Adam Ali: From Amazon Warehouse to Viral Fame & a Lamborghini at 22

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I'm 22 years old. I have a Lamborghini.
I'll never forget, I was at a farmer's market week two of filming. And I asked this young lady, hey, do you want to do, you know, videos?

She was probably in her 20s. I showed her to a TikTok account.
It had like a thousand followers. And she laughed and walked away.
She was like, what a loser. Like, he has a thousand followers.

I was like, damn. All right.
There was a homeless guy that was a photographer. I was like, yo, bro, like, I would love to be in the channel.
We did an interview.

He told this story about how he's homeless, trying to make it, you know, probably makes about two, three thousand dollars a year.

And after that video got like a million views, I posted Venmo on my story, and he got like 5K from that.

Hey guys, and welcome back to a Love Love Podcast. This is Paul Alex, and today's guest is flipping the script on what it means to be a content creator in 2025.
Well, what do I mean?

While everyone else chases trends, he's chasing the truth, showcasing real people, real hustles, real jobs, and the dignity behind everyday 95ers, guys.

From building a powerhouse team at American Income to going viral by putting the spotlight on hardworking men and women across America, Adam Ali is creating more than just content.

He's creating a movement. Get ready for a real conversation with the man behind the mic, the mindset, and the mission.
Welcome to the Live Well Podcast, my man. How you doing?

Thank you for having me, Paul. No, absolutely, dude.
I mean,

for the viewers and the listeners, we have an ongoing relationship. He's a good guy.
He's based out of here in Miami. Young entrepreneur, how old are you, man? About 23 years old.
23 years old.

You know what I was doing at 23, dude? I was in Vegas at the pool.

You got it straight, dude. You got it straight.
I mean, you're already running a successful business. You're a content creator.
You got a lot of things going on, dude.

You've gone viral on social media so many times already. But

to get into this, we're going to go ahead and talk to Adam about his creative genius and his vision behind his content, guys.

So Adam, what made you want to start showcasing everyday people doing doing what they do for a living brother well the way this all started this was back in 2022 in Charlotte North Carolina I was actually working at an Amazon warehouse about 60 70 hours a week that was like my way of getting my money and I was what 19 years old just turned 20 at the time yeah and I used to listen a lot of Gary Vee but also I was still stuck in life to where I didn't know what I wanted to do so I said what's the best way to just ask people like Like, hey, like, I need advice.

But even, you know, you go to a car show, you just go up to random people. They're like, oh, like, this kid just trying to bother me.
So I said, what if I get a microphone and a tripod?

And what if I start my own little show asking people about their jobs? And then I'll get to not only learn about what they do, but also build like a media channel in the meantime. So I

bought a road microphone set tripod, and it was a car meet, McLaren Cars and Coffee in Charlotte, North Carolina. I went there and I was like, okay, who's getting out the nice cars? I was like, boom.

Like, boom, there's my first target. So I went up to him.
Hey, how you doing? Turns out this guy's in medical sales, makes half a million dollars a year.

I'm like, damn, like, you make that much money.

tells me how he did it how he got started so I was like okay people are willing to come up and talk to me I just tell them like hey get on this podcast I have this show but also I get to just learn I get to literally just learn about what other people do for a living so it actually inspired me to want to keep going and ever since then it was just I just kept doing more and more videos and after that

I saw that it started working right after that card me I probably filmed about 20 30 videos I just made the Instagram account and TikTok account I posted like a few of the videos and one of them hit like 400,000 views.

I was okay, this is like working. Then I started to look into it.
I was like, wait, why are people interested in this? And people are interested in what other people make and do for a living because

sometimes they don't know you can make that much, and sometimes they don't even know that's an actual career field.

So once I noticed, I was like, okay, my purpose here is going to be to interview people, but also educate others on what careers are out there, how much money you can make, and what does it take to actually get there.

So that was kind of like the whole goal of this and the whole main objective, which it still is today.

So just to educate others and inform others on what's truly out there for them, what's possible.

