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Changing The World With AI: My Story
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I'm going to watch this again when I'm
like successful you can do this you can
I'm so close everyone else can do it why
can't I I'm not giving up and I'm just
better we're done really beginning to
understand the capabilities of the
computers I'm convinced that machines
can and will think In Our
Lifetime but I think the computers will
be doing the things that men do when we
say they're thinking I confidently
expect that within a matter of 10 or 15
years something will emerge from the
laboratory which is not too far from the robot
so this is a video that I never thought
I'd actually end up making and it's a
stitching together of 60 to 70 of my own
personal video diaries um from my entire
entrepreneurial Journey every one to two
months I would make these kind of
accountability videos or or Vlogs on my
laptop screen on my desk and update
myself or update whoever was watching um
about the current state of my business
what I was struggling with um completely
unrelated topics as well uh but
generally just updating on my life and
the struggles I was having with being an
entrepreneur and growing through the
phases um so I feel like right now is
the is the time to make this video as my
businesses in the AI space are taking
off and we're doing some really
incredible things that I'm so excited to
be sharing with you all and before
things get any bigger I I want to make
this video to get it out there who I
really am and let you all see that uh
from end to end who I am and what makes
me tick and where I'm from so that you
can make a decision on if you want to
keep on watching my videos or or join in
this journey with me so I've brought on
my friend Dylan who's got a lot of
experience in making videos like these
to stitch together my Vlogs and
interviews with the people I were
closely with and interviews with myself
into something that tells my story from
end to end in a way that's clear and
concise my name is leam Motley and this
is my story and this is how I plan to
change the world with AI I hope you enjoy
enjoy [Music]
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to anyone out there who's got a dream
and he's trying to chase something or
you're doing exactly what I'm doing
bro it's been so long man it was [ __ ]
hard Liam is is a 100% 100% in
absolutely everything everything came
first in Cross Country academics first
in swimming Sports um Athletics he will
do everything to the best of his ability
I mean I mean we've got photos as well
just always holding up a whole bunch of
certificates always going up on stage if
he says he's going to do something he
he'll do it the first thing would be
drive like Liam's got a Relentless drive
to achieve anything that he sets his
mind to and I saw that from day one in
him is it's just if I want to do
something I'm going to give it in my
absolute will one of the smartest people
i' I've ever met is intelligence I mean
he is the smartest guy that I've ever
met at least my age his ability to be
able to recite information is absolutely
phenomenal I mean he can read a book on
philosophy and then tell you about it
like he was the author he always wanted
to be a winner and I think that was
special to be around to see his drive
and just wanting to be the best at
absolutely everything he's got a really
big [ __ ] heart I think a lot of
people maybe you know you don't see it
when someone's got as much drive as Li
has it's sometimes over Shadows how big
the heart actually is but when you sit
down with Liam at a road oneon-one and
he's talking about how he's BR up Casey
or how he's BR up Daniel and how he's
just so thrilled to be able to see them
on this journey with him you sit there
and you just go man this guy really
really cares and if it wasn't for Liam I
wouldn't have met Josh who's now my boss
and also Mentor so I've honestly got
Liam to thank as he's the one who opened
the door for me on this whole another
way of living life it's crazy to think
that it's a reality sometimes
being able to work with your brothers
and then work on the things that we're
doing yeah I think it's I think it's
Unique right like working with all with
four people from New Zealand all pretty
much from the same place in this space
is extremely extremely unique somehow
some way it sort of landed in my lap
I've got Liam to thank a lot for that to
be able to have people that you really
enjoy being around and really love on
this journey with you to be able to
create something that you think is going
to be impactful for the
world is a bit all right my name is Le
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story I was writing my journal today
just how grateful I am for being able to
live the exact dream that I've I was I
was planning for when I was 18 just
getting started in this thing so uh yeah
this is a this is the everything other
people wanted I have an AI agency called
Morningside AI where we build AI
solutions for businesses I have a AI
software called agentive which allows AI
automation agency owners to build AI
agents easily and I also have a
education business called AAA
accelerator which teaches people how to
start their own AI agency so to
understand how I got to where I am and
the forces that have been acting inside
my brain to to push me to do these kind
of things so I kind of need to tell you
a little bit about what enforge those
characteristics of me and that started
New Zealand I loved it we are very much
in Outdoors uh get out on the beach go
camping play sport uh a lot of time in
the sun small city called farmer day
where I was born and raised in the small
suburb of Morningside the first 5 to 6
years of my life um and then when I was
nine I moved to boing School in Oakland
it was fairly traumatic for i' say 2
years before we got to about 11 or 12
years old and you had gotten used to the
awful feeling of being ripped away from
your parents every Sunday and feeling
sex to your stomach cuz you had to go
back but that made me very independent
and it also put me in a very intense and
