Episode 36: The Floor Layer Who Became a Full-Time Trader | James Russell

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Order than me.
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Hello everyone and welcome to today's episode.
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Today's guest is someone that I go way back with.
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James and I first met a few years ago, back in the days of our affiliate marketing.
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Since then, he's built a full-time career trading and a full-time community as well.
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One life, one trade.
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That's helped hundreds of people take a shot at a different kind of freedom.
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James is also four years sober, and honestly, he was one of the first people that inspired me to get sober myself.
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This is a conversation about reinvention, what it actually takes to walk away from one identity and build something new that lasts.
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James, welcome to the next chapter.
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Thanks for having me, Luke.
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Thanks for having me.
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Appreciate it.
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No worries, mate.
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Okay, so take me back.
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What was it like growing up?
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And what did you think your life was going to look like back then?
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How far back we're talking?
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When I was a child at first?
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Yeah.
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So what was your childhood like, you know?
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Pretty standard for South East London on a council estate.
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You can already probably most people listening can picture exactly what I'm talking about.
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Yeah, pretty pretty standard um council upbringing.
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But in a sense, certain bits are just wouldn't wouldn't change because it gives you them characteristics, then it like there was no phones back then.
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I don't want to sound like an old fogear, but no phones, no internet.
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You just went out, had fun, got up to mischief, and uh I think that half half builds your character as you uh growing up.
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So it was, yeah, pretty pretty standard, nothing, nothing too privileged, but I had a roof over my head, so I can't complain.
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And you were brought up on a council estate, did you say?
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Yes, in um Southeast London, in uh Cholton.
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Choltern.
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Yeah, okay.
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So how did you end up flooring?
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Was it uh was it a family business?
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Was it through friends or yeah, you got it.
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It was a family business.
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My uncle, my uncle was a floor.
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Well, I remember when I was younger, my uncle was always employing everyone.
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People got old enough to hold a knife in their hand, they were just employed.
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Yeah, it m my day came.
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I think all of our days, all the nephews, all the days were just coming.
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And to be fair, I did try.
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I did try, I went to college and done bricklaying and stuff like that, and I couldn't get an apprentice at the time.
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I'd done a few things, and in the end, it was inevitable.
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It was just like something covered my shoulder, like you will come to flooring.
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And yeah, I think when I was well, I dabbled in it when I was 16, really early, and then when I was about 17, 18, I uh yeah, started flooring.
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Starting flooring my uncle, and um that was it.
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My life was ruined after that.
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So was it the money?
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Because I know as a tradesman myself, you can earn really decent money.
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Was that the first thing that drew you in?
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Or or was it that you just weren't very academic?
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Because I know a lot of people who weren't good at school, they end up going into being a tradesman.
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Yeah, you know, well, 100% that.
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100% that I was all I've always been a manual type of person.
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I've always never, never no good on computers when I was younger, even like Sega Mega Drives back then and PlayStations when they first come out.
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Like I just weren't me.
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I was more BMXs, building camps, building swings out of trees.
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I was I was always gonna be something manual.
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And then my brother, who's five years older than me, he went and joined our uncle.
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So he was earning money.
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So I think it was a mixture of both.
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I was always gonna do a manual job, and that flooring job was all just already there, ready and waiting.
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Um, so I think it it was it was inevitable.
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And then sort of moving forward a little bit, when I was 17, I got with my wife, who I'm still with now, and she got pregnant very early.
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So I made my bed that I had to lie in very quick.
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So then it was a case of you're in the the trap, and I mean working trap, not trapped by the miss.
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Then you've got to provide then.
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That that's it then, and then then your life has fully started as an adult.
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So my my teenage years effectively in my early 20s was kind of cut short, had to grow up quite quick in that aspect.
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So then yeah, I was fully in the working trade industry then.
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Because there was no getting away from it back then.
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Couldn't uh yeah, had to provide, had to provide quick.
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And you were working long days, I take it, and weekends?
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Yeah, every day.
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Back back then, it it was.
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I remember my my auntie saying to me once, she said, uh, she said you've got to take the work because you never know when it's it's not there.
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Like if you miss it, it might not be there.
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And I I was only yeah, I must have been 18, I must have been.
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And I that really stuck with me, that did.
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So any any work that came up, I thought, I better take it, because if I don't take it, someone else will, or then it'll be gone.
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And um, so yeah, I just I just took everything and I must admit, I just worked stupid hours, which has got me what we'll go on to later about what I do now.
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I just couldn't keep doing them stupid hours because I was it's just evenings, weekends, daytime.
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If it was there, I was taking it.
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And yeah, it just yeah, and that went on for I don't even know.
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A good solid 10 years of just just like crazy hour work, so to speak.
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If it was there, I was taking it, yeah.
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Yeah, I can relate, mate.
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I mean, I was on price work myself on new builds, building sites for 20 years, two decades.
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Yeah.
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And and it and it is really, really hard graft.
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And in that time you'll go through recessions, you'll go through all different uh ups and downs, won't you?
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And you've always got that little voice in the back of your head, haven't you, saying you've got to keep working and you can't turn any work down because you don't know when it's gonna dry up.
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Yeah, exactly that.
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Yeah, it is, it is exactly that, because you might even be on a decent job that you know you're gonna be there for a few months.
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In the back of your mind, you still know, I don't know, in February it ain't gonna be there.
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So you think I need to get something in, or the job ain't coming, you'll take that extra work to put aside for the rainy day in case of just so it's just all it's a very vicious circle.
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Don't get me wrong, I was very fortunate.
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I always had flooring work.
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I don't, I don't think I've ever really gone without.
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I mean, I think the flooring world is quite a small industry, I think.
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And in London, you just kind of know a lot of people in the flooring world, and it was always someone that needed something.
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I don't ever, ever really recall it going too quiet for me, to be fair.
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Yeah.
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I was quite lucky like that, to be fair.
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I was quite I know there have been a few people that did, but yeah, mine always stayed busy enough, definitely.
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Even in the January's when it would normally go quite quiet.
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Yeah, always tick toe.
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But I remember when the I was called lucky at one point, when the recession hit in 2008, I remember being on quite a good carpet firm back then, and that was just working for just like millionaires and billionaires, so the the recession didn't seem to hit them.
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So we got uh got quite lucky in that little space when the recession was really bad.
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I got quite lucky then, but uh yeah, you got had to take it back then.
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So you worked like that into your late 20s, early 30s, maybe you said a decade.
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Yeah.
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What made you finally say enough is enough and I can't do this forever?
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But was it one moment or was it a slow burner?
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I think it was a slow burner, but I have vivid memories of of certain Yeah, there's there's quite a few things going through the flooring world, you always get told by the like the older senior floor lads, like, oh, I've got to get out of this game, my back's killing, my knees are killing.
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So I think you always had that burning.
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You always knew you can't really, unless you're owning the company, you can't really do that till you're like you're 70 years old.
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It's just not it's just not gonna happen.
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And whilst whilst in this process, I was building my own company, which I thought that that was my plan back then, which I did uh build a company that weren't massive, but that was my target.
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That was my target back then.
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But at one point, I remember fitting, trying to do the quotes, the measures, emails, putting everything out.
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And I I think it was it was back then when that first started happening, when bigger jobs started taking off, thinking, like this.
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I don't want to keep doing this for this amount of years.
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Like as soon as you're getting home, stand up to midnight sorting out quotes, first thing in the morning, pinging a couple of emails before you're jumping on the floors and grafting.
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I I do remember a few times thinking, I can't, I can't do this forever.
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Remember that question going round.
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That point is, but do I want to do this forever as well?
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So yeah, what it was a slow burner because back then I used to do a lot of motocross as well.
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So then you have one injury and then you're you're on your hands and knees all the time, one injury, and then you're out of the game.
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Uh, which I had one motorbike accident, snapped my leg, that was a road bike, and I was out for a whole year.
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And that I you know what you're bringing it back to me now.
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When I was on when I was on that year, I remember sitting in the hospital and the geezer opposite me, the bed over to the right, he had uh he just whipped his laptop out.
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We both pretty much had our operations at the same time, very similar um broken legs.
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I think it was the same leg, but he was still at work.
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He just pulled his laptop out, and I I do remember them thinking, I don't know if I'm gonna swear on it or not, but I do I do remember thinking that's phone, mate.
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Yeah, I do remember thinking, fucking hell, that would be easier.
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Like I was stressing, proper stressing work, what am I gonna do?
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And um, he just pulled his laptop out and he was still earning money.
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And it was it was then I thought that I think that was a big light bulb moment, like right, okay, okay, I need to look into this.
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And then I was still riding bikes and stuff after that, always a bit conscious because I didn't want to fall off because obviously I didn't want to have time off, which happened all the time.
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I don't think I was very good on a bike, I was always breaking something, and then that just solidified more and more.
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Like I've I've got to start earning or at least get something, something going.
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I've got to get something going for when these days happen.
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Um, so yeah, it was a slow burner, but it got stronger and stronger.
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Yeah, that's the best way of putting it, definitely.
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So that seed was planted when you had that accident and you're in the hospital.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Then the world of affiliate marketing, was that the first thing, like with the laptop lifestyle and that digital side of stuff?
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Was that the first thing you uh you tried?
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Yeah, that that was the first thing because that was um that that was the first thing because that was a mutual friend, as we know, um, Dan Carroll, I see his ad come up.
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And at the time, I remember the f um I remember seeing his ad and I thought it was selling motocross stuff to earn money.
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That's that's what I thought it was.
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And I thought, oh, I could do that.
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I like Motocross, looks pretty easy, I could do that.
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So that yeah, that was the first thing.
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Clicked on that, then obviously got talking to Dan and got in in that side of it, realised it weren't.
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But by the time I realised it weren't, uh the process of all of that already appealed to me.
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And I thought, okay, right, I I like this.
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I can see there were loads of loads of options opening.
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That's yeah, that's where it first started.
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That's where I first ever but bought my first laptop.
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And like I say, I weren't very good on computers, still ain't any good on computers, but I I can get by just about.
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Now we've got chat GBT, it's a lot, it's a lot, it's a lot easier.
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I don't think any floor layers or or tradesmen.
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I bet you're not very good either.
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I'm not, mate.
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No, no, no.
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I struggle all the time with tech.
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It's a bloody nightmare, isn't it?
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I hate it.
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I hate it.
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It's it's brilliant when it works, but when it doesn't work, it's just a nightmare.
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There's nothing in between.
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It's just so so frustrating.
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So so what did success look look like back then?
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But by that I mean what was the dream?
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What were you thinking when you were when you were just diving into this different world, this world of affiliate marketing?
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So my my dream back then and success, because by then I'd already started reading some books and going down that rabbit hole a little bit.
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So my my dream wasn't there, it wasn't to get rich at all, it was just freedom.
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It was freedom to spend more time because my eldest was getting a lot older by then, like my first child, and there's 10 years difference between my my two children.
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So the youngest was still really, really young.
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So um, yeah, it was freedom.
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I didn't miss out on anything on my eldest daughter, but I worked an awful lot, and there's been many times, I'm sure there's lots of watching this the exact same thing and still going through it, where you could be at the park in the summer and you're like, right, I've got to go do a night shift now.