Did your mindset when you started creating this type of content, did it go into, okay, I need to start monetizing it right away? Or were you more like, let me get momentum, build it up, provide value.

and then eventually monetize i would say the first year i didn't really have any goal to monetize or make money off this because i was still working on my job i had and then working with my stepdad in construction so i said okay money is not like i can just save my money and just kind of travel with that.

So no, but then it got to a point where I had, you know, 200,000 followers. I was like, oh, wow, like I still make no money from this.
Yeah. See, this is interesting.

So I was confused at the moment, but I didn't let that stop me or demotivate me because I said there's still a bigger purpose out there for me. No, absolutely.

And then how old were you when you had those 200,000 followers? So I was what

20 years old still.

So I turned 21 in September to 2022.

But when I turned 21, I already, like the first four months, was really good for me. Like it started off really, really good.

So you're 20 years old to have 200,000 followers. You're trying to figure it out.
At that time,

what did your friends say? Did you have a girlfriend at that time?

What were the people around you? Okay, because 200,000 followers is a lot of followers, dude. You know, people start seeing that hype.
They start hating, right? Yeah.

So what were the people around you, like your family members, your girlfriend, at that point? Some of friends telling you? I'll never forget, I was at a farmer's market

like a week two of filming, and I would still go up to random people, and a lot of people were just cool, they were on board with it.

And I asked this young lady, um, like, hey, do you want to do, you know, videos? She was probably in her 20s.

She, I showed her to a TikTok account, it had like a thousand followers, and she laughed and walked away. She was like, what a loser! Like, he has a thousand followers.
I was like, damn. All right.

I guess people just see like that as

like a validation, but that lit lit a fire inside of me. I was like, okay, like I have something approved for whoever that was.
Like I still remember it to this day.

As far as my friends, they were all kind of confused. Like, wait, like, this is like, like, how did he do that? But they were supportive.
You know, no one really ever had anything bad to say.

I would have the friend that would come help me here and there. So my mom was generally confused.
She didn't know. She was like, okay, like, you're not making no money off this.

Like, this is not a real thing. So, and no girlfriend at the time.

So, my friends that I had at the time were supportive.

They would like the stuff they would repost it But then there's the whole other group of Other friends that just didn't they didn't care at all, right?

So when I started the account and it was at zero I would repost it on my

other account I had like 3,000 followers. Hey guys go follow this account You could see how many people clicked the sticker on the story post.

Yes like damn 800 people saw that you started a new business idea But only five of them click that Instagram page to go follow.

And if even they go follow it it goes to show you the people that follow you and support you or are friends with you, like they'll see you have a new business idea.

Cost them nothing to like, repost, or share your content. But let it be a rapper that drops a new album or Love Island or something, they'll be quick to repost that or like it or share it.

So it showed me early on, people

will not support you. Like, they don't care.
They really don't care. Unless you're like famous.
Yeah. So until you get to that point, they're good.

So why do you think people don't support people that they already know in today's society?

Well, it's let's say

let's say you have a problem in your house and you need a TV mounted and you have a friend with a TV mounting business.

Someone will still go on Google and find someone more expensive and still use them because they just don't want to support that friend.

People are just hard-headed like that.

So people feel like they're putting that person in a position to win or helping them out and they don't like that. People don't like to do that.

So if people see that you have a new business idea, a new Instagram page and all it takes is for them to follow it, just like one post or something, they see that as them helping you to succeed, and it's putting them below you.

Like, they think that's how they think. Yeah, well, at least that's how I think they think, but I just feel like that's how things are nowadays.
And even now,

I'll have tons and tons of entrepreneurial friends and creators that I like and see their stuff every single day, but I'll never see their stuff on my posts.

But I still do it, like, I'm still supportive. It's all good.
Yeah,

But like, deep down inside, I was like, okay, all good. Like, it's all good.
Yeah. It's literally all good.
So you don't let it bother you. Yeah, it doesn't bother me anymore.

But I know, like, I know certain people are a little busy, but you just know if you're starting a new business idea, it'll be hard to get the people around you to support it.

But you'll get like thousands of random people just to start following you. Like, yeah, I like this person.
I don't know who you are, but I like it. Yeah.

People will never meet you, but they'll be your biggest fans. That's unique, man.
But I think it ties into exactly what you do and what type of content you actually post. So you post more,

you could say,

content or content creation that shows real work, that hits hard with a specific audience. And

why do you think people resonate with that on social media nowadays?

