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How to Build a $50M Business Without Venture Capital

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Fostering Company Culture in a Remote Work Environment

Exploring the importance of vision, values, and flexibility when developing a company culture amidst remote work. The speaker offers insights on creating a supportive and fun work environment while emphasizing trust and autonomy within the team.

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Speaker 2
Yeah, yeah, definitely. Yeah, it's not going to happen during the house. What's your, do you have do you have a set up process for every person or do
Speaker 1
you really go with the flow with each individual? This stuff got caffeine in it.
Speaker 2
It has natural caffeine from tea.
Speaker 1
I'll take a sip of it. Yeah. It's green tea. Green tea is really caffeinated, right? Yeah. Yeah. You drink caffeine? I only in the tea form. Only in the tea form. Yeah. I don't really like that. Only in the tea form.
Speaker 2
I drink herbal tea and I drink this tea, but I don't. That's good. Thanks, man. Appreciate it. My wife and I put it together. So natural.
Speaker 1
Go buy his drink. How do you come up with the name?
Speaker 2
It stands for just you and I. So it was a way of trying to bring people together through sharing a moment. How's caffeine hitting? Is all right?
Speaker 1
I'm taking little. I don't drink caffeine at all. Yeah. Neither do I apart from tea. So yeah, I don't drink. I don't drink. I'm not like a caffeine person. I wake up and I'm like ready to rip. Me too. I wake up. I like pop out of bed. What time do you wake up? Early. Yeah. Yeah, like six, usually six, ten to six, thirty. Yeah. What gets you in the creative zone?
Speaker 2
Like you always like cookie. Let's let's talk about open wide for a second. Like creativity. I think people look at you and they think, oh, he's musically creative. But then the rest of his life must be here. No, it's like you're creative in cooking. You're creative in music, obviously, my relationships can be creative too. Like is it just something that was cooking always a passion?
Speaker 1
Yeah, it's just like do you cook it all or no? So I'm the exact opposite.
Speaker 2
Cooking kitchens and cooking scares me. My wife is a plant-based chef and
Speaker 1
recipe developer. Really?
Speaker 2
Oh my God. This is all she does. What
Speaker 1
has she always cooked? Yes. Yeah. Oh my God. She's loved it since she was and she's a dietitian and nutritionist. What's her name?
Speaker 2
Radi. Radi's the name R-A-D-H-I. Radi. OK. OK. OK. Yeah. Yeah. I got to see it.
Speaker 1
Yeah, I'm obsessed with all that. One of my friends, the person who I wrote my book with her name is Jess. She has like a she's predominantly like a plant-based chef. Sure. For Martha Stewart for years and she's incredible. And I it's funny. Like my books are always crazy for I eat very healthy unless I'm being like a naughty boy. What's what's naughty? How bad's naughty? Oh, naughty is like you wake up and there's crumbs and glaze all over you. You don't even know what it is. But mostly I'm pretty I'm like during. During the week, you know, because I lost a lot of weight. I lost like 50 pounds. Well, consciously. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Now, you know, honestly, at the beginning, I was going into a weight loss challenge because my brother gained a bunch of weight. And then when I went and we like did the DEXA scan thing, I was 33% body fat. I was like, am I fat? And I just didn't even I didn't even know that I was being un you know, unhealthy. And then like that's when I started working out and I got obsessed with it. And it was like I wasn't necessarily trying to lose weight, but then like once I did, I was like, whoa, this is cool. And I'm one of those people now like when I lost the first way, it wasn't trying to lose weight. It was just like trying to be healthy. And then I felt like the feeling every time I went to the gym, I was like, whoa, I have no anxiety like after and I'm not thinking about anything else except like what's happening. And that was very rare for me. So I was like, I got to chase this feeling. And then now I like, you know, me and my friends, we do like little like weight last challenges. We're like, OK, whoever can lose the most weight in like one month or whoever can do this, I just like to I like to challenge my body and my comfort zone. Yeah, I like to just like push myself in any way possible. But yeah, no, I like I do you pretty healthy? Yeah, very. Well, because of her, because of her
Speaker 2
otherwise you'd be like before I met her and slept pizzas midnight burgers. So that's my favorite.
Speaker 1
What do you guys eat into?
Speaker 2
Obviously, what did you eat today? What did I have in the morning? I had like avocado mushroom toast in the morning. And did you make it or she did? No, no, she did. Yeah.
Speaker 1
So if she's not in town, do you have a quarter? I'm ordering in by ordering healthy. You're ordering healthy because you're scared. She might be filming. Yeah,
Speaker 2
exactly. That's actually I'll say to my team, I'll be like, guys, just, you know, let's order this because my wife's not right. Yeah, you'll be a little not. She's been a good influence on me because before I met her, I was addicted to sugar. Like I was addicted to chocolate. Some
