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Pat Flynn

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  1. “Created a website to help myself pass that exam, myself and a couple of my coworkers never ever intended it on being something that anyone else in the world can find. I didn't know how Google worked or keywords and all that stuff. I didn't know how that worked. I just built that site for me and a couple coworkers. And then after I passed that exam, I just let it sit there. There was no reason for me to go back until I heard this interview. And I went back to that site. I put an analytical tool on that site to keep track of traffic because I wanted to build this into a business just like that guy did. And the next day once one full day of traffic registered on that site, I saw that there were five or six thousand people already visiting my site every single day. Oh my God. And I was floored. And first, I had those reactions like, oh my gosh, I got to take it down because...”

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  2. “Of certain projects. They couldn't just let me go that day. I had two or three months to kind of work with those clients that I had and kind of have myself get away from those in a slower period of time than just that day. So I had some time, but I had a termination date about three months later after that business meeting. And every day I was taking the train because I moved back with my parents. My wife moved back with her parents too because we were saving money for the wedding. And on that train ride, I switched from listening to music because I just got bored on my playlist to this thing called podcasts. And I had never listened to podcasts before. And I discover one called internet business mastery with these guys named Jason and Jeremy. And they were awesome. And on one of their shows, they featured a guy who was making six figures a year, helping people pass an exam, which is called the project management exam or the PM exam. And that's when a light bulb went off for me because I had taken an exam as an architect that was really hard. There wasn't much information for it. And I had actually”

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  3. “And it was just so frustrating, and I couldn't even think at that point. I had just proposed to my girlfriend and she said, yes. So I had that in my head too. And just, I thought. I was like, what did I do wrong? I must be a complete failure. And obviously it wasn't me. It was the economy back in 2008. And I just got kicked. It was just this toilet drain. And I got pulled down over with it. My initial reaction was, okay. I'm going to call every architecture firm that I know, every contractor that I've ever worked with, and just beg and plead for a job because this is what I went to school for. This is what I've been doing for the last three years. I don't have anything else right now. And at the time, it wasn't, I didn't feel lucky, but now looking back, I'm like, luckily, there was nothing open. Everybody else was firing everybody else or letting people go. And after a couple months of a buffer period, I had a buffer period, actually, because I was job captain. I was in charge.”

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  4. “Yeah, I mean, man, it all kind of started when I got pulled into my boss's office at an architecture firm I was working at. And I was just climbing the corporate ladder at that point. I was the youngest person just previously promoted to job captain and was doing just everything I could to just improve and climb that ladder. I was doing a lot of things that weren't asked of me in my job description and everything was going great. I foresaw myself being in this industry for 40 years, having my own architecture firm down the road, being this world famous architect. And then all of a sudden my boss calls me in. He sits me down. He says, Pat, you're one of the youngest, brightest guys we know. Unfortunately, we have to let you go. And I was like, what? Like, how does that, what you just said connect with what you just said there? And I was just floored. Like, I, my, like, I don't know if you've ever gotten the wind knocked out of you, but it was, it's, but it was like that times 100 because I had just done everything right up to that point.”

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  5. “You guys are paying me back right now, though, with everything you just said. This is a form of payment. And I'm half joking here. I mean, really, when you provide value just like you guys are doing right now to all the listeners out there, if they can use that information and it helps them, they're going to try and find ways to pay you back too. I mean, that's just the law of reciprocity. That is for real. And that's kind of how I've been able to build my businesses over time just by giving away as much free information as I can. It always comes back to me in one way, shape, or form, just like this.”

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  6. “Realize that you guys have the show because, I mean, that's pretty freaking cool. That's awesome. Thank you for sharing that with me.”

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  7. “No, I love the name. It's rough. Bel Air reminds me of Will Smith from Fresh Principal Air here in California, but you're in Bel Air, Maryland, which is pretty cool.”

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  8. “Thank you so much for having me on. And I'm definitely not the one and only. I think if you look up Pat Flin and Google, there's like a million of us. But I'm so happy to be here. I'm the one from the Smart Passive Income podcast. Quick question for you, Preston. Does anyone ever call you the Fresh Prince of Bel Air since you're in Bel Air, Mary”

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