0:00

But I'm excited to say you know today

0:02

we've invited 150 neighbors with grocery

0:04

items But personally that TCG Eli

0:07

with my mini Cooper fed ten

0:09

whole families with meals And

0:11

we're only gonna up that number from 10 to 200 Excited

0:14

to share this journey with you and super hyped that

0:17

we were able to spend this weekend together What

0:22

is up you gorgeous bastards it is

0:24

your boy Eagle Scout aka rabbi can't

0:26

lose aka Noah Kagan in today's

0:28

episode You're gonna hear about an experiment.

0:31

We ran during the million dollar weekend

0:33

book launch on Tim Ferriss's show We

0:36

put out a 48 hour challenge Where

0:39

the person who took the most hustle in

0:42

the next 48 hours got to spend a weekend with

0:44

me now that might be an amazing Thing for some

0:46

of you or a nightmare for a few of you

0:49

our winner Eli raised 65,000

0:52

yes, six five zero zero zero in just 48 hours

0:55

and blew us away with his dedication

0:57

and inspiring mission to do Good in

0:59

his community feeding those in need

1:01

in Philadelphia his nonprofit the community

1:03

grocer provides healthy food to underserved Areas

1:05

in Philadelphia our weekend together was like

1:07

a Miata ride it had some highs

1:09

and some lows But a really amazing

1:12

experience and I think there's some insanely

1:14

powerful lessons for all of you entrepreneurs

1:16

out there now Here's three gigantic things

1:18

you're gonna take away from my experience

1:20

with Eli this weekend number one

1:22

How do you find out what's working and

1:24

double down to what's one of the most

1:26

important spreadsheets to get a boner with? Literally

1:29

number three. How do you set clear

1:31

and measurable goals to work backwards from there's that plus

1:34

a bunch more ear nuggets along the way? This

1:36

is a solo episode where it's me reflecting on

1:38

our weekend with Eli and including some of the

1:40

audio of what happened after the weekend So we

1:42

can hear some of those updates I hope you

1:44

like the episode if this episode inspired

1:46

you to dream big and do more good for

1:48

your community Go check out the episode with John Paul

1:51

DeGioria He donated 50 million

1:53

dollars the day he sold one of his companies the guy

1:56

is such a treat Go check it out John Paul

1:58

DeGioria. You can also check out and support Eli nonprofit

2:01

at the community

2:03

grosser.org. That's

2:05

the community grosser.org and

2:07

the community dot grocer

2:10

on Instagram. Also, if

2:12

you're inspired to start your own business, check out my book

2:14

million dollar weekend, you can get it at million dollar weekend

2:16

comm still I think like a top thousand

2:18

or 2500 book on Amazon. Thousands

2:21

of people have had amazing experience to build

2:23

confidence and change their life in just one

2:25

weekend. Also special pre show shout out to

2:27

listener Melissa Garcia Ortiz, I know her. I'm

2:29

extremely excited to share that I have followed and listened to

2:31

Noah's podcast for the last year now. I

2:34

helped contribute to his million dollar weekend and love

2:36

hearing how with his help he has transformed the

2:38

lives of many of us. Damn, Melissa, I love

2:40

you. And every other one of you gorgeous listeners.

2:42

I'd love to shout you out in a future

2:44

episode. Go leave a review on iTunes

2:46

or Spotify. It takes 30 seconds. It means the

2:48

world to me. And I check every single one

2:51

of them. Which was

2:54

a winner. I regretted it instantly. We

2:57

did it anyways. And we

2:59

had a lot of fun. It was

3:02

interesting. We ended up meeting in Austin,

3:04

Texas. I pulled up in my 2004 Miata and took this

3:08

young bloke to a sushi restaurant called Oochy

3:10

where they have happy hour. Come on, y'all,

3:13

you know, with absolutely I love some deals,

3:15

but it was still expensive. It turns out

3:17

Eli is a really, really sweet

3:19

kid. He's 23 years old, just

3:21

graduated from college over in Pennsylvania.

3:23

Thank you, Penn, possibly. And

3:26

after he graduated from college, what I admired

3:28

about Eli was he was on a mission

3:30

to help feed those in need in really

3:33

poor parts of Philadelphia. Like what a noble

3:35

thing to do. And it was so cool.