competitive environment but also gave me
the isolation that I needed from
external factors and away from a a
fairly turbulent home life when my big
brother and I both got into Dorth the
boarding school we headed down to
Oakland and my mom decided to give up
her life in funger too to come down and
support us and during that first year my
mom and dad and brother and I were all
living under the same roof which was a a
first foul family and during this time
the proximity I think led to a split up
and break up between my mom and dad
which was particularly difficult for me
as a 9-year-old just going through and
adapting to boarding school so was a
particularly tough period of My Life um
but also for the family as a whole and
that's really the point of the school is
to take boys out of those situations and
give them some kind of stability and
give them good teachers and everything
they could possibly need to become the
best version of themselves and that's
that's what I did I proceeded to to
continue to do well academically apply
myself at school yeah I mean we weren't
actually friends at the time just he was
a year group above me he' already been
at a dealer for quite a long time again
kind of acquaintances you kind of know
everyone at Dorth it's a small school I
was going for the top academic of the
school at the time and while it was a
small school it was still something that
I took very seriously and I wanted to
win the top academic prize for my my
time at the junior school and and I
missed out on it by a couple of marks
and I was extremely embarrassed I think
I was crying in the assembly cuz I was
so i' put so much work into it and then
the guy who was my number one rival end
up beating me this was a a traumatic
moment but something that made me snap
into adulthood as I see it and I decided
in that moment I asked myself I never
want to feel This Feeling Again do you
have what it takes the stamina to go on
for another 5 years of year 9 10 11 12
and 13 do you believe that you can apply
yourself fully and win every single year
from now and I remember sitting there in
that moment and that feeling of complete
embarrassment and and shame of not being
able to do it do what I was I set out to
and I I said yes and I I I believe that
I have what it takes to to put in 5
years of hard work and come out on top
and that was my first time when I zoomed
out and was accepting that I was working
a longer time Horizons than just what's
happening next tomorrow or next week
that was really the peak of my formation
of my my psyche and and character and
what was leading right up to my final
year in high school I taught my class
and basically every imaginable
imaginable category which in no small
way was motivated by the lifechanging
trip I had to silic Valley in 2016 which
by some miracle I applied to and was
selected for and that trip allowed me to
meet my first Mentor adrew Patterson and
go to the states and see Ki in New
Zealand is working in these big tech
companies and just a completely
different life than I thought was
possible which made me really set my
sights on the states and the tech
industry but I knew to get there I had
to perform very well at school year 13
my final year I decided to apply myself
in sports as well and basically won all
the all the sporting awards at the
school I could he had such an
interesting mix between academics and
school and wanting to become the best
and being the best to where on the
weekends we used to hang out and see
that complete difference of going out to
parties and doing really well on school
and they still drinking on the weekend I
I was like how the [ __ ] do you do it how
do you how can you even managed
that I remember thanking God or whoever was
was
break finally ending the perceived
endless Misfortune and disappointment
I'd been facing since I started at
Junior Campus no matter what comes up in
your life boys do not be afraid of these
difficulties see them as opportunities
for growth and development of your
up see massive goals that make you
scared just thinking about
them the bigger the bit aim for the moon
even if you miss you still end up Among the
the
Stars I was rolling off the back of a
success at high school I uh got hit with
a til Lopez
ad and it was a for that and that
introduced me to the Lord of online
business there's book smart people and
there's real world smart people and
throughout my childhood my dad always
drilled that into me he's a he's a
Wilder now turned farmer um so he's
always been very involved in the trades
and being practical and practically
useful as a as a man particularly I know
that that didn't hold much value to my
dad and therefore to me it didn't either
so uh this was a chance for me to prove
to myself and I guess to some degree to
my dad that I was real world smart I
wasn't just book smart sure I I aced on
my test and I was one of the top
academics in in the country but I said
what's the the real world conversion of
this intelligence or smarts and that was
to me making [Music]
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money um my school had a position where
we would do a swap so my school would
send a graduate over to a school in
Scotland and they would send one back in
this kind of exchange so put my name in
for that and before I knew it the early
in January
2019 I was hopping on a plane on my own
to go to the other side of the world and
start a new life yeah and then I got to
work immediately I had a I think the
title his course had five or six
different business models and I looked
through a couple of them decided to do
the the e-commerce and Drop Shipping
course within within the bundle of
courses I'd bought it got me started but
it didn't really give me anything I
think it was quite outdated but I I took
what I could out of it and and got
started started off with the fitness we thing
thing
didn't really go anywhere and I got sent
an article from New Zealand's leading
newspaper and it was from one of my
mentors at the time saying hey here's
this young kid like you who's is's doing
this online business they making all
this money and I read it and I got
really pissed off I was like the [ __ ] is
