--- title: 'If This Video Found You, It''s Time to Change Your Life' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=qN7xg3tHZEo' video_id: 'qN7xg3tHZEo' date: 2026-07-24 duration_sec: 1428 channel: 'Gabriel Ferreira' --- # If This Video Found You, It's Time to Change Your Life > Source: [If This Video Found You, It's Time to Change Your Life](https://youtube.com/watch?v=qN7xg3tHZEo) ## Summary Gabriel Ferreira shares seven truths that transformed his life from a difficult childhood to becoming a millionaire and Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree. He emphasizes consistency, action over perfection, and redefining goals for a balanced life. ### Key Points - **Consistency is Key** [01:04] — Gabriel tried three times to get on the TV show 'Got Talent' before succeeding. Each attempt taught him something, and persistence eventually led to the final. - **Motivation is Temporary, Action Matters** [06:55] — He uses the 2-minute rule from 'Atomic Habits' to start tasks like reading, making it easier to build momentum. - **Don't Wait for Perfection** [09:07] — Start with simple steps, like using ETFs instead of stocks, to avoid paralysis by choice and gradually improve. - **Your Past Doesn't Define You** [11:42] — Despite a tough childhood with limited resources, Gabriel didn't let that limit his future. He emphasizes that where you start doesn't determine where you end up. - **You Don't Have to Be Special** [14:08] — Gabriel admits he wasn't a top student (grade 13 in high school, 10 on math exam) but succeeded through effort and learning. - **Life is About Trying Different Things** [14:59] — He shifted from magic to finance after discovering a passion for the latter, illustrating that it's okay to change paths. - **Set Specific Goals** [18:19] — Vague goals like 'make more money' are ineffective. Specific targets, like 'learn to play a song by year-end', increase success probability. - **Admire, Don't Envy** [20:55] — Instead of feeling jealous of successful people, ask 'how did they do it?' and seek advice from those who have achieved what you want. ### Conclusion Gabriel's seven truths highlight that success comes from consistency, action, specific goals, and learning from others. Your past doesn't limit your future, and you don't need to be special—just persistent and willing to adapt. ## Transcript life on the rocks, man, I grew up with some difficulties, I managed to start living on my ask my mother for money to help me get food. I already had the daily routine of the minimum amount of food. But once I understood these they allowed me to manage my business today, which has already made me over 1 million truly able to achieve these goals. Look, I won the Forest 30 Under 30 prize, which I loved receiving, and I was able to buy my tell you that the truth is, it is possible. I 'm not saying everyone can do this, but it's possible. Well, I was proof of that myself, but for this to work you have to want to change or simply improve each of these idea who I am, my name is Gabriel Ferreira. I study ways to make my entire journey here on the channel, this whole business thing, creating things, financial advisor, meaning that what you will find here is solely my opinion. And by for supporting this video, but we'll talk more about them later. E vamos começar pela primeira verdade. Sem consistência não dá para chegar lá. something with you. I don't know if you know, but I was on that television program called do magic. E eu faço magia desde os 15, 16 anos. And from that age, which was to get a little more complicated, I started to, well, have to grow up than normal people. So I have this number, which is three, and it's a number that, well, often reminds me of the importance of consistency in trying. Tellent. I was 15 or 16 years old the first time I tried to go. Eu fazia first time I tried to go, I went to the pre-auditions, you know, before the show on television, so where everyone is , you do pre-auditions with television, so there are those 10,000 auditions, that's it. And on that first day, well, I was in 10th grade, I went, and I thought it had gone pretty well. And then they say, "Look, we'll call you in about a month, if everything works out ." Eu esperei, esperei pá, não, não me ligaram. Eu sofri muito, muito, muito, muito. Well, I didn't cry but I think if I were, I would have cried a lot, because I was really was younger then, but the truth is that it existed again the following year. But . You have to wait until like 5 in the morning for a really long line, freezing cold, wait who knows how long, go there and do a two or three minute act and that's it, by the second time I really understood more or I prepared myself much better. In my self-assessment, I had actually done much better, with the capacity, I thought, to move on to the next phase, television, and they didn't call me back. I felt a little less sad here, had friends of mine calling me pretending to be from production, and man, it was completely already something important to me. I had already been practicing magic for a while longer then, because it was the what did I think about this year? [music] And man, I had already realized that there was always an extra day , the official audition day extra day in Lisbon. And I wasn't very good at it. And on