I think social media is filled with a lot of artificial content of pranks, guys walking up to girls, or just content that's useless, really.

People,

it's hard nowadays to find content that's actually useful and actually educational. So someone watches a video of mine, they get to learn about

how much money someone's making in that field. It could be a thing of, there'll be two doctors and there'll be a salary difference of $150,000.

And doctor that makes less wants to know why am I making less than that guy? What is he doing differently? And so where I live is with the hospital I work for.

It could be a situation someone's a banking, let's say a data analyst at a regular bank, just got out of college. One guy's making $60,000, the other guy's making $65.

But they went to the same college, same everything, but one of them negotiated the salary more. One of them applied for like a better position.
It's just things like that.

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they they worked i guess their situation or their niche or their industry better yeah like i'll give you an example i've gotten in trouble a lot of times by companies or by people for interviewing someone that works for that company because now that creates a discrepancy in the work the workplace really and specifically like bank of america I did interview two people that made two different salaries but had the same job.

And then it made it worse that one was male, one was female wow and this could be a thing of one person negotiates a salary more than the other person but now that person knows i'm getting underpaid at the same job doing the same thing at the same company but just because they negotiate their salary oh that i mean that makes sense so like it's um it's gotten me in trouble a few times because like whoever's high up at the company sees this they'll share it in the slack channel or the employees and then it's like oh wait like and then the employees start getting mad at each other and then it just creates a whole issue that makes a lot lot of sense So even now with my interviews I try to just don't say your job and don't say your name interesting or at least try to avoid that far Yeah, no, that's interesting and I love your content man because you're you're interviewing a ton of different people what one one

Video I haven't seen yet and I want to see if you could get someone to actually jump on American income so you can interview them to ask them a question, but they have to be from California.

You have to interview a police officer from California, dude. And if you haven't yet, the reason why I say that, okay, because you know my past.
I was a

detective for seven years before doing the whole entrepreneurship thing. And the one thing that people anchor on, bro, is the fact that they couldn't believe I was making $250,000 as a cop.

But then again, dude, I was working 80 to 100 hour work weeks. So it's just like I was grinding, right? I wasn't sleeping and all that shit.
So like people still don't believe me. They're like,

but there's websites. There's websites with my previous salary and address.
So if you interview a cop from California that's active and they tell you how much they're making, dude, it'll go super bad.

Okay, well, I need to, because a lot of cops, I've tried and they'll be like, oh, I'm like, I'm on the clock. Like, I can't do this right now.
Yeah. That's literally what they're telling me.

I get hit with that all the time. Yeah.
No, for sure, man. All right.
So a lot of creators post what we like to call flex content. Okay.

But you, you focus on respecting the grind, dude. Why go that direction?

So I'll put it to you like this.

I'm 23 years old. I have a a Lamborghini, but that doesn't,

I don't wake up every day and be like, yo, I have to post this car. Like, they need to know I have this car.
It's irrelevant.

I think a lot of people like to post flex content because they like to feel cool. They like to feel like they're better than others.
They like to feel superior and

they want to be perceived as better than the average person.

Flex content nowadays is sometimes a bit toxic to people that are trying to make it, not yet made it, or failing in a business.

Because you could have one person that's starting a business, and it might not be working. And then there's the other guy doing the same business, but they're flexing every day.

So it's kind of discouraging if you actually look into that. But you have to know: are those cars leased? Is that actually his watch? Are those watches real? Is that an apartment lease? Is it owned?

There's so many different things and questions you have to ask. But by the time you even look into that, you could be focused more on your own thing.

So I always tell people, don't be too involved in what other people have.

Like J. Cole says very famously, is love yours.
Like literally love your life because some people have it worse and you don't know what that other person is going through. That has all that stuff.

They could be empty inside, empty soul. So

with me, I've always just, I started my content three years ago. I saw what worked for me, and I stuck to that.

I don't think there's a need to do anything else besides the purpose and mission that I have.

Sure, maybe one day I'll start different types of content, different things, but for now at least, what's working, I've literally changed lives.

