Network Your Way to Success: How Collaboration and Networking Catapulted Them to Success - Twinsdntbeg

Imagine a bond so strong that it turns dreams into reality. That's the story of twin brothers from Kumasi, whose shared vision and symbiotic creativity have propelled them to the forefront of innovation and entrepreneurship. Join me, Derrick Abaitey, as we reveal the secrets behind their transformative journey, from their early days of resilience to their recent gala at the Country Club. Listen closely, as they unwrap the philosophy that has been the bedrock of their success: true power lies in working together, in both personal and professional realms.

As we navigate through the episodes, we encounter the twins' university days where their combined force made waves in campus politics and event management. Their strategic partnerships and networking finesse not only boosted SRC presidential campaigns but also attracted high-profile artists to university events, setting the stage for their future endeavors. The leap from university to the world of photography and cinematography further amplifies the potency of their partnership, illustrating that when two minds with a shared vision come together, the sky's the limit.

Wrapping up our insightful exchange, the twins share invaluable lessons for aspiring creatives, underscoring the significance of serving without expectation and staying true to one's brand despite criticism. Their story is a powerful reminder that generosity can unlock doors and collaboration can elevate a vision far beyond its original scope. So, whether you're a creative soul or a seeker of entrepreneurial wisdom, tune in for an episode that celebrates the essence of collaboration, the beauty of networking, and the unwavering power of partnership.

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:00

This producer told us one of the most useless things that we've ever heard in our life and that really broke us. We believe so much in ourselves that we're going to be great in the future. We didn't have any option. We had to survive. The concept of Twin Zone Berg should show you the power of collaboration and also partnership. One thing that somebody can do solo in two hours, you can do that in five minutes because of the power of two. Find somebody that has similar mindset and partner with them, because you can't do it alone.

Speaker 2: 0:33

Number one business and self-development podcast. Connected minds podcast. How you doing, my bro?

Speaker 1: 0:42

I'm doing excellent. Yeah, genizo.

Speaker 2: 0:44

Yeah, I'm amazing man, I'm great. I was at one of your events the recent one you did at Country Club and I loved it, the scenery, the place you chose to do the exhibition the people. I saw there and I thought, yeah, this is what people need to be able to connect with other people. Yeah, yeah, this is what people need to be able to connect with other people. Yeah, to be honest, the event wasn't just about twins domberg doing an exhibition. It was given as the platform to network with other people yeah you know.

Speaker 2: 1:14

So today's conversation I wanted to delve into um building relationship and the art of networking, how you've done it all.

Speaker 1: 1:24

Well, I mean, you clearly defined what we wanted to achieve, as in creating a platform where everybody comes and network, feel free to be themselves, you know, as comfortable as they are. Nobody's on their guard, nobody cares about the kind of portfolio they've built, but they are open and they are talking's on their guard. Nobody cares about the kind of um portfolio they've built, but they are open and they are talking to just everyone. And I think, um, I don't know, but I'll call that our power, um, something that god has blessed us with. We have the power to be able to make anybody, anybody, just um be themselves.

Speaker 1: 2:03

Like, imagine, um hanging out with president and, and presidents and you know, have very, very high profile people and they don't care about the kind of portfolio they've built or who they are, but then they are relating to you on a personal level, because anybody um, that's a powerful photographer, the camera can, can, can, let you do anything. I remember one time, a very, very high profile person, and I was like, can you please stand and say and maybe stand here and do this? And I was actually commanding them.

Speaker 2: 2:39

I was like, oh, I mean a photographer, can command a command.

Speaker 1: 2:43

A very, very, very high profile person that wears that come out of his mouth can just destroy a whole nation, and that is the power of a photographer, you know. So, knowing this power, we've we've really tried to use it positively and that is making them feel very comfortable around us. And also the camera, and through that we've used that to.

Speaker 2: 3:11

You know, um help others and that is the most important thing that we've um been doing since we started this journey it's just really the style, right, the style of photography that you guys chose to do, not just, you know, click, click, click and then we are gone. But it's bringing everybody together and then to say that, okay, we have artworks, we want to do an exhibition, people can come around, have fun, get to know each other. There could be a buddy you've never met before, but twins gives you the opportunity to be able to meet them today, and to me I think that's marvelous. But most importantly, um, there's a young guy out there who's thinking wow, you guys have done amazing, from k and usd all the way to here. Yeah, you've done fantastic. Where do they start?