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And you've literally got to stop what you're doing, having fun and go to work.
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And it was times like that, really.
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I remember a few barbecues.
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I was, I don't know if I went for a stage where I'd done a lot of nights.
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Well, that happened all the time to be fair.
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And yeah, you'd be at something and then you've got to leave.
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So it was it was freedom and just being able to have the choice when I wanted to do a bit of work, when I wanted to do something.
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So it weren't, it wasn't even about money, it was just getting getting time back.
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And I know that sounds a bit um uh what's the word I'm looking for?
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Not cringe.
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You know what I mean.
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It's just it sounds like corny, cliche, yeah.
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Yeah, they're the words I'm looking for.
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But it was, it generally was that.
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I just wanted some time back.
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I knew, but then like I said, I was reading books, you start realizing wow, life is going quick, it is going really quick, and I could I could easily just carry on doing what I'm doing, or I could just start something.
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That was what I would say is I just needed to start something and get the ball rolling, and which I'm to this day, yeah.
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Danzad coming past, oh god knows what I'll be doing.
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I'd probably be at work now to be fair.
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You said uh freedom there, James.
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I know I know it's a buzzword that gets chucked around a lot in the in the online space, especially on Instagram, TikTok, etc.
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What does freedom mean to you?
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Because it's going to be different for everyone.
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So freedom, sorry, freedom to me is quite small.
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It is quite small.
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Freedom to me is being able to get up when I want, be able to say to the missus, fancy a coffee, go to the coffee, like go to the coffee shop, sit there and chill out.
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Like amongst all the travelling and everything else, but ultimately, like when we draw it all in from the luxury, so to speak, it's just having no pressure.
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Obviously, you need money to pay your bills and whatnot, that just goes without saying, but it's just being able to get up when you want, not have a boss over your shoulder.
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And for me, it's always just a pot for that coffee and not have to worry, have I got money for that coffee?
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Should I be doing this?
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Like that, that for me, for my headspace, that works.
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That works, that's what I like.
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It's it's very simple, it's very basic.
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Yeah.
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A lot of people think it's about Lamborghinis and Flash holidays, but it's not, is it?
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No.
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And at one at one point, because it's always kind of been that.
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I remember when I would look when I said when I was working on that flooring firm that was just like millionaires and billionaires, I mean, it was always working up Mayfair and everything.
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And I actually remember when I was quite young at looking at a coffee shop and watching them, I was thinking, wish I had money just to pop to the coffee shop like that.
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So it's always sort of been a seed.
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Then when I got into the online space, you know, you start talking to more people that have got more money, then you hear more stories, and more people got even more money, and you start going down a little bit of a rabbit hole, like, no, we could earn X amount a month or get your first million, then you can get this car and all that.
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And I think at one point I nearly fell into that a little bit, but I just knew it weren't me.
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And then if anyone asked me a question just like that, like, what is your why or what is freedom?
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It's like, no, it's just just being able to take a walk on, we'll take a walk in the countryside, stop at a coffee shop, and just be able to get it with not worrying.
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Not being able to worry, that is, yeah, ultimately for me, yeah, freedom.
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That that was what makes me happy, definitely.
00:15:43.639 --> 00:15:47.960
So the transition from affiliate marketing to trading, James.
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Yeah.
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Was there a Pacific moment when you thought, right, trading is the one is that rabbit hole that I'm gonna go down?
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Did you see did you see someone online where you recommended it?
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Tell us about that shift.
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So with the with the way the forex trading come about, when uh when um was on SFM and launched you and and doing all the affiliate marketing there, I'd always hear about trading.
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And it always interested me.
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I must admit, it did always interest me, but I knew I knew by then I didn't want to spread myself too thin.
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I thought if I spread myself shiny object syndrome, I'm just never gonna complete anything.
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So I I knew not to do that.
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But it was always there in the back of my mind.
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I don't know whether I've got a bit of autism or what, but I think the graphs and the maths and all of that, I kind of kind of like that bit as well.
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I think you've got to enjoy it a little bit.
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But then after doing affiliate marketing for a while, hit a few goals that I wanted to hit, done my van life sort of stuff.
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I still got my one life one van.
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That's how it all started, that's how one life one trade came about.
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There's like a like sister companies.
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And after hitting a good few targets with that, I didn't, I never fell out of love with it, but there was a lot of work in the affiliate space.
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So and behold, I'm actually, we'll talk about it, but I'm actually doing a lot more of that now, which is weird, but I feel like I'm more mature to it now.
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But it was a lot of work and with the trade in it, it sort of just crept in a little bit.
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By then, I think my affiliate love died down a little bit.
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Not I wanted it to, but I just think naturally it did a little bit.
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And then um you start finding your own path, don't you?
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You sort of start here, and then once you make a start, my door might open there, like for you, coaching open over here, and you sort of go down your avenue.
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And I think I started letting trading in a little bit, quite enjoyed it, was watching it.
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Obviously, you see all the typical a Lamborghini the next day once you join my course, which I immediately just thought it's off.
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Like, whatever, you could that ain't that ain't happening.
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But I still liked what I liked the concept of was obviously being able to earn money anywhere in the world.
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Like I said, go to a coffee shop immediately.
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These things come, can go to a coffee shop and keep an eye on my work on my phone.
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So it was all of these little things.
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Again, there was no time limit.
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You can trade when you want because it's open basically 24-7.
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There's no restrictions, you just need your phone and a bit of Wi-Fi.
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So it was all of these little things.
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Plus, by then, I was enjoying watching it, I was enjoying looking at the graphs.
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I know a lot of people look at the charts and they just think, whoa, like, what is that?
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It's too much.
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It's too much.
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Excuse me, sorry, mate.
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And they think it's too much.
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But I was enjoying it.
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So, yeah, so I slowly started transitioning over.
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I was still still doing my affiliate marketing, but then I got to that point which I knew where I was spreading myself too thin.
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So I had to go one way or the other.
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And and I think at that point trading was just winning.
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And it it took a minute to admit that, I think.
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It really did, because I'd put so much time and effort into the affiliate marketing.
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Not that any of that went to waste, because I've learned so much.
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And again, like I said a minute ago, I'm using it all now.
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So I wouldn't have been able to get the ball rolling so quickly with trading and what we do now if I hadn't have done all of that.
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So not one second of it was any wasted time in the slightest.
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It was just all learning curves, helped me where I am.
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Well, I wouldn't be where I am today without joining SFM back then.
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So yeah, that's how I slowly, slowly got into trading.
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And once I think once I admitted it to myself, this is the route I'm gonna go down.
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Then I just went all in, then literally all in because I knew I had to put the effort in, so yeah, I did.
00:19:20.919 --> 00:19:23.240
Yeah, I can relate so much to what you said.
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The things that we learnt at LaunchU with affiliate marketing, we're gonna be using for years and years to come in our own businesses, whether that's coaching, whether that's trading, yeah, email email marketing, you know, ads, it it's it's all of it, right?
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So it's it's stuff that you will use in the future, and it's all the self-development that comes with it as well.
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So it's it's it's not wasted at all.
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Not in the slightest.
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And and that's what I was content with myself for being able to transition over.
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Um, I think there might have been a point where I was thinking, God, have I just wasted a lot of time on that?
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But then immediately is that no, I definitely ain't.
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I did like you said, the email marketing.
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I mean, I think nowadays, if you can market in life, you've got a good chance of earning a good income no matter where you are in the world.
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If you can market anything, you've you're doing well.
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And then there was the marketing, it's knowing how to get it out of this, building pages, uh and and all of that good stuff.
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So yeah, didn't not what not one penny of ad spend or not one minute of extra learning at midnight when Stuart Wass or Justin Wolfer got their got one of their calls that just don't end.
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It was all worth it.
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Every yeah, every second of it was worth it.
00:20:31.000 --> 00:20:35.399
So I've got to ask you, James, what what is trading in a nutshell?
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I mean, explain it to me like I'm a 10-year-old, because a lot of people, like you said earlier, they get so overwhelmed, they'll see all these charts, and then people will start talking about candlesticks and all sorts, and it's like, I mean, I mean, what what is trading uh a short version?
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So a short version of trading is I had day trade.
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So there's different ways of trading, which are still very simple, but it's just it's like commodities or it's like the dollar versus euros or pounds versus euros.
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So it's um trading trading currencies, basically.
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But the thing is, I think what people immediately think they must know everything about that currency, everything about the fundamentals and the news and what's Trump doing.
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You don't.
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Obviously, it helps if you want to go down a certain route, but if you're just day trading and scalping, which I'll go into, you don't ignore that.
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So it it can immediately feel a lot more overwhelming, confusing.
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But I just I just day trade.
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So you've got obviously investments, long-term investment, like the SP 500 and leave your stuff in there or Bitcoin, chuck some money at it, leave it, put it to one side.
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Then you've got swing trading where you could put a trade on whatever it might be.
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I like to trade gold nowadays, always come back to gold.
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I do like it.
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It's the most volatile.
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So you could put a trade on and say a Monday, and you could you could be in that trade for a week or two weeks.
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So it's still quite a long process before getting anything at the end of it, or you could lose at the end of it.
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It's it's not all winning, or you could lose.
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You could wait two weeks to lose money.
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So that that just didn't appeal to me.
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I didn't have enough patience for that.
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Um, day trading is where I'm at.
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I like to look for maybe one, two trades a day, maximum, and be out the same day.
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Ideally, you want to be out of in an hour or two, if not quicker.
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That's the ground I fell in, or you've got to.
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Scalping where you can jump down on like a 15 second chart or a minute chart and be in and out, in and out, in and out.
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But that's for me, that's just too much.
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Too much gives me anxiety just watching me in out in.
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I just don't think think it's good.
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Yeah.
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So sorry, mate, I don't think I've explained that for super look five year olds, but might have gone a little bit in depth.
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But it's yeah, it's just trading currencies and the being.
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Trading currencies and gold, yeah.
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I mean, that's what that's what you do, and and it's day trading.
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So is day trading literally in and out in a day?
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Is that how it works?
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Yeah, so getting in in and out in a day.
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So you're looking for your setup, and then you want to be out within an within an hour or two.
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So you're three or four, is it four years sober now, James, as well?
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Did you say four years sober, yeah.
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Four years sober from the 5th of August.
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So literally a few weeks.
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Three weeks.
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Three weeks, nearly.
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Yeah, well, yeah, nearly four weeks.
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So um Wow, okay.
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Yeah.
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So that was so you started that when you were back in the affiliate marketing day marketing days.
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Yeah.
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How come?
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I mean, what happened there?
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Many reasons, many, many, many reasons come to come to the point.
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One, I started learning one, the hangovers got really bad.
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Let's be let's be realistic.
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They got to like three days before I could function again.
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Then that that led on to where I was building my online businesses and and and doing well.
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I needed every hour.
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I knew I had to go all in.
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If you're gonna start something, I think you've got to go all in.
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So if I went out for a Saturday night, and you you just not, it's just foggy.
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Nothing's happening Sunday.
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Foggy Monday.
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For me, I was still foggy Tuesday, and I'm back to normal on a Wednesday, so I knew that weren't helping.
