Transcript
As you know, my name is Tristan Tate, one of the founders and CEOs
of University.com, aka The Real World,
I'm doing something new.
for 2026, for the first time ever, I've decided to sit down and speak face to face
in person
with some of the students of the real world.
So,
If you wouldn't mind introducing yourself, telling us your name, where you're from, how old you are.
My name is Laura Dossu.
I'm 19 years old.
I was born in Norway.
lived in Ireland for a little bit over a decade, then we moved back to Norway.
I lived in the States for about three years, then we moved back to Norway. Well, it's a pleasure to meet you. Thank you for being here.
I guess my first question is
Tell me a little bit about your work life before you discovered, I guess, my brother's content, which led you into the real world. Don't mention the school yet.
What was your work life, your financial situation like before getting inside the program?
I mean, I grew up flat broke.
- No. - Flap, I mean flap broke.
My mum, my brother and I, we lived in a homeless shelter for a good period.
It's homeless two times actually.
two different occasions in my life.
Um...
Eventually in life I thought to myself I'm quite disenfranchised.
with the way I'm living.
and I do want to change.
I can remember vividly that the room that I was sleeping in when we lived in Norway
After I'd lived in the States, then we moved back to Norway. The room I was sleeping in was so damn cold that you could see the smoke melting from my mouth. Yeah, I've been there. I used to be excited to leave the house.
'cause I felt it was warmer outside than it was in the house.
So after a while,
a couple of my friends
was sitting with a boss and then one of my friends was telling me, "Have you seen this bald guy on TikTok? Have you seen this bald guy on TikTok?"
It's like, no, I haven't seen that bald guy.
So after a while I started listening to the content
And then...
A friend and I, we started a hamper selling company. - Nice. - Essentially. So we were selling hampers door to door.
And yeah, I said to him, let's join the real world. - Now the reason we're speaking today is actually because you,
at the beginning around this time last year
join the heroes year is that correct correct so what the heroes year is for those of you watching and we may be doing it again this year
is a real world membership slightly discounted for a full 12 months
in advance.
Why did you decide to do that instead of just signing up monthly?
You know,
In the beginning of 2025, I pivoted into a higher ticket
SMMA company, so that's social media marketing. Selling marketing to companies. Since prior to that I was selling
short form content.
video production to kebab restaurants.
and how much can some random Arab really pay you, right? So I thought to myself, okay, let me be pragmatic about it. Let me charge higher ticket.
and I joined back into the real world.
And
After a while,
I found these random voice notes from Luke.
these completely random voice notes, I thought to myself, okay, cool.
This guy clearly knows what he's talking about. He wears a black t-shirt.
He has a bunch of money but he doesn't spend any of it. That's how you know.
That's how you know he's operating a different level. So I thought to myself, I have to join
HeroZero, right? I joined HeroZero campus,
And yeah.
Lots has happened since then. So let's talk about that journey a little bit.
Um...
First and foremost, because this is an issue that a lot of people who are maybe thinking of joining the real world care about,
financially
What kind of difference has it made in the past 12 months?
from when you started to where you are now.
Well initially when I started
Since I scaled a short form content agency to about $5,000 a month in 2024,
Then,
I'm a flat rogue.
because I pivoted to dropshipping.
I thought to myself, okay cool, let me go make some money.
So I scaled SMMA
up to $10,000 a month.
within about three or four months. I was like a dog on a bone.
the only thing on my mind was working and training.
The only thing on my mind. As it should be at your age. Yeah. Yeah. Like absolutely nothing could stop me. I got a phone call that one of my older brothers had committed suicide.
- I'm sorry, I hear that. - No, it's totally fine.
the next day.
Okay.
Train twice?
About 10 hours.
Yeah. And it's not to be
Like what would he say?
It's what Andrew says. Hard work is usually the answer to dealing with problems. Yeah. It's not to be apathetic, but it's...
I bloodline can perish.
if you operate based off of grief.
Yeah, that's true. So after I scaled that, then I moved into dropshipping, back into dropshipping, the money that I made.
Then I did about $40,000, $50,000 my first month.
Then I took a little hit in income and I sat there. I was sitting in a hotel lobby and I was thinking to myself, okay,
What is it that's actually holding me back? What's holding me back is that I'm not like a dog on a bone, I'm not laser focused.
I'm not on it all the time like I could be. I'm not what I could really be. So I sent Luke a very detailed message. Extremely detailed. I took about 30, 40, 50 minutes to construct it.
And Luke replies with a voice note, like, because he does a daily voice note, like, one and a half hour later.
In the beginning I hear,
"Oh yeah, okay cool, this is a 19 year old, he's trying to scale his company to $200,000 a month." And I'm like, "Oh yes, thank God."
Thank God.