this guy my age year older than me
making all this money doing e-commerce
um and so he was always in the the back
of my mind and I was really struggling I
reached out to him found him on
Instagram through that heroid article
and reached out to him and said hey I'm
really struggling I I'm really trying
here but I just I can't seem to
understand how this particular part of
the business works and fortunate enough
he replied I sold him's Instagram when
he messaged me and uh I was like okay
this guy's just a party animal he's
traveling all these places he's got this
long shaggy hair yeah he he looks he
looks wild I remember jumping on a phone
call with him and it was just a
completely different uh you know
conversation than I had expected and I
was like this guy is really switched on
he's got extreme drive and he was just
you could hear like the passion and the
drive in his voice It's just sometimes
you speak to people and it's genuine you
can genuinely feel that like they're
trying to get from point A to point B
and they're going to do whatever it
takes to get there when I was on the
phone call with him I was like okay this
is very very rare in New Zealand but I
found someone else that has the passion
that I hope I have Vice from Josh Brown
uh he
did he was kind of enough to sit me on
the right check I can do it I know I
know I can I'm going to do it so
hopefully next time you see me got a
couple of sales or at least some haven't
run out of money and I've still got some motivation
motivation
do catch you throughout that time in
Scotland I was making I think in Us doll
$6 or $700 a month and that was my money
that I could use to pay for the business
and I was basically putting all of that
money back into running my ads and
basically losing losing my entire check
every month on testing new products on
Facebook and try to make some money with
the Drop Shipping Store um today was
like good made a sale made my sale um
kind of caught me off guard I was just
chilling here like working on some more
ads and and putting together a product
page for a new product I found and I
just got this email on my phone and I
was like
who yesterday we
had two
sales today we had two sales but some
guy used discount code the chicky [ __ ]
and got 10%
off scale up the headset I don't even
know what the [ __ ] I'm doing
here dhgate drip you know what I'm
talking about that same L
drip so it would be funny if one day I'm wearing
wearing
like the legit one very excited very
happy I'm going to do it you got to ride
the highs
and stay tough through the lows right
about I just want to work man just I
don't even know what else to say
like when I when I compare myself to
where I was I've come so far and I know
so much now I know watch this again when
I'm like successful and a bit may you
know [ __ ] [ __ ]
but I keep comparing myself to other
people in my position or other people
trying to make it in job shipping and I
feel like I am at the Forefront of these
like the beginners who are about to make
it I'm like next and [ __ ] cute so it was
was
a a tough time as well personally um
when you layer on the being in a a new
I just want to [Music]
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back she's been supporting me since I
was at school she I was going to get a
job while I was at school but she she
started paying me
weekly so that I could keep studying I
achiev so much because of that and she's
still pay me supporting this business is
actually going to give me like 2 and a
half Grand across the course of this
from I just want to be able to pay that
like [ __ ] hell get back to my
family and my community
man I want to be able to go back to
school and be like you dude you can do
this you can
you don't have to follow the the path
that everyone else takes you can you can
do it yourself this you wased make money
online these
days I want to go back to school and
present to them what I want to do what
I've done and show them that they can do
it just as
easily I'm going to do not just for me
but for all my brothers at school for my
family for my kids I
guess I'm not going to UNI not going [ __ ]
[ __ ]
un always T [ __ ] in my way and always
will at that point I reached out to Josh
as I as I mentioned and he was able to
nudge me onto the right path in terms of
the ad creatives I was using and and
tactical stuff like that um but really
it was the start of my personal
development Journey as uh as any
entrepreneur will know read a few key
books and that's what really started me
on side of me on my journey of the
meditating the reading the I went all
out as uh as you need to
initially it's currently 5:30 in the
morning been waking up 5:00 in the
morning for the past 3
weeks um doing some push-ups and stuff
getting my blood moving jumping in the
shower um putting my work clothes on and
going and doing um meditation affirmations
affirmations
visualizations reading uh journaling so
I do all that in the first two hours of
my morning I'm going to put all these
Vlogs in I'm going cut that [ __ ] up make
us first video be like I don't know if
any going to [ __ ] watch it but some
someday they will and I'll see these
videos and be like damn [ __ ] he grinded
for what 6 Seven 8 months to get this
[ __ ] off the ground and I from there I
want to be doing like helping people mentoring
mentoring
coaching YouTube videos collaborations like
like
networking Inside the Mind of a broke
millionaire a young broke
millionaire um this is from thinking go
Rich um it says fix an exact amount of
money you desire and I said $500,000 in
assets by 2021 created definite plan to
carry out this desire beginning at once
and I said Master Ecom with Otis use
skills in my own use these skills in my
own store find a winner build a brand
around it build customer base and
Community sell for a million dollars
rest and
repeat going to be the most successful
old boy the school's ever seen that's me
that's that that's that dude I'm going
to be that boy uh throughout the year I
had to go from the over optimistic
entrepreneur getting in thinking I was
going to be rich by the time I was 19 I
remember saying that to my friends um
