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Good Morning listeners Tuesday morning, and I'm

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here with y'all so super excited and
I'm sure depending on where you were in

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the path of solar eclipse, that
you did see it. And it is

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such a out of the world experience. So in North Carolina, you know,

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we got approximately around like seventy percent
coverage. And what was funny was

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listening to one of the kids say, I don't know if it was on

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TV or one of the neighbors kids
saying that, oh, somebody took a

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bite out of the cookie. And
it was just amazing to see. And

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it again brings back so many things
in perspective that we are so tiny,

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we are so little in comparison to
the nature, and it's really important that

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we all come together because together we
are stronger. And I want to thank

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you to every one of you who
have got a books and if you have

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not, what I want to share
with you is that do get our entrepreneurs

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got in and expert to influencer and
very thrilled to share like you know that

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these may be getting into one of
the colleges as in terms of the book

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program, so it's being considered.
I don't know where it's going to go

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or not, but just the fact
that it's being considered, both of the

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books to be part of the curriculum, it's very, very exciting. So

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just wanted to kind of share that
with you. And as always, I'm

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going to invite you to keep that
kind of circle going. Spend that hour

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of your time every month helping someone, no strings attached, and remember that

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these books will change your lives.
If you've not got your copy, do

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get it and let's go ahead and
get started. Welcome doctor sham Hi Dibia,

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Thanks for having me. I'm excited
to be here. I'm excited to

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have you on board. So share
with us if you recall any moment from

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your childhood, moment or person that
left a positive mark on you. Yeah.

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So so many people from my childhood
left a positive mark on me.

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But you know, I think one
of the most important for me was my

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father. You know, he's still
with us, but you know he still

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had a really positive impact because he
modeled success for me at an early age.

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What I mean by that is,
you know, he went to work

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at you know, he would wake
up at five am, and he was

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a farmer, so he'd go to
the pharmacy from six am to three pm

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and he would come home and then
you know, we lived in a budget

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motel that he owned, and then
he would help my mom run that from

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you know, three pm to ten
pm at night. And so he was

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a NonStop entrepreneur as well as a
healthcare provider as a pharmacist. And then

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he owned a gas station as well
that they would run. And so,

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you know, I think he's really
the classic American dreams story. Came to

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America with very little from India,
and he's what inspires me to work hard.

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You know a lot of people think
that I work hard, but I

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don't work half as hard as my
own father. Well, and it's wonderful

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to have a role model like that
because so many times you hear so many

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people complaining, and all of us
do, especially even if it is something

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small like better And it's okay to
complain. And yet it's also important to

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continue striving your dreams. So when
you were a child, like did you

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have any aspirations to become firefighter or
anything else, like you know, as

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most kids do. Yeah, you
know what was interesting is, you know,

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I think my own interest in was
definitely towards medicine. I think my

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father encouraged that, my mother encouraged
that like many immigrant households do. But

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I also had a you know,
natural interest in it, and so I

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volunteered at the local emergency room,
and I always wanted to become a physician.

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However, you know, one of
the things that was interesting about my

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childhood was my unrecognized talents or abilities
or interests. And what I mean by

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that is I was always tinkering around
with buying or selling things. So in

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elementary school, I was selling Pokemon
cards, in middle school, I was

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selling music CDs. In high schools. I would do a lot of ebaying,

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of buying and selling iPhones and things
like that. In college as well,

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and so, you know, I
had this natural ability or natural interest

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in entrepreneurship, although I didn't really
know about it, and so it wasn't

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until I started my own company,
UH Prep Expert, which is a test

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preparation company that helps students with the
s A tact and college admissions that I

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realized that, you know, I
think entrepreneurship is a fantastic path for me

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from my natural abilities and gifts.
I did end up, you know,

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going to medical school and becoming a
dermatologist, and I still pursue or I

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still practice teledermatology today, but I
think, you know, now I'm living

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my dream life as both a dermatologist, as and an entrepreneur. But one

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of those talents was kind of more
strategically thought about as a physician, and

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one more came about naturally without me
knowing it. So then you mentioned that,

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you know, you were incline towards
medicine. So was it inspired by

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your dad being in the healthcare industry
or was that something that was naturally you

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gravitated towards. Yeah, I think
it was a bit of both. You

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know, there's no physicians or doctors
in my families that I really had a

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role model. So my father was
my closest thing to a healthcare provider as

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a pharmacist, and you know,
I would go to work with him occasionally

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on the take your kid to work
day and it was pretty interesting what he

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did. And on top of that, you know, getting the exposure of

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volunteering at the hospital nearby was really
interesting. I met some awesome doctors there

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that inspired me, and so that's
where I think the initial interest in medicine

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came from. And funny enough,
you know that interest is what led me

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down the path of wanting to apply
for combined medical programs, which actually is

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what made me study so much for
the SAT. So you know, they

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had very high requirements for SAT and
ACT scores for combined medical programs, and

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so if I was not interested in
medicine, I probably would not have studied

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so much for the SAT, which
Poventually, you know, I raised my

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score from average to perfect, which
then led to the founding of the company.