3:37

And he won the Tim Ferriss podcast by

3:40

he was able to raise 65,000. That's 6,500 in

3:42

fundraising, working his ass off in 48 hours. And

3:48

he has a good attitude and he really

3:50

cares to do this. His site, let me

3:52

just call it out so you guys can

3:55

go check it out is the community, grosser.org,

3:57

the community, grosser.org. And if you want to

3:59

help support I'm going to support

4:01

$1,000 donation at the end of the summer. It's

4:04

a beautiful idea to just really give healthy food

4:06

to the people in need in a poor area

4:08

in Philadelphia. It was a creative idea using

4:10

food stamps, and this is something that Eli's been working on,

4:12

I think, for two or three years. And

4:14

it was really nice to spend time with

4:17

someone who's young and hungry, pun

4:19

intended, that is just excited. And I

4:21

was surprised how many entrepreneurial lessons were

4:23

going to be a part of this

4:25

weekend that ended up happening. And

4:27

we forget sometimes what we know, and it's

4:29

a good reminder. And I think there's a

4:31

lot of lessons no matter where you are

4:34

in your entrepreneurial experiences that you'll learn from

4:36

me and Eli interacting. Now, where

4:38

Eli was, was that he wanted to open a

4:40

grocery store that you can have healthy food as

4:42

well as you can redeem food stamps for warm

4:44

food. But the way food stamps work, this is

4:47

interesting, is you can't actually get warm food. It

4:49

only is processed and packaged food. And

4:51

so he came up with a way where you

4:53

can get the packaged food in the front, and

4:56

then you go outside the building and in the

4:58

back, you can use it and they'll help cook

5:00

it for you. And that's the way that it

5:02

works for the food stamp stuff. Now,

5:04

before you start giving advice to other people,

5:06

make sure you ask them for advice. And

5:09

before you start doing stuff, you have to

5:11

understand it. So I was just trying to

5:13

learn as much about Eli and what he

5:15

was doing with communitygrocer.org. So Eli had t

5:17

shirts, they had banners, they had business cards,

5:20

they even bought a building and

5:22

a lot more. Now Eli's got a

5:25

great heart and great intention, but he did

5:27

many things except the main thing of getting

5:29

healthy food, either via food stamps or whatever

5:31

to these local people in need. And Eli

5:33

cares. I'm not trying to, I felt a

5:35

little bit like I'm this entrepreneur person like,

5:37

but I think more of the biggest takeaway

5:39

around Eli was focus. And

5:41

at the end of the show, we'll include some of the audio

5:44

follow-up so you can hear what happened and

5:46

Eli will report in about the

5:48

outcomes. And so Eli cares about this, but he's doing

5:50

so many things, and he's helping other

5:52

people doing things in the neighborhood. And all of that is great.

