for about three years before I decided that I really wanted to work for myself. And I did all of the exercises for our work week and ended up leaving in 2014 and starting Spy Guy.”

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  19. “This is where we kind of get into Job I had in between starting Spy Guy and then working in the retail store. Basically, I had this opportunity that came up through a customer of mine. There were a detective for a TV show called Cheaters, and it came at the perfect moment. I was very stressed out with my employer and just life in general, I guess. And I remember this customer coming into my store and saying, hey, my boss wants to meet with you. And he's the guy that created the TV show Cheaters. Yeah, they took me out to lunch, and it turned out that a lot of people who watched the TV show were calling in because they suspected that they had a boyfriend, a girlfriend, or a spouse that was having an affair, and so they'd want the TV show to come in and investigate it. And they don't have the resources to handle that many calls. So they had the bright idea of opening up an online security store, which is what I knew about.”

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  20. “Overwork Underappreciated Was working in a retail store that sold surveillance equipment. I was the only employee at the location. So if the store was empty and it was around like 2 p.m. I'd have to hustle outside the building to grab lunch real quick and come back because if customers were to come in and there's nobody there to help them and they could just take everything in the store. So it was just me and I was constantly having to monitor inventory levels, which they never gave me enough product to keep in stock. So I'd always have to drive for like a half hour where the headquarters was and pick up inventory and load it into my car and then bring it back to the store. So these were like really long hours. I'd have to do that after my shift ended at like 7 p.m. And so it'd be 10 p.m. by the time I get back and it was just a big mess.”

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