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So it all kind of wove together, but I was only able to

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connect the dots after right, So
you mentioned about combined medical programs and some

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of our audience may not know.
So are you talking about do a degree

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or are you talking about finishing your
bachelor's and medicine together. Yeah, great

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question. So the combined medical programs
typically refer to dual degree programs, so

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that's a BS. You get your
Bachelors of Science and your medical degree program

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at the same university. Sometimes you
do it in eight years of four years

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for your bachelor four years for your
medical degree. Some are accelerated where you

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do it in a total of six
years or seven years even And so these

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programs are amazing for high school students, especially for parents with high school students

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who are listening, because they give
you automatic acceptance in a medical school directly

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out of high school. You don't
have to worry about applying again, taking

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the MCAT, you know, having
to get high grades or extracurriculars. Your

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medical school seat is secured. And
so that, you know, was something

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that really inspired me because I wanted
to not have to worry about that in

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college. And so I did end
up going to a medical degree program at

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the University of Southern California. I
got into a few different ones, including

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some prestigious ones at Northwestern, but
ultimately I made my college decision around not

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only the medical program, but USC
gave me a full ride scholarship, which

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helped reduce or actually eliminate my college
costs, which was really important for me,

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Oh definitely, because college expenses can
be humongous on parents or like even

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for students walking out with student loans, and so during residency there are so

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many different disciplines that you could have
ended up in What was it that drew

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you to dermatology? Yeah, great
question. So you know, I didn't

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really know that I was interested in
dermatology until the very end of medical school.

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And that's because, for you know, the listeners that may not know,

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in medical school, the last two
years you rotate through different specialties.

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So you'll rote taate through internal medicine, surgery, psychiatry, et cetera.

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And at the very end you have
a couple of electives typically, and so

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I rotated through ophthalmology and dermatology.
And what drew me to dermatology is,

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you know, the ability to have
a little bit of everything. What do

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I mean by that? So there's
medical dermatology, there's surgical for skin cancers,

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there's obviously cosmetic, there's laser and
so I really enjoyed the fact that,

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you know, there was a little
bit of everything in dermatology. I

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didn't see that in other specialties.
And now actually for me, I actually

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go to a different type of dermatology, which is teledermatology. Dermatology actually lends

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itself quite well to visual and so
being able to meet with patients by video

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or even by just having photo sent
I'm able to diagnose and treat eighty percent

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of conditions. Obviously twenty percent I
need to refer for biopsy, et cetera.

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But you know, that allows me
to have the flexibility to be both

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a dermatologist as well as an entrepreneur
by not having to, you know,

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spend fifty sixty hours in a clinic
every week. Yeah, and that definitely

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makes sense. So when, like, how long did you practice, Like

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it sounds like, you know,
you transition into teledematology recently. How long

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were you in a clinic or associated
with a hospital or something like that,

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And when did you decide that entrepreneurship
was calling. Yeah, so you know,

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I actually decided right after residency that
I was going to go to a

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clinic. And so in residency,
I was in a clinic for about three

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years at Temple University Hospital. And
the reason I decided to transition was actually

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during the COVID pandemic. I was
in residency and I was in my last

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or second to last year, and
we had transition much of our care during

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COVID to TELEDERM and that allowed me
to see how efficient it was as well

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as you know that I was able
to actually be more productive because the appointments

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were a lot quicker, and then
I was able to have my other half

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data to do entrepreneurship. So I
transitioned, you know, right after residency

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into full teledermatology. But I think
if I didn't have that pandemic experience going

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to you know, telehealth appointments,
which I think you know, many patients

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and providers had at that time,
I wouldn't have known about that as much.

