Diamond - Rashmi n Smita

May 08, 2026 13:19 · 1:12:41 · English · Whisper Turbo · 2 speakers
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How you all doing?
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Okay,
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I got few fired up here.
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A couple are going to catch up there.
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Okay, then we'll fine.
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We'll take care of you.
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But we are Rashmi and Smita.
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Those of you still confused,
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I am Rashmi, say Smita,
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you know. Every now and then people still call her Rashmi,
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you know. See response though.
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This session,
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next few minutes that we're going to be with you,
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goal is to share with you how we did what we did.
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How we did what we talked about in the earlier session.
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How we put the team together,
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where we got started and where we're going.
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And most of all,
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I'll leave you with some thoughts about the business,
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where we see it's going,
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where the industry is taking and why we're excited about it.
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going to the future,
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you know,
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still being as diamonds and moving on.
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Just to get you started,
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as I mentioned in my seminar portion,
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you know, I originally was born in,
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you know,
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Bhunesha, India.
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It's a state called Orissa.
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Very few people will meet from that state.
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It's a very lazy state,
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okay, so don't ask me.
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Grew up with a family.
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Dad is an engineer.
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His time,
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IIT graduate,
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you know.
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By the time he retired,
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he was, you know,
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state chief and all that stuff.
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Mom was a housewife,
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grew up with a younger brother and a sister.
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And it's amazing slowly to see how business has grown into
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them because a lot of,
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when we initially got into the business,
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you know, they really didn't quite understand what the business stood for.
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And as and when you hear the story,
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you'll realize where it is today.
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And I went to engineering college,
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you know, probably, you know,
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Smith always says,
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you know, either you engineer or doctor,
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middle class family,
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that's the only options you have,
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you know, growing up in India.
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And, you know,
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went into engineering.
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From there,
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you know,
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started doing,
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you know,
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I guess entrepreneurship was always there.
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And me and one more of my roommate,
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you know,
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I want you to keep this roommate in mind.
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He'll come back later on in the story.
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On a good way,
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though. This is a good one,
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okay? And we started doing some projects on the side,
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you know, just little things while doing undergrad,
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you know, to make some extra money,
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you know, put some models together,
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worked on some side projects and things like that.
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Actually, by the time I bought it,
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I was getting done with the undergrad,
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then I moved to New Delhi,
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those of you know,
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capital of India,
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to start working there.
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I worked there for a few months.
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Got fed up of it.
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You know,
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it's like, you know,
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same morning,
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wake up and take the bus and all that kind of stuff.
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Anyway, so moved back to Arisa after that and started our own company,
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actually.
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And both me and my friend started running a construction
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consulting company.
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Okay.
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As a matter of fact,
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the company still runs today.
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We are about to,
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you know, hand it over to finish up the projects and hand it over.
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But still runs today and good turnover,
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you know, big company,
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whatever.
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But during the time of my about to finish my undergrad,
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my dad always had this vision.
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You know, I guess he,
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you know, he was,
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his time, one of the top guys.
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He went to IIT of his time.
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He was one of the top Indian institutes.
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And so he always had this vision that,
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you know, because all his friends had,
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you know, eventually moved to United States of America.
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That big dream,
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the name, you know,
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United States and whatnot.
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I never, to be honest with you,
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cared.
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I was like,
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I'm fine here,
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man. I run my own company.
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I make money.
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It doesn't matter.
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So it's his dream which eventually actually got me to the United States.
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And of course,
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you know, I didn't know whether I'll ever get here.
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I'm like, whatever,
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let me just apply for it,
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you know. So I sent in some applications and whatever,
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you know.
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Got two admission calls,
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actually, to come in to do a master's,
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you know.
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And one was from Buffalo,
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sunny Buffalo,
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and the other one was Kansas State University.
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And neither one of the place I had funding,
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which takes care of tuition and all that stuff.
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But eventually I showed up in Kansas because the professor there said,
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well, high probability that you're going to get it.
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Just on that one line I came,
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I guess.
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It's a funny thing.
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I never did get the funding until three semesters later.
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It was only last semester I had funding.
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Funny story.
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So I'm about to take this flight to come to Manhattan,
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Kansas.
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That's where Kansas State University is,
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okay? Of all things,
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my dad thinks I'm going to Manhattan,
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New York.
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You know,
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he's like, oh, you're going to be in Manhattan,
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you're going to see big tall buildings and this and that and I'm also...
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You don't have two cities with the same name in India,
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just to clarify things for you.
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So I'm here and I'm like,
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dad, but he's saying some KCI airport,
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something, you know,
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doesn't sound too good.
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Like, well,
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how many Manhattans will there be?
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I'm like, good point.
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It's your dad talking,
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you don't argue with him,
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you know. So I took a one -way flight ticket with no expectation on
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the other and where I'm landing,
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fully expecting to land in Manhattan,
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New York.
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Landed up in Manhattan,
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Kansas.
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Tallest story in Manhattan,
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Kansas.
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Tallest building is four story high,
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okay? Middle of cow pasture,
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okay?
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That's what I landed up with.
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Alright?
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The rest of the story is just like probably any other student,
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you know. Five,
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you know, people living in an apartment and,
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you know, it's crazy.
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You know, everybody paying $100 for the rent.
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You know, I remember, you know,
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a friend of mine saying,
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calling the landlord saying,
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man, you know.
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They had a mouse running in the house.
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It's like for a hundred bucks,
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what do you want?
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Horses in your house,
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you know? All those crazy stories.
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One guy had to be in the lab all the time.
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You couldn't fit five people in there,
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you know? Nobody had funding anyway,
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so I still can't remember how we lived on that kind of $300,
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$500.
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No job,
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nothing to find,
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no funding, so I,
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you know, I get this cafeteria job to start cleaning dishes.
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I remember during that time,
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during that six,
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nine months,
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when I was, you know,
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the initial struggle days,
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and I was sitting there thinking,
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what on earth am I doing here?
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And leaving a company which I started and just growing and,
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you know, I'm here washing dishes and getting a master's degree.
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I don't even know why I'm getting it for.
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Honestly,
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it never made sense to me.
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I remember questioning that a lot during that time in my life.
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And of course,
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you know, eventually finished grad school,
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you know,
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last semester is the only semester I had funding.
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And so I ended up getting out of grad school in $18 ,000 in
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loan because,
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you know.
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Not much money because,
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you know, as I said,
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grew up in middle -class family,
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not like my dad and a gas reserve.
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So,
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you know, you learn,
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you know, you need visa to come into the country,
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then you need visa to stay in the country,
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you know, visa card, you know.
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So,
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I pretty much used that,
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okay. So,
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it's about that time is when I started interviewing.
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I'm like, I better pay off this loan before I do anything about it,
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you know. So,
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I started interviewing this project.
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I was by then tired of cold,
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you know, Kansas,
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cold, you know.
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We have a saying in Kansas,
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you don't like the weather,
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wait two minutes, it'll change,
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you know.
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This is like middle of the United States,
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you know, north wind,
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south wind, east wind,
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west wind, everything passes through Kansas,
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okay? So it's a funny place.
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So I'm interviewing all this company,
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not at all interviewing any place in
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cold region.
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So I'm giving interviews in Virginia,
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in Louisiana,
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all over.
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I actually had an offer from Virginia.
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So I get this call,
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interview call in Chicago.
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It's a media company.
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I can't tell you the name,
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but part of the name is Tribune,
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okay? I can't tell the whole name.
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And so I eventually interviewed for the company.
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So that guy offers me $1 ,000 more than the other offer I had.
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It's the only company I've ever interviewed in Chicago.
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I haven't applied any other company in Chicago.
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So he offers me a job with $1 ,000 more than the other company in Virginia.
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Guess where I joined?
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Chicago.
7:09
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All right.
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Now I joined Chicago fully expecting that in six months I'm going to get out of there.
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Okay,
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it's like, okay, fine.
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$1 ,000 extra.
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I'll stay here six months.
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I'll go,
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you know.
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10 years later,
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I'm still there,
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okay? Just to let you know.
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So how people make decisions in their life is just amazing.
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You know, you just make,
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just because $1 ,000 extra,
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I showed up in Chicago.
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But the reason I tell you all of that story is it's going to be amazing
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when you look back today.
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When you are going through it,
7:36
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you don't know why it happens,
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right? But when you look back later on,
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you know, these are all strings which are attached.
7:41
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It's about the time when I moved to Chicago,
7:43
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I'm looking for a roommate because,
7:45
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you know, the rent is pretty high.
7:48
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And you got to share somebody's rent with you so you can save some money.
7:51
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It's amazing how many times you saw the plan and people are excited
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and then two days later you meet them like,
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oh, what happened?
7:58
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
Oh,
7:59
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I talked to my roommate.
8:00
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It always bothers me.
8:01
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
Well,
8:02
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did it ever occur to you that your roommate can't afford the whole
8:06
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rent?
8:07
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That's why he's sharing rent with you?
8:08
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Anyway,
8:09
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forget it.
8:10
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I'm going to stay away from that one.
8:11
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And you're taking financial advice from him?
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God.
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Anyway,
8:14
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forget it.
8:15
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So I'm looking for a roommate.
8:16
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
So it used to be an internet digest thing where you're looking for a roommate,
8:20
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whatever.
8:21
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You put it in the online thing.
8:23
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And from that digest,
8:24
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Ganesh picks up this number and calls me.
8:26
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Actually, it's a funny story.
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Ganesh has registered his cousin,
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sister Divya.
8:30
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I'm personally registered by Ganesh's cousin,
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sister Divya,
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actually.
8:33
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And he's trying to teach her how to make a phone call.
8:37
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So he used to call,
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get 10 numbers out of this digest and give it to her,
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you know, for practice calls.
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You know, fully expecting that,
8:45
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you know, come on,
8:46
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these are crazy numbers.
8:47
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Nobody's going to say something.
8:48
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And the weirdest thing has to link to my name.
8:51
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You know, those of you come,
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understand my name is actually Rashmi Ranjan.
8:54
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But because of,
8:55
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you know, majority of you know,
8:56
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you live in the country,
8:57
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the names keep getting shorter and shorter,
8:59
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you know. So,
9:00
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eventually people call me Rashmi and my professor used to call me Ras.
