My name is Alain Guillot and I created this channel because I like learning about personal development, personal finance, and entrepreneurship, and I like to share what I learn.
I am also the host of the Alain Guillot podcast, where I interview authors, speakers, politicians, and business leaders and I share those interviews with you.
You can expect me to publish one podcast episode per week, and possibly one episode where I share my ideas.
I am based in Montreal, Canada. I am always happy to connect if you have any questions or comments. You can reach me through social media or send me a message at [email protected].
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Great episode! I have a knee-jerk reaction to pushback against capitalism for the reasons you point out (seeing the discrepancy between rich and poor) but Mr. Norberg makes a great argument for capitalism here. And yes, ultimately, given our government (and those around the world) I wonder how many of these anti-captitalist (pro-socialist) protesters would feel comfortable giving so much power to their respective government.
Is capitalism in decline or rising? What do you love or hate about capitalism?
What makes you wealthy? and what makes you poor? For me, is being owner of my time.
It was a pleasure to talk with you about the future of food, Alain. Thank you!
I am so lucky to be Canadian. There is a world of opportunity in this country. <3 Can you name one thing you feel lucky for?
It’s not that hard to run a Walmart store or Home Depot if he was smart enough to understand the operation from logistics to scheduling and working the floor with your co workers
if you're making 6 figures... good for you!
Walmart and Costco never hire no one , lol . I was applying many times , no calls no emails ……. I am 35 now and still no success in life to get a job ……. Maybe I just don’t exist and thinking that I am ….. 🤔
That's very unfortunate. I am sorry that you are having such a hard time. If I could just add... Don't give up. There are cycles in which maybe they have too many applicants, but sometimes they don't have enough. Please get back to us if you get hired.
This man is wearing somone else's face!
Great to see Melissa on the podcast!
I worked at Walmart several years they do everything they can to not pay you more and they push hard for you to buy Walmart stock.
Wouldn't it be a good thing to be an owner of the place where you work? I own some Walmart stock, I wouldn't an employee own some?
I haven't been in a Walmart in probably over 8yrs, and I own hundreds of shares of WMT. If I had to work there and they offered to pay my entire check in WMT stock I'd say abso-fukin-loutley. Company makes good profit margins, provides a healthy dividend, has only gone up over the long term. I hope people become more educated about financial options available to them in this coming strain that is weighing on our economy, stock options offered by mega billion $ companies are nothing to be ignored.
@@DJSolistica I agree with you. If I could get some employee stocks, I would get as many as possible. These are the returns before dividends. 1 year: 18%; 2 years: 22%; 5 years: 78%. And if you could get some kind of employee discount, load up the truck.
NOTE she had kids.
Yes, she had two little girls when she was 19 years old. This makes the story more remarkable. Where else, if not the U.S. a woman, with no college education, and two little girls, can raise the corporate ladder to be at a high level management position. This is a great opportunity.
Time is context. At $6.25 an hour that must of been decades ago. So to move up the corporate ladder after 20 years makes sense. Aside with the people whomnhave been with the company for years they've not been placed at such a position. Not sure why this popped up in my feed but kinda misleading. Not sure what state and time frame has 6.25 an hour and there's plenty of employees at Walmart that have been in the dame position years upon years and walmsrt busts unions all the time with lots of legal battles.
Yeah. so? She did what was needed to make a good life for her kids. She would have still worked there for 50k today. This is a great mom!
@@user-or4oj8bc1b No she wouldn't of gotten hired at 50k right off the batt today. She would of had to start at the bottom today at the minimum and she'd need a second job or find new employment. Didn't you even watch the video to make accurate assumptions? If she started today there'd be years to go because she started years ago that was only possible just like other corporations.
Terrible company to work for. They way they treat management is horrid. I'm part time there, and they have been trying to promote me for the last year and a half, and no way in hell would I ever do anything to get closer to that awful company and culture.
Thank you for your comments
Great video! This past week I was laid off suddenly from my job. Told to pack up my things and go that morning (when we have to give 2 week notices). I've decided to just work part-time nearby and use that extra time to develop my business. I am blessed enough to live with my family and the part-time job can pay for my phone bill, pocket money, and materials for my business. I never want to be in that position again- where someone else can decide to cut off my income source suddenly. This topic really resonated with me at this time of my life :)
Thank you for sharing your story. Keep it going.
