Create a Product to take your Speaking Business to the Next Level
In this Podcast Andy talks about his beginnings as a Speaker and entrepreneur, he shares how to overcome self-doubt and start progressing. He also talks about the downside of going viral and how you should always keep pushing forward even when you think you have already made it to the top. Andy tells us about his decision of moving across the country, adopting a new lifestyle and what smiling and creating good energy around him did for himself and his business. And finally, he shares with the audience the real reason for writing a book and what it can do for
your business.
You will learn:
- About the importance of mentorship
- How to adopt a mindset that will lead you to success
- Keeping your energy up to be able to use as an asset to your business
- What good habits can do for you.
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Transcriptions:
Dupe Aleru
So you guys, listen, I don't even have to introduce this person because he's going to tell us his story. But I have today's speaker spotlight Andy Audate and this guy, I mean, I'm telling you, I met him at an event two years ago.
Andy Audate
About that yup.
Dupe Aleru
About two years ago and I just knew he was someone important. Just the way he walked this, this energy, everybody was approaching him, talking to him, and we finally got to really get to know each other this year, and I'm super honored and proud that you're on our show today. So Andy, who was Andy. Tell us your story. Tell us where you're from. I mean, I know this, but our viewers don't. Just tell us a little bit about you and how you got started in the industry.
Andy Audate
Well, I'm a loving, connected, ambitious, vulnerable, powerful, hungry, determined, relentless man. That's who I am and what I do is I host seminars and I give people access to my network and to my, to my mindset, but also I give people strategies on how to brand themselves and market themselves to create expansion in their business.
Dupe Aleru
I love that. I love that. So tell us a little bit about how you got started because you're such a really great speaker. Okay. And you've helped a lot of people. You have your own events. I actually spoke on one of your stages just a few months ago, which was amazing, by the way. ,so tell us how you really got started, cause I know someone in particular mentored you. How did that come about and tell us who your mentor was.
Andy Audate
So I got started in the speaking space. Well, in the entrepreneurship space, I got started from YouTube, actually from, from YouTube and pain combined. YouTube being the access to knowledge or the idea that there's something better for me rather than what I was experiencing then.So you have what we call the current scene C, U, R, R, E, N. T. the current scene. And then you have the ideal scene. The current scene at the time was, I was 13 14 years old in an impoverished area growing up in the smallest state at night. But the ideal scene was being an entrepreneur, seeing what I saw on YouTube.And so YouTube was our first mentor, right. Then. Then at the age of 17 18 I got a job working at Metro PCs, working as a, as a, as a part time sales rep at one of the SoCon stores, and the owner of that company, of that dealership of Metro PCs was my mentor. And because of that, that mentorship or that guidance, I had the opportunity to open up my own cell phone store, and because I had experience with someone who's already successful, I've been able to grow my myself in business in a successful manner, in a short period of time.So I made my first million by 21.
Dupe Aleru
That's crazy. You can't just skim over that. Like that's nothing. You made your first million dollars at the age of 21 like a lot of people will be blown away by that. I mean, that's incredible. You know what I'm saying? Like how, what was your mindset to even get to that point though? You get what I'm saying?
Andy Audate
Yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's me being hungry, you know, I didn't relax. I had a little relaxed time. It was constant hunger. So I remember like yesterday, you, today, today is the day after Christmas. I was still working at my, you know, cell phone, so, so the employees have their time off, but Hey, I was getting ready and I was preparing for growth. I was like, Hey. Wait, where's my next level? That it was never a time to relax, so I didn't like to calm down. Oh, it's the holidays. You know what I mean? So that's the difference between people who drive and people who make it. I promise you, in my, in my circle, the amount of people that I have that are very successful.On Christmas, they took out their time for their family, 100% but I promise you at some point the other day, they were say, Hey man, I'm getting prepared for where I'm working right now. I didn't have the time off. So even back then, even back then, that mindset still resonated in me that that it does now.Yeah. But by 21 I made my first million, but here's the thing about making that a lot of money at a young age, man, I did a, I did a podcast of the day. I went, well, when I was traveling to, uh, to do seminars in the Midwest and in the midst of that travel, I stopped in Arizona. I did a podcast with the person who was essentially partake in having the most like image on Instagram.So this young guy he created, he was part of the campaign of the most like egg, the most like image that, no, that picture of past kylie jenner and kim kardashian
Dupe Aleru
I remember seeing that house. Yeah, I know the guy. Oh, I know of him from that when it went viral.