9:03
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You know, forget all that.
9:03
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So,
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he sees the name and fully expecting it's the lady's name.
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She picks up the phone and calls me.
9:11
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And that's the time I moved from Kansas.
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I still don't have a phone number.
9:16
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So he calls my Kansas number.
9:18
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My old roommate was still there.
9:20
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He had finished his exam,
9:22
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but he had some papers to finish.
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He was still there.
9:24
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So he picks up the number.
9:24
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He's like, well,
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Rashmi has moved to Chicago.
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He's not here.
9:28
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Well,
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does he have a number there?
9:30
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No.
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I said, okay.
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I don't know,
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for some reason,
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she called back again two weeks later,
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and I had the number.
9:37
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And my roommate had already called him and given him my number.
9:39
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Hey, this is my Chicago number.
9:40
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So he gives that number.
9:42
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Now,
9:43
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by this time,
9:43
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Ganesh has already built a team,
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of course, in Detroit,
9:47
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but he's been trying to put a team in Chicago.
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Plugging in people,
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blah, blah, blah,
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not really anything happening as such.
9:52
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And here's the experimental number,
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expecting a girl to pick up,
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and I pick up the phone.
9:57
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And then,
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you know, of course,
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Divya...
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You know, get me through,
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then eventually got the number,
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Ganesh calls me.
10:02
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Say, hey listen,
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we have, we're putting a project together,
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do you want to work on any project to make some extra money?
10:07
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I'm like,
10:08
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dude,
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I need it.
10:09
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What do you mean, do I want to,
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you know? $18 ,000 loan,
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come on, what do you got,
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you know? That kind of a deal.
10:15
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See,
10:15
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understand, I used to run my own company before in India,
10:17
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so it didn't,
10:19
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you know, it wasn't unusual for me to get a business proposition or to look at things,
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you know? I mean,
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it's normal.
10:25
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Yeah,
10:25
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you should look at things,
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nothing wrong with it.
10:28
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I mean, unless you see how you want to know what you want,
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you know, you should go check things out,
10:32
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you know. So they said,
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okay, I have the senior partner coming to Chicago.
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He's going to, I'm going to go check this thing out.
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I said, okay.
10:39
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So he gives me some apartment address and some Sunday,
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Saturday or Sunday,
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I can't remember.
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And he says,
10:44
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goes here and they're going to expect you and be there and go check this thing out.
10:48
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I said, okay.
10:48
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So I pick up my first car,
10:50
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which I had bought a $1 ,000 Toyota.
10:52
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The car had a brain of its own.
10:54
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It will stop in the middle of the road whenever it wanted to.
10:56
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No,
10:57
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it did. One day it just stopped.
10:58
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I left it.
10:58
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
I used to call it artificial intelligence car.
11:02
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It had a brain of its own.
11:03
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So I pick up my $1 ,000 car.
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It's a summer day.
11:07
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So I put on my shorts and T -shirt and I go.
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to check out a business plan.
11:11
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I go to this apartment and,
11:13
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you know,
11:13
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some little thing and I walk in there,
11:16
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there are about 30 people packed in that apartment.
11:18
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I'm like,
11:19
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uh -oh.
11:20
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You know,
11:20
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when it occurred to me that there's something wrong going on,
11:22
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when I saw half of them wearing tie and suit in an apartment,
11:26
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I'm like,
11:28
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I was the only one in shorts in that apartment,
11:30
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okay?
11:31
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And guess what?
11:33
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And they do this introduction and this guy comes up,
11:35
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he's jumping up and on,
11:36
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he's coupling sun and suit on.
11:38
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I'm like, something is wrong here,
11:40
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man. And every chair is taken.
11:43
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They're like, yeah,
11:43
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you know, take a seat somewhere.
11:44
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
I just sat down on the floor.
11:45
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I'm like, okay, sit down,
11:47
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man. What's the big deal,
11:48
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you know? So these guys talking about stuff and money and this and that.
11:52
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And then,
11:52
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you know how in the middle of the plan,
11:53
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they ask you, what would you do if you made extra $2 ,000,
11:56
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you know?
11:56
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Somebody to buy a house,
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buy a car.
11:58
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He looks down at me.
11:59
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I'm the only one sitting on the carpet,
12:00
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okay? So what would you do?
12:01
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I'll buy an entertainment center,
12:03
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music system,
12:04
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you know? Must have thought,
12:05
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what a big dreamer,
12:06
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you know?
12:08
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So after the plan is done,
12:09
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and Ganesha told me,
12:10
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they'll give you some literature.
12:11
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I say,
12:12
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okay. And he's forgot to tell the speaker that I'm coming because he never expected
12:16
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me to show up because he has tried in Chicago.
12:18
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Nobody ever went to any plans in Chicago,
12:21
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whoever he called.
12:23
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So, he never told him.
12:24
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So,
12:24
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I walk up to the speaker,
12:25
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I said, after one,
12:26
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he said, well,
12:27
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you know, Ganesh from Detroit called me,
12:29
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I don't know him, he just called me,
12:30
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but he said,
12:31
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you'll give me some literature.
12:32
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He said, okay,
12:33
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okay, you wait,
12:33
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
you know, he's taking care of the professional guys before the,
12:36
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before the shorts guy comes in,
12:37
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you know what I mean?
12:38
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Let me see if he hangs around there,
12:39
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
you know. He thought,
12:40
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I'll take off or something.
12:41
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I hang around for 10 minutes,
12:42
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then I go and say, okay, can you,
12:43
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are you giving me something?
12:45
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Then very reluctantly,
12:46
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
it used to be one of those boyos before you had,
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you know, the 30 bucks big literatures we had.
12:50
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I mean, it's expensive.
12:51
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
You want to give it to a guy with the sorts,
12:53
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you don't know whether he'll come back,
12:53
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you know what I mean?
12:54
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And three times he tells me,
12:56
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okay, you go through it,
12:57
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make sure you give it back to Ganesh,
12:58
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
you know. The reason I tell you that story is the gentleman
13:02
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who was showing the plan that day was nobody other than new founder she sees
13:07
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today, Rajan Sangeeta saw.
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And out of the 30 people in that room,
13:12
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there are two people in business today.
13:13
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One is Rajan,
13:14
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second one is me.
13:15
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Okay, and both diamonds and above.
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You never know,
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folks, who you're showing the plan to,
13:21
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who walks into which house plan,
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who will become your next diamond on your team.
13:25
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Can you believe that?
13:26
S… Speaker 2 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
Okay,
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I don't think even Raj knew.
13:28
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Today, anytime we meet Raj,
13:30
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we talk about it.
13:31
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You remember that plan with the swordsman?
13:33
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I'm like, yeah, trust me,
13:34
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I remember.
13:34
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
You know,
13:35
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right?
13:37
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
It's been an incredible journey,
13:39
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I'll tell you that.
13:40
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You know, and then,
13:41
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you know, Ganesh calls two days later,
13:43
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you know, you need to go through the tape.
13:44
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
I'm like, why do you need to go through the tape?
13:46
S… Speaker 2 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
He's like,
13:47
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
no, no, you need to go through.
13:47
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
I'm going to come and get things started.
13:49
S… Speaker 2 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
I said, okay.
13:49
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
And I just listened to the tape because he told me to listen.
13:52
S… Speaker 2 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
I had no interest.
13:53
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Some business,
13:54
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
something.
13:54
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
Who wants a tape?
13:55
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Sign me up, man.
13:56
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You know.
13:57
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And then in between,
13:58
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I've done all the crazy.
13:59
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He's like, I'm coming,
14:00
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so you invite a couple of people.
14:01
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I'm like,
14:02
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
dude, I just moved from Kansas.
14:03
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
I know only two people,
14:04
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my roommate and his buddy.
14:05
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Those are the only two people I knew.
14:07
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So I invite the two people.
14:08
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Then I'm like,
14:09
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how do I invite them?
14:09
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
Rummeto is there,
14:10
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he's stuck, you know.
14:11
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And then his buddy,
14:12
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how do I invite?
14:13
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I say, dude,
14:13
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
come on over man,
14:14
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we'll have some party.
14:15
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See, before the business I was very spiritual,
14:17
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you know what I mean?
14:18
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Every night was spirit night,
14:19
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you know, if you know what I mean.
14:20
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And I was not really proud of it,
14:23
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but that's how I was.
14:24
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
You know,
14:25
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when Ganesh came,
14:26
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we had to really hide stuff,
14:27
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you know what I mean?
14:28
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And so I get this guy,
14:30
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you know, for lunch,
14:32
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you know, and then Ganesh is walking in.
14:33
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And this is God's honest truth,
14:35
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
folks. Ganesh walks in and,
14:36
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
you know, you've seen Ganesh,
14:37
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
you know, tall,
14:38
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thin, lanky guy,
14:39
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books a board in my living room.
14:41
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
I have no furniture,
14:42
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none, not even a chair to offer.
14:44
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
Come on.
14:46
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And for me,
14:47
S… Speaker 2 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
it was normal.
14:47
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
I'm like, okay,
14:48
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
I don't have furniture,
14:49
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
I don't have furniture,
14:49
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
you know.
14:50
S… Speaker 2 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
You know,
14:50
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
I have only one sleeping bag which I carried from Kansas.
14:53
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It's the only thing I have,
14:54
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
you know. And then I bought this out -of -box TV thing from one of those,
14:58
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you know, stores.
14:58
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
Because you got to get a music store.
15:00
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
Hey, single guys,
15:01
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
what do you need?
15:02
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
Pijas,
15:03
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
music system, anything else?
15:04
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
Hey,
15:06
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life is over,
15:06
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
man. What more do you want?
15:07
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
Who wants a bed?
15:08
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
Why do you need a bed?
15:09
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
So far,
15:10
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
it's wastage,
15:11
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
man, I'm telling you.
15:12
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
That's how thinking was,
15:14
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
you know. So I don't even have a chair to offer him,
15:15
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
you know. So he puts up the board,
15:17
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starts showing him the carpet and a couple of people are in the carpet sitting there,
15:20
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
you know, looking at him like this,
15:22
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
you know. Tall guys,
15:23
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
you know.
15:24
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So,
15:25
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
you know, he's doing the plan,
15:26
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
you know.
15:27
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
It's amazing.
