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  • Hey guys, welcome to Silicon Valley Girl episode 3

  • I've recently checked my DMs on Instagram and I realized that the most popular question that you asked me is

  • marina how to find this thing that I should do in my life and

  • Because I think I figured that out when I was 15 or 14. I want to talk about that in this video. So continue watching

  • The problem is there are so many things happening around us right now

  • People are doing so much stuff. One of my friends started a gaming channel on YouTube. He's making

  • $40,000 a month and I'm like, maybe I should start a gaming channel and then another friend is selling iPhones

  • He's from Russia

  • he brings iPhones from the States sells them double price in Russia makes a lot of money and

  • Then you're like maybe I should do the same because that brings so much money

  • But the thing is you have to listen to yourself. Like if you try to copy somebody

  • This is not gonna last maybe you will be

  • Successful for a couple months and then you're gonna be fed up with what's going on in my case

  • I think I started in an industry that is not really big like I study abroad industry in America

  • Please don't understand study abroad industry when I talk to our first investors

  • When I talked to our first investors, they were like do people even learn languages? And I'm like yes they do

  • Yes, we do

  • The thing is because I'm so passionate about what I do and if you guys are new to this channel

  • I started a company called LinguaTrip.com

  • it's a study abroad booking platform because study abroad changed my life and I knew

  • What kind of impact it had on me and I wanted to spread that among

  • Thousands of students and millions of students all over the world

  • And the thing is when you realize what you want to do, everything is so natural

  • I also had a problem figuring out what I want to do because I

  • Started learning English and I was like, wow English is such a big passion

  • maybe I should become a translator and

  • I'm so grateful

  • my parents stepped in when I was 17 because I was determined to go to

  • university and study English as a main subject and then my mom stepped in and she's like

  • Okay, Marina, if you see yourself in America later, what why would you study English?

  • You should learn another skill and English would be a medium

  • and this is kind of how I came to study abroad because I realized I want to help people study languages quick tips on how

  • To find out what is really yours first

  • What really works me with all of the channels that I've started in youtube?

  • I was trying to figure out what people ask me the most like you sit down with your friends. What do they ask you?

  • I was constantly asked about how to immigrate to the States. Right now I'm asked like all the time

  • You start a YouTube channel. How do you build your influence?

  • And this is why I started Silicon Valley girl what you have to determine is what people ask you all the time

  • And sometimes you just get tired of answering all of those questions

  • And what you want to do is just want to record a video and answer all of those questions

  • Or maybe start a business because you realize hey, they're always asking me about it. How do I decorate my apartment?

  • Maybe you don't even have to be a designer by education. You just have to have passion

  • Maybe this is something what you want to do. Another thing if you think that what you love to do, sounds stupid like gaming or

  • Doing stupid stuff in videos again. Remember that example from the beginning of this video. My friend check him out it's

  • America TV let's play channel

  • He has more than a million subscribers makes

  • 40,000 dollars every month and

  • Lives a beautiful life in Florida another friend who was really fond of gaming

  • He started a gaming company and sold it to Microsoft. We came to see Matt

  • Matt is an entrepreneur who already sold his company to Microsoft. "I'm Matt I'm 18 years old, and I'm the CEO of beam"

  • This is all about following your passion. These guys don't even have higher education

  • but the coolest thing about them is they found out what they really really love and this is what I encourage you to do like

  • sit down and

  • Create this day when you just think of what's happening to you. Like what would make you the happiest person in the world?

  • What would that be try to think of activities that you would do for free for the next two years because why?

  • When I started my company I couldn't make money in the first year

  • We were renting a table for $100 and I was making like a hundred dollars a month myself

  • But I was eager to work for free because I realized this is my passion. This is what I want to do

  • This is how I want to help people

  • so your task is to sit down and think what your friends ask you what you love to do and

  • What you would be able to do for at least the next two years of your life for free and then you're done

  • You know if you realize you want to start your business you can start it right now

  • You don't have to wait till you quit your job till you graduate from the University. I started when I was 21

  • I was in the fourth year of my studies in Russia was studied for five years

  • So I would run out of the lectures I had my phone like my office phone with me

  • I would run out of the lecture pretend that I'm in the office because people paid us thousands of dollars

  • So I had to pretend I'm all professional. So I was there in the corridor of my university saying "Hello

  • This is Marina MP education. How can I help you?" And then I would go back to the lecture

  • This is how it all started like you don't have to have a fancy office. You just have to have passion and

  • Understanding that this is exactly what you want to do in your life. They're always asking me about it. How do I decorate my apartment?

  • Maybe you don't even have to be a designer by education. You just have to have passion

  • Maybe this is something what you want to do test number one for you in comments below write down that particular thing

  • That you would be able to do for free in your life

  • It doesn't matter how ridiculous it sounds if it's playing games write it down if that's you know

  • Making ice cream write that down if that's eating five times a day write that down

  • I will pick up three weirdest things that you guys come up with in comments below and

  • Tell you how you can make business out of it. So comment below. I'm waiting for your reply. So now mark in your calendars

  • Thank you so much for watching this channel. There is the subscribe button below

  • Please subscribe to this channel and subscribe to my Instagram lingo marina, and if you have any questions

  • Don't be afraid to DM me and I'll see you in the next video. Bye

Hey guys, welcome to Silicon Valley Girl episode 3

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