Ever wondered how you can avoid the common pitfalls of property investment and turn your dreams into reality?
Well, join us on a journey with Emile, a seasoned property investor, as he opens the doors to his Property Investment Day, a workshop that is sure to change how you see the property investment world.
Emile shares his wisdom on the importance of commitment and consistency in business, and even takes listeners on a virtual site visit to his ongoing development projects.
But it's not all about business, we also delve into Emile's darkest moments and his inspiring journey to resilience.
Emile doesn't stop at business advice. He shares invaluable life lessons on responsibility, reflection, and purposeful living.
He stresses the importance of acknowledging our weaknesses and persevering despite challenges.
His advice goes beyond the boardroom and into the realm of personal development. He encourages listeners to surround themselves with joy-inducing activities and relationships, advocating for mindful time management.
You'll be inspired by Emile's entrepreneurial journey and how he built a strong business foundation, underlining the need for a strategic plan and the development of strong leadership skills.
Finally, we unpack Emile's journey to finding happiness in business. From sharing strategies for managing anger to winning with a calm mind, Emile reveals it all.
We explore the fine details of his $20 million home project and he shares tips for those looking to grow their property portfolio.
Emile's journey in creating One Life Club, a platform aimed at positively impacting people's lives, is as inspiring as it gets.
So tune in to this enlightening episode for a stimulating mix of business insights, property investment tactics, and personal development gems.
Be ready to have your mind opened and your perspective on life and business transformed.
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Ever wondered how you can avoid the common pitfalls of property investment and turn your dreams into reality?
Well, join us on a journey with Emile, a seasoned property investor, as he opens the doors to his Property Investment Day, a workshop that is sure to change how you see the property investment world.
Emile shares his wisdom on the importance of commitment and consistency in business, and even takes listeners on a virtual site visit to his ongoing development projects.
But it's not all about business, we also delve into Emile's darkest moments and his inspiring journey to resilience.
Emile doesn't stop at business advice. He shares invaluable life lessons on responsibility, reflection, and purposeful living.
He stresses the importance of acknowledging our weaknesses and persevering despite challenges.
His advice goes beyond the boardroom and into the realm of personal development. He encourages listeners to surround themselves with joy-inducing activities and relationships, advocating for mindful time management.
You'll be inspired by Emile's entrepreneurial journey and how he built a strong business foundation, underlining the need for a strategic plan and the development of strong leadership skills.
Finally, we unpack Emile's journey to finding happiness in business. From sharing strategies for managing anger to winning with a calm mind, Emile reveals it all.
We explore the fine details of his $20 million home project and he shares tips for those looking to grow their property portfolio.
Emile's journey in creating One Life Club, a platform aimed at positively impacting people's lives, is as inspiring as it gets.
So tune in to this enlightening episode for a stimulating mix of business insights, property investment tactics, and personal development gems.
Be ready to have your mind opened and your perspective on life and business transformed.
FREE Mindset Webinar: https://www.coreyboutwell.com/mindsetupgrade
Join The Community Here: https://www.coreyboutwell.com/communitymembership
Make sure you listen to the podcasts all the way through to get your discount code.
If people can master this little part, everything will be okay, and key is for anybody to understand true meaning of Mule, thank you so much for coming onto the show.
Speaker 2:Thank you for being here. Yeah, absolutely pleasure. How did the Prossment Property Investment Day go? I was watching your stories. It was really good.
Speaker 1:Amar we had. We literally had a few thousand applications for the event that I had yesterday, which is it was literally 12 hour workshop and we had a few thousand applications and I wanted to select people that I know will actually take something from the day that we had action it the next day, because a lot of you know, you've been probably to a lot of events yourself and a lot of seminars and so on. So most people that go to any events they get excited and they get motivated and that motivation will last for two, three, four days. After that they go back to the same place where they were before the event. So with this event that we had yesterday, I mean this year, we had events where most of events that we had had more than 1000 people Yesterday only had 24 people, but I had people qualify to come.
Speaker 1:So I wanted to make sure that they are already existing investors, they already been taking action and now they're just ready to take things to another level. So the people that we had were amazing group of people, so they were networking with each other there as well, but they were already, you know, ready to take things to another level. So they was absolutely amazing and so that's why I'm a little bit tired this morning, because I started at seven am yesterday and finished nine pm. But hey, you know, the next day just head down, bum up and keep moving forward.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I love that. I love how you mentioned that you actually took people out onto the site.
Speaker 1:Well, there's a lot of. There's a lot of events and seminars and property workshops where people that are teaching them are not active investors themselves. So with me, you know, yesterday people arrived to a place and you know, for two hours it was really crazy event. Actually, for two hours what I had? 24 people. I had them talk about their mistakes in property investing. So I literally ask every single person tell me the bad thing that happened to you while you've been investing. And so we were all just, you know, listening to everybody's problems and working on solutions so that problem doesn't happen again for anybody else in the room.
Speaker 1:After that we went to my development center at my development sites, because, you know, in one suburb alone I got, you know, over $50 million worth of developments. So I actually wanted to show them what I'm doing property-wise, why I'm doing it, how I'm developing it, how I'm selling it, so they can actually see real deal, not just somebody telling them, you know about something that they're not doing. And then we went back in and then I had a good friend of mine who is expert accountant, who was really sharing his knowledge how they can structure their companies and businesses better, and then we were digging deep. You know when it comes to how do you find property deals, you know how do you utilize this time now, how do you know where market trends are and you know where there's a big demand for properties. So it was epic day and we finished it with the dinner last night. And, you know, this morning I had my videographer. He was sending me 24 testimonials and it was just amazing to actually hear what people had to say after that, and so it was epic.
Speaker 1:You know I'm all about giving people value, and but talking is one thing. I like showing people how I do it and even including all my companies. You know we employ, you know, 300 plus people in our businesses and I always say from day one I like to lead by example. And when it comes to even, you know, running one life club, now, when we are speaking, when we are trying to train people or coach them, or whatever you want to call it, I like to show them by example. This is actually how I'm doing it. Let me show you how I'm doing it and then you can learn from there.