15:27
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
I'll tell you later on what that one plan led to eventually or the incredible...
15:31
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
I don't know by the way where my roommate is.
15:33
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
I have no idea where he is right now.
15:34
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
But his buddy which led me to an organization today is absolutely incredible.
15:39
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
Okay.
15:40
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
It led us to what you know today of emeralds in our organization,
15:43
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Jolant Vakil.
15:44
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
Okay.
15:45
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And part of their organization,
15:47
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
we have been right here in San Jose,
15:49
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you know,
15:49
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
Krishid and Jasmine,
15:50
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
right here Platinum,
15:51
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something around the Sapphire and Emerald.
15:53
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
you know, led to a humongous organization,
15:55
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you know.
15:55
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
There are Platinums in that,
15:57
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you know,
15:58
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
there's a Q12, Asa Lakhani single lady in Chicago and then,
16:01
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you know,
16:03
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
Platinums 9 and Falgun Echoxi there.
16:05
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It just, you know,
16:06
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of course, Jonathan went on to Diamond.
16:07
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It's incredible,
16:08
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you know, five legs,
16:09
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Silverstone above,
16:10
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you know.
16:12
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Same leg led us to,
16:13
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
you know, Girish and Rashmi Sriram where Platinum's out of Atlanta,
16:15
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you know, down lines to them,
16:16
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
finishing up Q12 in Houston,
16:18
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
Texas, you know,
16:19
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
Devang and Tejal Guradia.
16:20
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
It's amazing.
16:21
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
You never know what leads you to where,
16:23
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
you know,
16:25
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but you find them one person at a time,
16:26
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
you know.
16:26
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
But anyway,
16:27
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coming back to where I was,
16:28
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so, you know,
16:29
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so Ganesh shows this plan and,
16:31
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
you know, so I affirm,
16:31
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
you know, you want to go back to Detroit,
16:33
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you want to hang around here?
16:34
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
No, no, no, we have,
16:35
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
I have no somebody.
16:37
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
where we can,
16:37
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
you know, cross the night.
16:38
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
I'm like, sure,
16:39
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
no. No,
16:39
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
no, we all taken care of.
16:41
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
I'll come back tomorrow.
16:41
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
We'll get your kit thing going,
16:43
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
you know. I said, okay.
16:43
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
You know,
16:44
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
they have nowhere to go,
16:45
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
by the way.
16:46
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
You know, so they get out of my apartment.
16:47
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
Those of you don't know me,
16:49
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
if you see my older photos,
16:50
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
check it on internet,
16:51
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
it's there, okay.
16:51
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
Somebody has my old photo up there.
16:53
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
I used to have a really thick,
16:55
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huge mustache,
16:55
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
okay, if you don't know what I'm talking about.
16:57
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
It actually curved around my mouth,
16:59
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
okay. Hey,
17:00
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
come on.
17:01
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
That's my significance there,
17:03
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
okay. I understand that.
17:05
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
And I used to be even thinner than where I am today.
17:10
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
And no portrayal of being a successful businessman.
17:14
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
The funniest thing is Ganesh and his cousin Sridhar Divya,
17:17
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
they walk out of my apartment outside in the gas station.
17:19
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
They're filling gas and talking.
17:20
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
Are these the right kind of people who are sponsoring in the business?
17:23
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
You know, they have doubts on who they are sponsoring.
17:25
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Honest to goodness.
17:26
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
This is truth.
17:27
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
Ganesh told me later on.
17:28
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
I didn't look like nobody would be successful.
17:31
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
You know, I didn't dress like that.
17:33
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
I did not even own a suit.
17:34
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I remember for my interview,
17:36
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
I borrowed my roommate's suit,
17:37
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gave the interview.
17:38
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
Came back, gave it back to him.
17:39
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
You know,
17:40
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job done.
17:41
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
Why do you need a suit?
17:42
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
You know,
17:43
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
hey, only cloth I had was the free T -shirts they gave you in school.
17:46
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
How many of you have been in universities,
17:47
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every time you sign up credit card,
17:49
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you get a free T -shirt,
17:50
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
right? Whether the credit card gets rejected,
17:52
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
you got the T -shirt,
17:52
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
man. Who cares,
17:53
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
you know?
17:53
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
That's all T -shirts I had,
17:56
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
you know. When I got married Smitha,
17:57
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took all of them, burnt it,
17:58
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
okay? It's like,
17:59
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
you're not wearing those anymore.
18:00
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That's all I had,
18:02
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
you know, seriously,
18:03
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
dude.
18:03
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
You know, and you get one of those buy one,
18:05
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get one deals,
18:05
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
you know what I mean?
18:07
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Been there, okay?
18:07
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
You know,
18:09
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so they didn't think they were any successful or nothing,
18:12
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
you know, seriously, you know.
18:13
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
And I remember Ganesh saying,
18:15
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oh, you know, of course my first function I missed,
18:17
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you know, he told me to go somewhere,
18:18
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I said, forget it.
18:18
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Then he comes back,
18:20
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does couple of plans for me and then…
18:22
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He tells you, you got to get to this big thing coming up in Richmond,
18:25
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Virginia.
18:25
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I said,
18:26
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cool. This is what our weekly routine was,
18:29
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
you know. So this buddy and my roommate,
18:31
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we used to hang out together.
18:32
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And what we'll do is every Friday night,
18:34
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we sit down and we drink stuff,
18:36
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
you know. And then we decide where to go for that weekend.
18:38
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So we'll get the car out and start driving.
18:41
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One weekend Nashville,
18:42
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one weekend somebody.
18:43
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
That's what we did.
18:44
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
We just, you know,
18:44
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
that's what you do.
18:45
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
I mean, you got nothing else to do,
18:46
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
you know. So you put stuff on,
18:48
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
you know, get on high and start driving Friday night,
18:50
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you know.
18:50
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
Saturday morning, you'll show up somewhere,
18:51
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you know. So, Sunday night,
18:52
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
you come back, okay.
18:53
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
So,
18:54
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that's what we used to do.
18:55
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So,
18:55
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he comes in.
18:56
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
Oh, you got to get to this Richmond,
18:58
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Virginia.
18:58
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You got 30 ,000 people,
19:00
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man. 20,
19:00
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30 millionaires.
19:01
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I'm like,
19:02
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okay. You know, two days later,
19:03
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he calls me again.
19:04
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
I mean,
19:05
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
after a few times,
19:06
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
I'm like, dude, I'm coming,
19:07
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
okay.
19:07
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
It's enough, right.
19:08
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
Come on.
19:09
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
Keep telling.
19:09
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
Every time, same thing you'll tell me,
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you know. And he's like,
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I'm like, so how far is this?
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Oh, five,
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six, seven hours drive,
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you know.
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Just pick up a car and you guys drive and you drive,
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man. I said,
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okay.
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So, you know,
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no Friday taking off daily.
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He said, don't worry about it,
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just come man.
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Fine,
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Friday you drive after work.
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I said,
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okay. So,
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Friday work finishes,
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we rent a car and me and this guy,
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you know, one guy in my team.
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And we get in the car and we start driving.
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I drove seven hours,
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then I fell asleep and he drives seven hours.
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Fourteen hours later,
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we drive into Richmond,
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Virginia.
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I'm like,
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this dude had told me 14 hours,
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I would have never left Chicago,
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if you know what I mean.
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I mean, seriously,
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dude. I mean,
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there was nothing called protecting the people.
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Oh, he's coming.
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I should send somebody through his car.
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Forget it.
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He told me,
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get a car and drive.
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You know, he figured if this guy is serious,
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he'll show up.
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You know?
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And we drove in.
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I walked into this colloquium.
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god knows how many felt like huge you know that could have
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been 10 15 000 for me it was 40 000 if i can remember i go
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through this entire weekend i don't think i learned anything that weekend people ask what
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did you really learn you know so you have your function coming up in palm springs
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is that right
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In what and the July for 1 2 3,
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right?
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July 1 to July 1 and 2.
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Sorry June 31st and July 1 and 2 Palm Springs whatever seven six seven hours
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drive eight hours drive.
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I don't know how much it is Okay You know for us 14 hours one
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way man and he for you you go to the real nice Palm Springs.
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We go to Richmond.
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Okay.
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There's nothing to see there
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You know, don't tell anybody,
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where are you going, Richmond?
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For what?
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You know, people ask you,
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okay? There's nothing to see there,
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you know. I tell you,
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go, guys.
20:42
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You know,
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entire function,
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seriously.
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I see these people after people come in and talking and,
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you know, we see some new people getting recognized,
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hand raised,
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these, that.
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I got nothing out of the entire function.
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Seriously, God's honest,
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do nothing.
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The only thing I got out of that function was,
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I came back that weekend,
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I was like, I couldn't believe it.
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I could not believe you could have that many entrepreneurs under one umbrella.
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I couldn't believe you can actually get people who make millions to
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come and teach you what they have done.
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Never happened.
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See I see listen.
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I've been in corporate America.
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I've ran my own company You don't get fellow people who are running,
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you know You know your own colleagues who are running different companies just like you
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come in and tell you how they got the bidding or they got the project There are nobody teaches
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you nothing if they come in they came in to took something from you if you know what I
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mean Only reason they come in so I've never seen this kind of environment
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Are you with me?
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Is it making sense?
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It is weirdest part guys.
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So it that whole weekend I came back.
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I'm like I can't believe it
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I remember just being shocked just at the entire event.
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That's all I got that we can shock.
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I could not believe it.
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Just to let you know,
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folks, when I met Ganesh,
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he was already in platinum qualification.
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His gold month,
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my contribution to his volume was 600 PV or something like that.
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Okay.
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And just, I'm being honest with you.
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That's where my business was when I met Ganesh.
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And of course,
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we understood how to build a business and whatnot.
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And understand that I didn't know nothing.
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We just learned one thing and said,
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hey, I realized that he's going to move on from platinum next goal is to go
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emerald. So we started speaking,
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hey, we're going to be one of your emerald legs.
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Think about it.
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You got a brand new leg gotten started.
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You're in platinum qualification with all your big legs already in place.
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This new guy says,
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I'm going to be a platinum leg.
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What are you going to do?
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Yeah, yeah,
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sure. Awesome, man.
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Proud of you.
