Living The Red Life

Turning your half-baked idea into something that is completely cooked as a side hustle could be your pathway to millions! On this offbeat episode of Living The Red Life, our host Rudy Mawer (AKA the Man in Red) is sharing the news that he’s working on a TV show about stupid side hustles — and so he’s been suitably inspired by some of the ideas that he’s come across.

From flipping couches to installing ATMs at locations needing cash, and from the similarities of OnlyFans to the coaching modality, Rudy has seen it all lately — and he’s sharing all he’s learned with us.

Internet money provides freedom, and there’s a plethora of ways for you to start something on the side and turn it into something big somewhere down the line. Or really soon if your idea is red hot.

This is where to start to understand the psychology of buying patterns and the psyche of Red Life Living. Earning money the smart way is a life hack that will make you way happier. Come and get involved.

“How do you bridge that gap between ‘stupid idea’ and ‘million-dollar business’?” ~ Rudy Mawer

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In This Episode:

- Stupid Side Hustles - The TV Show

- Money as a life hack and driver of happiness

- Starting an ATM business as a side hustle (leasing one for $2K a month)

- Getting paid to take someone’s couch away - and then flipping it

- Finding a gap in the market where your passion also lies

- How can you ‘add on’ to your vertical?

- How OnlyFans is similar to the coaching modality

- Understanding the psychology of buying patterns

- Pushing yourself to that next level if you want fast growth

- What makes a good side hustle? 

- How making money on the internet provides freedom

- Online opportunities that exist for you to start a side hustle

And more!

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How do you take your last $10K and turn it into $100 million in product sales? You start a detox tea company just when Instagram is blowing up, and you ride the red wave of success all the way to the top! Today’s guest is the GOAT of Instagram marketing, FitTea Founder (now exited) and now the Tea CEO, Michael Gonzalez.

Michael is in the hot seat beside our man in red, Rudy Mawer, and they’re reflecting on the value of growing a business alongside a personal brand in this modern age of social media. A time when you can drop cash getting a celebrity endorsement and then have all sorts of eyeballs checking out your operation.

Michael’s operation started small — just him and his mom packing tea — but because he was prepared to take marketing risks and develop a high-quality product to match, he was able to collapse time and scale fast! Michael’s story is a tale of living the red life for real, from dancing with Beyoncé to shots at the bar with Post Malone, it’s all here. Rudy brings his shrewd business acumen to this party too, bringing it all home for you. All you have to do is take the red pill — and jump!

“I’m a believer in everything. Like radio, it didn’t matter. Put you on the moon? I’ll put you on the moon. You know what I mean? So that’s how I think about brands.” 

 ~ Michael Gonzalez

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In This Episode:

- How do you make a high-quality product that consumers are willing to pay more for?

- What do you get when you combine ideas, trust, and risk?

- The perfect recipe to kickstart your own business.

- The Pros and Cons of building a brand on a personality.

- Is the celeb shoutout still worth it? 

- Discover the secret to building a successful business!

- How do you cope with anxiety as an entrepreneur?

- On the phone with pirates when they intercept your cargo!

- Living it up at Puff Daddy’s 50th

- What is the value in getting a shoutout from Kim Kardashian?

And more!

Connect with Michael Gonzalez:

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The book Michael recommends - Hope and Help for Your Nerves

Fit Tea

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How's that red pill tasting for you? Living The Red Life has never been sweeter, right? Rudy Mawer, AKA the Man in Red, is banging out the big ideas in this episode, showing us his Top Ten Tips that got him to $10 million in under 3 years. 

How is your business bringing in 100 new leads a day? How do you spend more money to make it back in the long run? How are you getting repeat customers? Ask yourself these and other questions, and Rudy will have you looking at your business like a jigsaw puzzle as you try to fill in the missing pieces and 10X your wealth. 