the first day, I was already more in that "I'm going to do my best" mindset, I practiced more, I did more, to create that huge expectation that later makes me suffer. I went with that "if it does n't work, try again" approach. And the final of the program. And the truth is, if I had stopped the first or never have reached the final. And then, because of that, several example, I worked with Luís de Matos several times during my career as a magician. In case you didn't know , Luís de Matos is the greatest repeated itself several times in my life. For example, there was this one, which was the biggest huge thing, this video. And I remember discovering this on Facebook, it my birthday, I'm not sure, I was 15 at the time. Yeah, that's when I started. And I was like, look, I want to go, I'm going to meet people, I'm going to kind of magic tricks because at the time I was making entertainment videos, I hadn't been doing them for months, I think it had been just a few months. So I went there, introduced myself following year this event was going to happen again, and this time it was in Porto, and besides had a very worried mother. So, well, I'll have to convince my mother to let me go to Porto. So I tried to talk to the organizers to let me go on a bus that was taking the time. I don't know if I'd have this nerve today , but I did at the time, and I'm glad I did I also had several friends I'd made the previous year in the go. But I had a problem: I already knew I was going, and since they were all ticket. I knew I'd have to be alone for a long time, but on the other hand, it an opportunity, I'm not going to go, just because it's uncomfortable doesn't mean I'm not going to stop was a YouTube event at the time and I only had a few thousand recognizing me here and there. Since I knew people backstage, I ended up getting magic on this person I'm about to introduce to you, but also on Paulo several other YouTubers. I really knew these people there, and the truth is it was going to be the biggest edition ever up to that point, and I had just invited. So, this year I went as a guest, I didn't pay, and there in the middle of all those people, I see Paulo Sousa again with this person, and I do everyone as equals because we And the truth is that a few months passed and that person became my agent who treated everyone well, he saw my abilities, I already had some who at that time had already been on YouTube for 3 years , also managed, after the third money for the first time with social media at the age of 18. And at the beginning I had a special meaning for me, because it took me 3 years to be able to go to God Talent. Going to God Talent allowed me to attend this event, and as a I finally participated in it for the third year. And this three years on social media, to earn €1 for the first time. If I had given up trying for this event, if I had given up on all of these things, consistency is really important, because that thing, "oh, you were lucky," Wow, that person was lucky," and some people are lucky, but in reality, it's and when you try so many times, to what extent does luck change? And that's why there's you make your own luck." And I truly believe luck we bring to ourselves. But deep down, some people call it luck, trial and error, getting up and trying again. So, to conclude this idea, think we've accomplished a lot, in reality we haven't . If we do it, and look, I many, many days, several hundred or 60 times, sometimes it may not be enough, it may do it, to try, because nobody is going to do it for us. And this is precisely also a you. There's this idea that I sometimes mention, for example, I just gave a talk at my old school – I mean, it was several weeks ago – and I had a guy there saying, " Wow, that talk I gave was motivating, but motivation is very temporary. What really matters is motivation, because motivation fades away. So, I have three ideas here sometimes, even when I don't feel like it, they are simple ideas, nothing too complicated. First of all, motivated, and sometimes just being motivated is enough to get us started, okay? And that's real. So, since I was about 15 or 16 years old, I started looking for things that would motivate me. So, that at that moment will motivate me, and maybe that's enough for down. And these things have changed over time. For a YouTube video that I watched for 7 or 8 minutes, which was, well, very motivational and was about the person you wanted to become. It was that kind of video, OK? I was much younger then, and that's what be a movie, it could be a video, it could be any quotes, it could be recording which ones you went through this and how you felt motivated. Good. This can sometimes come in handy down. I'm not saying you're sad, but you have less motivation a good spark. Now for more practical things, for example, reading. When I 'm in the mood for reading, I read a lot, but sometimes things happen in my pace, you know, extra work and all that , I have to stay up that rhythm. And going back is always the most complicated part, because the routine goes from the book Atomic Habits, which is the 2-minute rule. It's about but without pressure; you'll have to keep going. In this case of reading, I'll use the not setting a timer, but I'll at least ensure that if I start, for example, at 2:20, I'll