Get to know AI Optimization Coach John Mendez

Ai Optimization Coach is you know how back in the old day before the internet , when you wanted to learn from somebody , see if they're worth doing business with ? Even nowadays , you go and grab a cup of coffee and sit down at Starbucks or whatever other second-rate coffee brand you believe in . Just kind of not really .

Well , we're sitting down and you're going to get to know John before you hear his next episode , which will air in another week or two , and it's tentatively titled . What are we titling it , John ?

I've heard of apparently I haven't heard enough , since I'm struggling so hard to pull out these names Bard , what's the other one that- ? Claude ? Claude yes , but the quality really is in the prompts and it really is in engineering your prompt .

Let's call it setting up your prompt for AI success and so I can't wait to share that episode with the listeners of this podcast . But right now , we just want to get to know you , and you know what was really intriguing me as we were talking before we hit record .

John , you love speaking in person and I've been to your Instagram and I met you at an in-person event , but you really do speak a lot . You're going on tour and you're speaking in a lot of places . Tell me first , like when you do speak in front of audiences , what kind of audience do you speak to usually ?

Just because I was in that industry , I was an agent myself , and so most of these speaking engagements have been for people in the real estate industry , for mostly agents and brokers .

It's starting to expand a little bit to more so like real estate professionals , so now like lenders , attorneys , all those other adjacent businesses in the real estate profession , and then from there , once I got more into the course creation , business and the entrepreneur world , that's saying that a lot of real estate agents are just glorified like employees .

They're not really treating their business as like an entrepreneur , as a business owner . They're just people who have a business , but they're really just employees and a lot of them run their business that way , which is why the failure rate for most agents is extremely high .

But , as I said , so as I started teaching , learning more about course creation , I started joining business masterminds , stopped going to real estate mastermind and real estate events . Now my audience is starting to open up to business owners from other industries as well .

I still primarily like 70 to 80% of my audience is real estate agents and real estate professionals , but it's starting to broaden a little bit .

I could talk about nutrition for a little bit . I could talk about anime , video games . There's a lot of things . I feel like this is a trick question .

So disclaimer . If you're like a sophisticated adult and you're listening to this , you might say oh , that's racist . You can't say stuff like that . This came out of the mouth of my daughter . I'm simply telling you what she said , because she has two japanese friends who are in a ballet class with her and she's like I just want my eyes to be like that .

And she goes like this and I'm like okay , we're gonna have an education moment in a moment , but with little kids you got to keep asking questions , you know . And so I'm like so cool , tell me more . Whatever I said , you know I put out like my fake parents smile like there could be something here that needs to be corrected , probably .

But I'm going to see what's going on in your seven-year-old mind before I tell you what kind of things are good and not good to just do and say right . And so then she's telling me about how she just it's her two friends , that she just really likes them and loves them and always wants to see them . And so I'm like , okay , cool .

And so she wants to learn Japanese . And we're having this talk as we're walking to the OXO , which is like a 7-Eleven here in Mexico where I live , and she's explaining to me how she really wants to learn Japanese . I'm like , oh , do you ? Well , I love languages , let's bond over this . And so I tell her about those Miyazaki films .

I think it's the studio Ghibli is the studio that produces them , but they're like cartoon films , like my Neighbor Totoro or Totaro or Kiki's something delivery service , or Princess Mononoke have you ever heard of those ? Okay , so maybe you should watch some too , but I was watching them with my daughter and she enjoys them .

They're just kind of like they're Japanese animated movies . So , since you like anime , what's your favorite anime ?

It's just like all the lessons in naruto . The only thing that sucks about it is that all the filler episodes are absolutely annoying so I have . From that I do not endorse boruto at all . I think it's honestly they've ruined the storyline . It kind of sucked .

For me personally , that's like naruto's son and so they made a whole series , spin-off series off of him and his son and his journey . But but honestly , I stopped watching it , couldn't stand to watch it .

