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Ready to build a business that actually works?
In this video, we use real data, business ideas backed by data and proven insights to show you exactly how to start and grow a successful business in today’s economy.
Whether you're in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, or Germany, this guide breaks down:
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#Australia
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00:00Passion comes from artistry, mastery, and economic security.
00:04So whatever that thing is that gives you the ability to make some good money that you're
00:08good at, maybe even great at, in an industry that's not sexy, you're going to become passionate
00:13about it.
00:14Most people will never be entrepreneurs because they don't want to risk public failure.
00:17My superpower is rejection.
00:18I've started nine companies.
00:20Four have failed, three are kind of a tie, two were hit.
00:24All you need is one.
00:25What if I told you there was a formula to become financially free, and in fact we could
00:29steal the homework of a guy who had done it a bunch of times, even lost money and then
00:32done it again?
00:33Well, this YouTube video is a little bit different from anything else we do because I am stealing
00:37the homework of a guy by the name of Scott Galloway.
00:40He is going to teach us his mechanisms for making money despite what's going on in the
00:45world around us today.
00:46Buckle up.
00:47This one's good.
00:48Oh, and if you guys want to listen to the full episode, go listen to it on the Big Deal
00:51Pod.
00:52Prof G is full of insights.
00:53If you guys liked this today and want to make more money, I highly recommend you head
00:57over to that channel.
00:58What do you tell a young person today?
01:00What is the actionable thing that you can go do now?
01:03Scott, having seen so many different moves in markets, what are some words of wisdom you'd
01:08have if they want to make money?
01:10I just wrote a book on creating economic security, and I do think there's a formula.
01:16The first is focus, and that is find something you're good at.
01:20People say to follow your passion.
01:21I think that's bullshit.
01:22Anyone who tells you to follow your passion is already rich.
01:24And the guy telling you to follow your passion made his billions in iron ore smelting, right?
01:28Be a DJ on weekends.
01:30Play in a soccer league.
01:32You know, design jewelry with your friends.
01:35Open a restaurant when you're already rich.
01:38Vanity industries are really difficult because there's 180,000 people in SAG-AFTRA.
01:42These are incredibly, it's not easy to get a union card.
01:45That's the union representing actors and stage workers or producers.
01:52Eighty-three percent of them last year didn't qualify for health insurance because they didn't
01:55make $23,000.
01:55So, acting might be your passion, but unless you're in the top one percent and you're getting
02:00bright, blinking green signals that you're in the top one percent, go find something else.
02:05And, I don't want to crush your dreams, just have a sober conversation around what's required
02:10to make a living in that industry.
02:11So, find something you're good at, and the key part of that is find something you're good
02:16at in a non-romantic industry.
02:18The guy who has this studio, I've been here twice this week, this isn't that romantic.
02:21He found some shitty loft space on Avenue B and rents it out to podcasters and is probably
02:27making really good money.
02:28That is not, he didn't dream of that when he was nine.
02:31I know I'm going to install sound insulation on a loft in a mediocre area in Manhattan and
02:37rent it out to podcasters.
02:38I don't think he was dreaming that when he was nine, but this is a good business.
02:43Now I just opened two more.
02:44There you go.
02:45This is a, find something you're good at and think I could become great.
02:49And by the way, if you don't know a 20, when I was 17, I thought I was going to be a quarterback.
02:54When I was 19, I thought I was going to be a pediatrician.
02:57When I was 22, I thought I was going to be an investment banker.
02:59I got a job in the investment bank.
03:01I ended up in business intelligence and analytics.
03:03I didn't even know what that meant until I was 25 or 26.
03:07So, try and find some, your job in your 20s is to workshop and find something you're good at,
03:12and maybe could be in the top 10 or the top 1%.
03:16And forgive yourself if it doesn't involve college because two-thirds of kids don't
03:20end up in college and there's this industrial shaming complex.
03:23I've been at these parties.
03:24Did you hear, you know, Max dropped out of Rutgers and it's like, oh, shame, shame.
03:31You know, the parents have f***ed up.
03:33The kid is a failure.
03:34Two-thirds of our kids do not end up with a college degree.