then I got to 19 and I wasn't rich and I
hadn't made any money I was probably
less Rich than when I said that I had to
really build a a bulletproof mindset
that I'm never going to give up on this
thing I've been hustling for
[ __ ] hour long
bro don't come
easy it's so it's too worth it for me to give
give
up so keep
reading keep getting up early hitting them
them
goals keep believing in [Music]
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yourself so I came back to New Zealand
to start off at University of all things
I hadn't found success with my online
businesses yet and I had a boatload of
money being thrown at me through
scholarships that I got at the end of my
school year at the same time was working
on my businesses of course I was getting
back into the Ecco space uh getting it
up and running and just still believing
that I could get it done and University
was always the backup Josh was starting
his e-commerce incubator and I put my
hand up for that and because he'd seen
the work I'd put in for the past year he
allowed me to get a spat and so I think
paid Josh a few thousand for that so he
uh there was some value exchange there
and within that e e-commerce incubator
Josh gave me the the strategy to
actually make money that was wasn't some
[ __ ] stuff that a YouTuber who
wasn't making any money was was talking
about immediately first product I
started and tested was a success and I
swiftly made my first
$100,000 uh within the space a few
months I remember looking in my account
uh my bank account for the first time
was seeing it like a six figer sum like holy
holy
[ __ ] took me a year and two months could
be profitable think I'm on track to hit
1K today long story short few days after
that I had $35,000 sales pretty much
3.4k which [ __ ] nuts did like 1,800
New Zealand profit I was working at a
pizza shop I was working two jobs I was
at Uni and I started Living in a barn
and then that's when I blew up so we're
at 20K this month it's been 6 days
[ __ ] unreal but made 10 grand profit
um I got some posters on my wall um I
got like a work versus no work and work
is all my travels and like some pictures
of Josh Brown and the cars I want to get
and the the things I want to be doing
where I want to be living and then below
it there's the no work thing and that's
me sitting in traffic me working at a
desk job graduating when I'm old as [ __ ]
so that's my motivation every time I'm
just boom up there so towards the end of
2020 I started working more closely with
Josh not on the same business but he
like a big brother started to take me in
he was living close to where I was in
Downtown Oakland in my University Halls
he was extremely extremely respectful
and he was extremely genuine and I could
tell that you know there was no fake in
it front nothing just completely genuine
character that was also extremely
competent and extremely switched on um
but also had this sense of humor where I
think even on the first night just in
tears laughing about stuff having pears
I just yeah rarely caught on to that
from day to one good thing I've been C
I've caught up with Josh twice now I
think down at his place on princess WF
it's been cool just like hanging out
with him and sort of picking his brain
and I would put my little backpack on
and walk down to his fancy apartment and
I got to see right in front of me what
the fruits of this career could be here
at this incredible apartment in central
Oakland um
just I couldn't even [ __ ] believe it
that he was sitting in there working on
his business so badass just like the
epitome of everything that I wanted to be
be
um as a as a young young entrepreneur
and from I was always grateful them for
for bringing me in like that and
allowing me to sit sit alongside and see
it in action and to give me some some
exposure to the tangible fruit of of the
the journey that I was on so that was
very key for me and I spent a lot more
time with them got to know him better as
a friend rather than as a as a teacher
or a mentor um we [Music]
the um it's 2021 now so your boys left
that 2020 Vibe
behind me Casey and Shan have been
getting the Vibes going ready to crank
it out this year and and get some [ __ ]
going um some goals for next year that
we want to hit cuz I was in like a
proper State last year for a while so um
I me Josh and got to know him proberly I
found some success my business finally
was to be able to um drop out of uni
very grateful for everything that I've
that went my way last year and also
things that didn't um but I think this
is consolidation year this is put
everything in [ __ ] fifth gear fourth
gear type [ __ ] and really send it I'll
be going traveling with Daniel soon in
about two weeks or less over to Aussie
for a few months that should be real
good so the start of 2021 was all hopes
and excitement about leaving the country
um I knew that I was signing up for
getting locked out cuz New Zealand had
extremely strict Co policies at the time
where had to refresh a site constantly
for about 24 hours to try and snag a
spot to get back in so Josh went off to
Spain um on his own and I went to
Australia for 3 months we ended 20 on a
high I've had an incredible year and was
extremely excited for the next year but
down I was pretty deep in the uh in the
issues with Facebook at account bands
starting to run into into the the first
major uh hurdles and and
issues when I look back to myself in
2019 so boud of that that kid sitting in
his room it's
buddy I don't even know what the [ __ ] I was
was
doing me a with the same [ __ ]
problems I a lot more
money this is going to be one for the
[ __ ] books man I was just going to
give you my update [ __ ] started
crying man that was when things kind of
all fell apart I had been furiously
trying to get stores back up and running
um I was making no money at the time I
was rapidly losing money by buying new
accounts and spending all these software
to try to get around Facebook ad account
bands at any moment that could get
completely switched off and just
terminated by Facebook how could I ever
hope to build a business long term with
that being the case I would have to do
this very rapid Drop Shipping testing