But honestly , I like Naruto and part of the big reason why I like the anime is because there's a lot of Eastern philosophy embedded throughout a lot of anime and for me , being a kid , you get to see a lot of that and it opens your perspective .

Of course there's a ton of action and fighting and all that stuff going on , but there's also a lot of eastern philosophy that's kind of embedded throughout and as you get deeper into like some of like the meanings behind and the similar , the symbolism and a lot of the anime it can get very deep very quickly for some of these shows and it's just like I I

really love anime for that , and also like I don't watch normal television here here in the states . I actually sold my TV so I don't watch TV at all anymore .

As you become a sophisticated anime watcher , you watch out now how much dragon ball z , like it's iconic because like what it did for the anime culture here , like it really put on like the anime scene , like that show did numbers , but like as you get older you realize how awful the storyline actually is . It's so predictable .

It's literally fight , get beat up , random power up , then you beat the guy and then rinse , wash , repeat and then like after a while it just gets so repetitive . And then they have Dragon Ball super and like one of the first big villains is a Goku black , which is like how creative .

You take the main character and just very true and just outfit and now he's the main villain for a whole arc . That was probably like the least creative thing I've seen in anime history . So I stopped watching Dragon Ball Super . But when I was younger .

I still love Dragon Ball Z for what it was Action , that's all it was . It's straight hands . People are blasting each other , Planets are destroying . That's what we all went there . We never went to go to Dragon Ball Z to see a well-scripted storyline , right , we just went over there to see PeopleBox , that's it .

We just seen PeopleBox and that's all we was there for .

I was just recording another podcast episode earlier and the guy was sharing about how this other lady just got done recording .

She's going to be on the upcoming season of Survivor and so I'm going to have her on the podcast , if she's willing , but to explain how , as an online business owner , how you can get your online business set up so that you can take three months off to film survivor and like your business still runs and grows , and I was quite impressed with that .

I feel like many people would love to be there . You know where'd you get started with your online business ? Because you said you spoke mainly to real estate agents . Yeah , and I know you said there was a story there , so like , how did you end up teaching people how to use ai ?

And so I had entrepreneurs around me that were my friends . But even my family there wasn't any entrepreneurs , everyone just worked until they died . And my grandpa , I used to tease him a little bit and now , especially when I worked at the restaurant job , I used to say like hey , another day I'm going to go to work like a donkey , pretty much .

And that's how my family knew it's work until you die . Just work , work , work . That's pretty much it . I was surrounded by people who were financially literate or financially savvy at all , or investing . All this stuff that we're talking about now was very foreign to me , almost non-existent .

And so growing up for me one thing thing growing up in a project like we had section eight , we had food stamps , and I I usually don't stick , you know , mention those all that much because , yeah , like life was hard , but for me I was a kid .

And when you're a kid , it just is like I wasn't thinking , like as an eighth grader , nine year oldyear-old , like hey , I have Section 8 . My life must be so awful . No , I'm just a kid . I wasn't worried about a lot of that stuff , and that's also part of the reason why I hate victim mentality so much .

It's like , yeah , I had it hard , but I didn't even realize I had it hard until I grew up and it's like , oh well , I did miss out on some opportunities , but who cares ?

I learned early on I wanted to be a product of my decisions and not a product of my environment , and I can't say where that stemmed from , but I took people at face value and it's like the stuff that they did that I liked I tried to implement into my life , and the stuff that they didn't like I would leave out .

And so for me , that's how I navigated my way around the world . I was always very open-minded and that's why , like I think , perspective very early on .

And I think , for me , like I think I was blessed with the gift of wisdom we all got to get , blessings is all what gives , I feel , and the one for me was wisdom , and most of it was because I was just so open minded , like not having a set role model to look up to .

It's like that was my biggest blessing , because I said I had the opportunity to look at all these people and see what they were doing and what they weren't doing , and just became like this giant melting pot of all these different viewpoints and perspectives .