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And so in terms of you know, your second part of the question,

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which is when was entrepreneurship calling,
it's a great question, and you

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know, I kind of always had
entrepreneurship as my side hustle as people call

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it now, quote unquote throughout college
medical school residency, I always had Prep

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Expert, which is my test prep
company, on the side, and I

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had my team, my operations team, my customer experience team, my tutors

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running the day to day operations.
Because I started in college almost twelve thirteen

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years ago, and so I didn't
spend a whole lot of time on it.

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But now, you know, once
I graduated from medical school residency,

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that's when I thought I would go
all in and take over as the CEO,

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spend more time on the day to
day, spend more time on the

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product curriculum, teach classes myself,
and become more involved with the company because

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I think that we're able to reach
a lot more students, which we're already

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doing now since I've been the CEO, and hopefully, you know, become

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one of the largest test prep providers
in the nation. So let's go back

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to the entrepreneurship. You mentioned that
you had started in college and then we

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were also on Shark Tank, and
there's so many entrepreneurs out there, doesn't

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matter what the age, doesn't matter
that they are in their journey and they

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have this new idea. So tell
us, like, what was the journey

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like to getting into Shark Tank and
what happened after that? Yeah, great

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question. So Shark Tank was an
interesting experience. This actually happened, you

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know, about eight nine years ago, in twenty fifteen, sixteen times.

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So what you know what happened was
at that time, Shark Tank was quite

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a popular show and so I was
just like everyone else, just a fan

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of the show, and I was
watching one day and I had an idea,

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which was, you know, I
have this small business in Las Vegas,

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Nevada, which is where I grew
up, where I was doing a

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test prep company. I'd love to, you know, expand it to other

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cities. I'd love to expand it
on online. I'd love to do more

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marketing, hire more people. And
as I was watching the show, I

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thought, you know, it would
be a great business to take on Shark

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Tank and get investment and expand the
company. And so I saw that they

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were doing auditions in New York City
and at the time, I was at

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Yale University doing my MBA, and
so I took the train over to New

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York for two hours and I ended
up being the last person in line.

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And I spent about nine hours in
New York City waiting to give a one

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minute pitch to a casting call producer. And you know, it was really

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kind of disheartening because, you know, when I was giving my pitch,

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the one the casting call producer did
not seem interested at all. You know,

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he didn't smile once. And what
was super interesting, and I think

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you'll like this dibio, which is, you know, what made the casting

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call producers eyes light up and him
smile was at the very end when I

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pulled out my SAT preparation book and
so I he was so impressed that I

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had written a book that my face
was on the book, and his whole

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mood changed. He asked if he
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And within a few weeks I was
being flown out to Los Angeles to pitch

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on Shark Tank. And so then, you know, that was an amazing

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experience of itself, nerve wracking,
lots of preparation, just like the SAT

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maybe a lot of our listeners who may

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be thinking that I want to get
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little bit more about what they could
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you mentioned that the auditions were in
New York's Is it only in New York?

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Tank, they still do the auditions
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different major cities around the United States, So you know, New York City,

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Los Angeles, you know, there
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in Atlanta. They change every year, so you'd have to kind of look

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at the Shark Tank casting Call audition
sheet. They also take some online and

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video auditions, so you can send
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you going in person as I did, because I think you have a higher

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likelihood of getting on the show.
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Tank, make sure that you have
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or service. I don't think it's
a good idea to just go with an

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idea or a proto type. You
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standing in line where when I went
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idea and they or they just had
a prototype of a product. But it's

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very, very helpful when you actually
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a lot of sales yet, or
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that's been out for a while,
as I had a book that has sold

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fifty thousand copies, and you're able
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producer. So I think that that
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the show. And would you say
that it would benefit the applicants to watch

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Shot Tank shows. Oh, absolutely
yeah. I think one of the reasons

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that, you know, I was
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so you have to pack in a
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so what you want to do is
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one, obviously what your product or
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what's unique, Three if you have
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I would say, you want to
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to be good for shark ting,
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to really know that is to have
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not many episodes of the show.
You know, why it's entertaining, if

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there's a particular shark that might be
interested in this industry, in your industry,

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et cetera. Oh, that's very
helpful. And as you mentioned that,

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you continued prepping for shorting and tell
us about your experience when you got

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on shortting what happened? Yeah,
so that was a whole nother very stressful

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experience, of course, which was
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I watched even more episodes of Shark
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know, questions that the different sharks
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if I think it was twenty five
to fifty different questions with what my responses

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would be. And then, you
know, when I actually got on the

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show and they called me from the
studio to go on. You know it's

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interesting is when you get on that
stage, you forget a lot of what

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you had prepared, and so a
lot of times you're just going off what's