Speaker 2:So yeah, yeah, I'm sure people come out of there like they're actually like being able to see it as like sort of expand their mindset Absolutely and like their capacity for their perception of what they see from, like seeing it through you.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. Now it was really epic and now it's. I'll tell you one thing there's a lot of good and talented people out there, and there are a lot of people out there, now more than ever, that are giving it a go, whatever that is, and that makes me happy, you know, including yourself. We just had discussion before this podcast started and I love the fact that you know at such a young age and how old are you now? 30. That's very. I'm 44. So 30 is freaking young, but you know you are constantly taking action yourself in your business as well, and you committed, but you know starting and being. You know committed and then consistent.
Speaker 1:That's another level, because both of us know any business is not easy, doesn't matter whatever it is, it's not easy. You need to work hard, you need to grind, you need to hustle, and this morning I put a post on my Instagram story from Danny White. I love Danny White, the UFC president, and he said people would say that you know what. You should start your own business so you can create your own hours and you can be your new boss. There's no such a thing as creating your own hours because when you start your own business, like he said, there's no such a thing as a Christmas Easter, at least not at early stages of the business. You know you are just grinding. You know because every day you know there's another competitor out there that wants to take your spot. So making that move to start something and then keep moving forward, that's another league.
Speaker 2:I would like to know for you, emile, if you're happy to share like the darkest moment that you've had in business. That was like the hardest struggle for you that you had to overcome. You were just like ah, like no, I wouldn't want to rage or like burn everything to the ground, but you just kept going anyway.
Speaker 1:I think interesting question. To be honest, I think you know I'm pretty resilient. You know I have insane mindset, so I don't. I've trained myself, and this is one thing that I encourage every entrepreneur to do. You really have to train your mind to be bulletproof in business, because you will be slapped with a baseball bat every single day in business. You know there are people out there that try to. You know bring voice out of you every day. You know there are competitors that are pushing you to the edge. There are people that try to screw you on a daily basis.
Speaker 1:There is a chance that you know, whatever business you're in, you're going to hit the wall. You know you might have a product and then nobody else is interested in that product in two years. Whatever business you have, it's not going to be easy because we are living in the most dangerous time and the time is so dangerous because everything is moving so fast. Everything is in a so fast pace. People's tension span is very freaking little at the moment. Everybody wants everything now. You know nobody wants to. You know wait 20, who wants to? You know, hustle for 20 years and become successful. Everybody wants everything now because everything is moving so fast. If you don't stay ahead of the game constantly, you might be behind and you might hit your darkest days. So the aim is to train yourself to be that resilient that there's no such a thing as a dark days. You just deal with shit. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:So with me the reality is, today is the day that I never lived before. Now, in any business, in any day, I'm going to have issues. So all of those problems or dark days, whatever you call them, they're not going to go away. So I have two choices One, beat myself up, think negative, or be in a such amazing state of mind, full of energy, full of love, because the problem that I have, or dark day that I have in front of me, or that I'm in right, this second, I have to deal with it. So the chances of me being in the dark days, or the chances of me being in the right space, in the right state of mind, I'm going to deal with that problem better. Anyway, do you know what I mean? Because that problem or my dark day is not going to go away. I have to solve that problem.
Speaker 1:So, with me picking, you know, when I was much younger I would get disappointed if I spent time let's say, I work with you for five years and then you leave me, and if you were my employee and I spent so much time and energy and you become part of the family and then you decide to move on, and I would get disappointed in people. But now I don't. Somebody wants to move on and I know I can't stop them from doing it. I open the door, wish them best of luck Next minute I'm moving on. You know they don't exist anymore. I wish them best of luck and I'm moving on with my business because my ship can't stop going. So I won't call that dark day in a business. I mean, you know we all hit fucking, you know walls and we all lose money. But I just see it. You know, problem is they fucking deal with it and move the fuck on. Sorry for swearing, I'm not sure if I'm supposed to?
Speaker 2:No, you're allowed to swear as much as you like. That's what.
Speaker 1:I said on my podcast as well. I always say to people just be you if you want to say F word, that's no problem.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly what is a problem that you have faced and overcome that you're like really proud of, like a personal one that you're like, oh, I'm really proud of?
Speaker 1:Great question. Um, in business about 13 years ago, I lost my business Ooh. Now I started working seven days a week from age 16 and I lost everything at age 30. Where were?
Speaker 2:you at age 30? Like what was the like? What business did you have?
Speaker 1:Construction, yeah, specifically, and property development In Brisbane, in Brisbane, correct. So when you there's a saying, you know I'm a high fly, bigger the fallies. You know what I mean and you know you can fall from one meter. You might hurt your knee, but try to fall from 100 meters. If I can break your neck. Do you know what I?
Speaker 2:mean.
Speaker 1:So, so a lot of people in business, anybody that is listening to this. There's a good news and bad news. Bad news is you will fail again and again and again and you will fail. But you will also get there If you keep getting up and keep moving forward. Now the trick is, when you get knocked down in boxing match or in business, to build up that mental strength to get up and keep moving forward.
Speaker 1:So, being financially burned then and losing a business With me, I was mentally strong enough to lift my head up and keep moving forward. Because the reality is, you know, people unfortunately judge you based on your financial status. Today you can be the smartest and nicest person in the world, but if you got nothing, people don't see you as as you know, somebody or something you know. So in business, value, doing value, you have a lot of friends, and when you lose everything, you got zero. And then you know, when you lose everything, you have to get up and keep moving forward with nobody there to see how you're going. So you are fucking alone.
Speaker 1:That part is where I'm proud of that. I was in a right state of mind to say fuck it, you know, and keep moving forward. And when all the gentlemen said to me send a meal if somebody cuts your legs and your hands off, you're still gonna keep moving forward. And I would, you know, keep moving forward. And so, yeah, it's just. You know. I said to you before this podcast started your mind is your best friend and your biggest enemy. Nothing can pump you up and push you forward or further than your own mind, but nothing can beat you down more than your own mind as well. And it's our choice what we want our mind to do. You know with me, every day when I wake up, always say that you know what my mind I. You know I am in control of my mind. You know I want to have amazing day. You know there's no such a thing that will hold me down from keep moving forward.