03:37Workshop stuff, find something you could be good at, maybe great.
03:41It might be being a tax accountant.
03:43Okay, do you understand, are you willing to go to college?
03:45Are you willing to get a CPA?
03:47Do you understand numbers?
03:48Do you understand the tax code?
03:49Are you good with clients?
03:50Because if you can become in the top 10% or the top 1% of tax lawyers,
03:56those people get to fly private and have a broader selection set of mates than they deserve,
04:00which makes them really passionate about the tax law.
04:03I am so passionate about analytics because it gave me the ability to take care of my kids,
04:09take care of my dad, have crazy, outrageous vacations, and remove stress from my key relationships.
04:15Passion comes from artistry, mastery, and economic security.
04:20So whatever that thing is that gives you the ability to make some good money that you're
04:24good at, maybe even great at, in an industry that's not sexy, you're going to be compassionate
04:30about it.
04:30I'm building a home right now in London and there's the soapstone guy or the marble guy
04:35and he's this Iraqi immigrant and everybody knows him.
04:37He can tell you everything about the veining and the marble.
04:40And I was very open with him and he's been open with me.
04:42He makes 2.1 million pounds top line.
04:45He has a marble company.
04:47He clears about 800,000.
04:48That's pretty good margins.
04:50Yeah, he's a guy in his 40s.
04:52He's been in marble since he was 28.
04:57And he's passionate about marble and soapstone because it affords him a really nice life.
05:02And he's great at it.
05:03And he gets a lot of camaraderie.
05:05He gets a lot of prestige, relevance, you know, pride, ability to take care of, you know,
05:11to be economically secure.
05:12So the first thing is focus.
05:14Second thing is, I call it stoicism, but the one thing that's in your control is spending.
05:20You got to develop a savings muscle when you're young and see if you can get alignment with
05:24your roommates or your romantic partner and gamify saving money.
05:29Even, you got to figure out, you got to have a savings muscle that you can flex.
05:35When I was a junior in UCLA, I wasn't going back for my senior year unless I saved $3,000
05:40through the summer.
05:41I had 11 weeks to save $3,000, earn and save.
05:44So everyone in the fraternity knew who the four kids were who didn't have money.
05:47I went to UCLA.
05:48I was in a fraternity with mostly Jewish kids in the valley.
05:51They all had money.
05:52There were four of us that everybody knew were broke.
05:54Like our parents weren't helping us.
05:56We moved in together in a room in the house and we had a whiteboard and we gamified spending.
06:03I spent $78 a week, including rent and food for 12 weeks.
06:06I ate top ramen, bananas and milk.
06:09My big treat is every Sunday night, I'd go to Sizzler.
06:12Ask your parents.
06:13And for $4.99, I was on the crew team.
06:15The entire crew team would go and we would go there at 3 p.m.
06:18when it opened and we'd stay till 8 p.m.
06:21And we would just eat seven, several million calories.
06:25And it was fun.
06:26I mean, I would have rather had more money.
06:28Yeah.
06:28But the ability to gamify and especially with a partner, save money and start investing.
06:34If you're young, you got to figure out that savings muscle.
06:38And it's getting reward from other things, getting reward from fitness, from friends.
06:41The nice thing about being young is you don't need as much money to have fun.
06:44There's this Instagram generation that thinks you got to have a Birkin bag or go to Coachella, have fun.
06:50When you're in your 20s, pretty much like beer and making out is a pretty good brap.
06:55There's a lot of cheap shit out there available for 20-somethings.
06:59Plus, you can't really do it after you're married.
07:00Yeah.
07:01Then it gets much harder.
07:02Well, actually, it doesn't get harder.
07:03It stays in Austin, Pauly, though.
07:04Pretty big.
07:05It doesn't get harder.
07:06It gets much more expensive.
07:07That's true.
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08:21Well, I call it stoicism, but getting a savings muscle.
08:23The third is time.
08:26For the majority of our time on this planet, we haven't lived past 35.
08:28So young people just cannot imagine they're going to live to be 100, and most of them are.
08:35And they also can't calibrate how fast time is going to go.
