 Wow, what's up everybody wants to get his brand man shot and I'm back with another episode of inside the network where we share Exclusive content from inside of brand man network calm and for this particular snippet I'm showing a part of the interview that I did with Mike millions if you don't know who he is He's an artist manager who's been moving his way up and through the game He has multiple experiences when it comes to the music industry But for this particular clip it's helpful for not just artists for artists managers anybody who wants to be a music professional Probably just who wants to do anything great honestly in my opinion and after we go through it There's three things that I want to talk about from based on for what he said, so let's go ahead and get it to it Yeah Here's just trying to come up with something and you know I gave up on it and One thing I don't like especially my younger years Comments this I made was just having fun adventures to adventures because you know people people want to see It quick success So now that I'm hopping into this management industry stuff One thing I never did was turn back one thing. I never do. Oh, I'm gonna do something else. I Know I know it takes that's dope I know it takes seven it takes seven incomes to be a millionaire, but if I don't master this industry shit first How can I jump on to the second income? Yo, that's big man. So I never made a U-turn in this industry stuff I got I got my door. I got close doors closed on me right now opportunities not given to me I got doubted. Yeah shit is all I got talked about but I never made a U-turn So that's why that's why I'm here every true business every true business takes five years to at least see some Well this year That's this year is my fifth year and I kind of see see that result that I'm telling you about It's not you know, I'm not me You know I'm 28. Yeah, so at least I'm not but it's different you can tell if I could tell Just that even just the people around me just like in it not the people around you matters. Yeah, people around you really matters because it's like Shout out to everybody that rocked with me and shout out to everybody They really fuck that really like really like me, but if people don't people like you know people don't just be better than them That's just the truth. You know me is now you can't get rid of that, but it's like If you want if you don't have the right people around you Ship is crumbling Might not be visible. Yeah, well low key is crumbling because Those people don't people don't those white people that's around you are really just taking Pieces of pieces away from you and it's like you it's like a ship crumbling like you know It's like the Titanic when it started flooding from the bottom and then just then and broken half. Yeah, it's a wrap Yeah, that's a wrap. That's exactly what happened You gonna stop chopping from the feet and then it's gonna go up and even like man I want to do this industry stuff no more. Mm-hmm. I was like eliminate some people out of my life this year No, thanks. No this to them. It's just a ride. It's just about wealth at the end of the day My banker told me this that's why I did it. Tell me if I'm the smartest person in my peers. I Need to go find a new group of friends to hang out with and I know I'm smart I'm smart in high school. I was in the straight A's and only draw straight A's cuz I really apply myself Like I was once I played a lot. Yeah But it's all about playing yourself. So when it comes to this industry stuff I plot it hundred percent focus on it, you know, no matter what I do every day I try to make something significant progress to what I do, right, right, right, right Whether it's reading watching the interview Contacting somebody talking to some building to build it and also I want to tell like people like the little wins matter Like you could go backstage to a concert. That's a little way might not be it might not be you know It might not turn into money. You might have spent some money to get back stage. That's little Because how many people would get backstage? Even I feel you. Yeah Just a little if you even you get to meet with somebody important take that's a little win Because how many people can meet that important person? That's those are little wins pictures everything those are little wins Those are little wins and it's eventually gonna turn into a major win when it's the time this is all about Watering your plant water in your tree. You feel me you got you gotta put the seed in you got to water it up and then I'm halfway there. You feel me like right now. I feel like in my career I'm like between that fifty to seventy five percent mark because I know that I made some Significant progress, but I know there's more to do. Yeah, I mean that fifty seventy five percent because I'm part of myself And I just I just want people to see my work. You feel me give me my crate So when things are not going my way, I get hard on myself. I criticize myself first because I know that I'm better than this And I just don't like unnecessary Guess I'm not sure. Hey, I was like when you know what enemies about that. Yeah I'm like man Why is it coming like why you coming for me like that? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah working. You feel me? I'm just working like people don't understand what you have to do in this in this industry like your reputation matters Yeah, you have to do certain things. Yeah perception is reality Also back to perception is make sure your reality is matching up That's the weird part. That's the perception But just make sure the reality is matching up. Yeah, if it's not matching up just make sure you're transparent enough to know that It's you you're making a progress feel me like I don't you know, we're not best friends But if you come to my world and and you see okay one way is the perception is reality But you also know that I'm trying because you know perception like I said perception is reality, but some people go fake that perception and You go see them and you're not that person So but what did I do is I know perception is reality But I try my best to be transparent and let you know that I'm not I might be in a Maybach today, but I drive a Lexus Don't wear designers. Yeah. Yeah, but I'm around this and that and I'm trying I'm always being on reputation Dental girls like people talk so you don't want to have I don't want to have unnecessary enemies or just unnecessary doubts No, I don't care what people say about me, but at the same time it's like When you go bored the bullshit avoid it People to come it's like a target Why