People have changed their careers and jobs because of me. So, I'm going to stick to what's working and just stick to that.
That's pretty cool. That's pretty cool.

The fact that you know, you've been able to change lives based on your content and inspiring them to go ahead and do a job, right?

I love that, man. And, you know, to piggyback on what you said, Adam, back in 2021, dude, when I started getting into really deep into the online space, right? I'm an old school millennial, dude.

I'm a lot older than you.

But when I got in it,

I thought, you know, doing the whole digital marketing thing, working remote,

living that type of lifestyle, and then buying the material things was

what it was all about. And you're right, I felt empty, dude.
It freaking sucked. So, so I had to change more like purpose.
Me, I'm more of a startup guy.

Like, I like talking with my friends, getting an idea, and getting that going, right? Um, that's what fulfills me, dude, helping other people.

And, you know, I've been able to transform lives where like they didn't think it was possible for them. But it's, it's pretty cool, man.
I respect you for that, man. So, um,

talk to me about what's the most emotional or powerful story you've captured so far? Ooh.

Like an interview? Yeah, dude. Maybe one person you've met.

Or maybe somebody who's reached out to you to be like, yo, I've been able to do X, Y, and Z because of your content. Or maybe, you know, maybe a personal story of yours, bro.
Well,

okay. There was a...

There was a homeless guy that was a photographer, right? And there was,

I saw him a lot in Virgo, especially trying to help out, like shoot pictures. I was like, oh, I'm good.
He's like, yo, bro, like, I would love to be in the channel.

Like, I asked, like, I had this idea, but I asked like two friends. I was like, yo, like, should I do it? Like, I don't want to act like I'm making fun of someone, like, doing a video or something.

But, like, bro, just do it.

And we did an interview. He told this story about how he's homeless, trying to make it, you know, probably makes about $2,000, $3,000 a year.

And after that video got like a million views, I posted the like a Venmo on my story. And he got like 5K from that.
He was super happy.

And it kind of got to show me well I can literally change someone's like, you know, May, whatever just from this and he was very grateful. You know, he went on to do his own thing.

But it was good. It was cool to be able to use my platform to actually help someone.
Yeah.

Secondly, so as far as my impact and how I've helped people are most emotional, I've gotten a lot of DMs of people saying they changed their careers, they changed their jobs because of me.

A lot of moms or parents will say they show their kids my content.

So that goes to show me I have have to be a little careful about the things i post now i can't post stuff that's like too bad or like only fan chicks or stuff like that so i know that there's a lot of people watching me to actually get educated in the forum so therefore i have a bigger role of responsibility to make sure that i'm putting out good content every day so that's like the overall impact still the same um i i mean a lot of lives have been changed there's not one that really hits home too much but i see the messages people come up to me all the time yeah so it's pretty cool and uh it almost still feels weird like i walk down the street and people like recognize me for what i do and it goes to show me like okay uh i'm doing good work i need to keep doing more good work yeah no absolutely man and and mad respect for um dude using your influence for good man because you know the online world is very toxic bro it's very toxic and you know i don't like to use it personally i just use it for business i wouldn't let my kid use it until you know he's an adult and he does live under my roof.

But

with that being said, man, let's talk about your long-term vision. What is a long-term vision for American income?

Oh,

long-term vision, I would like to make this into a big media company one day. I would like to kind of compete with like a LinkedIn, for example.

Basically have like a media outlet of just a full transparency of just where,

like all around the world, what people are doing, what are they making, different career fields.

kind of have a community or academy to where people can learn different businesses different fields because i feel like nowadays

it's hard to start a new business or learn something new without spending thousands or thousands of dollars on that product.

So if I could have something to where I could use all the people that I've interviewed before and have like a mini community where people can learn, it would be beneficial to the people that watch.

So long term, I'm 23 now, the next five years, I'd like to obviously get this page bigger, do more videos, travel the country.

Travel out the country. I would like to go to like India, for example, and interview people that make way less than the people here and show a perspective of like, okay, we have a really good year.

See how these people have it here. We need to appreciate what we have here more.

Even if you're struggling in the US, you still have it better than the guy in India making $10 like a month selling on the street corner like food or whatever. So long-term, definitely travel as well.

