One Way Ticket with Jack Hopkins
Aug 13, 2026 · 33 min · 12 segments
**"How I Made My First Million"** Everyone wants the highlight reel, so here's the real one: how The New Elite went from a lonely idea to a global brotherhood, the pivot that nearly broke it when our…
Jack HopkinsHost
When you build a community and you have people listen to you, that is your customer base.
If you understand and learn organic social media, if you can get people to listen to who you are, you have a very good opportunity, especially if you're someone they admire, you have a very good opportunity for business.
Iman Gadzi very early on when I started my YouTube Iman Gadzi met up in my first year he messaged me on Instagram and I went over to his I flew to Dubai and went to his house on the palm before I lived here I was still in Thailand and I wasn't doing big numbers at that time I probably just started doing about twenty thousand dollars a month at that time and I was 23 I'm 27 now and But I went to his house and he said, your income will grow as much as your personal brand grows.
And that your highest leverage task that you can do is focus on building a brand and making sure that people know who you are.
that I run right now is called the Icon Blueprint, where I teach exactly how I scaled my personal brand and turned it into a business is because for any business owner in any industry, having a personal brand builds trust and people buy based on trust.
If they see you turn up week after week, telling your story authentically, documenting your journey, showing who you are, There's so much trust built over that process compared to an ad somebody sees for a product that they've never heard about.
when you know the founder and you like their story and you relate to their story, you're far more likely to spend money with them.
When you build a community and you have people listen to you, that is your customer base.
If you understand and learn organic social media, if you can get people to listen to who you are, you have a very good opportunity, especially if you're someone they admire, you have a very good opportunity for business.
Iman Gadzi very early on when I started my YouTube Iman Gadzi met up in my first year he messaged me on Instagram and I went over to his I flew to Dubai and went to his house on the palm before I lived here I was still in Thailand and I wasn't doing big numbers at that time I probably just started doing about twenty thousand dollars a month at that time and I was 23 I'm 27 now and But I went to his house and he said, your income will grow as much as your personal brand grows.
And that your highest leverage task that you can do is focus on building a brand and making sure that people know who you are.
that I run right now is called the Icon Blueprint, where I teach exactly how I scaled my personal brand and turned it into a business is because for any business owner in any industry, having a personal brand builds trust and people buy based on trust.
If they see you turn up week after week, telling your story authentically, documenting your journey, showing who you are, There's so much trust built over that process compared to an ad somebody sees for a product that they've never heard about.
when you know the founder and you like their story and you relate to their story, you're far more likely to spend money with them.
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