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My relationship was going down, I had health issues, I was overweight. And I just looked at the mirror and I realized that I don't like this person. This has to change. Rimakas Petrowskas is a visionary entrepreneur, an ultra endurance marathon runner, and the force behind FX Magnetic, a revolutionary platform that has helped traders worldwide craft winning strategies. He is also the author of two books, including a forex guide that soared to number four in Amazon's category rankings.
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What were some of the lessons over these last decade to get to this point now where life's very different? You went from struggling and you changed your life.
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There were many lessons, you know, just to name a few. I would say the most important that I believe, but the most important is it spans the globe like a super highest cold Internet Elvis Presley. Today, Apple is going to reinvent the phone. It's not over until I win.
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The Living youg Legacy podcast. For those who live to leave a legacy that's extraordinary.
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Hello and welcome back to another episode of Legacy Makers Podcast. Today we have Romantas joining us. He's flew all the way in from Europe and we're going to dive into his world, his legacy. He's a ultra endurance marathon runner. His biggest achievement there is 500km running in nine days. He's a bit like that forest Gump guy. When he starts, he doesn't stop. And he's also building success, successful businesses and software companies. Romantis, welcome to the show.
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Thanks, Rudy.
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So let's dive in. 500 kilometers in nine days. Pretty impressive on the running side. And I know your business transformation's becoming impressive too, and you're working to help create your own legacy. Right. It wasn't, you know, now you have a successful software trading company for traders, but it wasn't always this way. So people don't know you. Do you want to give them the summary of your life?
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Yeah. So I remember when I was stuck at 9 to 5, you know, I can, I can definitely say I was stuck, you know, like many of us, probably trying to get out from there. I kind of enjoy my job, but at the same time, always wanted to make more money, do better, more success and stuff like that. And I was the guy who couldn't manage money. Well, okay.
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Basically like most people, right?
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Yeah. So I was in depth, you know, and, and always the. The fastest solution was to get another.
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Credit card, you know, that's a common tactic, I hear.
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You know, it's like, so I have three or four, maybe even four credit cards that were like, maxed out, you know, and every month you would do this, like, small monthly payments, but at the end of the month you use those again, you know. So it was multiple years when I tried to get out of them and I just couldn't, you know, and interest rates are so big on those and. Yeah, and I remember the decision to start, like something like a side hustle, like, or whatever it could be, you know, I was looking for ways to make extra money after. After my nine to five, basically. And that's how I discover forex trading. And I thought like, okay, so it looks like in a month I'm going to be a millionaire, you know, but soon I realized that's not going to happen that fast. But as a programmer myself, I started, you know, creating apps for myself. Okay, this app helps me with this, this app helps me with that. And on these, like, forums online, I saw other traders asking for stuff. You know, it's like, oh, can somebody create me this indicator or this app or, you know, And I was like, yeah, I can do it. I remember my first client was from us. I can't remember the name of this guy, but he was like, can you create me this app? And he sends me the rules and I'm like, I look at it. Yeah, I kind of do it, you know, I can do it. He's asking me how much? And I'm like, I don't know, I have no clue, you know? And then she just gave a really random number, just like 200 bucks. And he's just like, okay, like, how do I send you money? So I gave him my PayPal. He sends me 200 bucks, and I'm like, wow, okay, seems now, now I have to get busy, you know. So it took me like a day or two to create the app. And I'm like, okay, if I can make 200 bucks in a day. I was like, what if I could just repeat that every day, you know? You know, and it took me just a few hours. I was like, okay, let's get more into this, you know, but.
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Well, just to jump in that that's how it started with me too, you know, I was writing fitness articles and personal training, and I got to a point I was personal training back in the UK and stuff for like $50 an hour, which wasn't much. And then I started writing these fitness articles, getting 150, $200 an article. I could do them in an hour as a fast writer, maybe two. So I'm like, how many of these can I do a day? And then I got better and better and I eventually got one gig, paid $1,000 an article and I could do it in a day. Right. It was more in depth. They wanted scientific research and stuff. But I was the same. That's, you know, and I made like, started making 10, 20 grand a month and use that to fund my fitness company money.
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It's basically the same for me. Yeah, it's like, I remember I had gigs like for 1, 2, $3,000, you know, and, and at that time in Lithuania we still had litas, that's the currency. And it was like 2.$5.
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Yeah.
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So if I make like $10,000, that's like 25,000 lit. So I was the king, you know.
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So from, from almost bankrupt, four credit.
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Cards, obviously looking to the. My first gig, you know, the 200 thing a few months before that. I remember I was so in depth and my relationship was going down. I had health issues, I was overweight.
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So basically that was before the nine days and 500 kilometers, obviously.
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Obviously. Like, so just like before starting all my, all my side hustles. Yeah. So. And one day I just remember woke up after a big party and the next day, you know, you're wasted pretty much all day. And I just looked at the mirror and I realized that I don't like this person.