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the top of your head, because
there's you know, there's adrenaline, you're

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nervous, et cetera. And so
I was, you know, answering questions

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kind of just very genuinely from the
heart. I told a lot of stories

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from my childhood, including the ones
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this podcast about my dad working you
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day, and I think that really
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was Mark Cuban. The other sharks
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a doctor and an entrepreneur. They
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they all did not give me a
deal. But Mark Cuban really saw a

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little bit of himself and me,
and he talked about his dad working really

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hard and inspiring him. So I
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ended up giving me an investment deal
for two hundred fifty thousand dollars for twenty

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percent equity in the company. And
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advocate and partner for the company ever
since. And so would you say that

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when we talk about having a multimillion
dollar company, shark Tank is one of

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the ways. So tell us what
else went into the company as you were

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building it. What did you have
to keep in mind because and where was

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your company when you went to the
Shark Tank and where's it now? Yeah,

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great question. So you know,
when I first went on shark Tank,

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I was really just a small business. As I mentioned, we were

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only doing in person SAT courses teaching
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Nevada. And at that point,
you know, we had been around for

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about four or five years, and
it was a very small business because we

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didn't do any marketing. So there
was literally a you know, they had

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asked me my customer acquisition cost on
Shark Tank, and I didn't know because

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the answer was zero dollars because we
didn't spend anything on advertising. It literally

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grew for the first four to five
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I think is really important for entrepreneurs
in that you make sure your product or

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service is good enough in the beginning
to grow just by word of mouth,

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by customers telling other customers, and
so that had us doubling revenue year over

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year to the point that before Shark
Tank we were at about a half a

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million dollars in annual revenue and we
had done about a million dollars total over

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the first four to five years.
Now, after Shark Tank, we really

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started pushing the gas because we had
investment, we had exposure on marketing,

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on digital marketing and scaling the company, and that has led now so we've

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spen what eight nine years since we've
been on Shark Tank, We've now done

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over fifty million, so one million
to fifty million, fifty million dollars in

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revenue. That's across our courses,
our books, and licensed services, and

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so it's it's been an amazing ride
in terms of you know, growing and

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scaling the company. And obviously now
we do spend money on marketing, so

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we have customer acquisition costs. But
you know, I'm happy to say we've

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been profitable ever since the inception of
the company. Well, congratulations, your

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hard work has paid off and I'm
sure that your parents, especially Dad,

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is very, very proud of you. So you mentioned that Mark Cuban has

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been a great mentor, and can
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what would you say, like,
you know, in this time where

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of course, you know, successfully
scaled from one million to fifty million dollars,

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what are some of the lessons that
you've learned from him and implemented in

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this venture. Yeah. Absolutely,
you know, I think there's quite a

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few lessons. But some of the
key lessons that you know, Mark has

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taught me over the years has been
one has been just building an amazing team.

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him called the Mark Cuban Companies.

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That's his venture portfolio team that handles
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marketing, et cetera. But he's
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company is only going to be as
good as the the culture and the team

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that you build. And so,
you know, in the beginning, when

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I was a small business before sharkting, and in the early days right after

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shark Ting, I would say we
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have the right operations person, we
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we didn't have the right marketing person. And so Mark recognize that and he

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saw, you know, we had
some cultural problems that he helped us kind

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of root out those people. And
that's the hardest part, honestly, of

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being an entrepreneur or business owners,
having to let go of people that you

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know, I've worked for the company
just because the company outgrew them. You

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know, they were great when it
was a small business, but they were

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not great when you know, you're
a national test or a national company that's

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growing, et cetera. You need
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super important, and something Mark has
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the importance of negotiating and never settling. So there was a licensing deal we

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had on the table where you know, we were licensing our courses out to

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an international company and the licensing fee
was, honestly and not very much,

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and Mark basically refused to do the
deal unless they had really increased their licensing

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fees. And you know, that
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at the end of the day,
we were able to double our licensing fee,

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double the revenue and contract out of
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an entrepreneur or business owner, you
really have to know your worth and be

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able to negotiate. If you know
Mark Cuban's backstory, he negotiated a six

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billion dollar acquisition from Yahoo and which
turned him into a billionaire. And I

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could see why for that negotiation.
He's a hard negotiator for sure, and

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you really it's a skill that's not
it comes easy to everyone. But I'm

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glad he's on my team. And
so that's that was a big one.