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I think drinking, it just didn't, you end up staying out.
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You go out for one, didn't you?
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And then before you know it, he's literally closing and you're stumbling down the road looking for the next pub.
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That happened quite a lot, which obviously, when I'm looking back now, I can see why the missus was angry.
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Back then, I was thinking, chill out, I'm just having a good time.
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But when I look when I look back now, I think flipping out.
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I'm surprised she stuck around, to be totally honest.
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And then with the kids, you start looking at all of that, you know, you've you've you've been through it yourself, and you just start seeing it from an outside perspective.
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And uh yeah, and then just all of these little things.
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And I remember the reason why it's the 5th of August, and I remember why the reason why I remember it was the 5th of August is that's because that's my wedding anniversary.
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And me and the missus, we went on our like fifth-year wedding anniversary, went to a hotel, whatever, drunk, and I got up in the morning and I was hung over, and I just thought, I'm not doing this again.
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But I obviously I'd said that a few times before, like most people do when they're trying to stop.
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But there was just something different about this one.
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I just remember was in was in the swimming pool.
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I think I might have had something to do the next day, and I just thought, I'm just not doing it.
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I've had enough, I've had enough of doing this.
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And yeah, from that day, I just stopped.
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No one believed me, uh, which I don't blame them, because I think we've all said it a million times.
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So I didn't blame anyone.
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Yeah, since then, life's been so much better.
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So much better.
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Today's a better, like we were talking before.
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Holidays are better.
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I actually do something.
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You know what it's like when you go on holiday, you jump straight at the bar, you sit there, and then you don't want to do nothing, the kids are playing, like, yeah, go and have fun.
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You think you're doing well just because you're watching them, you think you're doing the right thing.
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But when you're not drinking, when I was drinking, I would just stay there.
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I wouldn't really do too much.
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But as soon as I'm not drinking, it's like, right, kind of let's go on the camels or let's go do something, let's go have fun.
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And the way we're saying about that all-inclusive holiday before, that was uh that was a big milestone.
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But I just thought, wow, I'm doing so much more, even in the evenings, like going to play pool with the kids before, I'd never do that.
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I would just sit down at the entertainment and just drink till till it finishes.
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So um, yeah, life altogether is just a lot, lot, lot better, sober.
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Lot better, I must admit.
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Yeah.
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Your your business in terms of trading, in terms of affiliate marketing, do you think it would be at the same place now if you carried on drinking?
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Never.
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I just wouldn't be where I am.
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I just I just wouldn't be aware I am.
00:26:23.719 --> 00:26:28.039
I don't even think I'd have got to where I got to with SFM and launch you.
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I I wouldn't even got to there.
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I just I just wouldn't have.
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Every time I remember every time I had something to do, you go out with the with the lads on the Friday, nothing got done.
00:26:37.719 --> 00:26:42.679
But then I was obviously I had my nine to five then, so then you're back to work on the Monday.
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Can't do nothing till the following weekend because I weren't doing nothing in the evenings because I didn't that I didn't have that.
00:26:48.279 --> 00:26:55.319
Well, no, I was doing bits in the evening, but not as not as much as I am now with a clear mind, and I just weren't getting nowhere, nowhere near as much done.
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So yeah, I would never ever be where I am now if I if I carried on drinking.
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And I'm not saying everyone used to drink how I used to drink or bidden drink.
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I'm not, I know there's plenty of men and women out there that can go have a couple of glasses of wine and then go home and then go do this thing, and good on them, good on them.
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I just can't.
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I just have one and I just think, nah, no, I'm gonna stay out now.
00:27:17.000 --> 00:27:18.919
I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna stay out.
00:27:19.479 --> 00:27:25.479
Yeah, you're you're all or nothing in your business and you're all or nothing in your drinking as well, exactly the same as me.
00:27:25.639 --> 00:27:26.599
Yeah, it looks that way.
00:27:26.679 --> 00:27:29.319
Yeah, I've never never looked at it like them, side on side, actually.
00:27:29.399 --> 00:27:30.759
Yeah, that's that's the way it was.
00:27:31.000 --> 00:27:34.039
Once you're out, some missus would say, Why'd you say one pint?
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Like, it's never a pint.
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I'm like, well, technically, you're never just gonna actually have one anyway.
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It's uh yeah.
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Because you convinced yourself, didn't you?
00:27:42.679 --> 00:27:43.559
I don't know if you had it.
00:27:43.719 --> 00:27:49.959
I I realised after a while, like one pint at the time was all right, one pint, and then two, because it just could never be one, so you had to have two.
00:27:50.039 --> 00:27:52.119
You'd obviously with someone, so you'd have two.
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But then once you had two, it's a bit of fluid changes in your brain, didn't it?
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And you think, one more ain't that bad.
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It's only gonna be three, and then it just does that every time.
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Every time without foul, you get to the next weekend, you think I won't do that again.
00:28:04.439 --> 00:28:10.119
But then that that fluid in your brain changes, two pints, three pints, four, and that's that's it then.
00:28:10.359 --> 00:28:12.599
Until fucking god knows what time.
00:28:13.240 --> 00:28:19.959
Yeah, I was chatting to someone at work about the other day, especially with blokes, they'll always say, Oh, I'm just popping out for one.
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Normally on a Friday on the way back from work.
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And it is never ever one.
00:28:24.839 --> 00:28:37.799
I remember not long after we moved over here a couple of years ago, and I would always go for one or two maybe pints, and I swear, I swore blind to my wife, I was like, look, I'm only gonna have a couple.
00:28:38.199 --> 00:28:42.519
But but I remember looking at my phone the next day because when you've got cash, it's a bit different, isn't it?
00:28:42.599 --> 00:28:46.119
But when it when it's on your phone, there's there's no lying, right?
00:28:46.359 --> 00:28:54.519
And I remember and I because I used to wake up and I feel terrible on a Saturday morning, and I'd be like, I only had two pints, I swear I only had two.
00:28:54.759 --> 00:28:59.639
And I and I'd be having like six pints, and I'd be like, that is why I feel like crap.
00:28:59.719 --> 00:29:05.799
Yeah, something has got to change if I wanna, you know, if I wanna build this business, if I want to be more productive.
00:29:05.959 --> 00:29:08.839
Yeah, and yeah, you could I don't think you can do everything.
00:29:08.919 --> 00:29:17.559
I think I think so many of us will go through this transitional period and we'll try and keep doing all the same things, yeah, but it just doesn't work, does it?
00:29:17.799 --> 00:29:19.000
It don't, it don't.
00:29:19.079 --> 00:29:23.399
And you you get to a point where I got to a point where I'll be down be down the pub.
00:29:23.799 --> 00:29:27.399
Weirdly enough, I was speaking to a young uh a young lad today about this.
00:29:27.879 --> 00:29:30.759
He said about going out, and I said uh it gets boring.
00:29:30.839 --> 00:29:49.799
You just hear the same stories from the same people, and then you have a you go into a pub when you're sober, before you've had one pint, and look at all the characters in there, no disrespect to all the old men in there, but you just got old men, red nose, look like shit, same story, and you just think that is that's ultimately where you're gonna get to.
00:29:49.879 --> 00:29:54.679
Like if you're just gonna continue, you everyone might deny it, but realistically, that's where you're gonna get to.
00:29:54.759 --> 00:29:56.759
So, yeah, that that had that had to change.
00:29:56.839 --> 00:30:11.319
And when I think when you start going down the entrepreneurial route, so to speak, finding out about yourself and all of that side of things, you start noticing that a lot of these big I fucking hate the word entrepreneur, it's all sounds a bit much, in it.
00:30:11.559 --> 00:30:14.439
All these successful people, look at a lot of their photos.
00:30:14.599 --> 00:30:17.479
They're drinking a bottle of water when they're out, they're they're drinking whatever.
00:30:17.639 --> 00:30:19.479
You you'll you'll start noticing it more and more.
00:30:19.559 --> 00:30:22.279
And it was all these little signs that just made me think now.
00:30:22.599 --> 00:30:27.159
That's why they're where they are, because they're not going out on a Friday, getting absolutely mangled.
00:30:27.240 --> 00:30:31.319
They're they're doing their stuff, drinking their water and doing something sensible.
00:30:31.399 --> 00:30:32.759
Yeah, it had you had to stop.
00:30:33.559 --> 00:30:34.519
I'm glad it did.
00:30:34.679 --> 00:30:35.799
Very glad it did.
00:30:36.039 --> 00:30:38.039
Yeah, your environment's so important.
00:30:38.359 --> 00:30:44.599
Who you surround yourself with is you know, I say it, I say it all the time on there pretty much every week, you know.
00:30:44.679 --> 00:30:49.719
If you surround yourself with five alcoholics, then there's a good chance you'll be the siff.
00:30:49.879 --> 00:30:52.359
I know it's I know it's an old saying, but it is so true.
00:30:53.079 --> 00:30:53.799
Yeah, it is.
00:30:53.959 --> 00:30:55.240
It is it is so true.
00:30:55.479 --> 00:30:56.519
You surround yourself, yeah.
00:30:56.679 --> 00:30:58.839
Yeah, I used to say that quite a bit as well.
00:30:59.240 --> 00:31:13.719
It is so this path that you've taken, James, has there been any points where you thought that you could have been wrong and you've thought about walking away and quitting and going back flooring full time?
00:31:13.879 --> 00:31:16.919
I thought about quitting about a million times.
00:31:18.279 --> 00:31:19.240
But that's the thing.
00:31:19.399 --> 00:31:27.240
I think that's the difference when when you get when you um when you start something, the only way you can fail is if you quit.
00:31:27.319 --> 00:31:27.959
And I knew that.
00:31:28.039 --> 00:31:34.359
And I just thought there was loads of times you just think, I could just go back and do a bit of flooring now and earn instant cash.
00:31:35.079 --> 00:31:36.439
I knew I had to just carry on.
00:31:36.519 --> 00:31:38.839
I knew I knew I had to carry on when it when it gets tough.
00:31:39.079 --> 00:31:43.639
Them tests, I think it's all it's all I want to get too thingy, but it's all written in the stars, I think.
00:31:43.719 --> 00:31:48.279
It's it's it's there, and you are you are what you attract and and all of that sort of stuff.
00:31:48.519 --> 00:31:55.319
And um, yeah, it's been loads loads of times I wanted to quit, but I just I just I'm not I'm not a quitter as well.
00:31:55.479 --> 00:31:59.000
I'm I just it's just not so I knew I just had to keep going.
00:31:59.159 --> 00:32:02.279
And then you have them shitty days, you read about it.
00:32:02.359 --> 00:32:06.919
You this is the thing, it's it's all about learning as well, learning along the process.
00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:10.839
You you'll come across books where it will tell you you're gonna have a shitty day.
00:32:10.919 --> 00:32:12.359
Don't make no decisions on that day.
00:32:12.519 --> 00:32:23.079
That's just you're gonna come back fresh the next day, and um, yeah, that's I I I knew I needed to learn about myself to keep going further and further down the journey.
00:32:23.240 --> 00:32:29.959
And I think with with Forex and stuff, they say Forex is just a reflection of yourself, and it's just so it's just so true.