Speaker 2:I want to get into that a little bit more of like the story of how you ended up Losing. How did you?
Speaker 1:Look, to be honest, I'm part of the reason why I started one life club, networking and mentoring platform because I wanted to share my knowledge and my Experiences and people that are like me, like my two beautiful partners I'm, simon Bid and Shandray I'm who both created successful, you know, massive companies. I wanted to share my knowledge with people so that they don't make same mistakes. Unfortunately, in business, when you're starting, you're learning as you go and sometimes then you are young, you don't have Life experience and the knowledge and you're dealing with sharks that when I eat you fucking alive. I have these experience in business and you baby, right, so you know, with me is, you know, it's not what mistakes I'm. I think my biggest mistake would be then that most people still make today that, you know, put almost all of my eggs in Vambasca. And and then to me is now you know I have multiple companies. You know we have a property development company, media company, construction arm, we have real estate companies and we invest money into other companies. We're, you know, interested in one life club and and so you know.
Speaker 1:But you learn that as you go, what I, what I've learned from, from everything, is Anything that happened to you. It's your fault. Because when I lost everything in business, financially, I used to blame everybody. I would say, hey, this person screwed me, that person screwed me, that person screwed me. So it was a blame game. And when I looked at myself in a mirror, I saw everybody in that mirror but myself in it. So I always say all the answers in life in the mirror. So now you know, when I looked then, when I looked at myself in a mirror, you know one day realized that you know what, emil, everything is your fault. It was your business is your fault. Somebody screws you. It's your fault because you were not capable enough to prevent that. You know what I mean. So with me is you know, I learned to how to face the mirror and acknowledge my fuck ups, my mistakes, so my weaknesses, and they keep moving forward.
Speaker 1:So when I lost business 13, 14 years ago and business was an award 20, 30 million bucks at a time I made a decision that you know what. I have two choices now. One, beat myself up and not move forward. Or two, take advantage of everything that has happened to me in such a young business life. Take that as advantage to move forward, because now I'm richer, I got so much more knowledge. I know how to do things better. You know, 13 years later, company is worth freaking over a hundred million dollars and more, and it's all. It's all part of the life, it's all part of the journey. If you do signed up for entrepreneurship, if you do say, hey, I want to be entrepreneur, hey, I'm gonna run my own business, or fucking get ready for the roller coaster that you will bring on to yourself Because it's not gonna be easy, but it will be worth it. Yeah, so true, and like I work with a lot of men.
Speaker 2:So I understand like sort of like their mindset and their passion. Yes, to get to the new level went and to take their own heroes journey for themselves and put it into entrepreneurship. Because that's the. That's where you get battle tested. That's the test 100%.
Speaker 1:That's where your character builds and your own personality develops to make you feel better and your own personality develops to really find out what you've got in the tank and not many people have everything in the tank, because easiest thing is when you are starting your business. Easiest thing to do is to give up. It's us. It starts something. I fuck is too hard. I'll give up. No, no, no, lift your fucking game up. You know, keep moving forward. So, but it's all you know.
Speaker 1:I'm key is In everything in business or personal life, or working for somebody or having your own business. He is this key to everything. If people can master this little part, everything will be okay. And key is For anybody to understand true meaning of one life. Bad news is You're gonna die when these days finished. We have one day closer to ultimate destination, and that is being 10 feet under. That's that. There's no running away from it.
Speaker 1:When you truly fucking realize that you will die one day, you might do things differently. You might give it all you might love more, you might not waste time being stressed and and you know, giving up and all that bullshit You're just gonna keep thriving, because the reality is you don't know when that day is gonna come. The bullet that's going to kill you has already been fired. So when he's gonna knock you out, who fucking knows?
Speaker 1:People that young age, people that your age and we don't know when it's gonna be our journey to be finished. So what if you understand? You know, yeah, but I have one life and I and I don't have time to waste it. You want to do something? Do it fucking now. You know, don't just wait 50 years Because you're never gonna be ready for anything. People say, hey, I don't want to start a business because I'm not ready. We will never be ready when he's a ready time, never when you're hundred. And Another thing that I always suggest to an individual, which is really hard for anybody that's 20s old to understand this because when you 20s old, you think you're gonna live like a fucking dinosaur.
Speaker 1:You know you don't think you know, you think like I got whole life in front, in front of me. You do, but it will go fast. Key is go and find somebody who's 89 or 90 years old and speak to them and ask them this question how fast did life go by? Nobody 90 years old will tell you took forever to get here. Nobody's gonna tell you that. They're gonna tell you just went so fast. I was born yesterday and then I'm 30, then I'm 50, then I'm 19, now I'm. I'm counting my days before it's over. Do you reflect on that? A lot fucking off? I do. Yeah, what's that look like in your mind when you're reflecting on that? Fantastic, makes me really use my time wisely and not waste it.
Speaker 2:I don't know what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 1:Makes me really use my time wisely and not waste it. I don't waste my time with fuckwits in my life. I don't waste my time doing stuff that I don't want to do. I don't waste my time speaking to anybody that won't bring joy in my life one way or the other, and Even this podcast. If I don't know that, if I felt that you are not worth my time or listeners time, if you're a bad person, I would never give you time of my day. But you know you're doing a good thing, you. You bringing people on your podcast where somebody else Might have a good impact from it, so that makes me happy. So with me all day, every day, in front of me. You know, whatever I have planned for the day, is you're gonna make my life better? Not financially. Am I gonna be better person? Am I gonna smile more? Am I gonna be happy? Whatever it is? So by understanding the meaning of time and One life, I do everything better.
Speaker 2:Hmm, one thing I noticed about you as well you have like a really strong Masculinity. But also you always mention that you like doing things from love and from joy. And I know there's a bit of a stigma sometimes of like men being like, oh, like, I can't really love from here, I can't open up from here, I can't do these things.