and and never really be able to build
anything sustainable and that wasn't
what I was in the business of doing so
reevaluate my options and think about
what my next move was because I knew it
couldn't be continuing to try to start
more drop shipping stores and so the
solution to my problem was
to connect with Josh and bring some of
the skills that I'd learned on my own
trajectory and the in the e-commerce and
online digital marketing space which was
my skills here it was copywriting it was
uh consumer psychology that was what I'd
been a to make money but then I had my
own skills that I could bring to his
business we're both very aligned we were
good friends with each other and I was
able to come on and and work with him on
his marketing agency and to further my
skills in the marketing space so I
headed over to Spain and I was the only
one where there was really no one in New
Zealand traveling and so um I decided to
go over there and I was posted to up by
myself and Liam gave me a call and said
hey we're going to come over as well I
said fantastic I was I was very grateful
to go over to Spain at the time it was
was really fulfilling I I got to work
alongside him for the first time
probably um this guy was once my mentor
I was now working alongside and of
course he was able to teach me a lot in
the process so there was a lucky save a
good move on the the grand SCH of things
he came over and he's like I'm bringing
over this other friend I'm sure you're
going to absolutely love him and sure
enough he turns up to my door with old
Daniel and there he was and I remember
the first night we just went onto the
balcony and I forget what we were even
talking about that we were just B
laughing and I was just thought Daniel
was just this absolute pure I remember
thinking Daniel was this pure s like
he's just so genuine he could just he
really I think one thing that stood out
to Daniel is he listened he really
listened and when I was speaking to him
you can tell when someone really is
intrigued by what you're saying and is
really paying attention and not from an
ego perspective but you know a lot of
people it's just me me me me and I could
really sense that Daniel was not like
that and I really admired that about him
at the start I have that thought still
um and since then yeah we've it's been a
long journey traveled traveled with him
for four months around Europe Spain
France um all these incredible places
absolutely no worries turned into the
most special Adventure ever three guys
in Spain during the peak of Co no one
were traveling everything was very cheap
U we had to place to ourselves it was a
a really really cool period for us I was
working my landscaping job I was again
you know just working my old job and and
Liam was already over is already working
on on his business I remember one time I
was at home and he gave me a phone call
and he's like look you need to get
started on something you need to be
building up your skill set you need to
try something out um look I suggest
trying copywriting why don't you try
copywriting try build up your skill set
try to get some clients and look we'll
see see where it goes unless I can see
it from you whether you're actually
again wanting to do this so I was yeah
learning learning copyrighting skills
started reaching out to clients started
doing a whole bunch of cold email
Outreach Liam said to me there's this
guy that's doing copyrighting back home
one of my friends i' sort of trying to
get him on to it um and I I think he
could maybe be able to help you out I
think was the line that Liam was saying
something on of that I remember thinking
like got this guy's got no [ __ ] clue
what he's doing um you can't just come
and like for anyone that knows
copyrighting right like it's really
difficult you either sort of have it or
you don't and um I was like there's no
way this guy can just pick this up in
like a month or two and St doing
and so um Liam's like he's coming over
and I was like okay let's see how this
goes keep in mind is I still thought
that Liam was a part of this pretty
crazy crowd back home Casey came over
and I remember we opened up the door on
the night that he arrived and I was just
like man Li's gone two for two here like
two great dudes and we were just again
all outside on the balcony just
absolutely laugh now ales off so that's
time at Casey was pretty much the same
thing Casey came over for the first time
and joined the crew
and we just got to work and it was a
really good period of of my
entrepreneurial journey I was learning a
lot I was seeing the world again um and
getting to do it with cool people and my
my My Success criteria when I got into
the space and started in
entrepreneurship was always I just want
to do cool [ __ ] with cool people and
wherever I want to be so i' i' been able
to achieve that dream U I didn't have
ludicrous amounts of money but we
towards the end of the year we did start
making very good money and it was uh a a
full circle moment for me being working
alongside Josh and we're able to go to
America I was able to meet some of my my
Idols in the space i' looked up to from
afar watching on YouTube that
was the dream country true there nothing
it we're coming back home after that Adventure
Adventure
and then having to quarantine in the two
star hotel for two
weeks that was dark man um and then when
I kind of carried on to that other path
that I had laid out he had his sight set
on becoming a fruit Trader like his dad
over the course of maybe 6 months just
drilled into a say Daniel you have a a
friend group that is on the edge or or
in the space that is is very hard to get
into uh in many cases and I said I think
you've got a lot more in you and I think
your your dad would say the same and I
think he knew it as well I think that
saddened his brain he thinks very deeply
so after 2 3 months I reached out to
Josh I knew Josh had a marketing company
and I said listen I have to do
University for this reason but after
that i' I'd love a shot had a position
in my marketing company and I flipped
him a message and he started come work
for me I promise not to waste his time
