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Joining me all the way from New Zealand is the founder of Gluz. Gluz as in you bring together a community, a tribe.
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Gluz, it's a mobile sports app that I've just started. I've also just started Gluz Tech, which is an AI automation innovation for small businesses, businesses alike, to drive business into the industry.
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Why is it important for an entrepreneur to just let loose and have a conversation network?
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If you're a CEO or if you're a founder of some particular companies, if you're playing sport, you relax, you're out in the open. I think that's where the deals are done.
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60 year old man building his own app. What are you doing building apps, sir?
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Age is not a limitation at all. I think for myself, you can see that you can start your entrepreneurship at whatever age. For those people who are young looking at it now, hopefully I'm inspiring you to say, you know what, I can do that as well. My name's Rudy Moore, host of Living the Red Life podcast, and I'm here to change the way you see your life in your earpiece every single week. If you're ready to start living the red life, ditch the blue pill, Take the red pill. Join me in wonderland and change your life.
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Welcome back to another episode of the Living the Red Life podcast for Inside Success. I'm your host, Ray Gutierrez. Joining me all the way from New Zealand is the fat founder of Glues. No, no, no. Not glues as something you tape together, but glues as in you bring together a community, a tribe. How are you, my friend? Please take a moment, introduce yourself.
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I'm feeling fantastic. I'm really excited to be here. It's something that I've anticipated for a while since the invite and the introduction by Rudy. So it's been absolutely fantastic.
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Jason Skipworth. He skipped over his own name.
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Yeah, so my name is Jason Skipworth. I'm from Gluz. It's a mobile sports app that I've just started. And in addition, I've also just started Gluz Tech, which is AI automation innovation for small businesses, businesses alike, to drive business into the industry.
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Very cool. So let's talk about the industry before we talk about filming your episode. We are literally in quite a unique paradigm shift Mastermind week. We did your episode, we did a great photo shoot, and now we're doing a Red Life podcast. It's quite the journey, my friend, all the way from New Zealand. How does that feel sitting in south beach in Miami at this moment?
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Well, it's Extremely hot. I would say that, right? It definitely is that I were not used to. Although I am from New Zealand, but we do live in London. I've been in London for the last 30 years plus. And again, the weather's not so good there, but it's getting better.
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Well, your ultimate. Why was you were looking for golfing buddies? I gotta ask before I begin, what is the difference between playing golf in London versus playing golf in Miami? Is there any difference?
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I think from a golfing perspective, probably not. There are some beautiful courses there, but there's also some stunning courses in the US as well. But what I do is that I look at people who are looking for golf to look for partners, but also to do it anywhere in the world. So if you're on a business trip and you're in Miami, you can say, look what I want to look for someone to play golf with. I don't want to play on my own. So I've got the ability to go onto the app and then search for people and say, look, I'm down. It's this course. Who wants to join me? I speak English, so that'll be fine. Let's connect.
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Connecting. And it's all about ecentric, extravagant places to connect. Being born and raised in Miami, I can tell you tons of stories. But on the golf course, entrepreneurs, you know, they, they all like to talk shit. You know, they all like to challenge each other. Real business is happening on this golf course. You know, I, I used to work at PlayStation. Take a shot every time I say that on a podcast. And day two, the CEO, Jack Trenton, huge golfer, goes, I'm in trouble. I was playing golf with my buddy, the CEO of GameStop and I'm going to put him out of business because I got to launch PlayStation Network and they're boys. Talk about the conversations that happen in these golf courses and who's there, why it's important, why it's important for an entrepreneur to just let loose and have a conversation network.
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I totally agree. I can remember a time when, when I was working for a company and there was a multi million pound deal that was going on and we all had our part to play on who we wanted to have as the vendor into our business. But I remember that the deal was done on a golf course in Denver. And again, I think it just looks at what people do when they're relaxed. And even if you're a CEO or if you're a founder of some particular companies, if you're playing sport, you relax, you're out in the open, I think that's where the deals are done as well.
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So how does one go from the golf course to building an app? And I don't mind you bragged about this on your interview. 60, 60 year old man building his own app. What are you doing? Building apps, sir?
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Absolutely. I think when I think about it, I'm thinking, yeah, so you're 60, let's make a mobile app.
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Yeah.