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Let me work here.
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I mean,
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seriously.
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But we kept speaking it.
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Eventually what it did is started Ganesh to start believing in us because we
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spoke it long enough.
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And not only we spoke it,
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we started putting action behind it.
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Understand,
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I knew nobody in Chicago.
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The only two people I knew were already in business.
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One guy by then already quit.
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My roommate already not only quit,
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he changed to move to,
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I don't know where he went,
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man. Ran away.
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Seriously.
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I just don't know where it is.
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Okay, and you know,
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but we're willing to put the work effort.
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That started bringing Ganesh to Chicago.
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Now let me tell you something funny.
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Today,
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if you ask Ganesh or you ask me,
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the only remembrance I have of Ganesh coming to Chicago is no -sows.
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Week after week he'll come,
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no -sows.
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Nobody there.
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Nobody there.
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Houseplant, not that I don't invite,
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nobody shows up.
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His only remembrance,
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if you tell him Chicago,
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no -sows.
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That's the only thing he remembers.
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No, seriously.
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The only thing he remembers and I remember him coming to Chicago is no -so.
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Empty apartment,
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by then I figured two,
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three chairs.
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No -so.
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Nobody there.
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That's the only remembrance he has.
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Let me tell you something,
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folks.
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Ganesh not just built my business,
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he actually built me up which eventually led to me building the business.
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Is it making sense?
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A lot of people confuse that.
23:44
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Oh,
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I got a team started in LA.
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I got a team started in Seattle.
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Oh, I went two times and nobody was there.
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Well,
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was the guy there?
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Sure, you don't go for to the prospect.
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You don't go for the new guest.
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You go for the guy.
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And what Ganesh kept coming back did for us to build
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our belief.
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Is it making sense?
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And also did another thing.
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Day one of this business,
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I never thought is a big deal to drive anywhere to Sodaplan to anybody.
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Because I see my plane driving four hours,
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five hours, one way coming every weekend to help me.
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For me,
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it was not unusual at all.
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Now,
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later on, I learned that Ganesh was actually learning how to drive death by building our organization.
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His main leg is,
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you know, appliance had helped me build it.
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So he was, this is the leg he was driving to learn from.
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Is it making sense?
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It's amazing where you find people.
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You know,
24:32
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I remember when I went to grad school,
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I had this one lady,
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we went to grad school together.
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She got a job out in,
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out in Wichita,
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Kansas.
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Okay.
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So I remember going back to Manhattan because all my friends were still there finishing grad school.
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So I put all of them in one room,
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showed the plan, nobody got in.
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Bankruptcy filed overnight.
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Okay. All my list gone.
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Okay. Seriously,
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I blew the entire list in one day.
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I just went in there,
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called everybody I knew,
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showed the plan.
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You know,
24:54
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a couple of those, my roommates are still,
24:55
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they live in California.
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They don't believe me still.
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Okay.
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something crazy but this lady wasn't there she had moved to wichita on a job so
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i sent her to a plan guess who was showing the plan that time brand new thousand pv
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chuck kakani can you believe that chuck and chuck went
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to university of kansas i went to kansas state university same time about we graduate
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we about got in the business about same time so i oh this guy's cancer's making things up and
25:21
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he's doing a plan in wichita i said i sent her in she gets fired up
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I said awesome,
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man. Maybe I...
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Wichita,
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Kansas.
25:26
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You try booking a flight ticket to Wichita,
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Kansas. It cost you 350 bucks from Chicago.
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And here I am $18 ,000 in debt.
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1 ,000 PV in business.
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I'm like,
25:34
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well, my plane said,
25:35
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wherever you find, you go.
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I said, okay.
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So I go to start doing houseplants in Wichita,
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Kansas.
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I fly in there.
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I said, okay,
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you invite whoever you can.
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He said, awesome.
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See,
25:43
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30 people showed up in the houseplant.
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Can you believe that?
25:46
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30 people in the houseplant.
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First houseplant I'm doing.
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30 people in the houseplant.
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I'm like, oh,
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diamond leg.
25:52
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Done deal,
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man.
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One guy gets in.
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Rest 29 are arguing with me why this business won't work.
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This other,
26:01
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one guy starts defending me.
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Maybe he felt sorry for me.
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I don't know what he did.
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You know,
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seriously, he started defending me.
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You know, eventually signs up.
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But signs up,
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but I don't see him for six months.
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He's gone.
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He's busy doing two part -time jobs,
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you know, delivering pizzas.
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You know, student weird things you do.
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Trying to finish up his degree.
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I don't know where he is for six months.
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Six months later,
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I get a call.
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Oh, I'm moving to Detroit,
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Michigan on a job.
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I'm like...
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Oh, Ganesh.
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I got a guy come in there,
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man. I sent him to Ganesh's open meeting.
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One open meeting to Ganesh.
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I don't know where my friend is.
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That lady I signed up,
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I don't know where she is today.
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The guy I sent to Ganesh's meeting who was vanished for six months,
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a new emeralds,
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JP and Jitukapur,
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moving on to diamond.
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At that time,
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JP was single, of course.
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You have no idea where you get things present.
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Finally,
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Ganesh gets him to a function,
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and he sees his old buddy from college go on stage as new platinum.
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Seriously.
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That's actually Karthik.
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You know,
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part of, of course,
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Kumar's team.
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You know,
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it's amazing how,
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who it relates to when,
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where, you never know.
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Just to let you know,
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out of the first 12 I registered,
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I did get four platinum legs.
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You know, you hear 66866.
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Eventually.
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Not when I registered.
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As a matter of fact, when I went platinum,
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my leg number one was 6 ,000 PV when I was in qualification.
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The worst structure you can have in going platinum.
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Worst.
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I don't recommend it to anybody.
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You don't make no money if you have a 6 ,000 PV leg.
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But I was fired up.
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Guy went 6 ,000,
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I am 7 ,500.
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Awesome, man.
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Which is the biggest leg?
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You can see it.
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PV check came and it went.
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I was a filter,
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you know, it fires through the check,
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man, gone.
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But don't…
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But understand, I had already put in the batch of 12 though,
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which eventually got the legs growing but wasn't there when I went platinum though.
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Are you with me?
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Is it making sense?
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You don't know, you never know how the business forms.
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Fair enough.
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Okay, remember the friend I told you my roommate in in in when my undergrad when
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he was doing projects together We started a company together India market opens up.
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He's never been to us.
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I never done anything But we used to good buddies for today.
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I don't know 14 15 years of friendships,
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you know So I call him up dude business starting in India as a word business
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you come over as a friend,
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right? You know, I told him I've done one plan for him.
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Okay, throw the one planted one follow -up for him.
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Okay Initially signed him off one year.
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I did nothing
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Then when I went to get married,
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actually, that time I said,
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what are you doing,
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man? Let me show some plans for you.
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One plan,
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one follow.
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Not only went platinum there,
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eventually led,
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two of his legs came back to North America.
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He has been consistent founders of platinum in Q12 for the last three
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years in North America.
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That led us to the organization today,
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finishing up this month,
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the middle qualification,
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Anubhav and Shweta Jaiswa out of Washington,
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D .C.
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Six,
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seven deep leg came back here.
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Okay,
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Anubhav's story is funny.
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He went to school right here in Chico.
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He's moving to Chicago on a job.
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No interest in building business.
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He can't find his own relative.
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Somebody in Chicago won't even let him stay with him.
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So he finally crashes with me.
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And next thing you know,
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he sponsors one of his project managers.
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Scared half.
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Don't know if you want to sponsor.
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Talks to this guy.
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He has already seen the plan.
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Been to a function.
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But nobody did his follow -up.
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So I end up going back and showing the plan to him.
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He's ready to sign up.
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Nobody has done his follow -up.
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Because it's your journey.
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My eyes remember my first houseplant.
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Ganesh said, could you stand up tell them what you're excited about?
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Three people I'm looking down.
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I won't even talk.
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Seriously,
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I didn't even have a suit,
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tie on.
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Finally buy a tie.
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I don't know how to put a tie knot.
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So Ganesh helps me put a knot.
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So I used to lose it,
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hang it, put it back in.
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Because if it comes out,
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I don't know how to put it back in.
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You know,
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three months later there's a big thing hanging around me.
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It's a big samosa here.
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I don't know what I'm talking about.
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Hey,
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listen, I didn't know.
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My formal shoes when I went was white Nike shoes.
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That's the only thing I want,
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man.
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Black pant, white Nike shoes.
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Formal man,
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semi -formal man or whatever that was.
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You know,
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send me to open meeting,
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you should go.
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I'm like, awesome,
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we showed up.
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We used to,
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you know, Nick and Paul has to run the open meeting there.
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We plugged in.
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We didn't know.
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Did we know anything?
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No. PACE meeting was one hour,
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fifteen,
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one hour.
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20 minutes away.
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We should drive.
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Why? We're just excited.
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We're fired up.
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Why?
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The possibility to create residual income is what got us going,
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guys. Do you think I saw the money day one?
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Heck, I didn't even see the money at platinum because I have a 6 ,000 PV leg,
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man. Where will I see the money?
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What money?
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No money,
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man. The possibility.
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The fact that I had learned to live.
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By then,
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I've gone through tapes by John and Jenny Velcro.
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I remember listening to tapes like Hunt Valley Night All talking about the dream,
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the possibility,
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the why, you know.
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I remember John Crow talking about,
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you know, Statue of David,
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you know, out in Europe and talking about
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that. You know,
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how Da Vinci can look at that one,
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you know,
30:42
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the whole statue is carved out of one single piece of stone,
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piece of marble.
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There is greatness within you.
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We don't come all the way to Chicago in front of you and tell you,
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no, we believe in you,
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folks.
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All the sculptor had
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to do was...
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knock out the rough edges.
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But you have to visualize the statue within before.
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All BW system will do is chip away your rough edges.
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That's all it will do.
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You have it within you.
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Don't let somebody else prove it to you otherwise.
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My cousin didn't believe in me.
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My parents never thought we will make it in this business.
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BW system was there for us to believe.
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Now, you know what?
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I believed in Kanesh who believed more in me than I ever believed in myself,
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if that makes any sense to you.
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Believed in the upline long enough because he believed in me eventually till I
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believed in myself Somebody
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will believe in you you're applying platinum upland.