And essentially his conclusion on that was that you should stay in front of your computer
And if you cannot work, if you don't have tasks to do, find something to do.
Because knowing if you don't know what to do, that's worse than knowing what to do. Because if you don't know what to do, then you can get concrete action. What if you take action and elicit action instantly, right? On the second.
So I implemented that.
and magically.
Next month, $200,000 spawned out of nowhere.
So I scaled my company way past $100,000, actually doubled it.
You're making a lot of money for yourself now,
You've made a very important point that I want to touch on. You're speaking about how much hard work has gone into this.
A lot of people
on the internet when they're trying to make internet money, as they call it, or money from home or money from your laptop.
they think
that what we're trying to push onto people and what we're trying to sell is a cheat code.
Just an app you download on your phone and free money is coming...
every day, every week, every month, which I tell people a million times.
It isn't.
So,
Talk a little bit about
When you signed up,
your working process, which canvases you went through, which lessons you learned, which professors you spoke to,
that actually got you to making this money all those months later. Because yes, absolutely, a lot of hard work does have to go into it.
Yeah.
initially when I first joined the real world in 2022.
before I left
simply because I do not have any money, right?
But of course you can find money, I guess it was not top priority.
I joined Professor Arnos
campus because at that time I was doing all sorts of side hustles.
and then after a while
I started to just listen to Luke.
essentially that's like the main campus I'm in for the most part. I'm active in the advanced e-com chat as well.
And for the most part it's the Heroes Year Campus.
Advanced E-Com campus that I'm active in. But prior to that it was Business Mastery.
And what would you say
is the
The community, the people inside, do you speak with many people? Have you made many friends? I mean, what's the, how helpful are the chats?
How helpful are the other people in the community?
Tell me a little bit about that. How do you find it?
The best thing about the real world is that
If you're doing 10k a month, you can learn from Gaides doing 100k a month.
And if you're doing 1K a month, you can learn from a guy who's doing 10K a month. For instance, a guy in my hometown, Nigel actually had an interview with him actually.
He's a great world.
His brother sent me a message out of the blue. Fast forward, I gave him a bunch of advice.
well $20,000 a month right 16 years old
So it's that concept that you can always learn from somebody who's ahead of you and simultaneously can help people who are under you.
randomly in the real world at like 2:00-3:00 a.m. at the end of
a long work session. I'll just go through the chat answering a bunch of questions.
You know, I think it's fantastic. Now I know how much money you're making.
Talk to me about
how much better life is.
with money.
as compared to being broke.
or what the advantages to you are that you see.
because you're not doing this for no reason.
No, of course not.
You know, my brother and I, we always joke about it. Because I mean...
We want some paid governmental housing together.
- It's all the same story. - Homeless shelters together, you know? - Same story with us, yeah. - And we were sitting in a restaurant and we were thinking to ourselves,
This food here
I would say food is the thing that shocks me the most. Like Rolex, you look at it,
Forget about after a while, but food.
food
I was living on vegan burgers for a long time with my mother, while she was working a cleaning job. Then I found out they were vegan and I refused to eat them. I was eating pasta and tomato sauce. So it's just the fact going to a restaurant, being able to get the bill for a friend,
or just being able to consume food, as simple as it sounds.
You'd expect some extravagant answer, oh yeah, travel over to Dubai. These things don't excite me. I get it. I completely understand that. Being able to order whatever you want in a restaurant, looking at the prices without counting the money in your wallet.
But most of all, like hands down, it's being able to take care of my mom and my auntie.
because when we were homeless my auntie sang
She was making $300 a month.
and she would sand about 250
dollars every single week
It's my mother and I.
to take care of us. I respect and that's the best thing and I mean and you said you found God and you become Christian recently.
You know a lot of people
and a lot of uh
a lot of people who pretend to be christians but really they're just haters and brokies will say things to me like oh you have all this
money, that's not the way
or I'm supposed to live and I'm like, yeah, but you don't understand how many people I help. I can fund orphanages, I can help family members, I can pay for random people's health care.
just out of whim.
You know, you can't pour from an empty jug and money gives you that power.
Well, I'll finish by saying I'm proud of you. You're doing extremely well.
It's very interesting for me.
as a man who's trying to run a company,
I see student numbers and all these digits and a bunch of usernames come up.
and you know these stories of these people doing x y and z
But yeah, this is the first time I've ever sat down with a
with a student from the real world. And your story is very inspirational. It's very similar to mine and my brother's, in fact. - Yeah, I get that one a lot. - Yeah, which is why,
you know, we created this whole thing because I wish something like this existed when I was
a young man. So I decided to be the man to build it.
But yeah, I'm very proud of you and keep doing what you're doing.
And hopefully I'll see you at the Bugatti Owners Club one day. Yes, thank you. God bless you, sir.
Thank you.
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