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to say no. Really important as an

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entrepreneur. You know, as an
entrepreneur, you can say yes to a

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million things and you can get overwhelmed, you know, marked as eight hundred

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emails a day to his different entrepreneurs
and investments. But he says no to

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all meetings because unless it's a really
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time because if he did a meeting with

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all hundreds of his companies, he
would never have any time. And so

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you know, he says yes to
the right things though. For example,

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we did an Obama Foundation Entrepreneurship panel
in person well a few weeks ago in

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Chicago, and he came to that
and said yes. So you have to

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know you know the right things to
say no to and the right things to

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say yes to. And he's shown
me that by example. That's very powerful.

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the lessons and you have the culture, you have the team. Now,

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a lot of people achieve success,
but what happens is that they're not able

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to sustain it and scale it.
So for doing that, do you have

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your own personal experiences that you'd like
to share? Yeah? Absolutely so I

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agree with you. You know a
lot of times, you know, there

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are many challenges in business. Not
every year is going to be a record

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year, especially when you've been doing
it, you know, for decades,

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over a decade, as I have
been. So how do you sustain success

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over a long period of time?
I think, you know, there's two

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or three key things that I would
say here. The first thing is,

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as the entrepreneur or as the business
owner, always try to focus on your

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product and making it for product or
service and making it as good as possible

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for customers. You know, every
week or every year, I try to

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improve my product or service substantially.
So I am personally looking at all of

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our course content, curriculum and trying
to improve it. From a student's perspective,

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I look at, you know,
some feedback that we get from parents

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and students, what's missing, what
could be improved, and I try to

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add that into our courses and our
tutoring and our curriculum. And the reason

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for that is because that's the number
one form of marketing. I kind of

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mentioned it earlier when I spent zero
dollars on marketing. It was all word

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of mouth and allowing customers to tell
each other. Because you can spend a

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ton of money on Facebook ads,
Google ads and other advertising, but it

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gets very expensive, and if you
don't have a good product or service that

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customers are telling other customers about,
you end up spending way more on marketing

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than you need to, and you
end up actually oftentimes not being profitable that

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way. So that's key Number one
is like, as the entrepreneur our business

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owner, never think that you know
you it's time for you to move on

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from the product or the service because
that's what's driving the entire business. Number

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two, to drive success forward,
I think learning from people who have done

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it and become more successful than you
is really important. So for me,

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what I typically do is, you
know, one, I learned from our

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cuban, of course, but I
also hired a separate business advisor who's you

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know, helped companies scale to one
hundred million, two hundred million plus in

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revenue. And I learned from different
strategies and tactics that he has and I

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try to implement them in our business. And then I also attend conferences usually

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every six months, and sometimes it's
related to education, but sometimes it's not.

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A lot of times it's just related
to marketing or business or entrepreneurship because

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I learned from other industries and so
I think, you know, the key

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theme here is always be learning,
whether it's you know, through advisors and

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mentors or conferences you know, or
even books. You know, I read

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a lot of books to an entrepreneurship
in business, those are some very powerful

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nuggets. So coming to your company, you talked about in the beginning that

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you know, you were able to
perfect your score so that you could get

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into the combined medical program now that's
said, like, you know, what

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was it that drew you towards creating
that as a business. Yeah, there's

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a great question. So you know, when I was in high school,

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as you mentioned, I raised my
score from average to perfect and that opened

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up a lot of doors for me
in terms of the medical programs I wanted

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to get into. I got into
some other prestigious universities. I got a

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half a million dollars in college scholarship
offers, so I didn't have to pay

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a dime for college tuition, housing, books, food, or anything else.

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And so when I got to college, I wanted to help other students

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improve their scores to improve their own
life. It's the way that I did.

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And you know, I had written
all of this strategies content techniques that

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had helped me during my own process. And so originally I actually did not

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want to start a business. I
wanted to just write a book. I

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thought, you know, I could
write the first SAT prep book ever by

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a perfect score, and you know, it would be great. The problem

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was, I pitched it out to
one hundred literary agents and publishers, and

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every single one said the SAT prep
market was too competitive, that I didn't

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have a platform to write such a
book. And so that's when I took

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my destiny into my own hands,
and I said, okay, well,

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if I'm not going to get the
book deal, I'll take all this curriculum

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and I'll teach, you know,
one course before I go to medical school.