Andy Audate
Right. So I went to go meet her. He was a good friend of mine. We connected in Vegas and then we've been friends ever since then, a couple of years ago. And I stopped by and I said, Hey, let me interview you based on what happened. So I'll have one of the most. Uh, exclusive interviews because he didn't want to be interviewed by the big publications. So you just want to keep a circle. So on that podcast, when I was talking to him, explaining how bad it is to go viral, like why people don't actually want to go viral. And essentially the reason why was because if you reset the P. What are you striving for next? Like what's next for you? Yet your progression is, is damn near impossible.That means the only way to go is down. So mentally you're not progressing mentally, you're regressing. And essentially that's what happened to me at the amazing, such an abundant amount of money coming for where I come from, where there's blood stains on the street, there's gunshots, and. Right? You hear people that got killed in your first question.
It's like, Oh, it's not, Oh my gosh, it was murder. That's how you, your mindset, your mindset is, Hey, is this somebody I know though? Oh, it's not somebody I know. Hey man, no problem. That happened every day. You know, so. So that's the mindset. So coming up that high, I eventually went downhill. Right. Probably probably for after.And so it sounds sweet, but I understand that, that the pain that it comes with, I understand the responsibility that it comes with, the amount of friends that I lost.
Dupe Aleru
Wow. No, I mean, that's, I mean, that's a lot of responsibility for someone that young, you know? And so, like you kind of talked a little bit about, about what has been one of the most challenging moments, like in your career. Because you're more than just a speaker. You're an entrepreneur as well. But talk a little bit about your business, but then also about our speaker, about your speaking business. Because most of our audience, they're trying to either start their speaking business or 10 X or speaking business.
Andy Audate
So the biggest challenge I would say, self doubt, you know, the person that you were alluding to earlier. The person that you were alluding to earlier was my mentor who supported me in the speaking business. So I had to, I had the Metro PCs mentor that supported me in the cell phone business, and when I moved to California, after having some success in the cell phone business, I took that money, moved to Kelly, and then I got a, I got a mentor in the speaking business.That mentor was Les Brown, the legendary motivational speaker. Les Brown and less trained me. I worked with some that I went on tour with him. And one of the biggest challenges that I had in entrepreneurship would be self doubt. Number one, I recognized that I was black, and it was literally this weekend, I'm not this weekend, but they said I did 26 yesterday.
I was watching this. I was watching this TV show by the Wu Tang clan, how they got together, how they emerged, and I saw the opposition that they had as being young black men. And I started thinking about my life and I started recognizing that. Hold on. I've been subconsciously brainwashed as a young black man that I'm not good enough, that I'm not powerful enough to the police.I should be nervous. I should be on edge. I should be fighting. I should be angry. I should be all these come through like a negative segment. And I said, I remember watching that show and, and there was a scene where there was an old head, so in the streets would call the old head off or old G. O G original gangster. An elder of age with wisdom. So I said it was an old head on the, on the TV show, and I'm watching it talking to a, what we call in the streets, a young buck a young buck, who's young, who's out in the street. The old head is talking to young buck and he's like, he's like, Hey man, you gotta recognize that you're a King. You got to recognize that you're a King. And I, I literally asked him, watching this show, I'm at my friend's house watching this show and for something overcoat comes up, comes inside of me, and I was like get out of here. Go, go, go to grind. Well grind. So I told my boy, I said, Abraham, I'm out. Adopt them up. I left. I went home. I said, look, 2020 is the year for extreme affluent growth. But I share that with you. Just say this, even though those challenges that I had, the biggest challenge would be self doubt. To answer your question, yeah. Self doubt. The fact that I'm young, I'm 20, I'm currently 24.The fact that I'm black, the fact that I come from an impoverished area, the fact that I'm a little overweight, the fact that you know, whatever opposition or odds that are against me, those, those self doubts creep in my mind every single day in it and nags me. It's like, can you actually do this? No, can you, can you and I, then I do it and I try to go scale to a high level of progress higher than it's like, yeah, I know you did that one. What can you do? Constantly in my head, that question is, can you do it? And so when my, my, my, my solution to that and other people who've got to have arrogance, like I did a sales call the other day and the lady said, Oh, you're pretty arrogant. And I'm like, no, it's not that I'm arrogant. It's just the fact that no one tells me no one whispers in my ear.