Speaker 1: 3:59

well, it started, um, right, when we were done with senior high school in Kumasi, we went to KNUST Senior High School. So we are the products of KNUST. If you talk about somebody who has been in KNUST, that is us. We went to the daycare, the primary school, the nursery, the junior high school, the senior high school and the university. So we lived all that.

Speaker 1: 4:25

We were raised in Kumase and it all started when, you know, my dad was a driver right for CSR or Forestry Research in the city of Ghana. He was the Kumase branch. He was a driver and any time he had the opportunity he used to travel a lot going around I mean gathering seedlings and picking up people from the airport and taking people all around Ghana and all that. And any time my dad had the opportunity he would take me and my brother on his trips. So we've been in Kumasi First time. I remember first time we saw the sea. We've been in Kumasi first time. I remember first time we saw the sea. There's a thing that they say Kumasi. People have never seen the sea, but first time we saw the sea it was so marvelous. So I think, coming to think of how I didn't know this was maybe the vision or something. But then it opened our eyes. People were this case from Kumasi my dad would have the opportunity to come to Accra. Know this was maybe the vision or something. But then it opened our eyes. People were, um, these kids from kumar say, my dad will have the opportunity to come to a cry. He would take us along and anytime we are driving he'll be showing us places. He'll be saying, oh, this is this place, this is that place. So it opened up our foresight and we started thinking differently. You know we started seeing differently. You know we started seeing Ghana or the world, you know, even when we were kids and through that it made us dream even bigger.

Speaker 1: 5:51

So when we were done with senior high school, my big sister was working in Temma at the Lands Commission in Temma, Community 4. So you know, when you graduate from senior high school, you have some time before you go to uni. So we went to stay with her and that was our first time ever in Tema. So we stayed there and we knew that we had passion for music. So in Tema, one of my best sisters knew a guy who owns a studio in Saituan Maputo and we told them we wanted to record our music. And my bassist told his friend and we went to the studio and we met one producer and we recorded our first demo even though we didn't know what we were doing. Producer, and we recorded our first demo even though we didn't know what we were doing and when. When that studio that's where we met the likes of Sarkozy, D-Crime, Yao Pono, Yao Siki. It was a studio that, um, every you know, the current biggest artists in Ghana all used to come there to record. I mean, that was the time that there was a movement in Tema, the Tema for Life movement, and T-pop and all that. That's when all the artists were coming up.

Speaker 1: 7:12

So we recorded our first song, our first demo, we started promoting it and that's how the name Twins Don't Break came about, because we went to see some producers and to help us produce us and also, you know, because we wanted to be real-time artists. And this producer told us one of the most useless things that we've ever heard in our life and that really broke us. So that evening we went home and we're like you know what we're never going to beg anybody for any opportunity, because we believe so much in ourselves that we're going to be great in future. And, um, I mean, we are twins and we know the talent that god has given to us, so why should we go around begging for people to help us? And we're like we're looking for a unique name for us as artists.

Speaker 1: 8:04

That was around 2008. And we were like we're twins and why should we beg? And we carved that name Twins, Don't Beg. That evening we were sitting in my sister's kitchen one evening sitting on the floor. We were thinking of how creative we can become and throughout this same period, we used to go for a lot of movie auditions. Anytime we see any poster on the wall saying audition, audition, audition you get your bags and you're going.

Speaker 1: 8:33

We weren't paying to be auditioned. So me and my brother were chasing. We had so much passion. We're going for movie rehearsals, acting rehearsals, auditions, auditions and that also exposed us to the movie industry. So we met so many producers. We met so many upcoming actors that are currently in the top of the acting scene.