And then the parts that I did like I would try to adopt into my life , the parts I didn't , I would leave out . And so that's how I navigated the world .

And I still remember , like in middle school and high school we have this thing called like philosophical chairs or socratic seminars I forget what they're called and they'd be like what's the best thing pizza or ice cream , pick a side and you had to split the class up and like I would see which side had less people , right and pretty much , and I would just go

on the side with less people just so I can argue and have more people to argue with . Like I love debating and even in like middle school I realized that I love argumentative essays .

I love debating a point for whatever reason and just switching our perspective , and that carried on and then I got into high school , student athlete right , played sports , my senior year . What sports did you play ? Football and basketball . And then I did track my senior year . I did javelin yeah , they're good sports . Yeah , so I play football .

And then I did track my senior year I did javelin .

You should head over to the YouTube channel and watch it , because then you would see that John the guest heritage-wise is channel and watch it , because then you would see that john the guest heritage wise is . Well , tell me . You said that your , your dad was from the dominican republic and your mom was from where .

I didn't really know anything about my guatemalan culture until this past december , when I went to guatemala for the first time ever okay aside from that , my dad was absent pretty much most of my childhood so I never really seen him and I have cousins here and family here from my Guatemalan side that I still have yet to meet and my mom's side of the family ,

my mom . She suffered from mental health issues . So for me personally we still have a horrible relationship and it's one of those things where I didn't realize as a kid why she couldn't be the mom I needed her to be . And as I got older I realized it's because she couldn't due to like her condition .

But then , like even now , it's like she still thinks she's my mom and in my head that ship has sailed .

So for me my grandparents are the ones who raised me . They're my parents in my head and that's for me , as I said , was also another big blessing , because I think one of the biggest things about my upbringing that I loved is that my grandparents didn't try to shut me off from anything , like they were very chill . I had some chill grandparents .

But also , like I grew up in the projects , just like all the drugs , all the gang activity , all that stuff was always around me , it was always right nearby and I never , ever dabbled with , I knew that wasn't around , especially once I started going to church .

I started going to church around like third grade , so that had a big factor to play into it , okay , and so that helped start building the right foundation , the right morals . But , like , for me it's like it was always there , but because I know we want things that we can't have , but no one ever told me that I couldn't go down that route .

I mean , I always could have , it was right there , but I just chose not to . And it reminds me of this quote that Jordan Peterson talks about it's like the rabbit who does no harm to you isn't actually virtuous , because even if it wanted to , it couldn't . It's the lion that could kill you that chooses not to . That displays true virtue .

And so for me it's like a lot of people say you know , oh , I haven't done this , this and that I haven't ever drank in my life or did this . And it's like , well , where was the temptation ? And one of the points I always bring up is like is a man loyal if he doesn't cheat on his wife ? But he never had the opportunity to cheat .

And it's a question that usually gets people . It's usually a 50 50 response that I get from most people when I ask that and bring that question up . It's like oh , you know he never cheated , so he's , it doesn't matter if he had options or not , he's loyal , he never cheated .

But then , like it's also it's like if you never had the temptation , if you haven't never had the opportunity to cheat , are they not cheating because they don't want to cheat or are they not cheating because the opportunity never presented itself ? And that's something that doesn't matter , because does it . Yes , a hundred percent , okay , 100 .

Because it's like you never truly know . It's back to that mike tyson quote right , everyone has a plan until you get punched in the face , right , all right . And so you could say , oh , I never cheated my wife , oh , I never did , and it's like , okay , but have you ever had the opportunity to do so ? And if you haven't , then you can really .

You can't really say like if , for example , let's bring it to online business , yeah , my course helps people make thousands of dollars , okay , but do you have anyone that been through your course ? No , but if someone did go through my course , it would make them millions of dollars . Oh well , that's not enough of a testimonial for me to buy your program .

I think you're BSing me .