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Yeah.
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And I don't know why then, but it just hit me and I was like, okay, so if other people stop loving you, it's one thing, you know, but if you stop loving yourself, I'm like, that, that's bad. You know, I. Yeah, you need that.
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Wake up call, right. Sometimes it's looking in the mirror. Sometimes it's a spouse leaving you. Sometimes it's a friend or best friend saying something. Sometimes it's bankruptcy or something crazy. Right.
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So to me it looked like all of those. Well, most of them coming out of like. Yeah. And I remember my girl left me, you know, back at the time. The, the like later realized how toxic our relationship was. So that, that kind of ended that being a good thing. But, but anyways, like at that time it hurts a lot and it just, you know, hits you out of nowhere and, and you feel really bad about everything that's going on in your life now. And I remember I took my last money. It was like a few hundred bucks. And I went grocery shopping like for, for a full month. Like you stack, you know, like your freezer and stuff like that. And I went there, spent all my money, and I spent it well because, you know, purchased like food and stuff. And. And I'm going back. I'm driving back home. It was like about an hour drive. And I'm thinking, okay, so I have a car that my company gives me. You know, I was still in 9 to 5 at that time, and I was like, okay, so gas prepaid by the company. Like, my mobile phone, prepaid by the company. I still live with my parents, even though I'm not proud of it. But. Okay, I. I don't pay rent, so it's pretty much okay. I will survive this month. Yeah, you know, it's like, that's what I'm thinking in my head. So I have food, you know, but I'm not allowed to do anything else, like, because I just, like, I'm just broke, you know, my credit card is maxed out and you know, all that stuff. So. And I. I remember I just started crying. You know, some song went on, like, just randomly, some. I don't know, I just started crying. I remember I was dry. I'm driving the car in the highway. I'm crying like. Like little kid, you know, just like. And I'm passing these other cars. I'm speeding, you know, passing these other cars. And I feel like other people like looking at like, what's happening with this guy, you know, But I. I just didn't care about anything, you know, Just like, this has to change. This has to change, you know?
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And how long ago is this?
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How long ago this was in 2019 somewhere.
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So just six. Five. Six years ago.
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2000. Sorry, 2009. Yeah, so it's. Yeah, way more than that. And. And then when I started my transformations, basically, you know. Okay, so that year I also lost my grandfather. That also affected me and my father as well, you know. So it's like imagine, you know, beginning of the year, like in the middle of the year, grandfather dies and then all the, you know, my girls left me and I. All these realizations to me that I don't love myself and all that stuff. And I'm like, it's like, you know, it has to change. So I remember I started doing this gigs online, you know, coding as a freelancer for traders and making some money. Things were going well. I found myself still going to parties, just spending more money now because I'm making more.
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Sure.
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And then one day, I remember I spent. I spent a night with my friend. You know, we just going around from, you Know these friends. These friends and, and I bought like an expensive bottle of, of whiskey or whatever was that. You know, it's like 200 bucks for the bottle. And, and I'm just drinking that. He's not, he's driving, you know, and then, and then he says something funny to me. It's like, why, like why are you drinking at all? You know, it's like, I don't know, just like for fun, you know. But then again like thought is. Yeah, it doesn't make sense, you know. And I remember that that was pretty much probably my last bottle, like last drop of alcohol basically.
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Yeah.
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2009. October, I think October 9th. I can't remember the day exactly, but it was the last day I drank alcohol.
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So. So 15 years on, now we're sat here, right. And obviously I know now you travel the world, you have this trading company student, hundreds of students around the world. Yeah, yeah. You know, so you've run, you know, ultra Marathons and 500K. Life's very different. Right. You have children, you know, so what was the, you know, you've talked about this epiphany. Right. But what were some of the lessons over these last decade to get to this point now where life's very different. You went from struggling normal or how a lot of people suffer and you change your life.
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Oh, there were many lessons, you know, just to name a few. I would say the most important that I believe are the most important is the first thing is like always one, always like strive to be better, you know.
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Sure.
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Just, just one of the things like if you always onto being better, like what's the word? I think it's called Kaizen, like Japanese thing, you know, one step for, you know, and, and there are so many motivational posts now on Instagram on all these idea, you know, just, just pick, you know, just, just, just be better every day compare in comparison to yesterday. Yesterday. Yeah, basically that's, that's where I see. I, I follow that for like near all already 15 years basically. And it always brings me to, you know, better life year after year after year, basically.
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Well, yeah. And it also sounds like you change your environment, right. Drinking nightclubs.
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Yeah.
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You know, flying around the world to high level business events.
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One of the things I, I drastically change, you know, was my diet.
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Yeah.
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Was cutting alcohol completely. And as sad as it sounds to many people hearing this, but I cut all of my friends, like all my.