5:54

But I was saying, what are the things that really matter and

5:56

how do we get more out of doing less? And this is

5:59

generic way of doing it. Wisdom 101, and all of us know

6:01

it, but

6:03

when all of us go look at all the things we're

6:05

doing every week, how much of it's really in the areas

6:07

that you give excitement about or that you truly enjoy? Really

6:10

think about it. Take a second. After

6:12

48 hours of sushi, learning

6:15

more about Eli, I think we had

6:17

some sake and a tiki drink, you know I love some tiki. We

6:20

took a break for Saturday, I do Sabbath Saturdays, I

6:22

don't work on Saturdays, and we got together then on

6:24

Sunday at Mozart's, and that's where we said, all right,

6:26

let's put all this together, and what

6:28

are the takeaways around Eli, because

6:30

when you step back from everything you're doing, what's

6:33

the goal? What are you trying to accomplish? And

6:35

everything just works backward beautifully from there. So

6:37

let me get into some of the major takeaways I

6:39

think around Eli's business. I think there's

6:41

gonna be around seven, they're meaty, that I think you

6:43

can apply a lot in your own, whether you're literally

6:45

like a dollar an air, or whether a millionaire, or

6:47

you're beyond. So number one again, let's just

6:49

start there, which is what's your goal? So what we noticed with

6:52

Eli is that he's like, we're gonna have a building, we're gonna

6:54

do this, and the building's another year away, and I was like,

6:56

wow, what's the goal of this building? Well, it's to serve people

6:58

in need. Okay, well how many people in need? And

7:01

where are you going specifically? Get clarity

7:03

in your business. Eli needed clarity, and

7:05

that's the answer to solve. And after

7:07

48 hours of interacting with him, we

7:09

realized that his goal, and he codified it, I

7:12

mean, write it down and confirm it, was to

7:14

get 200 meals a week for people in the

7:16

rougher areas of Philadelphia, which is one of the

7:18

poorest areas of this state. That's awesome. You

7:21

know, Eli and these partners were busy. They're doing food

7:23

delivery for a food bank, they're hosting events at schools,

7:25

they're meeting people, they're Twittering, and I kept asking, well,

7:27

what's the point of all this? It's like, the ultimate

7:29

point is to get healthy, affordable food to those people

7:32

in need. And I was like, why don't we just

7:34

do that? Don't make cards. Save the money on the

7:36

cards, give it to the people. And I kept bringing

7:38

it up, I kept pulling it back, and when he

7:41

mentioned anything that was not about making it towards that

7:43

number one goal. And so settling on the goal of

7:45

200 meals a week during the summer really

7:47

focused him on just that, and so it's really

7:50

helping him now. You'll hear it in

7:52

the ending, saying no to so many more things, so you

7:54

can be more aligned with your team, you can be more

7:56

aligned with yourself, and you could say no and stop being

7:58

so distracted from anything that really doesn't happen. and help with it. And

8:01

again, Eli's doing everything great. All we're doing is helping

8:03

him do the same amount of work and getting a

8:05

lot more results for the work. Number

8:07

two, be proud of what you've done. This is something

8:09

I've seen in Eli, myself, so many others, is that

8:11

if you're meeting with someone and they're giving you feedback,

8:13

it's very easy to think about all the things that

8:16

are not working and all the things you haven't done,

8:18

but I want everyone to realize, be proud of what

8:20

you've already done, right? Like, it's so easy to get

8:22

trapped in all the points of the misses instead

8:25

of thinking about all the things that are actually working,

8:27

you know? Like, wow, Eli, you've

8:29

actually, you've raised $3 million, you've got

8:32

a building, you're trying to do something

8:34

noble, like, holy fuckballs, man, like, let's

8:36

appreciate that versus just, you know, negative

8:38

Nancy Noah kind of criticizing all the

8:41

other stuff you haven't done. And so

8:43

for yourself, always take a step back

8:45

to just be proud of what you've

8:47

done. And I think that's important. I've seen this

8:49

even yesterday, I was talking to someone, I was like, yeah, my YouTube's only

8:51

got 100,000 subs. I was like, holy shit,

8:54

that's awesome. Be proud of yourself. Number

8:56

three, do more of what's working. I

8:59

can't tell you how many times I'm gonna say this. In this

9:01

show, I'm only gonna say it once. But this might be

9:04

on my tombstone, or maybe I'll have double tombstones to really

9:06

get the point across. All

9:10

right, y'all know I almost never have sponsors in

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9:17

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10:17

right, back to the show. Eli

10:21

raised 90% of his money through

10:24

email and cash donations, 90% of

10:26

his money through emails and cash

10:28

donations. But on his website,

10:30

he's got DAFs, donor advised funds, crypto

10:33

donations, events. So we helped

10:35

focus on what was working for him to

10:37

get money to open the store and really

10:39

get food out to people. How do you do

10:41

more of it? So here's some exact things we

10:43

crafted better emails. So in your own business, how

10:45

have you made those sales in your own business?

10:47

How'd you get that first customer? How do you

10:49

do more of that? And how do you improve

10:51

that instead of doing new things?

10:53

So we crafted better emails with a specific

10:55

ask for donation amount and less links for

10:57

people to go read. Like when you're asking

10:59

for donations, make it super compelling. And we

11:01

also encourage recurring donations. So Eli and his

11:03

team don't have to go hunting for new

11:05

money all the time. Next,

11:08

we helped set it up. So when Eli was traveling,

11:10

an intern or someone was always sending emails. I asked

11:12

you like how many emails you send a week said

11:14

10. Show me it was more like

11:16

two. And that's fine because he's busy. He's got things

11:19

going on. But this is critical. You have to keep

11:21

those things in motion that are working. That's a great

11:23

bottleneck to solve. And so you need to turn it

11:25

in from a business operator to a business owner, whether

11:27

it's a nonprofit or a profitable business, you can fix

11:30

that. So what are the things that need to kind

11:32

of happen 24 seven in your business? And how do

11:34

you either hire someone or automate it with software maybe

11:36

from appzuma.com to be able to do that? Third,

11:39

we focus the emails to encourage tours of the grocery

11:41

store. Now, this is interesting. Every time you did a

11:43

grocery store tour, they donate it because they felt it.