00:32:30.039 --> 00:32:33.559
I didn't understand it at first, but it's just so it's so true.
00:32:33.639 --> 00:32:53.159
And the more learning you do about yourself, the more uh the easier it is on the harder days because you know, right, okay, it's one of them days I'm gonna go for a walk, and then you come back, and them quitting moments or punching the desk, whatever you do, they slowly come come to an end.
00:32:53.319 --> 00:32:54.759
Um, but it's not easy.
00:32:54.919 --> 00:33:00.599
Anyone that wants to start any online business, any be successful, it doesn't matter what business, nothing's easy.
00:33:00.679 --> 00:33:02.279
If it was all easy, we'd all we'd all be doing it.
00:33:02.359 --> 00:33:07.959
We'd all be successful, happy, rich, as much time as we want, drink as much coffee as we want.
00:33:08.199 --> 00:33:11.079
But it's it's it's made to be difficult.
00:33:11.399 --> 00:33:13.879
So it's uh yeah, what's that picture?
00:33:13.959 --> 00:33:20.279
There's a picture, ain't there, at first you go straight up and then it's easy, or you can go down with everyone and then you're and then it's like that.
00:33:20.359 --> 00:33:21.479
So yeah.
00:33:21.719 --> 00:33:26.119
Yeah, the self-doubt can be crippling, can't it, as an entrepreneur, as a business owner.
00:33:26.279 --> 00:33:29.079
Yeah, because there's a there's no guarantee, is there?
00:33:29.240 --> 00:33:39.159
You're literally you're taking a risk every day, and that comfort zone that we were speaking about before we hit record, is it's so easy just to stay there because it's guaranteed pay.
00:33:39.240 --> 00:33:44.279
You know what you're getting at the end of each week, each month, and it's it's tough.
00:33:44.519 --> 00:33:48.679
It is so tough, but you've got to keep picking yourself up and keep on pushing on.
00:33:48.839 --> 00:33:49.559
Yeah, it is.
00:33:49.639 --> 00:33:52.039
Self-doubt just creeps in and it creeps in a lot.
00:33:52.119 --> 00:33:54.919
I was reading a book, um what was it?
00:33:55.000 --> 00:33:56.039
I can't think.
00:33:56.359 --> 00:33:57.719
I can't think what book it was.
00:33:57.799 --> 00:34:02.039
But it's like your brain, the best thing to do is just never believe what your brain says.
00:34:02.199 --> 00:34:03.959
Just don't fucking believe the fucker.
00:34:04.039 --> 00:34:06.439
When you're having a bad day, who is that brain?
00:34:06.599 --> 00:34:07.639
Like, who who is it?
00:34:07.799 --> 00:34:09.639
Your consciousness is your consciousness.
00:34:09.719 --> 00:34:11.960
I wouldn't wouldn't believe what that brain's saying.
00:34:12.119 --> 00:34:28.280
So if you can get around that, which is a lot harder to actually do, like it's easy to say these things, but I feel like I've been learning about myself now for whoa, it's got to be six, seven years, and I'm still learning, and I'm still nowhere near where I need to be.
00:34:28.440 --> 00:34:41.000
But if I look back at where I was and what I have learnt about myself, there's um yeah, by learning about yourself, learning about self-doubt and everything that comes with all of that, you'll make your life a lot smoother and easier.
00:34:41.079 --> 00:34:45.800
I don't know if I've just gone well off subject with that with that question there, but um No, you haven't, mate.
00:34:45.880 --> 00:34:47.320
I mean, it it's all about mindset.
00:34:47.400 --> 00:34:50.200
It it does get easier, but in the beginning, it's so hard.
00:34:50.360 --> 00:34:51.079
And really hard.
00:34:51.320 --> 00:34:57.720
I think, yeah, I think the more books you read and the more you dive into it, when you realise like that you aren't your faults.
00:34:57.880 --> 00:35:00.360
And I think that's what you've just said, really.
00:35:00.680 --> 00:35:06.840
Because all these crazy thoughts are always popping in and out of your head, and you can't believe all of them.
00:35:06.920 --> 00:35:07.079
No.
00:35:07.400 --> 00:35:19.240
So when that self-doubt comes in, when that when that devil's on your shoulder, yeah, and he's whispering in your ear to give up and and quit for an easy life, you've just gotta say fuck off and carry on, I think.
00:35:19.320 --> 00:35:30.200
Yeah, you've gotta, you've got, you've gotta just you've got to you've gotta just start, or if you get that self-doubt to not do something, whether it be send that email, write them notes down.
00:35:30.360 --> 00:35:34.200
This I remember what I think I'm sure me and you spoke about a few times all them years ago.
00:35:34.280 --> 00:35:37.160
It's like just make a little start.
00:35:37.320 --> 00:35:39.559
Even if you think, right, okay, you know what I'm gonna do.
00:35:39.640 --> 00:35:40.440
I'm not gonna do much.
00:35:40.599 --> 00:35:44.120
I'm gonna go write one sentence about what I do tomorrow.
00:35:44.360 --> 00:35:47.480
You write that one sentence, and before you know it, you think, oh, I'm here now.
00:35:47.640 --> 00:35:49.559
I might as well do this little bit.
00:35:49.640 --> 00:35:50.840
And it's just it's just doing that.
00:35:50.920 --> 00:35:56.519
And then when you do that, that little devil starts fading away a little bit, and and then you get a little bit in the mindset.
00:35:56.760 --> 00:36:00.519
It doesn't mean you're gonna be hit all your goals that that day or whatever targets you've set.
00:36:00.599 --> 00:36:07.079
But if you've done something, it's better than just not doing anything and letting procrastinate in and yeah, and going down that route.
00:36:07.320 --> 00:36:11.240
You making a start makes a huge, huge difference on anything.
00:36:11.400 --> 00:36:12.840
Absolutely anything.
00:36:13.079 --> 00:36:15.240
Yeah, it's that first step is so important.
00:36:15.480 --> 00:36:16.280
It really is.
00:36:16.440 --> 00:36:16.840
Yeah.
00:36:17.160 --> 00:36:21.800
So talk to me about one life, one trade, James.
00:36:22.680 --> 00:36:25.079
It's a community that you're building online, right?
00:36:25.320 --> 00:36:29.880
Yeah, so one one life, one trade is uh so there's a couple of aspects to this now.
00:36:30.360 --> 00:36:30.680
Okay.
00:36:31.559 --> 00:36:33.720
I don't know if there were there's another, there's another.
00:36:33.800 --> 00:36:36.599
Do you remember James Hancock's that was in the second one?
00:36:37.000 --> 00:36:37.960
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:36:38.519 --> 00:36:47.559
So on along the trading journey, speaking to him quite a lot, and we've been talking for years and years, uh, learning trading together and all that sort of stuff.
00:36:47.720 --> 00:36:50.200
Um, we end up building a community together.
00:36:50.280 --> 00:36:54.360
It's called it's called Traders World, is what that that community is called.
00:36:54.599 --> 00:36:54.920
Okay.
00:36:55.079 --> 00:36:59.960
I've still got my one life, one trade, which is sort of a different side adventures, shall we say.
00:37:00.120 --> 00:37:10.840
But the the trading community we got, because because I had my background of working hard, council estate, all that sort of just common, common man, sort of labour working person.
00:37:11.000 --> 00:37:15.160
I I envisioned creating a cute like a community that was free, that people could get on.
00:37:15.400 --> 00:37:17.960
James had the same envision, so did a couple of others.
00:37:18.120 --> 00:37:19.079
And so that's what we've done.
00:37:19.160 --> 00:37:23.400
So we we managed to build a community for people that is actually free.
00:37:23.559 --> 00:37:29.480
You have to use the broker that we suggest because that's how we manage to get it free because you got like sponsored by this broker.
00:37:29.559 --> 00:37:31.800
So you get sponsored by the broker, you bring them clients.
00:37:31.880 --> 00:37:33.880
It is like it's just a win-win for everyone.
00:37:34.039 --> 00:37:34.920
So that's what we've done.
00:37:35.000 --> 00:37:40.440
Yeah, we built a trading community, but we want it to be different because there's so many trading communities out there.
00:37:40.519 --> 00:37:44.920
Everyone stands outside their Lambo, take this trade, you're gonna get rich, blah, blah, blah.
00:37:45.079 --> 00:37:45.880
Same old shit.
00:37:46.039 --> 00:37:47.720
And they just they just want you to take their trades.
00:37:47.880 --> 00:37:48.519
That's all they want.
00:37:48.680 --> 00:37:50.039
We didn't want to do that, Ruke.
00:37:50.120 --> 00:37:53.400
So we built courses of live calls, trade breakdowns.
00:37:53.640 --> 00:38:01.320
I've built a whole community so people can actually take the trades that we're supplying if they want, but they can learn at the same time.
00:38:01.480 --> 00:38:03.320
They can understand why these trades are.
00:38:03.720 --> 00:38:07.880
There's thousands of communities out there that offer all these things, but you people don't know why.
00:38:07.960 --> 00:38:12.360
They're just copy and pasting what they're seeing, and they don't actually know what they're doing.
00:38:12.599 --> 00:38:21.160
So we wanted to make it so the average person could come in, take the trades, earn, but the option there is to learn as well at the same time.
00:38:21.240 --> 00:38:24.599
Not everyone, well, excuse me, is gonna want to learn anything about trading.
00:38:24.680 --> 00:38:28.680
Some people do just want to take a few trades, earn a few quid, or whatever.
00:38:28.840 --> 00:38:30.519
But yeah, that that's our that's our goal.
00:38:30.599 --> 00:38:32.440
We've been going for a year now with that.
00:38:32.680 --> 00:38:35.400
Weirdly enough, that's August the 5th as well, I think you know.
00:38:35.640 --> 00:38:37.320
So it's like the drinking, yeah.
00:38:37.480 --> 00:38:40.440
And I and I only realised that just before August, it was James.
00:38:40.599 --> 00:38:41.880
So, you know what, he's come around a year.
00:38:41.960 --> 00:38:43.480
And I'm I'm pretty sure he said August the fifth.
00:38:43.640 --> 00:38:46.200
And I remember thinking, well, I should put something on that date, shouldn't I?
00:38:46.280 --> 00:38:47.800
I feel like that's a bit of a bit of anything.
00:38:47.880 --> 00:38:49.000
That's a mark saying that is.
00:38:49.160 --> 00:38:50.200
Yeah, yeah.
00:38:50.360 --> 00:38:52.120
Um, so yeah, that's been going a year.
00:38:52.200 --> 00:38:53.960
We've not had one losing month yet.
00:38:54.039 --> 00:38:57.400
We've had the odd losing week from the odd trader, um, which is just normal in trading.
00:38:57.559 --> 00:39:00.280
Anyone says they're not losing is just fucking lying.
00:39:00.440 --> 00:39:00.599
Yeah.
00:39:00.680 --> 00:39:04.519
Um, but we haven't had a losing month, which I think is is really, really good.
00:39:04.680 --> 00:39:06.200
And yeah, it's a great, great adventure.
00:39:06.280 --> 00:39:06.920
It's only growing.
00:39:07.000 --> 00:39:09.400
We've got nearly a thousand members now, I think.