Dupe Aleru
You have to pump up yourself. Cause if you don't pump up yourself, who else is going to do it for you? And that's the thing that I, you know what? That's funny that you said that because I didn't think people would, it's kind of funny that a woman told you that, but as a black woman, because you're saying like as a black man, listen, we got it twice as hard as you. Because we're a woman and we're black. Right. And the thing, you know, I look young, I don't really look my age, but it's funny that you said that because when we're confident, you know, I have men a lot in the industry, be like, Oh wow, you're really aggressive. And my first response is, would you have said that if I was a man?And they, they get in, they're like, Oh wow, I wouldn't have said that. You know what I'm saying? So it's like, listen, we all have that doubt. And like you said, I had to learn how to just be me and not really care. If it makes other people feel uncomfortable, you get what I'm saying? But you're right. We all have that negative self talk. Well, we have to work our way out of it. And the thing about you is that you've already hit a certain level of success, and so that voice in your head sooner than later, you're going to learn how to shut it off because you're 24 it still blows my mind. I mean, you're 24. You're 24 you have so many years ahead of you.So that stuff just kind of takes time. But I'm just super proud to even witness your growth and to learn from you because I'm learning from you.
Andy Audate
Age has definitely been one of the, one of the biggest triggers of, especially like the people that I work with. You know, like I'm currently setting up a tour.So prior to this, prior to this call, I was doing a sales training appointment with my staff and my sales team. And. Some of the speakers or some of the people in this industry when they're like, well, not when I present the opportunity to work with me. It's so fucking hilarious. Like, like it's like I shared the idea of working with me and they said, yeah, you know, it sounds great.Like let's do it. What have you done in the past? And I share what I've done in the past and I share what I'm going to do. And it's like, Oh man, that must be impossible. But here's the thing, how it's impossible for me. It's impossible for you. I, there's this speaker that I talked to that's like, Aw, Andy, I've been speaking for 25 years, you know, so, so we're going to go into the speaking cause you, cause you had mentioned the audience, I've been speaking for 25 years.Oh my gosh. 25 years. You've been speaking since before I was born, technically. Wow. So, so I mean, I'm hosting a tour with, we're going to put about 2000 people in the seats and we're going to have them reach about 800,000 ironically, right now I'm approving an article for Forbes magazine in the, in the forest. Do you want to be part of my tour? Oh, well, he's a 24 years man. I could teach you a few things. I said, great. I'm willing to learn. However, we're talking about you being part of my tour. Do you want to be part of my tour? How can you do it? Do you want a tour? Like don't you need, don't you need it? And it's like that's creeping into.
Dupe Aleru
Exactly, don't allow other people, because that's the thing though. People can only support you at the level that they're at, so they don't believe it for themselves. It's going to be very hard for them to believe it for you. You know what I mean? And I've had to learn how to just not even tell people what I'm doing.And I know it's hard for you because you're trying to gain a community of people to ride with you as your Connie, but you're going to know very easily. Who should be coming with you and who's not even ready. I don't care if you've been speaking two years or 25 years. God gives everyone their God given natural talents.And I know kids that are making way more money than us. You know, like that kid that was just, uh, going viral, he made what, $29 million in 2019 on YouTube and he's nine years old, may 29 million. So these kids can teach us. So like you said. It's, that's just Eric. That's arrogant to me because it doesn't matter.The age. Knowledge is knowledge, and if you haven't done it before, like you said, you just sit down and just listen. So tell me something that you are very proud of because in your 24 years we've all done something where we can sit back and be like, man, I did that. What is that moment for you?