Like , has he been tested and can say that like he's loyal because he made the decision , like in the face of temptation , to be loyal .

Like he can't say that , but he can still say that like he's not actively going out there and looking for opportunities to cheat you know like remember in this situation is if he didn't never had an opportunity , he's not loyal or not loyal .

If you had the opportunity to cheat and then , based on what you decide to do , only then could you be labeled as loyal or not is kind of where the thing kind of stems to and it's like tie it back to the original point . It's like a lot of people say that , oh , they're this and this and that .

But it's like if you never had any adversity , if you never had any temptations , right , it's easy to live a clean life , right ?

if there's nothing that you've never been tested , it's easy to say that you're this , this and that if you've never been tested , right , okay , I'll give you that that's kind of like the word of point stems to , and so for me I don't even remember where I was originally going with that point I think I was talking about like it's okay , we're just talking , but

I have a question for you .

I was going to ask and I think that's where we were talking about men and being loyal and are you loyal If you haven't been tempted ? I was going to ask you do you feel , since you said your mom was from the dominican republic ?

Yeah , all right , I can identify with that , because I also grew up in hood and my dad is from Ghana , though my mom is from the states , and so I wondered how much do you feel like an international mindset had to do with the fact that you clearly were not a product of your environment ?

I never had my first drink until I was 19 , which is still technically underage , but like , let's be real , most people do drink underage and , like , in my culture , culturally most people drink and people will look at it through their you know United States lens and realize that cultures outside of the States are extremely different from this country that we're living

and how they're brought up . But it was one of those things was like culturally that was accepted to . Like from a young age to start drinking . That's like one of the things .

Like for me , I never wanted to do that , I never found any interest in doing so , and so there are things like that it's like also , like the dominican culture as a whole tends to be very , very promiscuous .

Like for me , growing up in the church , I always thought that that was the wrong thing to do , so it's something I never dabbled in and so it's like for me . As I said , I took the parts that I liked and left out the parts that I didn't . And so I think I mean I love the culture .

I love my dominican culture a lot more than my guatemalan side , but that's a story for another day , you know a little biased but it gave me a lot of charisma .

It gave me a lot of my personality , my flair , right of who I am and how I express myself , and so it's like it's all about like deciding how you want to live and being comfortable in that , and I feel like , as I said , having that international mindset .

I always brought up that I don't remember too too much of like the anecdotes or the lessons that my grandparents tried to instill in me , but one of the ones I always learned is that actually wasn't too helpful , honestly , but it was like always . You know , when you go to someone's house , don't ask for anything . If they offer , say no , right .

Don't take anything from anyone . Always behave yourself . My grandparents always told me not to get involved in that stuff . They always frowned upon it , and so that may have played a role as well . They always frowned upon it Like hey , don't know , don't , don't hang out with like bad company . It remind me of a bible verse that I love .

It's like do not be misled , bad company corrupts good character . I think I quoted it last week too . It's one of my favorite bible verses .

They were very against it . Had I not done that , we wouldn't be even sitting here having this episode right now . Right .

And so it's like there's pros and cons to like having that immigrant mindset Like one of the best things is like they instilled , like work ethic , right Cause they know , especially like growing up my grandparents , they didn't receive their citizenship citizenship until , like I was in my teenage years .

They don't want to make too much commotion , they don't want to make too much of a loud , you know any noise or anything , because it's like they knew , they knew their place , kind of , and they didn't want to get kicked out , they didn't want to get sent back , they know the opportunity was here .

And it takes a lot of like courage to like drop everything and come here and they didn't have much . And , like my grandparents , like they already raised their kids and now they have to raise me and my sister , like they already did their job but then they then had to raise me .

It definitely instilled a lot of strong character traits in me and that are still helping me out to this day I can .

When he immigrated from Ghana to the States , you know , like he had two degrees , he was already working like a government job , which in plenty of countries like you have a decent government job it's . You know you just stay there and you just stay on a decent salary and then a nice pension . You know it's . It's not a job that you just up and leave .