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Somebody tells you walks up.
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Hey, I believe in you I know you can make it happen initially you might not realize what they're
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saying you might think oh They're just saying just because this I saw him to tell ten other friends
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Yeah, because every stone has that capability of another statue of David within
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it All it needs is a sculptor to chip over the rough edges and
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if you allow the system to do remember I told you in this training
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The business will cut you open and make you look inside.
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Sometimes you don't like what you see.
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Hey,
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it's okay.
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I didn't like what I see either.
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Is it making sense?
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I was already in Q12,
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actually, qualification.
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Of course,
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I worked hard to find somebody for myself.
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I couldn't.
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So my parents got busy to find somebody for me,
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if you know what I mean.
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They sent me Smita's photo.
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And I look at the photo,
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I say, forget it.
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I'm not getting married at all.
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She looks at my photo,
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which is taken in under,
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you know, my grad school first year with all moustache and all that stuff.
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She says,
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forget this guy, I'm not getting married to her.
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I was supposed to fly through Mumbai to meet her.
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I said, forget it, I changed my plan,
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I flew through Delhi,
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I'm not meeting.
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You know,
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anyway, parents figured it out,
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you know, somehow got us to meet,
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you know. Anyway,
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people ask,
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so how many people you went through?
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I know Raj talks about going through 400 girls to find Sangeet and all that.
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She's the only lady I've ever met,
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you know, only girl for all that.
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First time we met people like,
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what did you see?
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I don't know.
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Somebody say, you will know.
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I'm like, how will you know,
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lightning bolt?
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No, no, you will know.
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I say, okay.
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But it's amazing.
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She has a master's degree.
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She used to work in Mumbai before we got married.
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But I'll tell you,
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we hit the ground running.
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Yes,
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Meeta, I didn't understand a lot of things.
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I joke with her.
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Marriest came in the dowry for her.
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I brought it to her.
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But I never forced it.
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I knew, listen,
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people say, oh, my wife doesn't believe it.
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Listen, dude,
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it's your responsibility to take care of your family security.
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Just because what you took your wife permission to become as typist.
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I mean software engineer It's a
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response. It's a food on the table It's a responsibility to take care of family has nothing
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to do with what as long as legal.
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I mean moral ethical I'm not doing any wrong things.
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I'm doing the right things to clear.
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It's for our family For us Hey,
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you know what if you stay in there strong enough see eventually saw the picture
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Once you figure it out guys.
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I tell you man.
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Oh man business was smoking
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You know, she got told a certain aspect of the business,
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ran with it like I've never seen anybody run.
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And we can,
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we could do that Q12 to diamond because everything was right.
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Heck no, man.
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You know, we, man,
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come on, man.
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Why is the shoes in the middle of the floor?
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Why is it?
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Who cares?
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I mean, I always threw in the middle of the floor.
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You know,
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where's the toothpaste?
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Who cares?
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I didn't understand everything.
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Do you think I understood husband,
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wife? Forget it,
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man. You know,
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I had built the business Q12 by myself.
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So, I had a tendency to hold on to everything on my own.
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She's like,
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okay, what do I do?
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I'm like, I don't know.
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You know, thank God Ganesh and Neha got married about the same time we got married,
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you know. So,
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Neha and her had some lot of fun things to talk about,
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why these two guys are messed up,
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you know what I mean?
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No,
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just kidding.
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But it's…
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but you know what, she eventually saw it.
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She saw the heart in the business,
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she saw the people in the business.
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All right,
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so listen to her carefully.
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Here you go, Amalit Smita Kamenich.
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Oh, you know,
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I already did share a lot of things with you.
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But just to give you a little background,
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I come from middle class family back home,
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same Bhuvaneshwar,
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Orissa, India.
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And my dad used to work as an
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engineer.
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And my mom,
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she was very educated,
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but she chose to stay home to raise me
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and my two brothers.
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And she eventually started,
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got herself into writing books.
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She was very involved in raising us and educating us
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and giving us the best life and teaching us the right principles.
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She knew it very well that nobody can raise kids better than
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the mom.
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And she did the sacrifice for us
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to have a wonderful life.
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And I will always thank her for that.
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And my two brothers,
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you know, both of them are in India.
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Both of them are in software industry working and now eventually
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building the business.
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But initially,
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just like me,
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they were very skeptical too.
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But as I said,
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you know, growing up,
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I saw my cousins,
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you know,
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they would get married.
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And because,
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you know, whatever,
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they did not want to pursue a career.
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They would not work.
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They would stay home,
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raise kids,
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standard life.
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And that was something.
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That scared me,
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honestly, because I thought that that is something I cannot do.
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I cannot imagine cooking three meals a day.
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It's not possible.
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I don't even know so much to cook three meals.
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I mean, my recipe is over.
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I mean, I know only so much.
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How can I do that?
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So I was very,
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very hardworking.
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I mean, I have learned that,
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you know, anything great you want to achieve in life,
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whether it's this business or anything that you choose to,
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it will take your sweat and toil.
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Believe me.
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And same thing,
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you know, I...
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I studied hard and I was one of the top ten in
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my entire state.
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And I got admission into a prestigious
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engineering college in India.
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It's called Bitspilani.
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And I was very excited about it.
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And, you know,
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everybody would,
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my parents would brag about it.
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And I was just...
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I felt I was all set.
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I thought that if you get a great education,
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automatically you have a wonderful financial life.
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And the reason I did not,
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you know,
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growing up we had two choices,
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either you become an engineer or a doctor.
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But in my eighth grade,
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you know, they gave me a cockroach to dissect.
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I don't know if the cockroach ran,
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but I ran.
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I was so scared.
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So that day itself,
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I realized, you know,
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biology is not my deal.
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So, you know,
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engineering is what I have to go for.
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So that's how I got myself into that.
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And I eventually graduated from Bates Pilani with an electronics
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degree and a master's in physics.
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And I don't know how I got into physics.
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I thought it was my passion till I did my master's in that,
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and I realized it was not.
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but it was too late, so I had to get the degree.
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Well, after I graduated,
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I took up a job in Bombay,
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India, and I used to work as a software engineer,
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just like most of us.
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I did not have a degree in software engineering,
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but I got a job in software,
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and I started working.
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And, you know,
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pretty standard life,
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go to job,
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come back, and I would see all my co -workers working late,
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and I thought that was a cool thing to do,
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to impress your boss.
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So,
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in spite of me not liking her,
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we would call her names,
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but still,
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I was working hard to impress her.
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because I knew that my career depended on her,
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so I would work hard.
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At the same time,
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my parents were super busy looking for a guy for me.
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They thought,
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okay, time has come.
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You need to get married.
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And so they were going through,
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they would send pictures and pictures.
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And I would tell my mom,
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you know what,
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don't worry about it.
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When the right person comes,
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I will let you know.
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And well,
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they did not have the patience.
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So they told me about Rashmi and they sent me a picture.
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Now imagine this,
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okay, this entire picture.
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There is a big tree.
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There's a little guy under the tree.
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You can barely see what he's wearing.
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And I'm supposed to make my life's decision seeing that picture.
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And my mom is asking me,
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do you want to marry him?
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I said,
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of course not.
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It's like how we tell her,
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you know, do you want to join Quickstar?
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And they'll say no,
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right? So the same thing happened.
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And I said,
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no, no, no, I don't like the guy.
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And then I saw another picture and I saw his mustache and everything.
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I said, oh, no way.
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You know,
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I don't know why.
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I think,
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you know, I was just scared or whatever.
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So I said no.
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But,
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you know, our parents are the best examples of being persistent and consistent.
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So then what happened is Rashmi's parents
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gave him my phone number.
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And I was middle of GRE.
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I was all set to come to US.
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I wanted to do my masters and everything so I have three days to go for my GRE exam
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and I was middle of a mock GRE exam and Rashmi calls me and
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my roommate she's like oh there's a guy calling you from US isn't it cool I'm like ask
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him to go you know I'm writing my exam he's like no no no no take it take it I said okay fine and
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then Rashmi he was already a platinum and everything as you know so he was asking me what are
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your
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goals and everything,
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something he was asking,
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okay?
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I said,
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you know, I'm so excited about corporate life.
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I want to do this.
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I want to do that.
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Three minutes,
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hang up.
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And I called up my mom and I said,
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who are you giving my phone number to?
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Crazy guys call me up.
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They ask me my career goals.
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Who are they to ask me all these things?
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So anyway,
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it didn't happen.
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And I thought it was the end of it.
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But then...
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My parents said,
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come over to India in November.
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And I said, okay,
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fine. And I go there.
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And well,
40:55
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guess what?
40:55
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Our parents had not given up.
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Suddenly out of the blue,
40:59
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Mr.
40:59
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Rashmi Ranjan shows up.
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And I'm telling you,
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I mean, he is so smooth.
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I talked to him for half an hour.
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And I don't know,
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I forgot the picture.
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I forgot the phone call.
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And I said,
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yeah,
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I think it's not a bad idea.
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So.
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So before I changed my mind,
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my parents got us engaged.
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You know,
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she said, yes.
41:22
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So let's get them engaged.
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And we were engaged in a couple of days.
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Okay.
41:27
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But then,
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you know, so that's how it started.
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And I had no idea about this,
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you know,
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this business.
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And he told me he's doing some e -commerce thing.
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And knowing my background,
41:37
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I thought he was doing some Java programming or something.
41:39
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I don't know what I thought,
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but it didn't matter.
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But so that's how we started.
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And we started talking to each other.
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Long story short,
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we got married.
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Okay.
41:48
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And after we got married,
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we went to get my visa.
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And so we get my visa and everything in Calcutta and suddenly,
41:56
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you know, some couple comes,
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they put us in their car and they drive us to their house.
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I'm like,
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okay.
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And it's so embarrassing,
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I cannot even ask who they are because I'm sitting in their car.
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So I'm being nice and I'm talking to the lady and we show up in their house
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and suddenly we go there and one board like this comes up in their
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house.
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And Rashmi gets up there and he starts
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showing the plan.
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I'm sitting and thinking,
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when did he prepare for this talk?
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What is he talking about?
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Who are these people?
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Middle of all this confusion,
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there is this lady sitting next to me.
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She's asking me,
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so you're his wife,
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right?