00:39:09.640 --> 00:39:11.079
Uh and it's only growing, yeah.
00:39:11.160 --> 00:39:15.240
We wanted to start doing some big meetups now and yeah, big, big plans.
00:39:15.320 --> 00:39:19.559
I've got my own, which only a few people know about.
00:39:19.640 --> 00:39:29.400
And I've told you just before this call, I've got my own like side venture discord that I'm that I'm creating for very serious traders.
00:39:29.559 --> 00:39:36.200
So I have many members that I bring in to Traders World, I speak to them personally and I help them and stuff like that.
00:39:36.280 --> 00:39:39.559
And you can tell some of them are really, really freaking trying.
00:39:39.640 --> 00:39:40.280
They're really trying.
00:39:40.360 --> 00:39:47.480
And although we've got Traders World, which has got everything in there and it has got everything, I think some people just need a bit of accountability.
00:39:47.559 --> 00:39:50.519
They need someone just looking over their shoulder, someone to talk to.
00:39:50.680 --> 00:39:53.160
And I realize this after a while, and I thought, you know what?
00:39:53.240 --> 00:39:54.840
I think I need to make something here.
00:39:55.000 --> 00:39:59.079
So tomorrow, touch wood, that's the plan to go live with that one.
00:39:59.160 --> 00:40:01.800
And I've got not loads, I don't want too many people.
00:40:01.880 --> 00:40:06.360
I want it to be just like a little hub of selected people, serious people.
00:40:06.519 --> 00:40:09.240
If you're serious and want to learn trading, you're welcome to join.
00:40:09.480 --> 00:40:24.920
So yeah, yeah, that's my next little venture that starts tomorrow, which I'm really looking forward to doing because I feel like I um it feels like I've again I've said this to you in the past, we've had a lot of chats in the past about these things that I've I actually like helping people succeed.
00:40:25.079 --> 00:40:44.599
Like I I've been there, been that I I feel like I still am, I still am that person from the construction sites, from all of that, and and I j I know exactly how hard it is, exactly what it's like to be skint, exactly what it's like to be like not have literally just butter in the fridge.
00:40:44.760 --> 00:40:50.680
Like I've been through all of that, and I know when people say, Oh I can't do it because I ain't got this, I can't.
00:40:50.840 --> 00:40:52.680
I was there, so you can do it.
00:40:52.840 --> 00:40:57.960
And if these serious people want to do it, I'll I will I am there to help them.
00:40:58.120 --> 00:41:02.519
Um because I've I've I feel like I can now because I've gone through it all.
00:41:02.760 --> 00:41:09.880
Like, I don't think anyone can just give other people advice on certain things if depending on what it is, if you've not really been through it.
00:41:09.960 --> 00:41:18.519
I think if someone's been through something that they're trying to tell people, you've got a bit more of a an edge or a bit more of um seriousness towards what you're trying to achieve and getting them to do.
00:41:18.599 --> 00:41:20.599
So yeah, it feels like a bit of a passion.
00:41:20.760 --> 00:41:22.039
I had the same with SFM.
00:41:22.120 --> 00:41:24.200
I used to love helping people there and stuff like that.
00:41:24.519 --> 00:41:26.680
And um yeah, and Ging people up.
00:41:26.760 --> 00:41:29.559
That's what I was doing with that young lad today that I was speaking to.
00:41:29.880 --> 00:41:40.519
He was still doing all this stuff, and I just um yeah, I just try I like guiding him, just like to show people there is there is more, and if you've got your goals, you can hit them.
00:41:40.840 --> 00:41:45.320
If you want to hit your goals, I don't care what your situation is, you can hit them.
00:41:45.559 --> 00:41:46.519
Will you need guidance?
00:41:46.680 --> 00:41:46.920
Yes.
00:41:47.079 --> 00:41:48.360
Will you need to learn about yourself?
00:41:48.519 --> 00:41:48.920
Yes.
00:41:49.160 --> 00:41:50.120
Will you need help?
00:41:50.280 --> 00:41:50.599
Yes.
00:41:50.840 --> 00:41:52.840
Will you need the right people around you, like we're saying?
00:41:53.000 --> 00:41:53.640
Yes.
00:41:54.200 --> 00:42:00.360
And when you accept all of that and not just try to do it on your own, like well, like I was trying to do with the flooring world when I'm looking back at it now.
00:42:00.760 --> 00:42:02.519
I think I was just trying to do most of that myself.
00:42:02.840 --> 00:42:07.240
And I didn't admit, maybe if I'd admitted, right, I need this person to do that, maybe maybe it'd be different.
00:42:07.320 --> 00:42:09.960
Maybe I would be running a big flooring company.
00:42:10.120 --> 00:42:16.360
But when you can admit it to yourself of all of that, they're the they're the people I want I want to help.
00:42:17.880 --> 00:42:19.160
Trading isn't easy.
00:42:19.480 --> 00:42:25.079
And even if people come along, that they they come along and it opens other doors for them.
00:42:25.320 --> 00:42:30.599
Like with long chew and stuff like that, you it doesn't mean if you join something, you just gotta go 100 miles an hour that way.
00:42:30.760 --> 00:42:33.880
It opens other doors and it and it helps people.
00:42:34.039 --> 00:42:35.000
That that's a win.
00:42:35.160 --> 00:42:36.280
Yeah, that's a win to me.
00:42:36.440 --> 00:42:37.160
Yeah, I quite enjoy it.
00:42:37.320 --> 00:42:38.840
Quite enjoy helping others.
00:42:39.160 --> 00:42:42.680
Yeah, it's very fulfilling giving back, of course.
00:42:42.840 --> 00:42:47.720
But yeah, it's a good point you made earlier about dropping the ego and asking for help.
00:42:48.039 --> 00:42:52.360
And in a community of like-minded people, it's gonna make such a difference.
00:42:52.440 --> 00:42:57.720
You're gonna boost each other, and so many of us, especially men, they don't want that help.
00:42:57.800 --> 00:43:00.200
They don't want to say, look, I need help.
00:43:00.360 --> 00:43:05.960
They'll try and do it on their own and they'll end up quitting and they'll end up going back to their old ways, won't they?
00:43:06.120 --> 00:43:07.079
It's so common.
00:43:07.400 --> 00:43:13.400
Well, that that's what I I learned with on the first affiliate um business.
00:43:13.559 --> 00:43:16.680
So going in when I went into trading, I knew this.
00:43:16.840 --> 00:43:26.680
So I joined a load of groups, reached speaking to James, reached out to him, reached out to a few different people because I knew I'm better off just speaking to people straight away.
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And that's what I that's what I say to anyone.
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If you're they say what shall I do next?
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Just whatever it is, go on Facebook, join all the communities, just join them all, have a look, see what people are saying, see what the discussion is, the topic is different angles of whatever it is you like, surround yourself with these people, and from there, I think you'll instantly propel.
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You won't procrastinate, you'll you'll like it because you'll see other people that are in the industry that you want to do and what you want to achieve, and they're achieving it.
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So you think, well, if they can do it, why can't I do it?
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Like, and I I I think that quite a lot, and I thought that about trading.
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I remember seeing people doing that that were actually legit traders, and I just think, well, they're just a human.
00:44:07.320 --> 00:44:08.039
I'm just a human.
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If they can do it, I know I can definitely do it.
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So yeah, it's it's it's quite nice.
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So it it's it's really nice.
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It's it is one of the one of the highlights to to what I do really is um when you get I know you've had them before, when you get that email off someone, look at.
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Your phone now when you get that email or that message just saying, Oh my god, thank you for that.
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This worked or that happened or or won this trade.
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How can you not like that?
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No matter what you do, if you're standing in a queue, how can you not not like that?
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It's um it's yeah, it's that's like the um not the secondary, like obviously, money comes up on top when you want to do trading, and we all do it, let's be realistic.
00:44:46.200 --> 00:44:53.480
We do it for money, but the secondary aspect to that is being able to help people to do that as well, is um rewarding, really rewarding.
00:44:53.640 --> 00:44:54.519
I love it.
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It it makes it believable as well, because like you said, you're gonna be putting a lot of these people up on pedestals, aren't you?
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And you're gonna, especially with social media and the and the whole comparison thing, you're gonna be looking at all these people and you're gonna be like, that is not for me.
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But then when you get someone like yourself, working class background, trading, doing well, they're gonna be like, Well, hang on a minute, this guy's relatable.
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He was once like me, and it is doable.
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Yeah, that's you know what I try.
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I do, I do genuinely try my best to just be me.
00:45:26.360 --> 00:45:37.000
Um when when I'm doing any TikToks or any little videos or ads or anything, to I do I try my best to be me, and sometimes I think I overtry and it and it don't go well.
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And like with anything, I've fauled a million times.
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I've literally done before where I've had like a hundred videos in a row, literally over a hundred, and they've all done rubbish.
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But it comes back to what you're gonna do then?
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You're gonna quit?
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You're gonna stop?
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Well, I don't think so.
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So if you're not gonna quit, just like get on with it and do 101.
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It is what it is.
00:45:54.680 --> 00:46:05.480
But you then you do hit them certain videos or you talk to that certain person, and they can they they instantly say, like, I don't know, like I've not took a warm into you, but I I feel like you understand what I'm going through.
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And so I do, and it's hard for people to find, not to find people like me, but you know what I mean, like people you that have come from them backgrounds.
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So it's um, yeah, I try I do I do try my best to just be me.
00:46:18.519 --> 00:46:25.400
Um, and sometimes to be honest, I think a lot of the times it's not good for my business.
00:46:25.480 --> 00:46:27.320
It'd be easy to fake it till you make it.
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Like they go, I could easily go rent a nice car, then do a little video.
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I'm not saying a Lambo, but no, like, I don't know, you know what I mean.
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Rent a bit, I I don't know.
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It's so easy to fake it till you make it, but I don't want to do that.
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Whenever I make it, I want to make it being just me, and that's it.
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Every milestone that I hit is um what I've achieved from being me, from learning, and just and just cracking on, just cracking on with it.
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So um, yeah, yeah, I just can't I just can't do it.
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You just get these people that just oh, they just they just lie and I just that's just not me.
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I just can't do it.
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I just I just couldn't and wouldn't and wouldn't do it.
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Yeah, do some background checks on anyone, if anyone's listening, or before you join or hand money over, do your due diligence, do your checks, because there's a lot of scumbags out there for in the on the online world for sure.
00:47:18.360 --> 00:47:21.800
Yeah, there's so many, uh, so many people are getting scammed.
00:47:22.039 --> 00:47:29.640
My my son's friend, he's only 15, he was recently scammed out of was it, was it for X trading?
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It was some sort of trading, or it might have been S ⁇ P 500, it was some sort of oh no, sorry, it was crypto.
00:47:35.800 --> 00:47:43.320
Yeah, and yeah, and this guy was so say legit and yeah, he uh he only lost a few hundred pounds, but still.
00:47:43.640 --> 00:47:51.480
It's to doubt it gives that he's 15 now now, he's probably for the next three or your four years, everything he does now, he's gonna doubt it because of that scumbag.
00:47:51.800 --> 00:47:52.039
Yeah.