08:37Wow, my life has gone really slowly, said no one ever.
08:41If you, from the age of 22, just figure out a way to get two, three, five percent of your income out of
08:47your hands. 99% of us will spend everything that comes into our hands.
08:52You have the brightest people in the world with a godlike technology hitting you at the exact right
08:58moment, a chance to upgrade from economy to economy comfort, to add flourless chocolate cake with your
09:03panini, whatever it is, right? Telling you you deserve this, it's worth it. Oh, there's two people
09:08looking at this hotel room. There's only one left. Buy now. Find a forced savings mechanism,
09:14two to five percent in your 20s. When you're my age, you're going to be fine. You don't start
09:18into your 30s. That's fine, but it's going to need to be five to 10 percent. It's going to be
09:21closer to 15 to 20 when you're in the 40s. But you're going to live longer than you think.
09:25Time is going to go fast. Well, I'm only going to get, you know, nine percent in the markets.
09:31Well, okay, that means in 24 years, it's going to be up eightfold. So the power of compound interest
09:36in time. And then the final thing where I really screwed up was the power of diversification.
09:41And that is, I've always made a lot of money, right? I came out of the gates hot,
09:47started new commerce companies. And I was raised in or came of a professional age where you were told,
09:53be in it to win it, go deeper, go deeper. And my company was about to go public. And I was that
09:57guy that borrowed money against his stocks to buy more stock. So when 2000 hit, I went from being,
10:02from looking at jets, no joke, to broke. Clawed my way back, 2008, all my money was in tech again,
10:08boom, broke again. And that was about the time my first son came along, which was really upsetting.
10:14But diversification is your Kevlar. And that is, two weeks ago, I found out I made a,
10:20one of my biggest, I invested $5 million in a tech-based healthcare company,
10:24tier one VCs, baller CEO, best investors, had to elbow my way to get in. That's a big investment for
10:30me. It went out of business last week. That's a zero for me. But I don't invest more than three or four
10:37percent of my net worth in any one thing. So it ruined my hour, but it didn't even ruin my day.
10:42And it certainly didn't ruin my week. Diversification is your Kevlar. The moment you have
10:46anything resembling an asset base, you want to try and take pieces of it and put it in stuff that is
10:53uncorrelated as possible. I'm about to invest in an aircraft maintenance company in El Salvador. I just
11:00want anything that's away from my tech world. I love, I now appreciate diversification because
11:06once you have an asset base, the way you get rich is probably through a little bit of concentration,
11:10your own business, you double down on a house, you fix it up, you flip it, whatever it might be.
11:15But the way you stay somewhat rich is through diversification. And I didn't realize that. I was
11:21always reading these stories about Steve Ballmer borrowing, borrowing stock, you know, Fred Smith
11:28doubling down on FedEx, Mark Zuckerberg, never selling a share. No, diversify. Because here's
11:34the thing, the market is, the market will always trump individual performance. And no matter how
11:39good you are, if you're in tech in 2000, you're going to get hurt. Amazon lost 90% of its value from
11:4699 to 2001. And then also a little bit of forgiveness. Recognize that when your stocks go down, recognize
11:54when you have a business fail, that most of it is not your fault. And at the same time,
12:00when you kill it and you buy stock and it doubles and you were smart enough or lucky, you weren't
12:04smart enough to buy Nvidia three years ago, you were lucky enough. You are never more prone to a big
12:09mistake than after a big win. Bring in your horns. So I wish I'd learned diversification. I didn't save
12:16money in my 20s and 30s. My first feeling when my son came marching out of my girlfriend,
12:22it was supposed to be bright lights and angels singing. I felt so nauseous. And I thought,
12:28well, okay, in addition to childbirth being gross, which I think it is,
12:32I felt incredible shame because I was sitting there at 40 years old, I'd made so much fucking
12:37money, and I was broke because I wasn't smart enough to diversify. Because I thought,
12:42I'm such a baller that my company is going to be worth a billion dollars, so I'm going to keep
12:45doubling down. So my first sentiment when I saw my son was I failed this kid. And I want to help
12:52young people realize I don't want anyone ever feel that way. And you don't need to be a billionaire.