Tip number one is having multiple front-end offers, and tip number 10 is knowing every Key Performance Indicator there is. Sandwiched in between are 8 more million-dollar tips for growing your business. This is life in the red zone, and we're not messing about. Come and get it!

“You have to have a way to drive consistent sales and consistent leads into your business." ~ Rudy Mawer 

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In This Episode:

- Creating multiple sales funnels so that consumers can access your ecosystem

- Million dollar idea: charging someone $1 for the first time they use your service

- Lead generation systems: the need for unlimited leads 

- Having a good phone sales team

- Pick one big platform to start – then go multi-channel

- Referrals, renewals, and upgrades

- How do you get customers to come back?

-'Who?' not 'how' – find the expert

- 10Xing your goals – who is pushing you to the next level? 

- Going into the red: losing money to make money over time

- Client success – how well are your clients doing? 

- Data and reporting: knowing every Key Performance Indicator

And more!

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What is the secret to becoming the youngest founder ever to take a company public (at age 19!)? Dan Fleyshman has the answer to that, as he’s the person with that title. And the answer involves lots of hard, smart work. Dan is a social media mogul and serial entrepreneur who spends his time running a social media agency for influencers, as well as being an angel investor.

On this episode of Living The Red Life with Rudy Mawer, Dan is candidly offering up the tricks and tools he uses in this exciting new world of influencer marketing. Rudy, the man in red, is also pinning Dan down on the topic of joint ventures and partnerships — how to bring on a quarterback to run your business while you stay coach. 

On top of that, Dan is offering his insights into how he is making shrewd investments in companies that have hit that magic $2 million mark in sales, helping them scale to $100 million. His advice to young, budding entrepreneurs wanting to make it big like him early on? Keep your overheads low, and don’t quit your day job – yet! More advice from the guy who trademarked the catchphrase “Who’s Your Daddy?” inside! 

“With influencers, what’s great is that you can see right away.”  ~ Dan Fleyshman

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In This Episode:

- Dan’s origin story involves catchphrases and online casinos

- Understanding the ‘cost per 1000 eyeballs’ of an Influencer post – and the ROI

- Digging for oil on social media: influencers post, and you can see the analytics the next day

- Don’t quit your day job (yet!) — working weekends and 6 to 10 in the evenings

- The power you have in your own hands — using your phone to run your business 

- Leveraging your influence to crowdfund: high-risk investing for high reward

- The value of keeping your overheads low in your 20s and 30s

And more!

Connect with Dan Fleyshman:

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It's 2023 and social media is changing the way we do business. Sure, you might have a great product or service. But can you grab attention, hold attention, and influence people? Rudy Mawer, AKA the Man in Red, is laying it down for us in this hard-hitting episode of Living The Red Life. He's sharing his blueprint for ambition and success, and he wants you to swallow the red pill and come along for the ride. 

What someone reads about you on Google is going to affect your future – that much we should know already. You can control your future, though: have a stronger brand presence, build a community, and position yourself as an authority in your space. By becoming an authority on what you do and holding your audience's attention over a sustained period, you can build an engaging, loyal community. And that’s a real asset. 

Rudy's drive is infectious; his long-term vision and out the box thinking, genius. He's not shy to share his insights into a social media industry that looks set to disrupt all others. Influence is everything - how do you plan to wield it? 

"In the next five years, you're going to get overtaken by a big influencer that has a tribe and a community that comes out of nowhere." ~ Rudy Mawer

The first 1000 to click here and send the promo code from the podcast can claim one of my courses for FREE!  - https://m.me/rudymawerlife 

In This Episode:

- People are turning to celebrities for product endorsements

- Artists that are launching brands off their social influence

- How the world is changing – but there is still time for you to catch up!

- Creating a loyal following and building a brand community

- How do you create the tribe? How do you create influence?

- Disrupt everything! The community of influencers that dominate the world!

- On becoming a mainstream name and public figure

- Go and Google yourself!

And more!