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It does it actually winds me up.
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I've I've had so many people that have joined my community.
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Sorry, I've just turned the light on my phone there somehow.
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I'm tapping it.
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They've joined, they've joined my community, but with like TikToks that you just get accounts that are made duplicated, and so many of like, right, I've uh because to join our account is a minimum deposit, a couple of things.
00:48:12.680 --> 00:48:17.240
One for risk management, you have to have something in the account, and for two is to see whether you're serious or not.
00:48:17.480 --> 00:48:21.320
Otherwise, we would have thousands of just dormant accounts, it just won't work.
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And I get people that uh that they'll text me saying, uh, or email me saying I've I've deposited that money, and I think, wow, I don't know, I don't think you have.
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And I must have had 10 people do that.
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And you feel bad because you feel like it's half my fault, but it's like I've tried to stop it and ban these people and and put videos out there like just message me first, or I'll never like I'll never ask for people to send me the money.
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Don't come to me, it goes to like a broker.
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I don't touch no one's money.
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And so people that are asking for money, it's like don't ever send anyone any money.
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Like, and if I do feel bad, I had a couple of people put what they put in.
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I found a couple were a lot more than they need, so like 500 quid in on a few of them, and it's just gone.
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And that was it.
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A few of them they were sending it via crypto, and I had to say to them, look, you're not gonna get that back.
00:49:09.480 --> 00:49:13.160
Like as much as I want to say, try to get it back, you're not.
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If you've sent something cobra in crypto, that's that's well gone.
00:49:16.440 --> 00:49:20.920
It's always horrible, but yeah, yeah, the joys of the online world, right?
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It's yeah, there is it's frustrating.
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I used to get it all the time when I was doing affiliate marketing, exactly the same.
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Yeah, a lot of abuse off different people, yeah, yeah.
00:49:31.400 --> 00:49:36.039
Like thinking that you were a scam artist, but I was like, mate, no, I am actually genuine.
00:49:36.120 --> 00:49:40.440
But what is the biggest myth about trading that you hear from people, James?
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That you're gonna get rich overnight, you're not, and that it's a get rich quick.
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It's not.
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If if you want to learn trading on your own, you gotta put the work in.
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End of.
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Like, I'm not gonna beat around the bush.
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If you want to be able to open a laptop by yourself, no one around, let's say no communities, read price action, take trades and have a good percentage win rate, you gotta put, you gotta put the years in.
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You gotta put the years in.
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I mean, you might you might grab it quicker.
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Some people, there's very few that I've done like six months and started making an alright income, but you're generally talking one to two years of hours on the charts.
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You need to be have the hours on the charts, which I'll be honest, when I first started trading, I didn't think it was that.
00:50:23.559 --> 00:50:31.720
And I remember after a while listening to a few podcasts and I'm like, yeah, but each one of them, it took me two years, two and a half, three years, and I remember thinking, oh, you're joking.
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I thought I was gonna be rich for like next week.
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Yeah, it's and I I totally understand it now.
00:50:36.360 --> 00:50:40.760
So, yeah, the biggest myth is definitely um you're gonna get rich quick.
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You're not.
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If you're serious, I was serious, and I knew I was.
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So I was getting up two hours earlier for work, going to the coffee shop, learning.
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I was at work, obviously couldn't get too much done at work, but then as soon as I got back home from work, it's a cup of tea, some toast or whatever, straight into the office or wherever I was at the time, and then just learning too long.
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Because I want I did want it, and uh I was all in.
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So yeah, I did put a lot of hours in.
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I'm not gonna say that I didn't and it came easy because it didn't come easy, it was it was difficult.
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But it's it's paying off now.
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You put them you put them years in, you put them hours in, and now I'm I'm still only young and I'll be able to live a good life, be able to travel where I want and still earn money wherever I want, long as there's a bit of Wi-Fi, as long as I've got my phone or whatever, then I can uh Yeah.
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Yeah, in enjoy life and have that freedom like we were talking about.
00:51:35.480 --> 00:51:37.079
I've heard exactly the same thing.
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I've heard from other traders that it can take uh it normally takes roughly two years to become profitable.
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Yeah.
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Some people some people can crack it in six months, but obviously that is intense and they've got to be quite lucky, I guess.
00:51:51.880 --> 00:51:56.920
Yeah, and I I don't think you could do that whilst um these people ain't working either, I don't think.
00:51:57.160 --> 00:51:57.960
Yeah, exactly.
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You just couldn't, you just couldn't.
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You got you got you gotta put the time on the charts because it's hard to explain certain things you just see on the charts, and you can only see it when you've seen it so many times, if that makes any sense at all.
00:52:11.800 --> 00:52:17.320
So you've got to put it in, and you I think you kind of you gotta figure out what type of trader you want to be.
00:52:17.559 --> 00:52:19.160
I didn't know what trade I wanted to be.
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I literally I tried all of them.
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I thought at one point I wanted to be a swing trader, and I knew when I didn't because I had a trade running for a week or just it might have been about 10 days, and then I lost at the end of it, and I remember thinking I ain't doing that again.
00:52:34.760 --> 00:52:38.920
I have not been in a trade 10 days to lose money at the end of it.
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And I know it's I'm swing trading can be can be really good, but for me, it didn't work for me.
00:52:44.599 --> 00:52:45.720
For others, it works great.
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Load of trades on and it can work great, but yeah, I just remember just thinking that was far too long.
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There's far too many emotions, ups and downs without for 10 days to then lose.
00:52:55.800 --> 00:52:59.960
So um, yeah, I prefer I like day trading, really like day trading.
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Yeah, yeah.
00:53:01.079 --> 00:53:07.400
I I guess it's good that there's lots of different types, is it different trading skin different people, right?
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Yeah, like I'm saying that yeah, Forex is a mirror of yourself.
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So you gotta it I think it will present to you what type of trader you are, because this is where I think with anyone starting any business, you gotta be you gotta be present all the time.
00:53:24.760 --> 00:53:31.960
No, if you just got angry, you gotta think in the back of your mind, whilst you're angry, angry, why am I angry right now?
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And you gotta you gotta remember it.
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And the same with trading, like, why don't I like scalping?
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Like what's in and out, making money really quick, blah blah blah.
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Why don't I like it?
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Is it because I can lose money really quick?
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Is it too too much anxiety?
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Is it I can't do it quick enough, I'm not good enough on the computer.
00:53:48.519 --> 00:53:54.760
So you just gotta learn, journal, adapt, and then it'll present itself to you, which you like.
00:53:54.840 --> 00:54:01.559
And I think it took me a year of just trying to figure out where I was, like figuring out what type of trade.
00:54:01.640 --> 00:54:06.200
That's another reason why it does take so long, actually, is what what sort of edge, how you like to trade.
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You've got to work that out.
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You can do every course in the world, which is great, but for me, it's gotta suit you.
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Your rule set has got to be your rule set.
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Your time frame's got like you've got to understand exactly how you want it.
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So figuring all of that out takes time.
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But when you have, it's actually quite rewarding.
00:54:24.280 --> 00:54:28.360
When you finally jot down your last, like, these are my rules to jump into a trade.
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When when you know you've got that, you're confident with it, and you've got your data with it, and you know your time frame is actually quite rewarding.
00:54:33.880 --> 00:54:36.519
You really feel like hold on a minute, I'm I'm getting it now.
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Like I've been doing this a while.
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I'm I'm actually getting there.
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So it's it feels quite good.
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Each little milestone that you hit, it feels uh feels quite good.
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Yeah, it's good, yeah.
00:54:47.240 --> 00:54:56.440
You've mentioned a couple of times about holidays, and obviously I fought I follow you on social media, your trips to Bali, away for a month or two at a time.
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Yeah.
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With your family, and it all looks so good.
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I bet there's no feeling like it.
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How do those trips compare with your old holidays that we spoke about before?
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So much better.
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So much better.
00:55:09.160 --> 00:55:19.079
Again, again, one of my one of my big targets when I started being an affiliate, I remember one of my targets being I wanna I don't ever want to book a return flight.
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I wanna I just want to book a one-way flight.
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It was like a really big goal of mine, even though deep down you know you might be coming back in three, four weeks, but I didn't want to book, I wanted to have that option to go, no, no, I'm not coming back that day.
00:55:31.559 --> 00:55:33.079
I want to stay another week or whatever.
00:55:33.240 --> 00:55:44.280
So yeah, so the doing the travelling that we have that we've been doing, it's just so much more relaxed because I still do when I go away for a long time, I'm still I'm still doing my trading, still do what I can.
00:55:44.440 --> 00:55:45.000
Yeah, bring it up.
00:55:46.519 --> 00:55:47.720
Yeah, I'll still bring it with me.
00:55:48.039 --> 00:55:52.440
I've got one and it's just down there, one of them no like portable ones where you can open up two screens, you can put it on it.
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I always make sure whatever apartment we get or we hire for a month or two, I'll set myself up.
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I will set myself up there.
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But being able to earn money whilst you're on holiday is quite rewarding because I don't, I don't if I say it's about not sound like an idiot.
00:56:09.160 --> 00:56:13.880
I don't I don't save up the spending money, if you know what I mean, because I know I'm earning money whilst I'm away.
00:56:14.200 --> 00:56:22.760
When you go on like a two-week all inclusive, you've got to save up for the two-week all inclusive, but then you've got to save up for the two weeks that you're missing at work, and then and you end up spending more.
00:56:22.840 --> 00:56:25.400
So it's like a month's worth of money you've got to save up.
00:56:25.720 --> 00:56:33.240
But when our when we go away now, we just book our flights, book our accommodation, we don't do all inclusive really anymore.
00:56:33.400 --> 00:56:38.440
And um, and I don't worry about the spending money and all these little bits and bobs because I know I'm I'm earning money online.
00:56:38.519 --> 00:56:42.840
So it's just the pressure goes from like that just down to that.
00:56:42.920 --> 00:56:53.640
We went I just got back from Bali a few weeks back, and yeah, I didn't I didn't save up anything for doing stuff during the day because I knew we had the trading, and it was really yeah, it was really nice.
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It was really nice.
00:56:55.079 --> 00:56:56.840
And not drinking now and stuff like that.
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If I was drinking, well, I just wouldn't be, I wouldn't be able to go Bali or Thailand, wherever we go, it just it just wouldn't happen.
00:57:03.880 --> 00:57:17.079
So being able to focus, still go to these nice restaurants when we're away and think, right, say like Asia market opens in a few hours, we've got to be ready for it and and whatever, it's yeah, it's it's it's rewarding.
00:57:17.160 --> 00:57:20.840
And I think like anything, you've got to look back at how far you've come.
00:57:20.920 --> 00:57:30.039
And sometimes if you're having a bit of self-doubt or you're having or you don't want to jump on a laptop when you're away, just look back and look where you was.
00:57:30.280 --> 00:57:31.640
I think, do you want to go back there?
00:57:31.880 --> 00:57:32.599
No, I don't.
00:57:32.840 --> 00:57:36.360
Get on the laptop then, open the charts up because you need to put a couple of hours in.
00:57:36.440 --> 00:57:40.840
So it's just reassuring yourself and getting rid of that self-doubt and just keep going.