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It was really just supposed to be
one course. But you know,

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the first eighteen students I had in
that first six week SAT course, my

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students had an average score improvement of
three hundred and seventy six points to their

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SAT scores, which is equivalent of
taking a student from the fiftieth percentile and

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putting them in the ninetieth percentile.
So of course I had parents and students

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who wanted more courses. So I
began training other instructors to teach my curriculum

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and the rest is history. Over
the past twelve years at Prep Expert,

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we've helped over one hundred thousand students
improve their SAT and ACT scores, get

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into top colleges, and most importantly, win over one hundred million in college

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scholarships. So there might be a
question, like, you know, during

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pandemic, a lot of colleges had
done away with SAT and asat so what's

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the current climate right now? Great
question. Yeah, so there's a lot

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of confusion among parents and students with
test optional college admissions. You know,

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there are really three reasons you should
still take the SAT or the ACT despite

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test optional. Number one is there's
a lot of studies now showing that even

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at test optional universities, students who
submit test scores have higher acceptance rates,

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oftentimes two to three times higher when
you have an satr ACT score versus when

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you don't. Reason number two is
there are over seven billion dollars in merit

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based scholarships that are awarded to students
who have high grades and high test scores.

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So if you don't have a high
test score, you often won't be

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eligible for a full tuition have tuition
scholarship from university or many scholarships from private

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companies. And then the third reason
is in the last couple of months here,

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there's actually been a huge resurgence of
standardized testing requirements at top universities like

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MIT, Yale, Dartmouth, University
of Texas, at Austin Brown University,

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Georgetown. So there are plenty of
I heard UNC is actually considering it right

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now as well. And so there's
you know, they're going to be mandatory

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again at many top universities, so
it's really not going to be a choice

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anymore. Well, a confusing time
for parents and students alike. So now

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that's said, as you mentioned earlier
that this market is very, very competitive,

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and there are so many companies who
have been out there for maybe twenty

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thirty years, some emerging new because
it is a multi billion dollar market.

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So what would you say that makes
your program stand out from the rest,

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And as our listeners, maybe our
audience may be considering it, what would

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it that would benefit them coming to
you versus going to somebody else. Yeah,

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so it is a very competitive market
and there are a lot of good

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test prep companies out there. What
makes products Perty unique is I really believe

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we have the best score improvement guarantees, the best instructors, and the best

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curriculum in the industry. So for
score improvement guarantees, we offer a two

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hundred point SAT score improvement guarantee or
a four point ACT score improvement guarantee after

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you take one of our six week
live online courses. For instructors, we

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only hire ninety nine percent TILE instructors, so instructors who have scored in the

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top one percent themselves, as well
as who have thousands of hours of teaching

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experience, So there are no amateurs
or students who are instructors who really don't

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know their content teaching. And then
the third is the curriculum. As I

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mentioned, I've developed all of the
curriculum myself based on my own methods,

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but based on my own experience raising
my score from average to perfect. Much

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of the curriculum from other test prep
companies is written by PhDs and folks who

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are already naturally good standardized test takers. That's not me, and I think

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a lot of students can relate to
that. And what's really unique about the

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curriculum is I also teach strategies,
tactics, and techniques that don't only help

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your student with SAT prep, but
also help them with time management, productivity,

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self control, delayed gratification, how
to study effectively. So many parents

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and students come out of our courses
and say, well, you know,

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this didn't just help me with the
test prep, but it helped me with

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my student become more serious about academics. They learned about how to study for

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their AP exams, how to study
in college, so I think you get

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a lot more than just an SAT
course. Absolutely, thank you for sharing

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that, and I'm sure that a
lot of our audience will be wanting to

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As you can see on our site, you will see that we have the

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website that you share, but like, can you share with us your website?

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And if somebody wanted to get in
touch with you, how could they

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do so? Yeah, of course, So for parents, parents who have

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high school students, I highly recommend
checking out my website propexpert dot com.

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So it's p r e p e
X p e r T dot com.

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You can find all of our SAT
course schedules, ACT course schedules, as

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well as college admissions consulting services.
We have courses starting every single week of

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the year, and you can see
the six week schedules, the a week

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schedules. We have video courses,
all kinds of stuff right at propexpert dot

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com. You can also find our
books there. I just released a new

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book called prop Expert Digital SAT Playbook, which you can find on propexpert dot

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com or on Amazon. And for
those of you who'd like to connect with

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me, you can find me on
any social media and for entrepreneurs out there,

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I have a book called Self Made
Success, which you can find on

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Amazon as well. Oh, thank
you for joining us and sharing your experiences

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and insides. And thank you listeners
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show would not be possible. Reach
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And thank you on for making the
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