So yeah. No, 100%.
I think international travel will be great for your page, man.

But you know what comes up to my mind when you're like when we're talking about long-term vision, dude, is you know what would be a really good concept is if you started a series like on Netflix or something, right?

And you follow the people that you've interviewed initially and then like you have your audience like rank which one you want them to like actually go to work with so you can actually see what they do.

That would be badass. Like a day in the yeah, that'd be a day in the life.
But like a nice day in the life, not like the guru on that, yeah. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Like a real like, yo, they're going to the grind, dude. You know what I'm saying? I think that would be cool.
So let's talk about personal life, struggles in a deeper wide, dude.

as you know the level up podcast dude um currently ranked number one uh for the almost six months now dude um thankfully thanks man but i couldn't do it without number one my team um emilio behind the scenes he's the engineer for this so um a lot of knowledge goes behind this guys

and we help people level up every day dude like through motivation back in 2017 when i was in law enforcement dude i used to listen to a very similar podcast it's actually where i got the concept where i would do three minutes to five minutes of just straight motivation based on my experience.

And it's what motivated me every day to go to work, bro. So

let's talk about where did you grow up and what was life like before your success, bro? I grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Originally in New York, moved to Charlotte when I was 13 and grew up there before I moved to Miami at 21.

Single mom household. I had my stepdad come in when I was like 14, 15 years old.
We didn't have the best environment. My mom was, you know, obviously doing what she could to make ends of me.
Yeah.

My stepdad did his construction on the side. So it was a humbling experience.
Didn't really have nice things at all. I bought my first car in high school, didn't work in the summer, took construction.

So

I was taught early to, you know, you obviously have to work hard for the things you want.

And

even in high school and like middle school, like I try to play sports. I got bullied a little bit sometimes, especially in middle school.
It was like the smaller.

And in high school, I decided to play soccer. That was kind of like the thing I like to do.

And then I just, I got pretty good at it and got a few scholarships, a few Division II schools, which I ended up going to for one semester.

And I ended up dropping out immediately just because I saw the culture that was there.

What was going on every weekend, all my soccer teammates, and it was something I just didn't want to be around, drugs, alcohol. Like, I just really did not like that.
Then I got to see the

seniors that graduated the year before. So they obviously had their first year of like being out in the field and they weren't able to find a job.
They were like Starbucks baristas.

They were still partying, drinking. And I was like, damn, like they stayed here for four years and like

they're having trouble finding a job. Yeah.
They literally tell me they're applying for the jobs that make good money, but they're not getting the jobs.

So

yeah, living up in Charlotte, North Carolina is a small smaller city. There's a lot of people who live there, but it's a smaller like city vibe.

And to be successful there, you work like at a banking job at bank of america and make like 80k a year that's like all you're making it's like top tier like you've made it you literally made it yeah um

so yeah life there wasn't uh

i didn't grow up in the hood or the slums but it wasn't the best you know what i mean um there wasn't much motivation at all just uh there say so i would often try to go to these car meets and things like that to like get my motivation to see nice things um and yeah But upbringing, you know, I appreciate my mom for everything she's done.

I had a roof over my head. I had food every day, so I'm still grateful.
And at least I, you know, once I dropped out of college at 17, literally stayed there for a semester, I got a job.

I went to Amazon, where else got a job. I was like, okay, I'm gonna make my own money.
I'm gonna at least try.

And yeah, that's what I did. So then contract creation happened, American income happens, and then at the age of 21, you decided to come to Miami.
Yes. Okay, so tell me about the transition to Miami.

So American Income was starting to do well.

And I started to come here like once a month.

Why Miami?

I was able to meet a lot of people that were encouraging the content.

People that I wanted to meet, these influencers, these bigger concentrators and business people. So I said, wow, look, Miami is a city where there's people that are actually supportive.

You know, I try to do content people. They love it.
And I said, okay, in order for me to truly grow and become a better person, I need to leave my current environment.

I had great friends back home, but they weren't successful friends. Got it.
They weren't where I wanted to be. I wouldn't want to trade places with them, if that makes sense.