Speaker 1:Oh look, I think I think is important to be vulnerable. You know I mean, you know I'm a strong character and and I think to be In business, you have to know how to stand your ground and you have to. You know you have to be strong character because business will beat you to your knees and you be crying the next day. But I'm, I'm human. I do know how to cry, I do know how to be vulnerable and that is all part of you know I'm being a freaking human. You know I. You know if I cut myself by Accident, I do bleed like every other person, and you know I'm not made out of steel. Do you know what I mean? And you know it's. It's good to be Wanderable. I'm like every other human, but doesn't mean I'm weak. I'd say it make you stronger. My mind is like fucking steel in our main, so it's I'm looked. In end of the day, you just have to be. You know one thing is Not many people Know how to stand on their own two feet.
Speaker 1:I had this discussion with my right-hand man in business, for example. A lot of people will be nice to your face then. Then they, they, I'm there will be weak, being nice to your face and be lovely to you, and the next day they're shitting on you With me. If I don't like you, say, buddy, I don't fucking like you, get out of my office. You know, man, I'm not gonna pretend I like you and then tell all my mates and look at that, fuck with you. I'll say that to your face, you know. So I won't be that kind of weak person going kiss somebody's ass. I can shit on them. You know, if you don't like somebody, don't like somebody. If you like something, like something in our main. So you don't have to pretend to in. And these days people are Out and more to please others instead of to do the right thing.
Speaker 2:You know yeah, so true, I think. I think it's like really interesting about what like contributes to. That is also like being around Really amazing people, absolutely around amazing people, just like like all rising tides, like well, if you're.
Speaker 1:If you're around five fuck with you. Have fuck with a bus six, that's just that. So look at, if you really want to know how fucked up you are, just look at fucking friends around you. You know I mean and that's where you know what I got five amazing friends. They, all you know, have great attitude. They're happy people. You know they're doing what they love. That means you know you're part of that. You know, if you got five Friends that don't want to do anything, that are lazy, that like bad things, well you know different to them. You know so Anybody around you can have a good or bad impact on whatever the fuck you want to do tomorrow.
Speaker 2:So true, and I like that you've like taken initiative as well and you've just been networked with, like all of these Amazing people. Have you got any stories where, like anyone that you've met or network with, have just like Blown your mind and then you've gone and applied what they've learned to your life or your?
Speaker 1:business. You know what every person I meet. So I was in Melbourne and I'm working out of Crown Towers Hotel. As I'm walking out of the hotel there was a doorman, a guy in a red suit and big red hat on his head. And the doorman there, as I'm walking in, he said hi to me. They said hi to me how he was so happy, how he was full of energy. That guy made my fucking year. I wanted to be a doorman. I wanted to say, hey, man, there's a key to my Ferraris and Lamborghinis and all this shit. I have it all. I want to be you. Do you know what I mean? So just that moment, speaking five minutes to that guy, was like oh, that guy is full of joy. His heart is just full of joy and happiness.
Speaker 1:So with me, the key is to be open minded, to learn from every person you meet and not think you are too good or too smart or smarter than somebody that you're going to meet tomorrow. It doesn't matter what they do. Even I run all my companies, but I love learning from my team, from my staff, starting from my receptionist, from my managers, from my CFOs and everybody that I employ. So people ask me Mil, who is your mentor? My answer to them is every person I meet every day, but you have to be welcoming to learn something from everybody every single day and not think, as a person, that I know at all. In my mind, I know fuck all, but I'm keen to learn more from everybody. So, with me, if I walk into a room and there are five bad people, well, I'll learn something from them too. Well, guys, you're not going to be my circle of friends and I'll learn how to not have people like you, because you don't make my life better in any form.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so true, and I think one thing that contributes to making that worse is when people fall for distraction and temptations, which is the thing that I see.
Speaker 1:The thing is specifically when it comes to business. When you start something, your expectations are so high, your motivation is so high, you're so ready to conquer the world, and you just think, okay, I'm starting this business, you're ready to do all the numbers in your head first month, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do that. And then you start and everything you thought is going to be possible it's not. You hit the brick wall. Your goal was to make 30 grand in sales, whatever your business is, in first 30 days and you made $500. And then, next opportunity, you get tempted by something else. Oh, fuck, I tried a little bit of this, I'm going to close it and try something else, and that something else doesn't work. The key is, yeah, you know what, anything we want to do, I'm going to start. Yeah, my expectation is huge, but I'm also ready for all the challenges. And if my expectations are here and I start and go like that, it's okay, I'll get back up there.
Speaker 1:So you can't just people saying grass is always green on your side, on other side, true, I guess. What's more true, what are you on fucking grass heavily every day and see how well your grass is going to be? Because even when you jump over the fence to greener grass, you don't put any water in it. It'll die again. So what are you going to do? Keep jumping over the fence to greener grass and then be 50 years old and say, fuck, where did my life go? I got nothing. I created nothing. Signing up for anything, signing up for living it's not going to be easy, you know, but it's going to be a beautiful journey. You got to sit like that.
Speaker 2:I got an interesting question. This is like a personal one how do you define the difference between something that's a distraction and then also not putting all your eggs into one basket?
Speaker 1:Very simple In business. Any business you start with me, I don't allow myself to start anything else Second business till the first one is so established, so running itself. People are in place that if I do step and start something else where I have to invest my time, this first thing is not going to suffer, because we all have 10,000 businesses With me. I like to put good footings in ground. For any house to stand for 2,000 years you have to have great footings in ground. So with me I have to make sure that my foundation in business and business is established enough before I start venturing somewhere else. So all my companies right now always say I don't do too much because my real estate companies real estate is a big company that sells $2 billion worth of real estate a year. That company now there's somebody running it. My property development company I got somebody running it. My media company I got somebody running it. One life club I got somebody running it and I just oversee them. But did that happen overnight? No, one step at a time.