and I hope uh I hope I haven't done that
so the rest is history he completely run
with it so I'm uh I do claim that uh
that I got Daniel into the space and
obviously Josh for for giving him the [Music]
opportunity and so we came back to New
Zealand and we got a nice apartment I
bought my first nice car C63 I'm a
massive uh petrol hit I've always love
motorbikes and cars and so for me
getting that car and driving around my
my home City to some degree um was was a
really cool moment for me and my boys um
I'm not going to lie it was it was
pretty cool man I'm just blessed so
[ __ ] blessed I'm very very lucky and
I'm very blessed to be where I am right
now I know we put in the work but I'm
grateful for Casey I'm grateful for Josh
grateful for everyone who kind of made
what what we what we thought up in this
apartment happen you know that was all
us very quickly we realized that New
Zealand W it is great and we did have a
great time there there was still a lot
of of work we needed to do on the
business and we also couldn't let
ourselves get complacent and I knew deep
down that I I couldn't stay there for
too long and that ended up leading us to [Music]
at oh well I like who that is do [ __ ] do
by whips different place different
chips ATL this sh
ludicrous know [Music]
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me we're in the new
crib for the past month I've been
getting my furniture I got my desk um
I'll give you a tour of the house but
kitchen need to get a new dishwasher got a
a
couch I like my couch got a lamp
got a really nice sound bar and stuff
it's got good sound on it TV already
came and it's in my bedroom so bege view
I've got my pondering chair this is
where I read every morning for an hour
got my bed custom bed base been watching
this see me go from losing all my money
job shipping to hopefully I'm sexier or
number one but uh secondly I hope you've
seen a growth in me and the way I I see
the world and I seem more wise um
definitely trying to be more wise
grateful so moving to Dubai was a Coming
of Age moment for me I was very much
still a little little kid a young man
and being thrust into this
gigantic Global Hub of a complete
Melting Pot of different cultures and
businesses and the best and worst parts
of humanity all packed into one small
area um was of course going to be quite
a interesting uh Journey for me and it
was the first time that I got my own
apartment I bought another car there so
I got my my whole little materialistic
set up there and building a a new life
in a in a strange place was definitely
made me grow up very quickly and
thankfully I had my friends and and the
boys Josh and Casey and Daniel living
nearby but I was alone living in Dubai
calling my girlfriend every day trying
to have some kind of love and and and
connection in my life but Dubai can
sucked that pretty quickly it was a a
quite a Barren period of my life just
grinding out there in Dubai and we
weren't entirely sure what we wanted to
be working on or what the next big
opportunity was for us and to set us up
for what we've done now and that our
period in Dubai throughout say from
about August on to the end of 2022 was
my myself looking into teaching myself
to code exploring new avenues that can
potentially open up business
opportunities for us so the same on
Josh's side he was exploring okay
where's this next opportunity when we
can all come and work together while I
was personally kind of enjoying the
growth that was happening at the time
and what Dubai was making me shape into
a man and be more independent and manage
manage a household and work on my own
without external motivators uh my
business partner Josh was not not really
enjoying at all so there was this
friction between myself and the rest of
the guys where some of us wanted to stay
some of us wanted to leave a heartless
soulless City in some ways getting to us
and also the lack of direction for what
we're doing as a group Josh was still
working on as marketing agency and and
we were doing things there but it wasn't
we didn't we knew that it wasn't the
long-term vehicle for us and I taught
myself the code I spent 6 to 8 months
teaching myself how to code which was uh
I I love doing doing it I was really
enjoying building my own software um but
by the end of the year uh we knew that
we were really needing some something to
to kick off for us to really go into
2023 with
some some more clear Direction because
we were all going crazy without
something big to work on together which
uh call it God call it fake Call It
Whatever you want Destiny I saw this
video saying why chat GPT is obviously
the next big thing tried to to out
myself 8 months to a year of teaching
myself out a code I had a a much better
perspective on what the potential of
this tool could be and so I remember
asking it can you write me a website and
it instantly wrote a working HTML code
for a website immediately I remember
sitting there putting my hand over my
mouth at the desk and just being
absolutely flawed by what this thing
could do and this was the very first
version of it and it was basically at
that that moment that I realized this
was going to be where my focus would be
for the the coming years and that I had
to do something major to get myself out
in front of this opportunity while I had
hot in my hand it was so fresh off the
press and it just come out I remember
Liam called me up and said hey you need
to check out this chaty BT stuff so
what's he talking about and I think I
went over to his place and he was
showing me how it worked and just typing
in you know write me website cing Bri
website code and I was like wow okay
there's something here and to be
completely Fair as Liam saw the vision a
hick of a lot earlier than I did Liam
really was a hell of a lot more shocked
by the capabilities of this technology
even more so than I was Liam started to
tell me about where he thought this
technology was going and how impact what
he thought he was going to be if anyone
know starts to educate himself on a
topic like this it's extremely extremely
compelling and I thought okay there's
something here and and I trust this
guy's Vision it was around about