read until 2:22. And I start reading, and you probably wo really difficult part is starting. And I 'm not saying you're going to read 50 pages instead of zero pages you'll read 10, and maybe next time you'll read 12 or . This is useful for the gym, it's useful for starting to study something. And notice how, once again, what matters here is the action. Speaking of action, my team and I have put together a 100% free course, it's 7 days long, it's delivered via 7 days, and it's designed to help you develop your financial plan. Basically, it's super simple. Thinking about this 2-minute thing, it's an email something we teach you and then something for you to apply in 2 minutes, learned. The real goal is for you to reach the end of these days with the , OK? It's free, it's in the description if you want to take a look, and chapter, there's another idea: we often want to start with everything oh, don't start with everything being perfect, but this is real. Look, I usually think wait to be perfect, because if necessary, you might spend a year something to be perfect, and someone who started six months ago at an average level, had six extra months of perfect launch or start-up state. So, sometimes we really want to do so many things, and they're so perfect, that it doesn't work. Okay, as related to this whole thing about making more money, finance, I notice a lot is that, suddenly, people want to start everything right away, with the best the best place to start? And the truth is, there are tons of things in this world of suddenly look at it all, I get scared. What am I going to do? There's so much researching investments. I see ETFs, I see bonds, I see savings certificates, I see interest-bearing accounts, I see retirement savings plans. Then there's something else that is, I don't blocking of choice, right? We get overwhelmed by the sheer number of choices available to a restaurant with 30 dishes and then we go to one with five; it's much I think it's paralysis of choice. I think that's it . And it's the same in finance. is that we sometimes start learning in chunks in this area of 's simplest and gradually improve. What do I consider simple? For example, I think ETFs are simpler than, for example, stocks. ETFs, in case comparing them to stocks, they are like holdings with several companies talk about these. And the stock is, for example, the company Apple, but I have investing here, I'm spreading my money, so to speak, across all these companies. Then it's easier for me to study this basket. Although it may not seem like it only study the basket and not the stock itself, which is much more generalizing and simplifying the idea here. Now let's suppose I want something even to earn some kind of return. For example, my partner TR Republic, which I mentioned is the partner in this video, allows me to, for 'm not investing in TFS, nor stocks, nor anything else. Just by it being generate a 2% annual return on it. It doesn't get blocked, and you receive the money monthly. Therefore, the money goes into your platform account every start investing, but I want to learn how, but I also don't want my money a place where I'm at least getting something done pressure of having to start with everything perfect, we can share that. Look, income. Perfect. Now I'm going to learn something here that's more straightforward, more complex. feel comfortable putting it here. And we will do it this way. If you I'll leave their link in the description. Or here's the R code that , many thanks to Trader Republic for supporting the video. And now we move on to our third truth, which is that our current situation does not define of ​​imagining that our life is a marathon where we have a beginning decide where to begin; some people start with far more others with fewer. So we didn't quite decide where we started, but we end up, because really using this " I started, man, I started badly, I started poor, so I can't get out of here, man" approach will only limit us. And look, I already had a really tough childhood. Imagine, my mother slept on one, I say shocking idea is one of those ideas that stuck with me when I was younger, my mother platform. We had to buy everything secondhand, and the nicer things given to us by people. And I could have let that define my life, define everything I did afterward, but the truth is, I really had nothing and no help. Okay, degree, which I greatly appreciate, and she offered me her effort, mine, for starting a business, it wouldn't be enough from the start, but I didn't let that influence me. I tried to do it for myself, learn for myself, go further me, more moral support, you know, the help that was possible to give and so on, and that's not what I let stay in that place, you that we used to do, right? When I was younger I didn't to go on vacation, did we? In other words, that money didn't exist. But my mother would take a little bit of money away every month. Actually, my mother raised me and my brother alone, with some difficulty, in a big city. little bit off and sometimes, through one contact or another, I'd manage to get, for example, a studio apartment or a one-bedroom apartment for holidays, whether in the Algarve or somewhere like that, which was a luxury, right? Imagine how my brother, and my mother—in the same bed, so