Andy Audate
I moved from the East coast to the West coast.
Dupe Aleru
That's awesome.
Andy Audate
No, I moved with my friends. We moved together and I went to him in 2016 and I said, Hey, you wanna do something crazy. You want to move to the West coast or do you want to move? And he said, where do you wanna move to? I said, uh, I don't know. Let's move to California, LA. And then he said, he said, yeah, sure.And then literally from there, honor, we just kept it at LA. So I could have said it. Phoenix could have come about on top of my head. I would have moved to Phoenix or Vegas. It just happened to be LA. And then when I got to LA, I found out how much it was to live here. Then I was like, Oh. But I still made it happen, you know?But, but it would be that far. But most importantly to pair, what I'm really proud of is it wouldn't be something tangible. I typically don't acknowledge my wins or my progression. I'm very numb to it and,
Dupe Aleru
And that's weird. I'm the same way. I don't know why, but yeah, I'm the same way.
Andy Audate
Well, I, you know, my, my assumption would be that it allows us to continue to grow because there's no, I made it feel exactly,
Dupe Aleru
There's never going to be that. There's never, because I feel at the moment.
Andy Audate
When I spoke, I had a conversation with you on the phone and you were sharing with me your successes, your wins in the teaching business, in the courses and the trends that you were doing. I'm like, wow, that's very profound. Like many, many would would actually stay right there and say, yo, I fucking nailed it. Like I don't, you see, I'm teaching the new generation right now. And many would say like, I made it and you said like, Hey, I did it now what's next? And now you're entering the new space. And like, I don't know where you become a paid speaker. And then people are introducing me like, yo, have you heard of do pay or have you heard of do pay?
And that's what made me come to you that day when I met you the first day. Although, although like I walk with confidence, they're like, Hey bro, I need you to come meet with this person. Boom. And if you remember, I came in, I sat next to you, and I was like. So, that's like out of the 150 or 200 people in that room that day, they grabbed, somebody, grabbed a group of people were like, yo, come meet them and how's this? This is me. This was like, Oh, like a profile of what you've accomplished.
Dupe Aleru
Thank you so much. I mean, I, I think like God has given me, you know, in the Bible talks about using your talents. I definitely have the challenge to teach and people always ask me like, how did you become a speaker? Like, how do you speak so well? And I tell them, listen, it's, to me, it's the same thing as teaching inside the classroom.Other than it's now me teaching on stage on a mass scale. So I'm just doing, what comes natural to me is just teaching what I know, you know, through my experiences. And that has been building businesses and just teaching people how to better themselves in their lives. Like I love personal development. I love content creation, so I just teach what I know. That's really what it is.
Andy Audate
Tell us you're a queen about that man. I go on LinkedIn all the time and I. The first thing on my newsfeed and LinkedIn is it's like your, your your video. Then I go on Facebook, I go on Facebook and I start scrolling down after your video again and I'm like, all right man. Then I'm like, all right. Then I go on, I go on Instagram. Next thing you know, it's like, man. Yeah,
Dupe Aleru
I know, man. I try to maximize those three platforms. LinkedIn, man, people are sleeping on LinkedIn. That is the platform right now. I've been enjoying myself there. The community has been amazing. So I mean. 2020 I'm, we're all pumped up and I tell people, I just did a video on Instagram recently. You know, I don't want this new decade or this new year to just be the same that everyone's all, this is my year.This is my year. I mean, it just gets so cliche, honestly, for you, what is your goal for your business or even for yourself personally in this new decade and the next 10 years? Where do you see yourself? What do you want to accomplish?
