He recorded his job application video 300 times. It was his first time on camera, and in his second language. It got him hired. 🎥
At Link Building Mastery in Chiang Mai, I sat down with Alejandro Meyerhans, whose contract in Spain once literally read “house servant.” 🎙️
We talked about the book that changed his path, the mentors who gave him a chance, why AI can’t hit 11 out of 10, and how core values guide every decision. 🔥
📊 In this episode, we unpacked:
- 🧹 From house servant to 100-hour weeks he enjoys
- 🎥 The 300-take application
- 🧠 Mentors who gave him a chance
- 📚 Self-educated through books
- 💰 Money as a tool and his biggest money mistake
- 🤖 AI is a mirror of us
- 🧭 Core values as your compass
🎥 Watch the full episode:
🧹 From House Servant to 100-Hour Weeks He Enjoys
Alejandro worked in hospitality in Spain under a contract titled “house servant”. “As you can imagine: immigrant, alcoholic, the whole thing.” He knew he needed out. 🏨
He’d lived in India for a while after Germany. On a trip back for a wedding, he met someone building a drop shipping business who told him to read The 4-Hour Workweek. “Four hours? I work 80. I’ll take 40.” 📖
He ended up working about 100 hours a week, “but now it’s 100 hours I enjoy.” Back in Spain, he realized people worked from laptops in Bali while he couldn’t even get to the beach near the restaurant. 🏝️
Drop shipping looked too complex (logistics, merchants, cash flow), so he chose websites and built affiliate sites. 🌐
🎥 The 300-Take Application
He bought content from Dom Wells’s Human Proof Designs, which then posted a job for someone to handle sales funnels. He had no idea what a sales funnel was, but he knew sales. 💼
So he read an entire digital marketing blog in about 72 hours, drew a whiteboard flowchart of the funnel he’d build for their brand, and recorded a 30-minute screen share. ⏱️
It took 300 takes, because he’d never recorded himself on video, let alone in English. Spanish is his mother tongue. “It turns out it was good enough. I got hired.” 🙌
🧠 Mentors Who Gave Him a Chance
Dom Wells was “transcendental” for him, more than a mentor: “People who are ambitious need to be given a chance.” 🙏
His best “life mentors” were people who never intended to mentor him, “from everyone who’s broken my heart to everyone who’s broken my mind.” 💔
In SEO, he’s learned from everything Matt Diggity publishes, plus Charles Floate and Kyle Roof. For leadership, Simon Sinek’s “know your why.” Gary Vee inspires him too. 🌟
For making money, it’s Alex Hormozi. Alejandro watched his nine-plus-hour book launch live and calls it a demonstration that “you cannot circumvent the work.” He’d spend a day with Hormozi, because without studying his videos, “I wouldn’t have made it with Get Me Links. We would have gone under.” 📈
Read my interviews with Charles Floate and Kyle Roof. 🔗
📚 Self-Educated Through Books
Formal education wasn’t possible: “Life was too chaotic and we didn’t just have the right amount of money at the right time. I had to work.” 📚
So he self-educates through books in every discipline that interests him, going deep until he gets the gist, then moving on. That includes the classical seven liberal arts: logic, grammar, rhetoric, math, geometry, music and astronomy. He reads “out of pure passion for the word.” ✍️
The best advice he’s received wasn’t advice at all. It was the passage in Book One of Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations describing his adoptive father, Antoninus Pius: “If I can become more like him, that would be good.” 🏛️
💰 Money as a Tool and His Biggest Money Mistake
He grew up “very wealthy in other areas of my life: art, beauty, relationships, family… no money.” That scarcity left him with an anxious attachment, and he used to say money didn’t matter. 🍇
Now he sees money as a tool to build “a meaningful rich life that enriches the lives of everyone else around me.” 🛠️
His biggest recent mistake was not investing in his own education sooner. Driven by novelty, he spent on business-class flights and fancy hotels to see if they’d motivate him. “Extrinsic motivation is empty motivation.” The best investment is yourself: relationships, network and knowledge. 💡
He shares everything he knows: “I have no secrets… everything I know I’ve learned from somebody else.” 🤲
🤖 AI Is a Mirror of Us
Will AI replace humans? “No, it cannot. AI is but a mirror of ourselves because we created it.” It has no purpose but serving us. 🪞
Thought comes before thinking: an idea arises, and we act on it. AI can’t have original thoughts. “We are the thought makers for AI.” He uses it to crunch numbers and aggregate data, then does his own thinking. 🧠
“AI averages to an eight. It cannot give you an 11 out of 10. That’s a human thing only.” ✨
For a similar view, read Jabez Reuben on embracing AI as an assistant. 🔗
🧭 Core Values as Your Compass
His wife has contributed “all of it” to his success. They’d only been married a couple of months but had known each other nearly three years, through his most challenging time. She cares for his health, keeps him honest, and dances salsa with him. 💃
Other answers:
- 🕊️ Last wish: “To wish for nothing… to be at peace”
- 📖 Favorite memory: his sister reading him comics, with a voice for every character
- 🌍 Life mission: peace through unity in diversity
- 🎬 Favorite films: Interstellar and Oppenheimer
- 🌙 Routine: a night person with a “messy” morning
His one piece of advice: find your core values, the ones that make your heart resonate. Somewhere between three and seven is enough to keep in mind. They tell you which businesses and partnerships align with you. Betray them and “chaos will ensue.” The fire to do the hard work comes from your values. 🔥
The worst advice comes from people who haven’t mastered what they’re advising on. “Good advice is timeless.” ⏳
📝 Key Takeaways From the Alejandro Meyerhans Interview
- 🎥 Put in the effort others won’t, even 300 takes
- 🙏 Give ambitious people a chance
- 📚 Self-educate through books and invest in yourself
- 🛠️ Money is a tool for a rich, meaningful life
- 🤖 AI averages to an 8; humans make the 11
- 🧭 Let your core values pick your businesses and partners
❓ FAQs About Alejandro Meyerhans
Who is Alejandro Meyerhans?
Alejandro Meyerhans is a Spanish-speaking digital entrepreneur who left a house servant job in Spain, got hired by Dom Wells’s Human Proof Designs, and later built Get Me Links.
How did Alejandro get his first digital marketing job?
He read a full digital marketing blog in about 72 hours, mapped a sales funnel on a whiteboard, and recorded a 30-minute application video that took 300 takes.
What does Alejandro think about AI replacing humans?
He says AI is a mirror of us and can’t have original thoughts. It averages to an 8, while brilliance (an 11 out of 10) is human.
What is Alejandro’s best advice?
Find your core values and use them as a compass for which businesses and partnerships to pursue.
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