And yet he did . But like you talk about , like the immigrant work ethic and hustle . Like for most of my life I didn't see him just because he was there , but he was working two jobs to afford to take care of , like my sister and I , and then , like him and my mom got divorced too . So , or like after probably age nine , he wasn't there either .

But like I can understand that and identify like you when you said you grew up in the projects but you're a kid , so it's not like you really know where you're at , or know that , like maybe the cards that you have aren't the same as somebody else , Like you know , you're just a kid , You're just just happy , you're enjoying your life , and like that was me

too , but I didn't know . It was weird to not be able to cross the street . But I didn't cross the street . You know , like I didn't get it until I did that .

whether you want to or not , and like . For me it's like oh , you know , you hear like oh , but john , you know you're a person of color . Like you have it harder . Like there's people who have more opportunities than you and like you know , you grew up in the projects . You had free lunch , like that's like , and so what ?

I'm supposed to sit here and cry about it ? I'm a grown man . Like I'm gonna make the life that I want for myself . I'm not . Yes , that is true . Yes , I had all those experiences , and that's not to belittle any of those experiences . Well , those are my experiences . I led them . Yes , it was hard .

Yes , you know we had to boil cold water sometime just to take baths . Like it was definitely not easy . But there's a quote I love it's like one can't wish for both strong character and an easy life , because the price of one is the other .

Right , there you go , yeah , and so it's like all these people say like oh , especially that it gets me so annoyed when successful people are like you know , I pray that no one has to go through what I went through , and my first thought is always but like , you went through it and you came out pretty well .

So are you saying that you don't want people to be as successful as you ? I mean , of course , yeah , not everyone makes it . But if everyone went through the same exact situations as you did , in the same exact circumstances , with the same exact mindset and resources all variables held the same in most cases another you would come out .

And so what you're telling me is that you don't want another you so . Is that because , like , you're trying to sit on this moral high ground , like oh my goodness , I don't want you guys to have it as hard as I did .

I don't know what the for me and this just made me me being a little cynical or skeptical , but it's like , well , I had a pretty tough . I think more people should experience what I went through . Build some character right .

So it's like how much younger do you want me to go ? But then two is also , it's like I wouldn't change anything Right . But then two is also it's like I wouldn't change anything right , why ? One , if you watch anything like movie , all those time traveling movies . One , you know about the butterfly effect .

And if you change one thing , it's going to change a whole . Not good at changing stuff in the past . Yeah , exactly , I watched too many you know time traveling movies to know how that ends up right . And two , I said I think I turned out pretty fine , and some may say I turned out great for my age .

past , you're still in the future . You're not actually in the past of your original self . Does that make sense ?

many things in the past , then you might change yourself out of existence because you came from the future tracking with me .

And then he was saying that's , that's one thought , but like , another school of thought says , if we're going across this timeline and I jump to the past , I'm still the future of , like my past self , and the past I jumped to was like a different past . That is still the future .

So if I change stuff , it doesn't change that original timeline Because I'm still in the future . Yeah future past , I don't know . So fast forward us , because we still are staying on track .

You did say that you speak primarily to real estate agents and I know you told me when we recorded on your podcast about this , but your entrepreneurial journey didn't start with AI and I don't even did it start with real estate , or did you have something before that ?

I got into college . I got into 13 colleges . I ended up going to University of Connecticut . Really , yeah , I skipped a lot of school , but I made sure I did my homework and I got great SAT scores . I graduated with a 3.5 . I'm 13 .

I was doing was having a blast End of my freshman year , pandemic happens , boom , march 2020 . Never end up coming back on campus .

Then , fall 2020 , I ended up starting my sophomore semester and I read Rich Dad , poor Dad , and from there it made me realize that there was another way of viewing the world that wasn't being taught in school , wasn't being taught in my environment . Viewing the world that wasn't being taught in school wasn't being taught in my environment .