Thank you Alain for this awesome opportunity!
so many great tips, wish I was in town to come see you in person
Perfectly valid reason to not hire you. Yku coukd be suoer experienced. Personally I would not be able to hire you do to your visibke tatoos. That is just reality.
What is the reason? Oh, I don't know...perhaps people don't want to be around someone with a tattoo of Satan eating a baby.
It really depends on the industry. I work in tech and many people are blasted with arm and hand tattoos and piercings, myself included.
I feel ya. I'm getting discriminated against just cuz I hate wearing a shirt I'm in shape so why should I wear a shirt? I have a master's in accounting and still. The discrimination is so obvious.
Why doesn't it apply for a satanic church or .org job? Keep that same energy.
She should have applied for a job at Hot Topic or Spencer’s.
Or the circus, perhaps :)
I’m sure before you got the tattoos on your face you thought long and hard about the job situation and how a potential employer may see you based on that. Seeing in fact you did get the tattoos, means there were potential job options and opportunities. My advice would be to stick to those options. The work from home option mentioned in the video would be a great possibility.
If you carry your personality on your skin in public, people are going to judge you based on what they see, period.
It's perfectly OK to cover your face and body in tattoos, but I don't think it makes sense to then take offense just because an establishment feels it's "off brand" to hire you. She's being a baiter and a bit of a bully, imo.
It's not a new thing that people with tattoos all over their face are looked at with some skepticism by a majority of people. She knew this before getting them.
You have to know that you are relegating yourself to a segment of society and the workforce. If you are cool with that - tat up but don't bitch about the locked doors.
Sometimes it seems so random as to what succeeds and becomes a multi-million-dollar idea... and what fails....
I pay taxes for a Canadian Health System and I have never been able to get any benefit our of it.
I have had nothing but a fantastic experience with the Canadian health care system and even found it easy to switch GPs when I didn't like my old one. You just have to do the legwork and keep calling around. In the past 8 years I have had neurosurgery, 4 orthopaedic surgeries, a myriad of blood tests/CT scans/MRIs and I have never ever waited more than a couple of weeks for an MRI. I broke my foot last summer and was in/out of the ER in 6 hours. I booked a hysterectomy and the wait time was a month. As someone who has a neurological condition who spends a lot of time navigating the system, I am so grateful for the amazing care I've received. I have nothing but great things to say compared to my American friends who spend hours fighting the human firewalls at their insurance companies only to still owe thousands of dollars. CIsco has an entire department of people who will advocate for their employees so that their employees don't have to sit on the phone arguing with their insurance -- and they pay through the nose for it! A colleague of my husband's lost his baby and when his wife asked for a tissue because she was crying after the loss, they scanned the box of Kleenex before they handed it to them & it cost them $5 on their bill. IDK if it's provincial because a lot of people on the QC side come to ON for care but I have never had a problem here.
Wow good for you @postmorbus. Here in Quebec, you are not even allowed to speak English at a hospital. If you ask for anything in English, they will just ignore you.
@@AlainGuillot I think that is a part of the problem as well. So many doctors just don't want to practice there because there are so many hoops. I know a lot of friends who live in Gatineau but whose doctors are in Ottawa. I know that the QC government was complaining about all the money they had to pay out to Ontario doctors because of this but they don't do anything about it. I am sorry to hear you've had such a horrible experience.
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Absolute rubbish. It is completely awful having people as rich as Elon Musk. They obtain more political power than entire nations, and yet they aren't voted for. Why does Musk get to decide how we travel, and communicate, etc.? Because he owns a car company? Margaret Thatcher completely destroyed the UK. The finance sector might have prospered, but certain regions of the UK never recovered.
Elon Musk is rich because people continue putting (voluntarily) money in his pocket. Margaret Thatcher served three terms. Obviously people liked enough what she did during the first two terms to put her in power a third term.