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Friends, they were just a lot that don't serve you.
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Yeah.
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A new version of you. Right.
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They were like probably just like two maybe people that, not to count the ambulance, you know, but it's like my, my friends, they just stopped inviting me to parties, you know, after a few times you say no.
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Yeah, you know, it's the same for me. I, I didn't even have to do it because I moved from England to America. So it's kind of like a fresh start.
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Yeah.
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And, and you know, now in America when I came here, pretty much every friend is a millionaire, you know, because that's all I know. Right. I have a couple of college friends, but even there it was like a couple of the high level people that went on and became like pro trainers for like pro sports teams, like high performers and what they did. And that's been one of my secrets, you know, just the environment. And it's very easy when you move country for a fresh start, you know, because it's, you don't even have to say no, right? I did say no occasionally because some of my old friends that used to party all the time, they would say, oh, I want to come visit you in Florida and come. And I would just say, no, I'm too busy, you know, because I knew they just wanted to come out here.
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And hang out and party.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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That was really important. And the environment is for most people, it's always the thing that holds them back, you know. Another thing that hold, holds back a lot of people is like the fear of, of like what others will say, you know. And I remember when I started losing weight, I lost 30 something kilograms in three months. Wow, that's like 80 pounds. Yeah.
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That's crazy.
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Yeah. And it happened so fast, you know, and it was like I was really stubborn about it. It's like everything I, I, I start doing something, you know, to achieve a goal, I, I'm always stubborn about it. I was like, okay, I'm gonna do this no matter what. And every day I would come back after work and I would spend at least 30 minutes or even 60 minutes on this elliptical. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I would do that, you know, Then later started lifting some weights and you know, all that stuff. And, and when you start lifting weights again, like you look, you start looking at yourself, how pathetic you are. It's like barely.
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Yeah.
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What is called like bench press, you know, and it's empty. Like it's just there, you know, and you, ah, you know, it's like, and yeah. So then you, you know, all these realizations that you have to be better, you have to be better, you know, and it's Always like one step at a time, don't you know, you. But, but with, with weight loss, for me it happened really fast basically because I changed my diet drastically. I cut a lot of things out of my diet. And alcohol. Cutting alcohol helps a lot because it's just so many empty calories, basically sodas and all that stuff. Y know, so I remember people telling me, other people that are overweight and have health issues from, you know, being overweight telling me that, oh, it's not healthy to lose. Sure.
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Yeah.
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Same people, you know, it's like, oh my God, it's.
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You can't win. Right?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And then what about the. You know, we talked a lot about the personal development side, but that ultimately led to the business side. Right. So just for people that are watching that maybe don't know, you talk about the business, what you do now for a minute, the day to day. And so.
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So my journey, as I told before, started as a freelancer.
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Yeah.
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And then I remember I discovered this guy, Jeff Walker because I wanted to learn some marketing stuff, you know. And soon Jeff Walker sends this promotional email and introducing Brendan Burchard and his $10 million funnel thing or whatever. It was like, you know, it was like multiple businesses. And I'm like, that sounds cool. So I started looking when watching these videos, I remember I would wake up like at 5am in the morning to watch these videos before my work, you know. And before my. I was still nine to five, you know.
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Yeah.
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So I watching those and just to. Just to have time and. And he got, you know, he hooked me up a lot. Like I really like his content. Yeah. And he was the basically my first mentor, you can say, you know, like remote mentor. Yeah. So. And half a year later when I started watching his videos, I bought a ticket and I went to Santa Clara, California to one of his events.
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As much different from four credit cards.
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Right.
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Okay.
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Yeah, it is. At that time I already paid off the depth of the credit cards, you know, because I was quite. Doing well with. With freelancing. Yeah. So I, I go to the seminar and one of the main things in the seminar was that you have to publish a book. Like he published this book and how to.
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Okay, you got it.
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So I was like, okay, this inspired me. So that's how I self published my first book for forex traders, you know. And yeah, this gave me kind of a creative business out of it. So. And I remember it was 2014 when I published a book and that was the year when I decided I. I'm gonna stop freelancing now.
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Yeah. And now you have the whole pro, you know, of course, membership school, so.
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Trainings now we have, so we have clients from more than 100 countries around. Countries.
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Yeah. Crazy.
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It, it will be made more, you know, might be even more. But after I reach 100. Stopped counting. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was kind of a goal, you know, if I would do another revision of that. Maybe even too good, I don't know. But yeah, so yeah, we have hundreds of students, if not thousands, you know, to look at that. And yeah, I was just focusing on what traders need and what software they.
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Want, you know, to find the gap and fill it.