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Spectacular Smith is truly spectacular. He’s an entrepreneur, entertainer, investor, and the Founder of Spectacular Academy. He’s also Chairman and CEO at Adwizar, a company that he founded that helps celebrities monetize their social media platforms.

Family, health, and wealth are what Spectacular considers to be his pillars to living a life of real success. He teaches it in his coaching curriculums, and he underscores the importance of empowering millionaires and future entrepreneurs in this legacy-focused chat with the man in red, Rudy Mawer.

Rudy and Spectacular are fellow billionaires in the making, and they share the value of educating people on the ways to get rich — and what personal investment leads to. These guys have the blueprints — they’re just asking the rest of us to take action. That action starts here. Come take the red pill and see what a life less ordinary can look like for you!

“I truly believe… anybody, if I told them to build a table right now and I gave them an instruction manual, they can build a table, no problem. And success is the same way. If somebody has a manual to success, they can teach you how to do it, step by step, to build your table.” ~ Spectacular Smith

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In This Episode:

- Spectacular's Story: How Spectacular created a service-based business that helps artists monetize their talent

- Noble cause: A look at Spectacular’s mission to create a million millionaires

- Why you should treat your talent as a “business”

- How having the "RIGHT" people to guide you can lead to success

- Why reinventing yourself twice in a lifetime can lead to your ultimate success  

- How all-time great artists built their empires 

- The Success Roadmap: How Spectacular helps artists uncover their potential

- Why “YOURSELF” is your investment priority 

- Why you should make a decision in 60 seconds or less

- Highly effective tips on how to conquer fear 

- How to remove your limiter through understanding ‘Winergy’

- How marketing and the belief system can fool you

and more!

Connect with Spectacular Smith:

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Web Class with Spectacular Smith

The Social Media Income Challenge

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Are you ready to master failure? It sounds like a contradiction if you are hellbent on success. But it’s just a paradox, as the Man in Red Rudy Mawer so eloquently explains in this red hot, super inspirational episode of Living The Red Life. 

Of course you are going to fail — probably more times than you will succeed in business, especially when you are just starting out. But it’s HOW you adapt to that failure, the failure mindset you adopt, that will determine your success. Success lies on just the other side of your failure, and you need to see things from a wider perspective and put what you are going through right now into context.

Is your health still okay? Did anyone die? No? Great! Imagine how you’ll be laughing at the staff or legal issues you’re having now in a few years’ time — when you’re going through the same stuff, most probably still — but now you have a resilient failure mindset that allows you to cope with setbacks and see them as obstacles to overcome on your journey to success. 

You’ve taken the red pill. You’re all in with Rudy now. He’s opening up and sharing the setbacks that have made him a stronger businessman for it. Download, share, like, and review  — do what you have to do to get on board the red life jet ski (Rudy has two!), luxury yacht, or ship of success that is YOUR destiny. 

 “If you push through what you’re going through today, I guarantee you that in five or ten years, you’ll have this problem every single day — and you’ll laugh about it.” ~ Rudy Mawer

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In This Episode:

- Dealing with business failures in the right way to set yourself up for long-term success

- Pushing through with the right mindset — why context is key

- What situations did you have in the last few years that you laugh about now? 

- Using failure as a training rep — the similarities between muscle growth and business

- Shouldering responsibility — why building a dream isn’t easy

- Having a better relationship with the wins and losses of life to become a better person all round

And more!

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World champion UFC fighter Bas Rutten shares his winning mindset on how he transferred his hard work ethic as a sportsman into the business world. It’s about showing up and putting in the work — even doing the boring work and taking on the things you don’t understand until you do, and you get good at it, and you learn to monetize it.

Living the Red Life is on a hot streak as host Rudy Mawer (the man in red) and Bas share their sporting backgrounds, reflecting on the difference between winners who get on with it and losers who make excuses. 

