E125: Everyone Wants Dubai. Nobody Wants the Work | Austin Okolo

<p>Everyone wants the Dubai photo. Almost nobody wants the years of unglamorous work that are supposed to come first.</p><p>Austin Okolo started in football, moved into fashion, then fell into building the Gen Z Club, partly by accident and partly by luck. These days he runs a recruitment agency focused on upskilling young, diverse talent, having walked away from the fast, &quot;sexy&quot; business models for something slower, more predictable, and actually built to last.</p><p>We get into why so many young people feel pushed into entrepreneurship rather than choosing it, why the &quot;Gen Z is lazy&quot; line falls apart the second you meet the people doing the work, and why the course-seller industry keeps selling an easy version of a hard thing. Austin is honest about losing money to a pyramid scheme at eighteen, about being miserable despite the success, and about the danger of high conviction when nobody around you is willing to say no.</p><p>This one is for anyone who is tired of the highlight reel and wants the real version.</p>