00:57:41.079 --> 00:57:42.599
Yeah, it's it's good.
00:57:43.559 --> 00:57:50.920
So building the business that you have and going sober and building this lifestyle, James, how has it changed you as a family man?
00:57:51.880 --> 00:57:54.599
Massive, massively, massively.
00:57:54.760 --> 00:57:58.840
So instantly, my eldest, obviously, she saw me when I was drinking.
00:57:58.920 --> 00:58:02.280
My my youngest, she's never really seen me, seen me drink before.
00:58:02.360 --> 00:58:10.840
Um, and she's now yeah, she knows she's she's 10 now, but actually going back to the drinking, sorry, I've just changed subject a little bit there.
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That's all right.
00:58:11.559 --> 00:58:19.000
I'm four years completely sober, but like two years prior to that, it was a handful of time.
00:58:19.079 --> 00:58:20.519
So it was it was next to nothing.
00:58:20.599 --> 00:58:26.599
That was another thing leading up to not having anything because I was I ended up starting going stints at a time to get to that.
00:58:26.680 --> 00:58:30.360
But yeah, sorry, as being a founding man, it's just it's just so much better.
00:58:30.440 --> 00:58:31.320
It's so much better.
00:58:31.480 --> 00:58:41.160
It's just waking up without hangover, just being able to just do stuff with the kids showing up, not missing things, like so many times.
00:58:41.240 --> 00:58:42.920
It's like, oh dad, can we go do this later?
00:58:43.000 --> 00:58:46.599
And you think, well, I don't know, it's Friday, I'm gonna have a few pints after work.
00:58:47.079 --> 00:58:50.599
And you might say, Yeah, we'll do that deep down, deep, deep down.
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You know you're not gonna make it.
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And not having that hanging over my head, the wife's always happy, kids always happy, is yeah, and then it makes you happy.
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And that's the ultimate thing, I think.
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I think people don't put themselves first enough.
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They want to make others happy, which don't get me wrong, is great.
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But if you're not happy, how can you make other people happy?
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So by doing all of that and me being happy, it just reflects back in the household.
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I'm not saying we've got a perfect household, I don't think anyone has in the whole world, but it's a million times better than what it was when I was when I was drinking in the house.
00:59:22.840 --> 00:59:24.120
So yeah, it's all these things.
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Well, when you mention it, and I say I've not really spoke about out loud in like properly in a while.
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It it does, it makes you think.
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I just sitting here thinking now, fucking hell, I I wouldn't go back.
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I wouldn't go back.
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I think it's the foundation of so many things, isn't it?
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Going sober, and it's building that sober muscle, that discipline, and that filters into so many different aspects of your life.
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When you can go, I'll always say, when you can get sober in a world obsessive alcohol, then you really do feel like you can do anything.
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Yeah, because it's so socially acceptable.
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This is the problem.
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If you go to a pub or go to a restaurant, well, you go to a restaurant, they've got wine glasses out.
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First thing they've got out on the table is wine glasses.
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Why?
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Why you got wine glasses out?
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And they're like, why not drink?
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And then you say to them, they'll come round, first thing they'll say is happy hour, we've got this deal on cocktails, or even you're at a restaurant, first thing they're trying to do is sell you a fucking cocktail.
01:00:17.640 --> 01:00:20.519
And it's like you say, We don't drink, because my wife don't really drink either.
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It's like we don't drink.
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And they're like shocked.
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What do you mean you don't drink?
01:00:24.599 --> 01:00:26.760
It's because it's so socially acceptable you must drink.
01:00:26.920 --> 01:00:29.559
When you say you don't drink, everyone's just taken back by it.
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And then they're questioning you, why don't you drink?
01:00:32.360 --> 01:00:33.480
Like, have you got a problem?
01:00:33.640 --> 01:00:35.960
And it's so fucking the wrong way around, isn't it?
01:00:36.120 --> 01:00:41.320
It should be like, I do drink, and so oh, and then it should be well not frowned upon, but you know what I mean?
01:00:41.400 --> 01:00:55.320
It should be it should be the other way around, and that's what's hard to get out of because it's so socially acceptable everywhere to drink, it's really hard to pull away because it's not the norm, and everyone wants to fit in with everyone, which is another thing people should get out the get out of the habit of.
01:00:55.400 --> 01:01:00.200
But yeah, it's peer peer pressure is a big thing, it's a massive thing.
01:01:00.440 --> 01:01:02.360
My so my wife's the same.
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Since I've gone sober, she hardly drinks at all.
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But she went out with a group of friends recently, and she said to me before, I don't want to drink because I know I feel terrible in the morning.
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I want to get X, Y, and Z done in the morning.
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And then as soon as she went out, someone said, Oh, come on, Kate, have a drink, and that was it.
01:01:17.880 --> 01:01:20.920
Bang, straight away she was drinking, and then she regretted it in the morning.
01:01:21.880 --> 01:01:31.160
People people struggle to say no, like I I used to, and then like I say, the couple of years leading up to them stopping all together, I think I got a little bit better then, or I wouldn't go out.
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Like I knew, because that was when I was uh doing the infiltration, and it's like, no, I've got stuff to do this weekend, can't do it.
01:01:37.720 --> 01:01:39.720
So, and I think there's a mild stone.
01:01:39.800 --> 01:01:46.360
So, anyone listening to this, if there's any men out there that are sitting there, and hopefully I'm sure there will be, you'll be surprised.
01:01:46.519 --> 01:01:47.800
There's two things here.
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One, you'll learn who your friends are, and who your drinking buddies actually are, that's that's for sure.
01:01:52.840 --> 01:02:03.720
And two, if they're your friends are gonna stick around, and if they're your friends after the the second or third time of you saying, No, I don't want to drink, they'll get bored of it.
01:02:03.880 --> 01:02:06.680
They'll just move on to the next person, and then they'll just accept you.
01:02:06.840 --> 01:02:16.760
I mean, don't get me wrong, I've walked across the pub a few times with a coffee, and you you gotta expect someone to say something to you, which uh which I don't blame them to be honest, but no, they they they get bored of it.
01:02:16.840 --> 01:02:17.640
They get bored of it.
01:02:17.800 --> 01:02:25.720
So if you're that person that's thinking, like you say, just gets gets egged on easily, you say it a few times, and then they're just not gonna keep saying it.
01:02:25.800 --> 01:02:30.519
So just just stick stick to your guns and just say, nah, you're alright, thanks.
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And then you'll get you'll get through it.
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It is peer pressure is a big thing.
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It is a big thing.
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It really is.
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It really, really is.
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There's so many other people that I speak to, they they cave in and then they're just back in that loop.
01:02:42.519 --> 01:02:52.200
And they've got they've got all the right intentions when they when they go out, but yeah, they cave in because it's an easy thing to do, and again, it's falling back into that comfort zone, isn't it?
01:02:52.280 --> 01:02:53.640
It's the same old thing.
01:02:54.039 --> 01:02:55.480
Yeah, definitely.
01:02:55.800 --> 01:03:05.000
So a lot of people will be listening to this, uh, tradesmen, uh floor layers, plumbers, sparkers, whatever it might be, and they'll feel like they're just checked out inside.
01:03:05.240 --> 01:03:10.680
What would you say to any tradesman who is exactly where you you used to be, James?
01:03:11.559 --> 01:03:18.440
I think I would say what I've said a few times on this podcast, and it's start something.
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Just start, it doesn't matter what it is, even if you know you just know it's not gonna be your end goal, but you can't think of anything else or whatever it may be, just start or like I said, just join a community, just get out of that surrounding and put yourself somewhere because you're so surprised, and you might just be thinking, you might even just be thinking it and just expect just say it to someone what you're thinking, and you never know that might person might say, Oh, you know what, I've got just a thing actually, this can do this, and before you know it, that one door's open.
01:03:53.640 --> 01:04:09.640
That one door's open, you're a little step forward, and then you've got a little bit of a bigger space, and then by then a couple of ideas have come, and you think, Wold up a minute, I could uh I could I could do I could do this, and so yeah, my advice to anyone that wants to do anything is just make a start.
01:04:09.720 --> 01:04:17.800
It doesn't matter how big, how small, just one like I was saying, if you've got work to do, just go write one sentence because before you know it, you'll gradually go on.
01:04:17.880 --> 01:04:20.440
So, yeah, if you're thinking it, just do it.
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Get rid of that ego and just do it.
01:04:22.760 --> 01:04:28.200
So, James, if you could go back and give any advice to your younger self, what would it be?
01:04:29.800 --> 01:04:33.160
If I was to go back, I mean, there would there would be a few things.
01:04:33.240 --> 01:04:37.480
I think stopping drinking earlier would definitely be one of them.
01:04:39.000 --> 01:04:47.160
Learning to see, I'm gonna a little bit contradict myself here, but I'd say learning to say no to work more rather than working so much.
01:04:47.320 --> 01:05:02.200
I know I was saying about taking all the jobs you can when you're younger, but looking back at it now, there's so many times I missed out when realistically I was going to work whether that evening or missing that barbecue for one night when I could have been creating a whole memory with the kids and stuff.
01:05:02.360 --> 01:05:05.160
So certain times I would have said no to work.
01:05:05.320 --> 01:05:10.760
I feel like I feel like some things you can't be so hard on yourself when when you're not at a mature level.
01:05:10.840 --> 01:05:28.360
It's easy to look back and and say, I could have done this, could have done that, but when you're 20 years old or 25 years old, but definitely the drinking, definitely the drinking, I would have definitely uh feel like I'd have done a little bit better at school or started learning, learning more, learning about myself more.
01:05:28.599 --> 01:05:37.640
And uh really yeah, I mean, I'd like to say I'd like to start learning stuff more online back then, but it weren't as easily available, was it?
01:05:37.720 --> 01:05:40.280
So I can't really so I'm saying that in hindsight.
01:05:40.440 --> 01:05:49.880
So yeah, I mean, yeah, that the drinking and and not working so many ridiculous hours that uh I miss time with the kids and the missus and stuff like that.
01:05:49.960 --> 01:05:50.760
I think that's my main one.
01:05:50.920 --> 01:05:52.200
That's what keeps coming to my head.
01:05:52.280 --> 01:05:54.920
So yeah, I think that's that's where it would be, mate.
01:05:55.160 --> 01:05:56.840
It's just finding that balance.
01:05:57.079 --> 01:05:58.519
It's it's tough, isn't it?
01:05:58.599 --> 01:06:01.079
And obviously that's why you're doing everything you're doing now.
01:06:01.400 --> 01:06:03.480
But hindsight's a fine thing.
01:06:03.720 --> 01:06:06.599
But at the time you think you're doing the right thing.
01:06:07.160 --> 01:06:08.120
Well, this is it.
01:06:08.200 --> 01:06:09.320
This that's exactly it.
01:06:09.400 --> 01:06:14.760
You do think you're doing the right things because you're young, you want money, you've got a family to look after, and you think, right, well, I can go earn money.
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If I can go earn money, I can go buy them things.
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And when you're young, I don't think you look at it as missing memories and stuff like that.
01:06:21.320 --> 01:06:22.120
I think you can be a little bit.