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Yeah, it's like, it's always like you listen what the market wants, you know, that's, that's one of the things I, I think I do read well because about my pre sale techniques and stuff. You know, I used to talk about it a bit to you before. So I would, you know, I would listen what people want, what questions they ask. And you know, every day we get like dozens of emails, you know, so that's like a free research sort of. So you see what people want and then you come up with idea of a product that would serve, you know, and solve like these problems. And then what I would do, I would, I would do a mini version of that software solving one of the problems, let's say. And I can easily test it and see, okay, so we solved this one problem and it can easily solve few others with it, you know, when, when the app is completed and then what? I would just offer it as a pre sale, like 80% off, you know, and that works wonders. Like people buy. We sell a lot of copies before even creating.
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Yeah, yeah.
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There were some times where you send out emails like nobody cares, nobody buys or sell like two. So you just refund, apologize and don't even create it because there's no demand.
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Yeah. You know I love that.
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I remember like there were a few products before I learned all this pre sale thing because I started doing that. There were a few products where I would create, spend like weeks perfect and then never sells.
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Yeah, I've been there two months.
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Oh my God, that's, that's terrible. And imagine what else you could do with all that time. But yeah, but it's, it's already wasted. Yeah.
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So. So now fast forward to legacy side. Right. You know, just to wrap today. Yeah. You've, you've got the episode coming out where you share more, even more of this amazing story and hopefully you know the reason you're here is to inspire a lot of people in your situation. You know, I mean, I read the other day like 40, 50 of the population in America live like you used to live. Right. Many credit cards, month on month can't survive more than a month. Many of them probably unhappy with their weight too. And then they drink and, and that's the point of Legacy makers is to, you know, not only teach the business side and how you've grown to over 100 countries from four credit cards in debt, but also the, the personal development side. Right. You've gone from overweight unhappy to running ultra marathons and 500k in nine days. It's pretty epic. So what are a couple of those lessons in the episode that people get from you?
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So I will, I will talk about, you know, those important things in life that you have to look after.
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Yeah.
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You know, like there is a book that I published, my second book, it's in Lithuania. And so pretty much not many people can read it. I should republish it in English. But it's pretty much about 15 things in your life that you have to take care of. You know, so I'm not sure if we'll have enough time to cover all 50, obviously, but, but to name a few already covered. You know, that environment is really important. So it's like your, your, your health, you know, that's another thing. The, the way that you're making money and then, you know, if you, if you're on nine to five and you're happy with it, all good with this, you know.
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Yeah.
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It's like just don't over max your spending.
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Sure.
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That, that, that's what makes you, you know, there are a lot of people who live on the 9 to 5 and they're really happy. You know, they don't want start the businesses. Right. Business is not for everyone. No, no, no. It's okay. You know, so. Yeah, so in my episode I will definitely talk more about that stuff.
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Good. And then what about moving into the leaving a legacy. Right. How do you want to be remembered 50, 100 years from today?
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How, when I think about it, I, I want to be remembered as the guy who like just one day woke up, got himself into, into strong hands, you know, and just make it happen. Just to change himself and develop the strong will to never go back. There were a lot of people telling me like, oh, it's just a matter of time. He will pull back into whatever, you know, bad habits again. And it never happened, you know? Yeah. So strong will a guy can just.
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Never give up and maybe helping other people go for that too, Right?
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Of course. Yeah. That's one of the things, you know.
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Yeah. Yeah. And what about, you know, when we talk about leaving a legacy? Right. What does the word legacy mean to you?
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So the word legacy to me means something that people will remember me for. Yeah. Even if I'm. When I'm gone, you know, as you said, like even 100 years later. And. And that thing has to be something that inspires others.
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You know.
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I'm always trying to. To create some kind of a quote, you know, this motivation. Like, I have a bunch of mine. You know, those are mostly in Lithuanian language, you know, but. But there is.
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Well, and I think there's even more of the story. Right. Because we have a lot of people in the show from America. Right. And from all around the world, but from Lithuania, you may be the only one there. So inspiring, you know, smaller countries that aren't maybe as prominent as America that you can still get out here and be alongside famous US Celebrities just because you've, you know, took those risks and stayed disciplined, too. So, last question. If someone's inspired by today's episode on the podcast or your main Legacy Makers episode, they want to follow in your footsteps. Where do they find you, learn more about you, and maybe reach out?
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So you can find me on Instagram. Romantic trading. That's my trading Instagram. I have another world that's just personal, more like. And an obvious loan on our website where we sell software. I will say the main one, which is fxmagnetic.com we have so many, actually.
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Sure. You know, they start there and find us. Okay.
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We can start there and find.
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Good, good. Well, another fantastic episode on Legacy Makers Podcast in a wrap. Hopefully you're as inspired as I am by romance, this story. And maybe you're going through similar or know someone going through similar that needs to hear this so they can find the light at the end of their tunnel. That's the whole point behind Legacy Makers. And we'll see you very soon for another episode. Take care.