would you come and you already know people coming for you regardless? You don't want people to just stop in when aiming at you any type of way Right With that being said then I mean that's really forcing you to take the longer route Mm-hmm. All right So if you want to watch that entire interview you can check it out on brand man network calm But there's a few things that I think it's really important to take note from that interview one being Mike talking about how he really You know jumped around from adventure to adventure when he was younger and he kind of wished he didn't do that But he learned not to do that and it helped him settle down in the music industry And why I think that's so important for people to know is because I come across people all the time Who see one opportunity and another opportunity in the music industry or they see something that looks you know flashy like something It looks so great But once you settle into a lot of these opportunities whether you're an artist trying to work with somebody or you get signed to a certain situation or Even if you're just you know a music professional a lot of times once you get in those situations You know you start to see the reality of things and other things start to look flashy Or you see another big name that you could be attached to and you really never get a chance to get settled and actually Achieve something so you have all these good names that you've been attached to all these people that you know or might know you But nobody can vouch for the work that you can do nobody can say you can do anything measurable make any kind of Real impact because you've been jumping around all this time So when Mike actually talks about the lesson he learned from that and finally settling down in the music industry and not making any U-turns there's a lot of value in that because Everybody's gonna go through something not making a U-turn. It's something that oftentimes you'll appreciate later I know I've gone through that and actually there's a great story that I remember so I was probably like 18 19 and I was interning with Some rich people really right I was helping out these entrepreneurs and they had me around millionaires and even being billionaires and There was this one guy who told me this story when he was in college He said he was in all these organizations so many organizations and at the end of the year They had this competition where people won awards for being in these organizations and he just thought oh I'm gonna be I'm gonna get so many awards because I'm in so many organizations. I know so many people yada yada yada But at the end of the day what actually happened was he got nothing He got nothing and it kind of broke his heart at the moment and one day though He said he settled down and kind of reflected on that entire instance and noticed that everybody who actually got something was only in one organization maximum two and What he pulled from that and realized was yo man like yeah I was in all these organizations But this person became the president of the organization or this person had some considerable Impact on that organization and because he was spreading himself so thin He was never able to make that impact on anything never able to get lauded as somebody who's on the next level or worth Awarding because he never was able to even make those relationships show his value or just be a value in general Yeah, you know people but there's a lot of people in the music industry that know a lot of people Making impact is where you're ultimately going to get judged on so keep that in mind and also look just the reality That's where your career is going to move right? You're only going to get the value and career moves and level up from what you're doing from sticking in one place For a period of time to make an impact sometimes it's time to switch But you still need to leave something palpable to build upon right you gotta build and go up levels Which also alludes to something else that Mike said which was look yes There's this statistic that so many people share millionaires on average have seven income strings. Yes. We hear it We hear it again and again However, you have to start with something right that one thing will get you to another level and then you can Diversify and it's more about retaining and maintaining right people have to get their money They build that well or dig that well deep and once you have that you can invest in these other things oftentimes Diversification is really a method of maintenance not a method of building right usually have to focus to break through that first time So he's kind of alluding to that and I did an entire video on that ironically probably about two Saturdays ago So keep that in mind though And the last but not least thing that I want to take from this particular interview is Another thing that Mike said which was if you don't have the right people around you your ship is sinking Whether you know it or not Right if you don't have the right people around you your ship is sinking Let that register and think about that because your ship could be sinking slowly and you just aren't aware of it So just because you aren't aware of it if you know you don't have the right people around you if there's nothing drastic happening You still are suffering So you need to make sure that you're scrambling to get around the right people have the right team Be learning from the right people getting in the right environments because that's just a reality of the game I actually saw this great quote today I know I'm going butchered, but I'm still gonna try to draw from it and He was basically saying that success breeds complacency and only the paranoia survive And I thought that was interesting because obviously, you know There's people who just don't have the right people around them in the first place But then there's this other idea of you getting to a certain location and then you might get a little cocky cocky Right you get complacent and those people who aren't getting complacent their paranoia that they're going to lose their position They're the ones who figure out how to stay or maybe continue to level up So that's another thing to just you know, keep in mind I randomly thought of it when I went back through Mike's videos But again, if you want to watch this entire interview, you can check it out on brandman network calm We help artists build their infrastructure get their marketing stack in place and of course develop their brand So as always if you like this video go ahead like button if you like it you might as well share and if you're not subscribed