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In this episode, we sit down with Shaan Rais, bestselling author of Add a Zero, recorded in Vegas at the Vault Conference. Shaan shares how a kid from Harlem who served time in prison went on to earn three master's degrees in organizational psychology and leadership. He opens up about the moment his family left, the out-of-body experience that changed what he said to his future wife, and the $5,000 scholarship email that landed five days after he made a promise to God. He also breaks down how he wrote his first book at 10 pages a day, why Jack Welch told him to tell his story, and how going live on Facebook during COVID brought in $450K in cash in under 90 days with no offer and no call to action.

💬 What We Cover:

• Growing up in Harlem with no examples of success
• Why he vowed his wife would never work for another man
• Rock bottom: his last prison stint and his family leaving
• The out-of-body experience and the $5,000 scholarship email
• Printing every textbook for two years because screens made his eyes tear
• Going from dealer to substance abuse counselor
• Add a Zero: doing three years of work in one
• His 3 a.m. routine and studying on the train
• Writing a 279-page book in 26 days at 10 pages a day
• Jack Welch's advice: tie your service to your story
• Going live on Facebook and collecting $450K in under 90 days
• Why his team refused pay until the business hit $1M
• The three E's vs. the three I's: impact, income, independence
• Why you are more valuable than you are visible
• How Eric Thomas came to write the foreword to his first book

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Timestamps:

00:00 – Intro & Meet Shaan Rais

00:30 – Growing Up in Harlem

02:34 – The Streets as His Personal Development Industry

03:36 – His Father the Baker and His Mother the Bookkeeper

04:38 – Why His Wife Would Never Work for Anyone Else

06:40 – Rock Bottom: Losing His Family

08:45 – Meeting His Wife and the Out-of-Body Experience

11:52 – The $5,000 Scholarship Email

12:53 – Never Using a Computer and Printing Every Textbook

16:34 – One Person's Belief Changes Everything

21:14 – From Dealer to Substance Abuse Counselor

25:24 – Add a Zero: Collapsing Time

26:59 – The 3 a.m. Routine and Studying on the Train

29:05 – Three Master's Degrees and Evidence-Based Coaching

32:09 – The Three E's vs. the Three I's

33:12 – How He Wrote His First Book

38:19 – 279 Pages in 26 Days

39:21 – Jack Welch: Turn Your Mess Into Your Message

42:26 – COVID Hits and He Goes Live on Facebook

43:26 – $450K in Under 90 Days

46:03 – His First Client Pays $275 an Hour

49:08 – Branded Like a Leader and the Two Survey Questions

53:48 – Visibility: More Valuable Than Visible

55:23 – Why His Team Refused Pay Until $1M

56:55 – Where to Find Shaan

58:27 – Advice: One Foot in Front of the Other

58:57 – How Eric Thomas Wrote the Foreword

1:00:30 – Evidence-Based, Not Motivational

1:01:32 – Final Words and the 7-Day Free Trial

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In this episode, we sit down with Igor Pogany — AI educator, founder of The AI Advantage, and the man behind some of the world's most-watched AI tutorials on YouTube. Igor opened his channel the same week ChatGPT launched, grew a video from 90 views to over 5 million, and now teaches 65,000 learners a month how to use AI in their business. He also co-hosted an AI summit with Tony Robbins and Dean Graziosi that reached 600,000+ people. He opens up about growing up with a single mother in Slovakia, moving countries at 8 without the language, and the obsession that cost him a relationship. He also breaks down the three levels of AI, why most people jump to agents too soon, and how he published a full YouTube video using an AI clone while recovering from tonsil surgery.

💬 What We Cover:
• Moving to Austria at 8 without the language and what that taught him about learning
• Pirating Photoshop at 16 and becoming a freelance videographer at 20
• Teaching himself Python and blockchain when COVID wiped out all his client work
• The ChatGPT video that went from 90 views to 5 million and hit Google's front page
• Going all in after the viral video: book, course, community, newsletter
• The obsession that cost him a past relationship
• 65,000 learners a month at $38/month with a $1 first month trial
• The three levels of AI: answering questions, working with you, working for you
• Why jumping straight to agents is the biggest mistake most people make
• Why Claude beats ChatGPT for human-sounding writing and one-shotting tasks
• Context as the foundation: how to onboard AI like a new employee
• The $5,000 API bill that proves the Mac Mini agent trend is a trap
• How one message to his agent tested 180 prompts against 6 audience avatars
• Why AI is better at repurposing content than creating from scratch
• Roughly 10,000 hours studying AI since December 2022
• Publishing a full YouTube video with an AI clone during tonsil surgery
• Tech stack: Claude for the script, ElevenLabs for audio, HeyGen for the avatar

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Timestamps:
00:00 – Intro & Welcome
00:59 – What Igor Does: Teaching the 80% to Use AI
02:14 – The AI Advantage Community: 65,000 Learners a Month
03:34 – The Three Levels of AI
05:26 – The Biggest Lever: Better Decision Making
07:05 – Will AI Get Easier or Harder to Use?
09:36 – Claude vs ChatGPT: Why Igor Prefers Claude
10:32 – Growing Up in Slovakia and Moving Countries at 8
12:30 – Teaching Himself Python and Blockchain During COVID
14:07 – From 90 Views to 5 Million: The Video That Changed Everything
16:45 – Going All In After the Viral Video
19:23 – What Makes Great AI Content
21:43 – Level One: Using AI Like Google
23:07 – Level Two: Building Depth of Context
27:55 – The Context Framework: Identity, Goals, and Values
29:36 – The Biggest Mistake People Make With AI
32:24 – What an AI Agent Actually Is
34:02 – A Real Agent: The Taste Document Built From 1,000 Decisions
37:55 – The Mac Mini Trap: $5,000 API Bill, 95% End Up Where They Started
41:56 – Using AI With Transcripts to Find Blind Spots
45:10 – Will Big Players Absorb the Startups?
50:59 – Own Your Context or Big Tech Will Own It for You
52:11 – Context Buckets and Projects
54:32 – 180 Prompts, 6 Audience Avatars: AI at the Summit
59:24 – Repurpose, Don't Create: AI's Real Superpower
1:01:57 – 10,000 Hours Studying AI Since 2022
1:05:26 – How Prompting Makes You a Better Communicator
1:09:34 – Why Taste Is Hard to Automate
1:13:15 – Where to Find Igor
1:14:04 – Publishing a YouTube Video With an AI Clone During Tonsil Surgery
1:17:56 – Tech Stack: Claude, ElevenLabs, HeyGen
1:18:47 – Closing