But , more importantly , it wasn't being taught back home , right ?

So what I did was I went on YouTube university and looked at every video I can about anything related to like , personal finance , entrepreneurship , you name it and I ended up stumbling across this course on real estate wholesaling , which essentially kind of like , let's say , you want to buy a property , right , and there's Joe Schmo who wants to sell a property .

Like now , with an agent , you'll list a property and then the buyer will have an agent to represent them and the buyer they close on the house , whatever . But like a wholesaling is a little different .

Usually , wholesaling is off market , mainly because the sellers are in some sort of like distress situation and it's like all right , I'll get the pretty much , I'll get the seller , I'll connect them to you , the buyer , and then I'll get a sort of like finder's fee of some sort for connecting you to is for anyone that's listening .

And I was going to do that , got my LLC filed , got my logo name and all that stuff , and I was going to start wholesaling and an attorney in Connecticut was like , oh , you can't do that . And I thought they were the professionals , you can .

That's the first thing I learned is you can , but at the time they were the professionals , they were the attorneys , right . And so I was like well , but I don't want to be in trouble with the law , so let me just drop this idea From there .

I ended up starting my spring semester of sophomore year still online and I ended up deciding to start my real estate university classes to get my real estate license , because I was at K Jewelers and I was helping people buy like all these jewelry and all these engagement rings and stuff .

And I was like , well , if I can help them with this and I'm making some money off of it , imagine I help somebody with a house . How much better I would feel . How much better they would feel , cause , if people would come in and buy like a hundred dollar ring and like act like they just won the Superbowl . Like they were super excited .

So like , imagine a house . So I was just like all right .

So I was working about 70 hours between K Jewelers and I started at a restaurant , and whenever I had free time I would pretty much study for my real estate exam . And so for about like six , seven months in 2021 , it was just like every day was like Groundhog's Day . It was just like the same day rinse , wash , repeat for forever .

I barely remember like that whole first half of 2021 . And so from there , I ended up getting licensed two weeks after I turned 20 as an agent September 15th or so or something like that . I got licensed as an agent Around that time . Me and one of my boys were talking about a month before . He was like yo , bro , we should start a podcast .

And I'm like yo , bro , I'm not going to lie , that's a good idea . He ended up going back to college I had already dropped out to pursue real estate , so our schedules didn't match up anymore . From there I procrastinated , I was thinking of a name .

I couldn't think of any , and it took me about three months , but I finally came up with the name Walk to Wealth . And the whole story behind the name is for the 99% of us that are overnight sensations , to 9% of us that aren't overnight sensations .

It's a long walk to wealth , and some people may walk faster than others , but what good is sprinting to the finish line if you've passed out when you cross it ? And so that's how the podcast came together . And so January of 2022 , I launched the podcast .

I ended up quitting K Jewelers a couple of months before that , so I was just working at the restaurant , got my real estate license , launched a podcast January 2022 . I was in a couple of real estate calls in January , and they usually took place from between 6.30 to 7 in the morning . Now I'm normally in the gym at that time , so I normally never share .

And one day they were talking about social media and I was like , oh , my time to shine . And I was like , oh , my time to shine . So I ended up not being able to share because I was in the gym . So I just typed up what I wanted to say and posted it in the Facebook group .

I had tons of people like loving , commenting , sharing the post , and one of the co-hosts was like John , would you mind teaching a class on this ? And instead of saying yeah , I said I never taught a class before . And she was like John , listen , let me know when you want this scheduled . So I couldn't say no to her twice .

I couldn't fumble this opportunity twice . So what I did was so I just figured it out . I had a Google form and from the Google form , went to the Google sheet and then I would copy and paste those names onto a MailChimp and then , from the MailChimp , send out the Zoom link to people , because I didn't know how to use Eventbrite .

I didn't know about funnels or Kajabi or any of the other pages . I ain't know about any of that stuff man I got . I was duct taping everything putting it together .