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I'm like,
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yeah, you know,
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I'm getting used to this new word.
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I've been married for three days now.
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So I'm like,
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yeah, I'm his wife.
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You like the business?
42:44
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What business?
42:45
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
Oh,
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you're negative.
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I
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said.
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S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
I don't want to talk with you.
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I don't know what you're telling me.
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I don't understand.
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So that is how I saw my first plan.
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Then we walk out of there and Rashmi does not
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mention a word about it.
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You know what, but throughout the plan,
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I thought it was a great concept.
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I really thought it was good.
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But he didn't mention and I forgot about it too.
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So then,
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you know, and then we go and we do another.
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And, you know,
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in the middle of all these things,
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wedding and everything,
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suddenly Rashmi will be disappearing,
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you know.
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Suddenly he's gone.
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You know,
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in our tradition for seven days,
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you know,
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whatever jewelry you get married with,
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you keep it on.
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You don't take it off.
43:30
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So he has like 17 ring fingers,
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you know,
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rings on his fingers.
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and all the stuff and everything and he's showing plans with 17 all these things jewelry and
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everything and everybody's asking him what's going on and he's showing the plan and signing
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S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
up people and i had no idea and every time i would ask him he would say i'm
43:47
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going to meet friends knowing that he's a master student and a
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software engineer how many friends do you have in bhuvaneshwar and why are
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you meeting them so much and why don't you take me with you if you're going
43:59
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But he would not,
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he was saying that,
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you know what, I'll take you,
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I'll take you,
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don't worry about it.
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And, you know,
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just, okay,
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fine, forget it.
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And then we took off from there.
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And then he takes me to this,
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you know,
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for a honeymoon.
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And he takes me to Maldives and it was a total surprise for me.
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And we land there and this pilot,
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you know, they're waiting because we were running a little and they're like,
44:21
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so you are the honeymoon couple.
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I thought that he was talking to somebody else,
44:25
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but I didn't realize it was us.
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And it was the best fun time that I had.
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And it was so much fun.
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It was just beautiful water,
44:32
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you know,
44:33
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like the sand was like.
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talcum powder and turquoise blue you know i had seen all in the movies and everything
44:39
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i thought you know what this is cool you know dollars converted
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to rupees is great i thought i was getting excited i thought you know what
44:47
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he makes money in dollars so he can spend it in rupees no problem it's
44:52
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good so we were having fun we had this designated table and the designated
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waiter and everything you know i was mentally adding
45:00
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the cost we had this water bungalow and from the bungalow used to walk down there's a flight
45:04
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of steps to go straight into the water there's like beautiful fishes everywhere and
45:08
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it's just beautiful and i'm adding up the cost in my mind and i'm thinking how he's
45:12
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just a software engineer i mean i know dollars converted to rupees is good but
45:16
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this is a little bit too much you know and
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And knowing that my friends usually go to Goa,
45:22
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Tirupati,
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Uti for vacation,
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for honeymoon.
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And I'm sitting here in Maldives and I don't know what's going on.
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And I was like,
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oh my God,
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I hope he's not in debt.
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I don't know,
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I'm so clueless about the whole thing.
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Then anyway,
45:35
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we landed in US.
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And, you know,
45:38
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I was getting hints that maybe this is the business that is providing for us.
45:41
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But I really did not,
45:42
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you know, put two and two together.
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I did not understand.
45:45
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So we land in U .S.
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and second day in the country,
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he's like, let's go to Florida.
45:50
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I'm like, this is too much,
45:52
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
okay? Too much vacationing.
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I love it,
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S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
okay? And we go to Florida and it was Go Diamond
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weekend where only silvers and above come.
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So, you know,
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they don't talk to new people there.
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They talk, they get straight to the point.
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And I was jet lagged and I slept through this Go Diamond weekend.
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And people are wondering,
46:11
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who is this?
46:11
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How does she qualify as silver if she's sleeping?
46:13
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And then not only that,
46:16
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Rashmi introduces me to,
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you know, Sangeeta Shah and Lata Agala.
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And he's taking pictures.
46:22
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Meanwhile,
46:23
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I have no idea who they are.
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Why am I taking pictures with them?
46:26
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Or are they really taking pictures with me?
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Who's taking pictures with whom?
46:30
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And then they would eat tablets,
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you know.
46:32
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
They will get around this corner and they'll eat tablets.
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I said,
46:36
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ah, now I know what's going on.
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I got a catch.
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They're eating something which is getting them so high.
46:43
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
You know, they're all like,
46:44
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
ah, freedom and everything.
46:45
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
These are professionals jumping on chairs.
46:47
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Are they crazy?
46:48
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You know,
46:49
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this doesn't happen.
46:50
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
This is not normal.
46:51
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But,
46:52
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you know,
46:53
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I went with all my ex -brand cosmetics to Go Diamond Weekend.
46:58
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And I tried to share it with Neha as well.
47:00
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Well,
47:01
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she was very polite.
47:01
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She refused very politely and she didn't use it.
47:04
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You know,
47:05
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coming back from there,
47:06
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I started understanding that,
47:08
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you know, this is something that Rashmi is doing and this is something that he's...
47:12
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sold out to i could see his commitment i could see ganesh talking about rashmi and
47:17
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him talking very highly about rashmi and i knew that he's he's
47:21
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really doing something good in the in the business okay and i
47:25
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came back and i started working as a software engineer and you know the only thing was that
47:29
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you know growing up i had seen my uncle he used to do a traditional business and
47:34
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he was always away from family and
47:37
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He made a lot of money and he had no time for his
47:41
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kids and his wife and everybody.
47:42
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And I did not think that was the right thing to do.
47:45
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So mentally,
47:46
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I thought that this is a traditional business.
47:48
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And I did not want to get involved in something like this.
47:52
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And then again,
47:54
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the whole thing of people being so positive and all
47:58
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the CDs, everything came as too much.
48:00
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I just could not take it with the right attitude because of the negative impression
48:04
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that I have had.
48:06
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about business from before.
48:07
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So,
48:08
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you know, then first function comes.
48:10
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So spring leadership.
48:11
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So Rashmi says,
48:13
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let's go to Richmond,
48:13
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Virginia.
48:14
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So again,
48:15
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we are here going to Richmond,
48:16
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Virginia and everybody gets in the bus and bus is like fun.
48:20
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You know, we play,
48:20
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we sing songs,
48:21
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we dance and have fun and we get off and we're like,
48:24
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okay, now exclusive time with Rashmi.
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That'll be awesome.
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And we get off the bus and we go to the room
48:31
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and have the buses along with us into the room.
48:35
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I asked Rashmi,
48:36
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she said, all of us are going to be in one room?
48:38
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He said,
48:39
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yeah, only 15,
48:39
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no problem.
48:40
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I said,
48:42
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okay,
48:43
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fine.
48:44
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You know,
48:44
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we go to the function,
48:45
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but I'll tell you one thing.
48:46
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That function has absolutely helped me understand this business.
48:49
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I saw people like Hal Nibol.
48:51
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I saw people like,
48:53
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you know, Kanti Gala.
48:54
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Amazing,
48:54
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amazing background.
48:55
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But...
48:57
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made it happen big time in the business and that helped
49:01
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me understand you know you know it's it's not like a you know it it's
49:05
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never like okay one thing happens and you are
49:08
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180 degree turnaround it was small small things which added up to
49:12
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help me make that big decision to help me understand build a business okay
49:16
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and I I knew that you know ladies work with their husbands
49:21
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along with you know as you build a business as a husband and wife that's the
49:25
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way you build a fast -growing business but it took me time
49:29
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and you know I was working eventually I figured it out you know my boss
49:33
S… Speaker 1 (Diamond - Rashmi n Smita)
changed as i said and my boss changed and this new boss comes and
49:37
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we have all these communication problems with each other and i was like up to here
49:41
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i was like you know i'm going to get out of here so it
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was about 2001 time when the jobs were not so good and everything so i
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gave my resignation because we were already making decent money from the business
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and i felt that you know we can do something on the side and i was going to look around for other
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jobs but so i gave
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my resignation and my boss said you know what you're
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going to regret this kind of thing is never heard of you don't want to give resignation
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especially looking at the economy like this i said what you know what you're
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going to regret you'll never find a person like me and i'm not going to regret because i know what i'm doing
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you know because thank god to this business it gave me the confidence to
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do that that i could resign from the job
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And, you know,
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I did go back to some small little short -term projects,
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but never really I understood that we can go from project to project,
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job to job,
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city to city,
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you know,
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Java to whatever,
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but how much upgrades?
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How many upgrades should I upgrade myself into?
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How many times do I have to read that?
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And I knew that there has to be an end.
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I knew that it's much easier to build this business than keep upgrading
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yourself.
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Right now, okay,
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we are young, we can do it.
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But I don't think mentally after 15 years,
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I'm ready to go through the same upgrades that I'm doing right now.
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We knew that we cannot afford to miss deadlines.
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We do not have a boss who will fire us if we miss deadlines.
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But for us,
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we knew that we cannot miss deadlines.
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So we would put deadlines for ourselves and work towards it.
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And you know what?
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In the process,
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we went Emerald.
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And I remember there was a promotion by Quickstar once,
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and we had a growth of 750 % in artistry volume increase compared
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to last year,
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the previous year.
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just in artistry and that was amazing it was because the entire team when once
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the leader is moving the team will catch up they have no choice when the engine
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moves the buggies all automatically catch up
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But the engine has to move for the train,
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the other buggies to catch up.
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So, you know,
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we decided that we were going to put in tremendous work ethic.
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Our appliance,
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Ganesh and Neha,
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they were going diamond.
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We knew that we could not be left behind.
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We did not want to be left behind.
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We wanted to be their first emeralds.
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And, you know,
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that was not an easy thing because there were a lot of other people who were very,
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you know, strongly positioned.
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And we worked hard towards it.
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And we, you know,
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we could be their first emerald.
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And it's a blessing for us.
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Okay.
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We have had our challenges too.
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We have had our moments of doubts too.
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There are so many times when I would think...