Take the red pill, breathe it all in, and you’ll be on track to absorb this awesome business advice that goes to the core of how we conduct ourselves daily to achieve more daily and start reaching for that financial freedom. 

If you’re going to become a world champion, you’re going to have to work. And you’re going to have to work hard. And I’m a guy who’s creating really good habits — and I stick to these habits.” ~ Bas Rutten

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In this episode:

- Bas Rutten’s Road to Glory — From being bullied to becoming a world champion

- The advent of free fighting in 1992 and how he won the UFC title in 1999

- The correlation between business and sports in terms of the secret recipe to success

- The benefits of consistency, hard work, and dedication

- The billionaires’ mindset: How does it work? 

- How Bas Rutten was able to maintain his level of success

- The true meaning of the “Winner's Mindset” 

- The birth of the Bas Rutten Respiratory Training Device

- How to overcome obstacles in business with Bas Rutten’s advice

- Bas Rutten’s highly effective tips for people who want to grow their businesses

and more!

Connect with Bas Rutten:

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How do you collapse time and go from 1 to 100 employees in no time at all? Rudy Mawer – AKA The Man in Red – is packing a punch today as he time travels back to his early days with a story about an employee who almost got away with stealing his entire company by duplicating his courses! 

This episode is a lesson in getting those first hires right – whether it’s friends, family, or interns, they need to share that same hustle mentality as you when you burn the midnight oil. 

As Rudy recalls, those early days (of late nights) are some of the best times when you’re just starting out. So it helps to have a core team that shares your entrepreneurial hunger. Listen up and collapse time yourself with this practical advice on the staffing building blocks you need to achieve greatness. 

“In those early days, that hustle and drive is what’s gonna make you successful. And having that small group around you, that first couple of hires that share that hustle and drive, especially in person, it’s gonna be a game-changer, it’s gonna be motivating, it’s gonna be an amazing experience that stays with you forever.” ~ Rudy Mawer

The first 1000 to click here and send the promo code from the podcast can claim one of my courses for FREE!  - https://m.me/rudymawerlife 

In This Episode:

- The story of how an employee almost stole Rudy’s entire company

- The pros and cons of hiring friends and family

- Is it worth hiring interns? 

- Where do you find good people?

- Using your network to find people who share your business philosophy

And more!

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Are you ready to bow to the podcast princess and learn all there is to know about growing your business on LinkedIn? Hala Taha is that princess, or as Rudy calls her, the queen of LinkedIn advertising. 

Whatever you want to call her, Hala is coming in red hot, keeping Rudy on his toes with her razor-sharp business insights as she tricks the LinkedIn algorithm and hacks her way to podcasting and entrepreneurial success. This is Living the Red Life at its finest! 

There's no messing about: it's all industry hacks and play-by-play strategies on audience growth and sales conversions. Honestly, these business secrets and Personal Branding 101 Tips should be behind a paywall. Roll up your sleeves, grab a pen, and start taking notes. Rudy and Hala aren't slowing down anytime soon – please take the red pill and join them! 

"I realized there was a gap: you can not only stand out with your content and your visual identity on social media, but you can also stand out with your topic. And I thought: no one else is talking about podcasting. So I was just consistent every day, figured out the algorithm, experimented, and grew a community." - Hala Taha

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In This Episode:

- How Hala spotted an opportunity on LinkedIn

- Appreciating LinkedIn as a smart social media platform

- The power of sharing positive messages that people can relate to

- How can you strategically use LinkedIn to grow your business?

- Why your feed is where you grow, and your DMs is where you sell

- Where is there room to grow your brand in the podcasting universe?

- What is your creative 'in' to build a flywheel of success?

- How to grow your podcast when you don't have money

- How Hala embraces consistency and shows up every day

- Hala’s advice on taking control of your life

- Don’t let the gatekeepers tell you NO!

And more!

Resources:

Hala’s Masterclass - Use the code “RUDY” to get a 35% discount!

Connect with Hala Taha:

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