Julien Uhlig - The Dark Side Of Billionaires

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to the 40th episode of the psychology podcast my name is Diane Kareem I'm
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known as the nomadic Schooler and in this podcast format we interview the most successful individuals in the world
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in order to figure out how they became who they are learn from their Journeys their stories their habits their
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mindsets so that you and the guys out there can emulate their behavior similar to
Julien Uhlig Introduction
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um embark on our journeys of betterment Julian it's an honor to have you here
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before I butcher your introduction you do so many great things you how
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would you say you do what you do I'm yeah I do a lot of things and the main question I get when people
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reach out to me is how do you actually do so many things a little bit about my background I have been working in tech
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companies for the last 20 years initially I'm a musician switched about 20 years industry so my Niche has become
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raising capital for startups I love startups I love creating new companies
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that's that's when I feel most alive and then take them to a certain level and then hopefully sell them afterwards but
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my core passion has been in waste to energy which turns out to be rather complicated so I've been running tech
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companies that are heavily government funded in that field for the last 17 years so my main thing has been power
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water industry I'm the guy that raises the money I'm also the guy that understands how the
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research program works creates a lot of money from government and so I'm the API I think that's really my core expertise
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I bring very very smart incredible people together out of Finance engineering arts media to come up with
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really cool stuff yeah it's it's a great honor to to have you here and as somebody who for the first time in his
What was the earlier sign that you would become an entrepreneur
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life embarks on the wild fundraising Adventure in a way it's it's very cool
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that I have the opportunity to learn from you how you do things but also start first
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where it all started so to say what was the earlier sign for you that you would
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become an entrepreneur if we would take this interview maybe as a journey through your life yeah what is the name
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of the first chapter and what's the the content of it so to say I think the I
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don't come from an entrepreneurial background like my my father is a pediatrician my mother and my all my
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family's in public service um so entrepreneur realism didn't exist where I grew up in Northern Germany like
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it like having a startup was was really not a thing um I didn't know anybody having a startup meant you like open the store
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and sell whatever designer coffee makers like there was no concept of startup I actually didn't even know how that
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worked but I was a I was a pretty good musician I'm a classically trained singer initially so
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um if you're a classic trained musician you you really start working on your habits yeah like you're singing your scales every single day since I was you
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know six seven years old so I was drilled as a classical little musician and I think that's something that
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carried over into anything I've done later in my life and so for me the big change came I had the opportunity I was
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18 years old I got a full scholarship to study in New York City and so when I came to New York it was
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like of course it was completely different world and the way how I kind
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of slid into my my very very first job um was was actually funny story I was
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sitting in a restaurant and I was too young to get a drink but I was living in Italy before so I was
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already spoiled you know I love to drink a good bottle of wine I arrived in New York and people were offering me Diet
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Coke yeah and I said this is not working for me so in the middle of the night you know we had this this crazy scene where
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we got a bit drunk the manager of the restaurant got fired yeah and the owner just kind of you know didn't have a
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hours I said I've been to a lot of good restaurants and that put up me kind of like on top
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of the food chain and that guy believed in me so he kind of gave me the key and said okay you're in charge you're not running this place and and the place was
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almost done it was a total disaster we kind of built up a business inside that restaurant and and that
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Journey we we did what I loved doing we were playing classical music we had performers we had singers we had artists
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we had dancers we were we're doing poetry readings in Italian and for me it
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was the most um important business experience because we
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were being incredibly creative we were doing what we love doing and we found that other people shared that love and
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became an incredibly successful business without a plan without raising any money simply by sharing our passion I would
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have paid to be there instead people were paying me yeah and so building that business out of pure passion and and
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even without thinking about it and that really people resonate with what we were doing and it meant so much for them what
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we offer them the community we built was the first business experience I listened I can be I don't have to be an artist to
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be creative yeah I can actually be an entrepreneur and be just as creative and get incredible things done yeah thank
What was your first experience with you
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you so much for for sharing that and that's actually to give you a bit back on what my first experience with you was
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because it's I think sometimes it's it's invisible what kind of therapeutic impact we have on the people around us
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like Julian is actually not far from the place where I grew up in Hamburg in a
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way where how many kilometers is there will spend eight years in hamburger I
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left Germany six months ago in a way and the reason why I did that was because I just felt there where not a lot of World
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Changers and creators in in the space and I felt like a deep longing to meet
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people like that and when I met you for the first time it was a very special experience for me
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to to have like a real proof of Reverend reference in the real world there's like people who do amazing stuff that build
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the future who actually exists were from the same place where I was almost like that it's it's those little proofs that
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something is possible that really mean a lot to me that you only Gather in the real world and in regards to people who
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had an influence on your life in a way if we go back to the to the epoch of your life before you were in New York
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what were some what was your childhood like there in a way what is like if we would describe because I feel the
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dissatisfaction before we set on an adventure is an important step in our Quest as well so what are some
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significant memories there maybe that shape you into the person that you are yeah I mean I I
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um classify myself as as being trans Geo oh so I really always felt that I really
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was born in the wrong country like I I don't like being in Germany I think it's too cold I don't like the
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mentality I find it limiting yeah it has a very negative mindset uh it's a very
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critical Society it's very sarcastic Society brings out the worst in me and
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so it's because I was a singer I had the opportunity of 17 years old to move to Italy and get out already for the very
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first time and then there's no turning back yeah so um I grew up in Northern Germany
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Terrible Weather um single mother my mother was a very influential very uh powerful lady she
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became the first female attorney general in Germany in Hamburg actually in Hamburg State and that as a single
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mother so I had to raise my my sister pretty much from the age I was 11. yeah so and you know how it's growing up in
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Europe we didn't have house staff like we do have here you know we have
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