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i would feel down and low but i know one thing that both
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of us have never felt low at the same time if he is low i know i might be feeling
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low but i tell him that you know what it's getting done we are getting it done no matter what
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we're getting it done so that's the thought process we need to have and you know your
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you need to answer certain questions for yourself you know are you on top of
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you know ladies you know if you are taking charge of volume in your group are you on top
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of your dittos do you know how many ditto profiles are there in your group
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Are you the one who's responsible for setting up the Ditto profiles?
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Okay.
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You know,
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do you promote ladies leadership CDs to your team?
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Okay.
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You know,
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these small little things on a daily basis will actually help,
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you know, when you look back,
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it will help you big time.
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Okay.
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Is your upline working harder in your group than you are?
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You know,
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that was a tough one for us.
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We had to,
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you know, we had to understand that.
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Okay, is it that your upline lady is calling you more than you call her up?
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Do the people in your team feel better about themselves when they leave
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you or not?
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Majority of the answers,
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when eventually they became yes for us,
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we have been tremendously blessed in the business.
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Both of us have been retired through this business in our 20s.
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you know never get never to get back to our jobs we are not unemployed we
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are unemployable nobody can nobody can hire us okay
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you know we travel the world together in class and we
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don't have
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you know, time frame.
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Sometimes we just go extra.
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Just recently we went to UK and we just traveled,
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you know,
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we went on a dinner cruise and just had so much fun.
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We don't have to give,
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you know, apply for sick leave or something when we go.
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We are not scared that our job will be gone when we come back.
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You know, that gives us the peace of mind.
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You know, being able to travel to Hawaii,
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Peter Island,
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just having, you know,
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the only memories I have of Peter Island was going there and starting to laugh
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and laugh,
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laugh, laugh till we came back from there.
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It's just so much fun.
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And in the process,
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we, you know,
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nowadays we are into rock collection or diamond collection,
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whatever you call it.
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You know, we've been shopping and it's fun,
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you know, buying stuff that you like,
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shopping for things that you like,
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okay?
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Buying things that fits you,
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not fits your budget.
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You know, I'm so proud of Rashmi.
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And, you know,
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he's believed in everything that our clients have said all
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the time.
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And because of that,
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this business has changed our life forever.
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And I'm so proud to be married to him,
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going EDC all the way to Crown Ambassador together,
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Rashmi.
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All right.
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Awesome, folks.
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Well,
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I'll tell you this.
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You know, as Smita talked about,
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you know, glory definitely goes to God.
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And if you hear back our story and realize what we went through and,
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you know,
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if not for the blessings,
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we won't be here.
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You know, if you look back at the leaders and it's so true,
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you know, as I was talking about,
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you know, you build the muscles and God will move the rock.
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And so true.
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You saw the plan.
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You know, the six Platinums will show up.
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You know,
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where they come from,
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how they come, you have no idea,
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guys.
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You know,
55:13
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of course, we've been diamonds now for a couple of years.
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And, you know,
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looking back, I'll tell you,
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you know, we were qualified eagles.
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I had put in 12 legs.
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I had the 10 standing orders going platinum.
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You know,
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of course, we didn't have eagle program then,
55:25
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but we were qualified eagles.
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And we had the legs and structure in place.
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And yes,
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we did delay the gratification as you heard it all the way.
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I remember even being in $18 ,000 debt and Ganesh will come to Chicago
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and bring this entire toolbox.
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I'll make sure I empty the entire thing.
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Listen,
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I was in $18 ,000 debt was not Ganesh's problem.
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It was my problem.
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I wanted a master's degree.
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But I realized also that if I
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want to get out of the problem,
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I need to focus on the solution.
55:56
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If you have fever,
55:57
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you take medication.
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If fever goes up,
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take more medication.
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You don't decrease medication.
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Makes sense.
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You know, I realized this was the solution.
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Okay.
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I'll tell you,
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we disciplined, do it whatever we needed to do.
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You know, not eating out,
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keeping that money to buy extra tools.
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You know, making sure every lunch money created 2 PV for me.
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Every day.
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Little things,
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but that's what we did,
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folks.
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Make sense, okay?
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You got to realize that,
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okay? And,
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you know, and people talk about,
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you know, you'll hear speakers talk about,
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you should burn your bridges.
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You know, I always look back like,
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what bridge?
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Never had any.
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I mean, come on,
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let me ask you this.
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What else do you think I was going to do?
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Start another consulting company?
56:33
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You know,
56:34
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Friday night, people get together,
56:36
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start a company,
56:36
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you know? By Sunday night,
56:38
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it's like two million dollars.
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By Monday morning,
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back to job, you know,
56:40
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closed down.
56:40
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You know,
56:41
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how many companies will you start,
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man?
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How many times will you restart in your life?
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Think about that for a second.
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What else was I going to do?
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Climb more corporate ladders?
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Go one more management level,
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get into the politics and forget it.
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There's not a single corporate party.
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I could even take Smita with me.
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Did you know that?
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Never did take her.
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Just couldn't.
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The environment wasn't there.
57:05
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But you look around BWM system,
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folks. Look around the room.
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You'd be so comfortable having your family here.
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I mean,
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you see generation after generation building the business.
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It's the right thing to do.
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There's no confusion in that.
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You have to understand that,
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folks. And why move on?
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People come and say,
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what made you to move on?
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I'll tell you this thing,
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guys.
57:24
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First of all,
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we have never chippened our effort in terms of building a business.
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I remember when we were Q12 for a couple of years and talking to Ganesh,
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I'm like, Ganesh,
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listen, I have never made shortcut out of this business.
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I've never chippened effort in this business.
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Then how come you're still at Q12?
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He said,
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if you're true to what you're telling me,
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then when it explodes,
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it will explode.
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And it did explode.
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As Smita told you,
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13 months from tutorial to diamond,
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folks.
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Because once we learned how to drive depth,
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how to take legs deeper,
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how to solidify the business,
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hey,
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we knew what to do.
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I'll tell you,
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the biggest burn from that is staying plugged into our appliance goal.
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Ganesh and I are going diamond.
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They're like, we're going to have three emeralds.
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We said, hey, we're going to be one of your emeralds.
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Hey,
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we could have chosen not to be,
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but we chose to be.
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You know,
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I'll be honest with you.
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Ganesh was so busy going diamond,
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there are days I haven't been able to talk to him.
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And I understood that.
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All I needed to make sure is call his cell phone and just as long as I could hear his voice
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on the cell phone,
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that was enough for me.
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I was like,
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oh, my upline doesn't call me every day.
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Hey,
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I realize he's going diamond.
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You know what I told him?
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Ganesh, our emirateship is taken care of.
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As a matter of fact,
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if I can help you do anything on your diamond going legs,
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please let us know.
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Hey,
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my goal is not just to be a blessing for my downlines.
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My goal is to be a blessing for my uplines business too.
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Next logical goal for them,
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you know, is to have a shanoi function.
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Guess what?
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You need a downline diamond and you need 2 ,500 people.
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They got on stage,
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on FED stage and they said,
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some of you from this Colossium,
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I still remember the FED,
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they were recognized.
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Some of you out of this Colossium are going home and some of you going diamond.
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And I remember standing right under the Colossium.
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I know those of you seen the bigger Colossium stages,
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it's this tall.
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And I remember standing there with Ganesh next to me,
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handing raise in hand when you see FED diamond recognition.
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I say, one day we'll be there and suddenly I'm standing there,
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Ganesh is up there.
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We built that rapport with our offline.
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And we couldn't stand it anymore.
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I know some of you get excited.
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Oh, we saw a card from Hawaii or Orlando.
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I got sick of it.
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One more card.
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I
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didn't want to get a card from Ganesh,
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from Diamond Club.
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Next year,
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we made a decision.
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Everything perfect?
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Heck no.
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We put the structure in,
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we put the people in.
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Man,
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it's amazing.
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You know and now this month Ganesha now new brand new EDC is guess what one
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more card to come in from EDC club I don't want it coming anymore is
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that promise you make remember
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told you given a word everything you
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stand by you stick to it we told them we will be you can count on us
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okay they want they need 2500 people to put a function together it's our battle cry
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to put 1250 in that function why because it's the right thing to
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do i remember listening to a tape you know somebody's talking i think greg duncan or
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somebody's tape saying if you are not speaking diamond thank god i'm not in your group because you
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don't think i can go platinum scared the heck out of them it's
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a logical progression
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Right, next thing to do,
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you know,
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not just excited about going EDC,
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guess what, we'll have five emeralds and above legs,
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probably six actually,
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the way structure business is going.
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Okay,
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it's amazing,
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guys, how, you know,
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you look back, you see,
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if I had to pick one person at a time,
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I could have never put this entire group together.
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If sit standing here,
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I tell you, guess what,
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I do, that would be a lie,
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folks.
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You know, you don't find people like Jolan Vakil or Jependritu
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Kapoor. You know, these guys are incredible.
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I mean, you hang around them,
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you know how smart they are.
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I just thank God every day they're in my group.
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I can't become like them.
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But you just find them one at a time.
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This is making sense.
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Business is simple.
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Can you stay focused?
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There are six people out there for you,
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but will you have the guts to hang in there enough for you to have those six?
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Now when you get those six,
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will you have heart enough to be able to go help them to create the success
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that you need to create?
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Have you gone through the system enough?
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Do you know how to create success?
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If I give you somebody,
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can you help them create success tomorrow?
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Is it making sense?
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You know,
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yes, we delayed,
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you know, building a house.
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We still live in a rental house.
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I have downlines more worried about my house than I am worried about my house.
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You know,
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when Ganesh eventually figured out how to do goal setting,
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I remember sending him an email.
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I said, Ganesh, I don't care where I live as long as I'm retired.
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Hey, truth happened.
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We're in still rental place.
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I retired.
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Hey,
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you know what?
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I didn't even have a picture of a house on my refrigerator.
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Can I tell you that?
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It was not in my list.
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That was not the list of the things I wanted.
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It
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might be yours,
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but it was not in mine.
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Is it making sense?
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You decide what you want out of your business,
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out of your life.
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It may not be a house.
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House never motivated me,
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folks. It was not on my dream list.
1:02:28
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You come check out our refrigerator.
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Still not there.
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That's not what drove me.
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Let me tell you what drove me.
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Let me tell you what is on my refrigerator today.
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Pictures of people.
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You know
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why?
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To be respected by the men I respect.
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We respect them.