Speaker 1: 8:58

I remember one time we were on a film set where Yvonne Nelson was shooting around Spank Test and that was the first time I saw Yvonne Nelson was shooting around Spring Test and that was the first time I saw Yvonne Nelson and that was amazing. And John D'Amelio too was also around. That was somewhere around 2008. So imagine how long it's been. So, around that time we didn't know what we were doing. We just had so much passion and we just kept on going and going and going and going and going. Much passion and we just we just kept on going and going and going and going and going, and and um, through that we were. We didn't know we're even networking because we're putting so much effort in, we're connecting with people, we're going for auditions, we're going here, we're still producing our music.

Speaker 1: 9:40

Then, um, one time my dad didn't really support our music career, so we had to put a stop to that, because he was a Pentacles Churchill and the kids are doing cell club music. So we had to tame it down a little bit and hide it, but we're still doing it. But then it was low-key. But then, um one time we we we started getting a lot of you know um publicity. And one time we had an interview on gtv about music. We performed live on a breakfast show and my dad's boss saw us and called my dad that hey, I just saw your sons on tv. And he was like, oh, my children also want to do this. And my dad was like, ah, even his boss has called him that he just saw his sons on tv and he'd want his sons to also do what your sons are doing. And that actually changed his perception about it.

Speaker 1: 10:41

So he kind of like also calmed down a bit. And then, around that period, um, we 2010, we went to KNUSD and the moment me and my brother stepped foot on KNUSD campus, with all that freedom, the moment my dad dropped us on campus, um, and we, with all that freedom, were like this is it? This was the chance that we were looking for, we, we I remember before we even passed, uh wasi to go, we had to rise north deck. In that period, every day, me and my brother would wake up and go to the library around community four. Me and my brother would wake up because we knew that if we failed and we didn't go to the university, we were going to have a total path in life. So me and my brother, every day, we'd wake up, go straight to the library and consistently we did that and we managed to pass.

Speaker 1: 11:46

I mean, mean, that was one of the most difficult thing that we ever did in our life, because we had to forget about all our friends, anybody that we knew. We moved from kumase because he wasn't helping us, because we knew so many people in kumase, so we moved there to tema, to hide and, and for that period, we were just studying every day, just any time we woke up, we went straight to the library, we closed. We come back home, they did the same thing and we wrote the remedials and we passed and we got admission to KNUSC. So the moment we I remember when the results came, we were in kumase at my dad's house somewhere in aprade and we checked our results and we had gotten admission and that was one of the most um happiest day in my life exciting.

Speaker 1: 12:37

Yo, like getting admission into the university was one of the most proudest things. That achievements, I would say um, we've ever achieved, we ever achieved and we're so proud because we put so much work into it. Um, and he made my dad happy and my the family happy and all that and we, the moment we got to campus, we knew that this was a chance that we were looking for and we didn't take it for granted.

Speaker 2: 13:08

Yeah, no, that's amazing. I think when we were speaking earlier, you mentioned that your networking abilities as a twin started from KNUST.

Speaker 1: 13:19

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 13:20

Because of all the friends that you made, the impact that you made at the university. Tell me a bit more about that.

Speaker 1: 13:26

Well, so first time we got to Ken University Unity Hall, kunti, we knew this was what we wanted to do and the moment we got there we involved ourselves in every campus activity, from politics to entertainment, to fashion, to um, nightlife, to campus radio. Um, we, we just dive straight into it. Because of our background in music and acting and our connections to the media and entertainment it it was so easy to blend in. The first time the hall was having its whole week activities. We were already closer to the entertainment chairman at that time we were like, oh, we can bring this artist, we can bring this artist. Oh, and we had access to all of them so we could call them directly and even broke them a very good deal. So we could call them directly and even broke them a very good deal, you know. So we also started Campus Politics.

Speaker 1: 14:30

I remember the current national chairman of MP, pinanabu Ache, was running for SRC president and we were part of his team. So during every day we'd be going around campaigning and that also helped us with public engagement and also getting to talk to people and engage with people and all that. That thing actually helped us with networking. Imagine a campus of about 20,000 people and we managed to visit every hall, door to door, knocking on every room like a Jehovah Witness, you know, trying to preach the gospel, but this time around was the gospel of politics. You know, trying to get in at the SRC president and it helped us so much to, you know, engage with people and once we were doing all that, it also opened our eyes to strategies on how to market. You know, market anything that you're doing and all that and even though Nanabi didn't win that particular elections, it actually really helped us.