11:46

So how do you help people feel? Show

11:48

it, don't tell it. Now we had the

11:50

email say, hey, either donate or would you like to get

11:52

a tour? And people are like, man, that's kind of crazy

11:54

because you're seeing the real thing. And at the tours, what

11:56

was happening is that he would send an email 24 hours

11:58

later if he remembered. to donate, we change

12:01

that. At the end of the tour, we have a donation

12:03

option for them. Hey, you love the tour, what kind of

12:05

donation do you wanna sign up for today? And

12:07

how cool is that that now it's connecting the dots

12:09

around the people that are donating? And lastly,

12:12

around doing more of what's working, clarify the specific number

12:14

of things you wanna do a day. So for Eli,

12:16

it was email, he was sending 10 emails a week,

12:18

and now he's targeting 10 emails a day. So all

12:20

this was figured out, and you can do it for

12:22

your business as well, is that you have to just

12:24

ask, like, what's the way that I've gotten my customer?

12:26

What's the way that I've got my dollar? And ask

12:28

yourself, what is one thing I can do to make

12:30

it better? And if you don't have any way to

12:32

make it better, ask the customer, hey, what's the suggestion

12:34

of how I can make it better? Or ask someone

12:36

you respect. This is the same thing

12:38

for content creation. Like, if you look at my content

12:40

more last year and this year it's getting better, like,

12:42

what's my most popular content and how I just do more

12:44

of those kind? Most people are like, well, I'm gonna do

12:46

a lot of new ones. Like, just do the ones that

12:49

work. And you can keep improving it each and every time.

12:52

All right, number four, budgeting. So

12:54

show me a budget and I'll show you a boner.

12:56

That's what I wrote. I asked Eli about

12:58

his finances, and it's always funny. It's like, yeah,

13:00

yeah, we got a budget. And I'm like, show it to me.

13:02

Okay, I don't know where it is. It's like, I

13:05

know, and there was no budget. And so this seems obvious

13:07

for most, but if you don't have a budget, it's really

13:09

hard to have a business. And if you

13:11

don't have one, great. Let's create one today. This

13:13

is how we run almost $100 million plus business at

13:16

AppSumo. I don't know if we'll hit 100 million or beyond

13:18

this year. But you need to have a plan

13:20

of what your money's gonna look like and have discipline on

13:22

that. And what happens when you have

13:24

a budget, which is really interesting, is you're like, wow,

13:26

I'm spending a lot here. Is that ROIing? Or maybe

13:28

I'm spending too little somewhere else. Could I spend more

13:31

there? And so AppSumo is very driven by our forecast,

13:33

models, and budget, but it has to just start at

13:35

least with the basics of a budget. Would you drive

13:37

somewhere without a map? You're like, of course not. It's

13:39

like, why would you run your business without a budget?

13:41

Good point. Make a budget today. It doesn't have to

13:44

be complicated. Just literally, what are all the incomes and

13:46

what are all the expenses that are going on that

13:48

you think will happen each month throughout the year? And

13:50

then each month at the end of the month, it's

13:52

called a close. Don't even worry about that shit. Just

13:54

put the actuals. Here's our budget, here's our actuals. And

13:57

you could be like, huh. And if you get an

13:59

account and get a bookkeeper, There's a lot of people

14:01

out there that can do that. Go to samslist.co to

14:03

find someone. Shout out to my boy Sam Parr for

14:05

building it and get your budget started. All

14:08

right, number five, taste the dish. Now this

14:10

is something I'm becoming obsessed about. Are you watching

14:12

your own content? Are you buying your

14:14

product? Are you shopping at your store? Are

14:17

you your own customer? And if you're not

14:19

become one, go do it or

14:21

have someone else do it. And this is how you can

14:23

understand what's working, not working, what sucks, what's great, bad in

14:25

your business. And you can just do this regularly. And

14:27

so I encourage Delight to rent a room in the

14:30

hood where he's helping people or a space in this

14:32

neighborhood. And then I encouraged him to live on the

14:34

amount of money that these food stamp people live on.

14:36

So he can really understand them and not forever, but

14:38

do it for 30 days. If

14:40

you don't understand, you can't help. And so

14:42

I think you have to really get closer to the

14:44

problem because Eli drives in on his Mini Cooper. Shout

14:46

out to Mini Cooper people even though fucking unreliable. I

14:49

had one, I sold it. They look good though.

14:51

But he's driving and he's doing a little work and he's

14:53

going back into his lifestyle. And I don't think he was flexing.

14:55

This guy's getting 40,000 a year. He's not bawling

14:57

out of control. But I think he needs

15:00

to understand deeper to really solve that. It's

15:02

like hard to sell a product for babies if you don't have

15:04

a baby. Can you do it? Yeah, totally can.