12:57Just start saving some money. Real estate's a great for savings. Figure out a way to get it out
13:02of your hands. Keep saving. And just in case you don't go double platinum or have a podcast that's
13:07number one or have a movie or buy Nvidia, you don't need it. I can get you rich. That's the good
13:12news. The bad news is the answer is slowly. So what I would tell young people is even if you
13:16don't end up in an amazing job, if you start early and you follow this pattern, you're going to be
13:21economically fine. Yeah, it's interesting. I do think you either get to choose short-term
13:26or long-term pain. That's right. And I wish somebody had told me that earlier.
13:29Which is it? I never like to, you know when they play those videos, like the reaction videos of the
13:34girl crying because life's hard and they make fun of her? And that never really sits that well with me
13:39because I think it's because we kind of failed them. We didn't tell them it's going to be
13:42fucking awful. Your first job is not supposed to kill you from how hard it is. It's supposed
13:46to kill you from the pure monotony of like labor. What was your first job?
13:50Uh, finance. My first, yeah. And so, uh, yeah, 80 hour weeks taking all the, you know, series seven,
13:5724, 63, all that jazz. And I was the dumbest and the, you know, the, the least qualified and didn't
14:03have any fancy, you know, friends or family. And so, um, but it was also awesome because I learned
14:10massive pain tolerance really young. Well, it's a great training. Yeah. And I think that's probably
14:14what we should tell them and said that your first job's going to suck, but eventually it'll be worth
14:18it. Your first job, even if you don't like it, you know, give it a couple of years, give it two or
14:22three years to see if it gets better, but also recognize you may not end up in your dream job right
14:28out of college. Few of us do, but that's a learning. I went into investment banking. I worked
14:33at Morgan Stanley. I hated it. They hated me. I was terrible at it. Totally. And that was a learning.
14:38And, but it was really good training because it gave me intention to detail. It gave me kind of
14:42the ability to suffer a little bit. It taught me a little bit about working in a large organization.
14:47It also told me I don't have the skills to be in a big company. I'm too insecure. Anytime people went
14:53into a conference room, I would think they were talking about me. I didn't have patience or maturity.
14:58If I met someone senior to me that I think was as smart as me, I'd get angry that they were making
15:03more. I mean, I just was too immature to handle a big company. And people romanticized entrepreneurship.
15:11I went into entrepreneurship at a defense mechanism. I mean, I'm just not going to be successful.
15:16I met my stall mate from Morgan Stanley who's been in investment banking for 30 years now.
15:23We were both very transparent about our wealth. We ended up in almost the same spot.
15:29He's endured much less stress than me. If you have access to corporate America,
15:33the US corporation is the greatest wealth creator in history. The reality is most of us don't have
15:38the skills. We don't have the patience. It's not easy to get up and put on a tie. It's not easy to
15:43go to corporate events and pretend to like the boss's husband. This shit is not easy.
15:47It's awful.
15:48And be thoughtful and be patient. And occasionally, you're going to suffer injustice. People less
15:54intelligent and less hardworking are going to get promoted. There's injustice everywhere. But if
15:59you can endure those injustices, typically over time, the American corporation is a great way to get
16:05wealthy slowly. And the majority of entrepreneurs, I think, do it out of... I mean, the majority of
16:11entrepreneurs are immigrants. They can't go to work for Google. They didn't get to go to work
16:15for Dartmouth. So when kids come to my office hours, they think, they say, oh, I have an offer
16:20from JP Morgan, but I think I'm starting my own business. They think I'm going to break into song
16:23and say, go for the small business. I'm like, fuck that. JP Morgan, here you come.
16:28Well, it's true. I mean, I was at Goldman, like I was a shitty little peon analyst back in the day
16:33for two years. And I hated my life for all two years of it. And to this day, you know, whatever,
16:3812, 13 years later, it's still like Cody Sanchez. Yeah, she's on these businesses. She's got this
16:42online thing. She also worked at Goldman Sachs. I'm like that.
16:45Huge credibility.