Speaker 2:Sort of like an identity thing, because I know from a personal experience and from working with a lot of people that you start off as a tradie, you see yourself as a tradie, and then it's hard for you to see yourself as a business owner and to start managing people. Or if you start an e-commerce you start an e-commerce business, you're like, oh, I'm running the ads, I'm grabbing the product, I'm stocking the product, I'm sending the product off, and then, when it starts coming into leading a team and shifting from, oh, I'm seeing myself now as like an e-commerce business, an e-commerce worker or starting something, or I'm a tradie, I'm on the tools, how do you shift from thinking like that to thinking, oh, I'm a businessman now?
Speaker 1:I'm a leader now. I was never like that. I had a different strategy. What was yours? I was always, since I was fucking 16, I built my mindset that I was always thinking like a billionaire. So I was thinking I'm here, but I got to do all this groundwork to get there. Do you know what I mean? And that's where I was like I am thinking like a billionaire. What will Bill Gates do? What will Warren Buffett do? What would Mark Cuban do? What would they do? And I know they all started from nothing. So with me, I'm starting from ground up and I need 2,000 steps to get to that point. So I never thought I'm a tradie. Now I'm not too good to be a businessman or anything. No, this is all the stuff that I'm doing now trading and employing first person. It's all the things that I need to do to get where I have to get. And I was just thinking step at a time, but I was always thinking in a mindset of being there. Now I'm just climbing, step at a time, to get there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think that's so important and the reality is, when you're starting a business, the thing is you can't afford fucking. You can't afford somebody to do your ads. You gotta do a lot of things. You are your bookkeeper, you are salesman, you are IT, you are everything and then you start giving work to other people as your business starts growing. But most people that start businesses are starting with zero dollars and there's so much you can afford to pay somebody else. And with me, nothing is ever too hard. I never felt I'm too good to do something. I just do whatever I have to do to get where I'm heading.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I like that. I think that's like a real key thing in terms of like actually seeing yourself as like the billionaire. How did you?
Speaker 1:I just have wanted. I needed to have a mindset If I signed up for business. If I really want to have a massive business, I already need to think like one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, so, so true. And how did you go from when you did started like leading people and like working with people and empowering people, like in your team, in terms of leadership, to have them operating well, because it's crazy, right, the amount of stuff that you've got and the people that you're close with? How did you like learn, like the emotional intelligence and the communication skills to like inspire and motivate people and have people be? Like Bill, I want to work for you because what you're doing is amazing.
Speaker 1:Two things. One I always led by example. I never wanted to be a general in an army that's leading from the back in any war. If you look at 1000 soldiers that want to go and attack somebody, most generals are fricking in mountains behind their troops. With me. I wanted to be with that fricking general who is in a hundred meters in front of the troops going first and then people are following you. You know there's a movie called Braveheart. That movie was made when you were probably born.
Speaker 2:Mel Gibson.
Speaker 1:The reason why people loved Mel Gibson and I believe that's a true story the reason why people loved him because in his war he was the general of whatever title he had at the time. He was leading from the front. He was the first one going. So in any business, if you're going to lead by example, people will respect your work. And if I'm leading by example in my business, if I'm working 20 hours a day, when I'm training my staff, when I'm talking to them, they know I'm not full of shit. They know that I outwork anybody. So when I'm inspiring them and I'm telling them, hey, work hard to get somewhere, they know I'm fucking doing it. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:And a second as the leader in any business, you have to train yourself and understand. You can't expect same thing out of your stuff that you are expecting out of yourself. You know what I mean Because your business is your vision. That's what you want out of life. When you start employing people, you have to understand their vision and what they want out of life, what makes them happy, which is very hard for a lot of business owners. A lot of business owners will say, hey, I'm working 18 hours a day. You should too. No, Some people are only working 9 to 5. They might give it all, but they are happy earning 80 grand or 150 grand or whatever it is. So the key is in any businesses for the leaders to understand the difference and go on the level of the employees and be okay with what makes them happy. And as long as it makes them happy, let them do that.
Speaker 2:How do you do that? Is there any tangible stuff to get understand what people actually want? There's two things.
Speaker 1:I also like to be business owner that listens. I have one on one with a lot of my staff what it is that you want out of life. And I ask them I like family life, I like having three kids, I like having Saturday and Sunday off. I like spending time with my husband or with my wife every evening, and I love my job. It's okay. I'm not financially driven, I'm okay. That makes you happy. Yes, keep doing that. And if somebody comes to my office and said I want to make $10 million a year, buddy, let's put your fucking sleeves up because a fucking hard journey begins. So you know, you're just talking, communicating with people, and see what it is that makes you happy, that makes you tick. Do that, I love that so much. There's no such a thing. As you know, you're going to be happy if you start your own business, so you're going to be happy by doing what makes you happy. Simple as that.
Speaker 2:I'd love to hear a story about one of the hardest working days that you had, where you like, gave it your all. And then I'd like to hear another moment when, like in your business journey, when you just felt so like, happy and proud of yourself, when you just went.
Speaker 1:I'll go back straight away to your second question. I feel like that every day now, every day, because you know I'm doing what I want to do on my terms. So I am every day. Is that day? Second? The first question is you know something funny I said to somebody this morning and I said I would love to wake up one day and not tired, because most people go to bed and wake up in the morning fresh because I worked till nine, 10 o'clock every day. I wake up in the morning still fucked.
Speaker 1:You know, I mean, I was like oh man, put all jokes aside, I don't know. I dance. That's what I see my work as. So I'm in a state of mind that I'm actually unemployed. I don't work because some people that work eight hours a day and then five hours they fuck around at home and that makes them happy. To me, my playtime is my work. I enjoy it that much. I don't see it is not.
Speaker 1:Time is passing by that you working for eight, 10 hours and then three hours, you know, spend watching movie, or you're gonna spend three hours before you go to bed playing soccer. Whatever hell, whatever the hell it is that you want to do with me. That extra three, four hours a day that I work is I'm having fun and I have this state of mind and this kind of attitude. When I was five, six, seven, eight years old, you know, go to school and after school is finished I would go and play soccer with my mates. When you're six, seven years old and school is finished and then you're out on the street playing soccer with your mates, no stress in the world. You're so excited to score a goal, to pass the ball to your mates, to have a little win or two, and you just have out there having fun like that little kid.