15:06

And at Facebook, I used to joke that, oh,

15:08

we need to be dumber to understand our user

15:10

base because they're really dumb. And it's like, no,

15:12

you need to be smarter. And you need to

15:14

really understand your product and how these people are

15:16

interacting with it on all these different aspects. Number

15:19

six, be the CEO. And

15:21

what does the CEO mean? So this is something I've been learning.

15:24

And Eli has a partner and Eli has interns. And

15:26

so when you're a company of one and you're hiring

15:28

people, it doesn't mean you have to hire a bunch

15:30

of people. But what does the CEO do? And I

15:32

was like, what do these people do? Now

15:35

the CEO is really about the why. The

15:37

CEO is about the why. And your team is about

15:39

the how. So what does that mean? And this is

15:41

something I've got backwards a lot of times because I

15:43

would be telling people how to do it instead of

15:45

telling them why to do it and where we're trying

15:47

to go and let them have the fun of the

15:50

how. Let them bring you a how and see if

15:52

it gets to the why. And if not,

15:54

you can also coach them on that. So again,

15:56

be the CEO, which is the why and the where. You're

15:58

going and let your team get to that. to how,

16:00

and I think Eli took a lot from

16:02

that concept. And lastly, remember

16:04

why you're doing this. Eli's super

16:06

sharp, hungry, young guy, and

16:10

in his life he's choosing to focus on helping

16:12

these people and he cares, and I love that.

16:14

Maybe it's not for you, maybe it's not for

16:16

me, but there's something for you out there, and

16:18

come into the places that you're like, like this

16:20

content, I like making this, actually reading this out

16:22

loud, writing this article, it's invigorating, it's inspiring. And

16:24

for Eli, is he gonna make a lot of money doing this?

16:26

Not at all, but he's gonna learn a ton. So

16:29

maybe for you, if that's your jam, great, or if

16:31

it's finding you wanna make a lot of money, that's

16:33

okay too, just go back to why you're doing it

16:35

and know that. Will it be what Eli

16:37

wants to do? It's entire life, who knows? But it's definitely

16:39

a worthy cause, it's a big task. Big

16:42

task comes big learnings. And when

16:45

it's tough, it'll keep the lit light or something

16:47

like that when you remember why you do it.

16:49

Now, I am gonna be checking on Eli on

16:51

a monthly basis to help him hold accountable and

16:53

support, and I would say for you, find someone

16:55

who's done maybe a thing or two that you've

16:57

actually wanted to do, and see how

16:59

you can even just check in with them once and maybe

17:01

once a month, once a quarter, once a year. Because I

17:04

think Eli was doing, he's gonna do good. But I think

17:06

with the work that we've done, and you'll hear his stuff

17:08

in just a second, I think he's

17:10

moving to great, and I think he's having

17:12

margarita time. So shout outs to Eli, thecommunitygrocer.org,

17:14

shout out to Tim Ferriss for helping set

17:17

this whole thing up, as well as Horisto

17:19

on his team for making the connection. And

17:21

I encourage you, in terms of, let

17:24

me just summarize for Eli and for yourself, what's your

17:26

number one goal? Be proud of what you've done, double

17:28

down on what's working, have a

17:30

budget and a boner. Number five,

17:32

taste the dish. Number six, be

17:35

the CEO. And lastly, just remember

17:37

while you're doing this, we're on a little planet

17:39

having a good time partying, and give yourself some

17:41

ease around how you're having these experiences. I

17:43

love you, I wish you good luck, see you out there. We

17:48

actually have some real live audio updates from Eli

17:51

after the weekend to see how it's been going. Stay tuned.

17:54

No, it's Eli, super hyped to share updates

17:57

since our million dollar weekend. It was to

17:59

be discussed. I think the main

18:01

thing that we could take away from the weekend

18:03

was really refocusing and getting back on track of

18:05

what we're doing here. And

18:07

at the Community Grocer, we're making eating well easier

18:09

for all. So we discussed during our weekend a

18:11

few key action items to get back on track.

18:14

One was how are we executing on making eating

18:17

well easier for all? And Alex

18:19

and I getting back on the same page with that.

