 Alright, this is how we'll start. Cheers. Cheers lads. Alright, I'm taking, let's just do it. Woo! Fuck me. I thought I could down it when I couldn't do it. Really a whole thing of wine? Yeah, let's go one more. Wine out of a mason jar. Oh, we're fucking savage this fuck. I want something to say while I'm doing the video. Welcome to Q&A number three, right? The part still matters. It's just a Q&A. These questions were asked like fucking two months ago. Literally two months ago. We said we'd get around to answering every single question that I answered. That's what I'm saying. And that's what we're doing. We always do. Some of these questions are very outdated and don't apply it in life anymore, but that's okay. Remember I was talking about his voice always cracks just for 23 years. With that said, we're also gonna try one take the whole thing. Which is why we're keeping that in. So we have a special guest today. How you going guys? Brock Way. Legend. Where are you from? Australia. Australia. Alright, so quick background on Brock. So he's been doing self-publishing for I don't know how long. It's not important. He's actually hit 10k mark before, like multiple months in a row. But then some shit went down. You got fucked over by Decrease Space to KDP print. Yeah, transfer. The point is, show Brock some goddamn respect. He knows how to publish. And also, he realized that the change was fucking people everybody. I had no idea. So what is your, to show people how much you got fucked over? So what's the most you've hit? Like 11k US. Okay. Less than 10 books. It was like three books. Which is some next level shit. So what's it at now? It might hurt to say. Honestly, it kills me. But it just motivates me more. At the moment, just from KDP and payback, it's like a grand mark. But audio shit's coming along. So I made like 600 of the other week just from audio. So that's a fucking drive. Get on audio books if you're not on it. That's just moaning. And also, you're going to start a channel eventually. So that's a good cooperation for that. Subscribe to Brock's channel. Show Brock some love. Follow me on Instagram, we'll find my YouTube later on when I make it. You'll probably make some publishing videos. 100%. Talk about what the fuck you've learned from making over 10k from just three books. We've been talking a lot about it. And you made that money from books. I had no idea people made money from. Yeah. So it's definitely something I want to get into. Like self-publishing, business in general, motivation. Also, just letting people understand that making money online is actually a thing. Most people are still skeptical and don't think it's real. Yeah. 99% of people are still skeptical about it. And it's the shit. And you can pretty much, you can do it. Like don't think that you can't because you can't. And we've been telling you to make your YouTube channel. Just because it's just a big step for anyone who's super serious about it. Like three months ago and I've still been sitting there like. We've told our story. It's the exact same situation we were in. It took us eight months to actually make the YouTube channel. It's only when we got to the point where we had no other choice. Or if we didn't, we had to move back home. There's no way. So that's what it took for me. So hopefully this is that for you. 100%. I'll be on to it guys, don't worry. We want one video in the next. So how long are you in Bali for? A month. Before you leave Bali. Your first video. Done. Let's get into the questions. First one is from Richard Hislop. Two questions. First, can you talk more about how you guys decide the best money moves to make for the day and week and how you make sure you get the done faster. Any tips that you have found for getting the publishing process and ACX publishing process done faster and publishing more books. We sent two questions for a person. You can't just slide four into one. I'll say quickly. We don't know what the money moves are. So we don't normally do this, but what we've done, we've been working off of the last few days is a to-do list. As stupid as that sounds. We've had a to-do list. If you don't write it down, so many things just slide right over here. So do write things down. I use the website todoist.com. Is that online to do list? Yeah, on your computer. Go on todoist.com and you just set out your shit for the day. And then once you click it off, it goes away. So your list gets shorter and shorter. And you feel like you're actually getting somewhere. What I did is what? The day till we're done basically. When I complete something, I just highlight it in red. But yeah, same purpose. A to-do list as old-fashioned as that sounds. Like that shit works. And you got to prioritize yourself. What's important and what isn't important. We got a lot of questions to get through. So to-do list. When was the moment you guys realized you were finally free for good? We didn't answer. We still got to answer the other questions you asked. Any tips that you have found for getting the publishing process? You're right. And