16:45Huge credibility. And I hear they spend like about $100,000 a year training
16:49new members. So that's probably the cheapest university you can get is a great training,
16:55is a corporate MBA, basically great, incredibly smart peers. Yeah, it's the way I describe it.
17:00It's like it's like having served in the Marines. You're really glad you did it past tense.
17:06Yep. But I'm see I've started a bunch of business. But what did I roll out first that I was at Morgan
17:11Stanley? Yeah, because we all are proud of our brands and the institutions. But anyone who right
17:17out of college can go get a graduate degree called US Corporation, I would say do it. You might be
17:24good at it. And if not, it's going to help you zero in on what you're good at. And they do these
17:28crazy things called health insurance and retirement plans and training. First thing they did was they
17:33sent me to Columbia for this mini MBA. Yeah, I got my MBA at Georgetown through
17:37State Street. There you go. So same thing. I mean, it would have cost me $160,000 is what the
17:43executive program at Georgetown cost. It's crazy. It's crazy. And I mean, I had a hell of a time.
17:48But I think the most valuable thing I've ever done was work in corporations and start a business,
17:53not not my MBA. You know, one of the other things that seems to me leads to success long term,
17:58if people actually want to quote unquote, win monetarily, it's like a massive ability to handle
18:04failure. You, you, I think, are really interesting, because you're very, you know, you're not quiet
18:10about your opinions. Right. If they don't turn out to be right, you go, well, here's my thought
18:14process. That seemed reasonable. It worked or it didn't. But I'm going to at least say the quiet
18:19part out loud. And we can see how I tracked one way or the other. How did you get comfortable
18:25being wrong publicly and getting over it? Being wrong a lot?
18:28I don't think you're wrong a lot, by the way.
18:29Well, I'm wrong often. I get a lot of strength from my atheism.
18:35That's fascinating. Why? You just don't think anything matters?
18:38To a certain extent. And that is, I'm convinced that at some point, I'm going to look into my
18:45kids eyes and know our relationship is coming to an end. And it's going so fast. And everyone
18:51who I'm worried about their opinion or being shamed by, they're going to be dead really soon. And so am
18:56I. So I think a recognition of the finite nature of life and your insignificance gives you a little
19:03bit more courage to try and squeeze as much juice out of this lemon as physically possible.
19:08And I do try to live out loud. And when I screw up, I try to forgive myself. Because
19:13when someone else publicly fails, when they say something stupid, or they have a business fail,
19:17most people will never be entrepreneurs because they don't want to risk public failure.
19:20It's humiliating.
19:21It's my biggest fear.
19:23Most guys, especially nowadays, don't approach a woman they're attracted to because they're worried
19:28about rejection. And what you realize, or what I realize, and it's been my superpower,
19:33is my ability to move through fail. My superpower is rejection. I ran for sophomore,
19:37junior, and senior class president in high school. I lost all three elections. And based on my track
19:42record, I decided to run for student body president where I went on to wait for it, lose. I've started
19:48nine companies. Four failed, three are kind of a tie, got the money back, and two were hits. All you need
19:58is one. One out of seven businesses succeeds. So I started nine. And my superpower was when I had a
20:05business fail, or when I was divorced, or when I lost my mom, I knew how to mourn, and I knew how to
20:11move on. And the only thing I can guarantee anyone is you're going to have a certain amount of tragedy
20:17and a certain amount of joy in your life. The ratio of those things, some of it's out of your control,
20:22where and when you're born, a lot of luck, health of your loved ones. But the thing that's in your
20:27control is your ability to move through that failure. And I've been shot in the face,
20:33professionally and personally. And I was always able to say, okay, my business failed, learned a
20:39lot. I'm going to go raise more money and start a new business. Well, I mean, you see when you go
20:43to war-torn countries, and I spent a lot of time building businesses in Latin America,
20:47you know what civil unrest looks like? It looks like a lot of fighting-age men on the side of the
20:53streets without anything else to do. And if you've been through, I mean, Kareem's sitting over here,
20:57and he's from Egypt and has seen all around the Middle East, and I've traveled the Middle East and
21:02Latin America, and you can feel what it feels like to be in an area where there is a different kind
21:06of powder kick, which is young men that, you know, understandably so, have more aggression,
21:11more testosterone, and feel like there's no outlet. When I coach young men, the first thing or exercise
21:18I do is I say, give me your phone, unlock it, I won't judge you. And we try and find eight to 12
21:22hours on their phone, which is ridiculously easy between Twitter, TikTok, Coinbase. And then what do you
21:27have? You want to lean in your strengths. You have a lot of capital when you're young. It's human capital.