it was uncomfortable, but it is what it is. We always ate, imagine, scrambled eggs or something like that, very cheap things, but we still managed to have four or five days of vacation, which knew it was going to be the most complicated vacation, but we managed. I we complain, or even less if we complain while doing things, everything is fine. And I less, but I'm not a person who . Ready. And to wrap up this idea , when I sit people down today and they because I had this childhood, I had this," it's like, me too. Look, I'm comparing myself to other people, but I live my life, I mean, I a much more comfortable life and anyone who looks at me thinks: happen." But no, it was like a lot of work, a lot of effort, a lot of trying, a lot of opportunities that I had to make happen, and hey, I'm not fourth truth: "You don't have to be special." Imagine, I'm not the the smartest person ever, I 'm not. When I say this, people usually don't believe me, but I was a good student until the 9th grade, but from then on, of skipping classes, but I was very distracted, I was always talking, I'd go to the back of the class, and I got around a 13 at the end of high school and a 10 on the math exam. I talk about finance every day, I talk about numbers, I work with then I went to college, OK, then I figured it out a bit more. I had an skipped classes a lot. To be 100% honest, I wasn't doing it for the grades, and also because I didn't would define my future. I just wanted to learn more things, and therefore this there are people who are special, there are people who are born with something special, but it OK? That's the only idea I want to convey here. The fifth truth is the this is one of those topics that people who are most lost, who don't things that could help the most. In the past, for example, I grew up with this idea: I'll do my studies, I'll get a possible, and I'll stay there working for 30 or 40 years. And that's it, I'm going to of thinking. Things aren't like that anymore, are they? Okay, so today the world is like this, we then we'll go to the other side, then we'll go to that one, it's very different. I, when I was doing magic, and my videos were based on magic and entertainment. entertainment. I like to believe so at the time. And at that time, because I social media and I was a magician—I think I am, or was, the magician, I don't do followers on social media. I had this thing that, I might not be the thing that set me apart. Okay, if a brand wanted some magic to work its magic with one of their products, there was me. So, well, I ended up working with brands like us, like Ax, like PayPal, Amazon, I'd say dozens of brands that we time, man, I lost that love. Okay, I enjoyed the show, , but it didn't have the same appeal anymore, it wasn't the same thing. I started to something I was truly passionate about. And mind you, I and to do them and show them off. And in college, the truth is I wanted to study , a television presenter. Actually, my dream was to be a judge on the God Talent program. This was my ultimate dream and I loved doing it. I'll still has nothing to do with what I'm doing now. At that time, I went into management, request a transfer to communications the following year, but in the meantime, I loved started to really like the things I was listening to, but during college, right at the beginning, I listened to the audiobook, The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey. And that's what made me start getting finance in 2018. If you want to listen to the book for free, there's a link in the you can register, it gives you a free book and you can choose whichever one you that's it, and then there comes a point where it's like, "Look, I'm going to make a video about I do, people have no idea, I'm going to do it. And not only did I really like it, but other like, man, I enjoyed doing this much more , then I made another one, then another one, I'm going to continue doing, and I've been doing it ever since . Of course, sometimes we want or something like that, but let's keep hoping. Look, Paulinha, who is my fiancée, role model for me, honestly. She started in high school in the humanities, did n't like it, OK, she wasted that time, went into a cooking course, love. But professionally; she had the internships and all , but it wasn't for her. OK, I'm going to her ultimate desire, but I'll just try anything. I went into like it. Then he tried working with other content creators, kind of supporting things and all that. He didn't like it either. She also ended up doing digital series. He liked it, but it didn't work out; there wasn't much continuity. He took a Perfect, he loved it. Professionally, it's also unknown what will happen there. Then times, he discovered that what he really enjoys is working on the creative side of channel and also has her own business, where she uses her image to talk brands, and she really loves that part of it. But, for example, she also made entertainment videos several years ago. I didn't like that. This whole thing about life being about various experiences, we're going to try out different things and we're going to make something out of them. But a very big problem in life, and I think it's a general problem, and it's something I often talk about in lectures, and it's specific goals. I'm