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Age is not a limitation at all. I think for myself you can see that you can start your entrepreneurship at whatever age. For those people who are young looking at it now, hopefully I'm inspiring you to say, you know what, I can do that as well. And also a lot who are at my age, why not start dance? Age is not a limitation at all. But to do a mobile app though, there is a process you need to go through. You do need to filter and screen all of the mobile app developers. And where do you start? Because there's a whole range of people who say, yeah, I can do this, it's going to cost you ten grand. Another one will say, it's going to cost you 20 grand, et cetera, et cetera. So what do you do for the butchers, bakers and candlestick makers? I am here to be able to help people on making their choice rather than just dipping into unknowing.
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It sounds like the number one challenge of every entrepreneur is they crawl so you can run. How does that feel to be working on a groundbreaking app that is a simple idea but yet it's going to help and network so many folks that thought that they were outdated because they didn't know how to use an app.
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Yeah, I think it was a thought that I did when I was actually playing on a golf course and I was playing on my own. And I'm a person who is quite outgoing so I can go up to people and I can ask them, you know, do you mind if I join you in a two ball, three ball, etc? Etc? I think having a mobile app gives the opportunity for people who are not so outgoing that allows them to be able to sit behind an app and have this opportunity on your terms or someone else's terms. So if you are a little bit shy, you can say, you know what, I'm looking to play golf with somebody, I'm not that good. Maybe I can look at someone that's on the same type of caliber as I am. Sure, why don't you come and join me? I think that's, that was my vision.
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So you mentioned filters. You know, I I just.
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We're. We're.
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Like I said earlier, we're live on Instagram. Instagram just launched something that Snapchat's been doing where you can find your friends on a Google map. Talk about some of the cool features that your app brings that. That only golfers or find folks that would appreciate your design philosophies would admire.
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Absolutely. I think one of the main things I wanted to function on was having a community hub. It's a feature that we have on. On the Gluz mobile app. What that does, it allows people who are either fitness instructors or gym owners who have their own members, but they don't have a platform. So Gluz provides that platform. You can go on that. You can brand your own logo onto it. You can become the administrator. And this is where the ambassador program comes in. This is something that we're very, very keen on ensuring that we can get ambassadors in any location, in any city or town in the world. But what that does, it allows your own community to be part of it. You can invite your members and you can close the group as well, if you want it to be just a closed group. And then you can do all the socials on there. You can message, you can video, you could do all the pictures, take pictures, et cetera. That's a feature that I wanted to sort of build, and it's trending these things in mobile apps at the moment. If you've got a social element to it, a lot more people, even from the ranges of 20 to 30 years old, that's what they're looking for. They don't want to go into an app and then go out to WhatsApp and text somebody out there. WhatsApp's a closed group. You can't keep them in the ecosystem. Exactly. Because you can't expand out of that. There's nobody else that you can talk to except for the ones in your WhatsApp group. What we do is it allows it to expose it to anybody. So if you've. So we have over 60 sports on the mobile app. So anyone who is into cycling, for example, in your location, the notifications are for everybody, so people can join in.
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Very cool. Talk about notifications. Notifications can be very helpful, but also very annoying. What. What are your notifications like? What do golfers or sports folks that are on your app get notified about? Walk me through this process. I wake up and I want to play a sport and what happens?
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Absolutely. And I think it's important to allow people to be notified. So what we do on the Glue sports app is that if you and I like golf, we're in the same location. We're in Miami. We're both subscribed to it. I'm looking at playing some golf course two or three miles away from us. I'm not too sure who you are as well. So I will set up an event and I will say, this is the golf course that I want to play. This is the time. I would then post that on. It sends the notifications out to anybody in the location. It sends them out. It'll ping up on your mobile app through Glues and it'll say, listen, Jay's got a game this Saturday. Do you want to join in?
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Yeah, bring your own.
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That's the notification comes out. When you're interested in that, you can say, yeah, I want to do that. It automatically puts that notification into your mobile phone calendar. It allows you. So it's already there. So when the time comes, if it's a Saturday, half an hour before your calendar ping and say, jay's got a golf game. Oh, yeah, I remember that. Okay, I'm going to come. Also notify me as well to say you're interested, ready to play. I'm going. Great.
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Right on.
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We're on. We're on.
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I was going to say, do you. Is there a chart system? Is it gamified? Is there rankings? Everyone likes to be competitive, clearly, in a sports app. How do you keep folks on the app rating each other? Is there point system? Talk about this.