So I said, okay, I need to go move. I met a guy in Brickle.
He said, yo, like I'm renting a room on. I said, shoot, that's the easy way for me to get on the lease.
I don't have to sign up paperwork.

So I packed my car up, my 2014 Toyota, and I drove to Miami, Florida. I was like okay, boom, I'm here.
March 2023. And ever from then,

I just started making content here. And Miami has just been a place where I've been motivated by a lot of things I see here.

I've met a lot of great people and I like being near the water with good weather. Charlotte's great, but you see things here that you don't see over there.

It's just hard. It's just hard to be motivated.
And even content. If you want to go make content over there, a lot of people don't really make good money over there.

And there's not really like, there's not really a place to do the content at. So it's a little hard, but

it was scary though. You know, moving here with, you know, maybe less than 10K in your bank account, but just like, hey, I'm just going to try it out.
Yeah. You paid one month's rent already.

So you're like, okay, like I have to make, I have enough money for the next two months and then I'm at zero again.

So it, uh, I like that it was able to teach me responsibility at a young age and teach me that, okay, like, you have, you're a grown man, now you have to pay your own bills.

So I got to like get the feeling of what it's like to be an adult.

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I love that, man.

That's a great perspective, especially coming from a young guy like you. You know, 21, a lot of people don't move until like their mid-20s, man, because number one,

you can't afford afford it nowadays. I mean, that's just the way it is, right? But I feel like Miami's a good move, especially for networking.
You know, your network is your net worth, right? Yeah.

So to get into a deeper question,

what was your initial why when you started American Income until now? Did it change?

My initial why was to just

provide myself with better, you know, living situations. Better lifestyle.
And

well, lifestyle, yes, but like I've never really been into the fancy stuff.

Like I still haven't even left the country yet for vacation.

I told myself I can't take a vacation until I hit a certain number just in general.

Finding something that fulfills me inside and makes me happy, but also helps other people out as well. And also provides me with a better way of living.

And yeah, that's literally my why is just to help other people, but also help myself. I love that, man.

What does your family think now that they see your face and voice everywhere, bro?

They love it. My mom's supportive now.

She's on board with it. She watches my content all the time on Facebook or TikTok.
And she's happy. She's happy that I'm able to not have to depend on her or

live in the house anymore. And mom likes it, but then like my real father that they didn't grow up with, he's very like Middle Eastern, like doesn't like,

if you don't become like a doctor or something in the middle eastern household you're like shame on you yeah so even when I started this um I told him he was like oh like you should be in university like why are you not on like a chapel hill like what's wrong like what like what is wrong with you so I ignored it um but even now it's still kind of hard to convince him like it does well and it's funny enough I texted him like last week I said I sent him a picture of my car And me standing in front of it.

He's like, haha, like nice car. Like, whose car are you sitting in front of? Oh, wow.
So, like, I was petty.

I was like, I sent him a picture of the registration and the insurance i was like i was like it's mine like this is the proof like here's the purchase agreement yeah he was like cool he's like what business like he asked me like how like what am i like what are you doing yeah like is it legal um so it uh it's it's tough though because i never had a relationship with my real father um he lived out the country all his life basically they separated after i was born like a year after

So

yes, my stepdad did come on my life at like the age of 15, but at that point, I was already doing everything by myself. So for me, I never got the experience of what it is like having a father.

So I feel like a lot of life lessons I had to learn on my own. Yeah.
Like becoming a man. Yeah.
But I'm grateful for it. I don't regret it at all.
I would do it over again if I had to.

It would have just been nice to at least see what that would have been like.

But now I know whenever I do have kids in the future, like I do want to be present in their life, even if things don't work out with the

person I have kids with. And you know, that's very important, man.
I mean, you're actually very mature for your age, bro.

And that's a good thing. You know, your mom raised you right, dude.
And, you know, I come from a single mother household.

My biological dad was never there.

And at the end of the day, dude, I had to learn the hard way. I was hard-headed, bro.
You know, I'm a Capricorn.

So with that being said, this is going to be a very personal question I want to ask you. And it's just because this is the level up, guys.
We talk about, you know,

self-help, self-belief, mindset. It's everything, dude, in business.