18:21

So we sat down when I got back, had a meeting, and

18:24

we got on the same page that we are going to be

18:26

feeding our neighbors this summer, make eating

18:28

well easier for all by providing access

18:30

to nutritious, delicious meals. So we're going

18:33

to feed 2,400 of our neighbors this

18:35

summer, starting next week with

18:38

smoothies, starting with breakfast, and

18:40

then moving throughout the menu of TCG, which

18:42

is really critical for us to get

18:44

feedback for when we do open on what menu items our

18:46

neighbors liked and didn't. But also

18:48

more importantly, we're making eating well easier for all by

18:50

providing access to delicious meals

18:53

and food items. So we're

18:55

partnering with our current and existing partners at

18:57

Sharing Access and Share to get access to

18:59

free food. And

19:01

are working just with our interns and ourselves

19:04

to create those meal kits and items. And we'll

19:06

do that every Thursday afternoon, store

19:08

them away, and then have them ready to

19:10

distribute every Friday outside the food pantry. So

19:12

we're doubling up on where we're able to

19:14

serve our neighbors. This week, since

19:17

I was the only one in town, Alex was with family,

19:19

and we don't have our interns yet. We

19:21

actually filled up my Mini Cooper with meal

19:23

kits and grocery items and delivered

19:25

them to 10 families in need until

19:27

my check engine light went on. So

19:30

executed on that already this week. Second

19:33

item was our budget. Didn't

19:35

have an updated one. So Alex and

19:37

I worked together. We created our 2024 budget

19:40

and began working on 2025, which we'll

19:42

have ready by next Wednesday. And then

19:44

lastly, you know, we're talking about systemizing

19:46

ways to get back on track as

19:49

an organization that I've been successful with

19:51

the hard hat tours. I've been successful

19:53

when I was able to do the cold email. But

19:56

given how busy I am, it's been really a difficult

19:58

task to do myself. So Alex

20:00

and I sat down and made our plan for

20:02

the summer, which included the work of our 10

20:04

interns. And one of the

20:06

first projects we'll be taking on is systemizing

20:08

our fundraising and our emailing our outreach efforts.

20:11

So one intern is gonna be executing on

20:13

sending over 20 emails per day, which includes

20:15

him doing research on finding more donors and

20:18

more people to join our network and our

20:20

community. But having those systems ready

20:22

to go. And I think throughout

20:24

the summer we'll work on some tech ways to

20:26

get this beyond a manual effort. But

20:28

day one, just getting our interns to take over that

20:30

role so I can focus on what I'm doing, which

20:32

is the vision and making it even well easier for

20:34

all. So really hyped and

20:36

excited to share these updates with you. It

20:39

was a good weekend to get back on track, to

20:42

refocus, get my head above water, and

20:44

use that time to execute. And

20:46

I'm excited to say today we've

20:49

provided 150 neighbors with grocery items.

20:51

But personally, that TCG Eli with

20:53

my Mini Cooper fed ten whole

20:56

families with meals. And we're

20:58

only gonna up that number from 10 to 200 starting next week.

21:02

So excited to share the progress with

21:04

you, excited to share this journey with you,

21:06

and super hyped that we were able to spend this

21:08

weekend together. So this is Eli

21:10

from TCG, peace it out, we'll stay in

21:12

touch. And one last update,

21:15

forgot to share on the tech

21:17

side, keep it simple, stop

21:19

innovating Shopify POS

21:21

Plus. Alex tried to

21:24

negotiate them down from their normal rate, but was able

21:26

to get it down to a fixed flat rate of

21:28

2000 per month. Which

21:30

I think we can do a lot better. So I'm

21:32

gonna hop in those negotiations and see

21:34

how they can support us as a nonprofit. But

21:37

yeah, taking off that big tech side of

21:39

things and coming down to something simple.

21:42

So appreciate that advice specifically with the

21:44

Shopify POS. Noah,

21:46

shalom, brother, I know it's not our

21:49

monthly updated, but I just wanna share

21:51

quick little Noah Kagan thank you note.

21:54

Overwhelmed this week, realized your very simple

21:56

advice, be the boss. Let

21:58

other people do the work, delegate. I dated

22:00

Artassa, the interns really spent the first three days

22:02

this week getting them onboarded so they know what

22:04

to do. And I'm

22:06

getting a market reader right now because they

22:08

did the work that I was stressing out about. This

22:11

Friday, we got volunteers helping distribute food so I

22:13

don't even need to be there if I don't

22:15

want to be. And

22:17

got my head screwed on straight and things are going well.

22:19

Excited to share updates in the future but I just needed

22:21

to share that one piece of moment from this week. So

22:24

thanks, brother. Have a good one. Safe travels.

22:30

That is a wrap. I hope you loved the

22:32

episode as much as we did making it for

22:34

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