Speaker 1: 15:45

We're doing something called we used to call it Nasuba. It was posting posters, so we'll go out. We knew every notice board on campus, from Kean University to Ayodease to Kote, every night. We'll be doing that and we're doing that. Sometimes you also get paid and make some money, so we we take those kind of contracts. We're testing note and posters of um all weeks, or maybe parties or so. We used to do a lot of those contracts, you know.

Speaker 2: 16:24

For me, though, it's the gut, it's the confidence, it's the I want to do it attitude.

Speaker 1: 16:34

Yeah, we didn't have any option. We had to survive and it was our passion. So we were just enjoying, me and my brother. Even at 3 am, 4 am, 5 am, we would still be up doing all that and wake up in the morning and go for class. So sometimes people used to wonder are you guys really students? Are you guys really students, you know? Are you guys like really, really you know students, that you could be up all night and still come to class? Or maybe you are always all over the whole campus and this thing that we did got us really noticed on campus.

Speaker 1: 17:15

So we're really, really famous um, not just in k university but in a lot of universities, because we did whatever we're doing in ucc, um in central, in lagoon, and now we had connected with other students. So we're doing events together, like, for example, um, we premiered one film on campus and made so much money. Then I was connected with other students. We're doing premieres in Central University, in UCC. We go and rent halls, rent speakers, rent projectors. We go promote the film for like a whole weekend or a whole week, do the um, the premiere, and sometimes, if you're lucky to raise some money, we're able to get um, some of the actors to come for the premiere. You know so we did so much on campus and um 2013, we were awarded the most influential people and students with the purpose by the vice chancellor and through all the initiatives that we're doing on campus, and that was the first award we ever took in life.

Speaker 1: 18:24

Wow yeah, now you've just shown a taste of entrepreneurial spirit, right yeah from premiering movies and trying to get it out parties doing parties, doing src weeks, even helping other organizers organize their src activities and and and bring artists to campus. Um, you know, and um, yeah, I mean we, we, we did a and also that also exposed us to politics, right, because whatever happens in national politics has a direct effect on campus politics, because that's why you see a lot of politicians fighting over which campus, which you know, because in the university they've got a test corn and a tin and all the other political parties having direct representatives, you know, on campus. So you see politicians sponsoring these SRC elections, because whichever party has the highest number of votes there has a direct effect on national politics, right, so they don't joke with campus politics. So we got, because of whatever we're doing, we really got noticed by the national politics because we're doing a lot of social media, we're doing a lot of marketing, we're doing a lot of events, we're doing a lot of social media, we're doing a lot of marketing, we're doing a lot of events, we're doing a lot of organizations, we're doing a lot of PR. So we got really noticed and we also made so many friends in the national offices and all that.

Speaker 1: 20:14

So, when we were done with uni, we started photography 2015,. But then we finished uni by 2014. So that one year period we were about to do national service and we got an opportunity to be part of a film that was shot in Ghana, an international film that was directed by a British Ghanaian director and also the producer was from Spain, and it had actors like Jimmy Jean-Louis Oris Herrero from Adventures of Sinbad, and we were on film. We were on the set for almost two months and that is where we learned photography and cinematography, because we were on film. We were on the set for almost two months and that is where we learned photography and cinematography, because we were the assistants. I was the assistant to the producer, my brother was assistant to the director of the film, and that was also one of the most memorable moments in our journey as twins on Berg.

Speaker 2: 21:16

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, that's amazing. Um, I'll cut you there, though, because you know I wanted to touch a bit on the partnership between you and your brother. Yeah, now I know any form of partnership. It's not easy, yeah Right, even even blood twins.

Speaker 1: 21:36

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 21:36

It's just not easy. How are you guys able to navigate your, the ideology? You have what he has, blending it together to form what you guys have today?

Speaker 1: 21:46

well, I think we're so lucky we're twins um, but I know some twins don't even click like that oh yeah, but probably maybe the way our parents raised us um with me and my brother always been together.