21:31You have a lot of time. So we're going to reallocate that capital to a higher ROI.
21:36First thing we're going to do is we're going to get fit, right? We're going to sign up for classes.
21:41I don't care if it's berries or an app or the, you know, there's a great fitness, you know,
21:47the Aloe app has fitness classes. You go to whatever it is, F45, we're going to start getting fit. We're
21:53going to feel better about ourselves. We're going to feel more confident. Two, we're going to start making
21:57some money. If you have a phone, you can make money in this economy. I don't care if you're a
22:01lift driver, tasker, task grabber, or whatever they call it. You're going to start figuring,
22:05if you go to a construction site and you have any skills at all, you can start at about 20 bucks an
22:09hour. I don't care if it's four hours a day. You need, the way you make a lot of money is by starting
22:13to make some money because you get a taste for flesh and you start thinking, wow, this money thing is
22:17awesome. And then the third thing we're going to do is at least three or four times a week,
22:20we're going to put ourselves in an environment with strangers and the agency of something bigger
22:25than us. It might be church. It might be a nonprofit. It might be a sports league. It might be a riding
22:31class. You have to be around strangers. And we write down every time you're there, you got to meet
22:37somebody, a potential friend, a potential romantic partner, and you got to go up and introduce yourself.
22:42But being in that company of other people and the agency of something else like church,
22:47it's just incredibly important. And young men need those guardrails. Young men, one of the things I
22:52got at Morgan Stanley, excuse me, was how to read a room. You know, also there's, it's just so
23:00important. I think we talk about a code. I'm writing a book on masculinity. I think masculinity can be a
23:06decent code for a young man. And I think of a man is supposed to be kind of three things,
23:11a provider, a protector, and a procreator. And I think all three of those things are wonderful.
23:17And men should aspire to all three of those things and break down what it means to be
23:21each of them. But the only way you're going to get there is in the agency of others and
23:27being in communities. Men are dangerous when they sequester. When a woman doesn't have a romantic
23:33relationship, a lot of times she will pour that energy into her work, into her friends. She finds
23:38other places to give and receive love. They're much better at maintaining a social network.
23:43When a guy doesn't have a prospect of a romantic relationship, he stops showering. He stops
23:48looking for a job, right? And I remember this. When I was 23, my first girlfriend told me if I didn't
23:55stop smoking so much pot, she was going to stop having sex with me. And I was really enjoying that
24:01part of my life. So I got my shit together and I stopped smoking so much pot. Guys need guardrails.
24:07Young men need guardrails. It might be church. It might be the Marines. It might be a girlfriend.
24:14It might be Morgan Stanley that told me I couldn't party every night because it was really hard to get
24:19up at 630 and put on a tie and haul my ass downtown. But without guardrails, men don't demonstrate the
24:25same discipline as women in their early years or early adult years. It takes them a while to catch
24:29up. This is incredible. Thank you for being here today. This was so interesting. I learned a ton.
24:35And I know that everybody probably knows where to find you. But if I haven't said it before,
24:38no mercy, no malice. Probably my favorite newsletter. Oh, thank you. Yeah. Incredible newsletter
24:42overall. And I listened to Adrift in probably like three days on audiobook. And then I bought,
24:47actually, the real book too because the graphics are so incredible. And I think it's a, even if
24:51people don't read books today, which is more normal, like being able to understand the world
24:56through those graphs is very easy and digestible. So if you haven't read Scott's new book, Adrift,
25:02it's really good, as are all the rest. Thank you so much for being on this podcast today.
25:05Thank you and congrats on your success. Yeah, well, you know, we'll see how long it lasts.
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