Speaker 1:I'm a fucking big kid. There's no difference in a mindset. You know I mean. So I'm going down, I'm just playing. You know, I'm playing my soccer with my mates and only thing this time I really like fucking winning, because when I was five, when I was five, six or seven years old, you know, just like playing soccer in a now, like playing with my time and my hard work, but I just fucking like winning and I'm there to win.
Speaker 2:You just win every day.
Speaker 1:Well, either I win my day or day is going to be the fuck out of me. My choice.
Speaker 2:Interesting In regards to that, I like a bit of an interesting question for you. So I'd like to know this because you are like positive, you do face things like head on, but what makes you really angry, I feel like, what makes you sometimes just say, oh, sorry.
Speaker 1:If you asked me this question 10 years ago, probably give you 20 fucking answers to it. But now I don't let myself get to that point because doesn't give me clarity in my mind to make good judgments and good decisions. So whatever you want to do to piss me off, you can do whatever you want to do to piss me off and make me angry, but the reality is I'm going to react to you making me angry one way or the other. I will react.
Speaker 1:Now, if I'm angry, I must say some stuff that I don't mean, and if you angry at me and I'm angry back, do you think we're going to find solution? So with me I'll be the fuck out of you in a calm way by listening and me spotting your weaknesses by. You were making me angry at the first place. For me to actually I'm a winner in it, because if you angry and I'm listening, and then because if you angry, you don't have a clear mind and I have who do you think is going to win this argument or whatever the fuck it is? So I don't let myself get to that point because I have to react either way and if I'm angry it's not going to help me have that clear judgment and clarity in my mind to action, whatever it is that I have to.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's a great mindset. I love that so much in terms of like seeing, like well, the real way to win here is to almost kill this person with kindness, because I'm calm.
Speaker 1:Look, I'm not To be honest. I don't again choosing who is on other side of the table from you. The first place is very crucial. So if you're going to be pissed off and angry by something, it's also your weakness that you put yourself in that position anywhere. The first place. So with me, I just tried to avoid those situations.
Speaker 2:What did you used to get angry at? What were things that when you used to get angry at? Good examples of stories.
Speaker 1:I can give you a million million examples With me. One thing that I never liked is lazy people. You know what I mean. Like I would get myself frustrated more than anything, you know, by wasting your own life, by being lazy, not going to get anywhere. But now I don't even get frustrated. You're lazy. You're lazy for you, not for me. It's not my life.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, I can see that like in terms of whether it would be frustrating and for you, someone who's like so motivated and passionate, you'd be like why are you wasting this? Like so much potential, you could have been so good, and then that just makes you so angry.
Speaker 1:But now it's a pretty chill now when it comes to that, because you know it's very crucial for our minds to function at 100%. So your mind is like your body. You know your body. If me and you have a freaking two bowls of pasta for lunch, what do you think is going to happen? We'll be sleeping. There's no way you're going to function. There's no way you're going to be productive or anything. I mean in your mind. If you feed shit to your head, the outcome is going to be the fucking same. So you got to be careful what you feed your mind with no different to your stomach. So with me is I'm very cautious what I let into my head will stop.
Speaker 2:So true, and what do you think about people to say, let's say, they are around the age of, you know, 26, 30, 35, and obviously we're living in a world right now that has so much technology people on their phones, they get distracted, scrolling like on, like on their phones and they're just like you know, sort of like this addiction thing that is hard for people to take control of. What are your thoughts on that?
Speaker 1:Be addicted to what I make. Whatever makes you happy.
Speaker 2:I like it.
Speaker 1:I am fucking addicted I have addictive personality into things that make my life better. And if it makes you happy to sit all day on TikTok and scroll down videos, really, the end of the day, if I ask you how much fun did you have? And if you tell me, oh, my God, I mean like a time of my life scrolling up and down Instagram or TikTok, keep fucking doing it as long as you're truly happy, but don't bitch around in five days how you got no money. You know you broke or whatever. Well, maybe you made that happen by fucking around on Instagram too. So, creating that happiness don't chase happiness for a moment. Create happiness that can last a lifetime. That's a big difference.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I love it. My podcast listeners will kill me if I don't ask you some thing in regards to like property.
Speaker 1:Yeah, man, and getting into like property, I do have a lot of it. I'm very blessed. At the moment I'm literally building a $20 million personal home.
Speaker 2:Wow. Your face just lit up when you said that?
Speaker 1:Tell me about it. What does it look?
Speaker 2:like what's the designs and stuff?
Speaker 1:The house is only four kilometers from Brisbane CBD and I believe I have the best block of land in Brisbane. It's a massive block of land on the golf course and the house itself is, you know, 1,320 square meters. Everything I ever wanted to have in a home is there. Have you visualized that? For, like, I don't think I visualize home to be this good what I'm building, because I'm really building a f of home. So, you know, I had, I had many beautiful homes in my life, but this is just another level. I mean, why is it another level? Like, what's? Well, because I have built.
Speaker 1:You know, I have developed about $250 million worth of properties over the last 20 or years and and I've learned what I like, what I don't, and over 20 or years, I've never found a block of land that I saw myself spending my rest of rest of my life in, and this block of land is that I really love this block of land.
Speaker 1:So, you know, having this block of land that I always dreamt of now and and developing so much over 20 years, I know what I love, what I don't love. So, you know, in this home, for example, you know, we have multiple. I have multiple living areas, wine cellars, balconies, massive lap pool. I built a day spa. It is a sauna, steam room, gym, gym, you know ice bath, hot bath, everything you know. I got six carriages, which is not enough because I got so many cars, but you know, for example, my office, I I built massive glass walls so while I'm in my office I can see all my super cars in. So so that's exciting. But then also you own a lot of property as well and where you know it's just a business transaction someday to win and make a good outcome out of it and move on.