Speaker 1: 22:02

Even when we were kids. We used to shower together, um, sleep in the same bed, do the same thing. We still wear the same clothes. We don't even have any. He doesn't have his own clothes and I also have my. We have the wear the same clothes, the same shoes, everything. So we've been like this since we were children and our partnership should tell everybody that partnership actually really works in any field.

Speaker 1: 22:36

The power of two One thing that somebody can do solo in two hours, you can do that in five minutes because of the power of two. So the concept of Twin Zone Berg should show you the power of collaboration and also partnership. So we've never taken that for granted. We're able to do things that nobody can do because we are two and our minds come together as one and we are operating as a single body. We know each other's strength and weakness and we complement that and we are able to do everything that we're doing because we understand where we're going and nothing can actually change that course and that is what we're going to keep on doing all the time. So partnership is very important in any business and all that.

Speaker 1: 23:29

So whenever I meet any young people who are starting anything, I always tell them something find somebody that has similar mindset and partner with them, because you can't do it alone. Nobody can do anything alone, you know. Even that's why most successful men you know have the best wives. That always compliments them, because God even approves of partnership. You know, even in marriage it shows that if you marry a good woman, you're definitely going to have a successful life. If you marry a bad woman, your life is fucked up, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2: 24:08

Well, the opposite is also true, right?

Speaker 1: 24:10

Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2: 24:12

I mean it's amazing, because sometimes we look at you guys and from the story you're saying, it looks like you guys are definitely, you're definitely using one mind. Yeah, right.

Speaker 1: 24:23

The sync, yeah, the sync even. Sometimes it amazes me, because what I'm thinking is exactly what my brother is thinking.

Speaker 2: 24:29

But that shouldn't be. That really shouldn't be, because you're different people, right? So I can only imagine that there will be times within your so partnership that there will be different.

Speaker 1: 24:39

Yeah, I mean we sometimes have, you know, different, you know mindsets, don't get me wrong, um, but um, I think this is also as a result of we being in the same environment all the time, so it's directly shipings the way we we think, and it makes us unit, be able to think alive. Imagine when you have, when we, let's say, twins who are separated, and when you know at birth when they come together they have different mindsets but we are. We find ourselves in a scene, please, you see me you remember the story of P square yeah right, they were doing amazing in the alphabet yeah

Speaker 1: 25:24

it wins, yeah, but then you know these two got separated exactly and they couldn't stand it. Buddy, how to come? So you guys have done fantastic, I mean whatever it is that you've done to keep that working up to date. I think it's our mother's prayers, I think it's been amazing.

Speaker 2: 25:41

I mean, sometimes you know you meet people right On a business level, yeah. However, you know you don't like their social lifestyle. Where do you place yourself as an individual when you find yourself in that situation?

Speaker 1: 25:57

Well, so this is what we do. We just didn't end up working with everybody or connecting with everybody in a period of one day or one month, but for some it took about five, 10 years before we got on that kind of level. So whenever you meet somebody, let's say you met somebody, a business person or maybe an executive or somebody that you would want to network with, and you met that person today and you guys have exchanged contacts and details, that doesn't mean anything is going to happen that period. It would take time and we like things to happen naturally. So exchange emails, just have a conversation, just talk. Just keep it like that we're.

Speaker 1: 26:50

And with now, with social media, people are able to follow whatever you do, even from a distance, without even having conversations. So just keep it that way. You meet them at one event? Hi hi, how you doing? Oh, then, just keep it natural. Don't force yourself on people. Just keep it natural. Keep on doing whatever you're doing. Just keep on moving. Keep on doing it. It's when you let always let things you know work out naturally. Keep on doing whatever you're doing. Just keep on moving. Keep on doing it when you let. Always let things work out naturally. That's the best. So don't try to force yourself on people. Never try to push your ideas or ideologies or agendas on people. Let everything just follow naturally. And when you do that, they even reach out. And when you do that, they even reach out Because for me, when you follow me, anything I post on my social media is just about what I do and my dreams and me striving and working hard to achieve it, so you wouldn't see.

