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When travelling in shark infested waters, bring a shark friendly friend.
I have decided that I want to be Robert Beadles’, otherwise known as Crypto Beadles, BBF. It is not because he is a very successful businessman, not because he runs a very popular youtube channel, not because he travels in large groups of friends and families to very fun-sounding places and not because he is co-founder and builder of the Monarch decentralized çrypto wallet. Those are all very worthy and admirable reasons for wanting to be friends with someone. Success is very attractive. However, it is more for his attraction to sharks, or rather their attraction to him, that makes me think if I were in deep water and surrounded by sharks, I’d like my splashing partner to be Robert.
He has a very easy manner and modest method of speech. At one point he says that as a young man he joined a construction company at the bottom of the ladder but within a year and a half he was running it. This speed of turnaround sounds like it needs an acknowledgement like a high five, but there is no drama in the statement. It only when I put down my pen and ask ‘how did he do it?’ that Robert replies: “Through the grace of God and hard work.”
It seems reasonable but we all know the two elements are not necessarily guarantors for success. Yet Robert has been able to replicate such transformation time and again. Whatever about the former, and his faith is…