So let me ask you this question.

Who pours into you when you're the one that consistently pouring into others?

Ooh, that's a great question.

Well,

okay, I'll be honest. So before, I've never really had like any mentors or any, like anything like that.
I used to listen to a lot of podcasts, and I still do.

Someone specifically that I listened to a lot was Andy Frisella. He ended up following me like two months into me starting American Income.

So it was kind of like, oh, wow, like the person I listened to a lot lot actually sees this.

It was very cool at the time. But even now on a daily basis, it's hard to pour into yourself every single day.
So what I've done now is I've surrounded myself with a great group of people.

That's good. That, you know, they wake up at 4.30 every day.
They go to the gym every single day. They go to church once a week.
And they don't drink. They don't smoke.

They don't have any of those bad vices or habits. And that helps me stay accountable and make sure that I'm in check.
Because if

your friends around you are not keeping you in check, then that's when you get out of check. And that's when things start happening.
Yeah, no, absolutely.

I've been blessed to have great people around me now. Good.
Back then, when I first moved to Miami, it wasn't always like that.

I had a lot of bad people around me. Yeah.
You know, doing all the bad stuff. And I got involved into that.
But then shortly after, I got to realize that's not the way I want to live. Yeah.

I've heard many times from different guests that come on the level up, man. It's called the Miami tornado.
Right?

You get stuck in that tornado of just nightlife, going out to restaurants, you know, the girls, the women, and all that stuff. I mean, it's fun, but to a certain point, it's like, like, what next?

You know, like, I like doing, I like restaurants now, but even then, it's like sometimes overkill. But now I'll go at like 6.45, 7 o'clock.
So make sure I'm out of there by 9.

You know, just purposely go early. Yeah.

The clubs and stuff, I mean, it's normal. You know, people that are young, the people that live here, they're going to do it.

We live in a city where it's like the number one place to go out and see women.

But once you understand that it's not going to help you at the end of the day, it's all good.

Find better things to do.

That's what I call maturity, bro. Maturity.
Living by example, man. Okay, so let's get into some advice for our people that are listening to you and watching this on YouTube and Spotify.

Let me ask you, what does leveling up mean to you personally?

Taking that leap of faith into whatever you want to do next in life and making sure that nothing is going to get in your way of stopping you. I love that.
I love that.

And what is one habit you do daily that keeps you grounded?

Oh,

this is great. Waking up early.
Why is that? Because in order to wake up early, you then have to go to sleep early.

And then in order to go to sleep early, you can't eat late, can't drink, you can't smoke. So I used to never be the person that woke up early.
And it's funny, Ashton Hall says this a lot. A lot of

the most temptation happens at night. Like the worst things happen like after like 10 p.m.
So if you can just go to sleep early enough, nothing bad is going to happen. Yeah.
You won't do nothing bad.

Nothing's good. But in general though,

not drinking or not smoking anymore for the last six months and being clean has been helpful a lot really.

I feel great every single day. Waking up early has been very good.
And

hitting the gym daily has really been the new thing. Yeah.
You know, everyone goes to the gym, you know, two, three times a week, but hitting the gym every single day,

it's hard. And even the days where it's like a rest day, you just walk in a treadmill, 45 minutes, incline.
Just do something.

It's been really good. It's been peaceful.
And I love it. Nice, nice.
Okay, so this is a deep question. If you lost everything today,

what part of you could never be taken?

My resilience to want to go out there and make something happen for myself. I think I've never, I'm never going to lose that.
And I've tried many different business ideas and they've all failed.

This one seems to do well.

but I've always tried over and over because whenever like something fails or it doesn't go my way, like I literally don't care. Like it doesn't bother me.

I'm not going to sit at home and pat about it and be mad about it. I'm just going to try again.

So technically just taking imperfect action, man, making it happen. Yeah, like don't take your personal if it doesn't work.
Like if it doesn't work, it's literally all good. Just try again.