So the Friday before I hosted my very first social media class . I ended up getting over 440 people registered for that class . Then , from there , that following Friday it's a family reunion and at family reunion I seen all the people . Everyone knows me by my hair and I had a lot of hair .

If you see my headshot , I had a lot more hair before I cut it , and so , oh really yeah , I haven't check for anyone that's watching like watch , look for my headshot right . And my hair used to be massive and I went in with my hair in cornrows because I knew everyone was going to expect the hair right .

So you can never let them know your next move right . Keep them on their toes always .

That Sunday at the conference there was going to be a networking event for the people in that community , so that Sunday I woke up extra early at the conference , washed my hair , had my curls in full effect and I had a shirt that says stop and stare , just don't touch the hair .

And that's why your email says stop and stare , just don't touch the hair and that's why your email is stop and stare exactly and that's where it came from .

And so from there and that's what sparked the social media classes and I was doing the podcast , I was teaching real estate , I was doing social media classes and working at a restaurant and it looked amazing . From the outside , like you see my instagram , it's like , oh , my goodness , john's doing so many things , he's doing so great .

Wow , I'm so proud for him . But behind the scenes and you know this , like everything looks good when you're doing a digital business , no matter how , like sucky or like horrible it's going on the inside . And , man , that is like I wasn't making no money on anything . I was losing out on business Remember to say business .

My podcast wasn't monetized and my social media classes I'll teach you for free , not because , like I had a limiting belief that I didn't realize what a limiting belief , I said like , oh , I'm just gonna teach these classes my way of giving back

. And on my second class ever had a little over 400 people signed up for it . One of my friends she's a millionaire agent down in maryland . She was like john , never do another one of these again without charging and and I was like oh , mind you , this is live on the class in front of like 180 people live on a Zoom call .

People were telling me I should be charging , but what I realized later on was I felt unworthy of receiving the money because I wasn't selling houses . It took me a while to realize that people weren't showing up to my classes to learn how to sell more classes . I mean sell more houses .

They were showing up to my classes because I knew something that they didn't and that at point , it was social media . So fast forward a little bit . Now it's september of 2022 and I started . I read this book called the passion pat .

I think your your passion , passion project or I don't know , it's by it's by brian brian , something it's about , uh , your purpose . I forget what the book is . I have the book , I got to find it . It's an amazing book and it's all about the word purpose and finding your purpose , uncovering your purpose , and from there I was like all right .

And so I signed up for the challenge and in there I signed up for my funnel away . One funnel away , I think . I think it was one funnel away , it was enough . One funnel away is the 30-day one . It was a five-day challenge that they had your first funnel challenge . That's where it was .

It was your first funnel challenge and from there I ended up going through it and mendez media was taken . So I was like , all right , what's the next best ? name stop and stare media right , because when you create content , you need people to stop and stare right , I'm surprised that wasn't taken .

I want to start up an agency right , and after my first client I realized I hated creating content for people , especially because I still had to create all my own content . So that was awful . So I was like all right , let me scrap this idea up . So now I'm at this point where like , oh , my goodness , you know I'm struggling .

I'm not making any money burning through my savings , it's about to be winter time , restaurant's super slow in the winter , so I knew I wasn't gonna be making any money and I was like all right , let me start going on youtube university again . And that's when I started .

I found this concept called icky guy , which I'm pretty sure you're familiar of , but for anyone that's not incremental improvement .

Like there's no one , like like the , the land of immortals or something like that , because everyone , the life expectancy there is so high , and it's pretty much a four circles like a venn diagram , and it's where , like , what you love to do makes me mix with what the world needs , mix with what you can be rewarded for , mix with what you're good at , and when

those four circles intersect . That's your icky guy , your reason for being , your purpose , essentially , and so I found that I can't believe I messed that up .