Speaker 1
people have that. I had a message because of my mom. Yeah, I don't have this. I don't have the sweet to. That's lucky, man. That's one of the most rather like a huge slice of bread or a taco. Like I really like like one bite of a dessert. Like I always want my wife. Yeah, I always want one bite. Like at the end of the day, like I always have like a date or something or like a piece of fruit, like I love that. But like I don't like the I don't know like occasionally like a cookie or something. If it's not too sweet, I don't like really sweet things. They make my stomach hurt. Like so I like there's a few like I like. What's that thing when it's it's like meringue Pavlova because it's not too sweet. And it's like light Pavlova makes me. How did you curb your cravings for things you love? Like when you're doing a challenge, how do you curb your craven? I just shut it off. I love I love like I love a challenge. Right. Just any challenge of someone's like, I bet you can't walk 25 miles right now. I'm like, yes, I can. And I'll do it like I just love I love that feeling of doing something. And you have a group of people that you do with my friends. I work out with my friend. If I didn't have a trainer, I only pay the only reason I see a trainer is because I'm so crazy that I was would be like, oh, I can't waste the money. Like so I got to go. But if I if it was just up to me, I wouldn't do it. I wouldn't do it. I wouldn't be able to do it. It's just that someone's you know, or my friends are like, let's go to the gym. I got to go together and we work out together. And I like, you know, coming back to food. I like anything. I love community. I love hosting. I love like there's there's nothing better to me than like creating like an experience for people. I don't care what the medium is, like creating some experience where like when someone leaves, they're just like, whoa, and they're telling all their friends. And like for me, it's just like you're, you know, this is like looking to give someone an orgasm face at all times. Like every moment, like it, because that's what it is. It's when you when someone tastes your food, they just like open their mouth and they put in, you just want them to be like, like you just want that feeling that when someone plays a song, you want them to be like, Oh, my God, that thing is crazy. You know, like after you like change someone's life and they can do a meditation where they can like put their leg behind their head. They're just like, Oh, thank you. You brought me to a higher sense of being. Like it's it's that's what we're looking for. And and I'm always looking to make my friends happy. I'm always, you know, if someone comes to my house and they have like, you know, a hamburger and they're like, I love this is my favorite hamburger. I know that. So then I'm thinking like the next time they come and like, Oh, I'm going to like make sure they have that for them. And you know, my grandma, when I was a kid, one of my grandma's, she, you know, she she was not wealthy by any means she grew up in it. Like, you know, she her place was in Section 8 housing and we would go visit her and she had a lot of grandkids. And if we went over there and one time we like had a journey and we were like, we love this. It would be there every time we ever went. And she had so many grandkids. So everyone had every single thing and she would she would, you know, she won't eat for the week to make sure that like everyone had their things. And because it made her so happy, the joy she would have when everyone was coming in and all the things were there, we'd be like, Oh, yes, this and she. And that's what I like to do. And I love to create like whether it's like the perfect napkin, the perfect like meal, the perfect music playing at the same time, like, you know, and that's what I did with this book. I was like trying to teach people how to have like the perfect dinner part. That's brilliant because I was like, OK, you know, some people, they might not know what to do. Like you're nervous in the kitchen. This book is going to make it so like surefire way. You want something easy that looks good. Great. You want to have a dinner party? Like, do you know what type of wine to serve? I don't know. Do you want to smoke weed with your people? Does weed make you anxious? Who knows? Is it midnight and you want everyone to leave because you got to wake up at five thirty the next day, but you still want them to love you? I'm going to teach you how to kick them out. You know, and it's just like, I love that. It's that whole thing. And it's just like that moment of just like getting a bunch of people together. And I love getting the people together that don't necessarily go together. And it's like someone is like a musician and they're sitting next to a man who wrote a book and I mean, one time we were at my house and I remember. I was my mother was sitting here and SZA was sitting here and a man on the other side actually makes rocket ships that go to space. And to me, it was just so cool to see them all talking and not caring about, you know, what was going on. And there was no egos and there was everyone's just having a good time and food is like the best social lubricant in the world because it's like you can immediately talk about something.

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