Andy Audate
That's a great question. I thank you for asking that. You know? Mm. As much as I would like, Oh man, I just threw it away. But we had 'em. I show my business partner like what the plan was, and in 2020 is a year of setting up the true foundation. 2017 to 2019 was a year ago. Of understanding the system, understanding the business, understanding myself as a person. I'll tell you an example. In 2016 my mentor, Jonathan Lee, one of my mentors. He said, Andy, what you gotta do is you gotta wake up early, man, you gotta wake up early, get to the gym, eat healthy, you gotta, you gotta extend your day. So this is a millionaire telling me a multi millionaire with generating hundreds of million dollars telling me, like giving me where the wisdom and not have, I was very close to him.I worked with him every single day, you know, I knew his family, the whole nine yards. So he's giving me advice on where I need to tweak myself and. And so I said, okay, it's too hard to wake up that early. He pulled me in with the rest of the clock in the morning,
Dupe Aleru
Whoa, Whoa Whoa He told you to wake up at what time?
Andy Audate
Six.
Dupe Aleru
Guess what time I wake up every single day?
Andy Audate
Six 3:45 I'm in the gym by 4:20 exactly.
Andy Audate
Exactly. So, that goes to my point, like what's my point? You want some other stuff now?
Dupe Aleru
Yeah. I trained from 4:30 to 6:00 AM every single morning.
Andy Audate
Exactly. So that goes to my point, cause he told me to wake up at that time. Yeah, I was, I was puking. I liked fighting it. I was like, Oh nah, I don't want it. No, I can't change. And then there was, there was a con, there was, there was connection or discussion about me smiling and me using my energy.
So you don't know, people, when I came here to the West coast, I kept the same attitudes that I had on the East coast, so I met people. Yeah. So I met people like this and I was like, what's up man? I did not smile. My first date, my first day, I'm thinking about my first date with someone I nearly, I knew I very much am at a level with, I'm thinking about her on our first day.My first day was like, what's up girl? And this is, this is how I came about. That's how it was as a person. Now you're saying I have so much energy. It's true. I had that deep rooted in me, but realistically, back then I was like, what's up man? Yo, what's good? What's good man? And in my head, like I'm always on edge because where I come from, you will get hurt.Yeah. I was just telling my friend yesterday that that the person that we moved in with, we were talking about stories about like, Hey, you know, someone comes up to you and asks you about your shoe sizes. Tell them that you're a size seven or something, because if you're a suicides matches issue size, that's what you call a setup for a lick. Like you're about to get robbed right now. Okay.
Dupe Aleru
So, Oh wow. That's crazy, right?
Andy Audate
Oh, my shoe size. Are you? Oh, I love it. Yeah, me too, nigga. So that's where I come from. So when I came in I was like, I was like, this. Like always on edge. And then with my mentor, what he did for me was when I started working for him was a short period of time, literally one month. I didn't need the job. I had money. It was just the fact I want to get around him. So I'm working for him and, he says, ABC smiles. And I said, I said, I am smiling. I said, I am smiling. And he said, no one's going to buy it. So he sat me down in front of a mirror, like I think his girlfriend sat me down in front of a mirror and he said, do you know why you did not sell any machines this week?I said, why? He said, because you're not smiling. I ain't said, look in the mirror now. I got an attitude. Oh my God, I'm so angry. I got an attitude and, but the thing is, he comes from a similar environment, so he knows how to handle me. Check yourself with the mirror. I said, look, I looked in the mirror.He said, he said, would you buy from you? I said, no. He said, why? I like Mad. I'm not mad. I'm, I'm not mad. He said, but you are looking at it now, it doesn't matter what you are or you are or not. You look mad. What was the buying from you? So what do you need to do? You just smile. And literally like right there like this demon of like, like anger, like came off of me and I was like,wassup i'm your man andy audate.
Dupe Aleru
And you got a nice smile and white teeth so show it up.
