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328: Topic | Who or What Part Five with Trent Shelton, Yahya Bakkar, and Dan Fleyshman
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Overview

Trent Shelton, former NFL player and author of “The Greatest You”, Yahya Bakkar, family man, speaking coach, and online business coach, and Dan Fleyshman, youngest founder of a publicly-traded company in history, share with your host, Travis Chappell, their thoughts on “who you know” and “what you know.”

Episode Highlights: 

  • Trent Shelton
    • Who you know: “Me meeting someone brought me here.”
    • A key moment where a connection led to a big success.
    • Trent’s advice on investing in connections: focusing on IOP.
  • Yahya Bakkar
    • Why relationships are something you should invest in.
    • The importance of “buying speed” by investing in masterminds.
    • Why should you invest in a mentor today?
    • Understanding the value of “Relationship Currency.”
    • What you do with who you know is the key.
  • Dan Fleyshman
    • “Absolutely who you know, it’s not even close…I don’t need to know what that expert knows.”
    • The importance of “fast-forwarding” the “what you know.”
    • Dan’s story of a big moment of success through relationships.
    • Dan’s #1 most important practice for building a network.

3 Key Points:

  1. You must focus on “IOP: Investing in Other People” to be successful.
  2. It’s critical to have some form of a mentor at every stage of your life and business.
  3. Money can buy anything in the world, but it can’t buy access, “cool”, or information.

Tweetable Quotes:

  • “You’re investing your money already, you’re just not as aware of it.” – Trent Shelton
  • “We live in an age of infobesity.  People are consuming too much information and not doing enough implementation.” – Yahya Bakkar
  • “Why is it what I know?  It’s not what I know, it’s what they know.” – Dan Fleyshman

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