01:06:22.519 --> 01:06:31.240
Bit naive, but like you say, hindsight is a is a wonderful thing, but it's um yeah, yeah, there's a few things I will do differently.
01:06:31.640 --> 01:06:36.120
What does the next chapter look like for you moving forward then, James?
01:06:37.079 --> 01:06:42.680
So moving forward, funnily enough, I've been thinking about the next chapter because I'm 40 next year.
01:06:42.920 --> 01:06:54.519
So that really over the last few days has really made me think right, I want to hit new goals because I've managed to hit certain goals that I want, i.e., more freedom, being able to travel, learning to earn online, etc.
01:06:54.680 --> 01:06:54.920
etc.
01:06:55.800 --> 01:07:01.000
But next year, for my 40th, it's just certain, to be honest, monetary goals.
01:07:01.079 --> 01:07:08.039
I'd like to be at certain places I've wanted to tick off my bucket list, traveling around America in an RV with the family is one of them.
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Quite in quite a few states.
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So that's that's my goal.
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And that's one thing I think everyone should have is goals.
01:07:13.320 --> 01:07:18.760
If you haven't got goals, then it's really hard to hit targets when you've not really got that target to go for.
01:07:18.920 --> 01:07:28.120
So my ways of doing that is just just keep going online, keep grinding, keep trading, don't let my foot off the gas, be disciplined, be consistent.
01:07:28.360 --> 01:07:31.559
And like we were saying before, like the doors will start opening more and more.
01:07:31.640 --> 01:07:35.640
And the more I am doing stuff online, the more our community is building.
01:07:35.720 --> 01:07:40.280
We have our we have our like free trading community that people can that people can join.
01:07:40.440 --> 01:07:43.640
I have my other Discord opening what I was telling you about before.
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Um, and just various things online.
01:07:45.880 --> 01:07:49.400
So just keep growing, then I say empire, but you know what I mean.
01:07:49.559 --> 01:07:51.960
Keep growing my brand, that's a better word for it.
01:07:52.120 --> 01:07:55.880
Uh keep growing a brand online and uh yeah, just keep ticking off the goals.
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And that is the main thing.
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And I think the path, I don't like to look too far ahead.
01:07:59.480 --> 01:08:02.840
About a year is about far enough for me at the moment.
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I know people say about five years ahead and ten, but for me, I don't know, it don't work for me.
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So yeah, that's it.
01:08:08.360 --> 01:08:15.000
Just just keep keep going at it and keep ticking off the little goals because they will they will tick off the big goals.
01:08:15.240 --> 01:08:16.920
Yeah, those goals are so important.
01:08:17.079 --> 01:08:24.599
Like you said, if you haven't got that goal, that's that Norse style that I like to call it, then you're sort of in no man's land, aren't you?
01:08:24.760 --> 01:08:32.920
You're you're spreading yourself too thin, you're you're getting that shiny look, you know, shiny object syndrome, and you're all over the place, you're scattered, aren't you?
01:08:33.000 --> 01:08:36.439
So you've got to have you've got to have that purpose, that drive, that goal.
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100%.
01:08:37.479 --> 01:08:39.639
I had it a few weeks back.
01:08:39.799 --> 01:08:44.359
I'd kind of I'd kind of done everything I I needed to get to.
01:08:44.679 --> 01:08:59.559
Not in life where I want to get to, but I kind of ticked off a lot of a lot of bits, and I just carried on doing what I was doing, and I noticed myself a lot of times, to be totally honest, when I went to just record some stuff for YouTube and and do some breakdown videos and stuff, I just thought, ah, I'll do it tomorrow.
01:08:59.719 --> 01:09:00.359
I'll do it tomorrow.
01:09:00.439 --> 01:09:06.359
And then a few times I didn't do it, and it did go on for a little bit, and then it started rolling, started rolling into the gym a little bit.
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I thought, oh, I'll go gym tomorrow.
01:09:08.119 --> 01:09:09.559
And you'd notice it massively.
01:09:09.639 --> 01:09:14.599
So even with mindset, going to the gym, being healthy, just have a little goal.
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It hasn't got to be the biggest.
01:09:15.799 --> 01:09:21.159
In fact, I I always say make micro goals because they they will they will get you there.
01:09:21.239 --> 01:09:28.039
If you hit if you just say, I want to earn 10 million by like next year, it's just like so far away.
01:09:28.119 --> 01:09:30.920
It's you just you won't register it.
01:09:31.000 --> 01:09:36.839
So yeah, have them micro goals, hit them little goals, and uh the rest will take care of itself, I believe.
01:09:37.159 --> 01:09:39.479
Where can people find you then, James?
01:09:39.559 --> 01:09:43.399
I'll put all your bits and pieces in the show notes anyway.
01:09:44.039 --> 01:09:47.880
So my brand for trading is uh one life, one trade.
01:09:48.039 --> 01:09:56.679
So I believe I'm pretty much that there might be an underscore in the middle of the odd ones, but it's basically one with a with a number one life, number one trade.
01:09:56.839 --> 01:10:00.759
And that's pretty much the same for YouTube, TikTok, and uh and Instagram.
01:10:00.920 --> 01:10:03.799
They're my main main sort of go-to socials.
01:10:04.119 --> 01:10:17.719
Yeah, if anyone YouTube is for mainly I try you make YouTube as educational as possible, get as much content out there because in in the trading industry, I'm sure whoever's watching this and you probably know yourself, there's so many blaggers out there.
01:10:17.960 --> 01:10:18.519
So many.
01:10:18.599 --> 01:10:28.119
So I try to put I tr I do try put quite a few trade breakdowns so people can see, they can learn, but they can actually see, yeah, okay, he does actually know what he's going on about.
01:10:28.279 --> 01:10:34.039
Um I think on on YouTube, no, it ain't on YouTube, but if you if you message me on it, same on Telegram.
01:10:34.119 --> 01:10:38.439
I've got like free trading courses people can just have, they can take it, see whether they like it.
01:10:38.519 --> 01:10:42.759
Because if they like that, then they might like the communities that we've built, which again is is for free.
01:10:42.920 --> 01:10:46.759
So I just try if I mean growing socials is more difficult than you think, though, ain't it?
01:10:47.000 --> 01:10:48.359
Oh my god, in it ever.
01:10:48.599 --> 01:10:50.839
You know, after well, I'll start making breakdown videos.
01:10:50.920 --> 01:10:54.359
Hopefully, I'll get a few followers and get the ball as well difficult.
01:10:54.439 --> 01:10:57.559
So if there's anyone out there that wants to follow me on YouTube, it'll be much appreciated.
01:10:57.799 --> 01:11:00.279
I'm not gonna lie, it's not easy, it's not easy.
01:11:00.359 --> 01:11:03.239
No one's out here to pretend anything's easy, because it isn't.
01:11:03.319 --> 01:11:07.159
But if you want to get to where you got want to get to, you just gotta keep going.
01:11:07.239 --> 01:11:08.439
So that's what I was saying earlier.
01:11:08.519 --> 01:11:12.759
Just keep going, keep growing the socials, and then it will start taking care of itself eventually.
01:11:13.000 --> 01:11:15.880
Yeah, there's no avoiding hard work, unfortunately.
01:11:16.199 --> 01:11:18.439
No, there are definitely not, mate.
01:11:18.599 --> 01:11:19.159
Definitely not.
01:11:19.399 --> 01:11:21.399
Thank you so much for coming on today, mate.
01:11:21.559 --> 01:11:26.679
What stands out for me is that you're a genuine guy, like you just said, you're very down to earth.
01:11:26.839 --> 01:11:34.519
I mean, I've known you for years, and like you've just said, there's so many get rich, quick schemes out there associated with trading.
01:11:34.679 --> 01:11:35.159
Yeah.
01:11:35.479 --> 01:11:42.519
So, yeah, I'd I'd just say anyone who's interested in trading, go and check your stuff out, mate.
01:11:42.679 --> 01:11:43.639
Yeah, appreciate you.
01:11:43.799 --> 01:11:51.159
Like, genuinely, what you and Dan did back in the day at Launch Who, mate, you give me a massive amount of inspiration.
01:11:51.319 --> 01:11:58.359
I and we mentioned that video earlier of the all-inclusive holiday when you were completely sober and you were struggling.
01:11:58.439 --> 01:11:59.399
I remember it, mate.
01:11:59.559 --> 01:11:59.880
Yeah.
01:12:00.119 --> 01:12:06.439
And is and it's mad to think that like all these years, like after now, I still remember that video.
01:12:06.519 --> 01:12:09.159
And it's really inspired me, James.
01:12:09.479 --> 01:12:10.759
That's really cool to hear.
01:12:10.920 --> 01:12:12.599
Yeah, yeah, it's mad, isn't it?
01:12:12.759 --> 01:12:29.239
But yeah, it just goes to show that like you know, anything that you want to put out on social media, whether that's in a WhatsApp group, anything like that, you know, it can help people and it can trigger something, and that can go on and that can b manifest and snowball into something really, really special.
01:12:29.639 --> 01:12:30.920
100%, 100%.
01:12:31.559 --> 01:12:37.960
So for me, like, you know, I'm coming up to two years sober, you know, I've got my own podcast now.
01:12:38.039 --> 01:12:39.799
I'm that's fucking brilliant, mate.
01:12:39.960 --> 01:12:46.599
I'm building a uh a coaching business, and yeah, just thank you so much for everything you did back then, mate.
01:12:46.679 --> 01:12:49.319
And thanks for coming on today and and sharing your story.
01:12:49.639 --> 01:12:50.599
More than welcome, mate.
01:12:50.679 --> 01:12:51.239
More than welcome.
01:12:51.319 --> 01:13:05.719
And you know what is quite I'll leave it with this, but it is it's quite nice being able to help others and you hit the nail on the head with you might do a lot of things and you might not even get a lot of attention, but you'll be surprised how many eyeballs are actually watching.
01:13:05.799 --> 01:13:13.079
And you might get a message six months later saying, I I had one the other day, I had one the other day about joining a training group, and I've been following you for a while.
01:13:13.159 --> 01:13:17.719
And I looked, I think you've been following for about eight months, never spoke to him or nothing, and then he and then he signed up.
01:13:17.799 --> 01:13:22.679
And so if you're doing stuff and you're not getting a lot of attention, just you will be.
01:13:22.759 --> 01:13:24.039
There'll be a lot of eyes.
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So just just keep doing it.
01:13:25.479 --> 01:13:27.000
You hit the now on the head there, mate.
01:13:27.079 --> 01:13:29.880
So yeah, it's it's it's nice being able to help you people.
01:13:29.960 --> 01:13:33.159
I think if more people do it, the world will be a better place.
01:13:33.559 --> 01:13:35.479
Spreading that positivity, that's it, mate.
01:13:35.559 --> 01:13:35.799
Exactly.
01:13:36.920 --> 01:13:37.559
Thanks, James.
01:13:37.880 --> 01:13:38.920
Catch up again soon.
01:13:39.239 --> 01:13:40.199
Thank you very much, mate.
01:13:40.279 --> 01:13:41.079
Really appreciate you.
01:13:41.719 --> 01:13:42.279
Cheers, mate.