Speaker 1: 27:49

That's why I always tell people be careful what you put out, because for me I know the kind of people that have my contacts are from regular people to very high profile people, so I'm actually really particular about anything I put out. So be careful what you put out every day, because it might just now shape in how somebody sees you. So for me, I always keep everything natural. Let any relationship happen, like for us. We've met a long time. We met a long time ago, a long time ago Through Besakede and all other people, but we've never done anything. No, we've never touched base, we've never connected, we've never done anything. But everything has happened naturally. And now we're here, we're on a podcast. Who knows what we're going to do next.

Speaker 2: 28:40

Now let's talk about that photography time, your move into photography.

Speaker 1: 28:47

Yeah, so 2015,. We got our first camera and we actually didn't have enough money to buy that camera because after working on that film set, I think we made 500 CDs. I was paid 250 CDs or 500 CDs from all that time that we spent on the film set and the camera was about, I think, 200 pounds or so. The producer's brother was selling the camera and that Hollywood actor, horace Herrero. We served him so much on the film set, like morning to evening dawn. Anytime he needed us, we're there, we were his personal assistants. We were getting him coffee, tea anytime, helping him with his crepes, his costume, anything he needed was there. So, after the film set and we told him about the camera that we wanted to buy, and he was like you know what? I'm going to buy this camera for you guys. And that was how we came. We got our first camera, so that Ori Cerero bought our first camera for us 2014, there about, and we started the journey of photography somewhere, um, right after uni, almost from 2014 to 2015 there's a cue here.

Speaker 1: 30:18

That camera came out of service service I, I believe in service so much that you can never go anywhere without serving and through service it's open so much for you that you can't even imagine.

Speaker 1: 30:36

I mean, every opportunity that we have right now is through serving, like, for example, we serve people so much without expecting anything in return and we, we, we, you sometimes get taken advantage of.

Speaker 1: 30:54

All the time we've been, we've been in positions where we've served so many people that we never got anything and that was fine because it, it served as a lesson for us and we got so much experience and so much exposure through service because, um, imagine, we, we, we, we, we've known um besakede for a long time and he's been a brother, but we save him, we, we, we do so much um, sometimes I go to Besai and be telling him all the ideas.

Speaker 1: 31:26

How we can, you know what we can do to. You know, keep his brand going and and promoting his music and all we've been doing with Besai 7. And that has opened so many doors for us, you know, and not just him, but so many people that we, we always see potential and and not just him, but so many people that we, we always see potential and and we just so sometimes when I see potential in anybody, I just go to them and I'll just offer my services for free, and that opens so much door for us, it teaches us so much and that is one way, or the easiest way, to get to the top. What?

Speaker 2: 32:04

person must you become to be able to allow yourself to, you know, connect within the team.

Speaker 1: 32:12

Well, I would say you must first find yourself right, first know who you are and what you want to be, and try to work hard to be the best version of yourself. And once you do that, I mean, it would put you in a position where people will see that you wake up one day. You wake up every day, trying to be the best version of yourself, and it also help people to connect with you, um, directly or indirectly. So you, you just have to wake up every day and and decide that I'm going out, I'm putting myself out there, I'm, I'm a dreamer and I want to achieve something I think you, you guys, really have a great understanding of business.

Speaker 2: 33:05

Um is really attached to what you're doing, yeah, but then it leads on to my next question, which is you know, we see many creatives right in our space. They have the fame, they have the celebrity status, but then it usually doesn't translate into their financial yeah. Now, what's your take on that?

Speaker 1: 33:24

Well, I think they are basically keeping it to themselves. They are being a bit selfish because they want to um chop everything you know and for us, when you you see us, it's not just me and my brother, it's a lot of people open our doors to so many people, from k? Um to all the guys that we work with and all the ladies that we work with, and all that it's to be successful. This it's it's not just you alone. I mean, if you take all the brands, from louis vuitton to um gucciior and all the other big global brands, it has a whole global team.