not saying truth, but almost nobody has it and they think they do. And this makes a big difference, it made a but I made this mistake until very recently, about a year and a half ago What are your goals?" Look, my goals are to have more mother, but that's not a specific goal. What do you have to do to achieve that goal? It's so broad if we can't define finance aspect, just to have another idea. If instead of saying, could mean many things and is very subjective, if I say, "Look, I want to end of the year," the probability of me actually playing this song by the end of the year is much higher than if I set the goal of just learning to specific we are in our goals, the better. And here's a personal note: I created my business, right? At the time, I knew nothing about business; I finance, but not about business. And I knew, I had to make more money. That's it. So, in the first year, I made €100,000, the next year €160,000, then € 470,000. Now, in total, we've already say? That when I got to that point of € 470,000, I had the money, anything. I had... I had money, but I didn't have time to enjoy it. I didn't have friends, I didn't have time to go on vacation and not be working. So I this goal, I realized that I didn't want to earn more money. That able to work well, earn well, obviously, to have more life also means having more time and being able to do more things. So I want to work every day. Of course, we're going to have times when we have to work much more, right? It happens and it's part of life, but at least I the next time you propose to really think about your goals, think when you define them, define them with concrete things, it becomes much easier. And if you're a new person here on the channel or not, but I talk about numbers and What is it? I'm being honest, I'm being transparent. It's like, I talk about the Speaking of numbers, let me say that I saw this statistic on my channel that watch my videos don't subscribe to my channel." So, please, you can Obviously, you don't have to subscribe, but just check if you're someone who usually watches or if you're even interested. Man, it always helps, it helps a lot to see that more and more people keep coming to you . So, thank you very much if I too for watching the video. And let's move on to the seventh truth. And this truth, I would say, is the one that made the biggest difference in my life when I started to progress to a more significant level. And if I had learned this earlier, I would have progressed more, faster. That's what I feel, and it I do this exercise, and I did this exercise at that school I taught at, and I basically started like this: look, do the same a long introduction from me , but anyway, think about the feelings this gives you, or could have given you if you had landed here by chance. I I've already made over €1 million, I made my first €100,000 at 23 years old. I was considered a Forbes 30, meaning I'm in the group of 30 people under 30 who have most impacted the country in some way or who have made the biggest change in the year 2025. I have a company that won the my dream house at 26. And the feelings this usually gives are like, why are you saying these things? It's kind of strange. internet... But it's like, dude, kind of cocky, you're just bragging, man. That's the first reaction. But when I think, I never had this, and it's not bad, there's nothing wrong if you had it, but it's good that this changes, right? But tell you is something that has been growing more and more in me and that I do a lot, a lot, a days. So, instead of saying: "Wow, how lucky" or "you must have had help" or "I started very well in life" or "I certainly that, I'm going to start using the word " like," OK? Even with help, how did you do it? Even if it was luck, how did you do it? In other words, instead of " manage to?" Because if we start to change our mindset and start looking at a the kind of person you'd like to be like—but if we're looking at we admire, instead of looking at them with a "we" or a "strange, somewhat you do that?", "how can I do the same?", "how extra tip I can offer is that we often have advise us—people, family, friends, acquaintances. On the other hand, it's also from someone who has never done that thing before. For example, I'm not going to listen to relationship advice from people in my circle of friends who can't thankfully, don't need to, as I'm doing very well [laughs] with my little Paula, but listen to people who have already done it, who have already been there, who have already reached those who can't save, who can't save money. But that's what I used to do. I used to listen to tips, suggestions, and advice from yourself, why are you teaching me?" And where We can find it in books, in videos like this one, in films, at have my financial atlas community , which is our want to see the website as well. And that's really what I think. And by the way, I recently learning how to invest. If you're a beginner and would like to learn the basics to this video here, you can click on it. We'll continue watching here a little more, and it's set up exactly for those who want to get started, have all their questions answered, and So, look, as always, thank you very much for being here. I value that thank you very much for being here. I value that immensely.