008: 100k Days Trading Forex, Raising 250k For A Start-Up, Building Teams In The Hundreds & The Success Mindset with Layth Samarah & Anas Hijjah

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I have been very fortunate to be introduced to iMarketsLive this year – a forex trading company. This opened up the opportunity for me to meet Layth Samarah & Anas Hijjah whilst they’re over here presenting in Australia.

These two twenty-two year old young men are on a whole another level. From humble beginnings and situations they have risen to be leaders of trading forex and business building.

Hear how Anas spent 53 days straight in his car when first launching his IML business.
How Layth raised 250k for a start-up.
How Anas has built a team in the hundreds and soon to be thousands.
How Layth has 100k+ trading days including making 20k whilst 20,000 feet in the air selling gold on the way over here.

This episode is full of extraordinary wisdom and has a very inspiring energy. There were several incredible quotes including:

‘You don’t have to be great to start but you have to start to be great’ and
‘They way you do anything is the way you do everything’

So grab a notepad and pen and please enjoy this conversation with Layth Samarah & Anas Hijjah

 

My biggest Take-Aways

• Go out and find a mentor. Someone who has done it before to teach you (Anas) 12:20
• You are the average of the 5 people that you hang out with (Anas) 13:10
• It’s not about how many resources you have, it’s about how resourceful you are with the things that you do have (Anas) 15:10
• Layth knew nothing about the industry for his new business idea so he made the decision to work hard on it and started with researching every aspect of it 20:20
• I don’t take opinions from those who don’t have what I want (Layth) 21:35
• You don’t have to be great to start but you have to start to be great (Layth) 26:50
• Your network is your networth (Anas) 28:35
• If I want what they have I’ve got to do what they do (Layth) 35:20
• The way you do anything is the way you do everything (Anas) 35:35
• 1% daily is better than 100% one day then 0% for the rest of the month (Anas) 38:45
• Be patient and know your worth. Patience pays. (Layth) 42:55
• There might be an advantage living in the city that you live in, however there are no disadvantages living wherever you live (in the first world) (Anas) 47:30
• In order to get something that you’ve never had you have to do something that you’ve never done – Layth Samarah (Anas) 52:20
• Don’t let any obstacle keep you from being successful (Layth) 55:15
• I love the way Anas refers to these great success coaches and authors as his Mentors – even if they’re no longer alive. It seems to be a way of subconsciously keeping yourself accountable to them as though you need to report back to you mentor that you have applied in your life what they have taught you.

 

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Show notes

2:15 How’s Australia?
3:20 On travel
5:30 What was it like growing up (Layth)
8:15 What was it like growing up? (Anas)
12:35 53 consecutive days living out of a car
13:45 Dropping out of college
16:30 Layth’s first year of trading
17:50 Taking the entrepreneurial approach to everything
20:00 laucnhing into a new business idea
22:50 Getting an investor to tip in 250k for 40% equity and what that business was
24:15 How Layth started trading Forex
26:50 You don’t have to be great to start but you have to start to be great
27:20 Anas in the early days of building
29:50 20,000ft in the air and made $20,000 from a sell on Gold
31:25 Where to from here for Forex and iMarketsLive?
32:30 Our vision for Australia over the next 12 months
33:30 If 2 or 3 people agree on a common purpose, nothing can stop them – Jim Rohn
34:20 The personal development journey to how they reached where they are now
36:05 How do I get a six pack? ‘It’s not for everybody’
37:35 How do you apply the knowledge that you learn?
38:55 Raising 250k for 40% of your start-up
42:55 Be patient and know your worth
44:05 How does one develop the right trading mentality?
45:40 How Layth & Anas met
46:30 What it is like in Dallas & the US in terms of forex, network marketing and business in general?

 

Links

7:20 Penny Stocks
7:20 Forex
11:30 Network Marketing
13:35 Christopher Terry
15:20 CBS Pharmacies
17:50 Shark Tank
24:00 Minties wraps & High hemp wraps
26:20 Robert Kiyosaki
26:20 Grant Cardone
33:30 Jim Rohn
34:35 Austinn Gotsey
36:35 Eric Thomas
37:05 Tony Robbins
37:45 Think & Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
40:05 Gofundme
44:40 Trading in the Zone by Mark Douglas
49:50 Calvin Harris
49:50 Kaskade
49:50 Zedd
54:25 Craig’s List
1:00:00 Telegram

 

The Big 5

47:50

Anas

1. An insight into his family income growing up and a situation that he wouldn’t wish his kids to have to go through
2. Inspired at a Zedd concert to become the creator instead of just being the consumer
3. Being introduced to network marketing
4. From living in his car to earning 10k per month
5. In order to get something that you’ve never had you have to do something that you’ve never done. Get uncomfortable and get back to work!

 

53:00

Layth

1. Watching his parents go through the financial crisis. I was used to having nice things and I wanted to keep having nice things so I knew that I had to make that money for myself so I started working at 15.
2. Flipping a car on Craig’s list and making $200 in a day. Don’t let any obstacle keep you from being successful.
3. Having a breakthrough with his invention. He didn’t give up and put in the hours to get ‘lucky’
4. When Layth joined iMarketsLive and changed his circle of friends, started trading forex and really started to grow as a person!
5. Layth found out that his wife was pregnant. He knew that he had to do something to ensure that his family would be financially secure.

 

1:01:00 Did you achieve your goals that you set yourself over the last 12 months?
Layth – No. If your goals don’t scare you they’re not big enough

1:01:15 What goals have you set yourself over the next 12 months?
Anas – To hit Chairman 10 (A rank in iMarketsLive) and have a Chairman 10 and 2x Platinum 5000s in his team).
To be twice as good as he was the last 12 months

1:03:35 Who are you looking to connect with?
Our mentors. People who are doing great things and pushing themselves to be better.

Who I think should connect with Layth & Anas?
Anyone who wants to take their life to another level

1:04:05 Where can people reach you?
Layth Samarah on Instagram
Anas Hijjah on Facebook
Anas on Instagram: @currencygainz

 

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