ACX Publishing Process done faster and published you more books. Man, I mean... Be proactive and not reactive. For example, once you get your book back, then I'm going to have the cover made. No, have the cover made while your book is being written. Start talking narrators before you have your book back. Shit like that. So I'll be proactive and not reactive about shit. So that you're working a lot of things at once. Not like you can only do one job at a time. But at the same time, it takes the time it takes. It takes minimum six weeks. That's the bare minimum. We'd love to get that. But everyone has been complaining about it taking a lot longer. And to break it down, why say six weeks? Two weeks for writing, two weeks for narration, two weeks for the audible review process. So six weeks is a good goal. Next question. When was the moment that you guys realized you were finally free for good? That you'd done it and had accomplished your goal of living the digital laptop lifestyle? So can I give the answer real quick? My answer is I never had that moment. I never had that moment. Rest is we've never been nine to five slaves. I know, you're right. So it was never like, oh I'm free. The time it did happen was when we moved from home back in September 2017. To Thailand. Yeah, that's technically when it happened. But it wasn't like... I didn't feel... Yeah, because you also don't know what's going to happen next. You don't know that this is going to last. You could have crashed and burned. I can relate to that though. Because I worked full time for nine months straight. So yeah, when I hit that first... When I just made the first few sales and the check came to my bank account that first month, I think it was like 700 bucks. That was when I was like, holy shit. I need to like... I need to fucking take this shit seriously, you know? Otherwise it was just going to stay where it was or drop. And you're at the point now where you're never going back to a job. Ever. If I have to, it'll be part time just to get more money. Because you can't have that mindset. Like if... You might have to like get a job to get the money to be convinced. You have to be humble enough to be able to realize... I want to be honest. If I was ever put in that situation, dude, I don't even know if I could do that. Oh yeah, you would try everything you can to do that. I'd probably rather suck the fuck on the corner. For a month. That's the same way. Let's go back to what it takes. Because that's like freelancing. You're still an entrepreneur. Yeah. In saying that, I wouldn't do that fucking sucker. In saying that, like freelancing is making shit out of money. Like you can make a lot of money from freelancing. Yeah, you can. You're right. I would do freelancing. I would do that in such a fucking job. I'm going to take a slig real quick. This is way too many questions. Did we answer that question? I haven't written as like... Oh, here's a question. There's literally four question marks in this one question. Richard, we love you, but you're breaking the rule. You got ten questions in and two, you sly raccoon. Alright, so next from Celine. Our little sister asking questions. Yeah, our little sister. Alright, her question. Before you started with the online businesses, was there a specific moment in your lives where you thought, nope, I'm done with this shit. I can't keep doing this. Yes. That kind of propelled you into kindle and online business. Yeah. Let me finish. Not necessarily talking about just the idea of a nine to five job being unbearable, but an actual encounter that was the breaking point for it all. Oh, fuck. I have not had that breaking point. No, not as one moment. I know it sounds good for the video to have this breaking point that changed everything. I didn't have that. Just as a whole, I just hated going to work, which is just a part-time job. And the whole time, I was just like, this can't be. This can't be it. Like this. This is it? This is life? That's supposed to be sick? No, no, no, no. Yeah. And I haven't had a full-time job. Yeah. Ever. Yeah. We had it too good. If you're not looking forward to getting out of bed and waking up, I think that is like a huge sign. Yeah. I'm not doing the right thing. Yeah. If you're complaining about it, you know, you don't want to get up, you fucking hate your life, then do something else that you actually want to do. I have moments where I can't sleep at night because I'm so excited to wake up in the morning. My alarm is always set to seven. I normally wake up earlier than that because like, fuck it. I don't want to get up. Yeah, I don't need to wait for this damn alarm. It's so crazy, like for us, a lot of people accept the shitty life that they have. And it's hard for them to kind of actually take action and do something about it. For us, it's the opposite. Like, it's so natural to not to not put up with whatever bullshit you are going through in life, like a job or whatever. Which leads to... I don't even know what to say about that. That's just a natural. Video idea. I know, I know. Video idea I need to write down. Yeah? The conversation we were having yesterday, Gary Vee versus Grant Cardone is like the entrepreneurship mindset. DNA or... TOT. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, this was just that it's DNA. DNA versus TOT. Yeah, I think that it's more DNA. So we have a round table video just talking about this shit. Yeah. With Gavin. With Gavin. Yeah. We'll introduce him in another video. Just lean the second part or a second question. Not really much of a question, but describe the perfect day in the life of a Mickelson, of a Mickelson twin consists of. That doesn't make sense, but I know what the question means. Okay. For me, there's three things. It starts going to Krispy Kreme getting two thousand original games done. That's how the day fucking starts. Okay. The perfect day. Man, I have so many questions about like, is it gonna be, is this gonna be my every day? No, one to 300 pounds in a few weeks. No, no, one fucking day. Don't make it so complicated. I'd be eating all day. Yeah, exactly. I'd be eating all day. Yeah, seriously. Really. Yeah. And making money all day. Yeah. Making a lot of core sales. Mm-hmm. Shit like that. That's a good day. Yeah. All right. Let's go on to the next one. From Robin Verma, approximately how long does it take for each stage of an audiobooks creation? For each stage? Oh, I answered this before. Two weeks for writing, two weeks for narrating, two weeks for reviewing by ACS. So thanks for the question, Robin, but we're gonna move on. Yeah. I'm currently on track to writing five to seven books a week, writing five to seven books a week. Gangster shit. Maybe he's talking about having them written. I don't know. But probably won't be able to afford the upfront cost for outsourcing. That's expensive. Until I get paid more for the e-books and paperbacks. Do you guys think it would be wise to do a royalty split for some books to speed up the process? No. No. No, because you're just thinking way, way too short to write. You're thinking this month. Imagine 10 years from now. Yeah. Or I guess the contract goes seven years. But five years from now. Yeah, even just one. You'll regret it. Even just one. Even just one year from now, you're right. So no, the end just no. No, absolutely not. I know it'll make less money in the long run, but it'll get the ball rolling faster, I think. So there is a point to that. Yeah, a worse point. He'll get some money now that he can then invest in more books, which you couldn't do previously. But I'm still gonna stick with my guns and say no. Yeah. Or is it more logical to save more money and then pay everything upfront and keep the royalties? Work more hours. Exactly. That's what I was gonna say. Do what I said before. Do some freelance corner work. Do some freelance corner work. No, that's a fair suggestion. Okay. Number 32. From Martin, I love you, but we're not gonna spend too much time on this question. What do you think about ACX emerging with KDP print? We were talking about this. That doesn't even make sense. Do you have insider information about ACX emerging with KDP print? Yeah. I think it means create spaces with KDP print or KDP. Okay. Actually, KDP plays a big role. Yeah. So fuck that. Yeah. Fuck that. Yeah. So far, KDP print seems gay. It's good that it's a one platform. That's nice. That is nice. That is nice. I just like, I like create space. I don't know why. I just, I could see the dashboard. Yeah. The dashboard was sick. You could see exactly what books. Yeah. Yeah. So fucking annoying. Yeah. Right. You can't see that in KDP. One by one. And it takes forever. Who the fuck decided on that? Yeah. Stupid as hell. Yeah. All right. Next question from Rob Farrington. The majority of my current books are around one to two hours. We'll be making three hour ones in the future. Would you recommend bundling them in sets of two to reach the three hour threshold or bundling, making bigger bundles to reach five or even 10 hour thresholds? Yeah. Make three hour bundles. Yeah. Do the three hour. Because so, the jump from the one hour price point to the three hour price point, that's the big jump. Mm-hmm. The three to the five is only a five dollar. Which so, 25% increase. 33% actually. Yeah. But the other one is more than double. Yeah. You can basically have two 15 hour books or one 20 hour bundles. Two book bundles. Yeah. Yeah. Each of your favorite places you've visited on your travels, I'm talking Holy Moly, jaw to the floor, unbelievable. I say the same thing every time. I feel like people already know it. Hawaii? Yeah. Hawaii is my favorite place in the world. It really is. I love those amazing beaches. I love the surfing culture. Mountains. Waterfalls. Mm-hmm. Like fucking cliff jumping, hikes. Everything. Yeah. It's insane. So, I'll say, like one specific day, to me that was the most epic recently was the first day in Egypt. Yeah. I thought that one was really epic. Yeah. So we lived right by the pyramids. Rooftop view. You right there of what the... We ate breakfast with a view of the pyramids then