November December and we're going home
to New Zealand and we're all traveling
from Dubai home to New Zealand and I had
started to see you know I'm a marketer
so I'm always looking at okay you know
this is an opportunity more to get into
AI from marketing perspective how can we
start to you know make a Mark and I
started to see YouTube videos just
taking off on AI and chat GPT this and
chat GPT that and me and Liam were
texting back and forth and I was saying
to Liam you need to jump on these videos
and you need to jump on them now sure
enough we went home and Le set up a
camera I still remember the day we had
this place up in Omaha that we're
renting uh for a couple of nights and
this sort of up north of New Zealand um
Countryside and I remember one afternoon
I was going out on the jet ski and Liam
said hey I'm going to set up this camera
I'm going to form my first YouTube video
and I said you want me to help you out
with anything no I'm just I'm just going
to run it he set it up he formed his
first YouTube video came back after just
it was all done sure enough you put it
up pretty much instantly it started to
get views hi guys and welcome to the
channel my name is Li in this video I'll
be talking you through how I was able to
use chat gbt to help me land $3,000 per
mon you stick around to the end I'll
show you how you can to obviously uh
things changed we're at 9,000
subscribers it has been 2 months since
we launched roughly not even I think we
first video posted in the first week of
January so got another week and a bit
until we get there so 10,000 Subs
essentially in 2 months I'm very happy
with that so the YouTube was an excuse
for me to have some kind of creative
flywheel and force myself to keep
learning and how it can out businesses
and how AI business overlaps um how to
make money with AI was really the big
question that I was trying to figure out
for personally but also I knew it would
be very good for the YouTube channel M
RDI as well so that was the main focus
of my exploration and you see throughout
my channel was just me diving head first
into something learning it making a
tutorial or or sharing it on the channel
and that was how I was able to rapidly
force myself to grow and and learn more
about the space and at the same time
Market myself and my my knowledge I knew
that by creating a channel and creating
an audience the opportunity to build a
product or a service or build a business
would reveal itself which is exactly what
what
happened this video is for beginners who
are looking to start their own AI
automation agency but don't know where
to start I know it can be overwhelming
to look at this new business model and
have no clue where to start or even
having no clue what kind of services you
can actually begin to offer to
businesses it wasn't until around May
2023 that we realized and started
experimenting with selling AI Solutions
on no code tools that had AI integration
so whether that was B press initially or
stack AI that was around the time when I
started playing with these tools and we
sold our first client which is like a
martial arts chatbot on bog press and
that was the most like the aha moment
for me and really the creation of the AI
automation agency model I remember being
on a call with Josh and say like man
what do we name this thing like there's
there's something here these clients
don't care that it's made on one of
these platform platforms which suddenly
makes it so much more accessible to
basically anyone who wants to give up a
couple months of their lives to learn
how to build on these things so this is
this is like exactly what the question I
was trying to answer this is exactly
what we're looking for which is a
business model that basically anyone who
who puts their mind to it can get into
it and learn these tools and start to
create new value with AI and sell them
to their clients and around this time I
started talking about it on YouTube and
things absolutely took off like the the
search volume on AI automation agency
just exploded suddenly there were a
whole bunch of guys who were apparently
running one of them as well um so it was
a strange period of my life we found an
answer to the question that everyone in
the space was trying to answer which is
how can average entrepreneurs cash in on
the AI train as as like lame as that
sounds that's what the majority of the
marketers thinking they know that
there's something there but they didn't
have the vehicle or the framework or
structure to be able to jump in and
apply that and and build a business
around it so we found it and at the
exact same time as this was all taking
off I went through the worst breakup of
my life when I was in Columbia and that
wrecked me for a while and took a took a
while to to get back to to equilibrium
and we had to do a bit of soul searching
in the meantime as well I can't even
describe how good things are going at
the moment uh we've got a new vision for
the channel New Direction we're going to
take it I have figured out a new
business model that I I really really
think people can make a lot of money
with and I think I'm the first to it and
I can stamp my name on it and and sort
of make it famous it gave me a good
excuse to lock in for basically the rest
of the year and just absolutely hammer
out these YouTube videos and build
morning side and and start our education
business as well full transparency
because I know YouTube could deal with a
lot more of that um I make these videos
so that I can educate you to start your
own AI agency and and successfully run
one so that you can become a potential
customer for the software that I make
for successful AI agency owners so the
more money you make with AI automation
agency and the one that you start the
more customers I have for my SAS and the
more I can potentially sell my SAS for
eventually so um if if you don't win I
don't win and that's why we're kind of
ining together it so so let's do this um
I just you guys saw it if you've been
watching my channel for a while but the
growth that we had in the second half
last year was uh ridiculous and I think
I grew to 100,000 subscribers in the