He had a mastermind and it was about 400 bucks a month at that time . I'm still in the mastermind and I was like man , month one , I got it , no problem . But like months two , three , four and five , we don't know man , I don't , I don't know where that money gonna come from .

And I was like , well , maybe , maybe , maybe , just maybe the reason I don't have the money is because I was playing scared with my money to begin with . Oh , it's a thought , okay . And so I was like , let me go all in . And so , in the mastermind , he had a course on how to use chat GPT .

Now I was already using chat GPT to create titles for my podcast and create show notes for my podcast , so I was already a pretty early adopter onto it . I started using it around late December of 2022 . And so at that time , chatgpt was only a month old , and so I seen his class and his class was decent .

I don't really remember much is at the end of it he shows the screen recording of himself using ChatGPT to create the very same curriculum . I just had him teach me in a course and I was like , bro , no way , no way , like , this guy has it . Good , he just created a whole class . I thought it was him , but it was ChatGPT . The whole time .

He didn't have to do any work aside from press record and create a couple slides , right , that's all he had to do . And so I was like , you know what ? That's a good idea . So two weeks later I ended up posting my very first ChatGPT class on how to use ChatGPT and in there I had ChatGPT create the presentation curriculum like outline .

I had to create the information for each slide . I use a tool called Tomeapp to create the actual slides . I use Midjourney and Dali for the images on the presentation and then from there I had an Eventbrite landing page to get people to register .

Still haven't found out about landing pages and registration pages yet , so I use Eventbrite and I use Midjourney to create the cover photo for the Eventbrite page . I use ChatGPT to create the headline , the description . I use ChatGPT to create the headline , the description .

I use ChatGPT to come up with the emails to get people to register and the email to get people to remind them to show up to the class live . I got a little over close to 300 people registered for that class and it was free . At the end of it I said hey , I'm teaching a workshop on a Friday . This is on a Wednesday .

I'm doing a workshop on a Friday to help go over this stuff . It's 200 bucks , I have 20 spots and I didn't have an offer stack or a fancy pitch like we're usually taught to do in this webinar space and whatever , and within 24 hours I sold out .

So I made 4,000 bucks and I was like whoa , I just made more money than I made in like three months at the restaurant doing this presentation that I had Chad GPT create On top of that .

This is also before , like , the National Association of Realtors and all the major media outlets found out about Chad GPT , and so I was like whoa , no one even knows about this stuff . I got to go all in . And so that's when , for me , I realized I got to stop teaching social media stuff and go all in on the AI stuff . Okay , all right .

So we're just going to stop it here and say , if you want to learn about how to use chat , gpt in your business specifically prompt engineering , because I'm going to ask you a lot about that and like be ready to share that but specifically prompt engineering as in , you can ask chat , gpt or cloud to do something for you , but how do you make your prompt good

so that the response and the outcome is even better , be that containing your voice , because you're asking it to make you a sales page or an email or an email series , or giving it enough context so that it can like recommend an automation to you . Like , stay tuned .

That episode will be airing , coming up in a couple of weeks on this podcast , the Art of Online Business . And the treat . Before we say goodbye because I'm going to share my screen , let me go right here and share this window . The treat is that . Where are you expecting that ? Can you see this ?

I did , too , once have a lot of hair , though I chose to keep it in dreads , not cornrows . All right , so if you can't see the YouTube channel . That's me a long time ago , with blonde tipped dreadlocks .

If that's not a reason to subscribe to the YouTube channel the art of online business so you can visually see when we're doing funnel breakdowns and see cool people like John that I'm interviewing , then I don't know of a better reason . Thanks for being here , john .

But , regardless of whether you don't catch this episode and you catch the next one , I'm going to be giving you everything you need , even if you have no experience with AI , to start leveraging in your business , because it's not about working more , it's about working smarter , and we already have tons of tools that we use as an online digital entrepreneur .

Right , we all have all these things . They get very complicated . I'm going to help simplify that entire process for you , so you can start getting rid of all these tools and just use the only one that matters .