did a camera ride and it was... We got such cool pictures. We'll throw up a few of them there. Bang, bang, bang. But, yeah, I thought that was the best day of our recent travels. Yeah. But you would say that was your favorite place. Yeah. I don't want to get too technical, but yeah. Yeah. Egypt was intense as fuck. Hawaii, Maldives was the most, like, surreal. No, well, actually, the most beautiful place I remember is Ismajores in Mexico. Oh, yeah. Ismajores is awesome. More than Hawaii and honestly, yeah. Right? Yeah. I agree with that. Let's see. Next question. I noticed some people in Merche are in tier 10K and above. How many of those designs are unique and how many are scaled? You want me to call them and ask? I don't know. I think a lot of them... Who asked that question? Peter P. Okay. Okay, I don't know who Peter P is, so I don't feel like a loyalty to like... I have no idea. Let's just say fuck Merche. Yeah, let's just say fuck Merche and move on. Yeah. What would you do if you found a long lost third twin brother and he's kind of evil? Like the evil twin brother you never knew you had. What would I do? Oh, you know what I'd do? I'd break him into our second publishing manager. I'm just gonna make him sit by the course. Definitely make him by the course. Yeah. But he's evil, so I don't know how that comes into play here. Yeah. I mean, Rez, we're two against one. Like Hitler evil or like... Rez, we're two against one. No, if he's a dick, I'd beat his ass. Yeah, he's evil, so he's a dick. Okay. We beat the evil animal. Pound his ass in what way? But, yeah, no. Evil twin... I wasn't ready for that question. It makes me think a lot. Let's see if there's some other fun ones. Okay, next question from Kevin McGuire. Okay. Are you making pop sockets? What's your take? This is a super outdated because this question was asked like three months ago. Sorry. Pop sockets, no fuck much. Yeah. No pop sockets. This is like some quick questions from Marcus Walter. It's like this or that. Yes, yes, yes. Okay, okay. For both of you. For both of you. So you'll go first and then I'll say second. You got less than two seconds to answer. Okay. Coke or Pepsi? Coke. Pepsi if it's... if it's diet, Coke if it's not diet. Interesting. The Alps from Maldives? Maldives. Maldives from Maldives. I guess he's wondering if you're a beach person more cold and snow. No, that's easy. Beach is fuck. Pizza or pasta? Beach. Beach? What did you say? Pizza or pasta? Oh, I thought you said beach or something else. What? Pizza. Pizza, that's easy. Yeah, that's easy. I mean pasta. Plain pasta? Yeah. I mean... Let's not stress the... Good book on the beach or party on the rooftop? Party. Party on the rooftop? Yeah. Come on. Phone call or text? Depends. Depends. Yeah, it ends. Yeah. Phone call? Phone call. I like talking. I'll say phone call. Business, definitely phone call. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Oh, wow. So this question was asked a long time ago, but now it actually really applies. All right. Yeah. Is it easy for you to find a like-minded girlfriend while traveling? If not, I would love to hear more about your game plan on that as I am admiring a couple like Dale and Kelly who can work together and build an empire. What's your take on the whole girlfriend business situation? I want to hear what you say. Who asked that question? Marcus Walter. Oh, okay. Marcus Walter. So that question was asked. We were both single. Now I kind of ran into that situation. Yeah, traveling. So I guess I have a Mrs. whatever you want to call it. You got a bird. A bird. A bird. So what was the question? So how do you, what's like the balance? How do you balance between that and business? What's the whole girlfriend business situation? You have to figure out which one's your priority. And you have to make that one your priority. And which one is your priority? I mean, my priority is my business, but there's still room for other things. I feel like they need to know that. Oh, yeah. That's why I can stand this as well. Yeah. So the girl needs to know that you're going to be busy and you might not be able to make time for her and that you're going to put your business before her. Does your bird know that? Yeah. Okay. That's the reason I'm with her. Okay. That's because she was cool with that. Yeah. If she wasn't to be nice. No, that's what the person is doing. Yeah. I'd always said like I'm not going to get this relationship until I'm in my thirties unless the perfect girl came along and whatnot. Sorry. I was out as well. Yeah. Right. But then, yeah, I think, I think it's worth a shot. Yeah. I want to try it. Get the experience. And then part of that is like it's easy to find a like-minded girl. So a girl that's like-minded. No, that's not easy. It's almost impossible. I feel like this is the first one I've ever found in my life. Yeah. So no. Not easy. Right. So the last question comes from... We're only to the last question? Yeah. Yeah. We're actually on the last question. It comes from... Wow. Just one of the greatest humans on planet