I love that. And

it's hard for a lot of people to understand that word. Just try it again, but if you don't try again,

you're literally taking longer to become successful man you you preach it to the choir man this is some good stuff right here guys what would you say and this is the last one what would you say to someone sitting on a powerful idea but scared to post it man oh

i think in general whenever someone has a new idea or

you know new maybe a new style of content they don't want to put it out there uh literally

just put like leave if it's literally that serious post the content and shut your phone phone off like for like a few hours go do something like so that way you don't have access to it

But I would say

Why why are you scared to post it? What's stopping you? Is it is it other people's opinions? Do you feel like you look stupid?

There's a lot of different things like even me when I'm out interviewing in public There will be like 20 people watching me and I'm like damn like I probably look stupid right now, but they're just like people just curious like what's going on so Once you can literally have remove that fear of literally not caring at all like you have to be careless you literally have to not care about anything so if whenever you make that post or put out that new idea just know whether whether people laugh at you or people don't laugh at you at the end of the day no one really cares yeah people are so involved in so much other stuff they're not gonna care no

absolutely and even uh even me let's say the videos of someone does care like there'll be a video where it'll have a few million views and My shorts will be too short. I'm standing weird.

I'm stuttering. My hands moving in like a weird direction.
Like, I read those comments and I just laugh. Like, I'm literally getting made fun of on a daily basis, but it's funny to me.
I enjoy it.

I feel like with social media and content, there's always going to be something to get picked on, dude. Absolutely.
Always, right? It doesn't matter if it's like perfect, right?

They're still going to have something to say. Yeah, like

I'll have a video with a doctor and it's a good interview and nothing's wrong with the video.

Everyone's supporting the doctor, but then there's that one person oh his shorts are too short i'm like that's that has nothing to do

with nothing at all like there i'm literally doing a whole interview with a successful doctor everyone's acknowledging the doctor and how well he does and then you just have to say you know what i'm gonna find something to pick up yeah so not even relevant not even relevant hilarious so adam Phenomenal, phenomenal advice.

So for our young content creators right now,

and you're looking to be inspired or you're inspired right now by Adam's story. It's a phenomenal story.
He's 23 years old, started this when he was 19, 20. 20 years old.

20 years old, was able to transition to Miami to make it happen to actually connect with a better environment, better people. And dude, you got a routine.
Like, that's phenomenal, dude.

I wish I had your routine at your age, man. I'd be a lot farther.
How do I say that? But with that being said, okay?

We're going to have about a little bit over $3 million on this episode, dude, when it comes out.

What do you have to say for the people that are listening and tuning in to your episode, and they're inspired by you, dude?

I would say don't be afraid to take that leap of faith or take action to become a content creator.

I think even now, a lot of people, they laugh at someone when they say, oh, you're a content creator, ha ha. Like they immediately think you're doing something stupid or dancing.

If you want to become a content creator in 2025, you literally have to, you know, find a nice idea. Buy whatever equipment you need.
If you don't have money for a camera, use your phone.

And if you want to find a good microphone set, use some DJI mics or $150

and go out there and start making the content. Don't care about what other people think.
Take pride in what you do. Post quality content.

People say post every day, but if I had to post two or three times a week and it was quality content, I would rather do that.

And love what you do. And I actually have a passion for it.
Don't do this for the money because if you do this for the money, you're going to stop very soon. And

just take action on your ideas. Even if it's not content,

if you're struggling somewhere in life, just

find better daily habits to do. When I was at my lowest point, broke and didn't have nothing going for myself, I still went to the gym every day.
I still would take my walks.

I would still read, listen to podcasts. I was still happy.
So you have to find a balance and stop drinking, stop smoking, stop masturbating. All this stuff's bad for you.

You will become a better person if you don't do it, especially as a male. And some people might listen to this and be like, there's no way I'm going to stop drinking or smoking.

Well, I guess you'll never know what that's like. So stop all the bad habits you have if you can, and you truly can, slowly but surely, and take action on the new things you want to do in life.

Let's level up, guys. And that's it, guys.
That's what we have it. And then, by the way, Adam, where can they find you?

American Income on all platforms and American Income on Instagram is primarily where I'm at.

That's it, guys. I love it.
I love it. Guys, make sure to share this with a friend, family member that you care about.

Once again, we are number one in business and we're top 15 in all categories, guys. Get us near Rogan.
Come on, let's make it happen. We can happen, okay?

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