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That's a good question. And moving forward, that's something that Gluz is absolutely looking forward to do.
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You're welcome.
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There's lots of things that you could do for scoring and then start looking at prizes. You know, for example, if you do.
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Well, I want to play with amateur, novice or pros, or I want to take a snowboard on a. On a third on a black three diamond, like.
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Absolutely. And then you could throw in prizes as well. Let's say you go and have a game and say, whoever wins this game, get a box of ball.
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Right. Or come over for skiing and show us your app that your glues member. Get 10 off and it will track you with something unique and you get a unique avatar or something here and boom, boom, boom. Yeah, dude, you. And keep the ascension going.
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And there's also some expansion you can do with clubs as well. So for sure, if I'm going to push traffic to these golf clubs, then golf clubs can say, you know what? If you send us 10 people, we'll have the limit person coming for free.
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Right on. I want to talk about branding because I'm more creative than authoritarian. Orange. Why orange? What's the deal with the orange?
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Well, firstly, I think orange is a very, very warm color for me. It also creates some type of energy as well. Sort of. It's bright, but it also creates the energy. And we wanted Glue's brand to be orange, to show people that it's an energetic thing and it's related to sports. Right. People could see that. Um, that's. That was the main reason. But, yeah, sunshine, all that. So we're in Miami. Right.
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I was gonna say you're probably hotter than you, though, because you're in a red room with a lot of bills behind you and you're an orange.
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Absolutely.
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But how does it feel that you're clearly. You're. You're literally on fire, sir. You've got quite the momentum. I'm excited for you to head back to London. What are you going to tell your friends when. When they see you with. With an extra bit of a T?
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Well, I do have a natural tan as well.
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Yes, you do, sir. It was very fun to light you. I'm not making that up.
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Yeah, it's been fun here. And with the Mastermind stuff with Rudy, there's so much to learn. I would highly recommend anybody to be involved, reach out. But it's been an immensely great, great time in there. And also you're meeting other entrepreneurs as well.
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Oh, yeah.
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So we're all feeding off each other. We're all talking to each other. We're network. We also pulling lots of information out of the seminars as well. And meeting Rudy was fantastic.
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I call him my baby brother. Love the dude. And it's quite an honor to take the helm and kind of ride the ship while he's out and hosting the Red Life podcast. Because this is kind of where the red hashtag red began. So it's quite the honor. Let's talk about Inside Success. We filmed your Legacy Makers episode. What are we gonna Learn in this 22 minute epic? Give us a teaser.
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Absolutely. You're gonna learn my journey. My journey from when I first started. I mentioned earlier about the idea of looking at the mobile app and stepping through that process all the way through. It's something that I feel that anyone can do at any time in their careers. I've had a very long career working for established companies, meeting great people, lifelong friends along the way. But as a person, there's something in you say, you know what, this time in My life where I feel like I want to do something for me, I want to do something and show the world. Case what I can do with all the knowledge I've had over all the years is a arson of, you know, of energy and experiences to be able to create. Sure. I'm a creator as well.
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Right on, dude.
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I mean, I do love it. So the legacy really is to help people look at health well being through the app and through Gluz Tech. Extend that under the Gluz umbrella by looking at automation, AI automation using our AI agents. So I'm really excited about that part as well.
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I was going to say I can dive into AI and talk about it for forever. That would be a completely different podcast and a completely different set. But I'll stop us there. How can folks find your app? How can folks connect with you? Direct.
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Absolutely. So I'm on Apple Store and I'm on Goo Store. Yes. So the app, through Glues, you can download that. We have a website, we have a landing page. Glues.com. glues is a name that I decided to use because of gluing things together, but because the name Glue Glue has been taken and domain names taken, whatever. So I wanted to create a name that's a talking point. So GL L U Z really can be called Glass or whatever, but it's gl.com and that's what I wanted to do is have something that is unique like Uber or etc.
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Sure, sure, sure. Right on, brother. So what's that dot com? One more time.
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Glues.com and gluestech.com is what I'm also very excited about.
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I'm. I'm excited for you. Gltech.com sounds very exciting. My friend Jay, such an honor. Your time and energy. That was awesome. Thank you very much for another Red Life podcast and for inside success. I am Ray Gutierrez.