No Gimmicks, Just Hustle

At 18, Marco Duarte left hisfamily in Guatemala on a full athletic scholarship and moved to the UnitedStates - knowing almost no one, barely speaking English, and learning to swimin a very different kind of deep end.Then, when most people would have settled, he moved again - this time to South Africa, a country he had never lived in, to build a business from scratch. He now runs Duarte Media, a performance marketing agency in Cape Town helping small and medium businessesget real, trackable results from Google and Meta ads.In this conversation, Marco gets into:→ Why getting comfortable oncamera is the #1 move for entrepreneurs with a small ad budget→ The difference betweenbusinesses that just run ads and businesses that actually grow from them→ What it truly costs to chaseyour dreams across continents→ A single line from a movie hehated that completely changed how he approaches fear→ Why every opportunity has awindow - and windows closeThis one hits different. Marco is the real deal - roots intact, cheap pen i