Speaker 2:So if you were giving any advice to someone, let's say they had, you know, one to three properties and they're like oh, I wanted to increase my property portfolio.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:And they had like one to three. What is the strategy that you would use?
Speaker 1:Right now, my change in three years. Right now, wid야 c�을. There's a few different types of investors. I've done a role and right now I develop more than I just invest. What I mean by that is a lot of people would keep buying properties and keep holding them. So they buy a house for, let's say, 500 grand or million dollars, whatever the price is. They put a tenant in it and they wait for value to go up over time so they can use equity and buy another one. I'm buying a buy a buy today that I can add value tomorrow and sell it day after or rent it. If I want to sell it, I can make a dollar.
Speaker 1:So at the moment there are so many great opportunities to develop, to buy land, build a house or units or whatever it is that you want to develop and sell it, or buy something and renovate and then sell it again. What people are looking for right now are properties that don't need any work. For example, a few years ago if somebody wanted to have a brand new home or renovated home, they had a choice Buy it from existing developer builder already finished, or buy a block of land and build something. Right now everybody is scared of building because over the last 18 months we had so much negative news about developers going under because construction no developers sorry, builders going under because construction prices went up by 30-40% and we had that on the news all the time. So a lot of mom and dad that want to have their own home they skate to build because one chance builder might go under, two, it might increase the prices on them, three can't even find a builder because everybody is busy.
Speaker 1:So everybody is just so shaken by negative news that has been around builders going under and so on. So right now all they say the best thing to do is buy an old, shitty house and a good block of land and renovate. And if you are not developer, start very small so your mistakes will be smaller. So if you are developing something, buy something that needs a makeup work that you can organize yourself without even getting a builder. You know, get a painter to paint the house, somebody to replace the carpet, somebody to replace all the tiles or vanities in the bathrooms, and new kitchen, new landscaping. So a lot of that stuff is very simple to organize. Compares to building a brand new project and install it for profit and learn as you go before you start committing yourself, doing bigger developments and so on.
Speaker 2:I love that. That's like such simple and like amazing advice.
Speaker 1:The best thing to do in anything keep things simple.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like so simple. I was like that five minutes that you just said. I was like that's enough.
Speaker 1:I can talk about complicated things for 25 hours. And I said that's what's in at the moment, because at the moment people are scared to build, so people are rather paid a little bit more money To have something that's already finished. Yeah, so you have to be the guy that goes to build a shit to make it finished, but you're going to be the one making the money.
Speaker 2:How did you like increase your money mindset threshold? Because I know people like. The greatest fear in the world right that most people have overdying is financial stress and all the research and that stuff, it all comes out of financial stress.
Speaker 2:So when it comes to buying something and putting money and, like you know, putting your balls on the table for some, sort of investment or, you know, increasing your capacity that well, there's more money coming in, I get to actually buy something nice for myself, like a Lamborghini or something else. How did you increase that capacity of your own? Like you know, money mindset.
Speaker 1:But not giving a fuck about money.
Speaker 2:You were waiting to say that. Hey, I was talking.
Speaker 1:I don't do anything for the money. I truly don't. I choose to be in this office today. When I woke up this morning, I had a choice to sit in a brand new Ferrari or sit in a new Bentley or new Mercedes or fucking $2 million Lamborghini, and I had a choice not to do anything. Fuck around, go on a holiday. I can book a ticket to go to New York tomorrow with me. I choose to work. I have all the toys in the world. Put all that aside.
Speaker 1:I love fucking what I do and I don't do it for the money. Heaps of it come in, but because I'm so passionate and I love being expert in my own field that I'm in, money comes, so I don't measure anything by money. With me is how far am I going to go in business? And I'm going to be worth billion or 10 billion or whatever the number is. It's irrelevant. I don't chase money, I chase happiness and for me to be damn good in anything that I do. If that makes me happy, which fucking does. And money is just a product that comes in and goes out.
Speaker 2:So what makes you feel like most fulfilled? Is it seeing, like when you're working here in like NG Union and you're seeing like you know someone making sales or doing development, saying, can you just like see like happiness come to their face? Or is it, you know, having people after a like hearing stories about you know someone who's come to one life club and they're like I've made these decisions after like, after I've done one life club and like my life so much better now, what, for you, gives you like the most meaning and fulfillment?
Speaker 1:I wake up every day being grateful. I'm grateful I'm breathing, I'm alive, I'm healthy, I have good people around me, so I start my day by being grateful. Everything else is irrelevant.
Speaker 2:You just sit there, by the way, do you just? Do you wake up? Sit like.
Speaker 1:I progress. I process things in my head very fast. I wake up in the morning, all that's processed within five seconds and then I get up and conquer the day. I love progress. I love progress. I love progress. I love seeing progress, creating things myself and progress within others. I love when I see you know, people that you know, send me message on Instagram and say, hey, meal, I listen to your podcast or I listen to this advice you know five years ago and and that has changed my life I took your advice and now, you know, my family is in a better place. That does make me happy, because when you reach certain point in your life, then it comes down to you giving back. Yeah, Because I only I'm building an F of home, I have all the toys, I have a great businesses and what else is left?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I feel like you have so much to give.
Speaker 1:I feel like it's such a wonderful place to be and I never wanted to die without. I never wanted to die and take everything I know and all the knowledge I gained with me to grave. When I'm dead, there be nothing left to give, because I gave it all.
Speaker 2:They must make you actually good at receiving as well. Absolutely yeah.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. I mean, look, it's life is very simple. There is plenty of us all south and they don't need another one in our man. So just be a fucking good person. Simple as that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I feel like, with your skillset, with your knowledge of where you've gotten to, especially like a lot of my listeners. I'm going to be like wow, that is a goal there. To get. I really want to get to that position because I do find as a man it's like oh, we find our happiest when we get to give out, give us the most. But the journey is we've got to create those skillset for ourselves first, so that we have something to give.