Earth. What about how you overcome discouragement and never settle? You've opened up about the multiple businesses you have started as where most people quit after one or two attempts. You decide to go even harder. Mm-hmm. Life's through you boys lemonade and you made fucking beef stew out of it. How? You were death like water. How did you forge this mindset so early? What made you want to be different from your peers? How do you even communicate with old friends who don't value progressing? So I actually... I don't want to answer this one. Okay. I also have shit to say. Yeah. So to the point where you don't give up after one or two business attempts, right? To me, I just hate life so much having a job and being that way that it's literally do or die. You know? Mm-hmm. I'd literally keep going until... I don't know how to explain it. It's just no other option. It's just no other option. The urge is so strong that I don't care how many attempts it takes. Right. And at that point it literally becomes inevitable. And there's another video topic we were going to... Right. But on top of that... So how do you get that? Dude, I don't know. I think I'm born with it. Yeah. Honestly, I don't know. But on top of that then there's also the aspect that we have the confidence. Mm-hmm. The the hope's not the right word. But the confidence knowing that if we go into shit and give it a hundred percent like it's going to work out and that brings up like the Gavin was just sharing this experiment with the rats. I thought this one was really interesting. Yeah. So it's about getting micro-winds. Like how do you build that confidence? Yeah. You achieve micro-winds to build it up. So he's talking about a rat. Man, should I go on this? No, yeah, do it. Do it. The thing is important. Okay. So it's just some science experiment. Animal brutality aside doesn't matter. There's... They put this rat in like a tub of water in the middle and then they had it swim around and like it couldn't it couldn't swim forever, obviously. So it had to find land to be able to survive. So then it swims around for like ten minutes and then it finds land and then they did to another one where they let it swim around for 30 minutes and there was no island there was no island in there. So there was nothing it could do. And then they eventually they either took it out or they let it drown. They didn't need it for the next experiment. Right, right. So they took it out whilst it was drowning before that. Again, there was the next day. Then they then they took the island out of both tubs. So then they put on the first rat which had reached the island. It swam around for... I'll retrain number 20 minutes before it like stopped trying and then drown or whatever. Then the other one swam around for five minutes because it hadn't it didn't have the confidence it hadn't ever achieved a win before. It had never found land before. It had never found land before. So it had no hope. So then it gave up easily. But the other one just kept on going and going and going because it knew it had seen results before. It had achieved something and it had gotten that win. So I was like, oh, I know I can do this. I just got to keep going and I'll find land. When we talked about this last night was it you or was it Jake? Who's talking about Grant Cardone? Like the way he would send macro wins. Oh, Jake. And it would be like super, super macro wins. Like to the back when I don't know Grant Cardone's story. When he was a drug addict. When you accomplish those little goals that's when you get the confidence. We experienced the exact same thing without realizing it. Honestly, I looked like just school. Just what's Grant Cardone if I'm getting the story right he was a drug addict, right? And his goal for that day was don't do drugs today. That's my only goal. If I don't do drugs today fuck yeah, I fucking did it. Yeah. Look at me. I cannot do drugs in a day. Yeah. Like how small of a win is that? But still over time next day I had the same goal. Yeah. And then did it again and again and again. He's like, okay, I'm gonna do drugs in 30 days. And now you're like, wow, I'm the fucking man. Then you step it up a little bit. I can't believe I just did that. You know, and it's real. And I know we can talk about our experience with college and how that affected us. Yeah. But I won't because we've talked about it before. Okay. Dude, that's every question. Okay. Nice. Every question complete. Oh. Brest, just go go show him the cow. Oh, no. You're gonna make me do some shit. This is our cow. What's his name again? Ronald. Ronald. Ronald. Ronald. Ronald. Ronald the cow. All right. I'll try the video. I'll try the video. Okay. So comment, like, subscribe. I don't want to do all that shit. Fuck. Oh, we always forget. Yeah. It's a plug. We plug Brock's channel. So that's fine. Okay. That's good enough. All right. So, no, drop that cow emoji. Cow emoji. There you go. That's good. Cow emoji. Uh, fuck it. That's it. Yeah. See you guys in the next video. Wait. Do the hand thing. The hand thing. Oh, thank you.