Andy Audate
those little tweaks that he was kind of making me smile, you're going to make more money. I did not listen. That's the thing I did not listen to. Fast forward a couple of years now. This one, I woke up at three o'clock in the morning. I would go at 3:00 AM every day. I'm in the gym. I eat healthier. I'm not as I, I'm not as big as I used to be.
Right. I'm not. I was really, I was really, I'm not as big as it used to be and I'm constantly progressing in my, in my fitness, like, like I'm sexier than ever. Like when I look in the mirror, sometimes I just want to look in the mirror. Like right now, I want to keep this distance from a screen because I might look at it. Right. But realistically, with those tweaks, I smiled more with my energy. All of that increased my income.
Dupe Aleru
And your confidence though too, because I know for me, just going to the gym every single morning, starting my day that way, it really likes walks in your mindset because I don't care what happens after that.When I go home, I can lose a client. I can lose a deal. You know? Things can go wrong, but I'm not easily affected. Because I already trained my mindset in the gym. You know what I'm saying? And I already feel like I've accomplished something by the time I get home at 6:00 AM. So it really helps with your speaking business and getting on stage too. I feel like no,
Andy Audate
A hundred a hundred percent sales. I'm actually naturally an introvert, believe it or not, right? I'm actually naturally, I don't want to talk to people. I don't, I don't want to, but, but sales got me to a point where I realized that I had to. Break this barrier of them not knowing me in order for me to get paid. So I think that so often it becomes a muscle. Then transitioned downstairs where I'm really animated like our state. I'm an enemy in my natural life. I'm not. I'm very shy. I'm very sure.
Dupe Aleru
I will never guess that that's crazy. Well, tell us, tell us something. And you and I were going to go ahead and wrap this up. Tell us something that you learned as a speaker that you want to share with our audience that maybe will help them and their speaking career in 2020
Andy Audate
Yo get a product. Yeah. Build a product. When I, when I started speaking, and now I'm here in my home so I can show it to you, but when I started speaking, I started that this was the product
Dupe Aleru
Right. The book, write a book, write a book.
Andy Audate
So I said, I said, I said, okay. I said, I said, okay.I'm a speaker. I need to make money. I hear other speakers talk about making a product. I create a product. Okay, I got my book. No, I need to make $10,000 a month, 2010 25 bucks for a book. You know how that means I have to sell 400 books. I remember doing the math and a couple of years ago I was doing the math and I was like. I was like, I have 400 books a month, $10,000 $10,000 a month. Okay, boom. A hundred books a week. Okay. I can make my 2,500 okay. 25 okay, boom, I got it. I'm going to go sell a hundred books, nine to five like everyone else. I'll be made to make $10,000 a month. Yo, do you know how hard it is to meet a hundred people a day and close a hundred people a day a week? Yeah. So it's a lot to, to, to meet a hundred so I then created a, what I call the high ticket or a knowledge based digital product. Yeah. That was my determination. That was when I created it.
Dupe Aleru
That was for me too when I created a premium course. I call it a premium product. When I created my premium products, it was so easy. I went from, like you said, just having like random stuff, tee shirts and stuff to a premium course for a thousand dollars and it blew my mind that I sold more premium products than I did the smaller products.And. That's when I was like, okay, and I think it's important to have a variety, you know what I'm saying? I learned from somewhere the three prong system, and they say the one to one, which is not scalable, right? One-to-one coaching, you know, the one to many, which is something where you can maybe do a group coaching call or even a speaking engagement because you can get paid whatever your speaking fee to speak in front of all those people, and then your evergreen product, which is you making money as.While you're sleeping, right? So having a, uh, a variety of all three is very important and I've learned like, okay, what is going to be like my evergreen, it's going to be my membership site, Dobby creative, where I host all like my products for speaker development, curriculum development and brand development.And so that's what I was telling you about how we're building that. And then I still have my one on one coaching and then speaking as my one to many, you know? And so we're, I'm focusing on speaking and my evergreen because that's scalable. And then I'm only taking like a handful of one-to-one clients because again, that's where if you're doing one-to-one, you can't be making money doing other things.Right? So I learned that from, I forgot who taught me that, but I've always stuck to that. And that's helped me a lot in my business.