Speaker 1: 34:12

And to not just remain in your small corner, you need to open up yourself. You need to allow so many people to come in your space and contribute to whatever dream you have started. So, if you check our brand and also what we do, it had never been us from the beginning. We have so many young people around us, so many older people that we also look up to for wisdom and we always collaborate with everybody that we we are to all those that um are doing amazing with whatever they're doing, but they're not really moving on. They are just very uptight and they just want to keep, maybe to a close circle. I think that is a problem, but the only solution for them is just opening up and allowing new people to join them, expand their vision, and sometimes you might think you're always right, but one little idea from one young person can put you into the next direction. That's true.

Speaker 2: 35:25

Yeah, that's true. You into the next direction, that's true. Yeah, that's true, I take that advice.

Speaker 1: 35:28

Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 2: 35:28

You know, there are those you look up to and there are those that look up to you and there are those you need to go to pick, to pick From. Yeah, amazing. I'm going to lead on to our questions that we usually ask on Connected Minds, and one of the first is a question from our previous guest, and the question is what's the one thing you would change about your life if you had the chance to?

Speaker 1: 35:52

That's an interesting question. One thing I would change about my life If you had the chance to Work harder.

Speaker 1: 36:05

Working so damn hard right now a little bit harder yeah, a little bit more harder, because I knew even the later that we do see what we've been able to achieve. So I saw one beautiful quote what would you do if you knew you couldn't fail? You know how hard would you work if you knew you couldn't fail. So let's say if you knew you couldn't fail, you know how hard would you work if you knew you couldn't fail. So let's say if you saw your future five years from now and you knew you're going to be successful and it will definitely happen, and you now, how hard would you work if you know you wouldn't fail?

Speaker 2: 36:44

I think for me, I would want to know the extent of success. The extent Like what? Do you know what I mean? Because I have a picture in my mind. So if I, I would want to know the extent of the success I'm seeing in that picture. Yeah, if it's at the highest level I can ever imagine, I'll probably keep to the pace I'm going.

Speaker 1: 37:07

Or you can still put in a lot more. Even I feel we could have done more. I feel now I feel maybe we don't even work as hard as we used to work back then, Maybe because now we have a bigger team and now we've dedicated, you know, resources and everything to young other people to also help them grow and all that. But then I know we can even do better than we're doing and that. So, to answer your question, I would really work harder Wow.

Speaker 2: 37:48

That's great. My next question today is motivation or discipline discipline okay, the, the, the.

Speaker 1: 37:58

I mean what? What is motivation without? And what is motivation without discipline? Discipline is waking up at 5 am when you slept at 3 am. Right there, there's, there's no motivation. I'll help you be that disciplined. You know like, for example, um, you, you, you, you, you've been, you you've been on a tour with, with one artist or one brand and one artist, for example, and you went to, you went um the whole day and the artists perform till like 3 am and you have another interview at 6 am and you get to your hotel and you edit till 4 am Because the content needs to come out.

Speaker 1: 38:56

It's the discipline. You need to be so disciplined that, to the extent that I mean, I know I'm so disciplined that every day I have to do something that will contribute to the growth of my brand. So there's no day that I wake up today and say I'm not doing anything. Every day I'm doing something, continue to introduce myself to five people or do something as little as anything that can contribute to the growth of my brand, and all that. So a day doesn't go without me not doing something. We all have 24 hours, but how you use the 24 hours is so important. You get me.

Speaker 2: 39:43

What's the best advice you ever received? Never beg Twins don't beg Right and I'll take a question for my next guest.

Speaker 1: 39:58

Would you change your brand name if you believe so much in it? Wow.

Speaker 2: 40:04

That's a solid question. Yeah, yeah, would you change your brand name if you believe so much in it? Wow, that's, that's that's a solid question. Yeah, yeah, would you change your brand name if you believe so much in it? Yeah, because I guess the point really is that you did, you guys didn't change it.

Speaker 1: 40:14

Yeah, and it's worked phenomenally when everybody around you is telling you that name is so rude, it's so um disrespectful. I mean, would you change your brand name if you believe so much?

Speaker 2: 40:30

wow, that's solid, and if you listen to this conversation all the way through to the end, I guarantee you you've learned something. This is connected minds, and my name is Derek Abayte, the pharmacist and the podcast host. Stay connected.