space of 7 months and then we did the
next 100,000 up to 200,000 subscribers
um within another 5 or 6 month after
that um I am filming this as I have a
suspicion that I think we are extremely
close to a life-changing sort of pivot
or or progression in the business here
and everything I've just talked about we
are doing through our various businesses
we obviously have Morningside AI which
is our AI development services company
our AI agency where we build solutions
for clients right now we are niching
down to AI Solutions for education and
coaching businesses um we have the AAA
accelerator which is how we can fast
track people into the AI agency space
with the best program in the world and
then we have agentive which is our
software that allows you to build and
sell these AI Solutions more easily
without necessarily having a deep and
extensive coding background so I hope
that's clear how they all tie together
and I hope you are as excited about the
coming years and and in decades in the
which brings us to now what I'm doing
right as of this moment I'm here in Cape
Town with my core team my brothers and
we're working on the the next leg of our
journey of of what we're building at
morning side so for us we have done
exactly what we set out to do and and at
the end of 20122 we're looking for our
opportunity and through sheer Brute
Force said effort we've been able to
find our opportunity and I think that's
really what I want my story to to
highlight for people is that you can
find it in the space too well there is
huge opportunity in in the a space I
don't you don't need me to tell you that
you just need to know the way to to find
yours and whether you replicate my
strategy whether you do whatever other
people are doing we've been able to do
it and we started off with me creating
content on YouTube which led us to
starting an agency which led us to
creating our own AI stas which led us to
creating our own education business as
well and now I have a Clear Vision on
what we're doing we are helping
thousands of people all around the world
we are building products that don't
exist on the market anywhere we are
creating Cutting Edge AI solutions for
Education businesses I have never felt
as fulfilled as I do right now I've
there's there's light years with the
difference between selling Chinese
products on Facebook and building a
company with your friends that's at The
Cutting Edge of this new technology
that's going to change the world and if
you can take notes from my story and say
the AI space is where you want to put
your time I would highly recommend it
but you have to be all in that's I guess
one of the key takeaways of my story is
that we did go all in when we found that
opportunity and I think everyone is
looking for the fairy tale ending or
writing a story of their life that
they'll be proud of and for myself and
my team the ultimate fairy tale for us
is to have come into this space as
complete newbies we answered the
question that everyone want wanted to
answer which is how can entrepreneurs
come and create a business in the space
by identifying that AI agency model and
then we named the model the AI
automation agency we then popularized it
through my YouTube channel and got told
the whole world about it then we created
the best educational program in the
world to teach people how to start one
and change lives through that and create
an entire new class of AI entrepreneurs
and then go on to create the software
and the tools that those AI agency
owners used to deliver their services
and through that software and through
those tools we were able to exit and
right off into the sunset and to me that
ending is the perfect crossover of my
passions and having an impact and
creating something new and and
everything that I want out of my life
and as as my team um we can achieve and
have fulfillment through doing that as
well and we take you all on the journey
with us yeah I think the the goal
morning side is is at the end of the day
is we believe and we're placing up BS
that this is going to be an extremely
disruptive technology uh to the entire
world and to pretty much all Industries
and for us it's making sure that even as
this technology grows as rapidly as it's
growing at the moment and figuring out
how the small players are not left
behind and I think that's really really
important and yes that has monetary
benefit to us as we're going to get
monetary gain from that but at the end
of the day you know I'd like to think
that it's adding a big impct or at least
an impact to M and pop businesses out
there to small to mediumsized businesses
um and even to individuals um that can
also help sort of facilitate that
adoption so I think yeah simply put up
is making sure that no one's Left Behind
is really the goal for us and I think
when you're living a lifestyle which is
very can it's a huge blessing to be
traveling around a your group of boys to
from country to Country just working on
a business as a whole and I think just
still enjoying every single moment that
we're in because again may not last and
may crumble may not but I think just
within everything that I'm doing now is
just enjoying every single moment of it
so and in terms of the end goal I mean I
think we're very focused on the journey
rather than destination we're all
aligned with wanting to be great and
wanting to make our small circle proud
uh wanting to take care of the people
that we love I've been able to like kind
of check like how crazy this this whole
thing is that we're doing and we're on
and the kind of risk and the kind of
reward so yeah it's a it's a reality
that almost sometimes feels too good to
be true to be honest so I hope
you understand that I am on this journey
with you and I create these videos to
show you how you can do it and how I've
done it as well and to be an example of
someone who's taken this opportunity and
run with it and to to give you
permission to do the same the future in
the space is so bright and myself and
the team at warning side are extremely
excited for what's to come and I hope
that you choose to join us on this journey
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