Raj Shamani, who walked the Cannes red carpet as a part of the Brut India Squad, talked to us about what pushed him to become an entrepreneur and podcaster. Brut is the official media partner for Cannes Film Festival 2024. #Cannes2024
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00:00So I was not good at studying. I was not good at sports and I was not even able to
00:06Speak in English properly. I reached out to top 80 companies in the country. None of them replied. Hi, I'm Raj Shumani for Brute
00:15Was not one of those
00:18Extraordinary students I used to get 45-50% and I was good at nothing
00:23So I was not good at studying. I was not good at sports and I was not even able to
00:29Speak in English properly to network with people
00:32So I used to feel inferior and to me that inferiority complex got to a level where I stopped
00:38Interacting with people socially. I always used to feel that hey, I'm insecure. I'm inferior
00:44I can't everybody is superior to me. Everybody is bigger than me
00:47To me that feeling was annoying and at the age of 16, I thought that I need to change that feeling
00:53I thought the easiest way for me was to start a business because I went on Google and started finding that
00:59Hey, how to become rich how to become confident how to start
01:04Becoming a better person and Google told me about couple of things first
01:08It told me go do an internship with one of the best companies in the world
01:11So I reached out to top 80 companies in the country
01:14None of them replied so because nobody replied and I couldn't get an internship in any company
01:21So I thought why not I start my own business and I went on YouTube started learning how to make
01:27Dishwash gels how to make hand washes and after learning that I started business in my room
01:33In fact, I still remember I used to have those
01:36Sticky notes. I used to try one formula in two buckets in my room
01:41Mix them up to make a dishwash gel and then post a sticky note. This didn't work. This didn't work
01:46So I tried for like 79 80 times before the formula worked and I started my business
01:51when I used to run my business at that time, I used to attend like
01:56plethora of
01:57Conferences around the world on business and personal growth how we can improve our health wealth relationships everything around that
02:04And I learned a pretty interesting concept that if you meet one person a day every day
02:09You end up learning so much that within a year. You'll be ahead of your peers at least five years
02:16So to me they were interesting so for eight years, so I used to meet one person a day every day to me that
02:23curiosity of knowing people and learning from them to improve and
02:29Help me grow personally in my life
02:31That became my inspiration to start a podcast that hey, this is what I'm doing
02:36Why don't I do this on a public platform and share it with everyone so that everybody?
02:42Can learn from the top 1% leaders in the world and
02:46Understand how to improve their health wealth relationships, so that's how I choose my guest
02:51So every guest has to be in accordance to these three things if any guests who can't help us in
02:59Understanding any of these three things if they can't help us learn
03:04How to grow ourselves personally and how we can make human human lives better
03:09We don't choose that guest no matter how big that guest is no matter how important that guest is