Speaker 1:You couldn't say that any better. You know it's the end of the day. You know you get to ask yourself are you truly happy? If I say no, what are you going to do about it? Keep being a miserable fuck or do something about it? It's very easy for you to figure that one out. Sit back and just think what it is that make you happy, what it is that doesn't Get rid of it. Everything that does. Take action, keep moving forward.
Speaker 2:In regards to that, like take action, keep moving forward and being happy, like what is your perception on Australian culture and how, like most of the people that you've met, like attack that or don't attack it, or don't take advantage of opportunities or do take advantage of opportunities in terms of Australian culture.
Speaker 1:I actually think, to be honest, we are living in absolutely an amazing place, the best country in the world. I've traveled the world, I've seen, you know, and I was born in another country, and we are blessed. We're living here. We are living in an amazing country where there's amazing opportunities and there are good people that are happy to keep pushing you to do well. And a lot of people focus on a lot of negativity, told puppy syndrome in this country, this and that. Why even think about it? Focus on what it is that you're doing and have a good people and there are good people out there that want to see you do well. You focus on that part. Other part talk puppy syndrome and negative part or anything bad. That's irrelevant, because there are good people in this country that want to see you do well. That will help you that. You know that are there on the same journey that you are on, so you're not alone there.
Speaker 2:So cool. Tell me a little bit about what you said to Sam was so valuable. It's like landing for me. I was like, yeah, I'm taking all that in. What about the like? I want to know a little bit about the One Life Club membership that you guys have with the app and all that stuff together, One Life Club.
Speaker 1:that was the platform that I always wanted to create for the last 30 years. Your face just brightened.
Speaker 2:I wanted to create.
Speaker 1:One Life Club always wanted to create a platform where you know I can shame my knowledge to others, but I never wanted to be one of those guys that takes a picture in front of somebody else's Lamborghini and tell people I'm successful. Let me teach you how to make money With me. I wanted to have results behind my back, knowledge behind my back that I can give before I start something like One Life Club. And now I don't have to take picture in front of somebody else's Lamborghini. I can take picture in front of my own super cars. And they got no loan. See that I own them. So I didn't borrow money just to fucking look good.
Speaker 2:And how many you got.
Speaker 1:I lost count last time I got six cars and I got another seven, eight coming, so I got issues when it comes to cars, but anyway. So last year it felt it was the right time to start One Life Club and it was a platform where I started interviewing people, like you're interviewing me right now, so other people can be, you know, motivated or inspired to take action and be happy. And then we started, you know, by. We started by interviewing people One, two. We started by doing classes so people can actually learn how to do something in specific field. Now we have a massive workshop, we got a great community and I have two amazing business partners. One of them is just amazing human Simon Bede, founder of Culture Kings.
Speaker 1:And he's amazing by the way he's a phenomenon. Now he's a very, very close friend of mine more than business partner, because we keep having fun as humans. And second one is probably most genius lady that I ever met, shandre. She's a founder of Crimson Education, just turned 29 years old, created company from nothing worth now below a billion dollars. So they are my two business partners and now we're just creating a platform that is giving back or helping people to become best that they can be in their own field or in the new field they want to get into. So now we One Life Club is something that we are so passionate, or three of us that we're having so much fun with, and we know we are creating something where we're changing other people's lives for better tomorrow.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, I hope you guys just have all the success and you hit a million members and you can change all their lives, if that's possible. Well, you know what?
Speaker 1:I think that we are so focused now on is anybody that becomes part of One Life Club that we are keeping them accountable for them to do better tomorrow. You know so. We don't want people just to become members and not not to learn, not give them chance, not give themselves a chance to learn and move forward. You know so. Anybody that you know I mean I speak on a lot of events and I keep telling people hey, if you're here to learn, you better take action tomorrow.
Speaker 2:I like to give all my listeners a challenge, right.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:From like this podcast episode, like one challenge, from something that we've talked about that they can go and take action on right now. So, in regards of what he's saying is like here when they're listening yes, some advice from a meal to take some action right now. What piece of advice would you give them?
Speaker 1:Everything you're doing right now, whatever it is, doesn't matter if you're in business or not. I challenge you. Value listening to this.
Speaker 2:That's fine, that one.
Speaker 1:Well, a challenge. You value listening to this. Do this very simple thing Everything you're doing, write a list Everything that you love doing, everything that you're doing that's working. Then write a list everything that you're doing that you don't like doing, or everything that you're doing that's not working Clear mind and see how can you convert this negative into positive. How do you get rid of it. When you do that, and when you can acknowledge what's working and what's not, what action you need to take to make it better, your life will be better and outcome of whatever you are doing will be better as well. Very simple.
Speaker 2:I want to do a whiteboard on this. Send your photo. I'm going to do a whiteboard on that.
Speaker 1:Send your photo.
Speaker 2:So for anyone who doesn't know and doesn't know who you are, where can they find you? Where can they find one life club? Where's all the things?
Speaker 1:Look, my name is Emil Jurisic and I am simply a guy that gives it all, that loves what he's doing, that has created company something from nothing, and I like to think what I have achieved, anybody else can. Doesn't matter if you don't have somebody that can help you in the journey or somebody can give you money to do it. I came to Australia as a refugee, age 16. Today, I created company called NGU Group. Ngu stands for Never Give Up. We have a big real estate company that sells $2 billion worth of real estate a year property development company, media, business law firm. So we have created I want to call it an empire. We created a happy place where a lot of amazing people have opportunities for them to be good at what they do, and I'm just a guy that likes to have fun, and you can find me on Instagram or any social media. I'm out there, just Google me, I'll come up somewhere. And, yeah, and I wish all of your listeners great success with anything that they're doing and just remember you have one life and live it.
Speaker 2:I love that so much and we'll link the One Life Club, your Instagram and everything down below. So thank you everyone for listening. You've heard it from the big man. Go after it and get it, thank you. Thank you for coming on the podcast.
Speaker 1:Thank you, james, it's been a pleasure.
Speaker 2:Thanks man so much for watching.