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Hey, I know a John Crow.
1:02:51
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I remember going through tough times in my life,
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you know, being $18 ,000 in debt and all kinds of crazy things going on.
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And Ganesh said,
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you know what? Every day you feel low.
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Think about,
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can a John Crow be wrong?
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Can a man who was heart in the head and came back one and a half years later believed in the business
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and the dream long enough to come back and fight it again?
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To go triple diamond founders,
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non -ambassador, moving on.
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Can a John Crow be wrong?
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Hey, we hung on to those things.
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Hey,
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see you in the beaches of the world.
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We hung on to that.
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These are not just things we throw out
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there, folks.
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We believe in those things.
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And we do see each other in beaches of the world today.
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You know, I remember big new diamonds and sitting next to John Crowe.
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It was my dream to sit next to the man,
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go second hand with Bill Britt.
1:03:37
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Hey,
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listen,
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Bill still doesn't know us.
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He recognizes the face maybe,
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doesn't know us by first name.
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He will.
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Why?
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To earn the respect of people we respect.
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Yeah,
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I'm sure there is more money in EDC than there is diamond.
1:03:51
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I'm sure there is.
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I just don't know how much.
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But I have a feeling if I go EDC,
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somehow Bill might recognize my name.
1:03:58
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We are in third month Emerald qualification.
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Kantian Lata doesn't even know us.
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That's how deep we are from them,
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if you understand what I'm saying.
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We are about five diamond deep from them.
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But that's okay.
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Twelve months later,
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we are in their house having breakfast.
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To earn the respect of people who
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respect. I remember when my family didn't understand.
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I remember my brother didn't understand the business.
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And I remember sitting there thinking,
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man, they need to know who a Kantigala is,
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who a Kulindasai is.
1:04:27
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They need to listen to that Kulindasai tape.
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They need to hear Wanda Ganesh,
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man. And eventually have them understand and catch on to the vision and
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have my own brother quote me.
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John Crowe and Kanti and Kumar and Raj.
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You know how amazing that is?
1:04:41
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And then we were in November,
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we were visiting India and Smita's younger brother was getting married.
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I don't know what happened after he got married.
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He was wired up.
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Sown about 100 plants in last three months in Bangalore.
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Woke up.
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Hey,
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that's what we strive.
1:04:56
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Listen,
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you probably have your EDC legs already identified.
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My brother was not even part of my diamond seam.
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Can I tell you that?
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Smita's younger brother will be part of our double diamond seam.
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Your EDC leg is already sitting there watching you.
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Can you find your diamond legs?
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They're out there.
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It's your commitment which will bring them to you.
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Consistency.
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Make sense?
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You know,
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I'll tell you,
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we are talking about the yo -yo phase of business and whatnot.
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You know, what keeps people like us consistent?
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Commitment to continuity develops
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emotional stability.
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The willingness to commit.
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You can let the calendar run you or you run the calendar.
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Yes,
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we are retired.
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Not out of life.
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Out of job for sure.
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Not out of life.
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We are more fired up.
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Listen, I still got fire in me,
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man. Next few years,
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we're going to hammer this sucker.
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Why? Goal is not EDC.
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Goal is crown ambassador.
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Founder's crown ambassador.
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That's the goal.
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That's the battle cry.
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Goal is not just,
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hey, Rashmi and Smith are retired.
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Goal is how many moms are you going to retire,
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man?
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Yeah, it's exciting to be retiring at 29.
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My goal is to have 19 20 year olds retire and take them to be under dealership.
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Hey, he wants to buy a car Who's paying that?
1:06:13
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No, he's paying paying cash for it mess up the dealers thought process man Get
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a 20 get a 23 24 or newly married couple take them to a golf course
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Hey, they want to buy a house million dollar property.
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They can afford it.
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They're paying for it.
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Don't you just sign the paper?
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Let me tell you what my mission is today to
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have the younger generation believe That you don't have to be no,
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you know
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Bollywood star on drugs or get on to some tattoo playing games to make money
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You can even legal honest way so the planet build a future for yourself You
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could be 19 year olds be a millionaire in this thing Why not?
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You know today's kids growing up they can they
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tell you know commercial songs before they even tell the parents name So sad
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Give them a dream give them a vision and
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give them a leader to look up to give them a hero to look up to You
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could probably never throw a ball like Michael Jordan.
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Why you have a poster of that?
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I wonder
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Real life heroes.
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You can become.
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You know all these movie stars come to Chicago,
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do their $100 dance shows.
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You know people go, oh,
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whole close, you're full.
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I'm like,
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dude, listen.
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You can never jump like that again on the stage.
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Entertainment value for $100,
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awesome.
1:07:28
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You can never jump like that dude on the stage.
1:07:31
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But you can do what we have done and be on this stage.
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You can physically sow the number of plants we have sun.
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You can get the tools.
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You can be on standing order.
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You can be accountable.
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You can use your own products.
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And you can be financially free.
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I don't care what your age is.
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I know there are 18 -year -olds and there are 40 -year -olds.
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I don't care what your age is.
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Could you add 24 months to that and count the rest of the years
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as bought out for yourself?
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Could you do that,
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please? I don't care what your age is.
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Add 24 months to that.
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You can buy the rest of your life back for yourself.
1:08:07
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And that's all we did.
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You know,
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I was not a millionaire when I walked out of my October 3rd,
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2003.
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I had no intentions of retiring.
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Told my boss,
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I want to take a three -month break.
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It was getting winter.
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That's the month we have been getting into diamond qualification.
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We thought we'll do a big celebration,
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big retirement thing.
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But I was getting enough of it.
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I'm like, goodness, I need to get diamond done.
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I need to take off,
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man. So they saw the papers.
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They saw the numbers.
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Three months.
1:08:31
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Okay, take three months off,
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whatever. You know,
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so I go to my boss.
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I need to take three months off.
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He said, you sure?
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We can pay you for it.
1:08:38
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I said, fine.
1:08:41
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You don't know the funny part?
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I have never gone back.
1:08:43
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Hey,
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what did you do?
1:08:49
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Bought it,
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lock, stock and barrel bought my life back,
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man. Never have to look at the traffic exam again.
1:08:54
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Yeah,
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it is awesome to work for it.
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I don't want to be there.
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You still have to show up 7 o 'clock in the morning.
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I don't care what your title is.
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Nobody
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will pay the amount of money we make first to wake up at 11 .30 in the morning and have breakfast at
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2 o 'clock.
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Nobody.
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And then listen to me,
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folks. Rashmi and Spita are no special.
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If I can get in at 23,
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24 with moustache,
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with not knowing how to talk,
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driving a thousand dollar car,
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with uplines doubting if these are the right kind of people,
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and if we can change and become and find our
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leaders and grow to become who you are,
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can you find your three?
1:09:35
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Can you find your six?
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Would you stay persistent enough to find the six?
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And you will.
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And have a good,
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happy heart and thankful heart through the whole process.
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Just give thanks in everything.
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Remember I said when you're going through it,
1:09:52
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it's not fun.
1:09:53
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But looking back,
1:09:54
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you'll be amazed how all the dots will be connected for you.
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Looking back,
1:09:58
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I will know why it happened for a purpose.
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I don't know why I went through what I went through.
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But when I look back,
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hey man, it's not that bad at all.
1:10:07
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Hey,
1:10:08
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that's the worst meeting.
1:10:10
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30 people,
1:10:11
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one guy got in.
1:10:12
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Worst meeting of my life.
1:10:13
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You'll
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not know.
1:10:18
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But can I tell you something?
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24,
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30 months from today,
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you'll be standing on a stair somewhere and you'll come up and say your story and you will have the same.
1:10:25
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Hey,
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you have the Kanti Gala in your group.
1:10:28
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You have the Kulin Desai in your group.
1:10:29
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There's different names,
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different face.
1:10:31
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They have the same fire in them.
1:10:34
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You have the John Crow in your group.
1:10:36
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You have the David and Christian Dussault in your group.
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Just in a different name.
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But will you stay steady enough to find those one at a time?
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It's a simple business,
1:10:45
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folks. It's you and I complicated.
1:10:47
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But if you keep it simple enough,
1:10:49
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being willing, don't eat your seed money away,
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put the money back into the business,
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stay committed and persistent enough for next 24 to 30 months,
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and you can put it together for yourself.
1:10:59
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Listen, becoming millionaire,
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you need ambition and aspiration,
1:11:02
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all that stuff.
1:11:03
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But to make extra $80 ,000,
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$100 ,000, we all need it,
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folks.
1:11:07
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Something happens to job,
1:11:08
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this, that, tomorrow,
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ding, gone.
1:11:09
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You need it.
1:11:10
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Is that true, folks?
1:11:11
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So how about take care of the basics?
1:11:13
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And after that,
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you choose to become a millionaire,
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join the Millionaire Cup.
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God bless you.
1:11:16
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You know exactly how to do with this team.
1:11:18
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I want to thank the entire San Jose leadership for having
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us here.
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But I'll tell you, we had the most phenomenal time being here.
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And listen, this is not the end.
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This is the beginning.
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For all of you,
1:11:29
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I want you to mentally think,
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draw a line today.
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This is the beginning.
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And 20,
1:11:34
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30 months from today,
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when you look back and put your city together.
1:11:37
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And you can give the title to your CD,
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whatever you want to.
1:11:40
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But remember,
1:11:40
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as I always told in my old stories,
1:11:42
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and I'll wrap it up with this,
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opposite of success is not failure,
1:11:47
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it's quitting.
1:11:48
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If you are willing to fail
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and not be a failure,
1:11:54
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victory will be yours.
1:11:57
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Because if you stay steady enough,
1:11:59
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you have to succeed.
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God bless you.
1:12:03
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Love you guys.
1:12:03
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Come join us.
1:12:14
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While the techniques and approaches suggested may have worked for others,
1:12:17
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no one can guarantee that they will work for you.
1:12:20
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We hope,
1:12:20
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however, that the ideas presented here will assist you in developing a strong and profitable
1:12:24
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business.
1:12:25
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This product has been produced independently of any other corporate entity and has
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not been reviewed.
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Purchase of this product is optional and subject to the refund policy described in
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your purchase agreement for business support materials.
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Purchase of future business tools can be discontinued at any time.

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