Andy Audate
100% and that's very valid. And I would actually add for your, for your audience, because your audience are like people who are looking to learn. Is that what I would add? That you're going to have your, your digital, your digital products, your, your, your now the big digital product. So you call it evergreen, evergreen. It's typically just the saying that it doesn't automatically on its own. Now it's basically through a product. Your book's job. Do a couple of things. Number one, the job of your book is to share your story, right?Right? So you're going to share a number of these four things. Number one, you're gonna show your message. Number two, you're going to share why that is your message. Number three, you're going to share your story. And number four, you're going to show your business. What people fail to do is they fail to share their business.So they go here, here's my story, and then it's like, Oh, great. Now I know a lot about you. So you're creating, you're creating fame versus a business. There won't be any sustainability. Your book has to lead to where you're going to opt in. Then here's a strategy. I'm gonna give you a freebie, okay? In the strategy at the end of your book, I want you to say what is valuable to you?Give it to somebody you care about.
Dupe Aleru
I love that. I love that.
Andy Audate
Give this book to somebody you care about. We live in a world of abundance. You read it already. Give it to somebody. Exactly. You want me to hold on to that? I love that. I'm not going to do that on my blog. I love that of the books in the life of this book.Now this in the next. Let's say, let's say six years. In the next few years, it would touch on average, let's say four hands. I personally couldn't reach out those four hands. Out of those four hands, two of them actually go to the website and opt in and then go into my funnel. Now, this book would touch people that it didn't, I didn't Mark it to.They opted in and I was able to sell them a product and I say, Hey, where did you learn about learn about me while I've been following for two years and I don't really know what my friend John gave me your book two years ago. That's where it was, and then I went to your website, the next thing you, I got an email. Then I purchased that one thing that I came to your event.I'm a partner and then we now own a business together. Like that's how it works.
Dupe Aleru
That's, I love that. And that's so true. You don't have many people, like you said, you started on YouTube, and I'm going to, this is the last thing before we close out somewhat. Every time I meet someone, they say, Oh, I've been following you for years.Like I remember following you on Periscope. It is amazing how people lie. I know. Right? How amazing they follow you and it's always random people like I'm talking to them, a discovery call, signing them up for my coaching program. Oh, how did you hear about me? Oh, I just used to listen to you on Periscope and I ended up following you to Instagram.And then I just see all the content you're posting. I'm like, okay. She could be my coach, like she knows what she's talking about. So you're right. Like sometimes it takes people a while, but I love the whole sharing is caring. I think that's very key. Where can we connect to people?
Andy Audate
I just want, I just want to say I've been following you since my space.
Dupe Aleru
Don't make me that old.Don't make me that old.middle school or elementary.
Andy Audate
Yeah, man, I was, I was that. How is that 12 year old rapper from Rhode Island, they call it. They used to call me young and music.
Dupe Aleru
That is hilarious. Oh my gosh. Where can our audience connect with you on social media?
Andy Audate
Hey, the best spot right now is progressionticket.com
Learn about the one day business seminar called the progression conference with doing a national tour.
Dupe Aleru
I love bomb.com let me tell you, man, so many amazing speakers. The what? The LA tour was when I called it. Okay. You guys. That's probably like one of my top favorite conferences that I've been to you guys. I'm telling you, and I'm not going to lie, Andy, I was kind of shocked, like you surprised now. I was like, Oh wow. Like, I mean, just the quality of speakers, your professionalism, the location, everything was spot on, man. So this guy right here knows this stuff you guys and telling you. So progressionticket.com
Andy Audate
Thanks for having me with your audience today.
Dupe Aleru Man, it's been a pleasure. My friend has been a pleasure. Enjoy the rest of your holiday.