@@AlainGuillot Nonsense. No one deserves billions. To argue that it is a natural and normal thing to have someone more powerful than millions of people put together is ludicrous. Margaret Thatcher only cared about money and ruined the heart of the country. On the day of her funeral her death was celebrated. All the UK is now is a hub for investment outside of the UK, never within the country itself. This modern day capitalism does not work.
Heather I have been watching your videos for a few years now and wanted to say thank you for sharing your amazing talent with wire. I've made many of your pieces. You are an excellent teacher❣️😃
This is so great! I love Heather Boyd! She’s extremely talented and super sweet woman creator. Great interview! 💝🥰🤗
Thanks so much for having me on the podcast Alain!
I wouldn't mind being in the "date" category and be friends with. It doesn't sound too bad to me. :)
Bro I've heard if maximizing salary is important then promotions is not actually the way to go.. Studies show that if we change jobs every 1-2 years then salary will soon outpace any raises/promotions you'd get if you had stayed.. so what to do to earn more ? Any better ideas to know and apply in initial stages of career in service based industry.. 2) Also which books could help in such a situation..
I sell templates for my online tutorials on Etsy. I heard about a woman who sold her nursing study notes on Etsy and made a million dollars!
If you want inspiration for packaging your ideas into an online course Sunny Lennarduzi is your go-to person: www.youtube.com/@SunnyLenarduzzi
congratulations 🎉
Thank you.
Nice video Alain. Making Art always makes me happy. Making Art with friends, even more!
Art is a representation of our creativity and our feelings. Thank you. :)
Great info. I just found out today that Munger passed away.
Well done! You have the right values and the commitment to follow through.
Thank you @francois3475
I think it has to be a little of both. If you follow the money, but you don't enjoy your days (your life), then it's not worth it. If you follow your passion but become unable to pay the rent for any extended period, you'll likely either lose self-esteem or become a burden to others. If you have a passion, you are lucky, and I think it's your duty to do your best to explore that route - maybe you have to live more modestly, maybe you have to take on a part-time job, but you might always regret it if you don't "go for it". However, if you're someone who likes having nice things - and you don't dislike doing jobs that make more money - then go for the money.
I think you are right. It's neither black or white, it's different shades of gray. Also, I think Seth Godin will agree 100% with what you just wrote. He has said the same thing, with different words, in some of his books. Thank you.
I think it depends a lot on the emotional baggage we carry. As an immigrant, one of the first jobs I was able to find was as a janitor, I was a janitor for about two years. I had a scarcity mindset and the only thing that was important to me was to survive. There is no room for passion when you feel so grateful to clean offices at 3 am in the morning and being able to pay for food and rent. With time, my passion became to have financial security. I am not there yet, but every day I am a bit closer, and now I can experiment and try to find out what my other passions are.
I'm curious if there have been any studies or research on at which point a given person becomes "bored" relative to stimuli as compared to another.... realize there isn't a specific criteria at which one would qualify as bored, but I believe that I feel bored often in situations where there are many engagements and stimuli, whereas another may be almost overwhelmed in the same situaiton.
I appreciate this video and I am the clinical definition of this "diagnosis", Boredom. I do disagree with one point: you mention that boredom results from lack of interaction with external stimuli. I believe some or many are engaged or have the ability to engage at a given point in time, but it's still not fulfilling or enough to overcome boredom. Interested to hear your thoughts on that. Regards.
Terry Crews lives in a bubble and doesn’t understand much that is outside of his actual experience. But he is always speaking on someone else’s experience like a know it all.
People have inclinations. I have 0 hands on inclination and while I learn quickly from my mistakes in a shop class I make a lot of intitial mistakes because I dont intuitively get hands on skills, my sense of direction with them is reverse wired. Everyone can get good at something with enough 'Time to learn'.
right on.
Absolute garbage. There are literally millions of points of data that prove that theory wrong.
That’s not true a lot of talent is natural
Yea… everybody knows there are natural God given talents. I Love seeing people’s natural ‘abilities’ too, no matter what it is.
Yes, but natural without practice is not that useful. While there are some people who are not natural but who work hard, and over time they get much further in life.
Yea… and water is wet.
Yeah cause apparently You. Terry Crews was NOT supposed to be in "Expendables" at all. YOU ARE NOT AN ACTION GUY! for movies. Co star comedy.